The Monterey Historic Races (newly renamed The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion) kick off this weekend, and on hand will be an all-star group of RRDC members including: Dan Gurney, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, George Follmer, Bob Bondurant and Hurley Haywood.

Dan Gurney will be the featured guest and will be honored with displays of Eagle race cars spanning his career - including Formula One, Indy cars, Trans-Am, Can-Am and IMSA GTP prototypes. He'll also have a public interview and autograph session called “Dan Gurney--The Cars He Built, the Cars He Drove.”

Sir Stirling Moss OBE will race his recently acquired 1961 Porsche RS 61 Sports Racing Spyder for the first time - a sister car to the one he raced in the Targa Florio. Sir Stirling’s return to racing after his serious fall down an elevator shaft in March is testament to his remarkable conditioning regimen. His return will be in race group 1A against an impressive list of Porsches, Listers, Lotus’ and Maseratis on August 13-15.

“To have Sir Stirling make his return to racing at Mazda Raceway is an honor,” said Gill Campbell, CEO/general manager of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. “It will be a wonderful treat for our fans to see him in his first drive in his newly acquired race car, and equally so for his competitors who are in the same group.”

The Porsche race car is similar to the RS 60 Sir Stirling raced during the 1960s, in which he nearly won the 1961 Targa Florio.

On Friday morning at The Quail from 10:30 to 11:00, celebrated Porsche driver Hurley Haywood, 1972 Can-Am champion (Porsche 917/10) and Shadow driver George Follmer, Shadow team owner Don Nichols, along with McLaren and Lola Can-Am driver Bob Bondurant will join photographer Peter Harholdt to sign the  book “Can-Am Cars in Detail”.


Then from 1:30 to 2:00 the legendary Carroll Shelby will be joined by his 1965 World Manufacturers Champion driver Bob Bondurant, Shelby GT350 development engineer Chuck Cantwell, and Shelby sales representative and drag racer Don McCain to sign “Shelby Cars in Detail”.
The Monterey event is using a new name this year as it will be run by the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP), after more than three decades of oversight by Steve Earle and his General Racing company.