• Due to a scheduling conflict with the World Endurance Championship, the date for this year’s fifth Rennsport Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been changed to September 25-27, two weeks earlier than originally announced. Future details will be published on both www.porsche.com and www.mazdaraceway.com as they become available, and ticket information is available by calling (831) 242-8200 or online at www.mazdaraceway.com
• Doug Magnon, an enthusiastic vintage racing competitor as both a driver and car owner, has passed away at the age of 55 after a brief battle with cancer. Magnon was the co-founder, with his father Raymond, of the Riverside International Automotive Museum (RIAM), and among the many cars in the RIAM Collection is the world’s largest vertical collection of Maseratis, as well as several important All American Racers Eagles, including the first Eagle ever constructed, chassis 201, Dan Gurney’s 1966 Indy 500 ride, and the 1969 Eagle-Chevrolet with which Tony Adamowicz won the Formula 5000 championship in 1969. To his wife Evonne, his family and many friends in the sport, Vintage Racecar extends its sincerest sympathies..
• The 22nd Grand Prix Festival of Watkins Glen, presented by Chemung Canal Trust Company, returns to the Home of American Road Racing this September 11. The International Motor Racing Research Center, a Grand Prix Festival partner, will present a daylong program on Can-Am racing on Saturday, September 12, headlined by former Can-Am racer Oscar Koveleski and his chief mechanic, Jack Deren. For more information and a look at past Grand Prix Festivals, please visit www.grandprixfestival.com.
• The last surviving driver from the very first Formula One World Championship season in 1950, Robert Manzon, has died at the age of 97. The Marseilles-born Manzon was 33 years old when he rolled his Gordini Type 15 onto the grid for the Monaco GP that May 21, and over the course of the next seven seasons he would contest 28 Grands Prix. His best results were a pair of podium placings, 3rd–place finishes in Spa’s rainy 1952 Belgian GP with the works Gordini and in the French GP of 1954 at Reims in a private Ferrari, with his best World Championship ranking being 6th in 1952. He did win the non-championship F1 race at Naples in 1956 for Gordini, and also raced sports cars for the French marque, winning the XXIV Gran Premio di Pescara in 1956. To his family and friends in the sport Vintage Racecar extends its sincerest sympathies.
