Post by pipe welder on Apr 27, 2017 11:06:34 GMT -5
2017 Mosport Vintage Festival August 11,12,and 13
The CVMG will have the swap meet all weekend and Vintage Festival Concours D’Elegance Saturday.
This weekend will also be the celebration of
The 50th anniversary of the 1967 Canadian Grand Prix.
On September 30th 1967 the only Canadian Motorcycle Grand Prix took place.
It was a rainy day and Agostini only needed 2nd place to win his second of eight 500 Grand Prix Championships, Mike Hailwood won the race running away (won by 38 seconds) and actually tied Agostini with 46 points and 5 wins each, but Agostini took three 2nd place finishes compared to Hailwood’s two. So the championship went to Ago. Canadian Mike Duff took 3rd place and was the only rider to finish on the same lap as the 2 superstars. The 500 race was 40 laps and took 73 minutes and 28 seconds to complete in the rain (I know right!!! Crazy stuff) . Best time on wet pavement was a 1.42.700
In the 250 Race, Hailwood won the race 1 full minute on the Honda RC166 six cylinder ahead of Phil Read and with a best time of 1.36.800 .Notable 4th place was Yvon Duhamel on a Yamaha, the 125 Race was won by Bill Ivy.
•Many invited guests, international and Canadian motorcycle historical figures will be present to celebrate with us, sign autographs and do parade laps.
Here are a few of the confirmed attendees so far:
Kel Carruthers: By the early 1960s he had won the Australian 125 cc, 250 cc, 350 cc and 500 cc National Championships. In early 1966, he moved to Europe with his family to compete in British and International short-circuit races, including Grand Prix World Championship series riding a Drixton Aermacchi,and for early 1969 season riding bikes for the Aermacchi factory. Halfway through the 1969 season, he was offered a ride with the Benelli factory and won the Isle of Man 250 cc TT race.
After the 1970 Grand Prix season, he accepted an offer from Yamaha to race in America. Yamaha asked him to tutor a young American dirt track racer named Kenny Roberts. In 1973, Carruthers became the manager of Yamaha's American racing team. Carruthers went on to work for several Grand Prix teams through to the 1995 season.
Kevin Cameron: Kevin has been an editor at Cycle World magazine since 1991, before which he was an editor at Cycle for almost twenty years, and a race tuner from the early 1970s through the 1980s. He is also an author of many books on motorcycles specializing in performance and engineering.
Bob Work: Bob was Canadian National Service Manager for the Yamaha distributor, Pacific Seaboard Ltd. in 1962. When Trev Deeley Ltd. took over. Upon hiring Yvon Duhamel in 1967, he created his first successful Yamaha road racing team.Over the next three years Bob and Yvon would win the Daytona 250cc twice, take second at the 200 mile and set a record qualifying at over 242.8 kph that still stands today.Through his many years at the Daytona races, Bob would be responsible for up to 9 riders sponsored on Yamaha products, most of them Canadians.In 1972, Bob offered a Yamaha road race bike to Steve Baker, a 17 year old dirt track star from Bellingham, WA.By 1976 Bob had tuned Steve Baker’s Yamaha race bikes to a total of 9 Canadian Road Race Championships. In 1977 their team won the World Formula 750 Championship. Bob Work was also instrumental in the creation one of motorsports’ most notorious motorcycles, the TZ750 Flattracker. Kenny Roberts managed one Grand National win in 1975 at the Indy Mile before the AMA banned the over powered bike from the series.
Confirmed:
1.Michelle Duff 2.Phil Read 3.Rod Gould 4.Kel Carruthers 5.Dave Roper 6.Richard Chambers 7.Frank Camillieri 8.Kurt Liebmann 9.Henry Hanje 10.Mendy Radbord 11.Dave Lloyd 12.Doug Libby 13.Duane Mcdaniels 14.Mike Manley 15.Fred Guttner 16.Doug Tague 17.Ted Henter 18.Dave Powell 19.Francis Martin 20.Frazer McAnnich 21.Jim Allen 22.John Pohland 23.Walt Fulton 24.Kevin Cameron 25.Ken Molyneux 26.Bob Work 27.Peter Kellond 28.Charles Mortimer 29.Ollie Howe 30.Joe Lachniet 31.Mike Partrige 32.Bill Hornblower 33.Bob Williams 34.Dan Sorenson 35.Bill Brown 36.Murray Brown 37.Fraser McCannich 38.Brian Henderson 9.Don Haddow 40.Mike Kavanaugh 41.Jack Peterson 42.Dave Arnold 43.Ed Fisher 44.Jonathan Finn
