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Post by jager on Jan 22, 2023 20:19:43 GMT -5
Interesting looking car Martin. It looks very 'naked' even by the standards of the day when advertising was starting to become commonplace in F1.
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Post by Alfaholic on Jan 23, 2023 19:17:42 GMT -5
It's simple and effective Tom. I would buy it for the colors alone. Maybe, but would it look better in red . 60's and 70's F1...what's not to love? What Jeff said. The orange highlights really lift it in my eyes Scott. I wasn't going to look at this post since the last one prompted me to find my own model of the car. However, I could not not look. I have a Yardley livery of Rodriguez's car from Belgium, so I think I'm safe. I do like the clean lines of the unadorned car in traditional BRM colors. It will be hard to say no! I also have the Yardley Rodriguez car as well Jerry, an earlier delivery from this PW series. Thats a lovely colour scheme and again a new one on me. Nice. I do like the way the series is providing some more unusual driver/car combinations Paul. Interesting looking car Martin. It looks very 'naked' even by the standards of the day when advertising was starting to become commonplace in F1. It must have been one of the last fully naked cars Ian. At the next race it was wearing Yardley colours.
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Post by Alfaholic on Jan 31, 2023 7:00:33 GMT -5
Another lesser-known offering from the PW F1 Series – and I’m OK with that. Toleman are one of the oldest F1 teams still on the grid, well sort off. The company was founded in 1926 and delivered Ford cars from the factory to their dealers. Their motorsport journey started in the 1970s and in 1980 they built their first racing car, the F2 Toleman TG280 which used a Hart 4-cylinder engine. Brian Henton and Derek Warwick finished 1-2 in the 1980 European F2 Championship with these cars. Late in 1980 Toleman announced that they would step up to F1 in 1981. F1 was a bit harder for Toleman, being perennially underfunded against the major teams of the day. They stuck with Hart engines for F1, this time their 1.5-litre turbo 4-cylinder unit. Henton and Warwick carried over as drivers and joined the series from the 4th GP at Imola. Their season was full of “Did Not Pre-Qualify” results in most GPs that year – Henton started one race only and finished 10th, while Warwick was a DNF in the one GP he started. 1982 was a bit better, but Toleman still hadn’t managed to score a Championship point by year’s end. Warwick stayed but Henton left to be replaced by Teo Fabi. There were still a few DNPQ/DNQs, however Warwick and Fabi at least made it onto the starting grid in over half of the races. Their best result was a 10th for Warwick in the German GP. In the last two races of the year they drove the new Toleman TG183, still with Hart turbo power. New rules came into play for the 1983 F1 season, banning ground effect and the side skirts the cars had carried. Without the budget to develop a new car, Toleman started the season with a “B” version of the 183. This car used the chassis from the 1982’s 183 but had some unusual features. It had a full-width large front wing which housed the radiators. The new rules left room for the car’s designer Rory Byrne to add a second large rear wing, mounted in front of the usual one. The 183B allowed both Warwick and new recruit Bruno Giacomelli to score points, the first for Toleman in F1. Giacomelli had won the 1978 F2 Title and joined Alfa Romeo when they returned to F1 in 1979. After 4 years with the Italian team, which yielded some good results but wasn’t as successful as he (or Alfa) had hoped, he left and joined Toleman. 1983 would turn out to be Giacomelli’s last in F1, however he went on to have a good career in sportscars and touring cars. For Australian Alfisti one race stands out – his 2nd place in an F1 Alfa Romeo behind Alan Jones’ Williams in the non-championship 1980 Australian GP. In 1986 Toleman were sold to Benetton and raced under that name. They subsequently become Renault, then Lotus, and back to Renault. They remain under Renault ownership and race in F1 under the name of their Alpine brand. PW – Formula 1 The Car Collection Toleman TG183B – Hart 1.5 Turbo Toleman Group Motorsport – Bruno Giacomelli 1983 F1 – 19th=
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Post by Tom on Jan 31, 2023 13:38:23 GMT -5
One of the last F1 cars the design of which I like. Also a very nice model.
