Spring opener at Mosport

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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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1963 Player’s 200

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The 1963 Player’s 200 at Mosport featured theheadlining sports racing cars, production sports cars, touring cars and Formula Junior. Feature race entrants included such racing legends as Graham Hill, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske and the list goes on. There are several Grand Prix drivers in the field. Eventual winner, Chuck Daigh was driving a Lotus 19 owned by Arciero Brothers Racing.

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