Friday 3rd April 2009

Pic of the Week: TVR Tuscan Racer

PH cocks a wheel

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We've all seen an inside-rear wheel lift during a tight bend, but this fantastic snap from regular PH snapper Steven Nesta catches the rarer moment of a front wheel having a brief break from the tarmac. We're also rather taken with that menacing-looking Venturi on the other end of the chicane!

We hope you enjoy this dramatic moment on your desktops this week, especially at those times when normal life is rather more sedate...

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[Phil Dicky]

Cracking Pic of the Week....not that Im biased

[Risotto]

Is that a Venturi in the background?

[Duke Thrust]

Risotto said:

Is that a Venturi in the background?

I was wondering that too

[Risotto]

Duke Thrust said:

Risotto said:

Is that a Venturi in the background?

I was wondering that too

Ah, perhaps we should have read the accompanying blurb properly. Yes, it is a Venturi...

[chevronb37]

Reminds me of happy days sat on the banking at Knickerbrook watching Ian Flux, Mark Hales, Mike Jordan, etc. sideways every lap. Those were halcyon days...

[Jasandjules]

Nice shot !

[JamesK]

Fantastic! I LOVE those racers.

One day I'll have one of the road legal ones tucked away for some ultimate hoonage

[Zad]

Surely it is a Racing Car not a Race Car?



Great photo though!

[Belfast Boy]

Risotto said:

Is that a Venturi in the background?

Stunned Monkey would remember me stting my pants in his Venturi last year

great pic.

[dandarez]

Nice pic.

Lifting an inside front wheel was not rare when a Ginetta G15 was on the circuit. Did it at every corner nearly. Was it's trait.

[teamHOLDENracing]

Ah ha...

That's me in the GT90's Revival Series at Silverstone in 2007.

Darren Dowling and I teamed up to race in the inaugural meeting - we were leading our class comfortably when a rod bolt sheared and a piston punched a hole in the side of the block. This was a little inconvenient.

We fitted a spare engine overnight and won our class in the second race by a minute and a half or so, and came third in the race overall.

The Tuscan typically lifts the inside front wheel exiting corners under power - its something of an iconic pose for the car.

The Venturis look nice but like the Ferrari 355 Challenge cars, were no match at all for the Tuscans in this race.

[dandarez]

Here's David Beams 998cc G15 doing it in 77 at Brands, and he's hardly entered the corner.

The 5.3-litre V12 E-type (Le Mans driver, Martin Birrane) tried to match the phenomenal cornering power of the tiddly Ginetta - no contest, it spun and went off.

[JonRB]

Um, I didn't think Steve spelled his surname like that?

[chevronb37]

Never seen it done in a ground effect car before...

[thunderbelmont]

I'm going to have to dig through my old video's. Someone came to watch me race back in 1990, and in the race was a Rover SD1 which (at Russell) lifted it's inside front sooooo much that you'd think it's chassis was made of spring steel!

I'll post on here when I find and upload it. It's crazy!

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

chevronb37 said:

Reminds me of happy days sat on the banking at Knickerbrook watching Ian Flux, Mark Hales, Mike Jordan, etc. sideways every lap. Those were halcyon days...

Not the same cast or even in the the same league as the drivers above, but the series still makes for very entertaining viewing starting next weekend at Cadwell with a big event at Donington on the 2nd May. more here .....

www.tvrchampionship.com

...just bring your rose tinted glasses with you and it wil be as if nothing has changed!