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@Curt Kistler wrote:
Now that is some funny stuff right there. Chicks dig rock stars and limos. Getting them up to the penthouse is another story however. Especially the big ones…. :burger
Don’t mean to get personal…. but why would you want to take a big chick to your penthouse?
Richard:
I appreciate that, glad you liked. I’d have to pull the grid sheets, but I think 99 cars started either that year or in 1975. Formula Ford is always great, in those days it was unreal.
A good time then was around 2:27, or 147 seconds, so even on that 4-mile track still a car every 1.5 seconds! It was amazing, as are many things I’ve seen there.
Thank You.
Three more…. what the Heck, the 500 is in three days.
Al Unser, Jr. leads Bobby Rahal, Arie Luyendyk, and Scott Goodyear on Lap 1 of the first Denver Grand Prix…. me leaning out, full arm extension (not looking through the viewfinder), traumatizing the corner marshals, Lincoln Street, Denver, 1990:
[attachment=2:3seol8tu]7IN-90DN-11-08_cw8.jpg[/attachment:3seol8tu]America’s Grand Master, Mario Andretti holding a pose on the grid for the 1992 Nazareth Indy Car event (Thank You):
[attachment=1:3seol8tu]7IN-92NZ-25-03_cw8.jpg[/attachment:3seol8tu]I’d be remiss to not show our friend Buddy Lazier, Indianapolis 500 winner in 1996, a Coloradan and American Hero, Mid-Ohio CART, 1992 (Ted Pappas in tow):
[attachment=0:3seol8tu]7IN-92MO-7-02_cw8.jpg[/attachment:3seol8tu]Three more….
Jim Hall confers with Al Unser on the grid at the Rex Mays 150 USAC round at the Mile, in the “comeback” Lola T500’s first race after winning Indy, 1978
(Jim thinking, “They give Photo Passes to 17 year-olds in Milwaukee?”):
[attachment=2:qv2u8pj0]7IN-78ML-1-11_cw8.jpg[/attachment:qv2u8pj0]The Original Intimidator, on the Pace Lap of the Tony Bettenhausen 200, AJ bursts by and makes sure Johnny Parsons knows what’s next, Milwaukee Mile USAC, 1978:
[attachment=1:qv2u8pj0]7IN-78ML-3-15_cw8.jpg[/attachment:qv2u8pj0]The Italian Intimidator, Alex Zanardi doing the very same to first-time polesitter Bryan Herta, Mid-Ohio CART grid, 1997:
[attachment=0:qv2u8pj0]7IN-97MO-7-11_cw8.jpg[/attachment:qv2u8pj0]David:
It’s late, another long day, checked in here, have far more questions and comments than energy…. really awesome letter, Ya Know! Boone’s Farm Apple?
One ques…, okay, second question…. “Family raced at RA, Mile, and Blackhawk?” Please elaborate, much time spent at all (every RA race 1963-’81)!
“Indy mechanic?” Know Jim Stepan? Did you race at Dousman? Remember Miller’s campground? Carl Liebich? Ginger or Mary Ann? (okay, eight questions)
Sorry if I’m boring any other of Yous Guys here.
Gary Hackbarth and Tony Kester lead the field in the Formula Ford race, June Sprints, 1976 (too young?) (9):
[attachment=2:29etwwya]7SJ-FF76-100-1_cw8.jpg[/attachment:29etwwya]Pizza anyone? AJ Foyt in pit lane, Milwaukee Mile 1978, styling it up Supertex style, team uniforms by Pizza Hut (old enough?) (10):
[attachment=0:29etwwya]7IN-78ML-2-07_cw8.jpg[/attachment:29etwwya]A driver talks shop with a Crew Chief, Pit Lane, Milwaukee Mile, 1978 (look closely at both….):
[attachment=1:29etwwya]7IN-78ML-3-12_cw8.jpg[/attachment:29etwwya]Dave:
Hey, Thanks! What brought you to RA?
I lived in Milwaukee 1960-’70, Oconomowoc until 1980, Denver since.
Where you a fellow Cheesehead? Or did you wrongfully root for Da Bears?
I was 16, you were 8, hope I never cussed and corrupted you. 😆
Geez, I don’t know…. the sun’s out and it’s a beautiful day. I think we maybe, just maybe, have a chance of survival.
Watching Marco Andretti’s interview, maybe not….
Rick:
Don’t push this kid too much….
Remember, there’s times he has a microphone and could do you some real damage. 😳
And yet a few more of F5000, I can only post 3 at a time.
In early 1976, still 15, I produced a 24-page newsprint magazine about the SCCA Runoffs. So in 1976 we made up some decals and they ended up on many racing cars, including here, behind the front wheel of this F1-based March 76A owned by John Cannon, and driven at Road America by Don Breidenbach:
[attachment=2:noukstao]7F5-76RA-1-19_cw8.jpg[/attachment:noukstao]One can’t discuss Formula 5000 and leave out Brian Redman from England, winner of the Series’ final three Championships from 1974-76. Only mighty Jody Scheckter, the ’73 Champ and the most-sideways drivers I have ever witnessed, kept the streak from being four:
[attachment=1:noukstao]7F5-76RA-1-09c_cw8.jpg[/attachment:noukstao]Even four-time Indy 500 winner couldn’t stay away from F5000. On road courses they were much faster than Indy cars, and even a bit quicker than F1 on tracks both Series raced, like Watkins Glen. Al was one qualified road racer, too, and won his only F5000 race this particular weekend at Road America:
[attachment=0:noukstao]7F5-76RA-3-04c_cw8.jpg[/attachment:noukstao]Glad you like these, Mike, and that you know the relevance of these legendary pilots. Or should I say “Gods?”
I think you’re right about the title-winning car being an FW07, and certainly IMO Villeneuve never had a great car following 1979. That said, I don’t think he ever had the best car on the grid.
Here’s more F5000 from my childhood. I’ve finally started scanning my old Black & Whites, lots of work as not in impeccable shape. If you’re enjoying them, I’ll keep posting, and will add newer images from when my work grew up as well. Thank You.
Another of Alan Jones in the Teddy Yip-owned Lola T-332 at Pocono, on the Grid before Qualifying. Tony Brise had driven this car before Jones, but was killed in a plane crash that also took Graham Hill:
[attachment=2:tc3lrlo8]7F5-76PO-64-1_cw8.jpg[/attachment:tc3lrlo8]One great and mostly-unsung hero, Hawaiian Danny “On the Gas” Ongais at Road America. Danny nearly won the Indy 500 in around 1980 or so, and also had some big injuries there:
[attachment=1:tc3lrlo8]7F5-76RA-3-06_cw8.jpg[/attachment:tc3lrlo8]This was scanned for the current owner of this Lola T-430, he bought 45 prints recently. F5000 is alive and very well Down Under, they get 35 cars+ for their races — one being an opening race for the Australian GP. The look on that kid’s face tells my life story:
[attachment=0:tc3lrlo8]7F5-76RA-3-1_cw8.jpg[/attachment:tc3lrlo8]
