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The chequered past : sports car racing and rallying in Canada, 1951-1991 / David A. Charters.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charters, David A. (David Anderson), 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs--History.
- Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs.
- Sports car racing--Canada--History.
- Sports car racing.
- Sports car events--Canada--History.
- Sports car events.
- Automobile racing--Canada--History.
- Automobile racing.
- Automobile rallies--Canada--History.
- Automobile rallies.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 of the struggle over power and purpose within the Canadian auto sport that led to this transformation." "The first comprehensive history of sports car racing and rallying in Canada, The Chequered Past traces the efforts of the national governing body -- the Canadian Auto Sport Clubs (CASC) -- to bring its sports car competition up to a 'world class' level, and to manage the consequences of those efforts in the second half of the twentieth century. David Charters traces the social origins of the sport and the major trends that shaped it: professionalism, technological change, rising costs, and the influence of commercial sponsors."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780802093943
- 0802093949
- 9781442684881
- 1442684887
- OCLC:
- 608591996
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