The Canadian Grand Prix; Mosport, September 25, 1966 Phil Hill drove one of Jim Hall’s Chaparral 2Es. He finished second...
No racing car exemplified and exploited the admirable freedom of the Can-Am series rules more than the 1966 Chaparral 2E....
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had handily claimed the championship, though Don Nichols’ dark and mysterious Shadow cars were finally beginning to live up to the promise they had shown over the preceding three years. No...
1967 Lola T70 Spyder 1967 Lola T70 Spyder. Photo: Casey Annis The names Roger Penske and Mark Donohue are almost...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
My greatest racecar would have to be a choice between my first F5000 car, the 1969 McLaren, or, the 1970 McLaren Can-Am car. The first Formula 5000 car I raced was the McLaren M10A with the big rear wing. Bruce McLaren and I got the car working very well, it...
John Rice produced a series of a dozen watercolor paintings for a show celebrating memorable moments at Watkins Glen, with...
Personally, I have driven some really good machines. I had a 917 Porsche that I thought was a truly remarkable...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the keys to enjoying the performance available from Lola’s first venture into Group 7 competition. Photo: Roger Dixon If there was a racing car that most of the great and the good...
Shadow DN4 “Don Nichols turned up in Can-Am in 1970 with that stupid car with tiny cotton-reel wheels, the first...