The chequered past : sports car racing and rallying in Canada, 1951-1991 /

"In the forty-year period between 1951 and 1991, Canadian sports car competition underwent a massive change, transforming itself from an amateur recreational pastime to a commercialized profession and from an individual sport to a spectacle for mass consumption. The Chequered Past is the story...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Charters, David A. (David Anderson), 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Temas:
Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs > History.
Fédération canadienne du sport automobile > Histoire.
Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs
Sports car racing > Canada > History.
Sports car events > Canada > History.
Automobile racing > Canada > History.
Automobile rallies > Canada > History.
Sport automobile > Canada > Histoire.
Courses automobiles > Canada > Histoire.
Rallyes-automobiles > Canada > Histoire.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Automobile racing
Automobile rallies
Sports car events
Sports car racing
Canada
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. The amateur age, 1951-1960. The visionaries and their vision: the founding of the Canadian automobile sports clubs
  • Canadian club: origins of the sports car subculture, 1950-1960
  • Run what ya brung: sports car competition in the amateur age
  • Rules and regs: professionalizing the amateurs
  • Powershift: the rise of commercial professionalism
  • Part Two. Gathering speed, 1961-1966. Behind the wheel: power politics in the CASC
  • Trans-Canada: the shell 4000 and the national rally championship, 1961-1966
  • Making tracks: commercializing Canadian racing
  • Reach for the top: Canadian racing driver development in the 1960s
  • The cutting edge: Bill Sadler and the Can-Am series
  • Part Three. From sport to spectacle, 1967-1991. Coming of age? Canadians and international racing
  • Winning formula: formula racing and the national championship
  • Stage by stage: transforming the national rally championship
  • Downshift: the crisis in amateur auto sport, 1969-1975
  • Final laps: the decline and fall of the CASC.

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