Posted on 05/04/2009 3:41:04 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
You know, I don’t know the Ferrari team colors. I’ve been involved with Porsche racing, both current and classic, but never Italian.
(Although I LOVE Ferrari engines sounds. After the sounds of an air-cooled flat-6, it’s my favorite.)
If somebody did that with a Mercedes 450SEL 6.9, I’m even more impressed. That’s a pretty damn big car to be getting hauled through some of those corners.
If nothing else, just getting to sit and listen to 7+ minutes of overdubbed Ferrari 275GTB sound was worth it. There is nothing in the world that sounds like a Ferrari.
}:-)4
Rally drivers are NUTS. Guys like Loeb are not only amazing drivers with uncanny reflexes but they’ve got brass cojones to do what they do. Four-wheel drifting through a corner on a one-lane dirt track in the middle of some Scandinavian nowhere at 100+ mph...insanity.
Of course, compared to the old Group B Audis and cars of the mid-1980s, the new Subarus and Mitsubishis and Citroens are puny. Group B cars were brutal.
}:-)4
Someone I know had some minor interactions with (Reinhold) Joset Racing. A distant distant relative won LeMans 3 times and the 24 hours of Daytona 5 times. He is a Porsche guy though I never met him.
I recall hearing the flat air cooled with Al Holbert in the 962 before he died. Saw him at Miami GP on the streets of Miami. The Prosche would whistle around the track.
I also remember the sad crashes of Bellhof 956 and Winkelhock 962C. Bellhof was battling Ickx 962c at Eau Rouge at Spa. Two F1 cars going through Eau Rouge or even one car is dangerous. Saw LeMans multiple times with the Gulf 917’s and Ferrari 512m drool.
Ferrari had red for national colors, yellow Belgium, blue for North America and probably others.
One of my favorite 917’s is the 917K that won the 1970s LeMans. The K is a kurz or short tailed 917. The lead driver Richard Atwood said it was a smaller engined 917 with a 4.5 L engine versus the other 4.9 L and was slower that the others. The little car and smaller engine was more reliable. The 4.9 litre cars were the L’s or long-tailed optimized for the long Muslane (sp?) straight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porsche_917C.jpg
I think the red is the Austrian national colors and this was the Salzburg team. As you know the Porsche’s are Austrians. Did you follow how Porsche smacked down the hedge funds for $8 billion in a short sqeeze in the takeover of VW? I guess the Porsche family wanted the company back that the old man started.
I have been to the BMW museum but want to go to Stuttgart to the Porsche museum someday.
A great history with two great old men in Ferrari and Porsche. Old Enzo was not the most loveable character but he built an amazing company and cars. The sound of the engines is incredible.
Loeb is amazing and also a good guy. The rally guys like Loeb, Grunholm (retired), Sainz and others are pretty down to earth.
The big factory cars were banned after Finn Henri Tovinen’s horrifying crash.
The cars are still incredibly dangerous. The jumps at the summer Finn rally and the arctic rally in Norway are incredible.
Speaking of horse races, how about that little $9,500 horse trailered behind a pickup from NM?
Did the Pink Floyd boys David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason did the documentary about the PanaAmerica. They both drove and were big Ferrari collectors. Mason still has a big collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6iCt21KP2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrZIm8RBEqE&feature=related
Skid mark
He probably got nailed because of one of those fascist commie red light cameras. /sarc
Very cool. I wonder if the wankers on “Top Gear” have the stones to do that, much less do it.
Thanks.
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