Fantastic Motorsport Photos!
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AndrewW-G said:
For everything you would ever want to know about the construction of a 917 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd...
Cheers for that! Good link.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd...
It was the early 1960's F1 cars which were the flat eights.
chevronb37 said:
It is my general (though no doubt somewhat facile) understanding that provision must be allowed for sports prototypes to carry a passenger, if required. This was the only constraint in the original Group 7 regulations - enclosed wheels and the ability to carry a passenger, though not necessarily to provide a seat. Pete Lyons describes, with no little wit, the experience of riding shotgun in a Shadow Can Am car and how utterly brutal it was. In more recent times, when the ISRS (who remembers that?!) visited Donington in 1997, the Pilot Racing team provided passenger rides in their wonder 333SP. You can't begin to describe my jealousy that day.
Anyway, I would imagine that is the case for the 212E Montagna as well. The F1 GTR had a central seat, but as it allowed provision for a passenger seat as well there would've been no issue. It is my understanding that the race cars lost one of their seats to the wiring loom. The central driving position is coincidence rather than design. Of course that was a GT1 car, where the above-discussed are sports prototypes of one kind or another. Clear as mud? Where's Tony Southgate when you need him?!
I know a forum where Peter Elleray and a few other "names" can be seen.Anyway, I would imagine that is the case for the 212E Montagna as well. The F1 GTR had a central seat, but as it allowed provision for a passenger seat as well there would've been no issue. It is my understanding that the race cars lost one of their seats to the wiring loom. The central driving position is coincidence rather than design. Of course that was a GT1 car, where the above-discussed are sports prototypes of one kind or another. Clear as mud? Where's Tony Southgate when you need him?!
Rouleur said:
Quiz time: what is the significance of this car?
Wasn't Watson driving for brabham in that time period? What car is that? 
Rouleur said:
Just come across this pic of Hunt in a Wolf which confused me as I don't associate him with the team at all. He quit just seven races into the season.
dr_gn said:
As it says in my original post, it was taken in 1985, so it's a RAM 03. It is Winklehock driving.
Jonathan Palmer drove one too. Possibly in his first F1 race.He bought it a few years ago and it now sits in a hangar at Bedford looking more dilapidated each year apart from when the valeting monkeys spray silicon show shine in the crazed bodywork.
He has a complete car, 2 spare engines (as the one in the complete car has a split block) loads of gearbox parts, all sorts of plumbing and radiators/intercoolers, a spare tub and some bodywork. The endplates on the car are composite, but the spares (for different rear wing configurations) are made of plywood.
Allegedly.
Rouleur said:
LSI - what was the name of the earlier thread this one carried on from? I don't know if I posted in it back then so I want to have a butcher's at it.
ummm, I think it was just Fantastic Photos or something. It's in the photography forum now. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
ETA, here.
Edited by Life Saab Itch on Sunday 3rd April 20:58
red55 said:
I took these with a Kodak Brownie as a motorsport mad kid growing up in Silverstone 1967-69, so pls forgive the dodgy quality!!! (I think I have got the details correct but happy to be corrected)
Jo Siffert - Rob Walker Lotus 49
Jo Siffert and Rob Walker
Jo Siffert and Rob Walker
They bring back some great memories not least the battle between Rindt in the 49B and Stewart in the MS80 in the '69 BGP. I watched that race from in front of the pits grandstand on the exit to the 'real' Woodcote!.
That Lotus 49 was chassis R2, on loan to Rob Walker whilst chassis R7 was being built up (to win on it's debut at Brands Hatch). R4 was accident damaged in testing, then destroyed in a fire at Walker's workshop. R4 had a 100% winning record as it was only ever raced by Jimmy Clark in South Africa 1968.Jo Siffert - Rob Walker Lotus 49
Jo Siffert and Rob Walker
Jo Siffert and Rob Walker
They bring back some great memories not least the battle between Rindt in the 49B and Stewart in the MS80 in the '69 BGP. I watched that race from in front of the pits grandstand on the exit to the 'real' Woodcote!.
Back to chassis R2, it was the chassis that got the first win for the Cosworth DFV engine in '67.
Red55, if you look in the fantastic motorsport videos thread, I posted a video of Rindt and Stewart at Woodcote in the 1969 British GP.
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