Pole position: Hemmes/Vermeulen/Vermeulen in 4.25,1 Fastest lap: Cudini in 4.25,90 = 191,169 kmh in second gear and was never a contestant for the lead thereafter. 3 body panels, dominated the fastest ten positions in practice behind the Camaro, seven out of the top ten times falling their way.
All that for 10% of the price of a CSL with the same history. Ends in:
Olivier Peltier 6,513 views. Sadly that Capri lasted only a few more hours before the apparently then-healthy engine tightened up, doing itself a power of no good before the driver could switch off.At 9.15 Spice had a tyre blow out when “I must have been doing 150 m.p.h.” Luckily Gordon kept the steering straight and the car’s suspension was not damaged but he still lost their lead (to Wisell/Bourgoignie) and nearly six minutes in the pits. Spice is a great one for such challenges, and the stocky little driver really charged round the magnificent Ardennes roads to appear on the next tour just 1.4 sec. Ends in: Ends in: Ends in: Ends in: Ends in: Ends in:
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in reasonable safety, these V6s were hitched (in the ease of the front runners) to a new 2.84-to-1 final drive. However the Chevrolet did set fastest lap at an average 121.95 m.p.h. Ends in: Ends in:
Ends in: Ends in: Ends in: It really was a colourful parade and with TV coverage and international prestige at stake the train of red, white, yellow, green and black saloons linked for positions as they thundered downhill toward Burnenville.Spice’s machine held on in front, the cars peeling off into the long righthander like an enormous squadron of fighter planes, many literally skipping into flight over the bumps. Ends in:
It…I went one dull November day to the Lygon Arms, Broadway, that Cotswold show-village which constitutes an American pilgrimage in the summer, this being a popular place for new-eat previews.…Not the famous author but his two sons. Ends in: The gap was just 48 sec. Ends in: Ends in: Ends in: Next year they may not be able to hold the event at all while the circuit alterations are under way, but I expect I will make the pilgrimage to see the site of the World’s fastest and most challenging saloon car race, wiping back a tear for “progress” but remembering with respect toll that the race has taken in the past. Ends in: Ends in:
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The Spa 24 Hours was conceived by Jules de Their and Henri Langlois Van Ophem … Ends in:
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