Uniroyal 1970 ad featuring a rather nice Renault Alpine A110 (Automobile Year 18)…
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The Museum of Urban Art, Sau Paulo, Brazil…
My partner tripped over this on Instagram, luvvit, but she has no idea who the artist is. I’d like to know as it reminds me of my ‘Dinky’ childhood, ‘Hot Wheels’ the toy cars of the generations after mine!
Hot Wheels are still made, here are the top 50 of their cars, just in case you wanted to know!;
http://au.complex.com/sports/2013/02/the-50-best-hot-wheels-of-all-time/
Credit…
Museum of Urban Art, Brazil
Phillis takes his Honda 350/4 for a practice lap at The Isle Of Man on June 4 1962…
Sadly, the young Australian World Champion and GP winner was killed on lap 2 of the 350cc event on 6 June aged 28.
Born in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner west on April 9, 1934, Phillis was a trend-setting international motorcycle racer as the first rider to win a World Championship Grand Prix on a Japanese machine. Aboard a Honda 125 he won the 1961 Spanish 125GP at Montjuic Park, Barcelona on 23 April.
He was the first Aussie to achieve a ‘Grand Prix Double’, (Clermont Ferrand France 21 May 1961 aboard Honda’s 125 and 500cc) the first man to lap the Isle of Man at 100mph on a push-rod bike and was Australia’s second World Motorcycle Champion. (Keith Campbell, the first, won the 1957 350 World Championship aboard a Moto Guzzi) His record of six GP wins in the ’61 season wasn’t improved upon by another Australian rider until Gregg Hansford did so in 1978).
Phillis clinched a drama-filled World 1961 125 Championship in the last round on October 15 in Argentina, whilst Mike Hailwood won the World 250 Championship on a machine supplied by the British Honda agent.
Phillis aboard a Norton on the Fishermans Bend, Melbourne grid in February 1959 (Charles Rice)
Tom Phillis’ daughter Debra has created an interesting website about her fathers racing exploits, click here for an interesting read and array of photographs of this great rider;
Credit…
Central Press, MotorsportRetro.com
Tailpiece: Tom Phillis takes Honda’s first ever championship GP win at Montjuic Park, Barcelona, Spanish 125cc GP on 23 April 1961…
(unattributed)
Wow!…
Posted: April 17, 2016 in F1, FotosTags: 1969 British Grand Prix, Daniel Ricciardo, Graham Hill, Hawker Jump Jet, McDonnell Douglas FA18 Hornet, Red Bull
(Susan Wood)
The expressions on the faces of this lot are priceless! G Hill and fans sussing out a Hawker Harrier Jump-Jet maybe…
The showstopper at the Australian Grand Prix every year is the McDonnell Douglas FA18 Hornet, it always rather puts the performance of F1 cars and their ‘spectacle’ into context!
Red Bull and Hornet, AGP pre-promotion 2014 (RAAF)
I’ll never forget the first year in Adelaide, 1985 on the Thursday when a General Dynamics F111 fighter flew unannounced at ‘treetops height’, fast whilst we were strolling through the parklands. We hit the deck quicker than a Viet-Cong guerrilla, shouting ‘whatt the faaaaaaark wozzitt??!!’ as it roared past in the direction of North Adelaide.
The Graham Hill photo Getty Images caption is typically useless, it’s dated 1 January 1970, the circuit unidentified, praps one of you Poms can help?!
It’s either the ’69 or ’70 British GP I guess, ’69 at Silverstone maybe, the non-championship F1 races wouldn’t rate a Harrier?
Hawker Siddeley P1127 prototype at Farnborough Air Show on 10 September 1964. Amazing V/STOL, vertical short take off and landing technology. The plane entered production as the Hawker Jump Jet (Victor Blackman)
Credit…
Susan Wood, RAAF
Tailpiece: Rubens, Ferrari and FA18…
Nelson Piquet awaits ‘tweaks’ during Hungarian Grand Prix practice in 1988, it wasn’t a good weekend, Q13 and 8th, the race won by Senna’s McLaren Honda MP4/4…
The complex plumbing of the turbo-cars never ceases to amaze. It’s interesting to compare the architecture of the successful 1984/5 Porsche TAG-Turbo ‘TTE P01’ engine; the packaging of which was specified by its customers chassis designer, McLaren’s John Barnard, and this Honda V6 which didn’t have a chassis man ‘standing on the engine designers chest’!
