As a generalisation, they looked better than they went.
Anyone else here there over the weekend?
I understand what you mean. I think 18 were entered, 12 made qualifying and 4 finished the Lady Wigram Trophy race....Originally Posted by Michael Clark
Yikes, really? 4 finishers? Its interesting, in period they were pretty reliable, unlike F5000 cars which were chronically unreliable. F5000s in historic racing are now pretty well bullet proof.
By the way, great pics Homer, thanks for posting.
No problem Steve, the quality is a bit poor..iphone camera. Just out of curiosity, how do historic racecars get away with cigarette advertising?
I'd been asked if I might like to help with the commentary of the Trophy race last Sunday - I was happy to help because a mate had asked me but wasn't especially fussed after what we'd seen previously over the weekend. When I arrived at the comm box, other arrangements had been made - which suited me perfectly at the time, and as things developed in the race, I was delighted not to be in front of the microphone.
They dropped like flies - a couple puttered around at quarter speed for a few laps, sounding awful before expiring. I don't know if the issues followed a general theme and frankly lost interest in trying to understand if it was a failure of BDDs, Toyotas or something else.
It was a farce - this is to take nothing away from Kenny's win. He'd been dominant all weekend and was the deserving winner. Another highlight was the Andrew Higgins Reynard decked out in a James Hunt/Hesketh livery - brilliant.
I'm no expert, but I recall a degree of unreliability stemmed from the total loss electrical system that some of the cars ran, way back when. I'm sure someoene more qualified than I can shed some light on the subject.
Yes we ran a luminition ignition system on the BBD and spent alot of time changing ignition boxs, come to think of it spent alot of time changing engines too.
If a car was sponsored by a cigarette company in period, its allowed to wear that livery today. There have been some exceptions, I seem to recall a few years ago some old Holden Dealer Team cars doing demonstration laps at either Bathurst or another event, had to cover up the Marlboro lettering. Quite ridiculous really.
As I understand it, they can run in livery for NATIONAL meetings, but not for INTERNATIONAL meetings, eg Bathurst or Austrailian Grand Prix.
The bluring out of the tobacco sponsors on OLD footage shown on Bathurst tv coverage in recent times is complete b#llsh!t as far as I am concerned.
It is so pleasant to see the Winfield and Peter Jackson names on the works Nissans this weekend at Sandown...even though the weather is wintery and not what I came prepared for...but that's another thread.
I thought I might upload a few more Formula Pacific photos from my collection that I have been working on recently. This lot was taken at Manfield and most of these shots have never been printed previously.
Hope they bring back a few memories.
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As single seaters are not my forte, glancing through my own pics I find it extremely difficult to know what formula any car raced in, without consulting a race programme! I can generally recognise a FF and usually a FJ, even a Formula Vee, usually a F5000, but from the 1970's onwards, it all gets rather blurred. I may have one or two representative pics, but I'd hesitate to post them for fear of wrongly categorising them.
Therein lies the problem for me, with much of today's motorsport formulae.
Great shots Ross
Wow, brilliant photos Ross, thanks for sharing!
How can he see where he is going? The cockpit sides on this car are very tall.
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