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Post by reeft1 on Feb 1, 2023 3:04:42 GMT -5
I like that very much
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Post by jager on Feb 1, 2023 4:15:10 GMT -5
With the Giacomelli and Pirelli tyres, you could almost slip this one into your Alfa collection and no one would notice.
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 1, 2023 19:59:55 GMT -5
One of the last F1 cars the design of which I like. Also a very nice model. It is quite a unique design Tom. The Giacomelli factor would have been enough for me Paul, so I was pleased they went with his car. With the Giacomelli and Pirelli tyres, you could almost slip this one into your Alfa collection and no one would notice. You might be onto something there Ian - "Candy" and "Sergio Tacchini" are also Italian, so that seals it!
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 1, 2023 20:02:50 GMT -5
The first non-PW F1 addition of the year - and on the face of it I have blown my “Alfa Romeo only” rule very early on. There is a connection though. Having just posted my rally car collection in the “Collection pics” section of the Forum, my fandom for rallying is now known. My biggest lament with this part of the sport is that my favoured bands have not been involved at the top level since the demise of the Lancia Team in the early 1990s. One Italian brand has remained involved however, building cars for the smaller or junior classes. The introduction of a new rallying class in 2011 paved the way for another offering from the Fiat Abarth stable. Group R-GT is aimed at GT cars rather than the family hatchback type of vehicles that are used in the frontline Rally1 and Rally2 classes in the World Rally Championship. R-GT cars must be based on production models and have 2WD only. They also run with a restrictor that limits each car to a power to weight ratio of 4.6 kg/kw. To date four vehicles have been homologated for R-GT competition: the Lotus Exige, various Porsche 911s, the new Alpine A110 and the sole Italian offering, the Fiat 124 Abarth Rally. The road-going Fiat Abarth 124 is heavily based on the Mazda MX5. As part of their joint venture, the road cars were built by Mazda but had subtle exterior and interior differences to separate them from their MX5 cousins. The one major difference between the Japanese and Italian offerings, was the engine - 124 used a Fiat Group 1.4-litre turbo 4-cylinder unit. The R-GT 124 Abarth Rally made use of the Fiat Group’s 1,742cc 4-cyl turbo unit, the same engine that is fitted to my Giulietta QV and appears in the Alfa Romeo 4C. Producing 177kw in standard form, the rallying engine is updated to 221kw. This engine has had wide-ranging motorsport usage, also being used in the Giulietta TCR car as well as powering many of the F3-based Formula Regional cars and the similar cars used in the W-Series. This justifies the Alfa Romeo link! The Alfa connection means that I can justify adding a 124 Abarth R-GT, but which one should I choose. Both Spark and IXO have done a few of these cars in 1:43 and I have gone with an IXO example, primarily due to the driver. 55-year-old Martin Rada hails from the Czech Republic and is my kind of guy. He started his (amateur) rallying career in 2003 with a Fiat Bravo HGT and in 2006 moved to a Group A Alfa Romeo 147. Rada continued to rally a couple of 147s until the end of 2017, including four starts in the Rallye Monte Carlo, winning his class on two occasions – the only Alfa 147 WRC entries. In 2018 he parked the 147s and switched to the R-GT spec Fiat 124 Abarth. Having been away from the Monte since his last Alfa outing in 2015, Rada appeared for the 2022 event. He finished 45th overall and 5th of the 8 R-GT entries. IXO Fiat 124 Abarth Type 348 Rally R-GT 1.7 Turbo Agrotec Czech Abarth Team – Martin Rada & Jaroslav Jugas 2022 Rallye Monte Carlo – 45th / 5th R-GT
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 1, 2023 21:22:38 GMT -5
Nice looking model!
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Post by Tom on Feb 2, 2023 0:59:13 GMT -5
I've been considering one of the 124 rally cars myself because they look so good. You're not helping my resolve.
