John, please “show us your pics!”
I would love to see some vintage racing images and the accompanying captions.
T2 is a monster! I love Mosport and will return there soon. I really like Moss Corner and T8-T9-T10 sequence.
It is fun to trail brake a bit and get the car to rotate onto the back straight and the same through T10 onto the main straight.
Hey Deep
T2 at Mosport is downhill, off camber double apex, what could be difficult about that other than it is trying to force you off the track every inch of the way. :)
I’ll dig out and post a few pics.
Never driven the Glen (sad) but I did attend the F1 races there in ‘73 (Cevert killed), ‘74 (Bog got the Brazilian tourist bus) and ‘78 (Andretti world champion).
Camped every time and weather classic Glen full spectrum climate from near freezing to hot and sweaty. One year my friend (and rally navigator) and I pulled in from Boston about 2 am, set up our tent and crashed, only to be jarred awake around 6 by someone blasting Ten Years After with Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.
Fun times watching practice in the Boot. During lulls in the activity, alternating shouts to the people on the outside “The other side sucks!” and the ubiquitous “Show us your tits!”
John Sent from my iPhone John, fantastic vintage story about you in the Turner.
Do you have any pics from that era?
The instructors and even a pro felt that T2 there is one of the most challenging and exciting in all of motorsports.
Any thoughts on The Glen?
Mosport is a fast, fast track that likes cars with horsepower. I’ve vintage raced there several times, once in an Elva Courier and the rest in my 948cc Turner. Needless to say, it is tough to get into too much trouble in the small bore Turner but Turn 2 is challenging and fun to try to get right.
No accidents there but I did blow up two engines, both times on the long uphill Andretti Straight. Poor little Turner didn’t like how I flogged it trying to get some speed coming out of the comparatively slow Moss turn.
A more fun time was when I was in an enduro and the car wouldn’t start with our “LeMans” start where a friend taps you on the helmet so you can start the car. Got a push start about 30 seconds behind the field and just drove like hell. Felt “victory” when my drum brake Turner and I caught and passed a friend in a 948 Bugeye with disc brakes.
Fun times.
John Sent from my iPhone George that was a great story. And, one of many hundreds if not thousands of almost deadly crashes at that track. Turn 2 in particular is quite tricky as it falls in elevation so quickly and is quite high speed through both apexes.
I am glad that driver did not get injured.
Lashdeep,
I haven't driven it, but we had quite the weekend there in '97.
Started with the driver I was supporting going off in 2 and plowing into the retaining wall on driver's right. Flattened the front end of his 355CH. (I had one of the fenders from that car - autographed by the driver for me! - hanging in my garage -
my *old* garage. Sadly that fender, like the garage itself, is no more....)
Then, right at the end of qualifying, our top driver was going for pole. Probably would have gotten it, too, but for *just* dropping a wheel over the curbing at the exit of 10 (I think? coming right onto the start/finish straight). Car spun to the
inside pit wall, impacted w/ LR corner, snapped around and impacted again w/ RF corner, snapped around again and came to rest sitting across the track, pointing away from pit lane. Initial impact to the pit wall was enough to put a sizeable hole in the wall
and move the low guardrail that was inside the pit wall. Driver on the radio to let us know he was ok, and was told to stay in the car. But when he saw cars coming at him, he leaped out and cleared the pit wall like a gazelle. Got the complimentary ride
(with his wife) to hospital for checkout. Docs there told her to wake him up in the middle of the night and ask for he SSN (judging cognitive abilities). When she woke him up, he gave her *her* SSN, so she figured he was ok.
🙂
That impact to the pit wall, and the subsequent hole it left, cancelled the rest of the weekends activities. But it's astonishing how *HUGE* the cars look when they're coming down the track - *sideways*!
Ah the good old days...…
gp
p.s. - no HANS in those days. It wasn't until he crashed the same car at Road Atlanta in '98 that he decided he'd dodged one too many bullets, and was one of the first Ferrari Challenge drivers to use a HANS. Story for another day.....
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