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One Last Turn: Personal memories of the Can-Am era’s greatest mechanics, tuners and crews
by Martin Rudow and David Gaddis
NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
The missing Can-Am era
book that ties it all together – from a different point of view
Can-Am! The words are still magic to a generation of road racing fans to
whom the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series represents the pinnacle of the
sport they love. And who is to argue? Taking over from the USRRC (United States
Road Racing Championship) as the feature sports car circuit in North America
from 1966 through 1974, the world’s best drivers and the world’s best racing
teams put together cars that followed the rule of the Can-Am series: no rules!
Anything went, as long as it had two seats and enclosed wheels. These “rules”
set the stage for years of ground-and-pulse-pounding cars powered by bigger and
bigger engines and daredevil drivers competing in front of motorsport’s biggest
crowds.
Years later the names still carry weight: drivers like Dennis Hulme,
Bruce McLaren, Dan Gurney, Jackie Stewart, Mark Donohue and George Follmer. And
the cars: McLaren, Lola, Porsche, Ferrari and Shadow. But who was behind those
awesome machines and drivers? Who could keep them going when the torque shook
loose engine bolts? Who could spend an entire low-paid off-season in small,
cold, and drafty race shops looking for an extra edge in performance and
reliability? Who could toil in uncomplaining anonymity behind the scenes while
the cars and their drivers basked in the considerable glory that went with
Can-Am racing? The men portrayed in
One Last Turn.
One Last Turn presents the first look at the young men who made it
all work. The mechanics who towed the mighty cars on pick-up trucks and worked
on them between races and heats in the blazing sun and pouring rain on muddy
grassy fields, who drove thousands of miles on the era's two-lane roads, towing
a 2,000-pound race car to make the next race’s starting grid.
Illustrated with many never-before-seen photos of the cars and people who
made the USRRC and Can-Am great, this is the book that fans of the series have
been waiting for.
- The men who kept the machines on the track during the Can-Am years
- Hilarious and poignant never-before told stories behind the scenes during the Can-Am years.
- Page Size 290mm x 254mm (landscape)
- Hard cover with dust jacket
- 400 pages
- 428 images
- 978-1-956309-08-9
- First published April 2024
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One last Turn 
