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[Bloggsworth]

Some manufacturers equated noise with power - some youths on Lambrettas still do...

Edited by Bloggsworth, 19 August 2024 - 12:35.

[john aston]

Youths on Lambrettas ? I think a rip in the space /time continuum has transported you back to 1965. My hot tip is to put five guineas on Ford to win Le Mans next year. 

[FLB]

Why oh why did they put this frakking 'music' over was seems like a fantastic document?     

 

[E1pix]

Insanity. It’s international now.

Aside, great piece!

[Bloggsworth]

Youths on Lambrettas ? I think a rip in the space /time continuum has transported you back to 1965. My hot tip is to put five guineas on Ford to win Le Mans next year. 

Some of us were teenagers in the 60s (though I had a Vespa) hence my poem:

 

Noodling in a Minor Key

 

The sun and blowsy afternoons

bring brightly lit young women

sporting long legs to towns where

young men on motorbikes throb

in dusty squares and Lambrettas

bringing ice-cream dreams

and Coca~Cola^TM smiles

    zip the pavement edges.

 

    ©CJ Briggs 2024

Edited by Bloggsworth, 31 August 2024 - 23:29.

[Rupertlt1]

 

The unidentified event at an airport/airbase, "Hills in background" is the Convair Trophy Races, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 3 August 1952.

(34.02)

 

https://www.racingsp...1952-08-03e.jpg

 

https://library.revs... Trophy Races/1

 

There is an unknown airbase race at 18:38:

Dark Jowett Jupiter, #51 M.G., light Jowett Jupiter,  #2 M.G. TC, #12 M.G. TD, two Crosley Hotshot

#58 red Allard, #42? light Allard J2X, #39 burgundy Allard, #7 Jaguar (red helmet, winner of the Jaguar class?) etc.

Could this be Okmulgee, Oklahoma? Caddo Mills, Texas?

(#58 red Allard is Masten Gregory, Mercury; #39 burgundy Cad-Allard, Carroll Shelby?) 

 

Giants Despair FIII (6:04): #37 Kieft, #64 red Cooper, #70 Cooper, #75 Cooper, #1 Cooper?

24, 25, 26 July 1952?

According to Harry C. Reynolds:

P1 — Maurice Hoopes — Cooper-JAP #64 (#47?) — 1.08.1 min:sec

P2 — Lex duPont — Cooper-Triumph #75 — 1.09.2

P3 — Gordon Lipe — Cooper-Triumph #70 — 1.11.5

P4 — Dick Irish — Kieft-Norton #37 — 1:12.5

P5 — R. L. Moodie — Cooper-JAP #63 — 1:13.7

See also: https://forums.autos...2#entry10694748

 

https://youtu.be/rf91GiMTsm8

 

Note #42 Effyh, one-liter, Jack E. Horner, 1min 12.6sec

(Likely Vincent-powered?)

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 05 September 2024 - 15:00.

[Tom Glowacki]

Some manufacturers equated noise with power - some youths on Lambrettas still do...

Better that than what some yobos do with their diesel powered pick up trucks, which is to modify the engine to emit a huge cloud of unburned hydrocarbons while accelerating, called "coal rolling":

[nicanary]

Better that than what some yobos do with their diesel powered pick up trucks, which is to modify the engine to emit a huge cloud of unburned hydrocarbons while accelerating, called "coal rolling":

We have that in the UK too, albeit usually VAG owners, known colloquially as the Dubscene. Knackered old Jettas and Octavias, maybe ex-taxi, lowered suspension, tinted windows, driven like maniacs until the engines finally cry enough. Probably never serviced in their life (the cars, that is).

[FLB]

Lotus Mark VIII

 

[Sterzo]

Here is a half hour TV documentary about Colin Chapman, broadcast in 1968. (A search implies it's not already on this thread; no guarantees given). It's good to hear voices and see faces from the time, and I liked the  reference to who had the idea for the Lotus 7.

 

[LittleChris]

Some 2,3 & 4 wheel Sachsenring shenanigans

 

Sachsenring-Rennen verschiedener Gruppen und Klassen in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren (youtube.com)

[nexfast]

Good footage. And with a portrait of Staline towering over the circuit. Somehow awkward...

[Macca]

https://m.facebook.c...366640983428000

Monaco 1964 (and maybe a bit of Brands?), may have been on before but I don’t recall it.

Paul M

[E1pix]

New thread:
Unearthed on Facebook.

[2F-001]

Schleizer Dreieck

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=5FeT6WnRlk8

I had no idea this circuit had remained in use this long.

It’s unusual these days to see relatively modern single-seaters on a non-urban street circuit (though predominantly bikes now, I believe).

 

I knew little-to-nothing of the circuit’s history, beyond seeing its name once or twice, until finding this online:

https://www.circuits...leizer-dreieck/

Edited by 2F-001, 08 October 2024 - 10:22.

[GLaird]

On the youtube page above for Schleizer Dreieck there is a link to the Trabant race, a real slipstreamer. Only takes two cars to make a race!

[LittleChris]

All the best / quickest parts of Schleiz have disappeared as it's got shorter and shorter unfortunately.

 

Schleizer Dreieck Track Info (silhouet.com)

 

The top map shows a slightly shorter version of the original circuit which continued to the corner in the village where it says ARAL Tankstelle and there were no chicanes

Edited by LittleChris, 08 October 2024 - 21:39.

[LittleChris]

CHARADE Circuit - Onboard a Formula Ford but doing F1 speeds - YouTube

 

Not sure when this was shot but given the soft barriers at Gravenoire it must've been part of an organised event.

[FLB]

It's not Youtube and it's en francais, but this is a video from the French OTRF at the Château de Grandson, which was headquarters to Scuderia Filipinetti. It's from 1967 and features Georges Filinetti, Claude Sage, Jean Guichet... and the damaged remains of Ferrari 365P2 / 0824 

 

L'écurie du château | INA

[Graham Clayton]

French F1 drivers and Ken Tyrell select five candidates from a 1978 training course at the Winfield school on the Castellet (Paul Ricard) & Magny-Cours school circuit for the prize of a Formula Renault and a scholarship for 1979.

 

[pete53]

Here is some fluff from 1968. It's from the Kenny Everett Nice Time Show featuring Stirling, John Surtees and Denny Hulme. Drag the button to 19:10. 

 

Edited by pete53, 06 November 2024 - 15:19.

[10kDA]

Early 60s home movies @ Lions Drag Strip, Los Angeles CA

[small block]

Here is some fluff from 1968. It's from the Kenny Everett Nice Time Show featuring Stirling, John Surtees and Denny Hulme. Drag the button to 19:10. 

 

Who'd have thought it?, a dodgem race with a Germaine Greer commentary!

[DCapps]

https://www.racingar...nger-symposium/

 

The presentations from the 8th Michael Argetsinger Symposium, 1 & 2 November 2024.

[Steffen]

Here is a very nice 8mm video taken at the British Grand Prix 1974 at Brands Hatch. It also includes lots of practice footage with the drivers who did not qualify. I think Derek Bell with the Surtees is the only driver missing. All the others like Lella Lombardi with the Brabham, David Purley with the Token, the Lyncar, the Maki, the Ensign... They all can be seen in action!

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=GMJ-huXDfsg

[Parkesi]

Champions Who Changed Racing Forever | Historical Sports Documentary | Need For Speed

 

[LittleChris]

Toleman 1983 Monaco GP. I didn't realise Bruno spoke such good English

 

Life in the fast lane | Toleman Team | F1 Monaco Grand Prix 1983