Welcome to the Del Monte Trophy Race Group, the cars which raced through the pines at Pebble Beach 1950-1956, and which are still racing at at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca most years (the 1947-1955 Sports Racing & GT Cars group) and at the Velocity Invitational at Sonoma, both in California.
In 2026 we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the start of the fabled Pebble Beach Road Races. This web site continues to be the focal point for the activities of the natural successors, the owners and drivers of many of the cars which raced there. Which cars do we include? See https://dmtrg.com/the-definition/. What do we look like on track? Check out our movie released Feb 1, 2025…
We are the link between The Pebble Beach Concours dโElegance and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, the two anchors of the Monterey Car Week. Ours are the only cars which raced at Pebble Beach and which still race at Laguna Seca.
In 2021 the Concours organizers assembled all 5 of the Del Monte Trophy race winners as a 2021 Special Exhibition Class. These were the ex-Phil Hill Jaguar XK-120, the ex-Carstens/ Bill Pollack Allard J2, the ex-Sterling Edwards Ferrari Mondial, the ex-Phil Hill and Carrol Shelby Ferrari 750 Monza and the Mercury Baldwin Special. Search our news items at https://dmtrg.com/blog-2/ for further details. We expect a similar show for everyone in August 2026.
Don’t miss our news updates on our Facebook page and on Instagram where we use the moniker Monterey Sports Car Road Racers.
The list of cars and their owners on this site are brought up to date several times a year and as more eligible cars come to light but we remain eternally grateful for details on any car and driver not yet featured (email material to marcus@bicknell.com please).
Barlow, Baldwin, Ferrari, Jaguar, MG, Kurtis, Manning, Sorrell, Tatum. Noise, lights, action!
Rob Manson and his band of volunteers would like to thank all of the Del Monte Trophy Group participants for your commitment, enthusiasm and great car presentation. Each year we are granted our own row in the RMMR paddock and are thus able to lay out about 25 cars in a way that visually tells the story of the sports cars and specials that brought European-style road racing to the West Coast in the early 1950s. The spectators love it. It helps foster a community of friends with shared interests. Many of us display photos and other interesting period history. The RMMR organizers recognized our row with the Best Paddock Display award in 2017.
We had 54 Entries in 2017 and 43 in 2018 and 2019. Entries included: XK 120 Jaguar, Allard J2, Allard K2, big-engined Specials, Kurtis 500S, Crosley & Panhard engined Specials, MGs, Morgan Flat Rad and Triumph TR 2; plus, as at Pebble Beach in the early 1950’s, several wonderful examples of UK/European exotica: the Lancia D24/25, Jaguars C-Type and D-Type, Aston Martin DB 3S, Bristol Warrior, Ferrari 750 Monza, Mercedes Benz 300 Gull-Wing SLs, Porsche and Siata.
We are everywhere during Monterey’s Car Week. We have a number of supporting activities that draw strong participation from our Group including the Alvarado Street Run and the Run over the Laureles Grade to lunch at The Quail. At The Quail in 2018 Colin Warnes arranged the exhibit of the two time Pebble Beach winning Cadillac Allard J2, in memory of it’s driver Bill Pollack and in support of our Run group.
Since 2016, the Del Monte Trophy Race Group has established its place as a large, representative group of great early 1950’s sports cars with a strong community of enthusiastic drivers that we can look forward to racing with.
If you haven’t already done so, please send Rob Manson a 300 word description of your car, with a few of your favorite current and period track photos. Many of you sent those straight on to Marcus Bicknell marcus@bicknell.com, so we’ve got those. The Del Monte Trophy Race Group web site, www.DMTRG.com houses the Registry of cars in our group and a reference source to be used by anyone interested in our cars and the folks who race them. Great photos and in-car video of our Del Monte Trophy Group in from various sources, in particular, Colin Warnes, Lars Mapstead, Marcus Bicknell and Tam McPartland. Marcus is posting them all on the Del Monte Trophy Race Group page at https://www.facebook.com/MontereySportsCarRoadRacers. If you are not a Facebook regular you can still use the site. Just type in the address above.
With best regards from Rob Manson, Doug Sallen, Marcus Bicknell, William Rooklidge, Jon Le Carner, Steve Knoll and Lars Mapstead. RIP our friend and art wizard the late David Gentry.