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Post by reeft1 on Feb 2, 2023 1:33:43 GMT -5
Nice add Martin
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Feb 2, 2023 3:53:43 GMT -5
Toleman is super. It's testing my new recent rule of 70's F1 only to stop it getting out of hand Could make a case for the 124 as well
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Post by jager on Feb 2, 2023 4:42:13 GMT -5
Nice Mazda!
I didn't realise you were getting into Japanese cars Martin.
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 4, 2023 5:16:42 GMT -5
Nice looking model! It’s not too bad Julio. The Spark versions are shaper as you would expect, but I like this one because if the driver’s Alfa Romeo connection. I've been considering one of the 124 rally cars myself because they look so good. You're not helping my resolve. There’s a few around Tom, I would fully support you adding one! It’s rallying and it’s a Fiat - that’s good enough for me Paul. Toleman is super. It's testing my new recent rule of 70's F1 only to stop it getting out of hand Could make a case for the 124 as well Limits? Sometimes I think I don’t understand the concept Andy 😄 Nice Mazda! I didn't realise you were getting into Japanese cars Martin. It might look like a Japanese car Ian, but it’s heart is pure Italian 😁
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 4, 2023 5:25:50 GMT -5
The first Alfa Romeo of the year for me next up. A model that helped to offset the postage costs of the Fiat 124 Abarth, and also available due to a discount offer from one of the Euro sites. I already have a couple of the newer Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Brumm releases, but they are good enough to warrant another one, the first for this driver in my collection. A total of 99 cars lined up for the 1931 Mille Miglia. In the four previous runnings of the blast from Brescia to Rome and return, Italian brands had reigned supreme; OM in 1927 and then Alfa Romeo from 1928-1930. The talented (and opera signing) Giuseppe Campari had won the 1928 and 1929 races aboard two of Alfa’s wonderful 6C models. Tazio Nuvolari had won with an Alfa 6C in 1930. Both these drivers would feature in Alfas again in 1931. Nuvolari was part of the factory Alfa Corse squad who had two of the new 8C 2300 Monza cars available, Luigi Arcangeli was at the helm of the other. The other 28 Alfas on the entry list were various versions of the 6C 1500 / 6C 1750 cars with the semi-factory Scuderia Ferrari cars being the most likely to figure high up in the finishing order. Apart from the Alfas, the other major entries were Achille Varzi in a 5-litre Bugatti and five of the thundering Mercedes-Benz SSK/SSKL models with their 7.1-litre supercharged strsight-6 engines. The three factory Mercedes did not show, however the two privately entered cars were strong – one had Alfa factory driver Rudolf Caracciola at the wheel, special dispensation having been given by Alfa to let him race the German car. Caracciola scrapped with the 8-cylinder Alfas early on, swapping the lead with Nuvolari who led into Rome. Arcangeli had already started to suffer the tyre problems that would also afflict Nuvolari in the return part of the race. With ¾ of the race gone Arcangeli had hit the front, tyre issues notwithstanding, however Nuvolari had slipped to 6th with tyre and clutch problems. It all fell apart for Alfa on the run back to Brescia, with Arcangeli spinning out of the race in Verona – Nulvolari would struggle home in 9th place. While all this was going on, Campari was going about his business quite nicely in the smaller Scuderia Ferrari Alfa. He was in 3rd place when they made it to Rome, 4 minutes behind Nuvolari. At Ancona, about 2/3 of the way through the race, he had hit the front. The power of the 8-cylinder Alfas and the monstrous M-Bs came into play on the largely flat-out run from Ancona back to Brescia, and Campari, having been overtaken by Caracciola could do nothing to stop the German taking the first “foreign” win on the event. Campari and co-driver Attilio Marinoni ended up in 2nd place, 11m 3s behind the M-B. Alfa Romeos filled 8 of the Top 10 places. A non-Italian car would only win the Mille Miglia once more – a BMW 328 in 1940. BrummAlfa Romeo 6C 1750 GS Spider Zagato 1.8 s/cScuderia Ferrari – Giuseppe Campari & Attilio Marinoni1931 Mille Miglia – 2nd
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