Pacenotes

• Sweden’s Björn Waldegård, the first man to be crowned World Rally Champion, has died at the age of 70 following a long battle with cancer. Waldegård’s first WRC victory came in the 1969 Monte Carlo Rallye with a Porsche 911, and his final win was scored for Toyota in the 1990 Safari Rally. In between, he racked up 14 additional wins. His World Championship came at the wheel of a Ford Escort RS 1800 in 1979, when he won the Acropolis and Criterium Quebec rallies. During his career he drove for factory teams at BMW, Ford, Fiat, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, and just three years ago he drove a Porsche 911 to victory in the 2011 East African Safari Classic. To his family and all his many friends in the sport, Vintage Racecar offers its sincerest condolences.

• When Brad Keselowski won the early September NASCAR race at Richmond (Va.) in his Miller Lite Ford Fusion, he recorded the 400th major victory for Penske Racing, the team founded by Roger Penske in 1966. Those 400 have come in Indycars, NASCAR, Can-Am, Trans-Am, Formula One, Formula 5000, USRRC, IMSA, ALMS and World Sports Car competition, with Penske-entered cars winning 15 Indianapolis 500s and 13 Indycar championships to go with three Trans-Am titles, three American Le Mans Series crowns, two Can-Am championships and single successes in NASCAR’s Cup series and the USRRC.