Anniversaries in 2013

[D-Type]

What anniversaries have we got coming up this year?

1913 - 100 years since nothing special as far as I can see
1938 - 75 years since Tazio Nuvolari hit a stag in practice for the Donington GP. He went on to win the race. And the stag? He had it's head mounted and shipped home to Mantua
1953 - 60 years since the first Coronation Safari
1963 - 50 years since Jim Clark shook up the US racing establishment by nearly winning Indianapolis in a totally different type of car
1988 - 25 years since Ayrton Senna's first World Championship

Any more?

[slorydn1]

1998-15 years since Dale Earnhardt Sr FINALLY won the Daytona 500 on his 20th try, after so many close calls and last minute debacles kept him from winning the Great American Race (man I cannot believe its been that long already).

Thanks for the great topic :D

[BDunnell]

30 years since Hannu Mikkola became the first world drivers' champion in the World Rally Championship driving a four-wheel drive car.

[FAL]

30 years since Hannu Mikkola became the first world drivers' champion in the World Rally Championship driving a four-wheel drive car.

Which sort of highlights that he ought to have been, by a significant margin, for the previous two years in that car!
Must be some "last two-wheel drive" anniversaries too?

[FAL]

In fact, "30th anniversary of the end of International Rallying as we knew it". (ie. the end of the two year extensions of the old Appendix J Gps 2 and 4: the end of regulations that allowed easy home DIY modifications to vehicle models not already incorporating an expensive high spec)

[BDunnell]

Which sort of highlights that he ought to have been, by a significant margin, for the previous two years in that car!

Indeed!



Must be some "last two-wheel drive" anniversaries too?

Off the top of my head, was Didier Auriol's 1988 Tour de Corse victory the last in the WRC by a rear-drive car?

[Rollo]

What anniversaries have we got coming up this year?

1913 - 100 years since nothing special as far as I can see
Any more?

Isn't it the 100th year of the moving automotive assembly line? I seem to remember some Ford Motor Co. hoo-haa about this in an email they sent.

[FAL]

Well, it seems we have one today.
On this date 50 years ago, Eric Jackson and Ken Chambers set off from London in Cortina MWC448 to break the London-Cape Town record.
By my reckoning, that also makes it the second "works" Cortina, TOO528 just beating it by appearing on the 62 RAC (Jeff Uren, then Henry Taylor on the 63 Monte).

[D-Type]

Follow this link (http://damnlongway.com/blog/) and wander round the site that tells all about Eric Jackson. Enjoy

[D28]

In the power to the rear movement, it will be 50 years on in June since the 1st win for a mid-engined layout at Le Mans. Bandini and Scarfiotti drove their Ferrari 250P to the win. Since then all outright winners have used this format.

[AndyRAC]

1973 - the first year of the new WRC, starting with Monte-Carlo. However, it was only for Manufacturers.

[Josti]

Off the top of my head, was Didier Auriol's 1988 Tour de Corse victory the last in the WRC by a rear-drive car?

Alain Ambrosino's win in Ivory Coast 1988 with Nissan 200SX was the last. Though surely Auriol's one is much more significant.

[BDunnell]

Alain Ambrosino's win in Ivory Coast 1988 with Nissan 200SX was the last. Though surely Auriol's one is much more significant.

Ah, yes. Thanks for that. So, still the 25th anniversary this year.

[D28]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Brabham Racing Organization's first F1 success. Sir Jack took the checker at the Solitude GP, against a strong field including Clark, Team Lotus and most of the British runners.

[philipbain]

20th Anniversary of Senna's last win (Australian GP 1993)

[Steve Boyd]

50th anniversary of the first Manx Trophy Rally - now known as Rally Isle of Man.

[Don Capps]

1913 // Centennials of:
San Diego County Road Race (1 Jan)
Imperial Valley Road Race (22 Feb)
Point Loma Road Race (1 Mar)
Owensmouth Road Race (28 Mar)
First victory by foreign car &/or driver, International 500 Mile Sweepstakes (30 May)
Panama-Pacific/ Los Angeles-Sacramento Road Race (4 Jul)
El Paso-Phoenix Road Race (4-5 Nov)
Settlement of A.A.A./W.A.A. Feud (Mar/Apr)

[D-Type]

Having grown up in Kenya, to me Easter means just one thing - The Safari

And this year it's the 50th anniversary of the "Magnificent Seven" who managed to wallow through the mud to the finish in 1963:

1. Zbigniew (Nick) Nowicki & Paddy Cliff - Peugeot 404
2. Peter Hughes & Billy Young - Ford Anglia 1200
3. Jim Cardwell & David Lead - Mercedes-Benz 220SEb
4. Joginder Singh & Jaswant Singh - Fiat 2300
5. Hugh Lionnet & Ivan Philip - Peugeot 404
6. Ian Jaffray & Simon Bathurst - Peugeot 403/7
7. Bill Bengry (GB) & Gordon Goby - Rover 3-litre

This was the year that Eric Carlsson posted one of the most unusual reasons for retirement from a rally. He hit an aardvark! The impact pushed the anti-roll bar into a front universal joint which cost them 32 minutes making a running repair. The SAAB service car didn't have the necessary spares to do a 'proper job' and eventually the car lost a front wheel and that was that.

[D-Type]

I've just been reminded by a post on another forum that today is the 60th anniversary of the death of Tazio Nuvolari, in my opinion the greatest racer ever.