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Harpo

They implemented a budget cap, at last. But they've gone too far, may be... https://i-h1.pinimg.com/564x/18/0e/dd/180edd765d6efb3bf2e4cbbade1c4813.jpg From https://i-h1.pinimg.com And... John Surtees - Honda RA 273 - Kyalami 1967. https://i.redd.it/bxw10solcya11.jpg From https://i.redd.it With Jack ...

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The number 12 Surtees pic - Cooper Maserati - British GP 1966 - John Surtees leading his team mate Jochen Rindt https://i.pinimg.com/564x/81/8d/34/818d344b27d7c6540453406829cf3717.jpg From https://i.pinimg.com Porsche 908-3 - Targa Florio 1970 - Racing drivers safety provided by Human Parapet® - Jo ...

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Talk about asking for it... "Black Cat" number 13 http://r.hswstatic.com/w_907/gif/10-superstitions-from-the-world-of-motor-racing-7.jpg From http://r.hswstatic.com The reason why there were no number 13 on racing cars in races organized in France for tens of years (and for a long time only even num...

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Day 14 - It's Surtees Day (one of many as long as I'm concerned... but today just because of the number of pics) Honda - Monza 1967 - Beating Brabham on the line. https://www.formulapassion.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Surtees-GP-Italia-1967-Honda.jpg Monza 1967 - I already said it, but I love thos...

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http://s3.amazonaws.com/scardigest/wp-content/uploads/28-Daytona1967-Start-2.jpg From http://s3.amazonaws.com I love this angle! :thumbup: Four of the most beautiful and remarkable cars in sports car racing history in that pic... The Chaparral, Ford GT, Ferrari P3, and towards the back a Porsche 90...

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Have to do it since Harpo has not yet today. John Surtees in a Honda, 1968. A great picture. You should have looked closer... It was a "Where-is-Surtees-in-the-picture-?" kind of pic, with the same car at the same race (France GP 1968). Back to today's number 15 Renault RS 10 - Dijon 1979 - The man...

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Jenson's Understeer wrote:Well Norris just did a 1:17:084, so in terms of pure lap time we're already beneath anything that was achieved in the 2018 tests.

McLaren are glad they didn't chuck Norris

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Briggs Cunningham Team Jaguar E "Lightweight" - Le Mans 1963 Before the race... and before the end of the race https://i2.wp.com/s3.amazonaws.com/scardigest/wp-content/uploads/20170511140510/1963LeMans_Garage_%C2%A9GPLibrary.jpg?w=1136&h=741&crop From https://i2.wp.com/s3.amazonaws.com http://i1.wp....

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Mort Canard wrote:[
Jackie Oliver at Monaco in the 1974 Shadow Ford Cosworth
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Mr Canard,
This is 1973. You can't have number 17 for 2 different drivers. For the 1974 Shadow number 17, see upstairs...

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Shadow DN3 (in the perfect original plain black livery) - Jarier at Monaco - 1974 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/81/e1/db81e1e25dd0478f2f31516783fa1c4e.jpg From https://i.pinimg.com The Ferrari works team at Sebring - 1956 - In front of what ? Unfinished pit stands ? https://i.pinimg.com/original...

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Sorry, I forgot posting my Surtees tribute pic this morning...
Ferrari 158 - Monaco 1965

From https://i.pinimg.com

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Another Maserati - 4CLT (quite the same car as prewar 4CL) - Villoresi winning the first British GP at Silverstone in 1948... These prewar and immediate postwar race cars were really big. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/luigi-villoresi-winning-the-british-grand-prix-silverstone-october-picture-...

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19... Another oldie. Maserati 250 F of the Team Louis Rosier (the man who won Le Mans driving all the time but half an hour). Not sure this is a genuine colour photo - rather a coloured black and white - the blue of the car being more Scottish than French. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/21/a7/9d/21a79da6...

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If the B teams ever close-up, and not discussing the comparative quality of the teams line-up, I don't see Toro Rosso being allowed to compete with Verstappen's pampered craddle, nor Alfa Romeo being allowed to do the same with Vettel's one. Apart from Renault, that has an history of not protecting ...

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Ferrari Dino 146 - Gendebien - Spa 1958

From https://www.formula1.com

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So... Surtees again - Cooper, Monaco 1961 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/fa/64/ecfa64680897b20f4a207618eb61c296.jpg From https://i.pinimg.com Lotus 49 - Siffert (one of my own "Alltimegreat") - British GP, Brands Hatch 1968, the last victory of a customer team... http://img12.deviantart.net/6ef4/...

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A question for the encyclopedists keeping their files up to date. When was the last time we saw midfield and "bottomfield" teams from the previous years (and rookie drivers) mix up with the top teams during the pre-season test ? Even considering it's just tests and players don't show their cards. P...

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A question for the encyclopedists keeping their files up to date. When was the last time we saw midfield and "bottomfield" teams from the previous years (and rookie drivers) mix up with the top teams during the pre-season test ? Even considering it's just tests and players don't show their cards.

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(I just recounted the countdown to Friday, March 15, 2019 as the very first day of F1 this season in Melbourne, and it's actually only 22 days to go) 22 days to go... Well, unlike your day (Ha Ha), I'll stick to number 23 because... It's the Year of the Pig, and we can't miss the fastest piggy on e...

