Imaginary cars, imaginary races

Bill's Lola 227 story (he had me going at first) reminded me of a report of an imaginary race in, I think, Bermuda that was published in the Christmas edition of Motoring News in 1970 or 1971. A Formula Libre event, it featured a number of interesting cars and stars combinations. The only one I can remember was Gijs Van Lennep driving a March 701 that had been adapted to take a DAF-type CVT transmission. It was fitted with a Cosworth DFW rather than the normal; DFV, as the transmission apparantly "could not handle the DFV torque". Anyone else remember this "race"?

No, but slightly OT, I think Bill Moffat deserves an award for that highly imaginative recreation ;)
Felix

It was in Autosport, in Bermuda, it featured a cast of real drivers including Cyd Williams, Peter Revson, Mark Donohue &c (some of whom ended up in the drink - there was a narrow bridge over a waterway), the Governor-General (Sir Nicholas Ponsonby?) taking part with an artificial foot IIRC, a car made out of flotsam (retired when it ran out of fuel - no fuel cans large enough had been washed up - there was a pic of this!) and a Harley Davidson invited to enter by mistake (the rider threatened to sue when he was excluded so they ordered him to fit stabilizers to turn it into a 'car').

Another imaginary race - did Motor Sport not carry a report on the Hungarian GP 1984? Whether it was an April Fool or a computer simulation I cannot remember - I seem to think Alboreto 'won' by a nose.

Originally posted by ian senior
Bill's Lola 227 story (he had me going at first) reminded me of a report of an imaginary race in, I think, Bermuda that was published in the Christmas edition of Motoring News in 1970 or 1971. A Formula Libre event, it featured a number of interesting cars and stars combinations. The only one I can remember was Gijs Van Lennep driving a March 701 that had been adapted to take a DAF-type CVT transmission. It was fitted with a Cosworth DFW rather than the normal; DFV, as the transmission apparantly "could not handle the DFV torque". Anyone else remember this "race"?

Presumably the Schnorrcedes, Burano and the Yamura teams dropped out?

pete

Originally posted by ensign14

Another imaginary race - did Motor Sport not carry a report on the Hungarian GP 1984? Whether it was an April Fool or a computer simulation I cannot remember - I seem to think Alboreto 'won' by a nose.

Don't forget the 1977 German GP held on the Nordschleife and reported by DSJ in Motor Sport !

... or the 1974 Saudi GP at the height of the oil crisis... I believe Scheckter was second in a Renault R5 - THE SAME CAR I DRIVE NOWADAYS!!!

Na, too much schnaps for the Schnorrcedes team, too much grappa for the Burano team, and too much saki for Yamura

In its Crombac days, French magazine "Sport Auto" used to publish a fake information in every April issue.
Of these , I only remember the project of a French GP organized on a purpose-built circuit around the Mont Saint-Michel, within the Bay.
Timetable of practice & race might be changed to take the high tide into account.
And in order to keep ecologists satisfied, the track had to be made out of a special bio-dissolving tarmac with the effect of sea water...

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Originally posted by fines
... or the 1974 Saudi GP at the height of the oil crisis... I believe Scheckter was second in a Renault R5 - THE SAME CAR I DRIVE NOWADAYS!!!

Renault R5?????? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I still have nightmares of those little shoeboxes fliping and rolling in front of, behind or on both sides of me from back in my SCCA Showroom Stock racing days.

Originally posted by fines
... or the 1974 Saudi GP at the height of the oil crisis... I believe Scheckter was second in a Renault R5 - THE SAME CAR I DRIVE NOWADAYS!!!

You've updated?

Ron Hodgson would be proud of you...

Thanks for the link, Roger, I'd forgotten that one completely. Not so the Jenks Grosser Preiss von Deutschland effort.

Road&Track magazine did a report on the GP of Los Angeles in about 1957- the course was partially on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
Wery well done and rather amusing. I'll try to dig it up if anyone's interested.
Anton