Racing in the park: Pic Of The Week
Inspired by our earlier Time For Tea? here's a desktop snapshot of classic racing at Crystal Palace
The park in question is Crystal Palace of course and, fired up by yesterday's Time For Tea?, we delved into LAT's archives for another taste of the action from back in the day. Taken at the 1966 British Formula 2 race it shows Jochen Rindt in a Brabham BT18-Cosworth pushing possibly a little too hard in his pursuit of third placed Alan Rees in a similar car. And a fine illustration of all that was exciting about motor racing in 60s Britain.
And the Cosworth angle? Expect more on this very shortly...
[Photo: LAT Photo]
Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)
I owned one of the original Brabhams, FJ 3 62, upgraded to basically to the same spec as those, which I raced in Oz in 66 & 67.
In 68 I was lucky enough to drive a 2.5L Oz F1 Brabham Repco BT24, the very last of the wingless open wheelers.
Those cars, when setup properly, & provided you had power on before turn in could be allowed to assume some quite extreme attitudes without worry. It sounds goofy, & I suppose we must have done something slightly differently, but somehow the tail would come back under you when you thought it should. Extrasensory perception I doubt, but it did almost feel like you thought the car through the corners.
Having said that, perhaps Jochen should have started thinking about his tail just a little bit sooner in that photo.
One of those 100 was a Crystal Palace race where that huge Camero was racing a Mk1 Escort IIRC!
In black and white 405 lines TV, but still the best TV race I have every seen!
Come on BBC lets see it again!!
But YOUTUBE to the Rescue if you have a coffe break!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5zdnGvT0c&lis...
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