Spa6 2010

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Chevron Heritage News: Albert Mensinga has been on his travels and he's sent us pictures of the Chevrons racing at Spa in September's Spa 6 Hour Historic event and Portimao's Algarve Historic Festival in October.

Enjoy!

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On with the Cobra show:

Is this the Caine / Stretton Cob?


Exciting moments in the race involve encouters with slower traffic.


Quick Belgium / French Cobra (2:56).

Let's do some GT40s now.

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More V8:

Hart / Hall / Pastoreli driven C2 Big Block Roadster.


Close to the wall, just as I like it.


7th final, 2:55 secs pace.


28 final for this Swiss Vette.

More . . .

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GT40s:

An early retirement for the Belgium entry: 16 laps ;(


Last years numero uno Lynn / Haddon got stuck on a 47th final place.


Not sure which car this is. Looks the bits as they do.


Oh yeah: Voyazides / Hadfield Ford storming to a superb 2nd place.


Followed by the Meins car: got the flag 3rd.

More . . . let's pick some Italians.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61766673@N00/50266929...

Bloody hell . . .

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Bertone Alfas, love those raunchy 105s:

In perfect mustard yellow: Swiss/Italo GTA (3:12) finished 92nd. Ony 27 laps for this lovely.


This French / Swiss GTA did not do too well either: P70, 3:15. Brilliant attck on LS though.


I said it.


Smith / Young / Perryman DB4 (30/3:04) at pace here.


Super stylish racing in the Aston (56/3:10) makes watching the Spa 6 hours worth while.


Quickest DB4 of the bunch (4/2:57) and what a stunning car.


Heavy traffic.


WDK prepared and brilliant driven Marcos.

More . . . ?

Edited by dinkel on Sunday 28th November 16:55

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Last Aston bit:

Very quick, but with a dent.


A big one.


Wolfgangs Project Aston stunner.

This would make a nice Christmas present:
http://www.classic-auctions.co.uk/Auctions/26-02-2...

Let's do some Healeys then.

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£1/4 mil for a chubby old Healey!

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A famous one. The C-types are more expensive . . . and slower.

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Whooa - Healeys are Slow enough! (bar the straights) you should try following them - all over the place!

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As long as Healeys play top 25 at Spa6 I think you cannot call them slow.

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The VERY famous ex-works rally car with a great provenance only made about £113,000 including buyer's premium at
the Bonham's Goodwood Revival auction a few months back.

Edited by Elderly on Wednesday 1st December 10:25

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dinkel said:

As long as Healeys play top 25 at Spa6 I think you cannot call them slow.

If Only they had made TR6's a few years earlier or TR5 (68).

I hear most Healeys have a 3.2 stroker crank now before you through in the +60.

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jellison said:

dinkel said:

As long as Healeys play top 25 at Spa6 I think you cannot call them slow.

If Only they had made TR6's a few years earlier or TR5 (68).

I hear most Healeys have a 3.2 stroker crank now before you through in the +60.

What difference would making Triumphs a few years earlier make?

Healey 3000s started in 1959 and finished in 1967. Triumph didn't have an answer for them - TR5/TR6 - until after Big Healeys had stopped being made.

LOL at "slow".

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You are right i.e. TR5 just made in 68.

Pity they both could not have been around together.

OK Slow round the bend, fast on the straights. I like em pity they all left the Thoroughbreds and CSCC, but even with stickies there were no where. Nice old buses though.

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jellison said:

You are right i.e. TR5 just made in 68.

Pity they both could not have been around together.

OK Slow round the bend, fast on the straights. I like em pity they all left the Thoroughbreds and CSCC, but even with stickies there were no where. Nice old buses though.

You mean a Triumph needs cars nearly ten years older on the track to give it something to beat?

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bosscerbera said:

jellison said:

You are right i.e. TR5 just made in 68.

Pity they both could not have been around together.

OK Slow round the bend, fast on the straights. I like em pity they all left the Thoroughbreds and CSCC, but even with stickies there were no where. Nice old buses though.

You mean a Triumph needs cars nearly ten years older on the track to give it something to beat?

Er no, a good fia TR4 would beat an fia 3000

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Never saw that happen before my eyes . . . I think you are dreaming Jon. Compare laptimes of both TRs and Healeys and you will see.

The underpinnings of a TR5/6 is certainly not 10 years ahead of a big Healey. Which go very well in corners BTW!

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dinkel said:

Never saw that happen before my eyes . . . I think you are dreaming Jon. Compare laptimes of both TRs and Healeys and you will see.

The underpinnings of a TR5/6 is certainly not 10 years ahead of a big Healey. Which go very well in corners BTW!

Trust me Dink we used to have loads of the top Healeys in the TSCC till the mid 2000's, but they got so comprehensively beaten by all the TR6's they left (not many 4 or 5 around). They are some of the worst things you can find in the corners. My 4 never used to get beaten by the 3000's either (ok aalong way from fia), but the 6's are similar spec and all on the same tyres (Healey just having 600cc more, 3200+ vs 2600.

Pity the fia is so anal - all "Historic" racing ceased to exist post 66.

Anyway back to the pics.

Is that Aston a DB4GT or 5?

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Talking to a guy who preps XKs for racing he reckoned the AHs were faster than the Jags.
When the XK challenge was running on the same track as a TR race a last year they started 20s behind and the leading pair of XKs had almost caught the leading TR8s.

I know that the fully race prepped TR4 which was on the track with me back in the spring was much quicker than my XK150 around Goodwood. I was a lot quicker on the straights but come the corners he just disappeared. He wasn't running skinny crossplies :-)

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a8hex said:

Talking to a guy who preps XKs for racing he reckoned the AHs were faster than the Jags.
When the XK challenge was running on the same track as a TR race a last year they started 20s behind and the leading pair of XKs had almost caught the leading TR8s.

I know that the fully race prepped TR4 which was on the track with me back in the spring was much quicker than my XK150 around Goodwood. I was a lot quicker on the straights but come the corners he just disappeared. He wasn't running skinny crossplies :-)

I can vouch that Healeys can be faster than Jags; certainly up to 100mph or so. Aero starts to work against the AH after I think.

I had a memorable clash with Jags at Spa a couple of years ago. In particular, with an E-Type I gave some 'racing room'. He passed but I found, to my surprise, in a straight drag race out of the Bus Stop the AH was faster and I re-passed (Albert has the photo somewhere!). It was a long way up the Kemel before the E-Type was back.