pasT Car winners Year Driver(s) 1955


Fred Hayes 1956 Stan Dilley


1957 Stan McRoberts 1958 Denis Coad 1959


Francis Bradley 1960 Peter Ryan


1961 Harry Entwhistle 1962


John Cannon


1963 Peter Lerch 1964 1965 1966 1967


Ludwig Heimrath Ludwig Heimrath John Cannon


Ludwig Heimrath


1968 Roger McCaig 1969 Ray Brezinka 1970 Gary Magwood 1971 Martin Chenhall 1972 Werner Gudzus 1973


1974 Mo Carter 1975


BEMC member Nicholas Krikorian and his #67 Subaru WRX STI leads the GT Challenge GT1 class standings. Richard Coburn


dress made by John Mitchell, a first nation member from Dwight, ON was given to each of the two feature race winners. Mitchell continued to make the head- dresses for BEMC into the mid-90s. Since then, they have been made by various members of the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, ON. In 1980 and 2004 Allen Berg (1980) and


Michael Thornley (2004) were presented with special ceremonial full trail head- dresses to celebrate the 25th and 50th In- dian Summer Trophy Races and the tradition of awarding a headdress contin- ues to this day. In 1961, the Indian Summer Trophy


Races moved to Mosport for the first time and aside from a brief switch to Shan- nonville, ON from 1980-1982 they have been held at CTMP every year since. These events were professionally run, full specta- tor affairs and were a precursor to the great sports car races of the 1960s and played a role in the creation of the world famous Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or sim- ply Can-Am. Nineteen-sixty-two saw the first of two


wins for John Cannon in the Canadian- built Dailu Mk I. This was the first Cana- dian built car to win the Indian Summer Trophy Races. Cannon again won the head- dress in 1966 driving a McLaren. In 1964, Ludwig Heimrath scored the first of his four wins in the event. He would win three more times in 1965,


1967 and 1975 and his four wins are the most by any driver in the Indian Summer Trophy Races. The 1970's saw the race move back to its roots, once again becoming an amateur


event without the big crowds of the 1960s. Unfortunately, the increasing use of guardrail, catch fences and concrete walls at CTMP effectively ended motorcycle par- ticipation at the event in 1973. It became impossible to remove and reinstall the strawbales necessary at the danger areas while maintaining a practical weekend schedule. In 2005, BEMC created the “War Bonnet


Enduro” and until 2009, the Indian head- dress was awarded to the winner of a cho- sen class within the three hour enduro. In the months leading up to the 2010 In-


dian Summer Trophy Races, the BEMC Board of Directors decided to reacquaint the “Indian Headdress” with its long forgot- ten companion of the 1960s – the Totem. A new Totem was designed by the late


Bob Brockington and crafted by BEMC member and master wood artisan Paul Johnson and beginning in 2010, the Totem has been awarded to the overall winning team of the three hour enduro. This new Totem award provides BEMC


with more flexibility, allowing the War Bonnet to be awarded to classes that cur- rently cannot participate in the enduro. BEMC has a proud history and are proud


to have hosted these great events. We look forward to further changes and enhance- ments to the Indian Summer Trophy Races and we thank all the racers who have com- peted over the years. To the thousands of volunteers who do-


nated their time so unselfishly at all of our past races, we wish to express a heartfelt THANK YOU! It would not have been pos- sible without your dedication to Motor- sport racing. •


Car


Triumph MG-TC


Jaguar XKSS Lotus 9 Climax Porsche 550-RS Porsche RS60 Lotus 15 Climax Dailu Chev Dailu Chev Cooper Ford McLaren Ford McLaren Chev McLaren Chev McLaren Chev Porsche906 Hawke FF Corvette BMW


Fritz Hochreuter Ludwig Heimrath


1976 Brian Burgess 1977 Paul Lambke 1978 Rudy Bartling 1979 Evan MacDonald 1980 Allen Berg 1981


John Nemy


1982 Dave Diedrick 1983 Gerry Simmons 1984 Bob Long


1985 George Comacchio 1986 Gunter Schmidt 1987 1988


Laurence Polley Fritz Hochreuter


1989 Mark Jonak 1990


1991 Doug West 1992 1993 1994 1995


Joe Launi


Jay Mason Tony Nabico


Tommy Meecham Jim Burrows Jacek Mucha


1996 Stephen Adams 1997 Scott Bradley 1998


1999 Paulo Pires 2000


Jaques Genereux 2001 Howard Chin


2002 Not Awarded Force Majeure 2003 Paul Massingberd 2004 Michael Thornley 2005


F. Blanchet & J. Fieger


2009 A. Habrich & R. Laporte 2010 Dean Baker


2011 Andrew McMurray


Porsche Carrera Camaro


Porsche Carrera Chevron B23 Ford Mallock U2


Porsche Carrera M3


Lola T540


CV100 Ferret Mazda RX-3 Corvette F4 Xpit


Alfa Romeo Rabbit


Mazda RX-3 Porsche911 BMW


F1200 RTJ-01


GTC Honda Civic GT1 Corvette S/R Royale


Vintage Corbete


F2000 Van Dieman F1600 Lola


GTD Honda CRX F1600 Zink103 GTA Corvette


GTA Porsche 911 GTB VW Rabbit


GTA Corvette Touring Accura


2006 Dave Diedrick & P.J. Groenke Endurance – GTD 2007 A. Habrich & R. Laporte 2008 Victor Simone


Endurance – GTD Endurance – GT1


Endurance – GTC Endurance – GT1 Formula Ford Formula 1200


pasT moTorCyCle winners 1955 Robert Simon 1956 Gerald Robarts 1957 Ed Labelle 1958 Michelle Duff 1959 Ed Labelle 1960 Don Haddow 1961


1962 Roger Beaumont 1963


Fred Gailey Ivor Lloyd


1964 Ken King 1965 Roger Beaumont 1966


John Fox


1967 Yvon DuHamel 1968 Ken King 1969 Duane McDaniels 1970 Duane McDaniels 1971 Duane McDaniels


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