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Post by raceoddity on Feb 24, 2024 11:27:44 GMT -5
I had no idea that Thule had made luggage racks for F1!! Mr Lafitte turns up regularly enough to warrant having a couple of his cars, which I do in proper sportscars. Like this one Martin...
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Post by LM24HRS on Feb 24, 2024 12:30:47 GMT -5
Are the "teapot". Love it. Great addition and always a favourite.
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Post by oldirish33 on Feb 24, 2024 22:59:37 GMT -5
Always one of my favorite F1 cars from back in the day because of its looks. Seems like it is always in the background of most period F1 photos. I need one for my collection!
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 26, 2024 7:25:46 GMT -5
I would add that to my collection as the perfect representative for the era. Love it. High airbox or later low airbox, the JS5 is a good looking car either way Tom. Utterly (udderly?) ridiculous, but of course it deserves a place in any F1 collection. The rest of it looks quite good as well with some decent wheels and the radiators look nicely done. It easily passes the 2m test Ian and the livery helps carry the model overall - dodgy cigarette decal application and all! That it is Paul. Lovely Ligier, I had a soft spot for them. I would buy this if it crossed my path despite GP cars not being my favourite collecting theme. And....I was at Brands Hatch in 1976 for the British Grand Prix and would have seen Monsieur Laffite driving the JS5 replete with wailing Matra V12. That was the race where Regazzoni drove into Niki Lauda at the start with them collecting James Hunt's McLaren at the first corner Paddock Hill Bend - which is where I and friends were standing. Which was nice. No I didn't push any T70s onto the grid and the Taki Racing T70 is in fact a Japanese run car so it was a fair old distance from me. A friend does campaign a T70 Mk3B in historic racing so you never know, I may yet get to push one! Oh and I too have been to Spa back in 1976 and the Nürburgring in 1971. Just saying . Are you trying to upset me Paul . At least I was at Levels raceway in Timaru NZ back in the late '70s to see Leo Leonard's "PDL" Mustang . Is that some sort of rain cover? Well the FIA had banned the carrying of umbrellas in F1 cars at that time from what I remember Jeff . Utterly (udderly?) ridiculous, but of course it deserves a place in any F1 collection. The rest of it looks quite good as well with some decent wheels and the radiators look nicely done. My thoughts exactly! 😬 I can see that it may upset your sense of design balance Julio . I had no idea that Thule had made luggage racks for F1!! Mr Lafitte turns up regularly enough to warrant having a couple of his cars, which I do in proper sportscars. Like this one Martin...
From the photos I have seen Scott, the pipe under the airbox that funnelled the air to the Matra V12, while being quite large, in no way filled the space. The story goes that the actual size of the airbox was to provide a better billboard for the sponsor logo! M. Laffite or "Happy Jacques" is favourite of mine as well - he doesn't pop up enough in my collection, although he did have the good grace to pop his derriere into an Alfa T33 sports racer on occasion. Are the "teapot". Love it. Great addition and always a favourite. It definitely hits a nostalgic note Paul. Always one of my favorite F1 cars from back in the day because of its looks. Seems like it is always in the background of most period F1 photos. I need one for my collection! You do get the impression that it was one of "the" period cars in F!, even though it only appeared in 3 GPs and the Team only had the one driver at the time.
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Post by Alfaholic on Mar 12, 2024 2:55:04 GMT -5
One of the most repeated lines in motor racing is that “Stirling Moss is the greatest driver never to have won an F1 World Championship”. While this may be so, I think you could also add that “the greatest driver who should have won more than two F1 World Championships is Fernando Alonso”. Both men managed to perform at the highest level of skill, while often being in the wrong team at the wrong time, for different reasons. For their fourth Alonso car, the PW F1 series has provided a great example of one of those times. Alonso does of course figure in my Collection a few times, owing to his tenure at Ferrari from 2011 to 2014. However, while my own rules of life dictate that being a Ferrari F1 driver he must be a favourite of mine, I was a fan of the Spaniard well before he donned a red suit. From his start with Minardi in 2001 through to his five years (and two World Championships) with Renault, Alonso has been a firm favourite of mine. I did get to meet him once at the Australian GP, back in the days when my employer was the title sponsor of the ING Renault F1 Team – a signed cap is a prized items on my shelves. The two Titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006 should have been the start of a flood of Titles for Alonso, but to date they remain his only ones. Having left Renault for McLaren-Mercedes in 2007 (alongside Lewis Hamilton) he was back to (a less competitive) Renault for 2008-09. His Ferrari sojourn was next on the list, narrowly missing out on Titles in 2010, 2012, and 2013. 2014 was the first year of the new turbo-hybrid F1 era, and with Mercedes-AMG steamrollering everyone, and Sebastian Vettel on the way to Ferrari, in 2015 Alonso made the switch to McLaren and their new Honda engines. On paper this looked like the perfect move, Alonso joining the team as McLaren and Honda “got the band back together”. Much like Jake and Elwood’s exploits in The Blues Brothers, Alonso’s McLaren adventures were not always smooth sailing – you could say they were a bit of a disaster! Having nearly won the Title three times while at Ferrari, Alonso finished 17th, 10th, and 15th with the McLaren-Honda between 2015 and 2017. In 2018 Honda were gone, and in their place came Renault powerplants. Things improved slightly and Alonso managed to finish 11th in the Drivers Title. However, his love affair with F1 was over and in 2019 the Spaniard took himself off to the World Endurance Championship with Toyota, winning one Title and taking two wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Of course, as we know, Alonso returned to F1 in 2021 with Alpine-Renault and having switched to Aston Martin in 2023 is still one of the fastest and best drivers on the F1 Grid. The model here is the car from Alonso’s last race before his “retirement” at the end of 2018, the Abu Dhabi GP in which he placed 11th. For this race McLaren added red & yellow stripes, representing Spain, and the blue of the region in which he was born, Asturias, to their traditional papaya livery. PW – Formula 1 The Car Collection McLaren MCL33 – Renault 1.6 Turbo McLaren F1 Team – Fernando Alonso 2018 Abu Dhabi GP – 11th
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Post by Tom on Mar 12, 2024 3:56:19 GMT -5
I'd give this a thumbs up for the clear, simple livery. Very nice.
