Monterey Historics Vintage Race

BfoxBfox Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
edited August 24, 2006 in Sports
One of the best Vintage race weekends in the world.
A wonderful event with all kinds of vintage cars.
This year featured demonstration laps by Riccardo Zonta in a current Toyota F1 car. Riccardo easily broke the previous lap record on his first hot lap.

C&C welcome....
-Brad


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Ricardo lifts the inside wheel in the corkscrew
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Historic F1 cars
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1971Tyrell 004
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Assembled McLarens
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1975 BMW 3.5 CSL
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business end of the Toyota F1
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1965 Genie Mk 10B
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Andrew Cannon in his '56 Maserati 250S
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More here:
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=206687

Comments

  • DaddioDaddio Registered Users Posts: 65 Big grins
    edited August 24, 2006
    Wow...beautiful stuff.

    I'm no Laguna expert, but I can't remember seeing a car lifting its front wheel coming down the corkscrew before. eek7.gif Motorcycles, sure, but wow...he must have really hit the gas hard there. Any larger wing on the front and he'd have taken off. rolleyes1.gif
  • BfoxBfox Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
    edited August 24, 2006
    Daddio wrote:
    Wow...beautiful stuff.

    I'm no Laguna expert, but I can't remember seeing a car lifting its front wheel coming down the corkscrew before. eek7.gif Motorcycles, sure, but wow...he must have really hit the gas hard there. Any larger wing on the front and he'd have taken off. rolleyes1.gif

    Thanks.
    Yeah, he was pushing pretty hard.
    Quite a few cars will lift their wheels at that point, but quite as much as this!
    The F1 cars are amazing. Super loud too. It was great to see a modern F1 car in person, as I have not been to an F1 race in about 20 years.
    -B
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited August 24, 2006
    wow! the group shots of the vintage f1 cars are awesome thumb.gif

    and one of my most favorite cars, ever:

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    Since 2004...
  • HarveyMushmanHarveyMushman Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2006
    Daddio wrote:
    Wow...beautiful stuff.

    I'm no Laguna expert, but I can't remember seeing a car lifting its front wheel coming down the corkscrew before. eek7.gif Motorcycles, sure, but wow...he must have really hit the gas hard there. Any larger wing on the front and he'd have taken off. rolleyes1.gif

    It's lifting due to lateral cornering load, and the road dropping away. It's not a power wheelie. :D

    That Maser is beautiful! thumb.gif
    Tim
  • BfoxBfox Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
    edited August 24, 2006
    HarveyMushman wrote:
    It's lifting due to lateral cornering load, and the road dropping away. It's not a power wheelie. :D

    That Maser is beautiful! thumb.gif

    Yes, exactly. It didn't occur to me that the OP thought it was wheelie.
    I'm so used to seeing race cars lift their wheels in corners it didn't cross my mind.
    And I agree, the Maserati's are gorgeous!
    -B
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