Great event at The Reserve at Lake Travis near Austin Texas. My favorite Dino was there!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The 206 SP is a magnificent automobile. It is a 3/4-scale P4. I'd be thrilled just to see one in person! Fred
I used to race the living !@#$%^* out of this one. What a cracking fun ride. It had a silly short ring and pinion ratio, something like 4.5:1 and 5th gear at near 9,000rpm would only see the car pulling just over 120mph! It was likely the "hill climb" set up as it would have been useless on nearly ever track in the world except possibly Lime Rock. I could do nearly the entire track at Laguna Seca in forth and fifth gear but you always had to keep the RPMs above 6,000 to keep it in the power band. It was without a doubt a tasty biscuit of a ride! Ciao, Bill Image Unavailable, Please Login
As fun as it was on the track, it was quite the hoot on the street as well. The sound was piercing would set car alarms off blocks away. Not overly loud but at a frequency and resonance that has to be experience to fully understand and appreciate. The car might appear dainty and fragile in the photos and while any decent 906 will stomp it on the track, it had a presence and grace that is hard to convey and completely different the the 906/910 derivatives it was pitted against in period. The car is not really a 206SP but identified formally by Ferrari as simply a 206S. This was a half-hearted as usual attempt by Enzo to give the car an appearance of an homologated Sports Car rather than the Prototype racer that it really was. Not a chance in the world given the shaky finances Ferrari was dealing with at this point that he would even remotely come close to building the 50 necessary examples needed for homologation. Wish it were still mine... I would not be able to resist driving it ever day and moment I could until they pried me out of the cockpit dead with a smile on my face wider than the car itself! Ciao Bill Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Steel oval tube and small diameter "space frame" with GRP inner body and alloy semi-stressed outer panels. Essentially what you see painted red on the outside is alloy and under the skin is combination of steel and GRP which was very common for Ferraris Sports and Prototypes of this era... within just a few years, they had switched to monocoque construction with GRP outer panels almost exclusively but even the 312PB still made use of some steel in certain areas, most noticeably in the roll-hoop to monocoque area. Ciao, Bill
I agree - about as beautiful as a car can get. I'm in the wrong biz...I'd just love to own something like that.
