Remembering Briggs Cunningham

By John Fitch

“Briggs Cunningham, my boss, companion, mentor and, most of all, my
friend, has passed on and, even though his last years were
pretty much spent apart from all of us, the world seems just
a bit emptier today. I don’t need to belabor his life
and careers – those statistics of his various endeavors will
be found elsewhere as the world pauses a moment to consider
just who he was. I would rather think of our times together,
stretching back to the very early days of postwar motor racing
in this country, our great campaigns with the cars that bore
his name so proudly, the long talks, the common pursuit of
speed and all the other things that characterized our times
together.”

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Cunningham

By Tim Considine

“They came from near and far to honor him, some of them legends
in their own right, race-car drivers, builders, and engineers
whose names adorn the pages of America’s automobile racing
history – John Fitch, Sherwood Johnston, Dan Gurney, Bill
Stroppe, John von Neumann, ‘Kas’ Kastner, Warren Olsen, Bill
Devin, and Augie Pabst, just to name a few. The occasion was
a surprise party to celebrate the 85th birthday of the patron
of American sports car racing, one Briggs Swift (how appropriate!)
Cunningham.”

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