Favourite Race Car - Updated Gallery

Following my "Favourite Race Car" blogs I thought I would update the galleries with several shots I have from old magazines articles and PR material.  Forgive me if the quality is not the best as I have scanned these in and have done my best, with very limited software, to clean them up. 

EUROCAR V6

As I mentioned before, I was a big EUROCAR fan in the 90's.

The first two shots were from the July 1994 issue of Car and Car Conversions.

The third is a poster produced by the first EUROCAR team, Dagenham Motors who ran Barry Lee (1) and Alf Boarer (2).

 





EUROCAR V8

In 1996 EUROCAR introduced the V8.

The first photo of the 77 and the black 3 car was from the March 1994 issue of Car and Car Conversions. 

The first car was Mike Jordans 77 Mac Tools sponsored car.

The 77 car shot was from a Marcus Pye penned Autosport article circa 6th July 1996.

The black 3 car photo was taken from a 1996 EUROCAR PR poster.

INDY ROADSTER

These pictures are all taken from American magazine, Vintage Motorsport, May/June 2009. The car is the 1959 Simoniz Special Watson-Offy Indy Roadster.

 


IROC
 

My favourite IROC race car has always been the 1994/1995 Dodge Avenger. The shots of the black and white cars were taken from the  March 1994 issue of Motor Trend, where they previewed the look of the upcoming Dodge coupe by track testing the IROC version, the red car and interior shots were found on the internet.

KURTIS KRAFT OFFY MIDGET

These shots of the 1947 Kurtis-Kraft Offy Midget came from the March/April 2006 issue of Vintage Motorsport.

Favourite Race Cars Part 3 - Open Wheelers

With the motor racing off season upon us I found myself questioning... what does the author of a topical motorsport based blog write about when there is no racing??

The first answer I came up with is to talk about what I love about racing, starting with my favourite race cars, so here we go...  Part 3... Open Wheelers...


FORMULA ONE

Modern F1 cars are ugly!!

Here are my two favourite Formula 1 cars -

1967/8 Lotus 49 - Cosworth DFV V8, Jim Clark, Graham Hill, great pre-sponsor colour scheme, red steering wheel, gorgeous!

1991 Jordan 191 - OK, the downside is this was Michael Schumacher's first GP car but regardless of who drove it, the 191 goes down as probably the best looking GP of my lifetime! Simple 7up colour scheme, balanced looks; it was a "good looking" GP car!





INDYCAR / INDY 500

All Indy 500 cars should be front engined!! I love Indy Roadsters!! They just look so right!! Loads of power, narrow tires, get it wrong and it will hurt!! Big balls?? You bet!!

As much as I may lament the move to rear engine race cars, my favourite early example has to be the 1965 Lotus 38, driven by Jim Clark. Everything the 49 was for F1, this was for Indy!!






When I was growing up, F1 was boring... CART was not!! My favourite CART car was the 1993 Galles Racing T93 Lola as driven by Little Al! I loved the simple colour scheme and the clear "screen" round the driver... actually I still do!





My favourite IRL era "IndyCar" has to be the 2001 / 2001 IRL Dallara Chevy as driven by Sam Hornish round the outside of anybody who dared to stay low!! As with the Jordan 191, the Dallara was a nicely balanced, low nose modern race car that looked as good on the high Texas banking as it did at Indy. It also raced better than today's IRL cars!





SPRINTS AND MIDGETS

Kurtis Kraft Offy midget is a lovely looking classic American race car. Pretty... very pretty!!








World of Outlaw Sprint Car - big tires, big tracks, big slides, big engines, big noise, huge wings!!








Part 4... Anything Else...