THIS PERFORMANCE 4.4 ROVER - LEYLAND ENGINE WAS BUILT BY ROBINSON
A small McRae tribute, some of the GM cars running in current F5000 historic racing.
OK it is a Talon, but GM2 design.
GM9 Can-Am
A Begg Tribute, the F5000 cars built by George Begg and Fred McLean.
FM2
FM4
FM5
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WOW Great selection
Do we have the best F5000 racing in the world today? I reckon we do
Wow! Some great posts guys.
Anyone got anything on the Ford powered Formula 5000's?
From memory, Chris Amon drove a Lotus with a Boss 302.
Allan Moffat may have briefly too?
It's a shame they were'nt allowed to run the Weslake Fords.......
Outstanding Nigel, as always.
The Forsigrini??--- think thats right spelling was out here with Boss 302 in the day, unusual car, IIRC it did not have antiroll bars. Yes the Weslakes might have helped with a wider torque band, but a set of 1971 AFR 185's would have been betterOriginally Posted by nzboss
How does that song that Cher sang go....If I could wind back time.....
Thanks guys, beautiful images of a fantastic class of racing cars. Great to see the evolution of the Begg cars although no sign of the old yellow FM1 slab which started George's F5000 creations.
I wonder what happened to the FM1s, I think there were 2 built, Geoff Mardon and Graham McRae drove the first one, and the one I remember as yellow was for Pierre Phillips. The Klopfer book lists them as FM2s. I thought the Doyle car was the FM2, and is the car pictured up above. Maybe I am dreaming as it is possible one of the smaller engined cars was FM1.
Here is a poor photo of the debut of the first FM1(2), still unpainted, that Graham McRae drove at Pukekohe for the first 69/70 Gold Star round, I think he was 5th.
FA Debut at BayPark. December 1968.
Early NZ F5000.
Some overseas car after arrival for the 1971 Tasman.
While I enjoyed the cars, and some of the racing of F5000 back in the day, I think today's historic F5000 scene is probably more competitive.
I tend to agree Gavin. Sometimes we look back on history through rose-tinted glasses. F5000 often produced drawn out races where the chronic unreliability of the cars was often the only uncertainty to the final results. But because the cars were so charismatic, they were often forgiven for many of their downfalls. But seeing an F5000 man-handled at 10/10ths by the likes of Kevin Bartlett or Graham McRea was something special.
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