Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Crushed Cars

[LarryT (l02turner]

You wrote <<that was when it was a sport, not **Show-Biz.**>>

"Blood Sport" might be more accurate -- The drivers were killed off pretty 
regularily back then -
;-\

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <red5hilser [at] aol.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: <Red5hilser [at] aol.com>; <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crushed Cars


> 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!
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> 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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