The Numbers Game
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The number 69 car in NASCAR:
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/iS88AJSc.jpg)
It has a chequered history all of its own, and is the second least used number in NASCAR (after #65), not least because sponsors are reluctant to be associated with its sexual reference.
Read about it here
Back on an even keel, Ford GT70.
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/gazmLPBb.jpg)
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/iS88AJSc.jpg)
It has a chequered history all of its own, and is the second least used number in NASCAR (after #65), not least because sponsors are reluctant to be associated with its sexual reference.
Read about it here
Back on an even keel, Ford GT70.
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/gazmLPBb.jpg)
..and the obscure Lotus 73 F3 car - basically a scaled-down 72. Pictured in conventional form (pretty) and also in stubby inboard-wing 1972 Monaco spec (not so pretty)…
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/vCUQ4NDR.jpg)
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/6psm1eTs.jpg)
Tony Trimmer at the wheel. He won Monaco F3 in a Brabham in 1970 and piloted the JPS to runner-up spot in 1972. Patrick Depailler was the winner that year, F3 was savagely competitive in those days - James Hunt and Tony Brise didn’t even make it out of the qualifying heats…
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/vCUQ4NDR.jpg)
![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/6psm1eTs.jpg)
Tony Trimmer at the wheel. He won Monaco F3 in a Brabham in 1970 and piloted the JPS to runner-up spot in 1972. Patrick Depailler was the winner that year, F3 was savagely competitive in those days - James Hunt and Tony Brise didn’t even make it out of the qualifying heats…
Edited by moffspeed on Wednesday 17th January 09:09
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