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[Izzyeviel]

You know the drill. 

 

 

After the season we've just had, I think its appropriate to start things with Mario..

[Pete_f1]

A very different looking F1 too

[engineblock1]

Aren't 6 days of testing a bit too less considering the cars are undergoing a major shift in their architecture? Considering the fact that competing drivers will not necessarily run on all 6 days. Drivers deserve some more running than just 6 days.

[Francesc]

It's amazing how time flies.

[Izzyeviel]

 

For those unaware, its a forum tradition. The idea being you post a car whose number matches the days to go til the start of the Bahrain GP. The rarer/obscure the better, even better if its a really cool picture, and just awesome if theres an interesting story behind it. 

[DW46]

For those unaware, its a forum tradition. The idea being you post a car whose number matches the days to go til the start of the Bahrain GP. The rarer/obscure the better, even better if its a really cool picture, and just awesome if theres an interesting story behind it.

Great game!

Do we always end with Damo’s Williams?

[Collombin]

Do we always end with Damo’s Williams?

Not if we can find a Jody Scheckter pic.

[Gareth]

 

It's more exciting if it starts one day early, right?

[Izzyeviel]

Don't confuse me! I'm confused enough nowdays 

[Thursday]

[domhnall]

[OvDrone]

 

Leon Haslam during his best career season back in 2010 World Superbikes on the #91 Suzuki where he won at Philip Island, Ricardo Tormo and Kyalami. 

[Ivanhoe]

Maserati 250S at some SCCA race in 1959

[domhnall]

[Ivanhoe]

356's at Laguna Seca, 1960

[BRG]

Maserati 250S at some SCCA race in 1959

 

Come on, we've got to do better than that! 

 

Who? Where? What does DM stand for? 

 

I haven't a clue* but somebody must have!

 

* concrete track, so maybe Sebring?

[Ivanhoe]

Come on, we've got to do better than that! 

 

Who? Where? What does DM stand for? 

 

I haven't a clue* but somebody must have!

 

* concrete track, so maybe Sebring?

Lol, I need to find my way again in the countdown thread, it's been a while, but here we go....DM is a race class in SCCA (number and class had to be displayed on both sides of the car under SCCA rules). Driver is Bobby Aylward and the track at Rolla National Airport in Vichy.

[Alan Lewis]

On May 24th, the excellent racingsportscars.com tells us.

Very few other details about the race, but the entry list suggests the car alongside Aylward is the #15 Ferrari 250TR of James Johnston.

[DeKnyff]

 

Female driver Lyn St. James at the 1992 Indy 500, where she took the Rookie of the Year award, after finishing 11^th scratch. She drove a Lola-Chevrolet.

[OvDrone]

 

 

On a early MONTH OF MAY day back in 2015, I remember a wonderful win at our ever beloved Laguna Seca courtesy of the VisitFlorida.com Racing #90 Chevy DPi.

The car was driven by Michael Valiante and Richard Westbrook and of the two the biggest accolades definitely go to Westbrook.

Richard drove one of his best career races that day holding off a faster and increasingly furious #10 WTR Chevy and sealed a great triumph for a much loved underdog team.

IMSA was on it's way up.

[vlado]

90 days! well that's not bad at all 

[barrykm]

I'm happy to have hooked into the number countdown this early, for a change.

[Ivanhoe]

Luigi Scarfiotti and Guido d'Ippolito in an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 GS, racing for the Scuderia Ferrari team at the Mille Miglia of 1932, where they finished in 3rd place.

[PayasYouRace]

The car was driven by Michael Valiante

I though he was a comic book character.

[domhnall]

[Shell]

How many days until 23 of February?

There the first blood will happen and we see how the cars looks on the track and how they have progressed 

Edited by Shell, 21 December 2021 - 10:19.

[BRG]

Lol, I need to find my way again in the countdown thread, it's been a while, but here we go....DM is a race class in SCCA (number and class had to be displayed on both sides of the car under SCCA rules). Driver is Bobby Aylward and the track at Rolla National Airport in Vichy.

Bravo, sir! 

 

I regard these threads as valuable learning tools.  I now know there is a place called Vichy in Montana!  A fact that will come in useful one fine day!

[Alan Lewis]

Missouri.

[BRG]

Missouri.

Damn these misleading abbreviations.

 

Not like our good old county abbreviations, like Hants,  Oxon, or Salop.

[red stick]

Missouri also boasts a Mexico, Carthage, and Lebanon.  You've been educated/warned!  

[Anderis]

Who remembers the days when we were starting with numbers way bigger than 100?

[OvDrone]

I though he was a comic book character.

