Behind the Iron Curtain
#1
Posted 09 July 2004 - 17:45
Surely there will be hard task for people from western Europe and other overseas countries. Mayby not...
1. The best
2. Guest from islands
3. The winner
4. Specially for Alexey
5. On the grid
6. One and two
7. First time
8. I know where and when but who and what
9. Speed and strange
10. Good old time
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#2
Posted 09 July 2004 - 18:18
#3
Posted 09 July 2004 - 18:24
What fantastic pictures, though - I love 1 Litre F3 cars, and pictures 2 and 3 are very evocative. Is picture 1 of an F3 car also? I originally thought that the F3 pictures may have been from the DDR, but for 1969 and 1970, when I assume picture 2 was taken, the number 101 seems to have been reserved for the exclusive use of Ulli Melkus in his Melkus Wartburg.
Anyway, if this quiz ever gets solved, I'd love to see more pictures like these.
As for that 5-4-5 starting grid...........
#4
Posted 09 July 2004 - 21:20
#5
Posted 09 July 2004 - 21:31
Originally posted by anjakub
1. The best
...is for sure personally Heinz Melkus, it looks to me like sometimes in 1971 - 72 (?), when I see inlet manifold with restrictor behind his head...
3. The winner
... a nice picture of Ing.Vladislav Ondøejík (CS) in his Lotus 41C Cosworth after his win on Szczecin circuit 29.6.1969. Thank you for posting of this snap, because I am the owner of remains of this car after its heavy crash on Štramberk 1970 race. Is it possible to have it in higher resolution ? Thanks.
#6
Posted 10 July 2004 - 07:27
#7
Posted 10 July 2004 - 09:06
#8
Posted 10 July 2004 - 11:14
Michal
#9
Posted 10 July 2004 - 11:21
Originally posted by Holger Merten
Let's talk about # 9, looks a little bit like a 1938 AU streamliner, didn't we discuss this car here on TNF before?
I'm guessing it's one of the Zvezda record cars, but I'm probably wrong ....
I'd tend to agree with Frank re the date on the Skoda: looks like a 120S Rallye, which I think was introduced in 1972. But I couldn't decide if the others were Polskis or Ladas - was there much difference in those days?
#10
Posted 10 July 2004 - 12:43
The Lada was based on the Fiat 124.
#11
Posted 10 July 2004 - 13:14
Originally posted by Frank de Jong
Picture 4: two Polski Fiat's ans a Skoda, looking at the Skoda I'd say 1972.
Škoda 120S cars were as factory cars used in CPF during 1972-4. Polski Fiat cars were enough competitive only in 1974 season, when then came with engine 1600ccm and 5-speed gearbox from Fiat 132. According start numbers are 21 - Jaroslav Bobek, 5 - Robert Mucha, other Fiat - Andrzej Jaroszewicz and the picture is probably from Minsk.
Michal
#12
Posted 11 July 2004 - 09:13
#13
Posted 11 July 2004 - 18:50
Picture #4 (specially for me :-) ) is taken at Borovaya track, nr Minsk. Possibly it is the 1974 event, as in 1973, the front row was occupied by two Ladas & two Škodas, and in 1975, there were three Škodas and one Lada in the front row.
The car on the image #9 is the gas-turbined Pioner 2M designed by Ilya Tikhomirov, the engineer from Moscow. It was the modified Kharkov L1 record car, which was a diminished copy of a pre-war Auto Union - Holger, your feeling for any Auto Union traces in motorsport history hasn't let you down again ;) There were 13 speed records set by Pioner in 1961-72, including the absloute USSR speed record, 311.419 km/h (set on September 1, 1963 on Baskunchak salt lake). Pioner was discussed on TNF earlier - see this thread.
Unfortunately I cannot identify the car #8. There were many sportscars built in the USSR in the late 50s and the early 60s by amateur drivers. Most of there sportscars didn't have any name and thus still remain a very dark chapter of Soviet motosport. I only guess that the photo is taken at Minsk highway, nr Moscow - three letters 'ÏÎÂ' on the road sign are definitely the first letters of the word 'ÏÎÂÎÐÎÒ' ('turning', 'bend'), and such road signs were installed in the places where drivers should turn around them and go in the opposite direction. The last highway race in the USSR was held on May 15, 1960, and the photo must be taken by this date.
P.S. Can I continue this thread by posting a couple of new 'X-Pics' here so as to be identified?
#14
Posted 11 July 2004 - 19:04
Photo #2 was definitely taken at Szczecin circuit, and the car really looks like a Brabham BT28...
