Can you explain this? The picture is from the rear of a 1982 Ferrari 126/C2B F1-car. Maybe the driver got a flat-tire and changed it with a spare Any clues? / Peter Image Unavailable, Please Login
Shipping wheel.... They use similar ones today on the Enzo line, for rolling the chassis around without the full size rims......
Not sure they still use those nowadays, but back in the eighties that's what they used to move the car around in the garage etc. Maybe if we make Michael drive on a set of these F1 becomes more interesting again?
That is correct, watch the WRC Rally Sweden next February and you'll notice the skinniest tires of their entire season. The higher weight concentration as you correctly yet satirically observed does indeed push down through the snow and ice and gets better grip on whatever surface is underneath. Wide tires float on top and get far less grip. (It should be noted that the Rally car run with studs in the snow/ice, which also help immensely, and that none of this has any connection to the above picture other than napolis joke)
Both cars are the 126C2 Note the sponsors on the rear wing and nose cone match the sponsors for that year and the exact places their livelry was placed. They also match personal pictures from my collection. Chassis numbers (of cars raced by the factory team) are 055, 056, 057, 058, 059, 060, 061, 062, 063, 064, 065,
Could you show me a pic of a 126 C2 with a black, multi-element, rearwing, with a full red sidepod, in stead of the black/red "two tone"? Like I said, the one on the left could very well be a 126 C2, the one on the right is not. Probably a C3 from 1983. Note also the engine cover. The C2 and C3 are very different (the C2 being one of the prettiest, the C3 being one of the ugliest).
Note also that the two photo´s aren´t from the same moment. The car on the left is wearing racetyres (good ol´ slicks), whereas the car on the left is wearing the traveltyres.
Oh you are right, that is the 126C3, not the 126C2. The black multi-element, rearwing is the 126C3. (1983) Chassis numbers: 066, 067, 068, 069, 070
