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Post by jmjgt on Jan 19, 2023 19:25:34 GMT -8
Ok, hands up, who DIDN'T know what Ferrari was up to.
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Post by Pistola on Jan 23, 2023 14:37:43 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Jan 27, 2023 8:15:50 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Feb 5, 2023 7:45:50 GMT -8
FYI, the Spa winner was chassis no. 104 and had the 3.0L Gurney/Weslake V12 in it. First Gurney Eagle F1 car set for Gooding Amelia Island saleSanta Monica-based Gooding & Company will offer the first-ever All American Racers Gurney Eagle (1966 Mk 1) at its upcoming Amelia Island Auction, set for March 2-3 on the grounds of the Omni Amelia Island Resort. “We couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to bring the masterpiece that is the AAR Eagle to auction. Dan Gurney’s ambitions of building his own Formula 1 car were brought to fruition with this beautiful machine, which stands among the most important cars of its type ever built,” said Gooding & Company Specialist, Hans Wurl. This 1966 AAR Gurney Eagle Mk 1 was the first of just four Formula 1 Eagles ever produced, fitted with a 2.7-liter variant of the venerable Coventry Climax FPF. Chassis 101 was entered in several major European and American Grands Prix, setting the precedent for future iterations of the Gurney Eagle. In this period, it was driven by some of the greatest names in motorsports, including Dan Gurney, Bob Bondurant and Phil Hill. In 1967, chassis 101 was sold to Canadian racer Al Pease, who entered it in 10 races, including the 1967, 1968, and 1969 Canadian Grand Prix. The Eagle then went on to Tom Wheatcroft, a pioneering collector of F1 cars, who tracked chassis 101 down and made it a centerpiece of his Donington Grand Prix Collection for over 38 years. racer.com/2023/02/05/first-gurney-eagle-f1-car-set-for-gooding-amelia-island-sale/?utm_source=RACER+%2F%2F+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0f72012399-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_05_02_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0f72012399-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
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Post by Pistola on Feb 17, 2023 23:01:05 GMT -8
This series on Bernie is available in many markets worldwide just not in the US as yet. It's done by Manish Pandy the fellow who did the Senna doc a few years back. I've seen the first episode covering from 1950 to 1970 and it's good, real good. Great racing clips.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Feb 20, 2023 8:38:59 GMT -8
Grand prix racing’s forgotten year of changeA century ago grand prix racing’s future as a fully fledged world championship remained some way off, but it was already a mixing pot for technical innovation, groundbreaking feats and drama aplentyGrand prix history is often written as though it began in 1950, with the inauguration of the Formula 1 world championship that is now very much the pinnacle of motorsport. That certainly keeps things neat, but GP competition started as far back as 1906, and the season that took place a century ago is a forgotten milestone. The 1923 campaign featured the arrival of a new technology that would revolutionise racing for decades, the appearance of a mid-engined design, and flirtations with other innovations, the potentials of which would not be realised for many years. And there was some controversy over a team copying the car of a rival… It might be hard to imagine now, but Fiat was the king of GP racing 100 years ago. A new two-litre limit had been introduced for 1922 and Fiat’s 804-404 had been the car to beat. Low and neat, the straight-six machine not only set the template for what GP cars should look like for the next few years, but it won the blue-riband French GP and the Italian GP. More @ www.autosport.com/f1/news/grand-prix-racings-forgotten-year-of-change/10433989/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=2PjxfRgQt6tv6au9X_ELJ6nYrnGDioBOwTvE1pOZTLc%3D.Vbb5eh
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Post by Pistola on Mar 27, 2023 11:17:56 GMT -8
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 8, 2023 8:46:29 GMT -8
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 8, 2023 8:48:37 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Apr 9, 2023 5:49:09 GMT -8
1967 German Grand Prix ... Gurney breaks with two laps left and a huge lead ... real race cars on a real road course.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Apr 11, 2023 14:08:34 GMT -8
Thirty years ago today, Ayrton Senna produced one of the greatest wins of his career, moving from fifth to first on the opening lap and winning by a margin of one minute and 23 seconds at a wet 1993 European Grand Prix. Watch the opening lap here ...
