The entire discussion?
I meant about Marcel Tarres and his stint at Equipe Dollop in F3000.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 15:18
The entire discussion?
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Posted 07 October 2022 - 15:46
I meant about Marcel Tarres and his stint at Equipe Dollop in F3000.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 15:49
I have no knowledge for it. About the entire topic, I may try
Posted 07 October 2022 - 15:53
Posted 07 October 2022 - 16:01
Autodiva forum perhaps
Posted 07 October 2022 - 17:19
To add to that, in practice he borrowed one from Cor Euser.
Tarrès did at least have a smidgeon of pedigree at that level, he had raced F2 in 1984.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 17:42
Ah, it wasn't Euser's, it just looked damn like it. It was one of the French drivers who had something very similar.
ETA: just remembered - Bernard Santal. Who didn't take part. I wonder if he was tabbed for the second Dollop. (Not a sentence I've constructed before.)
Edited by ensign14, 07 October 2022 - 17:48.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 17:49
Ah, it wasn't Euser's, it just looked damn like it. It was one of the French drivers who had something very similar. Delestre perhaps.
Edited by WonderWoman61, 07 October 2022 - 21:20.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 21:10
Thought Santal was Swiss, not that it matters.
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Posted 07 October 2022 - 21:19
Posted 07 October 2022 - 21:21
Mystery solved then.Ah, it wasn't Euser's, it just looked damn like it. It was one of the French drivers who had something very similar.
ETA: just remembered - Bernard Santal. Who didn't take part. I wonder if he was tabbed for the second Dollop. (Not a sentence I've constructed before.)
Posted 07 October 2022 - 21:33
Posted 07 October 2022 - 21:44
Worth a try.
Yes, it's really good.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 22:04
Yes, it's really good.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 22:34
Even if it does mean having to translate everything as it's a French site.
Yes, it's a disadvantage. I read French quite well, but I have trouble writing.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 22:41
Even if it does mean having to translate everything as it's a French site.
What a shame it's not written in English for the benefit of the English speaking world
Posted 07 October 2022 - 22:42
Yes, it's a disadvantage. I read French quite well, but I have trouble writing.
Posted 07 October 2022 - 22:59
There is a topic about Marcel Tarrès: https://www.autodiva...c.php?f=2&t=805
Posted 07 October 2022 - 23:04
Posted 08 October 2022 - 08:48
Thought Santal was Swiss, not that it matters.
Well, he shouldn't have had a French-coloured helmet then. Didn't he get the memo?
ETA this ****ing website and its ****ing photolinking bollocks
Edited by ensign14, 08 October 2022 - 08:50.
Posted 08 October 2022 - 11:46
Edited by WonderWoman61, 08 October 2022 - 13:50.
Posted 08 October 2022 - 13:54
Now there's a mystery...
Posted 08 October 2022 - 18:55
Posted 08 October 2022 - 19:00
I was curious about Le Mans 'one hit wonders'. There are 24 drivers whose only result at Le Mans was a single first place.
Five of those are drivers who raced at LM once and won - Nuvolari, Fontes, Lang, Foyt, Hulkenberg.
Veyron and Rosier both took nine attempts for their solitary wins - needless to say, retirements were much more common in their day.
Posted 08 October 2022 - 20:07
Well, most of those were war/better careers. Fontes was imprisioned for vehicular manslaughter not long after his win, something about which the motor racing media were silent for half a century, because of the fear of it being used as a stick with which to beat the sport. Never got going again and died in WW2 test-piloting.
Posted 09 October 2022 - 18:24
Pete Gethin winning Monza in 1970?
More recently Aguri Suzuki: 3rd in Japan 1990, scored only two points in the next five years.
Ukyo Katayama...brilliant in 94, nowhere in 95, 96, 97.
Posted 09 October 2022 - 20:32
Also Takuma Sato, apart from 2004, noteworthy performances from him were few and far between with the possible exception of Canada 2007.
Two Indy 500 wins don't count then?
Posted 09 October 2022 - 20:50
Two Indy 500 wins don't count then?
Posted 09 October 2022 - 21:06
Edited by WonderWoman61, 09 October 2022 - 21:06.
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Posted 09 October 2022 - 21:16
Posted 09 October 2022 - 22:13
If one Eff Wun race per season was a distance of 500 miles, I suspect we would have a greater number of "one hit wonders" - and if three 500 milers were run, with more points awarded for 500 mile distance like USAC did in the "Triple Crown" era of the 70s, I suspect the list of WDC titlists would be very different as well. It's easy to believe "oval" means "simple". It does not.
Posted 09 October 2022 - 22:33
Posted 14 October 2022 - 09:55
Continuing with the Marcel Tarres story with his various helmets at the 1986 Birmingham Superprix...
Practice/qualifying photo by Terry Scannell.
During the acclimisation session before the F3000 race. Photo by Brendan McFarlane.
Photo scan from a Birmingham newspaper.
Now you can see Marcel Tarres borrowing Bernard Santal's helmet on Sunday and possibly Pascal Fabre's helmet on Monday!
Posted 31 October 2022 - 14:22
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Posted 20 May 2023 - 02:23
Trevor Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500 but not much else.
And 10 years later, Michael McDowell similarly scored his only victory (to date) in NASCAR's biggest race.
Edited by Emery0323, 20 May 2023 - 02:26.
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Posted 23 May 2023 - 16:07
Luigi Musso His only championship victory was a shared 1st with Fangio in the 1957 Argentine GP. Other wins were in non championship races (1954 Pescara, 1957 Reims, 1958 Syracuse).
I don't think Richie Ginther was mentioned in this thread. Just a single F1 victory at Mexico in 1965. His best year was 1963, when he finished 3rd in the WDC with 3 2nd place and 2 3rd place finishes during a very consistent season. However, Richie will forever be remembered for his drive in the 1961 Monaco GP.
Posted 24 May 2023 - 08:28
I think Richie Ginther wasn't mentioned because he hardly fits the description "one-hit wonder". As doesn't Musso.
Posted 24 May 2023 - 10:34
When Richie Ginther arrived in F1 he was quick right away. In those days, commentators didn't talk about championship podiums, but Richie scored 13 of them before his win in Mexico, sadly none afterwards.
At the start of this thread, "one-hit wonder" was proposed as a single exceptional drive in a career, not necessarily a win or a finish. Lella Lombardi's half point in the WDC is notable -- she never drove cars which were reliable enough for us to judge how fast she really was. Bruce Halford with his privately entered Maserati got up into fourth place in the 1956 German GP before it went wrong for him.