The ’23 French GP was held on the ‘Circuit de Touraine’ Tours on 2 July was won by Henry Segrave in a Sunbeam… The Le Petit Journal illustration depicts the 3rd placed Bugatti T32 ‘Tank’ of Ernest Friderich ahead of Segrave’s winning 2 litre, 4 cylinder Sunbeam. The course was 22.8Km, the total distance of […]
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1923 French Grand Prix, Tours…
Posted: September 8, 2016 in F1, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1923 French Grand Prix, Bugatti Type 32, Ernest Friderich, Henry Segrave, Sunbeam
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Benz Tropfenwagen…
Posted: September 11, 2020 in F1, ObscuritiesTags: 1923 European Grand Prix, Benz Tropfenwagen, Fiat 805, Miller 122
When I think of the pioneers of mid-engined racing cars, it’s always the Auto Unions of the thirties which pop most readily into my mind, but that does the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen a huge disservice. Dr Edmund Rumpler’s ‘Tropfenwagen’ (teardrop vehicle) was the hit of the 1921 Berlin Motor Show, it was said to resemble […]
Werrangourt Archive 5: Cars I Have Driven, by Bob King…
Posted: August 13, 2020 in F1, Sports RacersTags: 1914 GP Delage, 1914 GP Mercedes, 1922 GP Sunbeam, Bugatti Type 32, Bugatti Type 39, Bugatti Type 40, Ferrari 212E GTB, Ferrari 375MM, Frazer Nash TT Replica, Sulman Singer
Christian Lautenschlager descending the ‘le piege de la mort’ switchback, Mercedes 18/100 HP (4.48 litre straight-four), first in the July 1914 French Grand Prix run over a 752 km road course in a little over 7 hours 8 minutes. Mark suggested I write something on ten of the more interesting cars I have had the […]
1928 100 Miles Road Race, Phillip Island…
Posted: May 28, 2020 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1927 Australian Grand Prix, 1928 100 Miles Road Race Phillip Island, 1928 Australian Grand Prix, Arthur Terdich, Arthur Waite, Austin 7, Australian Motor Racing History, Bugatti T40, J McCutcheon, Morris Cowley, Reg Sweet
Captain Arthur Waite raced his supercharged Austin 7 to victory in the 1928 Australian Grand Prix on Victoria’s Phillip Island… Here ‘The Skipper’ as his boys in the UK called him, on the far side of the car, and his Australian mechanic, Guy Barringer are preparing the racer behind the Isle of Wight Hotel in […]
Aussie’s Land Speed Record…
Posted: April 3, 2020 in Features, ObscuritiesTags: Austin Miller, Australian Land Speed Record, Australian Motor Racing History, Bakers Beach Tasmania, Cooper T41 Climax, Cooper T51 Chev, Cooper T51 Climax 'F2-20-59', Ern Tadgell, Geoff Smedley, Miller Special, Sabakat
Austin Miller’s Cooper T51 Chev during his Australian Land Speed Record setting day-163.94mph at Bakers Beach, Tasmania watched by ‘four men and a dog’ on Monday 20 November 1961… Only in Australia would a significant event like this have been achieved in such a clever, low key kind of way, still, the fellows involved were […]
Fiat 806 GP 1927…
Posted: November 22, 2019 in F1Tags: Carlo Salamano, Felice Nazzaro, Fiat 802, Fiat 803, Fiat 804, Fiat 805, Fiat 806, Fiat 806 Cutaway Drawing, Pietro Bordino, Tranquillo Zerbi, Vittorio Jano
Brian Hatton’s beautiful cutaway rendering of the 1927 Grand Prix Fiat 806… Fiat’s impact on Grand Prix racing in the twenties was hugely significant, then they departed almost as quickly as they arrived in 1924, reappeared in 1927 with this radical 806, won and then disappeared from GP racing forever inclusive of destroying this jewel […]
Cooper T41/43/45/51/53…
Posted: October 4, 2019 in F1, FeaturesTags: Citroen ERSA Gearbox, Cooper T41 Climax, Cooper T43 Climax, Cooper T45 Climax, Cooper T51 Climax, Cooper T53 Climax, Cooper-Knight CS-5 Gearbox, CooperT51 Maserati, Coventry Climax Engines, Jack Brabham, John Cooper, Owen Maddock
The Cooper Mark 1 (later referred to as T41) was the Surbiton marques prototype or first mid-engined F2 car… Note that there were also Mk1, 2, 3 etc air-cooled Coopers, the T41 was typically fitted with a Coventry Climax 1.5 litre FWB SOHC, two-valve engine. This article was spawned by Theo Page’s Type 41 cutaway […]
Mildren’s Unfair Advantage…
Posted: June 8, 2018 in FeaturesTags: 1960 Australian Gold Star, 1960 Australian Grand Prix, Alec Mildren, Cooper T51 Maserati
Alec Mildren Racing at Warwick Farm in May 1961, that’s Alec with his back to us and mechanic/engineer Glenn Abbey leaning on the team’s Cooper T51 Maserati back wheel… The ‘Rice’ Trailer behind proclaims Mildren and the Cooper as winners of the 1960 Australian Gold Star Championship drivers award and Australian Grand Prix. In racing terms Mildren, […]
Patto and his Coopers…
Posted: February 2, 2017 in FeaturesTags: 1954 Australian Hillclimb Championship, 1961 Australian Gold Star Championship, Bill Patterson, Cooper MkV/41/51, Cooper T39 Climax, Cooper T51 Climax, Cooper T53 Climax, Stan Jones
Bill Patterson getting all he can from the 1000cc JAP engine in his little, lithe, light and nimble Cooper MkV. He is on his way to Australian Hillclimb Championship glory on 19 April 1954 at Collingrove, Angaston in South Australia’s Barossa Valley… Patterson was an immensely fast driver, look closely and you can see his […]
‘Australia’s’ Talbot Darracq 700: 1926/7 GP car…
Posted: April 22, 2016 in F1, FeaturesTags: 1926 Grand Prix Season, 1927 Grand Prix Season, Albert Divo, Cec Warren, Emilio Materassi, Enrico Plate, Henry Segrave, Jack Day, Reg Nutt, Stuart Anderson, Talbot Darracq 1926/7 Grand Prix Car, Talbot Darracq 700
A couple of Jack Day’s helpers fettle his Talbot Darracq 700 chassis #3 in the wide open parklands of Albert Park during practice for the 19-21 November, 1953 Australian Grand Prix… The highly sophisticated 1.5 litre straight-8 1926/7 GP car was raced for him by Reg Nutt, like Day an ‘old stager’ whose racing pedigree […]
