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Irv Hoerr (born November 14, 1946) is an American racing driver from Peoria, Illinois. [1] He is primarily known for racing in several sports car racing series. Hoerr was the 1992 IMSA GTO champion. He moved up to the GTS-1 class winning the 1995 and 1996 titles. Hoerr made seven NASCAR Winston Cup Series starts and had two Top 10 finishes. [1]
The United States is heavily competitive in the World Sports Car Championship due to the innovative Corvette Stingray, Shelby Cobra, and Ford GT40. The GT40 would prove to be a major success in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, winning it four consecutive times. [1] Racing legend Jim Hall establishes Chaparral Cars, a highly innovative team in the Can ...
Motor Racing; Motor World, known as "Scotland's Motor Journal". Established in 1899; Performance Car, published 1983 to 1998, with a short-lived relaunch in 2008-09; Popular Motoring, published from 1962 to 1982. Practical Motorist, published from 1934 to 1940, then 1954 to 1997. Speed, official organ of the British Racing Drivers' Club (1935-1939)
From 1962 to 1978, the Daytona 500 was shown on ABC's Wide World of Sports. [citation needed] During the 1960s and early 1970s, the race was filmed and an edited highlight package aired the following weekend. In 1974, ABC began the first semi-live coverage (joined-in-progress) of the Daytona 500. Coverage was normally timed to begin when the ...
Argo Racing Cars was the first 'Lights' Champions, followed by Spice Engineering. Other well known participants were the Tiga , Royale , Alba , Fabcar, and Kudzu. Starting with the 1986 season, the GTP category had their own decal, which was similar to the IMSA GT side decal, with a P being added to denote their category. [ 21 ]
Pages in category "1960s cars" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 491 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The event originally began as the NSS Racing class of the Monster Mopar Weekend back in 1990, and was administered by Dave Duell, who was a Super Stock racer (and then Chrysler/Plymouth dealer) back in the 60s. It was the only class of drag racing at the Monster Mopar Weekend open to all makes of race cars that fit in the strict Nostalgia Super ...
Between 1961 and 1969, the Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races, "one of the most significant drag racing events" of that era, were hosted by the magazine at Riverside Raceway. [11] The championship offered a US$37,000 prize, greater even than a National Hot Rod Association national event prize at the time. [12]