It's a Canadair CL-44, the swing-tail cargo version of the Bristol Britannia. The cargo was the entire fleet of British F1 cars, probably headed to North America.
Why does the Scuderia shield seem to be "redded out"? Note the unique air intakes in the cowl, only used for the South American rounds; the intakes as shown in #1628 were used for the rest of the season.
Remember, the T2 was used in both 76 and 77. The first year, the inner part of the air nostrils was white. During the later part of 76 and over the winter, the team experimented with several different duct designs. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login At the 77 intro, the nostrils were now all red, which carried over to the first part of the season. Image Unavailable, Please Login Later, the 77 T2 was updated with the two NACA ducts replacing the larger nostrils. Image Unavailable, Please Login Don't know why the one pic shows the Cavallino redded out but I have another pic of the same session showing the same thing. Image Unavailable, Please Login
On this day in 1995, Schumacher wheeled THIS exact car in his first test for the Scuderia at Mugello. Ferrari 412 T2. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yesterday was Jacques Laffite's 78th birthday. I took this photo of Jacques entering Casino Square at the 1980 Monaco GP. The Ligier Gitanes livery was one of my favorite liveries back in the day, and Jacques one of my favorite drivers. Image Unavailable, Please Login
While the Cosworth powered Ligier JS 11 in my photo was arguably one of the best looking car designs in the years it competed, by contrast the earlier Ligier JS 5 Matra shown in your photo was one of the ugliest.
Who knew???? The Isuzu 3.5L V12. Around 1991, Isuzu had secretly developed a 3.5-litre DOHC V12 race engine that cranked out around 640bhp at 12,500rpm. The engine, codenamed P799WE, was designed to comply with Formula One specifications. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The 3.5 litre formula is my favorite F1 era. It's a shame that this marvelous engine never ran in anger.
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For Sale: A Ferrari F2003-GA Formula 1 Engine – 845 HP at 18,300 RPM (it's missing most of its internal parts) https://silodrome.com/ferrari-f2003-ga-formula-1-engine/ Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Well, for those who remember these days of Formula One, it wasn't actually such a secret...rather, one of a serie of numerous tricks Lotus tried to get out of the doldrums: in the page corresponding to the enclosed link, there is even a vidéo of it (at about 2/3of the page) https://**********.com/p/sidelined-samurai-1991-lotus-102c-PdaUQt3VRvGqBc5ubscvIw?iid=TsfA3Uw7TKGlUASyZ_44YA Rgds
On this day in 1997, Ken Tyrrell announced the sale of his eponymous team to British American Racing after 29 years in F1. Winless since '83, Tyrrell cited escalating costs and his dissatisfaction with sinking to the back of the grid. Tyrrell-->BAR-->Honda-->BrawnGP-->MercedesAMGF1 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login