• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near Los Angeles International Airport, where it honored George Follmer with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Follmer is, of course, the only driver ever to win two major U.S. professional racing championships in the same season, which he did in 1972, driving Roger Penske’s L&M Porsche 917/10 to the SCCA’s Can-Am title, while also winning the SCCA’s Trans-Am championship in Roy Woods’ AMC Javelin. He won the Trans-Am crown again (Category I) in 1976 with a Vasek Polak Racing Porsche 934. He also won the 1965 United States Road Racing Championship in two-liter Porsche-powered Lotus 23. Follmer joins a list of past recipients that includes Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, Phil Remington, Les Richter, Rodger Ward, Bob Bondurant, Jim Hall, Parnelli Jones and John Morton, among others.
• Formula Junior Historics North America has announced an eight-race slate of U.S. events for 2016 with support from Bonhams, Passport Transport and Deutsche Bank USA. The schedule includes: February 26-28 – CVAR Spring Races, Texas World Speedway; May 20-22 – HMSA Barber Historics, Barber Motorsports Park; June 23-25 – VSCCA/VRG Vintage Motorsports Festival, Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Connecticut; July 9-10 – PVGP Historics – Pitt Race; July 16-17 – Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, Schenley Park; July 29-31 – Inaugural VSCCA/VRG Whiskey Hill Classic, Palmer Motorsports Park, Massachusetts; August 13-14 – Rolex Pre-Reunion, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca; September 16-18 – VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival, Road America; and November 2-6 -SVRA U.S. Vintage Racing National Championships, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas. For more information please visit www.FJHNA.org
