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Once Upon a Wire Wheel
Once Upon A Wire Wheel by Bernie and Norm Koglin This is the first in a series of articles recalling a few highlights from the fifty year history of the Chicago Region SCCA. Most of the information in this article is found in a history of the Club’s early years written by Fred Wacker some years ago. We also wish to thank Burdie Martin for the loan of his copies of the very earliest issues of PISTON PATTER which are an invaluable source. In the Beginning…… 1948- 1954 The term “sports car” would have meant very little to a vast majority of Americans in the years right after World War II. Then, MG TC’s began arriving in the U.S. and a few people started to take notice. Among them was Fred Wacker, who purchased one of the first little British cars in early 1948. In May of that year, Fred and Bud Seaverns drove the MG to Indiana-polis for the 500. After the race they were caught in the usual traffic jam, and came across Bill Spear and Sam Bailey, a couple of New Yorkers, in a Bentley. A mutual interest in their respective cars led to introductions, and in due course Fred and Bud heard of the “Sports Car Club of America” for the first time. Ownership of a “sports car” was an SCCA membership requirement at that time. Since Fred qualified in that respect, Bill and Sam suggested he become a member of the Club. After joining, Fred discovered there was no Chicago Region. -
ERA1 in RUSSIA 1 Yearbook
Avion Newspapers 1-30-1970 Avion 1970-01-30 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/avion Scholarly Commons Citation Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, "Avion 1970-01-30" (1970). Avion. 225. https://commons.erau.edu/avion/225 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Avion by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. autical Institute Student Governmenx Association -- I VOLUME I11 January 30, 1970 NUMBER 3 SGA Briefs TICKETS FOR "The Classics -IV" Concert are on sale in the Eookstore. $2 per ticket. This concert is sponsored by DBJC. The Concert will be held Jan- uary 30, at 9 PM at the Peabody Auditorium. If you feel any type of improvement is needed in any area of the school, or if you have a gripe about anything, ,obtain a Resolu- tion Form from the SGA Of- fice and put your com- The DC-3 that Goodyear Rubber conlpany donated to Embry- plaint in writing. R-sol- Riddle. The plane has a beautiful interior complete utions must be signed be- with carpeted rest rooms. fore they can be processed * * .,I . YearbookTheflrst~age has been complet- of the , . ERA1 IN RUSSIA 1 ed. A professional photo- BY AN51 MARIE PIRES them. The group was free grapher has been retained While most Riddle stu- to go sightseeing on their to take pictures of every dents were h?,led for home own., student, at about half the over the Christmas Vaca- The Russian trip con- regular studio price. -
Lola T70 Brian Redman 6-14-12
Lola T70 Brian Redman 6-14-12 David Hobbs, Jim Clark, Bruce McLaren. photo courtesy of www.JohnStarkeyCars.com The story of the Lola T70 personifies the talents and ambitions of Eric Broadley, perhaps the most versatile racing car designer/builder of all time. Chairman, chief executive, chief designer, head chef and bottle washer at Lola Cars Ltd., Eric did it all. Myth has it that the name Lola, came from a song in the “Damn Yankees” show – “Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets”. In 1950’s, trained as a quantity surveyor and living in the southern suburbs of London, Eric and his cousin Graham became enthusiastic members of the 750 Motor Club. Remember that in these post-war years there was very little of anything to race with in Great Britain. 750 Motor Club members generally built their own cars, based on the pre-war Austin 7. Amongst motor racing luminaries who were members of this club are such names as, Colin Chapman, Brian Hart, Len Terry, Frank Costin, Len Bailey and the inimitable Major Arthur Mallock – who I raced against in 1968 when everyone had gone to rear engined F2 cars – except for Major Mallock, who drove his own front-engined creation with skill, bravery and great determination. In 1957 Eric and cousin Graham pooled resources and built the Broadley Special. The “Special” featured a sold rear axle, swing axle at the front and a home-tuned version of the Ford 1,172 cc side-valve engine, first produced for the Ford Model C before the war. Quickly successful, Eric must have been smiling quietly, in his own modest way, when he won the major 750 MC Trophy – presented by arch-rival, Colin Chapman! In 1958, Eric was joined by long-time friend, war hero Rob Rushbrook who became works manager and went, first in 1963 to Slough, then in 1970, with Eric to a new workshop in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire where Lola remain today. -
