Great home video! I was at that race,Mark Donohue and the Porsche 917 was AMAZING! I took a great photo of Roger and Mark pushing the Porsche 917 to the starting line.
My god, those cars! I'm 67 and have been involved in some form of racing all my life, but these and the Group 7 cars of that era are my ultimate favorites. The pace laps of the Can Ams at Elkhart were something. If you were in the paddock when they went down the back straight between Turn 3 and Turn 5, it sounded like a squadron of B-36's coming through the woods. :-) OMG, I just noticed at 1:02, the Wag Am! This started as something that the crews were doing after the last flag of the day. The Radio Flyer wagons were used to haul tires back and forth between the paddock and the tire busters, and somebody got the bright idea (alcohol was undoubtedly involved) to race the wagons down the hill towards Turn 14. Many spills ensued, but soon, racers being racers, they were showing up with hand built "wagons" with tube frames and tapered roller bearing wheel bearings. At 1:02, you have two competing design ideas; extremely skinny tires on plain bearings, and fat tires on roller bearings... They got fast enough that the track had to step in and say, No More!
I had no idea the 917 was run by brumos, white red and blue livery? And another team as well which I have no idea. What a video. The cars are great but seeing Rodger and especially Donahue at the end celebrating a win is priceless stuff.
What an amazing video you've made here!! Such great scenes from a legendary time in US racing. I was there that day, but I was only three, so I don't remember too much about it. Do you have any more videos from Road America?
What a gem! The ambience of Can-Am racing in a late summer outing with family, this is home moviemaking at its finest.
This was the first race I went to at RA. I was hooked on Can Am ever since!
Ahhh, wish there was sound, but great video anyways. Thanks.
Great home video! I was at that race,Mark Donohue and the Porsche 917 was AMAZING! I took a great photo of Roger and Mark pushing the Porsche 917 to the starting line.
My god, those cars! I'm 67 and have been involved in some form of racing all my life, but these and the Group 7 cars of that era are my ultimate favorites. The pace laps of the Can Ams at Elkhart were something. If you were in the paddock when they went down the back straight between Turn 3 and Turn 5, it sounded like a squadron of B-36's coming through the woods. :-)
OMG, I just noticed at 1:02, the Wag Am! This started as something that the crews were doing after the last flag of the day. The Radio Flyer wagons were used to haul tires back and forth between the paddock and the tire busters, and somebody got the bright idea (alcohol was undoubtedly involved) to race the wagons down the hill towards Turn 14. Many spills ensued, but soon, racers being racers, they were showing up with hand built "wagons" with tube frames and tapered roller bearing wheel bearings. At 1:02, you have two competing design ideas; extremely skinny tires on plain bearings, and fat tires on roller bearings... They got fast enough that the track had to step in and say, No More!
Mark Donohue gets some quality smoochin' @ 6:22
I had no idea the 917 was run by brumos, white red and blue livery? And another team as well which I have no idea. What a video. The cars are great but seeing Rodger and especially Donahue at the end celebrating a win is priceless stuff.
What an amazing video you've made here!! Such great scenes from a legendary time in US racing. I was there that day, but I was only three, so I don't remember too much about it. Do you have any more videos from Road America?
Road America, yesssss.....!