Jack Deren advising Oscar Koveleski in the McLaren. Oscar didn’t set the Can Am world on fire, but “They knew I was there!”
By John R. Wright
Oscar Kovelevski died on the evening of Monday December 28th, 2020 at age 87. I will miss him.
From 1966 until 1974, it was a ritual for us Canadian gearheads to travel to our home race track, Mosport for the annual CanAm race. After the race had ended, instead of fighting the traffic out of the track area, we would instead wander the paddock and pits to see the drivers up close: Dan Gurney, Bruce McLaren, Denis Hulme, Canadian John Cordts – and Oscar Kovelevski. Many of them would leave by helicopter and avoid the fans but not Oscar.