1968 Bridgehampton CanAm

Found the program, going to the race was treat for getting out of 6th grade! Someplace I have this on 8mm movie film.

Look at the driver's names for that race:
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Great names - too many that left too early.

 

Very cool stuff! I have the 1969 program buried with my old mags too. My brother took me out there to see the Can Am race when I was a kid and remember Bruce and Denny in the big orange Mclarens. Funny stuff... I have these cards hanging in my garage since 1976. They're the 1976 Watkins Glen USGP 1 Minute Warning Sign and Grid Card for Clay Reggazoni.
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so many of the true heros of racing. too many on that list are now resting in peace.

 

Found my 1969 Program and 1976 USGP
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I was at the USGP at the Glen that year. You will see photos from that race here:

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/other-racing/182830-official-1970-1989-racing-photo-thread.html

 

Very cool. Thanks.. I didn't take photos back then, so it's a treat to see your work.
I remember going to investigate the bog with a friend. As we hoped over a guardrail heading to the burning bus and other vehicles, we caught a wiff of tear gas and did an immediate about-face and ran our asses off!

 

The burning bus!! Was full of Brazilian tourists, lost all of their luggage. I think that was the end of "the bog".

 

the bog lived on despite the bus incident. maybe a bit more civil but still the bog

 

Yeah...it was always a thorn in the side of the USGP.
Here's an interesting page from the '69 Can Am program...
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Bruce McLaren with the big bucks - that's $948,552.63 in 2012 dollars!!! Not too shabby!

 

That's how it all started... its such a shame he's not around to see his F1 team success.

 

I very much enjoyed the Bridge (got my Comp license from SB there LONG ago), and it was a travesty that it was bulldozed. But, that real estate became just too valuable as a golf course. Sad...

http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/NY/images/bridge/bridgehampton.gif

CW

 

My racing instructor (Dennis Macchio) was the GM there near the end...he talked lovingly of the place. Never went, but remember the row over the place.

I live near Englishtown Raceway Park - same BS. They build homes near a race track that at one time was in the middle of the woods, yet the residents want to shut it down. Really a shame...

 

Try warming up the oil at Lime Rock before 9am. Especially on a Sunday!

Roebling Road also has noise restrictions.

I'm always surprised that the operators don't claim "coming to the nuisance" as a defence.

CW

 

Riverside, Ontario, etc.

 

I was there in the early 70s , I believe it was the CanAm series . I’m pretty sure I remember the User's setting a record speed down the straightaway of 212 mph.
I don’t think dragsters we’re doing that on the quarter mile yet . Truly amazing if my memory is intact for a road race car. There were two of them .

 

1974 was the year of the burning bus. It was still loaded with the luggage of Brazilian tourists who were there to cheer on Emerson Fittipaldi to his second championship.

 

Actually, relatively few of the ones on that page died in racing accidents. Hulme suffered a heart attack while racing, so I don't think that counts. And a few are still with us.

 

Remember the rain on Saturday? What a mess!

 

That was a lot of money for those days!

 

'Wasn't Bridgehampton. The last Can Am race there was '69, I was there. And I don't remember anybody ever hitting 200 there.
'Drove in a few club races at the Bridge in '77.

 

The bog was to the Glen as the snake pit was to Indy. Never a dull moment.

 

Riverside, perhaps? Its back straight was long enough to go that fast. (But by the time I made it to Riverside, it was a shopping mall...)