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Post by olderguysrule on Mar 15, 2020 3:44:19 GMT -8
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Post by olderguysrule on Mar 15, 2020 12:20:13 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 18, 2020 13:01:17 GMT -8
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Post by olderguysrule on Mar 21, 2020 5:38:56 GMT -8
Roger Penske reflects on racing career, state of motorsports | Coffee with Kyle | Motorsports on NBC
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 21, 2020 6:37:14 GMT -8
The best of the period competing in slot cars ... apparently this is from an Ed Sullivan Show, maybe prior to a USGP at the Glen?
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 21, 2020 6:43:59 GMT -8
A little talent in THIS front row ...
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 24, 2020 12:37:13 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 25, 2020 12:27:45 GMT -8
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Post by kingfisher on Mar 25, 2020 22:57:40 GMT -8
So THIS is where the REAL racing thread is.
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Post by olderguysrule on Mar 26, 2020 7:37:44 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 28, 2020 6:16:06 GMT -8
How a Bribe Saved an Auto Union Type C/D From Soviet DestructionThe Soviets were ready to destroy this car. Now—thanks to Viktors Kulbergs—it sits in the Audi Museum.The Bikernieki race track lies not far from the center of Riga, Latvia’s capital. Tucked between a swarm of Soviet buildings and an idyllic forest, the one-mile loop is the crown jewel of the race complex. The Riga Motor Museum, which overlooks the course, is less well-known. Home to many wonderful machines, its centerpiece is an Auto Union Type C/D. The museum is literally built around the silver bullet. The hill-climber rests on an aluminum platform hanging from the ceiling of the main hall. It is an impressive sight, made more so by the story of how it ended up there. Following the fall of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II, Soviet leaders ordered the KGB on a special mission. The goal: empty Horch’s Zwickau factory of all of its technology, including over a dozen Auto Union race cars. The Soviet Union put the cars on a train, squishing them together like sardines to make room for other equipment. When they arrived in the U.S.S.R., they were distributed across several factories for research. www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a31931698/how-a-bribe-saved-an-auto-union-type-cd-from-soviet-destruction/?source=nl
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 28, 2020 6:58:51 GMT -8
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Post by kingfisher on Mar 28, 2020 23:21:42 GMT -8
Cool event poster.
And this is how they finished;
1 Jimmy Clark Team Lotus Lotus 25 / Climax 1.5 V8 2 Graham Hill Owen Racing Organisation BRM P57 / BRM 1.5 V8 3 Bruce McLaren Cooper Car Company Cooper T60 / Climax 1.5 V8 4 Jack Brabham Brabham Racing Organisation Brabham BT3 / Climax 1.5 V8 5 Dan Gurney Porsche System Engineering Porsche 804 / Porsche 1.5 B8 6 Masten Gregory UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus 24 / BRM 1.5 V81 7 Tony Maggs Cooper Car Company Cooper T60 / Climax 1.5 V8 8 Innes Ireland UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus 24 / Climax 1.5 V8 9 Roger Penske Dupont Team Zerex Lotus 24 / Climax 1.5 V8 10 Rob Schroeder John Mecom Lotus 24 / Climax 1.5 V8 11 Hap Sharp Hap Sharp Cooper T53 / Climax 1.5 L4 12 Trevor Taylor Team Lotus Lotus 25 / Climax 1.5 V8 13 Jo Bonnier Porsche System Engineering Porsche 804 / Porsche 1.5 B8
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Post by olderguysrule on Mar 29, 2020 12:10:45 GMT -8
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Post by Carlo_Carrera on Apr 1, 2020 10:17:05 GMT -8
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Post by Carlo_Carrera on Apr 2, 2020 7:44:07 GMT -8
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 6, 2020 12:57:14 GMT -8
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Post by Pistola on Apr 7, 2020 8:07:21 GMT -8
Jim Clark: 4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 8, 2020 2:58:33 GMT -8
Jim Clark: 4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968 I remember that sunday like it was yesterday. I was waxing my car in the garage as it was raining when I heard it on the news. it made the news here in the states because he had won the indy 500 a few years back. :-(
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Apr 9, 2020 3:26:58 GMT -8
Kidnapped in Cuba: F1 legend Fangio's run-in with revolutionariesIn 1958, President Fulgencio Batista was trying to retain an air of normality in Cuba. Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces were camped in the mountains to the east, and their revolutionary presence was being felt via increasingly aggressive riots in the streets. But in downtown Havana, President Batista was keen for business -- which, along with corruption, had been booming since he seized office in 1953 -- to continue as usual. Batista's vision was for Cuba's capital to become a Latino Las Vegas, in which wealthy tourists from the United States would pump money into the country's casinos. And what better way to attract the wealthy in the 1950s than a high-stakes motor race? The first Cuban Grand Prix was held in 1957 along Havana's waterfront, the Malecon, and by all accounts it had been a huge success. Juan Manuel Fangio, whose tally of five world championships has been surpassed in the decades since by just Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher, won the race in front of streets lined with enthusiastic and curious spectators. In 1958 a repeat event was scheduled, but with the revolution less than a year away, things did not go so smoothly. www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/28999493/when-f1-legend-fangio-was-kidnapped-cuba
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