riverside Grand Prix 1965 Can Am racing

[maxocchi16]

Great cars! Lotus 19, Maserati Birdcage and Cooper Monaco - it is not Can-Am anyway. Can-Am series started a year later. This was a US sports car series. I do not remember the exact name. It was born when all those american racing fans purchasing european cars had the desire to race with all those wonderful machines.

Greetings from Italy

[klaosul]

COOL as hell! real cars, and the music, who are they?

[EverybodyLovesEthan]

bruce mclaren and graham hill going at it? wow.

[Housetian2]

HISTORY yo....I saw these cars run at Riverside INTERNATIONAL Raceway in 70s, what beasts!

American racing is only us playing with ourselves anymore, sadly :(

[blootmens]

Riverside motherfucker...

[WorldChallenge]

I wish the idiots in LA would let them revive Riverside.

[MangoHombre]

@WorldChallenge They would have to knok down a shopping mall to do it. Hey, that's a GREAT idea!!

[mts6800]

Thanks! great historic footage

[arklat]

I was at this race. I was 10 years old, and it was awesome. I was mostly at the bottom of the esses, but I went all over. Pretty cool for just a kid to witness! The Lola's were great, and the Chapparell was very cool!

[PatwMartin]

When giants roamed the earth...

[magnusmoss]

The red car in the pits at 2.00, no 4, is that a Lola? And the black no11 at 2.00, a Lola as well? Great looking car!!!

[RexKarrs]

@magnusmoss No.4 is a McLaren M2 with Bruce McLaren himself driving it. No. 11 is a Lola T70.

[375GTB]

The CanAm did not yet exist, as of 1965.

This race was a part of the United States Road Racing Championship (USRRC) for 1965.

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[alexander1485]

did anyone notice the Porsche 904 GTS at :59?

[timcomeau]

Screw the GT 40. I also noticed the PORSCHE 904, also called the Carrera GTS! Most of these came with the Fuhrmann 4 cam, but some came with the flat 6 and were actually ser #'d 906-XXX, even tho they were 904's.

[arklat]

I was at the Times GP and I was just a kid, but it was a great race. I sat mostly at the bottom of the esses, because there was a great view of them coming off turn 6 and down toward the bottom straight. I went several years in a row, and remember when Hill's Chapparral had the huge wing on the back. Pretty cool for back then!!

[PeterMayer]

It's the USRRC I believe. Still cool

[chaparral82]

The Headline is wrong. The can am series started in 1966. The Times Grand Prix of 1965 was a non championship race. But great video. Mind Jimmy Clark himself in a Lotus 40 (he was the only race driver who could achieve good results with this ill racecar) and Chris Amon in the Ford GT X-1 (was entered by Bruce McLaren)

[alexander1485]

Did anyone else notice the Ford GT40 at 1:27? :O

[pitrow66]

yes

was it the Ford Gt x-1?

[LPcustom76]

NEVER will racing be as good as this again.

[pdgolf99]

@LPcustom76 here here,,,, i grew up in the 70's my parents racings alfa's then datsuns in scca.

but these cars were race cars and we all knew it.. my fave is john morton winning trans am in the 510.

[tisoy909]

@LPcustom76 Wow.... Impressive history in my own backyard! Amazing!!!!

[therrydicule]

@LPcustom76 It is, in Europe... Sometime. Have a look at the DTM or the World series by Renault. My theory is this: racing was made to be simple and great, but it was so simple that some (McLaren, Shadow, Porsche, Penske) make it complicated in less than 10 years, by having costly winning car, and than quit to find more profit elsewhere (F1, Indycar, Le Mans), living high-cost car to poor team and hi-expectation to the public. The solution: having complex rules to keep racing simple.

[dmcfarland]

Reminds me of when I was a kid and I went to Riverside Raceway. Big block cars with raw muscle. Go to FRANK'S PAGE for stills of the CAN/AM cars at RR.

[LolaJudd]

thanks for the video

[gigem85]

Cool.

I got to drive Phil Hill around Rattlesnake Raceway during the grand opening of the Chaparral Gallery in Midland.

You could see the memories flooding back in his mind. I asked him if he wanted to drive my truck around the track - but he declined.

I bet he could still have posted some fast laps - even in an Avalanche!

[magnusmoss]

@gigem85

[jamielynjoystewart]

I LOVE THESE VINTAGE REELS. I WISH I WERE PART OF THAT WHOLE BEAUTIFUL SCENE. PHIL IS 80 THIS YEAR AND LIVED IT ALL. FROM THE SCARY 1950s WHERE THE RIDES HAD MORE SPEED THAN WE HAD BRAINS FOR, AND THE DELICOUS 60s WHERE YOU COULD RUN WHATCHA BRUNG. TAPE THE HEADLIGHTS SECURE THE DRIVELINE AND GO RACING.WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!