May 14th, 2008 — Tags:bemc, darth viper, mosport, ontario gt sprints
We only had a very short time to visit Mosport this weekend, but I just couldn’t let the first race of the season go by without hearing some race engines and sharing some photos with our readers. For the first outing of the year, there was certainly a wide range of cars in the paddock. Vintage cars were out in full force and the Ontario GT Sprints crowd were well represented also. There was even a big horsepower floppy body Ford pick up that was trying to find a way past Darth Viper. Our next visit to the track will be the Grand Am event on Father’s Day weekend and you can be sure we’ll have a ton more photos, and an interview or two.
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May 11th, 2008 — Tags:bemc, ford escort rs, formula-junior, mosport, varac
Racing is under way in Ontario for the 2008 season. Yippee!
We only had a couple of hours at the track early yesterday morning and a bunch of that was spent in the showers cleaning poo off the 7 year old. Thankfully for him the Panoz team actually installed water heaters a couple of years ago!
While we didn’t have time to hear many stories, at least I was able to grab a couple of hundred photos around the paddock. With all the Mother’s Day festivities going on (ok…she’s doing kid stuff and I’m going to a wedding) there won’t be much time today to edit and post photos. No worries though, we’ll have a huge gallery soon!
The Escort RS you see above is reflected on the curvaceous posterior of a vintage, front engine open wheeler of some sort that was just stunning. The owner wasn’t around and there were no visible markings so I’m not sure what it was. I would guess that it is an early Formula Junior. I’ll do some digging to see if I can find the answer.
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October 9th, 2006 — Tags:bemc, edenvale, race-tracks, sports-car-racing, vintage-racing
During the years surrounding World War 2, thousands of Canadian and American soldiers discovered the joys of sports car racing while stationed abroad. Upon their return home, many of them decided that racing should continue here. The only problem was there were no race tracks here. The solution? Old air bases. The Canadian and American governments had these little training fields all over the landscape that were no longer needed. Sports Car racing as we know it in North America was born.
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