Photos: The Walt Etten Collection - Part 2

[Steve Holmes]

Here is the Ferrari again, now with no nose-cone at all.

[seaqnmac27]

Here is the Ferrari again, now with no nose-cone at all.

Just flicked through the report in the 1973/4 Autocourse. Merzario had an accident in Qualifying destroying the original nosecone for the car, also hitting his head on the steering wheel and knocking himself unconscious for several minutes, then again, on the second lap he went into the catch fencing destroying the second nosecone and Ferrari had not brought a third nosecone hence running the rest o the race without one and with very bad understeer.

[Steve Holmes]

Just flicked through the report in the 1973/4 Autocourse. Merzario had an accident in Qualifying destroying the original nosecone for the car, also hitting his head on the steering wheel and knocking himself unconscious for several minutes, then again, on the second lap he went into the catch fencing destroying the second nosecone and Ferrari had not brought a third nosecone hence running the rest o the race without one and with very bad understeer.

Thats brilliant Sean, thanks heaps. So re the photos shown earlier of the car with what appears to be a flat board attached to the nose, do you know when this was? Was it after losing both nose cones?