Some Fond Memories of Carl Haas by Gordon Kirby July 11, 2016
The Way It Is/ Some fond memories of Carl Haas by Gordon Kirby July 11, 2016 Carl Haas has passed away after a long illness. Haas, 86, was one of America's most successful race team owners who enjoyed wide influence in his other roles as the country's most prolific race car salesman and chairman for many years of the SCCA's board of governors. He also promoted races at the Milwaukee Mile and sat on Road America's board of directors. Carl owned and operated Newman/Haas Racing from 1983-2011 in partnership with Paul Newman who lost his battle with cancer in 2008. Haas ran the team out of his base in Lincolnshire, Illinois and Newman/Haas is ranked second only to Team Penske on IndyCar's all- time winners list with a record of 107 wins, 109 pole positions and eight championships. Haas's statistics are even more impressive when you add his team's 39 Can-Am and Formula 5000 wins and seven championships from the nineteen-seventies and early eighties. Haas caught the racing bug in 1951 when a friend took him to a road race through the surrounding roads and streets of Elkhart Lake. The race was a forerunner to the creation a few years later of the great Road America road course but that summer day in 1951 caught young Carl's imagination and he was soon racing an MGTD in SCCA club races. © Racemaker/David Hutson "A friend of mine took me to a race at Elkhart Lake," Carl recalled a few years ago. -
AMP Magazine 20-2021
2 2021.20 AMPHOTOSPORTS 2 MAGAZINE 2021.20 FIA WORLD TOURING CAR CUP RACE OF PORTUGAL Seconde manche – ESTORIL 25 au 27 juin REAL CARS REAL RACING Second rendez-vous de la saison pour la Coupe Mondiale des voitures Tourisme sur le Circuit d’Estoril (Portugal) 22 concurrents étaient en piste pour ce premier rendez-vous, Gabriele Tarquini et Norbert Michelisz (BRC Hyundai N LUKOIL Squadra Corse), Esteban Guerrieri et Nestor Girolami (All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport), Attila Tassi et Tiago Monteiro (All-Inkl.de Münnich Motorsport), Jean-Karl Vernay et Luca Engstler (Hyundai N Liqui Moly Racing Team), Tom Coronel et Nathanaël Berthon (Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport), Gilles Magnus et Frédéric Vervisch (Comtoyou Team Audi Sport), Mikel Azcona et Robert Huff (Zengö Motorsport), Jordi Gené et Bence Boldizs (Zengö Motorsport Drivers’ Academy), Thed Björk et Santiago Urrutia (Cyan Performance Lynk & Co), Yvan Muller et Yann Ehrlacher (Cyan Racing Lynk & Co) et Andreas Bäckman et Jessica Bäckman (Target Competition). Aucune Wild Card sur cette manche portugaise. Côté voitures, six Hyundai Elantra (BRC Hyundai N LUKOIL Squadra Corse, Hyundai N Liqui Moly Racing Team et Target Competition), quatre Honda Cicic Type R (All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport et All-Inkl.de Münnich Motorsport), quatre Lynk & Co 03 (Cyan Performance Lynk & Co et Cyan Racing Lynk & Co), quatre Audi RS 3 LMS (Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport et Comtoyou Team Audi Sport) et quatre Cupra Seat Competition (Zengö Motorsport et Zengö Motorsport Drivers’ Academy). Programme Deux séances d’essais libres de 45 (Séance 1) et 30 minutes (Séance 2), les trois rushs qualificatifs (Q1, Q2 et Q3) le samedi et les deux courses sur 13 et 15 tours le dimanche. -
In Print up & Coming
Vol IX, No. 9 St Louis Sports Car Council February 2021 Council News & Notes Up & Coming Okay, okay, quit grousing about 10 Feb 21—International Drive Your Triumph Day, in honor of Sir John Black’s Punxsutawney Phil and batten birthday. Info and photos of previous events at https:// down for a few more weeks of driveyourtriumphday.shutterfly.com/, along with instructions on mailing photos of winter. As this issue goes to you and your Triumph to the event organizer at [email protected]. press it’s about to get really cold (well, not North Dakota or 21 Feb 21—Annual Polar Bear Run. SLTOA’s traditional first drive of the year; Yoop cold) and there is snow meet at the Weldon Spring commuter/car pool lot (I-64 and MO 94) for a delightful on the forecast but be of good drive through St Charles and Warren Counties to Cedar Lake Cellars/Wine Country cheer. Café (11008 Schreckengast Rd, Wright City). Meet at the commuter lot at 9:30 or thereabouts, drivers meeting at 9:45 AM, cars roll at 10 AM. Monitor www.sltoa.org While this will undoubtedly for more details and any late-breaking news. qualify as the slimmest edition of the Relay this year, take a 21 Feb 21—St Louis Region SCCA Rallycross Event No. 1, 50 Big Bend Rd, look to the right: the calendar Granite City, 7 AM-3 PM. More to follow, keep an eye on https:// has once again started filling www.roadracing.stlscca.org/region-calendar/. out. Clubs are scheduling 27 Feb 21—Jaguar Association of Greater St Louis Pandemic Safe Spelunking & drives and both the St Louis Wine Country Tour. -
