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F1 News & Discussions => F1 History => Topic started by: Dare on February 06, 2020, 08:47:58 PM
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When race cars looked and sounded like race cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjNvywa5S4&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1sk7Dv0LzEKlcWqtF5uiI18XPlzNRFfXxLDRN0PQHy-9-T0TSq72Hbjcs
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Great video Dare,
All is not lost... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IPePVyq7Y8
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Hey Dare, good find. :good: - My ears will be ringing for the rest of the day now. :P
About the only similarity to todays F1 cars is the feather weight seat.
Hey Wizzo nice vid. :good:
Just who did you persuade to make your 7 look good round Goodwood? ;) :D :DD
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The only thing that resembled me was the fat Michelin man at the end!
When I bought my Caterham 620 it was described as a 1960's F1 car for the road. It's the closest I'll ever get to driving the real thing...and I love it!
Wiz
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Good stuff, Dare & Wizzo! :good: Those were the days when fans could recognize a car by it's sound long before it cam into view.
The Honda RA300 was a Lola T-120 with a Honda engine. Honda's original car for the 1967 season, the RA273, was grossly overweight. Honda driver John Surtees worked with his friend Eric Braodley of Lola to modify the Lola T-90 Indy car for F1. The RA300 quickly picked up the nickname "Hondola."
It debuted at Monza in 1967 & won it's first race. Jim Clark's Lotus ran out of gas on the last lap & Surtees passed on by for the victory. Oddly, that winning last lap in it's first race was the only lap the car ever led in it's entire F1 career.
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I went to the Long Beach races in the early 80's. Three teams had V12s; Ligier had the Talbot, Alfa and Ferrari had their own. What I found interesting was they all had their own distinctive sound. You could identify each long before they actually appeared.