• As it marked the 40th running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach this April, the city made three new additions to its LBGP Walk of Fame as Dario Franchitti, 2009 LBGP victor, four-time Indycar champion and triple Indy 500 winner, Gerry Forsythe, former LBGP- and championship-winning team owner, and Kevin Kalkhoven also a former LBGP-winning entrant and the current Indy 500-winning car owner, joined the 18 previously inducted luminaries.
• One of the premier engine builders of racing’s glorious Can-Am era of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Lee Muir, has passed away. Muir was central to McLaren’s domination of the fabled unlimited series, heading the team at McLaren Engines whose power plants ruled until Porsche brought turbocharging into the series in 1972. Muir went on to head up an experimental turbocharged Chevrolet engine program for Shadow, the team that won the final Can-Am crown in ’74, and then spearheaded Shadow’s successful adoption of Dodge power in Formula 5000.
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