1968 NASCAR Grand Touring at Rockingham and Atlanta
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Bud Lindemann's Car and Track shows the Inaugural race for the Grand Touring Series from Rockingham in March 1968 and then highlights from Atlanta in August 1968.
NASCAR's short-lived Grand Touring series was created in 1968 for smaller "Pony cars" like the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro. Today, it is best remembered as the cars that filled the field in the first Cup race at Talladega. It was like today's Xfinity Series in that some races were held the day before Cup races. The GT Series was unique at first in that it had multi-class racing, one for big engines and one for engines under 2 liters. This unique rule attracted Porches and a handful of other European cars until the under 2 liter category was eliminated in early 1969. The series was renamed Grand American in 1970 and was discontinued after 1972.
(0:00) Rockingham GT
March 9, 1968
(5:03) Atlanta GT
August 3, 1968 - Спорт
Man is crazy to see a Porsche 911 in a Stock Car race you always asociate with Sports Car racing, even with rally events.
It's gotta pretty impressive resume.
It's a shame we never saw this: www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads/post-3274-1153462073.jpg
With road racing great Peter Gregg behind the wheel of all people
And to think they where reasonably quick as well
I cant believe I’ve never seen this sub series before. some BADASS LOOKIN RIDES! Glotzbach Duster with the Hurst livery…bumblebee yellow…oooooeeee so SWEET.
Remember Dale Jr's show on speed channel called "Back in the day?" It was actually modeled after Bud Lindemanns show from the late 60s.
I sure do. Dale Jr. even included the old footage from Bud Lindemann's Car & Track. I loved that show when it first aired and I still do.
Slightly disappointed that this Car & Track segment didn't cover the Darlington race where a Mini Cooper was in the field.
Cool to see film of the 911s running anyway.
Always nice to hear Paul Goldsmith!
I like to see the history of NASCAR series below the top 3. Nice find
isnt this just late model sportmans what we now know as xfinity ?
So this is what Grand-Am Road Racing was named after. It paved the way for the current IMSA WeatherTech series.
Such a cool find here.
It's like Trans Am, but on an oval.
It would be amusing if NASCAR continued the under 2 (maybe becoming an under 2.5 or under 3 litre category eventually), it would have eventually given us some interesting expensive import vs. shitbox battles. Maybe we'd have a BRE Datsun team in NASCAR.
The Dash Series was the closest that NASCAR got to an under 2 liter oval class.
@@chada75 And there was a pretty competitive 200SX in the Dash Series, back in the day.
I watch the Daytona 500 and Nascarman History videos. That’s it for me when it comes to nascar.
Can we get the race recap videos in this style every week?
The Porsche's were running with NO roll cages.
Do you have ALL of the great Car and Track series, Mr. Nascarman? I’m looking for, well, a USAC stock car raceMr. Linderman and his crew expertly fimed in Northern Wisconsin in late 60s. I taped it off speeedvision in 2001 but, alas, the vhs tape broke. It exists! and there’s an entire related group that would love to reminisce.
Was that number 59 Porche a Brumos Porche entry?
Yes
They could have ran these in top division and I would have been fine with it. The cars are just as gorgeous as the chargers and Talledegas.
Grand American did run in some Grand National events in 1971 and 1972. And, or course, the infamous 1969 Talladega 500.
Was Reese Bobby's car based on Paul Goldsmiths number 13 Camaro???
Think rockingham got more banking over time
Correct
Yep. Midway through 1969 it was reconfigured with more banking, shaving 4 seconds off lap times, from 30 to 26 seconds.
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