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 24, 2023 9:53:28 GMT -8
Pit stop records. Shortest to the longest. :-)
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Post by olderguysrule on May 23, 2023 17:30:53 GMT -8
This series on Bernie is available in many markets worldwide just not in the US as yet. It's done by Manish Pandy the fellow who did the Senna doc a few years back. I've seen the first episode covering from 1950 to 1970 and it's good, real good. Great racing clips.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on May 26, 2023 10:59:24 GMT -8
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Post by olderguysrule on Jun 5, 2023 15:40:26 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Jun 6, 2023 0:26:04 GMT -8
When we raced at The Glen in 1989, Dan Gurney led all us crew guys on a lap of the original circuit in the rental cars. Was very cool.
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Jun 9, 2023 6:08:23 GMT -8
1958 Vanwall VW5 Monoposto The Vanwall, the first British racer to win a Formula 1 World Championship, reflected Guy Anthony Vandervell's obsession to beat 'those bloody red cars.' Vandervell knew Italian cars well, having fielded modified Ferrari Grand Prix racers called 'Thinwall', after the bearings he manufactured, Specials in 1954 - 1955. He was a majority shareholder in Norton Motorcycles. Thus the two-liter twin-cam power unit of his new racer had four water-cooled cylinders derived from Norton's 500cc racing bike engine. The chassis was built by Cooper, but the chassis and transmission design borrowed liberally from Ferrari and Maserati. More improvements included an entirely new multi-tube space frame chassis and increasing the frontal area to create a smooth low drag body which made it almost impossible for any red rival to stay with it on high-speed straights. The culmination of racing came in 1958 with three wins apiece for Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks, solid team backup by Stuart Lewis-Evans, and the Formula 1 Constructors' World Championship for Vandervell. Moss lost the Driver's Championship, his third near miss, by a single point to Mike Hawthorn of Ferrari. www.conceptcarz.com/profile/21661,24901/1958-vanwall-vw5.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1xt3gluPXGBxxKlN4XIMd3G9XOhqvN8MC2LAl9_kaPtAhw1KtWgBzcCiw
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Post by olderguysrule on Jun 15, 2023 11:36:23 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Jun 21, 2023 8:26:52 GMT -8
F1's 'fruit machine' race that led to the Pirelli era — and increasing tyre managementA topsy-turvy 2010 Canadian GP informed Pirelli on its tyre development direction for the years to come – and shaped F1 as we know it todayOn Sunday in Montreal — on the very weekend it was confirmed that Bridgestone had tendered for the F1 tyre supply contract from 2025-27 — Max Verstappen discovered quite early that this wasn’t a typical 2023 race. It wasn’t even a typical race from throughout his F1 career. Because far from having to nurse the Pirellis to keep them below the critical temperature threshold, he was having to push them to keep hot enough. He was having to push! In the race! It happens sometimes. On those days when the compound is a little on the hard side for the demands of the track and the temperature, the tyres never quite reach that point where the tread is hot enough that the driver needs to manage the tyre – by driving it just on the edge of thermal equilibrium. That’s how it usually is: back off too much and they don’t switch on, push on too hard and they become too hot. That’s the convention in the Pirelli era, which has been in place since 2011. But sometimes, like on Sunday, you never quite reach that point where they become too hot and all you have to do is push on to prevent them becoming too cold. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f1/f1s-fruit-machine-race-that-led-to-the-pirelli-era-and-increasing-tyre-management/?utm_campaign=2569697_ED_MPH-210623%20-%20Pirelli&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailCampaign&dm_i=4DIP,1J2SH,75DNUM,74M9S,1
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Post by olderguysrule on Jun 24, 2023 6:56:14 GMT -8
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