[WIP] 70's Formula 1
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Looking forward to this engine, seems fine so farI have started a Offenhauser Engine....
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Round 3 today, Imola 1986, maybe someone will join the Race?
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Oh the GLORIOUS Offy! (didn't that start out as a tractor engine?) and (be still my beating heart) is that the Vels-Parnelli X-Wing????
(Sorry Chief, I've been offline for months, totally missed that!)
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jump in a Guest Car an join us, next Race is the Österreichring
https://simracers.de/race-details/f170-master-oesterreichring.html
The Österreichring is up there with the old Spa-Francorchamps as one of the world’s great race tracks left behind by a changing world said John Watson
The new Red Bull Ring is a nice track but when you compare it to the old layout it is nothing. The old track was very fast, every corner was a fast sweeper and was taken in no lower than third gear in a five-speed gearbox and fourth in a six-speed gearbox. It had noticeable changes in elevation during the course of a lap. But the track was getting too fast and dangerous in the mid-1980s. By 1986 when turbos pushed Formula One engine power to upwards of 1,400 bhp (1,044 kW; 1,419 PS) in qualifying, saw Derek Warwick speed trapped at 344 km/h (214 mph) in his BMW powered Brabham BT55 on the run to the Bosch Kurve. in 1987 pole-sitter Nelson Piquet's time for the 5.942 km of 1:23.357 set an average speed record for the circuit of 256.621 km/h.
After Risto lost his engine and Olliver won the last race it will be a great track to push Risto a little more.
It is an amazing track for our F11970 Cars.
New drivers are always welcome.
https://simracers.de/race-details/f170-master-oesterreichring.html
The Österreichring is up there with the old Spa-Francorchamps as one of the world’s great race tracks left behind by a changing world said John Watson
The new Red Bull Ring is a nice track but when you compare it to the old layout it is nothing. The old track was very fast, every corner was a fast sweeper and was taken in no lower than third gear in a five-speed gearbox and fourth in a six-speed gearbox. It had noticeable changes in elevation during the course of a lap. But the track was getting too fast and dangerous in the mid-1980s. By 1986 when turbos pushed Formula One engine power to upwards of 1,400 bhp (1,044 kW; 1,419 PS) in qualifying, saw Derek Warwick speed trapped at 344 km/h (214 mph) in his BMW powered Brabham BT55 on the run to the Bosch Kurve. in 1987 pole-sitter Nelson Piquet's time for the 5.942 km of 1:23.357 set an average speed record for the circuit of 256.621 km/h.
After Risto lost his engine and Olliver won the last race it will be a great track to push Risto a little more.
It is an amazing track for our F11970 Cars.
New drivers are always welcome.
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That Offy was looking really good....I have started a Offenhauser Engine....
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looks very awesome Andy
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Wrong category, but didn't you sneak the 1972 Vels-Parnelli VPJ-1 Indycar in one of these threads?
Sure would be fun to see it... I'm not sure they ever raced the car in this configuration..at the Indy 500 they took off the angled wings and used a large, large rear wing. Driver's never trusted the angled wings...3 big named drivers Mario, Al Unser Sr, & Joe Leonard. (well known to early '70's racing fans in the States that is) I can't remember if those slots in the angled wings were for more cooling or a 2nd downforce channel. Looks like 3 distinct configurations.
Sure would be fun to see it... I'm not sure they ever raced the car in this configuration..at the Indy 500 they took off the angled wings and used a large, large rear wing. Driver's never trusted the angled wings...3 big named drivers Mario, Al Unser Sr, & Joe Leonard. (well known to early '70's racing fans in the States that is) I can't remember if those slots in the angled wings were for more cooling or a 2nd downforce channel. Looks like 3 distinct configurations.
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