Jason, I am one of your biggest fans... but while not quite incorrect, using airship instead of aeroplane or aircraft is bad form.
Very nice, thank you.
You have a first-generation Freelander? Good for you. I tried a Td4 for a week, back in the day, and truly loved it.
I’d say bring back Group 2 and 4. (But yes, if we cannot have those, Group N and A would suffice.)
You are one-hundred percent right, but we have to acknowledge that the Escort Cosworth sits a bit on the tall side (which is advantageous in rallying).
I absolutely agree that the Sierra Cosworth was a fabulous touring car. But when they turned it into a rally car.... it simply was too big to be really agile, and even giving it 4WD didn’t give it enough of an edge.
It’s funny; I loved the original hatchback Sierra, an extremely modern, rational, non-sense design. But I have to acknowledge that the booted version looked very, very classy. It certainly gave the Sierra range a new lease of life, particularly among more conservative customers.
Mechanically, the car was a direct evolution of the Sierra Cosworth, but with the addition of all-wheel drive.
Hesketh (the peer) is quite a character (and probably not so much of a nice guy nowadays) but Hesketh (the team, i.e. Hesketh Racing) is perhaps more interesting.
To clarify, Hesketh started in F3... and Hunt wasn’t even their driver. But yes, once Hunt was part of the team they did end up focusing their efforts on him.
I already knew about Bill Bengry’s Royce for the World Cup Rally, but I had no idea about its backstory.
No mention of his stint on the forerunner to the DTM? That Celica looked amazing.
I think you may be confusing (or rather, conflating) Römerquelle (mineral water, an Austrian company) and Parmalat (dairy products). Indeed, until very late in his life Lauda used to wear a Parmalat cap, but he did not get that sponsorship until he was with Ferrari. Let’s not forget Parmalat used to be an Italian group…
They endure it, hoping the next set of rules will cause it to be actually interesting again.
Not in any way a fan of Ecclestone, not in the least, but it was he (helped in no small way by Max; I’m talking about the 70s here) who created the huge, decadent, stupifyingly rich monster show F1 now is.
Almost forty years ago now... the very first article I read about Colani (not on Austoport, sadly) included his sketches for possible Indy Porsche single-seaters:
Not bad...
I always found it quite a appropriate that Kylie should do a commercial for a Ghia-designed car not even two years after she appeared in a music video driving a Mangusta (also Ghia-designed, during Giugiaro’s short tenure there). Coincidence?
Thanks, I didn’t know about the Rocket recreation by Buster Keaton’s father, that’s fascinating.