One of a series of posts about the racing antics we got up to before arriving in competitive karting. Check the overview for links to other posts in the series. THIS is what I’d been waiting for. I’d played with model cars, crewed for a Canadian championship race car, driven my road car in slaloms…
One of a series of posts about the racing antics we got up to before arriving in competitive karting. Check the overview for links to other posts in the series. If you spend time in Canada, sooner or later you’ll drive on snow and ice. It’s just part of being Canadian. And if you’re a…
One of a series of posts about the racing antics we got up to before arriving in competitive karting. Check the overview for links to other posts in the series. My eye-hand coordination with radio-controlled racing cars was not something to brag about. Technically speaking, 1970s RC cars were interesting – they had tiny two-stroke…
One of a series of posts about the racing antics we got up to before arriving in competitive karting. Check the overview for links to other posts in the series. I vaguely remember the first time I saw Bruce Malanka. He was driving a very loud half-naked Formula B car on a public street in…
One of a series of posts about the racing antics we got up to before arriving in competitive karting. Check the overview for links to other posts in the series. Think of a seminal moment in your life that changed everything. For me, one of those moments was when David pulled out his Scalextric slot…
As racers know, racing is racing. Back when racing contracts used to allow it, drivers would compete in more than one series at a time. Mario Andretti raced Indy cars as well as Formula 1. Jackie Stewart competed in Formula 1, CanAm, and the European touring car series. So when we heard there was going…
I have a ton of photographs from karting days in the ’70s and early ’80s. Recently, I put some of them up on Facebook and got such a good reaction from my former competitors and other drivers that I promised to post more of them. And, rather than just posting the photos, I thought I’d…