Well, finally have my Can Am pics digitalized and cleaned up.  I only attended 6 CanAm races……..

1971 at Watkins Glen

            My first race weekend.  A McLaren 1-2 with Revson and Hulme in M8F’s.  I was “rooting” for Jackie Stewart in his Lola T260 but he retired with tranny failure.  I didn’t own a camera so ……..

1972 at Mosport Park

            The opener for the 1973 season.  Jackie Stewart signed to be Denny Hulme”s partner with McLaren……but his famous ulcer came in to play and he was replaced with the defending champion, Peter Revson.  The big news was that Porsche had joined with Roger Penske and was bringing a turbocharged 917/10 to challenge the McLaren.  At Mosport Mark Donahue was the fastest driver but the Porsche had some engine problems while in the lead and came in second behind Hulme.  Again no camera so ……

1972 at Mid Ohio

            George Follmer was now driving the Porsche as Donahue had a major accident while testing at Road Atlanta.  George was on the pole with Hulme beside him….. the race was hit with rain and that caused a lot of havoc…..  Follmer won and Jackie Oliver came in 2^nd in the UOP Shadow.  I had just bought my first camera and brought one roll of GAF slide film to experiment with….here are a few slides from that experiment.

1973 at Watkins Glen

            The Porsche 917/30 of Mark Donahue dominated the series and this race. The McLaren team pulled out of the series after being crushed by the Porsche’s in 1972.  Which left UOP Shadow and a number of private Porsche 917-10’s and McLaren M20, M8F’s, and older Lola’s and McLaren’s to make up the field.  Donahue won at the Glen with David Hobbs 2^nd in his McLaren M20.

1974 at Watkins Glen

            The CanAm is in its death throes.  The SCCA wanted to go with a 5-ltre stock block and a 3-litre racing spec for the 1974 season.  The promoters wanted to keep the “big-bangers” so a “compromise was instituted…… the new engine regs would be in place for 1975 and for 1974 a fuel consumption formula of 3 miles per gallon would be instituted for the big=blocks and the turbo’s….. belief is that this would level the playing field and yet not make the old machinery obsolete.  Result….. Porsche pulled out of the series and what was left was 2 new cars for the UOP Shadow team and lots of 2 and 3-year-old cars to compete over the 8-race schedule…….  Which changed to a 6-race schedule….and ended up with only 5 races on the books as race promoters dropped the CanAm for the F5000 series.

            At the Glen…… I got a pit pass from the Bob Nagel team (Lola T260) so I basically walked around the pits and took a few pics….  A UOP 1-2 with Oliver the winner and Follmer in 2^nd.

            At Mid-Ohio

                        Took the family and actually took lots of slides.  The big new at Mid-Ohio was that Penske brought back the 917-30 for a one-off race.  Car was driven by Brian Redman.  Also Hurley Haywood brought his 917-10 but ran it in “Non-turbo” form.  Oliver won the main event with Redman 2^nd, and Haywood third….. with Bob Nagel a fine fourth…..

and here is a pic of  Patrick Tambay's Lola that won the 1980 SCCA "CanAm" championship..........yuck...