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and 1963. Walt later joined the famous Com- stock team for the 1965 season, driving both the Cooper Ford and one of the Shelby 350 GTs. For the 1966 season Walt drove an Astur Group 7 car, as well as a one-off drive in a Mk 3 McLaren. Walt also raced an MGA, Sunbeam Alpine, Morris Minor and a Lotus Super Seven throughout the late 1960s. After an accident in 1972, Walt was out of racing until 1980 when he came across an article in the Globe and Mail about “vintage racing.” Walt has been a VARAC member and racer ever since. •


Bill BrACk Bill Brack is the only driver to win three


Canadian driving championships, and he did it in consecutive years- 1973, '74 and '75. To ac- complish this feat he had to beat some of the future Grand Prix champions, future Indy 500 winners and a young up-and-comer named Gilles Villeneuve. In his outstanding career, Bill also won a


North American Formula Atlantic Champi- onship and the Canadian Touring Car Champi- onship. He also drove in three Canadian Formula 1 Grands Prix, in 1968 for Team Lotus at Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant and again in 1970


and 1971 at Mosport for BRM. Bill was the first Inductee into The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.


gAry mAgWood From winning a Canadian Formula Ford


Championship in 1970, Gary launched the sec- ond full time racing school in North America at Mosport in 1971. In addition to heading up the racing school, Gary raced Formula B and For- mula Atlantic cars until the mid-’70s. He retired from “active” racing to a farm in


Eastern Ontario, but was drawn back into the driving world with the launch of the Labatt Road Scholarship in 1988. For eight years Gary


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worked with and trained many of Canada’s top racing and rally drivers to teach collision avoid- ance skills to thousands of drivers of all ages, across Canada. He is also a co-founder of The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame and contin- ues to speak out on driving and traffic issues.


The Legends of Motorsport panel also hopes


to have Rudy Fejer, Frank Mount, John Sam- brook, Bob Tullius, Bill Warner and Allan de la Plante. For more information, visit www.cana- dianhistoricgrandprix.com and confirm what guests will be in attendance at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park during the Canadian Historic Grand Prix weekend. •


With the Toronto Star’s Norris McDonald hosting, Eppie Wietzes and Ludwig


Heimrath will be joined by (top to bottom)


fellow Canadian racing legends Craig Fisher (#40, at the 1967 Daytona 24 Hours), Bill Brack (who drove a BRM at CTMP in the


1970s), Gary Magwood (above), and Walt Mackay (right) at the 2014 Canadian Historic Grand Prix weekend.


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