The Frissbee GR2 and Frissbee GR3 were American
sports prototype racing cars, built by
Frissbee in 1981 and 1982, respectively, for the
Can-Am
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am, was an Sports Car Club of America, SCCA/Canadian Auto Sport Clubs, CASC sports car racing series from 1966 to 1987.
History
Can-Am started out as a race series for group 7 sports racers with two r ...
series. Originally built by
Lola Cars as a
Lola T332 Formula 5000 car; and featured a 5-liter
Chevrolet V8 engine
Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941) and ou ...
. It was then converted into the
Spyder Can-Am car in California, raced for
Newman-Freeman racing, and was driven by
Keke Rosberg among others. It eventually evolved into its current iteration, and was later driven by
Danny Sullivan,
Robert Meyer
Robert Meyer (born October 2, 1945 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian art photographer, professor, photo historian, collector, writer and publicist. He is the son of journalist Robert Castberg Meyer and homemaker Edel Nielsen; and brother of the in ...
,
Al Unser Jr.
Alfred Unser Jr. (born April 19, 1962), nicknamed "Little Al", "Al Junior", or simply "Junior", is a retired American race car driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.
History
Unser was born into a racing family in Albuquerque, New Mexic ...
,
Jacques Villeneuve, Sr.,
Horst Kroll
Horst may refer to:
Science
* Horst (geology), a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben
People
* Horst (given name)
* Horst (surname)
* ter Horst, Dutch surname
* van der Horst, Dutch surname
Places Settlements Germany
* Horst, ...
and
Rick Miaskiewicz
Rick Miaskiewicz (born March 22, 1953) is a former American race car driver from Pittsburgh. He won the Can-Am championship in 1985, the series' next to last year of operations, and then moved to the CART series for 1986. He competed in five ra ...
, between 1982 and 1985. It was later sold to
Colin Poole of
Plum Tree Racing in England and competed there between 1987 and 1989.
References
{{reflist
Sports prototypes
Can-Am cars
Lola racing cars