I thought he was Alain Menu:

 

And to put the car with which he had his last career podium finish in the 2014 BTCC Championship, the #9 Chrome Edition Restart Racing VW CC - so that we have the 8+9 for the thread.

[domhnall]

Johnny Herbert, Audi R8, Le Mans 2004

[blackmme]

We’re going back 40 years to the future!  Of course next years Ground Effect cars will only have a single Chassis and not multiple Chassis’s (Chassises?  )

 

 

Regards Mike

Edited by blackmme, 22 December 2021 - 07:51.

[Ivanhoe]

Can-Am and F2 driver Hiroshi Kazato in his own Porsche 908 at the Fuji 500 in 1971, the track where he would have a fatal crash 3 years later.

 

[DeKnyff]

 

The Porsche 911S of Marie-Pierre Palayer and navigator Ginette Derolland, winners of the Coupe des Dames at the 1970 Tour Auto.

[OvDrone]

Johnny Herbert, Audi R8, Le Mans 2004

 

He won that year's Le Mans Series Championship ( current ELMS ) with that cool #88 purple/grey Audi. One of his best Motorsport achievements for sure!

 

One of my childhood favorites alongside Damon Hill, Michael Andretti and Carlos Sainz - 1999 Nascar Cup Champion, Dale Jarrett in that classic #88 Robert Yates Ford Taurus. Loved that season so much!

[domhnall]

Spike Gehlhausen's practice crash at the 1988 Indy 500

[Ivanhoe]

The 1968 Monte Carlo Rally had 3 Mini Cooper S's finishing in the top 5. The #87 of Paddy Hopkirk and navigator Ron Crellin finished in 5th place.

 

[OvDrone]

 

This picture is from the inaugural COTA round of the SRO GT Challenge America season back in that 'great' month of March 2020.

It marked one of the last races held before the Pandemic truly hit the planet. I remember going 'hey, at least there are some GTs around' while the Losail MotoGP round got cancelled and true ominousness started to fill the forum as well.

The Stephen Cameron Racing #87 BMW M6 GT3 only participated in that round, iirc because of the global circumstances they couldn't do the rest of the season when it restarted in July at VIR.

Car #87 was driven by Pro-Am drivers Henry Schmitt & Greg Liefooghe and it marked one of the last appearances of the infamously THICC and highly meme'd BMW M6 in the GT3 category.

Miss ya M6, you were just as wide as you were a winner.

[DeKnyff]

 

South African lady racer Anja Tom Suden, riding a Suzuki, at the Red Star track (near Pretoria) in 2018.

[Ivanhoe]

Unmistakable Targa Florio. Brothers Enzo and Ferdinando Lopez finished in 17th place in their Maserati A6GCS in 1955.

[domhnall]

Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo at Lime Rock Park 2019

 

 

Edited by domhnall, 24 December 2021 - 08:52.

[BRG]

Spike Gehlhausen's practice crash at the 1988 Indy 500

 

His practice crash? Was his actual crash better? 

[DeKnyff]

 

Anne Hall and navigator Valerie Domleo-Morley, driving a Ford Anglia 105E, winners of the Coupe des Dames at the 1962 Monte Carlo rally.

 

NOTE: not sure 100% if this is a much degraded magazine photo or a drawing (could be the box art of a model, but I haven't found any). I'm aware that it could be a non-elegible image for this thread.

 

[OvDrone]

 

Argentinean Touring Car Superstar Esteban Guerrieri winning his first world championship level race at the opening round of WTCC 2017 in Marrakech in the #86 Campos Chevy of the long gone TC1 regs.

EG is someone who kinda followed in the wake of JM Lopez on the World Touring scene but oh boy did he ever make an impact that year. 3 convincing wins of pure talent-over-machinery to propel him to an incredible 4th place ( just shy of 3rd ) at the season's end.

I remember eclectic jokes being cast in the Indycar threads in that year of 2017 with Esteban Gutierrez doing not so good in his Dale Coyne cameos and people name dropping Guerrieri from their subconscious as his name was quite doing the rounds at the moment.
So the meme was talking objectively about Gurrrieri's incredible exploits the past years and Touring when people started criticizing Gutierrez's level.

Fun times. I do, unironically have a soft spot for the WTCC. That can be said about so many series though in my book, lol.

Also, check out that top-tier BACKMARKER livery.

Edited by OvDrone, 24 December 2021 - 21:53.

[Ivanhoe]

The Alpine A110 of French driver Jean-Luc Thérier at the 1972 Nürburgring 500km. He finished 1st in the GT1.6 class and 13th overall.

[domhnall]

[B Squared]

[OvDrone]

Japanese F4 racer and W Series protégé, Miki Koyama:

 

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS to y'all 

Edited by OvDrone, 25 December 2021 - 12:35.