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TOP: Jackie Oliver “going like stink” aboard the Shadow Mk II at the 1971 Laguna Seca Can-Am. (Vintage Racing Motors)
ABOVE: A disappointed Jackie Oliver looks on as his out-of-commission Shadow is pushed behind the paddock area. (Vintage Racing Motors)
at Laguna Seca, across the continent, and all the way to October ninth. In a thrilling race there, Oliver finished second behind Hulme after qualifying third. At one point late in the race only a second separated the two leaders. Peter Bryant’s titanium creation, version two, was suddenly on the scene again and making people notice. Race number ten for the season, at Riverside, was November first. Again, Jackie qualified third and closed to within four seconds by the end of the race but lost again to Hulme in the McLaren M8D. For the last two races of the 1970 Can-Am season, Peter Bryant and his little team were certainly running with the big dogs and in fact pushing them hard!
Following the Riverside race in 1970, the continued development of the Ti22 took a shocking turn. Motor racing has been called “the cruel sport” due to its dangerous reputation, and another variant of that cruelty often came from the financial ups and downs that car owners and teams went through. Without previous warning, Peter was called to a meeting with a lawyer representing the Ecurie Vickie team, his current sponsor, and was told that at that meeting the team had voted him out. They kept the Ti22, but Peter was able to take the Goodyear tires and the sponsors with him. The car never repeated the success of two second- place finishes it enjoyed in 1970. In
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