{"id":491794,"date":"2011-04-01T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=35610"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:07:54","slug":"al-pease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/al-pease\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Pease"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unless you were around Canadian road race tracks a few\u2014well make that more than a few\u2014years ago, you may not remember the name Al Pease. However, those of us more mature, ahem, race fans will remember him racing just about anything he could get his hands on from Minis to a supercharged MGB to Dan Gurney\u2019s first F1 Eagle, the Coventry Climax-powered Grand Prix car. Al has the distinct honor of participating in the very first Canadian Formula One GP held at Mosport during Canada\u2019s Centennial year, 1967. Al was listed as a finisher in 12th place. He competed in circumstances that would be unthinkable today, as the time of the rent-a-racer and the private competitor and sportsman have gone the way of the Dodo in Bernie Ecclestone\u2019s universe of Formula One.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Al Pease<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A number of years ago Al retired to Tennessee where he lives today. A member of the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame, having turned 80 he no longer races, but still restores and recreates old racecars, and that\u2019s how VR\u2019s John Wright managed to meet him at Mosport\u2019s VARAC Vintage Weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n