Motor Sport’s “Nevada Nirvana” revisits Stardust and the inaugural Can-Am season. John Surtees, driving a Lola T70, won at the Las Vegas circuit and secured the series championship. Bruce McLaren and the Chaparral effort belong to the same story of powerful sports cars and ambitious engineering.
The retrospective places Las Vegas within an international racing world that predated the Caesars Palace grands prix. This was a road-racing venue in the desert, not the modern Motor Speedway and not a Strip street circuit. It is one of the clearest routes into the city’s often overlooked 1960s motorsport history.
Can-Am: How America's craziest racing series was born
Motor Sport
Read at Motor Sport (opens in a new tab)Original issue: December 2001. This is a retrospective of 1966, not reporting published during the race weekend.
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