Howden Ganley in the Iso Marlboro.
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.
That is a repair job after losing the second nosecone. This is from the actual report.
" Merzario had had another shunt, going off through catch fencing on only the second lap of the race and setroying the second and last nosepiece brought by the team; he had to carry on with bare chassis with giant understeer until a hasty addition of a metal plate gave him medium understeer."
Ahh, brilliant, thanks Sean. So essentially they brought him in during the race to try and provide some front downforce with that metal plank. I was trying to figure out the order in which things happened.
Ferrari at rock bottom...a butt ugly car and Arturo Merzario as chaffeur
Not Canada 73, but check out the car control, this is actually the full race, France 73, so its just over 2 hrs
Thanks heaps Sean, I'll watch that race on my tablet tonight.
Last two pics from this chapter. My thanks again to Walt Etten and Bryan Colechin for these great images.