39 # 1970; Sports Car Racing
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The quad cam RB860 Repco Brabham BT26 the drop in 1968, but Cosworth DFV has turned into one of the fastest cars of 1969, Jackie Ickx won two Grands Prix.
Though clearly descended from the 005,006 range, the Tyrrell 007 was the state of the art, with interior brakes and suspension pushrod he won three doctors with Jody Scheckter in 1974 and 1975.
The Brabham BT24 was dominant in mid-1967 before the Lotus 49 came right, allowing Denny Hulme won the world championship in Brabham BT24 2.
The clean and functional FW Car IR series were used by Williams 1973-1975 They began as Iso-Marlboro, but are now known as Williams FW01, FW02 and FW03.
Frank Williams history as a race car manufacturer began in 1972 with the Williams FX3, although he was then named after the sponsors of the team, it was not a great success Two have been built, and both survive.
The range of 1972-1973 includes Tyrrells Tyrrell 006 2, which Jackie Stewart on his third world championship.
217 car models 3 liter F1 remains to be done, so let's crack on the 1971 model included Tyrrell Tyrrell 003, Jackie Stewart 1971 Car World Championship.
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final F1 Arrows 3-liter car was the A6, a development of the A5 for new substantive rules flat in 1983 These cars have been widely used in F1, F3000, a driving school, and in the historic race.
After the disappointment of the A4, A5 arrows arrows built in time for the final races of 1982 The car was a simple copy of the Williams FW08.
The next chapter in the story is the A4 arrows arrows, a very disappointing car Many of them exist now more easily explained.
After A2, arrows were significantly mainstream with their car in 1980, I'm in the middle of a large new survey of A3s arrows at the moment, so I can not disclose all owners.
new design for 1979 was remarkable Arrows A2 Tony Southgate Unfortunately, it was too ambitious for a small team to develop fully, and was quickly abandoned.
The next step in the history of arrows was the elegant arrows A1, which has become a common sight in British F1, then the free running and now historic race FA1 As he was one of the first cars ground effect.
Back to the revaluation of F1, and the early history Arrows Arrows FA1 This car finished second in the GP of Sweden, but it was forbidden to be a copy of the DN9 shade.
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There are more than 5000 cars Formula yet to be documented The 1970 Harris RH5 was built by Ray Harris of Portsmouth in Hampshire, and led by Brian Tarrant.
Continued reassessment of F1, we move to the shade DN3 This is the one we thought we understood, but a review of photographs shows that it is not that simple Some owners see the evidence differently, it is a work in progress.
At the beginning of a comprehensive review of F1 areas we start the race full story of the shadow DN1 1973 Six built, and the four survivors are known today.
Chevron B20 concept car was Chevron 1972 for F2, F3 and Formula B, but designed primarily for F2 It was paneled spaceframe based largely on the B18, but with a sports car nose full width.
One of the most successful female pilots motorsport is interviewed by us She discusses women in motorsports, racing trucks, Formula 3000 abortive career and race in Dakar.
An extensive interview with 1970 and 1980 Grand Prix driver Marc Surer, who speaks of the struggles for the Swiss drivers, Gordon Murray and Teddy Yip, and other subjects.
Formula March 1970 Chevron B17 was a development of the B15 with a central section stiffened, new posts and a bonnet and mowed Jürg Dubler Peter Hanson won the two major F3 races in this model using Novamotor engines.
The profile of the European Championship has increased significantly in 1976 thanks to a memorable battle between Riccardo Patrese and Conny Andersson It was also a struggle for supremacy between Mars and Chevron.
Davy Jones has won four of eight races that make up the 1984 series, and two of the four events, but the veteran Kenny Smith has amassed enough points to take the title All riders were leading Ralt RT4s.
An extensive interview with one of the oldest and popular drivers Grand Prix recently Riccardo discusses Brabham, Williams and dance with Grace Kelly.
Chevron B18 in 1971 was a versatile car built for F2, F3, Formula Atlantic and Formula B, although the FB version is treated here as a separate model The B18 has gained F2, and came close to winning the British Formula championship Atlantic.
The Chevron B15 Formula 3 in 1969 was derived from the end of 1968 Chevron B9B, incorporating its cockpit paneled section 56 F3 major Internationals in 1969, he won six, compared to 31 and 12 to Tecno Brabham.
Best known as the builder of Formula Vee cars Autodynamics Brett Lunger and Sam Caldwell single Posey Formula A was built by the company of Ray Caldwell Autodynamics Marblehead, MA, drove the car, but without success.
A completely new design Begg F5000 for 1973, Begg FM5 was built by Fred McLean and followed the design McRae GM1 The FM5 was driven by David Oxton in New Zealand, Australia and Britain.
Ordered by Jim Hayhoe and built according to the plans of the Brabham BT12, both cars appeared Hayhoe four 500s Indy from 1968 to 1971, they were turned into a corner by design Jud Phillips in 1971.
Gerhardt The operation continued to produce Indycars customers in 1968, his most successful client being Gordy Johncock.
1965 Indy Car Rolla Vollstedt was based largely on the car from 1963 to 1964, even using his frame jig, but it was designed for the new Ford engine available quad-cam Len Sutton would drive the new car at the Indy 500.
Grant King was an expert copier race cars of others, and for 1973, it produced a very faithful copy of AAR 1972 Eagle Three of the Kingfish have been built and they started at least 55 races over the next ten seasons.
