10 best Can-Am moments at Goodwood

Can-Am is possibly the best motorsport series of all time. Incredible lightweight cars with massive V8 engines. We've been lucky enough to have a lot of Can-Am cars at Goodwood at all three of our events. This year at the 81st Members' Meeting we will celebrate the whole history of Can-Am, and in advance, we wanted to look back at our favourite Goodwood Can-Am moments.
Which is your favourite?
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:14 McLaren M8F at FOS
01:06 Lola T70 record breaker
03:27 Mighty March 717
04:25 McLaren M20 with Richard Attwood
05:18 Ferrari 712
06:16 Mighty McLaren vs Lola battle
08:35 BRM P154
09:29 Hepworth GB1
10:12 Shadow Mk1
10:32 Bizzarini P528S
#81MM #CanAm #V8 #bestof
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[@GoodwoodRR]

More about our Can-Am demo! www.goodwood.com/grr/event-coverage/members-meeting/can-am-monsters-to-roar-at-81mm/

[@AlteredCarbons]

i love how a lot of these cars look like cars i drew growing up and people laughed at me for...

[@nahfam6605]

Deserved

[@AlteredCarbons]

@@nahfam6605 agreed

[@nahfam6605]

Sorry I am just shitposting rn

[@AlteredCarbons]

@@nahfam6605 i mean... you aint wrong tho lol. should of seen the car i made in shop class. looked like the shadow mk1 lol. even the wheel flair in the front and back

[@nahfam6605]

I mean most cars drawn as kids kinda look bad so it’s pretty normal

[@housey4297]

Still the most spectacular racing cars made. Rolling thunder.

[@ml7757]

no doubt

[@donziperk]

Those Lola T70s are gorgeous. What a series, produced some of the greatest raw power race cares ever built.

[@richard1472]

In 1963, I was a 10-year-old gearhead living in Southern California. Imagine the fun I had...

[@Americathebeautiful49]

I was a couple of years older but I know what you mean.

[@chrishay8385]

Just the best noise in motor racing,nuff said..

[@ke3552]

It's refreshing watching vehicles with more motor than tire. Thanks.

[@johnbower7452]

Love the classics. Much better racing and better looking cars.

[@soulcapitalist6204]

Shadows were never my favorite, but they kept winning the Can Am revival at Long Beach GP when I was growing up. Over and over.

[@stratman9449]

canam....BIG engines....BIG Bang......how very lovely.....

[@757chip3]

I was fortunate to see the Lolas and McLarens battle it out at Road America when I was in my teens and 20s

[@Americathebeautiful49]

My brothers and I saw them at Riverside.

[@jamespell8091]

I so way envy you. I was watching the drags at Fremont in the 70's

[@stratman9449]

lucky you.....we just saw titbits over her ein germany...at the time.

[@Americathebeautiful49]

@@stratman9449Well you have Nurburgring so Im envious of that.

[@djpalindrome]

Killing the Can-Am was the death knell for the golden age of American road racing

[@soulcapitalist6204]

Road racing in general, considering Can Am and Gr C. Since this time, race cars have less power than street cars.

[@barrycuda3769]

Can Am , and Trans Am was the coolest racing ever , particularly, to me, Trans Am because you could go and buy the cars you saw racing, well sort of.

[@texleeger8973]

I saw a 1969 Trans Am race at the long-gone Bryar Motorsport Park. Won by Mark Donahue in his bright blue, #6. Penske Sunoco Camaro. One of my fond memories of this long life.

[@barrycuda3769]

@@texleeger8973 That would have been very special. The Penske team , were formidable, and the Camaros looked great. I never got to actually see it, because I was just a little boy living on the opposite side of the world. Can I ask, where was Bryar Park?

[@texleeger8973]

@@barrycuda3769 Loudon, New Hampshire, USA. Was sold in 1990 and the New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval was built on the site. Now home of NASCAR racing.

[@tomarmstrong750]

I remember watching the orange McClarens (not sure the model) racing at a local airport track in 1968. The flames coming out of the exhaust when they backed off the throttle at the end of the straight was impressive to say the least. Watching them come down the straight was like watching an F-15 come at you at supersonic speed - no noise at all until they went past. Then BOOM!

[@Americathebeautiful49]

What airport? Im trying to remember the tracks.

[@markkraus3598]

100% THE BEST SOUNDING CLASS !!

[@thethirdman225]

I can hear engines like that any night of the week outside my local 7-11.

