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Post by 105epaul on May 12, 2024 8:41:29 GMT -5
Very nice CD, pretty car. Shame about its retirement but that's part of racing.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on May 12, 2024 9:49:56 GMT -5
That’s quite an attractive looking old racer!
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Post by Alfaholic on May 13, 2024 0:03:52 GMT -5
I love these mad little French racers - many thumbs up.
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on May 14, 2024 1:35:47 GMT -5
What a great looker, shame their race ended like that. You must have a few CD LM cars by now... It was a shame as it seems they were caught up in someone else's accident to boot. This makes the 6th but the first from 66 Very nice Andy. I think many of the pictures of this car with wings are actually mis-labeled pictures of the 1967 car. The '66 and '67 cars appear to have different licence plate numbers and different shaped front air intakes, which is one way to tell them apart. Cheers Ian Could well be that. The only pictures I've seen with fins are from the rear, and I'll admit I didn't check the plates. I'm happy Spark got it right for this one sans fins
Very nice CD, pretty car. Shame about its retirement but that's part of racing. Yes it certainly is, especially as noted above it was someone else's accident. Also, this was its last appearance (in period anyway) so the damage was significant That’s quite an attractive looking old racer! Isn't it just I love these mad little French racers - many thumbs up. As do I. A similar class today would not go amiss
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Post by reeft1 on May 14, 2024 8:57:37 GMT -5
Surtees, Bell, and Matchbox - lots of icons ticked with this one (the car and model are pretty good on their own as well). Spot on!
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on May 16, 2024 4:43:31 GMT -5
Mazda made a first works appearance at Le Mans in 1979, although it was not the first time the marque had appeared, as Claude Buchet had privately run a RX-3 earlier in the decade. The new RX-7 had already been competing in the IMSA GTU category in the US scoring a class win at Daytona and was entered with the driver line up of Yojiro Terada, Tetsu Ikuzawa & Claude Buchet and the trio set the 56th fastest qualifying time however due to being the slowest in the single IMSA class they along with all the other slowest qualifiers in their respective classes were culled from the grid.
Spark - Mazda RX-7 - 1979 Le Mans 24 Hours - Y.Terada, T.Ikuzawa & C.Buchet - DNQ
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Post by LM24HRS on May 16, 2024 4:58:47 GMT -5
Just catching up with your more recent pages Andy. The Bell Surtees for obvious reasons caught my eye. One has slipped into my Bell collection at last. A South African kit manufacturer produced this many years ago, company called "This Way Up". So seeing Spark starting to produce these great air box era F1 cars is pleasing to see. The DNQ Mazda is also a piece of LM history be it very short, nice to see also.
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Post by Tom on May 16, 2024 5:17:24 GMT -5
Just as I like 'em- cab and doors are RX7, the rest is sellotape and cardboard boxes. Oh, and a mental rear wing. Fantastic.
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Post by 105epaul on May 16, 2024 10:42:18 GMT -5
Splendidly bonkers looking RX7, shame that it didn't qualify so it could have shrieked around for hours on end. I remember seeing Tetsu Ikuzawa racing in the British Formula 3 championship in the late 60s, the era of the one litre screamer engines aka mainly the 997cc engine from the esteemed Anglia 105E. He was a pretty decent driver.
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Post by jager on May 17, 2024 21:31:56 GMT -5
Very cool looking Mazda even if it was a DNF. Do I recall that this was previously released either by Bizarre and/or part of the “KB” Spark series of Mazda’s for the Japanese market?
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Post by reeft1 on May 17, 2024 22:05:03 GMT -5
I agree with Ian - very cool!
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Post by Alfaholic on May 18, 2024 2:27:45 GMT -5
I like this one a lot, even if the racing mods have not necessarily improved the looks of the admittedly fine looking road car (and that's not something I say very often!).
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on May 19, 2024 4:34:55 GMT -5
Just catching up with your more recent pages Andy. The Bell Surtees for obvious reasons caught my eye. One has slipped into my Bell collection at last. A South African kit manufacturer produced this many years ago, company called "This Way Up". So seeing Spark starting to produce these great air box era F1 cars is pleasing to see. The DNQ Mazda is also a piece of LM history be it very short, nice to see also. Thanks for stopping by Thought that Bell Surtees might be on your radar, so glad to hear you have it. Have heard of This Way Up though never had any experience of them Mazda was a bit of an impulse as don't usually go for DNQs but made an exception for this
Just as I like 'em- cab and doors are RX7, the rest is sellotape and cardboard boxes. Oh, and a mental rear wing. Fantastic. Yes there isn't much RX-7 left on the surface really but like you I find these extreme variants of this era completely fascinating Splendidly bonkers looking RX7, shame that it didn't qualify so it could have shrieked around for hours on end. I remember seeing Tetsu Ikuzawa racing in the British Formula 3 championship in the late 60s, the era of the one litre screamer engines aka mainly the 997cc engine from the esteemed Anglia 105E. He was a pretty decent driver. It didn't have the power to compete in a single IMSA class at Le Mans unfortunately as it came from the second tier GTU (as opposed to the full fat GTO) class whereas all the other IMSA class cars at Le Mans in 1979 were GTO cars. In addition to Ikuzawa being a decent peddler, Terada would go on to compete at LE Mans 29 times Very cool looking Mazda even if it was a DNF. Do I recall that this was previously released either by Bizarre and/or part of the “KB” Spark series of Mazda’s for the Japanese market? That's what i thought, too. More than likely it has been released before because Spark are definitely trawling their back catalogue at the moment for previously 'limited' releases to re-release in their main range I agree with Ian - very cool! I can only agree too I like this one a lot, even if the racing mods have not necessarily improved the looks of the admittedly fine looking road car (and that's not something I say very often!). There is that about the additions. The original was a fine looking car but was subject to rampant tin worm. I prefer this modified look
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on May 19, 2024 4:52:33 GMT -5
Although the 962 was designed and built by Porsche as an evolution of the legendary 956 perhaps a lesser known fact is the originally designed aluminium chassis wasn't considered stiff enough which lead to many private teams re-engineering the car or in some cases designing and then building completely new chassis onto which the teams would then buy the rest of the car from Porsche to create their own cars. One of the various chassis redesigns was performed by Kremer Racing, who replaced the original aluminium tub with carbon fibre and would go on to build 11 chassis known as CK6s. Chassis number 6 was built for Kremer themselves and would make its debut at Le Mans in 1991 in the C2 class securing 9th overall, and it would then compete in three further world championship races that year securing 2 class wins and one of those was also a podium as it came home third overall at the Nürburgring.
For 1992 it was entered in only one race which was of course Le Mans but with the new WSC regulation now in full force the old Group C cars which were still eligible for Le Mans were placed in the C3 class which mainly consisted of 962s and anything powered by the 3 litre Porsche turbo unit and so Kremers car driven by Manuel Reuter, John Nielsen & Giovanni Lavaggi was up against, 962Cs, 962 GTis and Cougars and the trio would qualify 8th overall. Race wise it was pretty steady after the first couple of hours when they initially dropped 3 places then gained 5 but by 6 hours in they were 9th and by half distance they were back to 8th which would become 6th at the three-quarter distance and then finally in the 22nd hour 7th which is where they finished, 2nd in class after 334 laps.
Spark - Porsche 962 CK6 - 1992 Le Mans 24 Hours - M.Reuter, J.Nielsen & G.Lavaggi - 7th
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Post by JSB33 on May 19, 2024 5:08:07 GMT -5
Mazda has a lot going on in the back!
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