The Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am, was an SCCA/CASC sports car racing series from 1966 to 1974, and again from 1977 to 1987. The Can-Am rules were deliberately simple and placed few limits on the entries.

Oct 25, 2016 · The Can-Am cars evolved from those used in SCCA’s U.S. Road Racing Championship (USRRC) series, which mostly involved stuffing a high-powered American V-8 into lightweight racing chassis.

The Can-Am series began in 1966 with two races in Canada (CAN) and four races in the United States of America (AM) for what were to become known as Group 7 sports cars.

CanAm was short for Canadian-American Challenge Cup, and it was a sports car racing series that ran from 1966 through 1974. It used the FIA Group 7 category with two races occurring in...

The Can-Am series from the late 1960s and into the early 1970s marked a golden era in racing. The cars were the fastest of their generation - faster even than Formula 1 cars of the time! Can-Am cars smashed Road America’s track records year after year. During qualifying in 1967, Bruce McLaren set a new track record of 2:12.6.

Aug 2, 2014 · Heavily developed to pump to a reliable 750 horsepower and nearly 7000 RPM’s of fury, the Can-Am contenders were now the fastest and most powerful road racers in the world, even faster than the Formula One cars of the time. And no car was able to harness the staggering horsepower better than McLaren’s M8 series of factory and privateer cars.

The real Can Am racers were FIA Group 7 sports cars that ran at racetracks in Canada and the United States (Can-Am, get it?) from 1966 to 1987. Can Am cars had sleek, curvaceous bodylines, monstrous V8 engines with bad ass velocity stacks sticking up right behind the driver’s head, and the wheels!

Sep 30, 2024 · From the late sixties to the mid-seventies, the Can Am motorsport series was the craziest and most extreme thing that ever happened in international motorsport. The series, which ran from 1966 to 1974, was called the ‘Canadian-American Challenge Cup’.

The Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am, was an SCCA/CASC sports car racing series from 1966 to 1987 and it featured the fastest, most powerful sports cars running under a minimal-rules...

CanAm, short for Canadian-American Challenge Cup, was a sports car racing series that persisted from 1966 through 1974. It used the FIA Group 7 category with two races occurring in Canada and four races in the United States.