The heart-stopping Can-Am cars made by McLaren will take center stage at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, June 23-25...
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On September 25, the Petersen Automotive Museum will play host to a gala dinner celebrating the history of the famed Can-Am race series. Guests of honor will include Dan Gurney, Lothar Motschenbacher, Parnelli Jones, Chic Vandagriff, Dick Guldstrand and many others. Additionally, a wide range of historic Can-Am cars will...
On September 25, several hundred enthusiasts of the famed Can-Am race series joined stars such as Phil Hill, Dan Gurney...
How sharp are your detective skills? Can you ID either of these old racecars? This is not a trick question....
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We have a winner! Just as we hoped, a VRJ reader has recognized one of the “Mystery Cars” shown in...
Rodney Dangerfield can’t get no respect. “Ho, I can’t get no respect! The other day I asked my wife if...
1967 Lola T70 Spyder 1967 Lola T70 Spyder. Photo: Casey Annis The names Roger Penske and Mark Donohue are almost synonymous with the term Can-Am. While these two would totally dominate the Can-Am series in its later years with the mighty Porsche 917, they also played major roles in the...
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Luigi Villoresi John Fitch 1 The Ford Sierra RS500 is homologated for Group A touring car racing (1987). 1 F1...
Lola won the first Can-Am Championship in 1966 with John Surtees driving the T70-Chevrolet; however, from that point on the series evolved over the next four years into the “Bruce and Denny show” with McLaren dominant. In 1971, Lola fielded the T260-Chevrolet driven by none other than Jackie Stewart, and...
Al Holbert Clay Regazzoni 3 Brian Redman wins the F5000 race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, in a Lola T330. Jody Scheckter...
The roar of Can-Am thunder will once again reverberate through the hills of Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, when more than 20 Can-Am cars take part in the U.S. Sports Car Invitational to be held October 3–5. In addition to a Can-Am race which will feature Lolas, Shadows and...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road...
Derek Bell Gaston Chevrolet 2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California,...
Some of you model makers, I know, and probably you historic artists too, have been wondering why Jo Siffert’s 1971 Can-Am Porsche, which normally was painted all Day-Glo red, had blue trim on its nose for a couple of races mid-season. At long last I can tell you why. That’s...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
In a Millennium when Ferrari seems all-conquering in F1, it’s hard to remember the bad old days of the late...
Australian racer Warwick Brown has had a racing career marked by extreme highs and lows. His career highlights are marked by several F5000 championships, and center-seat Can-Am wins, but a vicious accident early in his career broke his stride, while another later on may have cut his career prematurely short....
The Canadian American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) was cosanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 It’s a bit of a euphemism to say that cars have personalities… of course they don’t....
Mike Smith and his brother, Pat, started shooting pictures of Southern California drag racing when they were kids in the...
Wilbur Shaw Nanni Galli 2 Sportscar and F1 racer Nanni Galli is born in Bologna, Italy (1940). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi drives a Lotus 72 to his first F1 victory in the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York. Jochen Rindt posthumously wins the World Driving title (1970). Become...
As I sit down to write this month’s column, Halloween quickly approaches. The stores are jammed to the gunnels with...
Racing transcends venue. I’ve done my time at grungy old bullrings, squalid street courses, insipid parking lots, sterile speedways, a...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements. However, there...