#15
Posted 12 July 2004 - 06:51
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The car on the image #9 is the gas-turbined Pioner 2M designed by Ilya Tikhomirov, the engineer from Moscow. It was the modified Kharkov L1 record car, which was a diminished copy of a pre-war Auto Union - Holger, your feeling for any Auto Union traces in motorsport history hasn't let you down again ;) There were 13 speed records set by Pioner in 1961-72, including the absloute USSR speed record, 311.419 km/h (set on September 1, 1963 on Baskunchak salt lake). Pioner was discussed on TNF earlier - see this thread.
Thanks Alexey for your ncie comment.
I think it's an interesting piece of history to find out moreabout, which record cars in Russia depend to the AU ideas.
#16
Posted 12 July 2004 - 08:17
#17
Posted 12 July 2004 - 09:14
I think Brun and I could help with some of our investigations.
#18
Posted 12 July 2004 - 09:23
Picture #1 is Heinz Melkus in his own racecar.
#19
Posted 12 July 2004 - 16:40
Michal
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#20
Posted 12 July 2004 - 16:46
We have answer to seven questions:
1. Heinz Melkus (Melkus-Wartburg) Szczecin 1970
2. Alan Stubbs (Brabham-Cosworth BT28) Szczecin 1970
3. Vladislav Ondrejik (Lotus-Cosworth 41C) Szczecin 1969
4. Round of the Cup of Peace and Friendship in Minsk, track Borovaya, year 1974: Polski Fiat 125p (#1) Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Polski Fiat 125p (#5) Robert Mucha, Skoda 120S (#21) Jaroslav Bobek
6. Rak 1300 with two bike engines Triumph 650 from year 1961. This sportscar won three round of Polish racing championship – 1961 Opole and Czestochowa (Jerzy Jankowski), 1962 Kraków (Wladyslaw Paszkowski). On photo in car Jerzy Jankowski (crayfish on driver’s helmet). Alexey
8. On the back of photo is only inscription: May 1959, Minsk highway, sportcars race for 500 km (10 laps x 50 km)
9. Land speed record car Pioneer-2 M (I have it - in scale 1/43)
#21
Posted 12 July 2004 - 16:56
Originally posted by IMV
Is it possible to have it in higher resolution ?
Of course. I have few photos from Szczecin's races 1969 and 1970 with Ondrejik, Hubacek and Bobek, but I don't know your e-mail. Moreover I'm looking for the all winners of the Cena Prachovskych Skal. Pozdrav pro loupeznika z lesa Raholce.
Originally posted by Alexey Rogachev
Can I continue this thread by posting a couple of new 'X-Pics' here so as to be identified?
I'm waiting...
#22
Posted 12 July 2004 - 18:35
Originally posted by anjakub
6. On photo in car Jerzy Jankowski (crayfish on driver’s helmet). Alexey
And what about items #5, 7, and 10? It seems to me photo #5 was taken on an airfield - were there any airfield races in Eastern Europe in the 60s? Photo #7 - did you mean by 'The First Time' that it was the first time when the driver from Eastern Europe tested a F1 car? Year 1977 or 1978, I guess. And photo #10 roused my curiosity very much! Do you have any information on it?
#23
Posted 12 July 2004 - 19:00
1. No, not 300SLR...
2. A dragster in the Soviet Union??
3. Who, what, when, where? (I don't think it's a difficult task...)
4. Who, what, when, where? (this time it is a bit more difficult...)
5. Who, what, when, where (very arduous task, isn't it? )
#24
Posted 12 July 2004 - 19:28
3. Yuri Andreev - Estonia 9-Ford De Sanctis
5. First car probably GA-22 with V. Schakhverdov
#25
Posted 13 July 2004 - 06:29
5. V. Shakhverdov (GA-22) and M. Kovalev (GM-20) in Grand Prix Kalev - Tallin 1959.
2. Dragster which is to say speed land record car from Khadi research institute (???)
#26
Posted 13 July 2004 - 08:58
#27
Posted 13 July 2004 - 09:08
Sorry, Andrzej, I haven't understood whether you mean Estonia 9 Ford or de Sanctis Ford...Originally posted by anjakub
3. Yuri Andreev - Estonia 9-Ford De Sanctis
#28
Posted 13 July 2004 - 16:41
3. Yuri Andreev - Estonia 9-Ford or De Sanctis...
Now, for me it is Estonia.
#29
Posted 13 July 2004 - 17:15
5. The first round of the Cup for Peace and Friendship in 1965. Babice airfield in Warsaw, 6 June 1965, start 27 cars, winner Heinz Melkus (#81)
7. The first Polish driver in Formula 1 car – Andrzej Jaroszewicz, son of the Prime Minister and good friend of Walter Wolf. He drove Wolf WR beside the International Fair Race in Poznan on 17 June 1979.