Grant King built a pair of new cars for 1972, which has closely followed the design of the McLaren M16 One of the cars was destroyed in the Bettenhausen Merle accident in 1972, but the other was run for several years by Carl Gehlhausen team.
Grant King built about 250 sprint and midget cars on a long career, but his first Indy car was built in 1970 along the lines of the mongoose success based design Brabham It was led by Art Pollard and Greg Weld in 1970.
1971 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Denny Zimmerman - and later, a Boeing 747 captain - was interviewed by our pilots editor Richard Jenkins.
A huge amount of work has been in stories recently 73A March These are perhaps the most complex of all the F5000 models, like large proportion of them have been refurbished using different monohulls.
McKee Mk 18 was an F5000 design built for Dick DeJarld customers for 1972 After a discreet F5000 career, he was transformed into a Can-Am car amazingly ugly for Robert Goulet in the 1980s before being rescued and restored by McKee .
With a new Ralt RT1 77 and jeans Puss support Kram Stockholm, Anders Olofsson swept to victory in the Swedish F3 series in 1977, and also took second place in the European Championship Mats Nygren and Stefan Johansson fought for second.
After showing promise in 1981, divided by two grid sizes just half a dozen that the main pilot countries have a private battlefield Kazuyoshi Hoshino won another title, but JAF pulled the plug, joining GP Macau in a move to Formula 3.
Pacific Formula continued to grow, with average gates a dozen cars, but it wasn t working as a regular driver development formula F2 Kazuyoshi Hoshino won the title of his former rivals Satoru Nakajima, Masahiro Hasemi and Kenji Takahashi .
Masahiro Hasemi regained his title in the Formula Pacific winning six races in a bewildering array of cars, as well as its well used Chevron B40 he also had one, two or three Steps Satoru Nakajima won the other two races.
CAMS moved from Australia Formula 1 to allow both Formula 5000 racing engines and 2 liters for 1971 Although F5000s were the fastest cars, Max Stewart 2 liters Mildren-Waggott was more consistent and won the title by a single point.
A Self start at the European Championship F3 promoted the itinerant pilot F3 and the leaders of this group in 1975 were Larry Perkins and Conny Andersson Perkins won the title in his Ralt RT1 despite his score of 18 points.
The eagle Indianapolis 1972 classic, designed by Roman Slobodynskyj was the fastest car in 1972, and the most popular car Indy customer of his time with his inspiration, the McLaren M16, it has completely redefined the design Indycars.
Tore Helle recruited Tommy Borgudd and Eje Elgh Conny Ljungfeldt join its team Rotel F3 and equipped with new Viking and F3 cars, designed by Len Terry Unfortunately, the money ran out before the car could prove.
Rotel Racing Marchs Conny Andersson Conny Ljungfeldt Swedish F3 series dominated 1975 with young Ljungfeldt take the title in the car 1974 Andersson.
Former Karting World Champion Riccardo Patrese was the first driver in F3 in 1976 and won the Italian championship and the European title Le Mars 763 was the car to have, but Chevron and Ralt were emerging as serious contenders.
David Hayhoe new book, Formula 1 know David will be released this week will be well known to many of you as a statistician for Autocourse for over 25 years, and the author of Grand Data Book Award.
After three seasons discreet recovery, Formula Atlantic reappeared as a major American category in the former British F3 1987 driver Calvin Fish won the title, but the main news of the season was the emergence of the new Swift DB4.
More experienced Micke Johansson beat young Rickard Rydell, a future touring car star, the 1987 Swedish title F3 The pair dominated the series, but no new opportunities arose, they would both be back in 1988.
The Japanese title of Pacific Formula blossomed in 1979 Takao Wada bought a brand new 79B March midseason and dropping Masahiro Hasemi several races, Wada won the title with a race to spare.
Patsy McGarrity bought a brand new Chevron B29 and easily retained his Formula Atlantic title BP RIAC He also won the new 500 MRCI as Northern Ireland.
Masahiro Hasemi was better prepared for the new formula Pacific category, the conduct of the Chevron B40 that he had imported late last year Energy use Nissan, he has won four of five races and easily won the championship.
As old technology has given way to the new, the Gold Star 1970 was a fight three-way between the 2 liter cars Waggott Twin Leo Geoghegan and Max Stewart, and the Repco V8 car John Harvey Geoghegan won on points.
Johnny Herbert won the 1987 British F3 Championship in Reynard 873-VW Spiess Eddie Jordan Like many F3 champions before him, he would run a very successful F1 career.
After years of Formula Libre, the organizers of the race in Ireland agreed to a Formula Atlantic movement for 1974, and BP has sponsored a championship organized by RIAC Patsy McGarrity won the first title in his Chevron B25.
Didier Theys, the champion of Super Vee champion, moved up to ARS 1987 driving for TrueSports and won again, beating his former sparring partner FSV Jeff Andretti and former F1 driver Tommy Byrne under.
Canadian Scott Goodyear rookie took English Formula 3 driver Calvin Fish for the title ECAR 1986 and dominated by six wins to three in the series of nine race.
Ted Prappas was a new Ralt RT4 86 and narrowly beat Dan Marvin and Mexican veteran Roberto Quintanilla to win the Formula Atlantic championship WCAR 1986.
Bronco Brad Murphey, former rodeo rider who raced in the ARS and Trans-Am and appeared in the Indianapolis 500 in 1996, recalls his experiences in these areas and Richard Jenkins.
1969 Eagle is a completely new design, young designer Tony Southgate He used the corner profile popularized by the Lotus 56 and the Brabham style suspension The car worked well on the way, but less well on oval .
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