It's great to see Formula Vee receive some of the attention it deserves, both in TNF and in The Real World. Formula Vee was a good idea and it has been the starting point for many a motorracing career. Even with its gawky technology and unusual aesthetics, and sometimes muddled rules, it has always provided close and (nearly) affordable racing for thousands of drivers, with or without career ambitions. Long may it prosper!
However, I'm enough of an Olde Farte to not really appreciate the (too) fat 13" tyres on US Formula First and the water cooled in-line Polo engine used in Germany and South Africa. Vees should only ever have aircooled pancake engines, even if Brazilian. Currently the best Vee rules in my opinion, in spite of many a TNFers misgivings about CAMS, are the Australian Formula First (Vee 1600) rules.
Vees rule OK
CeliFan,
Thanks for stirring happy memories. IIRC correctly, one of the Celis (pehaps in 1973) was used to display a Sicli plumbed-in extinguisher system. I always liked the pronounced wedge shape of the Celis, and their sturdy monocoques.