A rather successful series of engines all the same!
1984 Porsche-TAG ‘TTE P01’ 1.5 V6 engine in the McLaren MP4/2 chassis. John Barnard’s brief to Porsche was strongly driven by the brilliance of the Ford Cosworth DFV, the packaging of which was influenced, read prescribed by ‘chassis-man’ Colin Chapman. Distance across the cam-boxes, crank height and engine mount to chassis were ‘lifts’ from the DFV. Note ‘McLaren tail’, big de-aerating oil tank beside suspension rocker, low-slung KKK turbo, intercooler and carbon fibre tub, Barnard its pioneer as chassis material with the first MP4 McLaren in 1980 (Doug Nye)
Not a good year for Lotus, or anyone else, McLaren in the other Honda RA168E 1.5 V6 engined cars ‘disappeared into the sunset’, winning all but the Italian Grand Prix, Gerhard Berger took the Monza race for Ferrari; 7 wins for Prost and 8 for Senna, with Senna taking his first title and McLaren the constructors of course.
Credits…
Rainer Schlegelmilch, LAT, Doug Nye ‘History of The GP Car ’65-85’)
Tailpiece…
Piquet, Monaco 1988. Q11 and DNF after a lap 1 collision, race won by Prost’s McLaren (LAT)
(Bert Hardy)
Paul Emery racing ‘the wrong way’ at Brands Hatch in 1951…
Car is the Emeryson 500 front-engined and front wheel drive car built by he and his family. Click here for an interesting article on the various Emeryson cars.
http://www.500race.org/web/Marques/Emeryson.htm
The photo below is Emery being pushed onto the grid in his Emeryson JAP twin 500cc car ‘for race 1, amateur built cars, the very first race at Brands Hatch during the inaugural Brands event on 16 April 1950’.
Credits…
Bert Hardy, Fox Photos
Lola’s Le Mans Light Show…
Posted: April 7, 2016 in Fotos, Sports RacersTags: 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours, Guy Smith, Lola B05/40, Miguel Amaral, Oliver Pla
The Quifel-ASM Team Lola B05/40 AER of Miguel Amaral, Guy Smith and Oliver Pla zooms past the Le Mans funfair during final qualifying for the 2008 running of the endurance classic…
They finished 20th in their 2 litre entry, the race won by the Capello/McNish/Kristenson Audi R10.
The Pla, Amaral, Smith Lola B05/40 AER at Le Mans 2008; carbon composite monocoque chassis with wishbone and pushrod suspension front and rear, Ohlins shocks. Rack and pinion steering, carbon discs, 6 speed paddle operated Lola sequential ‘box. AER XP-20 all alloy 1995cc DOHC, 4 valve, injected turbo engine, weight 750Kg (unattributed)
Credit…
Mike Hewitt
Tailpiece…
Bruce McLaren Portrait 1967…
Posted: April 5, 2016 in F1, Fotos, Sports RacersTags: 1967 Road America Can Am, Bruce McLaren, McLaren M6A Chev
Bruce McLaren poses for this studio shot on 26 April 1967…
He was the all-rounder; tester, driver, designer, engineer, company director…and male model! I bet Teddy Mayer had to twist his arm for this job tho. ‘Daily Express’ shot so it was possibly to go with a feature on the multi-talented Kiwi Champion.
