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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 ...
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 ...
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)
Cars introduced in 1969 (53 P) Pages in category "1960s cars" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 489 total.
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 ...
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 ]
The HFO Competition featured classic Grand Prix racing cars from the 20-year period between 1966 and 1985. During that period, there were design innovations and regulatory changes that resulted in significant performance differences and a vast speed differential between the earlier cars such as the Tyrrell 001, and the later machines such as the Tyrrell 012 and Brabham BT49.