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VARAC Vintage Festival 2007
Mosport International Raceway
June 22-24, 2007


The weekend of June 22-24 was the 28th annual VARAC Vintage Festival at Mosport International Raceway. This year was a celebration of the 40th Anniversary of F1 at Mosport. There were several vintage Formula One cars at the track. Additionally, there were over two hundred other vintage race cars in all classes.

The weather was beautiful and a good crowd was on hand.

Historic F1
The F1 cars attracted a lot of attention over the weekend.
The John Watson and Jacky Ickx cars never competed in the races. The Ickx car was used during a parade. Wally Branston, the flagman for the 1967 Grand Prix of Canada, was on hand to wave the flag to start the feature race on Sunday afternoon. He also waved the checkered.

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# Driver Car Formerly Driven By
1 Jeff Lewis 1977 McLaren M26 James Hunt
6 Peter Gulick 1982 Williams FW08
11 Bob Baker 1968 Brabham BT-26/3 Jacky Ickx
17 Scott Beath 1977 Shadow F1 DN8 Alan Jones
20 Doug Mockett 1978 Wolf WR6 (with the flat front) Jody Scheckter
20 Lewis Mackenzie 1977 Wolf Jody Scheckter
25 Scott Bader 1971 March Ronnie Peterson
27 Harmish Somervillle 1979 Williams FW07B
28 John Watson
37 Divina Galicia 1972 Brabham BT37 Carlos Reutemann
77 Richard Carlino 1981 March 811-06 Derek Daly


Wings & Slicks
The Wings & Slicks class attracted a wide variety of cars. There were cars that raced in Second Generation Can-Am, Formula Atlantic, Super Vee, F2000, F2 and Sports 2000.

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Sports Racers
Most of the Sports Racers dated from the 1960's and early 1970's. There were cars from the orignal Can-Am series and the two-seat sports racers that pre-dated Can-Am.

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Monoposto
Monposto is a class for cars such as Formula Junior, Formula Ford, Formula B and F2.

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G70
G70 is a VARAC class for full-bodied race cars, roughly from the 1973-1987 era.

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Historic Production / Classic Sedan
Classic Sedan attracts many MGB and Austin Mini Cooper S.

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Vintage / Historic Production
This class attracts such cars as MG TC, MG TD, Austin-Healey Sprite, MGA, Triumph TR3 and Lotus 7.

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