A good year, the team took its first Can Am title, Bruce winning in the M6A Chev he co-designed with Robin Herd. He raced a factory Ford GT40 Mk4, in sports car events, one of Dan Gurney’s Eagle T1G’s whilst his own GP car was made race-ready, then of course there were the Elva built customer cars to consider and sponsors to look after. And a company to run…
Credit: McKeown/Getty Images, Dave Friedman Archive, The Enthusiast Network
McLaren and his M6A Chev at the 1967 Road America Can Am, Denny Hulme won this round. Look closely and you can see the ‘McLaren Engines Flower Power’ decal on the 6 litre, injected, ‘Heavy-Chevys’ rocker cover! (Dave Friedman)
Bruce McLaren, Road America September 1967. DNF with an oil leak from grid 1. Hulme in the other M6A took the win (Dave Friedman)
Tailpiece: Las Vegas sunset, Stardust Raceway, Bruce McLaren and M6A Chev, 14 November 1967…
Not a good race weekend for Bruce as he blew an engine from grid 1, but he did win the ’67 championship! Surtees took the round win in his Lola T70 Mk3B Chev (The Enthusiast Network)
Frank Williams and Tim Schenken, Austrian Grand Prix 1970…
Posted: April 3, 2016 in F1, FotosTags: 1970 Austrian Grand Prix, 1970 Dutch Grand Prix, De Tomaso 505 Ford, Frank Williams, Piers Courage, Tim Schenken
‘Don’t worry about the T-Shirt Tim, it was the only one in the cupboard this morning! Go quicker than him and I’ll make some with your name on them!?’…
FW exhorting Tim Schenken to get more speed from his steed.
Frank Williams raced the De Tomaso 505 Ford in 1970, a car designed for him by Gianpaolo Dallara. But it was shitbox, nowhere near as fast as the second-hand Brabham BT26 Frank ran in 1969 for his great friend Piers Courage. He drove with skill and conviction, second place the seasons highpoint at Watkins Glen in the US GP.
The De Tomaso was slow, too heavy amongst other shortcomings from the start, Piers Courage died in it at Zandvoort. I’m not suggesting a component failure was the accident’s cause but perhaps trying too hard to compensate for its lack of pace was.
Piers Courage, De Tomaso 505 Ford, Zandvoort, 21 June 1970. He qualified the car 9th, was in 7th place on lap 22 when he ran wide into a sand bank, hit a post, overturned the car which then caught fire. Rindt won, the Lotus 72’s first win, no joy for Jochen, his close friend died (unattributed)
Brian Redman raced the car for FW at Clermont Ferrand and Hockenheim, Tim took over the drive at the Osterreichring, Monza, Mosport and Watkins Glen. He retired in every event except Mosport where he was not classified but qualified 17th, his best ‘result’.
Schenken, 16 August, Zeltweg, Austria 1970, DNF on lap 25 with engine failure, Q19. Ickx won in a Ferrari 312B (unattributed)
Schenken made the most of the opportunity FW gave him, he was recruited by Ron Tauranac for 1971, Jack Brabham retired that winter, Tim was teamed with Graham Hill who drove the problematic BT34. Tim raced the year old but still very quick BT33, his best placings 6th and 3rd at the Nurburgring and Osterreichring respectively.
Bernie Ecclestone bought Brabham during 1972, Tim was uncertain about Bernard Charles ability to run the team and left for Surtees, he was later to rue ’twas not the best career decision i ever made’…
Schenken in the Williams De Tomaso 505 Ford in the rain, Zeltweg 1970 (unattributed)
Credit…REX Shutterstock
Clark’s Aston Zagato…
Posted: March 31, 2016 in Fotos, Sports RacersTags: 1961 Tourist Trophy Goodwood, Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato, Jim Clark
Jim Clark’s Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato ‘2 VEV’ exits the chicane during the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood on 19 August 1961…
I wrote an article about this car a while back, click here to read it, wonderful evocative shot isn’t it!;
Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato ‘2 VEV’: Lex Davison and Bib Stillwell…
Jim Clark circa 1962 (Getty)
Credit…
GP Library, Getty Images, Nicholas Watts
Tailpiece: Clark from the Moss and Mike Parkes Ferrari 250SWB’s…
(Nicholas Watts)
Finito…
