Start In $500,000 Can-Am Series
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(Wisconsin), Aug. 29. New Zealand racing drivers, B. McLaren and D. Hulme, will compete in the first qualifying runs today for the SUSSOO,OOO Can-Am Challenge Cup series.
McLaren won last year's series and Hulme was second, taking between them almost 5U5175.000. The first race in the series, the 200-mile Road America Can-Am, will be run over a twisting hilly, four-mile course for a winner’s purse of about SUS2O.OOO. Hulme won the event last year when McLaren dropped out because of engine trouble.
Both New Zealanders will be racing in McLaren Mk Bs. The McLaren-designed cars have proved to be among the best running during the last two years on United States tracks. Many other drivers will be driving McLaren cars. D. Gurney, runner-up in this year's Indianapolis 500, has restyled his McLaren to follow his All-America racer lines, and will be using a Ford engine. The grand prix driver, J. Bonnier, will drive a McLaren Elva and the car the New Zealand driverdesigner drove last year will be driven this year by J. Hansen, of Minneapolis.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31772, 31 August 1968, Page 15
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