Another one from the obscurity files . . . Martin Donnelly -Lotus Lamborghini at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1990. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The glory days of F1 for me were the 70s 80s and 90s . Stewart , Prost, Senna , Lauda, Piquet , Mansell, etc, I dont think, even with todays talent, the drivers dont compare with these fellows.
I also wanted to mention that I really love the designs of the F1 race cars during the decades I referred to .They are way more appealing when comparing to todays iterations. Ferrari 312 T3 and T4 are nothing short of incredible !! A Senna / A Prost McLaren Honda are another example of absolute beauty, and the list goes on .The photo shown above, M. Donnelly , Lambo , Lotus is stunning !
The T3 looked fine, but even Enzo himself referred to the T4 as "ugly", and I agree with him. But it was a case of function before form, and the car won the championship, which is beautiful. It's ironic that while the T5 of 1980 looked somewhat better than the T4, it certainly did not perform, but that was mainly due to the fact that the team was working almost exclusively on the new turbo car and engine and spent almost no time doing any development on the T5. (They had done an amazing job getting enough ground effects out of the T4 in spite of the width of the "boxer" engine getting in the way, but in 1980 their luck ran out.) This was a dramatic case of "first to worst". I watched Jody Scheckter trundle around Watkins Glen in 11th place, without ever passing anyone, in the last race of his career. (At least he was running - a week earlier in Montreal he had failed to qualify! Imagine - a Ferrari, with number "1" on its side, being too slow to qualify!)
The Ferrari flat 12 engine was not suited to ground effects. If Lotus did not prove GEs, I believe the Ferrari could have had more success. Well that is how racing evolves!
Mike Beuttler was a British F1 driver who raced privately entered March cars, the finance for the team came from a group of stockbroker friends from whom the team took its name at first Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing. He raced on one occasion at the 1971 Canadian GP for the works March team. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The t-tray is where the plank starts underneath the driver and looks like a "T" when looking headon underneath the car.
Uh not in this case. The March 711 was designed with this suspended ovoid wing over the nose--nicknamed the "tea tray". Image Unavailable, Please Login
That makes two of us. And there was me thinking it was an American jibe in relation to Englishmen and drinking tea
1979 Canadian Grand Prix Jabouille and Arnoux´s Renault RS10s in the pitlane Image Unavailable, Please Login