10. The 3rd round of Polish racing championship 1958 – Warszawa, 28 September 1958. On photo class 1600: #41 Konstanty Krajewski (SAM-Flash 1300) – winner, #22 Edward Wroclawski (SAM-Lancia 1500) – retired, #47 Aleksander Mazurek (SAM-Flash 1300) – 3. place. The car number 47 was known as “submarine”.
In late 50’s in Poland took part in races only SAM’s. SAM = self-build (eng), eigenbau (ger).
#30
Posted 14 July 2004 - 08:59
Was Jaroszewicz also the very first East European driver who tested a F1 car?Originally posted by anjakub
7. The first Polish driver in Formula 1 car – Andrzej Jaroszewicz, son of the Prime Minister and good friend of Walter Wolf. He drove Wolf WR beside the International Fair Race in Poznan on 17 June 1979.
#31
Posted 14 July 2004 - 12:03
#32
Posted 14 July 2004 - 12:48
Anjakub, st59cz: the dragster (photo #2) is not from KhADI! Try again...
#33
Posted 14 July 2004 - 16:09
#34
Posted 15 July 2004 - 08:59
2. Leningrad D. This dragster didn't concern KhADI research institute in any way, but was designed by Alexandr Kapustin from Leningrad in 1969. In 1970, Yury Frolov set a speed record in 3000 cc class on 500m distance with dead start. St59cz
3. Yury Andreev at the wheel of De Sanctis Cosworth in Szczecin 1969 CPF round. Andrzej, the Cosworth-powered Estonia 9F was driven by Andreev in 1968 only, and it didn't resemble De Sanctis...
4. Leo Mattila driving Lotus 20 in the 1961 Leningrad international race.
5. Valery Shakhverdov and Mikhail Kovalev, driving GA 22 and GM 20 respectively, at Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa circuit in September 1959 during the I Kalev Trophy. Andrzej
#35
Posted 15 July 2004 - 11:01
Double rounded air-outlet on the nose of the single-seater are unmistakable feature of the De Sanctis's.
Or... perhaps the designer of the Estonia drew inspirations from a De Sanctis...
#36
Posted 15 July 2004 - 18:02
#37
Posted 16 July 2004 - 12:21
Of course not I could post here some photos of Estonia 9, but I'm afraid...Originally posted by Nanni Dietrich
Or... perhaps the designer of the Estonia drew inspirations from a De Sanctis...
#38
Posted 21 October 2004 - 12:09
This photo is taken from Russian 'Avtomotosport' magazine. The comment upon it says it was a 'home-made' Polish single-seater powered by British Triumph TR2 engine. The photo was taken in Leningrad in 1961 (F. Libre race), and this car was driven by Polish driver Wrublewski. One of the 1961 issues of 'Za Rulem' magazine says this car to be Krab 750, designed by Jerzy Jankowski. That's all what I know on this car, so can anyone (a request to anjakub first of all) answer the following questions:
1. Was the name of this car Krab 750? Any other?
2. Was it designed by Jankowski?
3. Why 750?
4. I know that Polish driver Edward Wroclawski took part in Leningrad 1961 international race, being at the wheel of a Triumph TR3. I doubt that it was really TR3 - two Polish entries were said to be in F. Libre race, so I think both of them - Wrublewski and Wroclawski - were driving the Truimph-powered Krabs. Is it right?
#39
Posted 25 October 2004 - 20:26
In Leningrad 1961 international race I have only five Polish drivers – three in Formula Junior (Jerzy Jankowski, Antoni Weiner, Wladys³aw Szulczewski) and two in Formula libre (Longin Bielak and Edward Wroclawski). Beside Wroclawski is mentioned Triumph TR3. Perhaps it is SAM-Triumph. Car on your photo remind SAM-Triumph, which later was used by Henryk Nowak (1962 and 1963).
Name Wrublewski (Andrzej Wróblewski) appear in Polish racing not before 1964.
The first Krab with Longin Bielak. Remaining cars look like this:
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#40
Posted 26 October 2004 - 14:39
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DNF Edward Wroclawski (POL) ASK Triumph 6 laps
I'd rather use the ASK abbreviation than SAM as both of them mean the same, namely: the car built by oneself.
#41
Posted 26 October 2004 - 17:40
#42
Posted 26 October 2004 - 18:08
But could you please tell me the meaning of this abbreviation?
#43
Posted 27 October 2004 - 08:37
#44
Posted 05 November 2008 - 07:31
This photo is from the 1961 Leningrad international F. Junior race - two single-seaters of the Polish team. No. 7 is Jerzy Jankowski's Rak 61. What is the car no. 9?