Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie beneath the surface. He raced from the mid-1950s to around 1962, but he gave it all up for his business of selling cars in London, Ontario, Canada. Here was a race driver whose teammates were such people as Stirling Moss and Roy Salvadori, and he competed against Juan Manuel Fangio and Roger Penske, but he weighed his chances of achieving the…

Leavens generates a bit of throttle oversteer with his Corvette at Ontario’s Harewood Acres circuit, in 1957, where he notched up four wins that year.