Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres !

Art Tidesco blogs on all things motoring.

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Rained Off - Eagle Offenhauser 7400

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As I mentioned yesterday the 1975 Indianapolis was won by Bobby Unser and today thanks to photo's by Ed Arnaudin we can have a look at...
Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Three Time Winner - McLaren Offy M16

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The McLaren M16 was designed by Gordon Coppuck in 1970 and took essential design queues from the Lotus 72, that was dominant in Formula On...
Tuesday, 17 May 2011

The Kiwi Bear - McLaren Offy M15

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This is the only photo to have so far surfaced by Ed Arnaudin at Indianapolis from 1970. The car is a McLaren M15, based loosely on th...
Monday, 16 May 2011

Taxi Driver - Jim Robbins Eagle Ford T/C Mk 2

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Continuing GALPOTS potted history of the Indianapolis 500 Ed's photos shown here today were taken in 1969, when Ed Arnaudin took the op...
Sunday, 15 May 2011

When Everything Went Wrong - Dave MacDonald and Eddie Sachs

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The Indianapolis 500 run in 1964 will be for ever remembered as one of those days where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, not ...
Saturday, 14 May 2011

Stock Block - Thompson Buick/Chevrolet

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In 1961 legendary American speed king Mickey Thompson employed british Dolphin Engineering designer John Crosthwaite to design and build thr...
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Friday, 13 May 2011

1962 DNQ - John Zink Trackburner

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The other day I caught a bit of a radio programme about interview questions asked of potential Oxbridge (Oxford & Cambridge) university ...
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The first race I attended was at Ndola in Zambia where Mum's boss raced a Mini. I was taken to The Race of Champions '73 - '75, and in ‘76 to the last GP on the Nordschliefe. A succession of cheap cars allowed me to head for the Silverstone 6 hour races '78 - '92, Le Mans and the British/European GPs '79 - '83. In ‘85 a buddy Sven phoned up and asked me to crew for his #44 Ray's Toys Capri in the Willhire 24 hours, I spent the weekend lugging jerry cans and holding a fire extinguisher during pit stops. By ‘87 Sven was clocking up wins in the Alfa Sud series 1st in a 33, destroyed at Castle Combe, and later in a Sud . In 1990 I went racing in a 2CV 'LYLLYK' highlighted by the Mondello Park 24 hours. From ‘92 to ‘03 I lost track of racing until blogs on yahoo sports by Jerry Bonkowski, awakened a passion for NASCAR. Thanks to Rowdy.com I went to the April ’09 Arron's 499 making a 7000 mile round trip, quite a contrast from the BTCC at Brands Hatch .
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