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#1 AAGR

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Posted 14 January 2016 - 11:29

  A related thread recently mentioned John Wyer's book THAT CERTAIN SOUND, which led me to read it again with pleasure.

 

  Amazingly, though, when covering a period when Alan Mann/Alan Mann Racing took over the Cobra World Sports Car programme in 1965, and later when AMR also built the F3L (which meant that there were no DFV engines to spare for Wyer's project ?), there was absolutely no mention - none at all - of Mann or his company.

 

  The Index of that book has no entry under 'Alan Mann' or 'Alan Mann Racing'. Why could this be ? 

 

 



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#2 Alan Baker

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Posted 14 January 2016 - 11:40

  A related thread recently mentioned John Wyer's book THAT CERTAIN SOUND, which led me to read it again with pleasure.

 

  Amazingly, though, when covering a period when Alan Mann/Alan Mann Racing took over the Cobra World Sports Car programme in 1965, and later when AMR also built the F3L (which meant that there were no DFV engines to spare for Wyer's project ?), there was absolutely no mention - none at all - of Mann or his company.

 

  The Index of that book has no entry under 'Alan Mann' or 'Alan Mann Racing'. Why could this be ? 

Check out Tony Dron's introduction to the Alan Mann biog "A life of Chance". As Tony relates, Wyer and Mann "simply loathed each other".



#3 sabrejet

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Posted 14 January 2016 - 11:56

Wyer's book is nevertheless an excellent read: I shall get it off the shelf and re-read it tonight! And buy Dron's book.

 

If you get a chance (and haven't seen it), there is a fantastic related video on ***Tube, covering that incredible BOAC 500 demo by Pedro Rodriguez, where Wyer seems almost unimpressed by what had occurred. Mind you, Pedro's statement of how he went on to win by 5 laps is also a cracking example of understatement!