Le Mans 1968 250LM #8165 long nose David Piper Racing David Piper - Richard Attwood 7Th OA ©Lat images Image Unavailable, Please Login
1973 Le Mans #38 NART France François Migault - Luigi Chinetti Jr DNF 299 laps #14141 #37 D & S Rubén Luis di Palma - Nestor García-Veiga DNF 211 laps #16367 #6 NART Sam Posey - Milt Minter DNF 254 laps #16407 © Lat images Image Unavailable, Please Login
A traffic jam of Truck-Tonas! Miss my friend Francois Migault who was a very fine person and hosted me several times during le Mans in the 1990's at his family property, Bellefille, in the village of Chemire Le Gaudin 20 minutes south west of the circuit when I was covering the race for Cavallino. He hosted the whole NART team there several times, if only those walls could talk! His final years were alas very hard... Will arrive at LMC tomorrow, can't wait!
Yes on a closed section of new autoroute, I saw him describe it to a potential sponsor, pretty intense!
1970 Le Mans N. A. R. T Tony Adamowicz - Chuck Parsons Ferrari 312P #27 #0872 281Laps DNF ©LAT Images Image Unavailable, Please Login
1964 Monthlery 1000km de Paris Maranello Concessionaires GB Graham Hill - Jo Bonnier Ferrari 330P #0818 ©J Tesseyre Image Unavailable, Please Login
It has been my observation through many years of Historic racing that cars equipped with drum brakes required the use of the engine and transmission to slow the car down by downshifting. Drum brakes were inadequate. Cars equppied with disc brakes should allow the brakes do handle slowing down the car and not the engine and gearbox. Daytonas are heavy cars and although they had disc brakes the heat they generated would boil brake fluid and that caused brake failure. Many drivers reverted back to using the engine and gearbox to slow the car in addition to the brakes and the cars would suffer failures as a result. I would be interested to know the race weight of a Comp Daytona with full fuel tanks. Almost all of these cars started life as street cars.
Interlagos, April 7, 1957. Just my 2 cents. m.h. BTW: Does anybody know the girl in the Porsche 550 #66?
The Girl might be : Maria Silvia Gerin may be sh drove the car with : Ciro Burjato Cayres. The article is : http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=8778
24h du Mans 1973 Sam Posey - Milt Minter North American Racing Team 365 GTB/4 Daytona #6 #16407 ©Lat images Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sorry please read the linked text; the girl was a spectator killed by the car's loose wheel, NOT a driver.
Alberto Ascari Will have 107 yo today. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
