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The 1968 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 6, 1968, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 11 of 12 in both the 1968 World Championship of Drivers and the 1968 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers .
In 1968, the race was expanded to six hours, and joined the World Sportscar Championship. Along with the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring , the Six Hours of Watkins Glen served as an American round of the WSC from 1968 until 1981 , traditionally held during the summer.
The 1968 World Sportscar Championship season was the 16th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing and featured the 1968 ... 6h at Watkins Glen, where no ...
The original Watkins Glen street course. The first races in Watkins Glen were organized by Cameron Argetsinger, whose family had a summer home in the area. With local Chamber of Commerce approval and SCCA sanction, the first Watkins Glen Grand Prix took place in 1948 on a 6.600-mile (10.622 km) course [3] over local public roads. [4]
The 1968 Trans-American Championship was the third running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. 1968 ... Watkins Glen, New York: 2 Hours, 30 Minutes ...
Horst Kroll (May 16, 1936 - October 26, 2017) was a German-born Canadian race driver who won the final Can-Am racing championship in 1986. At age 50 he had became the second Canadian winner of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series [1] The Sports Car Club of America's pro racing sanctioning body had dropped the original Can-Am series in 1974, only to revive it three years later when Kroll ...
1968, 1970–78 Don Watkins 1968 Al Baker 1969 Ron Bohn 1969–74, 1977 Silver Vase Winning Team member 1973 AMA National Enduro Champion David Eames 1969, 1972–74
Ted Watkins (1941 – June 2, 1968) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1967. [1] He previously played college football at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In the late 1960s, Watkins was active in the Black Power movement in ...