Formula 1 history in Monterey

Sunday’s racing at the Rolex Reunion concluded with the 9B group for a run of F1 cars dating from 1966 – 1983, powered mainly by the Cosworth DFV.  The sights and sounds from the pit were tremendous, featuring a great showing from Historic Grand Prix, an American based group of vintage F1 car owners who campaign at various open wheel events around the world.

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On the grid over the weekend were cars from Don Nichols’ Shadow team, and Roger Penske.  Cars like the PC-3, along with many of those in this run group were from an era when the economic barrier to entry was much lower for teams, and symbolic of the sport’s less commercial roots.

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Hats off to Gill Campbell, Jennifer Capasso  and the rest of the team in Monterey for putting on a great event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, results of the above race have been posted.  Not only did they put on a great weekend , but they also took on the weekend’s timing and scoring at the track.

While walking around the garages and twittering away, I ran into my friend Rahul from the Lotus formus interviewing Historic Grand Prix member and owner of the Andretti Lotus 77, Chris Locke.   Rahul had a great writeup on the car and it’s brief appearance in Iron Man 2 at the Historic Monaco Grand Prix.

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If you have a chance to see these cars run at a local road course, by all means introduce yourself to the teams and driver – and enjoy the sights and sounds these cars make on track!