Hat's Off For Can Am 1* -Ak Get on the FREE Michigan iInternational Speedway Mailing List Send in your name and address to be on the mailing list for Michigan International Speedway Racing news. TO: Michigan International Speedway 2990 W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, Michigan 48202 Please put me on your mailing list for M.I.S. racing news NAMF THEI SIDE T C VOL. 2, NO. 4 Published by MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, Irish Hills, Michigan, offices: 2990 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit, Michigan 4 C C RS CO I GT , 200 ILE RO D R CESE V 1 I $60000 Purse for International Championsh I Q ADDRESS- i I I I I I I 1 MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Watch the fastest and most exciting big sports cars in action on the MIS Irish Hills 3%-mile road circuit, Sunday, September 28, 1969. Former world's champion driver Stirling Moss predicts: "The most spec- tacular action in the history of racing. The unprecedented size of this year's awards should provide both American and Canadian racing enthusiasts with the best possible blend of top North American and Euro- pean drivers." With over $1,000,000 in total prize money, the 1969 Can-Am races become the richest and most important racing series in the world today. $740,000 GUARANTEEI) The Canadian-American Chal- lenge Cup series was inaugu- rated in 1966 by the Sports Car Club of America. The Can-Am has grown quickly to rank at the top of international road racing competition with more than $740,0000 in guaranteed 1969 awards. The cars are pow- erful Group - 7 sports-racers which are simply racing cars with enclosed wheels and un- limited size engines capable of 200 mph from 600 horsepower. The Can-Am is a drivers' cham- pionship with points accumu- lated in the eleven race series. The 1969 purses are all set at record amounts of $40,000 to $60,000. Three races are in Canada under the Canadian Automobile Sports Clubs and the balance is staged by the SCCA in the U.S. For a finale, there is a $200,000 pot of gold - the extra point fund established by the SCCA and sponsored by the Johnson Wax Company for the drivers with the most points. With racing greats from Eu- rope, New Zealand, Australia and North America, supporting companies from everywhere and eleven of the best road courses, auto racing has its premier 1969 attraction in the Can-Am. NEWEST PHENOMENON The M i c h i g a n International Canadian-American (iup 200-mile road race, Sunday, September 28, 1969, puts a $60,000 cap on MIS' 1969 Tournament of Speed. The scenic Irish Hills multi- million dollar facility has pre- sented many new concepts to motor racing to the Midwest this season. The forthcoming Can- Am event promises to be just as thrilling and exciting as the previous Trans-Am road race and the three wild and wooly NASCAR affairs staged at MIS this year. American drivers will join the best from Europe and Canada for the September 28th event - the newest phenomenon in this colorful spectator attraction - the 1969 Canadian - American Challenge Cup r o a d racing series for the world's fastest cars. This exciting series has mushroomed in popularity in just four short seasons. POINTS SCRAMBLE Jim Kaser, the SCCA's director CITY- Helmet in hand, pretty Ann Bosanoz is just calling attention to the Michigan International Can Am Road Race to be held Sunday, September 28th with trials and qualifying on Saturday, September 27th. STATE- ZIP CODF is 0 \NAL "It's like being an integral part of the racer". That's the thought most often heard from students at the International Institute of Performance Driving, after their first session in one of the school's ten Merlyn Formula Fords. Based at MIS, the Institute uses professional instructors and techniques, combined with the latest race-equipped cars to provide the ultimate in race driving preparation for amateur and hobby racing enthusiasts. The course at IIPD includes an exhausting and revealing evaluation of the untrained novice, in his very first visit to the school. Then fol- lows a series of classroom and racetrack sessions designed to fully prepare him for novice road racing. The training includes many laps on the five different courses available for road racing at MIS, as well as films, demonstrations, lectures, the inevitable homework and track- side sessions to critique other students as they practice. IIPD furnishes every item . . . except the student and his sneakers. For full information and an Entry Blank, write: International Institute of Performance Driving 12626 U.S. 12 Brooklyn, Michigan 49230 _____... __ ; 1 f _ i , vOp For Ticket Information See Pages 4