Canadian Gilles Villeneuve started his racing career driving snowmobiles. After attending Jim Russell Driver’s School he hired one of the school’s Formula Fords and proceeded to win four of the six races he entered and a Canadian National title.

In 1974 Villeneuve won the international snowmobile championship and then signed for the Ecurie Canada Formula Atlantic team. During the winter he became snowmobile World Champion and the following season scored his first Formula Atlantic win, at Gimli, Manitoba.

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Porsche 906
1973 ADAC 500km

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An updated version of the Anatomy of a Race Car Series: Volume 1 Ferrari 512M s/n 1040 Windows® OS CD-ROM is available through the Track Thoughts eBay Store

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Katy Muldoon penned a nice profile on Track Thoughts in the Thursday, January 28, 2010, edition of the Oregonian newspaper.

Oregon Live Article

The Maki Formula 1 project was created by a small and enthusiast team led by Kenji Mimura in partnership with Masao Ono. The original F101 car was shown in London in March of 1974. When presented the car had a bulkily, by contemporary standards, bodywork. The rest of the card was standard kit-car for the day, using the Cosworth DFV and Hewland gearbox.

Ex-BRM driver, Howden Ganley was signed up to handle the driving chores and the team eventually turned up for the July British Grand Prix.  Ganley didn’t post any times during the Thursday practice sessions.  His 1.23.7 tine recorded during the last session on Friday was 4 seconds slower than pole winner Lauda in the Ferrari 312B3 and to slow to qualify.

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Porsche will introduce the 911 GT3 R at the Birmingham Autosport International Racing Car Show. The new GT3 is built to the FIA GT3 regulations.

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I’ve been collecting race tickets since I started attending races more that 35 years ago. After each event the race program would be filed and the ticket is tossed into a box.

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Porsche 917: The Heroes, The Victories

Forty years after the introduction of the Porsche 917, McKlein has published a second edition of Porsche 917: The Heroes, The Victories. Twenty-four pages in German and English have been added to the 12” x 12 ¾” book.

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Bodywork

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Track Thoughts introduces the definitive record of the 2009 Monterey Historic Automobile Races. The Windows® OS interactive publication contains over 2,800 images. The publication is available on a CD-ROM at the Track Thoughts eBay Store.

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