Giuseppe F1
19th January 2008, 14:17
Am sure a few of you may recall me pestering this forum a while ago for as much info/photos of the stillborn Ferrari Indycar project of the 80's and the subsequent Alfa Romeo Indy engine of the early 90's - the feedback which was received which was highly appreciated.
Well, to give something back as im not really a regular on the Indy forum as much as I am on the F1 one here, found an article in this weeks 'AUTOSPORT' magazine (UK edition) entitled 'Indycars that never raced' and it was a really good read and unearthed some racers that I was not familiar with previously so I hope all you Indy historians get a kick out of it...
....The 'Eagle Aircraft Flyer' car (no relation to the Gurney Eagles) looks such an awkward beast and it seems alot of the failed Indy efforts came from F1 teams of the day who would just take their last years chassis and try and tweak it and the engine for AOWR regs...
Love the photo of the Ferrari 637 Indycar on the Indy yard of bricks, had never seen this parrticular photo before - the credit for it says IMS so this must be the chassis which is kept in the IMS Museum. I know the other chassis is kept on display in the Galleria Ferrari museum in Maranello athough that one has a slightly different livery with a crossed Italy/US flag graphic on the nose of that chassis.
Strange how in the stillborn Lola Indycar piece that it informs that no drawings or photos of the Lola Indycar have ever been released - I can recall the Falcon car being launched on a fanfair of US pride in being a fully US built car etc etc and then not one of the teams wanting to test it at all!
Well, enjoy the article guys:
Source/Credit: AUTOSPORT MAGAZINE (UK Edition - 17/01/08)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/2203870700_3b02ba2126_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2343/2203871266_b0d0c14b80_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2203079989_9408749231_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/2203872256_a74e0e73cb_b.jpg
Giuseppe F1
Well, to give something back as im not really a regular on the Indy forum as much as I am on the F1 one here, found an article in this weeks 'AUTOSPORT' magazine (UK edition) entitled 'Indycars that never raced' and it was a really good read and unearthed some racers that I was not familiar with previously so I hope all you Indy historians get a kick out of it...
....The 'Eagle Aircraft Flyer' car (no relation to the Gurney Eagles) looks such an awkward beast and it seems alot of the failed Indy efforts came from F1 teams of the day who would just take their last years chassis and try and tweak it and the engine for AOWR regs...
Love the photo of the Ferrari 637 Indycar on the Indy yard of bricks, had never seen this parrticular photo before - the credit for it says IMS so this must be the chassis which is kept in the IMS Museum. I know the other chassis is kept on display in the Galleria Ferrari museum in Maranello athough that one has a slightly different livery with a crossed Italy/US flag graphic on the nose of that chassis.
Strange how in the stillborn Lola Indycar piece that it informs that no drawings or photos of the Lola Indycar have ever been released - I can recall the Falcon car being launched on a fanfair of US pride in being a fully US built car etc etc and then not one of the teams wanting to test it at all!
Well, enjoy the article guys:
Source/Credit: AUTOSPORT MAGAZINE (UK Edition - 17/01/08)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/2203870700_3b02ba2126_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2343/2203871266_b0d0c14b80_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2203079989_9408749231_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/2203872256_a74e0e73cb_b.jpg
Giuseppe F1