Classic Motorsport Photos

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That's cool. Reminds me to find a pic I took of Frentzen getting out of his Porsche Cup car at the Melbourne GP, 2012.

Motoharu “GAN-san” Kurosawa trying to hang with the Capellas to no avail in a 1-2-3 finish for the Mazdas at Fuji 1972.
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1988 British Touring Car Championship

Defending champion Chris Hodgetts unsuccessfully tried to tackle Formula Sierra with a turbocharged A70 Toyota Supra. Hodgetts didn't even last the whole year with MIL Motorsport; Ian Flux and Mark Hales drove the #1 car at various rounds in the second half of the season, such as the shots from Brands Hatch, with Vic Lee in the #2.

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1988 British Touring Car Championship

Defending champion Chris Hodgetts unsuccessfully tried to tackle Formula Sierra with a turbocharged A70 Toyota Supra. Hodgetts didn't even last the whole year with MIL Motorsport; Ian Flux and Mark Hales drove the #1 car at various rounds in the second half of the season, such as the shots from Brands Hatch, with Vic Lee in the #2.

Always thought the Group A Supra, and the Starion for that matter, were stretching the concept of what a touring car is really supposed to be. That and the BiTurbo added some much needed variety to the back of the field though i guess.
 
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That Rover reminds me of Tony Pond's 1990 Isle of Man TT first 100mph average lap record. In what was an almost standard Rover 827 Vitesse. There's a whole Duke Video of it, but seemingly very few photos.

To say that even 34 years later, the (200+bhp) racing Superbike lap record is 'only' 137mph, on a narrow circuit much better suited to bikes, 100mph in a 176bhp near-standard non-sportscar was really impressive.

Mark Higgins had to use a 600bhp Time Attack WRX STi to push that car lap record to 127mph in 2016.


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1995 Ligier JS41

In response to claims that the 1995 Ligier was a copy of the 1995 Benetton, rumours going so far as that the JS41 was made in Benetton's factory with Ligier's moulds, Ligier responded late in the season with a rear wing sticker insisting on the car being made in France.

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From a drivers POV. I think that what was written on that back wing worries me more than the straight up copy of the Benetton. just my two cents based on my experience with french cars.:lol::lol::lol:
 
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@Liquid
From a drivers POV. I think that what was written on that back wing worries me more than the straight up copy of the Benetton. just my two cents based on my experience with french cars.:lol::lol::lol:

The irony is now the current French team once formerly known as Renault was Benetton (et al), and still builds that car in Enstone.
 

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