Hello,
I have been reading with great expectations of the new CANAM sim in
development, but as a Norwegian who didn't get hooked on CART until 1997 I have
really no clue about american racing history, specially sportscars, since it
seems like that kind of racing nowdays are just for the enthusiast.
Not that I don't enjoy sportcars, I think it is great to watch. Is has a
different atmosphere that openwheel racing, and the series looks more
enthusiastic that much other kind of racing. Watching sportcars gives me
some of the same feeling i got when i first watched CART compared to F1.
Are there any websites with pictures, track-maps and so on witch cover the
CANAM and IMSA series the last 20-30 years or so ?
(Boy what a messy post, I haven't had my morning coffe break yet :)
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Olav K. Malmin
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Sports car racing in the U.S. has struggled for several years.
Escalating costs finished IMSA. Can-Am was great in its' day but
that was 30 years ago...:-)
I understand the same thing goes for Europe. I remember some
outrageous C1 cars in the World Championship but apparently that
series got too expensive too. At least we still get some factory
entries at LeMans.
I got hooked on Prototypes when I first saw Steve McQueen's "Le
Mans". The Porsche 917's & especially the long-tailed rabbits
were outrageously neat racers.
This site has loads of links for all kinds of vintage racing:
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/hayes/carlinks.htm#vint
Including this one for Can-Am:
http://www.primenet.com/~bobwest/can-am.htm
Heh. It's 2:30 A.M. in California & I just guzzled a huge cop of
java...tweaking GPL...:-)
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" Why bother..." - R. Crumb -
Aside from the previously mentioned sites for vintage info, you can check out
http://www.professionalsportscar.com/
for more current Stateside sportscar racing.
Cheers,
Steve B.
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