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A beauty, 1967 Ferrari. I think it's fake but too nice to skip. https://thenewswheel.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1967-Ferrari-330-P4.jpg source: https://thenewswheel.com/assetto-corsa-launches-ferrari-70th-anniversary-dlc-including-2017-f1-car/ The P4 number 24 with the yellow stripe is the Ferr...

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Tazio Nuvolari's Alfa Romeo of the Scuderia Ferrari - 1936 Hungary GP at Budapest https://www.formulapassion.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/GP-Ungheria-1936-Box-Scuderia-Ferrari-Alfa-Romeo-Nuvolari.jpg From https://www.formulapassion.it Il Mantovano Volante in a previous Alfa Romeo - 1932 Italy GP ht...

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A beautiful Lotus https://cdn-5.motorsport.com/static/img/mgl/1200000/1260000/1263000/1263000/1263020/s8/vintage-gp-masters-spa-2011-25-andy-middlehurst-lotus-25.jpg source: motorsport.com Here's the one... Where's the number 25 ? Not on the car but in it - Jim Clark's Lotus 25 - Monaco https://pri...

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Edit: What was the thinking behind those tall intake boxes on the Ligier and Embassy? It was not due to any bright "thinking" but, just like nowadays, bright "regulation". The Ligier and its "Smurf" intake was designed by the aerodynamicist who designed the Matra 640... Here's the start of the 1975...

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Stroll will win in Bakou...
Ricciardo somewhere else.

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Another of my all time "most beautiful" racing cars - Ferrari 250 GTO - Sebring 1963 http://www.racingsportscars.com/wm/photo/1963/WM_Sebring-1963-03-23-026a.jpg?dir=photo/1963&img=Sebring-1963-03-23-026a.jpg&txt=%c2%a9%20www.maranello-literature.com&wi=&mode=Null From http://www.racingsportscars.com

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Proof, if needed, that graphic design is a profession that requires true craftmanship.
Or the job was done by a bad professional, or it was done by the child of the accountant to save a handful of pennies.

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Ferrari 250 P - John Surtees - 1963 Sebring 12 hours (which he won with Ludovico Scarfiotti)

From https://i.pinimg.com

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It will be hard to do fast pit stops if they have to change the design colour each time to match Pirelli's tyres mark...

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Jim Clark's first open wheel Lotus - Formula Junior http://www.historicracingtechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/1960-Jim-Clark-Formula-Junior.jpg From http://www.historicracingtechnology.com And Gurney's Eagle Indycar 1966 - The older (and bigger...) sister of the beautiful 1967 Eagle F1 http...

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If they really want to be something else and "lead the way" again, they should go for hydrogen, which is the real future. Instead of electricty that is considered as the solution of today's problem, but creates the ones of tomorrow. Be sure they won't do it. By the way, I totally share the point of ...

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Fangio - Maserati - Monaco 1957 - With Collins (26) and Hawthorn (28) Ferrari and Moss (18) Vanwall http://montres.lepoint.fr/images/2013/05/25/1503346-monaco-1957-jpg_1386063.jpg From http://montres.lepoint.fr Later that day, passing the Ferrari that Hawthorn and Collins had crashed thanks to Moss ...

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Gorgeous Harpo! Thank you very much! I wonder how close this colour photograph is to the true colour; it is a far more rich kind of yellow than I seem to remember from film footage. I was very fond of the Renault team's 2016 "Belgian racing yellow". Lovely! Right, the Belgian yellow is less dense, ...

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One for Fiki - Ferrari 500 F2 of Écurie Francorchamps - 1952

From https://i.pinimg.com

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They could have taken their inspiration from the Walter Wolf car (which was more graphic than the JPS Lotus).

Edited to add a photo...

From http://www.portableroadways.com

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The one we can't miss - Gurney's Eagle at Spa 1967 -One of the most beautiful F1 ever... And we can see why Eau Rouge is called "Le Raidillon" (steep path) https://revsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Gurney-in-story-images0009.jpg From https://revsinstitute.org The Ferrari garage at Sebring...

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ALFA was born in 1909 when Italians bought a French car factory set in Milan (Darracq)... Mr Romeo, an ingineer, came in just the next year, and they started racing as soon as 1911 (at the Targa Florio).

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Lovely pictures Harpo! I still wonder whether that sharknose had any purpose, or whether it was just very stylish to look at. Looking at the profile of the car, all we can say is it doesn' hurt the aerodynamics... now the 62 and 63 endurance 250 P had the same 2 nostrils (though wider - and almost ...

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Von Trips' Ferrari at Monaco - 1958 (Dino 246 2l) and 1961 ("Sharknose") https://orig09.deviantart.net/dacb/f/2012/243/e/b/wolfgang_von_trips__monaco_1958__by_f1_history-d5d2hmo.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6c/10/fe/6c10fee9858f0335f3b741b45e4802a2--monaco-ab.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/43/b...

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Healey SR - Le Mans 1968 http://www.carsceneinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SR1968-47-3small-Le-Mans-pits-John-Harris.jpg From http://www.carsceneinternational.com One for today evening, one for tomorrow morning - Ferrari 512 BB - Le Mans 1981 http://oi42.tinypic.com/2076e0g.jpg From ht...

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Ferrari 312 - Brands Hatch 1971

From https://endurancenostalgia

And a Matra 650 - Brands Hatch 1970 - Jack Brabham

From https://i.pinimg.com

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