Bruce McLaren had a long held an ambition to build the ultimate super sports car of its day. For 1969, McLaren created just such a vehicle - a dual-purpose machine in the mould of Ford’s Mk1…
Read MoreIn addition to Scuderia Ferrari’s 1969 Formula 1, Formula 2, World Sportscar Championship and Can-Am programmes, the competition department at Maranello built a machine to contest the European…
Read MoreToyota’s Group 7 programme began in the autumn of 1967 when the green light was given for it to replace the 2000 GT which had been campaigned in various disciplines since 1966. The new…
Read MoreJust four months after Pininfarina had displayed the outlandish 512 S Speciale, the wraps came off their most extreme Ferrari styling concept yet. Known as Modulo, it became Pininfarina’s defining…
Read MoreHaving made a solid debut in Can-Am with the 1969 Group 7 917 Spyder, Porsche had nevertheless been soundly beaten by the works McLaren M8Bs with their seven-litre 635bhp Chevrolet engines.
Read MoreThe USA was overwhelmingly Porsche’s largest export market and, although the World Sportscar Championship visited three times a year (Daytona, Sebring and Watkins Glen), most American fans…
Read MoreThe day after the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours had witnessed record speeds, the FIA announced a three-litre engine limit would be imposed on Group 6 Prototypes from the beginning of the 1968 season.
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