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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Jan 26, 2024 6:34:09 GMT -5
Imagine this today, a two time F1 world champion and current year's Le Mans winner signs up for a fledgling new team to drive in Formula 2. That's what happened in 1972 when Eckhard Schimpf of the newly established Jagermesiter team signed Graham Hill, who was still driving for Brabham in F1, to drive a BT38 in the European F2 Championship. He wasn't out of place though, as most of the rest of the F1 field was in F2 as well, and he would in the same month he won Le Mans win for the team at Monza.
Spark - Brabham BT38 - 1972 Monza F2 - G.Hill - 1st
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Post by reeft1 on Jan 26, 2024 8:06:48 GMT -5
Like that
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Post by JSB33 on Jan 26, 2024 8:16:44 GMT -5
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Post by 105epaul on Jan 26, 2024 11:22:36 GMT -5
Lovely Brabham, nice to see F2 cars being made. I was a fan of Graham Hill and was quite upset when he was killed along with the others. There used to be a very good F2 meeting at Crystal Palace back then that I used to attend (two shillings then 10p to get in as a young person) and it was full of top flight drivers.
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Post by Tom on Jan 26, 2024 14:07:47 GMT -5
What a fantastic model, typical Spark quality. Look at the snakes' nest of exhaust pipes with even the insulation around them visible. Amazing.
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Post by raceoddity on Jan 26, 2024 14:53:41 GMT -5
Like that a lot. A big fan of Graham Hill and this does nothing to change that. And the Jager wing continues to explode Scott
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Jan 30, 2024 3:33:07 GMT -5
Good man Also a good man Lovely Brabham, nice to see F2 cars being made. I was a fan of Graham Hill and was quite upset when he was killed along with the others. There used to be a very good F2 meeting at Crystal Palace back then that I used to attend (two shillings then 10p to get in as a young person) and it was full of top flight drivers. Not bad is it and yes its good to see the lower formulas being tackled though at the rate Spark are going through the options i'm waiting for them to release a series of models of old bangers i owned in my youth. Graham Hill though i was too young to know him in period was a complete gentleman from what i've seen, heard and read about him. A great loss as were the team members who perished with him
What a fantastic model, typical Spark quality. Look at the snakes' nest of exhaust pipes with even the insulation around them visible. Amazing. It is and it's tiny with much exposed so Spark needed to pack in the detail to achieve the same price Like that a lot. A big fan of Graham Hill and this does nothing to change that. And the Jager wing continues to explode Scott Hello mate. Long time Likewise i'm a Hill fan and a medicine fan too so pleased that i have another for the cabinet
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Post by Scalainjridesagain on Feb 1, 2024 5:31:08 GMT -5
Walter Wolf was first seen on the F1 scene in 1975, and he must have liked what he saw, as in 1976 he took a 60% stake in Frank Williams Racing Cars, then purchased the assets of the defunct Hesketh team and part of the defunct Hill team. He retained Frank Williams as manager, and they ran Hesketh 308Cs rebadged as the Wolf Williams FW05 in 1976 with a highest finish of 7th scoring no points and near the end of the season Wolf sacked Williams who promptly left, selling the remaining 40% in the process to Wolf. In the interim Wolf had hired Harvey Postlethwaite who set about designing a new car around the Ford Cosworth engine and with the team renamed Walter Wolf Racing it was designated WR1 and two more identical cars would be built during the 1977 season being WR2 & WR3. Wolf hired Jody Scheckter for 1977, and he would reward this by qualifying the car 11th on its debut in Argentina which he would then convert to a win, albeit because 6 cars ahead retired. Scheckter and Wolf would prove this to be no mere fluke as despite a retirement in Brazil, Scheckter would finish 2nd in South Africa and then 3rd in both the US West & Spanish Grand Prix so that by the time they got to Monaco Scheckter was leading the drivers' championship with Wolf 2nd in the constructors. Scheckter would put the Wolf on 2nd on the grid at Monaco and would take the lead on the first corner, and he was never headed despite a strong challenge from Lauda so he would go on to take the win by 0.9 of a second, securing his second win of the season.
Spark - Wolf WR1 - 1977 Monaco Grand Prix - J.Scheckter - 1st
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Post by Tom on Feb 1, 2024 9:51:50 GMT -5
I like that. Mmmm, have I got a Scheckter car in my F1 collection?
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 1, 2024 10:01:55 GMT -5
That’s a great looking livery!
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Post by bertone on Feb 1, 2024 11:08:36 GMT -5
I recently added the Canada 1977 winning car with the engine covered. One of the most handsome of 1970's F1 cars and quite possibly the final instalment in my 70's F1 sub collection.
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Post by raceoddity on Feb 1, 2024 11:15:13 GMT -5
Not surprisingly I have an iteration of this car. The redoubtable Mr Scheckter is highly revered in these parts! Can't quite put my finger on the attraction... Great model of a happy time in F1. Scott
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Post by 105epaul on Feb 1, 2024 11:27:43 GMT -5
Ah the halcyon days when one could buy a DFV and get an F1 car built if you had the money. These days you cannot even get an entry into the closed shop of greed. I always liked the look of this car and of course it was most effective. Nice model. Oh and I can remember Scheckter racing in the Escort Mexico series back in about 1971, have a feeling that he won the championship. Also seem to recall that he won the F2 race at Crystal Palace in a McLaren, think that was the weekend that McLaren won a triple with wins in the Monaco GP and the Indy 500 too. As a McLaren fan that made a young me happy.
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Post by reeft1 on Feb 2, 2024 0:20:23 GMT -5
That’s very very nice indeed
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 2, 2024 2:46:58 GMT -5
One of the proper free thinkers of F1. A must have.
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