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#1 Mac1602

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 19:27

Hi!
I've got one czech card from Formula Mondial, but I don't know czech language...

I think it's 1987 Formula Mondial (?), maybe Ondrej Dobrota ('na snimku' - what's this?).... could you help me with it?

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#2 AAA-Eagle

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 19:56

'na snimku' - what's this?



It means 'on the photo is'...

#3 Wolf

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 20:09

I don't speak Czech, but I believe this is announcement of replacement of Formula Easter (presumably 1300cc*) with Formula Mondial (1600cc). article says that FIA has granted it status of international formula, and were considering (or, looking forward to) establishing World Cup in that formula. It goes on to say it will be run with homologated four cylinder engines and procedes with tech specs... I'd advise to wait for Czech-speaking member (anjakub?) to translate those and correct my eventual/inevitable mistakes.

Last sentence of the article says that First Czechoslovakian champion in Formula Mondial was Jiri Mičanek.

* or it could be that Formula Mondial existed with that capacity, but I wouldn't think that;

#4 Wolf

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 20:20

I might as well give it a go with specs:

max width 2000mm, width/front 1500mm, overhang/front 1000mm, overhang/rear respectively, distance ??? of from centerline 800mm, rear wing width 1100mm, rear wing height 900mm, body width between wheels 1300mm, min cockpit opening width 450mm/(? 300mm; ? 600mm), min weight 476 kg.


#5 Alexey Rogachev

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 20:25

The 1987 season of Czechoslovakian motorsport marked a great change in the technical reglement of formula cars, which increased the level of both circuit racing and hill-climbs. Formula Easter was changed by more powerful Formula Mondial, which limits the volume by 1600 cc instead of 1300. F. Mondial was introduced by FIA, which has its headquarters in Paris, as the new formula for international racing events, and in the future the World F. Mondial Cup can be held. Its final race would be the meeting of best drivers from the whole world.

However, national F. Mondial championships were introduced only in our republic (Czechoslovakia) as well as in few foreign countries. F. Mondial (which means 'world-wide') is a reglement for single-seaters with open wheels, powered by homologated four-cylinder engines. Like other racing formulae, it regulates some basical dimensions. Among them are: maximum car width 2000 mm, maximum front width 1500 mm, maximum front overhang 1000 mm, maximum rear overhang (i.e. the distance between the end of exhaust pipe and rear azle) 800 mm, maximum rear wing width 1100 mm, maximum rear wing height 900 mm, maximum body width between the axles 1300 mm, minimum cockpit width 450 mm (with minimum length of this 450-mm wide part 300 mm, and the minimum length of the whole cockpit 600 mm) and so on. Minimum weight is 476 kg. 13-inch wheels must be applied, and the first homologated F. Mondial engine was Ford BDA 1600 (earlier F. Atlantic), later, for socialist countries, Lada 1600 (VAZ 2106M). It is applied by our drivers Vaclav Lim (Avia), Ondrej Dobrota (on the photo, MTX), Jaroslav Vorel (KDV), Jan Vesely (RAF), Miran Velkoborsky (MTX) and some other drivers. The first Czechoslovakian F. Mondial champion is Jiri Micanek (1987, MTX 1-06).

#6 Mac1602

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 21:02

Big thanks :-)