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Post by oldirish33 on Mar 12, 2024 9:58:13 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind having this one in my collection, but then I would probably need to start an Alonso wing as I could find other cars driven in his career to add. 😁 Really like this PW model and certainly wouldn't sell it too short when comparing against Spark, Minichamps, etc. Great add!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Mar 12, 2024 10:13:46 GMT -5
Nice looking model!
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Post by Alfaholic on Mar 14, 2024 2:37:28 GMT -5
I'd give this a thumbs up for the clear, simple livery. Very nice. It does help the look of the car Tom. I wouldn't mind having this one in my collection, but then I would probably need to start an Alonso wing as I could find other cars driven in his career to add. 😁 Really like this PW model and certainly wouldn't sell it too short when comparing against Spark, Minichamps, etc. Great add! At least with an Alonso Wing there would be a few non-F1 cars for variety Jerry! He is sayingb today that he might retire from F1 at the end of the year (too many races now), so who knows where he might turn up next. Nice looking model! Not my favourite F1 Julio, but being an Alonso car lifts it quite a few notches!
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Post by JSB33 on Mar 16, 2024 6:18:32 GMT -5
I like that it is orange.
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Post by Alfaholic on Mar 19, 2024 0:15:12 GMT -5
I like that it is orange. It does have 2 shades of blue Jeff...... does that not tempt you even slightly .
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Post by Alfaholic on Mar 22, 2024 8:06:24 GMT -5
This one is from the “Too many Stratos is never enough” category. Spark have been steadily releasing models of the Lancia Stratos over the past couple of years and several of them have found their way to me. This is not a new Spark though, being from the much-missed HPI Racing stable of models from quite a few years ago now. It is a good VFM Ebay purchase from a local seller who had/has several HPI Lancias for sale, both Stratos and 037 Rallye. The 037s held interest for me, but they ended up going to motivated purchasers for around twice the price that I was able to get this Stratos for. This “chassis” has been seen in my collection previously, as has the Team/Driver/Co-Driver combination. As I have mentioned before, Bernard Darniche shares the most wins on the Tour de Corse with fellow Frenchman Didier Auriol, with six apiece. Spark have recently provided Darniche’s 1981 Tour de Corse winning car and now I have his 1975 winner to go with it. Darniche’s first win on the TdC came with an Alpine A110 in 1970, before it was a round of the World Rally Championship. Having rallied the pretty French coupe from 1970 to 1974, at the end of that year the Italians grabbed him and from late 1974 through to late 1975 he was seen at the wheel of Fiat’s 124 Abarth Rallye and X1/9 Abarth machines. By September 1975 however, the Stratos was fully homologated and the French “Team Chardonnet” had a car for Darniche and his regular co-driver Alain Mahe for the Tour de France Auto, chassis/rego EE 72930. The French duo made good use of the car, winning the TdF and also the next event they entered, the French Championship “Rallye du Var. The next outing for the red Stratos and Darniche/Mahe was the Tour de Corse – Rallye de France. Being a specialised all tarmac round of the WRC, the entry was made up primarily of French drivers with a few others joining in – Sandro Munari being the leading non-Frenchman/Corsican with his works Stratos. The field was dominated by the ageing Alpine A110s, with a few Porsche 911s, Opels and Alfa Romeo Alfettas providing competition. The favourites however, were the three Stratos, Darniche included. Munari won the first two Special Stages to lead the rally by 1m 43s from Darniche, before an accident on SS3 took him out of the equation. SS3-5 were then cancelled so Darniche took over the lead. He would hold this until the end of the event, taking two SS wins along the way. He finished 32s ahead of Jean-Pierre Nicolas’ Alpine, with Jean-Claude Andruet’s Alfetta 3rd. The biggest difference between this HPI and the recent Sparks is that this car has the side window glass fully “up”, rather than the crooked halfway-down position as per the photo behind the model! The model also suffers from “sticky-tyre” syndrome, but it’s not too bad. HPI Racing – Bel Tempo Lancia Stratos HF Group 4 – Ferrari 2.4 Team Chardonnet – Bernard Darniche & Alain Mahe 1975 Tour de Corse – Rallye de France – 1st
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Post by Tom on Mar 22, 2024 9:04:52 GMT -5
Indeed, never too many Stratoses. Excellent model, as is to be expected from HPI.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Mar 22, 2024 10:05:15 GMT -5
Gorgeous! I have the numberless HPI version of that Stratos!
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Post by reeft1 on Mar 22, 2024 11:14:54 GMT -5
Be still my beating heart....
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