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Tales from race control

February 3, 2010

Now the spectators rarely think of Race Control except when there were unexpected delays. Drivers and crews usually curse at Race Control and figure everyone there sits in climate controlled comfort in easy chairs drinking fancy coffee and eating caviar. Maybe somewhere but certainly not at Mosport in the 70’s. Race Control was in a [...]

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Shutter Speed: Dewar, Cooke, and Jackie

February 2, 2010

My new position as the chief and only photographer for the Canadian Baby Photographers in the Ottawa area was going well, but it had some serious challenges. Since I worked on a commission basis of my work sold, I needed to have good images and a great salesman to sell my work. The problem was the [...]

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Robert Barg at Mosport

January 17, 2010

As I’ve mentioned, a bunch of these great old racing photos we’ve been sharing have come through Robert Barg. As you might have guessed, Barg was a rather successful sedan racer back in the day.
In this photo, Robert is sitting on the pre-grid at Mosport. The sedan race is a support event for the Can [...]

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Why they called them Ground Pounders

November 10, 2009

Those of you who have never seen the Can Am cars of the late Sixties and early Seventies missed out on what may be considered the most visceral motorsport of all time. Fortunately, many of these cars are still being raced and have lost none of their ferocity.
The car in the photo above is the [...]

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Welcome to The Garage: Allan De La Plante

October 4, 2009

Some years ago at some regional race, the Grant family spent a weekend camping up on the hill in the Mosport infield. We shared our favorite spot in the woods with a delightful, long haired gent and his dog. Two year old Shelby, now almost sixteen, had a wonderful time playing with the dog. Over [...]

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Vintage Sports Cars: 1966 Players 200 at Mosport

September 5, 2009

I dug deep through the archives to find a program to go with this, but nothing from ‘66. ‘67 yes, but no ‘66, so we’ll have to do with a screen shot.
1966, the year before the summer of love. We still had gogo dancing, fast cars and race tracks with next to no thoughts towards [...]

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Video: McLaren M6B lapping Infineon Raceway

July 31, 2008

Some time ago, Gary Faules took us on a tour of Infineon Raceway in Lucky, the GT350R. I just stumbled across this video that puts things into a completely different perspective. Vintage racer Gary Sheehan takes us for a few laps of the legendary Sears Point track in the McLaren M6B Can Am car originally [...]

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Pipes

July 1, 2008
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Dino Crescentini: Memories in images

June 25, 2008

When I returned home from Mosport on Sunday afternoon, I sat down in front of the computer to write. I had never met Dino Crescentini, though I had admired his Wolf Dallara and even his Can-Am motorcycle. The events from earlier in the day had upset me as a person, as a driver and as [...]

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Tragedy mars 2008 VARAC festival at Mosport

June 22, 2008

Part way though the Group 6 race for Wings & Slicks this morning, the hills around Mosport went silent. It was the kind of eerie silence where you know that something very bad has happened.
At the top of the hill, in the slight bend the Ex Gilles Villeneuve Wolf Dallara Can Am car of [...]

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