[@danestormfeltz7815]

More videos like this on more Can-Am cars please! Chaparral 😁

[@DIY-V12]

Yes please! and the 1970 Lola T165 - such a beautiful racing car.

[@GoodwoodRR]

Oh, alright kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHnOhoyIoKakn5I

[@Poseiden2]

Love all these cars - Can Am may have been a bit one-sided in terms of which cars won in a season, but it was so spectacular. However… how did the Hepworth pass the regulatory requirements - I thought there needed to be room for a second seat?

[@RespectableMayonnaise]

After the original can-am / group 7 regulations died out in the early 70’s there was a second iteration of it which had some different regulations which allowed different styles including modified chassis from some formula series, so chances are the Hepworth is a modified F5000 chassis or similar that was allowed on those grounds

[@metrichotrods1763]

Sooooo gnarly.

[@stevenphilpott1493]

loved the sound of the BRM. JUST MEAN!

[@brianbumgardner8704]

I loved seeing these cars run at Mid Ohio in Lexington Ohio back in the 70's and 80's.

[@mccanlessdesign]

Lovely, lovely stuff!

[@alainbellemare2168]

I want a lola t 70 for my birthday

[@Americathebeautiful49]

I put my request in first.

[@chriskappert1365]

I love this ! ❤

[@paulshotola1394]

All analogue.

[@glynluff2595]

I remember the fuss when the rear wings fell off and the motoring press was full of comment!

[@victordenolf7128]

I love these cars, sadly enough they did not let them race at the members' meeting because of "safety issues" personally I find it great to see these car's come back to life but not when it is in som parade...

[@hughbeein1265]

I still have my Aurora slot car tracks two of them featuring Can-Am cars. Name the make and model... The RC Cola car. The Black winged number 101.

[@texleeger8973]

101 is the fabulous but not that fabulous UOP Shadow. And that RC-sponsored car? The much more than fabulous Porche 917-10. Raced in 1973 by George Follmer who also ran a Bud Moore Mustang in that 1969 Bryar Trans Am race. See the comment above. :}

[@GoodwoodRR]

That particular Shadow will be at 81MM

[@tem0079]

Polyphony Digital, are you watching this?

[@kikiautorcman787B]

Ferrari 712...🤩🔊👍‼️💯🔥🛢️🏁🏎️🤓🇨🇵

[@texleeger8973]

Debuted by, you guessed it, Mario Andretti.

[@Americathebeautiful49]

My brothers and I had the honor of pushing its predecessor onto the grid at Riverside. Chris Amon and Jonathan Williams drivers.

[@alainbellemare2168]

Invented drifting

[@rondog540]

Can-Am - amazing, intimidating machines, like a host of raiding vikings, but pretty average racing. Often the case with quasi-"anything goes" formulas.

[@Americathebeautiful49]

I disagree. The racing was very competitive and extremely exciting to watch.

[@reallyluckyoaklawn8306]

I was lucky to see both series 1969 -1973 and 1977-1980 at Road America. When we evaluate series from the 60-80s, attention needs to be given as to just how unreliable these cars were! Great races on paper evaporated due to unreliablity. The 5.0L series produced much better and more competitive races. The cars were lithe looking too.

[@v_stands_for_value124]

McLaren M8F sounds demonic, something like Ghost Riders motorcycle

[@cogboy302]

Hubba, Hubba.

[@user-wh7ud6ps9d]

Живут же люди, а у нас законы принимают о вынужденной корупции

[@nicowalde9545]

Porsche 917/30 laughing at the corner:

[@randalljames1]

Can-Am Bigger is Better

[@jasonbell5905]

Not the actual old footage, Click bait

[@GoodwoodRR]

Wat?

[@ninthundertow]

Joe Biden and the EU say "never again" to these cars...

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

It was the Nixon/Ford era EPA who said no and so was the safety boards. So stop blaming today's politicians on old stuff.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

Biden Derangement Syndrome

[@Americathebeautiful49]

Racing always has and always will adapt to the latest technology and trends in automotive design. Presidents have nothing to do with it.

[@FuckYouAndYourMadeUpPronouns]

I may have stopped breathing for a while when the Shadow Mk1 came on screen.

[@Alexander_Snowden]

And that's easily the less aggressive looking Mk 1

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

​​@@Alexander_SnowdenAye, but mostly because it couldn't race in that configuration. Too enclosed meant it overheated massively so they opened it up & then stuck the massive wing on to gain some downforce as it wasn't any quicker in a straight line as had been intended. Works well enough after the reengineering nowadays tho for at least the short races and demo runs in full low profile form.