Canadian endurance racing legend Rudy Bartling passed away the second week of September. Bartling, Ludwig Heimrath, Klaus Bytzek, Horst Peterman,...
What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what...
Canadian motorsports owes a huge debt to the team of Jim Fergusson and his wife, Alice. Their efforts were almost always voluntary and for the love of the sport. Jim was not only a successful motorcycle, sports car and sedan racer but also a rallyist, as well. If that were...
Photo Gallery from the July 28, 2019, Concours of America at The Inn at St. John’s, in Plymouth, MI....
I usually start off an interview by asking, “Who are you?” And how did you become interested in automobiles? Brian...
John Sambrook began his Canadian racing career in 1959, racing at the Regional, National and FIA level. He was best known for his work in driver development and tenure with the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs, where he held a variety of positions through the 1960s. He was responsible for the...
There is something about racing which gets into the blood more thoroughly than a good dose of Castrol R and...
Reg Hillary, long time Canadian racer and rallyist died on Tuesday, December 4th in his 98th year, a life well...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie raced as slowly as he talked he’d never have won anything! Charlie did win, however, and he won big. He finished 3rd in his very first race in a jalopy...
Affable and friendly are two words often used to describe Harry Heuer, but on the track he was a fierce...
“I have often categorized Mosport as the most exciting and challenging track of all,”says Bob Tullius. “In fact it is...
Eldon Rasmussen was the second Canadian (after Billy Foster) to race in the Indianapolis 500 in the modern era. Eldon and Billy were supermodified drivers who had competed in the Canadian American Modified Racing Association or CAMRA series, which promoted races in western Canada and the western United States. Eldon...
Billy Krause started his racing career driving midgets on California oval dirt tracks. He went on to race his own...
Francis Bradley, the 1962 Canadian Road-Racing Champion, was born in Germany and raised in England, and served during the Second...
September 2002 Mosport — Four Decades of Racing By Bob Bockington Canada’s Mosport International Raceway turned 40 years old last year, and for a 40-year-old, the track does not show its age. Extensive renovations have provided a facelift for the home of Canadian motor sport, which has generated so much...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
While best known in current racing circles as the Director of CART’s Indy Lights Series, Roger Bailey has had a...