Tamiya Plastic Model Co
^c^-j|-__is;g^^; / —n ii / IF^^I T^"^ /; i l!_j-'. ri__rL-- x— SUPER DETAILED CHEVROLET V-8 ENGINE LOL-H^> IDENTICAL AREALISTI TC ACTION OF FRON TTO & REAR SUSPENSION M HITAMIYEA Wldth-H52mm STEERABLE FRONT WHEELS TAMIYA PLASTIC MODEL CO. 1- I^SCALE Height—83mm SEMI PNEUMATIC RUBBER LIKE TIRES SCALE 3-70NDAWARA,SMZUOKA-CITY,JAF*N. ITEM 12015 0197 LOLATTOMKIH First Victory; changed from an open-top to the closed-top type On February 2nd 1969 at 3pm the Daytona 24- with a half-circle roof in compliance with FIA hour race, the first of the 1969 Manufacturer's regulations. Lola's solid twin-tube monocoque Championship races, came to an end. The win- chassis was used. A light metal tube of a box- ner was the privately entered Lola T70MkIHB, like cross-section with a built-in fuel tank was driven by Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons. fixed on both sides of cockpit. The twin-tube This result was completely unpredicted, partic- itself was connected to and fastened by four ularly as the works Porsche team had entered bulkheads situated respectively at the front no less than five 908s. Two Ford GT 40s were suspension, the Dashboard, the rear of the cockpit also entered and these seven ears were clear and at the rear suspension sections. It also had favourites for at least the first six places; the all round independent suspension. The front sus- Fords more so, in view of their having been pension was a double wishbone type using a COL- the top car the year before, spring with a built-in damper with a torsion-bar As for the Lola, it was questionable whether it stabilizer. -
Life and Death of Riverside International Raceway Part 2
The Second of a Two-Part Article In Part 1 of our two-part article, we covered For more than three decades, the world-famous Riverside the early years of Riverside: The building of the course, struggles to attract popular racing Raceway fought the elements, politics, a Superspeedway series and the people, fans and events that etched character into the Southern California competitor and economic downturns. In the end, it road course through the 1970 season. In this, the final installment, we pick up in the early succumbed to housing development and a shopping mall. 1970s and wind through the stories that shaped the making and, ultimately, the demise of Riverside Raceway. ince its inception in 1957, Riverside had struggled hard just to survive. By the late 1960s, thanks Sin large part to a strong management team led by Les Richter, not only had Riverside survived, but the track was thriving. However, as the 1970s dawned, motorsports entered a rocky period. As a result of the fading performance car market and in the face of fierce competition from foreign carmakers, U.S. automotive manufacturer support of motorsports dwindled. At the end of the 1970 season, Ford announced it was ending its racing program. Other Detroit manufacturers soon followed suit. This pull-back dramatically affected those racing series that relied heavily on manufacturer support, most notably SCCA’s Trans- Am Series that had exploded in popularity as a result of the pony car market’s success. The Ontario Effect Ontario Motor Speedway splashed onto the racing scene in the late ’60s with a reported $25.5 million invested into a state-of-the-art facility that was built about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, only 15 miles from Riverside. -
DAS Schnauferlveranstaltungen OFFIZIELLES MAGAZIN DES ALLGEMEINEN SCHNAUFERL- CLUB E
