Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Crushed Cars

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

Hey Lash: No doubt the Hill was an outatanding driver, one of the best, if not, 
on any given day, the best. I first saw him drive in So. Cal. starting in the 
mid-1950's. Always in Ferraris, and he was my hero. Eventually, I was in his 
pit so much that nobody even asked me me name or why I was there.

There is still speculation as to the causes of the shunt at Monza that was 
fatal, not only to von Tripps, but to 15 spectators as well. The quick and 
simple answer was that Jim Clark, in his Lotus, brushed against Tripps, spinng 
him off course, up?an outside?bank, and against that flimsy chain-link fence, 
killing himself and the other 15 poor souls. 

But I've always heard that the young Ferrari rookie, Ricardo Rodriquez, driving 
11 tenths, as usual, forced Clark into Tripps. Tripps, with Hill had qualified 
on the front row, but a bad start put him in among the front runners, behind 
Hill, and he was trying to catch up. After all, the WDC was riding on this one 
race,?plus?Ricardo was trying to impress Ferrari on their home track. A certain 
recipe for disaster, I think.

BTW, Robert Daley, in his book, 'The Cruel Sport,' said that the top GP drivers 
were making $20,000 dollars a year back then. LMFAO! But that was when it was a 
sport, not **Show-Biz.**

Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

From: LS
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars



Willi, the 156 had more bhp and Hill wasn't too shabby behind the wheel!

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From: Bubba
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars

Hey Larry: The Chevrolet Division of GM did the same thing to all the Corvette 
race cars that they had loaned to Roger Penske for the season back in 'the 
days.' Only thing was, that the GM employee in charge of the crushing, being 
the 
car-nut that he was, misplaced one. It's still out there somewhere. I read 
about 
it in R&T years ago. I think they were raced in the old Trans-Am series.

And as far as the long-gone 1961 156 shark noses, Phil Hill drove an exact 
replica (except for the nose badge) that Chris Rhea had built for his 
documentary film in Wolfgang von Tripps. After about 20 minutes of track time, 
Phil came in and said that it was very apparent?that it was?nothing like the 
original factory?156. Unlike the Team cars, this one was well built and?didn't 
have?the rather shoddy construction or?feel of Enzo's machines. 

IMHO, the only reason that Hill won the WDC was that the V-6 Ferrari engine had 
a 40-50 horsepower advantage over the Brits. Not withstanding that his only 
rival, Tripps was killed in the last, and deciding race held at Monza
On real drivers courses, the 156 didn't do too well, with Stirling Moss winning 
at Monte Carlo, and I think, the old Nurburgring. Somebody out there will have 
to check for?me on the latter.

Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT 
Subject: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars



Howdy -

    I assume everyone knows that Enzo had some of his race cars (like the 
shark nosed F1 cars that took Phil Hill to become World Champion) crushed 
after they became obsolete.  Just heard the 1st 2 prototypes of the XKE were 
also crushed.

    I'm wondering why they crushed them?  Protecting secrets? eccentric? 
some other reason?

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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