DAS SCHNAUFERLVeranstaltungen OFFIZIELLES MAGAZIN DES ALLGEMEINEN SCHNAUFERL- CLUB E. V. (ASC) GEGRÜNDET 1900 Ausgabe 02/2013 Ältestes Autler-Magazin Deutschlands seit 1901 www.asc-schnauferlclub.com MHV Gesamtclub in Wolfsburg Ausstellungsberichte Bremen und Stuttgart Erst verlacht, dann geachtet: Formel V Termine mit historischem Hintergrund Inhalt Vorwort Veranstaltungen Behandeln Sie Ihren Oldtimer wie Ihre Liebste Liebe Schnauferldamen, Mit Original-Teilen von Mercedes-Benz Classic liebe Schnauferlbrüder, Titelbild: Wir bieten Ihnen über 50.000 Original-Teile für nahezu jede klassische Baureihe. Und sollte 1 bei der Mitglieder-Hauptversammlung und den beiden doch mal ein Teil fehlen, fertigen wir es für Sie nach: mit der Sorgfalt und Leidenschaft, Präsidiumssitzungen des engeren und erweiterten Krei- Nach Ihnen, königliche wie wir es damals schon gebaut haben. Ihr Mercedes-Benz Partner hilft Ihnen gerne weiter. ses sind wieder einige Entscheidungen für die Zukunft Hoheit! Prinz Leopold Weitere Informationen unter www.mercedes-benz-classic.com von Bayern führt die des ASC getroffen worden. Ab sofort haben wir einen Karawane anlässlich Beauftragten für die Geschichte und die Interessen der der Formel- Vau- Messingautos, also der Klassen A und B. Die Kompetenz Demonstration in unseres Clubs gerade auf diesem Gebiet, ist sicherlich Daytona an. unumstritten, aber wir müssen mehr dafür tun, um diese Bild: VW Kompetenz auch zu demonstrieren und zu zeigen, dass man bei diesem Thema um den Allgemeinen Schnauferl- Außerdem in dieser Ausgabe: Club nicht herum kommt. Mit Wolfgang Presinger aus der Traditionsgruppe, haben wir einstimmig einen Schnau- 4 Mitglieder-Hauptversammlung ferlbruder gewählt, der künftig die Interessen dieser Zeitepoche vertritt, uns Vorschläge des Gesamtclubs in Wolfsburg macht und auch nach außen wirkt. -
12 Hours of Sebring 1970
12 Hours of Sebring 1970 50th Anniversary Edition Text and photographs by Harry Hurst 1 Foreword by Mario Andretti “...the 1970 race will long be remembered as one of the most exciting endurance races ever.” – Ken Breslauer The Official Sebring Record Book 2 3 12 Hours of Sebring 1970 Published by: Hurst Communications Inc. The story of one race and the cars and drivers that made it great. 2138 Lombard St. Suite 4A Philadelphia, Pa., 19146 50th Anniversary Edition 610-725-9600 www.GloryDaysOfRacing.com ©2004, 2020 Hurst Communications Inc. Text and photos by All photos ©1970, 2020 Harry E. Hurst Harry Hurst No text or photos in this publication may be excerpted, copied or reproduced without the permission of Hurst Communications Inc. Second Edition, 2020 Library of Congress Control Number: 2004105960 ISBN 0-9754787-0-2 With comments by Mario Andretti, Dan Gurney, Brian Redman Vic Elford, Sam Posey, Bobby Rahal, and others who were there. 4 5 The review came out in early November, 2004, and by Christmas we Preface to the Second Edition. had paid the substantial printing bill for all of the books. Sixteen years ago, when we first decided to self-publish12 Hours of I was fortunate through this book to meet many other fans of these Sebring 1970, we had a pretty good idea of how risky that would be. I “Glory Days of Racing.” Many had been at this race and shared their had been told by one of the largest automotive publishers that this was experiences, driving all night from hundreds of miles away to attend. -
RESULTS of the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona, Daytona International Speedway, January 31-February 1, 1970 Pos
RESULTS of the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona, Daytona International Speedway, January 31-February 1, 1970 Pos. Driver Car Entrant Laps Position / Class Practice 1. Pedro Rodriquez Porsche 917K John Wyer Automotive 724 1. Sports 3. 1:55.800 Leo Kinnunen Brian Redman 2. Jo Siffert Porsche 917K John Wyer Automotive 679 2. Sports 2. 1:52.900 Brian Redman 3. Mario Andretti Ferrari 512S Spa Ferrari SEFAC 676 3. Sports 1. 1:51.600 Arturao Merzario Jacky Ickx 4. Sam Posey Ferrari 312P Coupe North American Racing Team 647 1. Prototype 9. 2:02.400 Mike Parkes 5. Tony Adamowicz Ferrari 312P Coupe North American Racing Team 632 2. Prototype 13. 2:06.000 David Piper 6. Jerry Thompson Chevrolet Corvete Ownes-Corning Fiberglass 608 1. GT+2.0 11. 2:04.600 John Mahler 7. Gregg Young Ferrari 250LM North American Racing Team 603 4. Sports 44. 2:26.700 Luigi Chinetti 8. William Wonder Ford GT40 William Wonder 579 5. Sports 41. 2:24.700 Ray Cuomo 9. Gregg Loomis Porsche 906LE Gregg Loomis 573 3. Prototype 43. 2:26.600 Bert Everett Pete Harrison (DNS) 10. Francois Cevert Matra-Simca MS650 Equipe Matra Simca 565 4. Prototype 7. 1:58.700 Jack Brabham 11. Cliff Gottlob Chevrolet Corvette Cliff Gottlob 545 2. GT+2.0 34. 2:09.300 Dave Dooley 12. Bob Mitchel Chevrolet Camaro Bob Mitchel 535 1. T+2.0 29. 2:15.700 Charlie Kemp 13. Tony DeLorenzo Chevrolet Corvette Owens-Corning Fiberglass 534 3. GT+2.0 20. 2:08.500 Dick Lang 14.