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#976 Rad-oh-yeah?

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Posted 21 October 2018 - 04:35

Bilo je trka po Britaniji i Komonveltu (narocito Australija) gde su u istoj klasi vozili budzeni Miniji i veliki Americki Trans-Am modeli - Mustanzi i tako to. Ne verujem da je bilo pod FIA (tj. tada FISA) kapom, nego nesto lokalno. Znam da su pojedinci cak radili specijalke na bazi Minija u koje su ubacivali americke V8 motore bas za ovakve trke.

 

Cuveni Brajan Redman je u par navrata vozio jednog takvog sa 3,5l Bjuikovim motorom ubacenim pozadi, ali i dalje sa vucom na prednje tockove:

 

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Posted 21 October 2018 - 16:52

Hvala, Radoje!

 

Znam za te Australce. Imam prijatelja koji zivi tamo i povremeno to vozi. Ima Alfu GTA 1300 Junior - pravu trkacu. Uz to, ima jos 3 obicna GT 1300 Juniora - jedan povremeno vozi ulicom, a dva su za delove...

 

No ova trka koju sam okacio je iz Engleske i auti ne odskacu od standarne (fabricke) konfiguracije. Naci cu vec negde kako su to smislili...


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Posted 22 October 2018 - 16:45


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Posted 30 October 2018 - 15:49

Na danasnji dan pre 30 godina:

 

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Aerton Sena je pobedom na VN Japana 1988. obezbedio svoju prvu sampionsku titulu u F1.


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Posted 30 October 2018 - 18:34


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Posted 31 October 2018 - 20:34

Danas se navrsava 19 godina od tragicne pogibije Grega Mura na Indikar trci na Fontani.

 

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Posted 03 November 2018 - 14:25

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IMS Chairman of the Board Emeritus Mari Hulman George Dies at 83
November 03, 2018 | By Indianapolis Motor Speedway


Hulman & Company and Indianapolis Motor Speedway Chairman of the Board Emeritus Mari Hulman George, who touched the lives of millions through her deep passion for auto racing, stewardship of the Racing Capital of the World and decades of compassionate philanthropy, died Nov. 3 in Indianapolis with her family by her side. She was 83.

Mari served as IMS chairman from 1988-2016, but motorsports and the world-renowned racetrack were among the cornerstones of her life since her father, Anton “Tony” Hulman Jr., purchased the facility in November 1945 and saved it from almost certain demolition after World War II. She was a pioneer as co-owner of a team that raced at the highest levels of Midwestern auto racing, in the 1950s and 1960s, a rarity for a woman at the time.

She also touched the lives of countless Hoosiers through tireless, generous philanthropic efforts for her entire adult life, with special focus on the arts, health care and, in particular, animal care.

Mary Antonia Hulman was born Dec. 26, 1934 in Evansville, Indiana, the daughter of prominent business magnate Anton “Tony” Hulman Jr. and Mary Fendrich Hulman. “Mari” attended primary and secondary school at St. Benedict in Terre Haute and the Ladywood School in Indianapolis, and attended Purdue University.

When her father bought IMS in November 1945, Mari was immersed into the world of auto racing, becoming friends with many drivers during her teenage and early-adult years. That loyalty and passion for the sport and its competitors and teams remained steadfast for the rest of her life.

Before her 21st birthday, Mari joined with longtime family friend Roger Wolcott to form the HOW racing team, which fielded American Automobile Association (AAA) and United States Auto Club (USAC) Sprint and National Championship cars for several drivers, including Jerry Hoyt, Eddie Sachs, Tony Bettenhausen, Roger McCluskey and Elmer George, whom she married in April 1957.

The team was successful. George won the Midwest Sprint Car title in 1957 and finished third in 1956 and 1958. Sachs was runner-up in the rankings in 1954. George ended up 10th in the National Championship standings in 1957, with a victory in a 100-mile race at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, New York.

Mari also fielded an entry in the Indianapolis 500 in 1962 and 1963, with her husband as the driver. Elmer George finished a career-best 17th in 1962, receiving relief help from Paul Russo and A.J. Foyt.

Mari savored the friendships she established with drivers, team owners, mechanics and officials during her young adult years, maintaining those bonds for her entire life. She was especially close to legendary four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Foyt, whom she met a year before his 1958 Indianapolis 500 debut and is still a cherished family friend.

In a symbol of their enduring friendship, Mari and Foyt placed a commemorative “golden brick” into the famous Yard of Bricks start-finish line in May 2011 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the inaugural Indianapolis 500 and the 50th anniversary of Foyt’s first “500” victory, in 1961.

Mari’s loyalty to her extended racing family was displayed for decades in May through two parties she hosted for drivers. The “Racers Party” took place on the opening weekend of the Month of May leading into the Indianapolis 500, and she celebrated friendships with many drivers from her stint as a team owner during the “Friends of the 50s and 60s” event during the week between qualifying and the race in May.

She welcomed all drivers who participated in the “500” – including some who didn’t qualify for the race – to the parties, setting a standard for providing red-carpet treatment to all past and present Indianapolis 500 competitors when they came to the track in May, regardless of their stature with the public. She sometimes even cooked meals for drivers in May during her younger years.

Mari also was a constant fixture at the track with her family during racing events at IMS, especially in the Month of May. She visited with drivers and team officials in Gasoline Alley and on pit lane and shared in many magic moments. The photo of her embracing Willy T. Ribbs on pit lane after he became the first African-American to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, in 1991, was especially poignant and cherished by many.

Racing fans worldwide also knew her as the individual who gave the famous command to start engines for the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 for more than 15 years from the late 1990s until 2015.

She also became close friends with many of the celebrities who visited the track each May, especially beloved Memorial Day weekend fixtures Jim Nabors and Florence Henderson.

The Speedway also served as a platform for some of Mari’s tireless philanthropic efforts. She hosted the “Save Arnold” Barbecue to benefit Indiana Special Olympics every May for nearly 25 years, from 1981 through the mid-2000s. The fun event united drivers, racing personalities and media with Indiana Special OIympic athletes in sports demonstrations and other activities. The “Save Arnold” Barbecue raised more than $1 million for Indiana Special Olympics.

Mari also created a program through which thousands of Indiana school children visited the Speedway each May on complimentary field trips to learn about the connections between education and motorsports. Those field trips continue to this day.

IMS prospered and evolved into a new era during Mari’s tenure as chairman of the board, from 1988-2016.

During that span, the Indianapolis 500 grew to unprecedented worldwide popularity. The facility also expanded its annual schedule beyond the Month of May to include the Brickyard 400 for the NASCAR Cup Series, the United States Grand Prix for the FIA Formula One World Championship and the Red Bull Indianapolis GP for the FIM MotoGP World Championship.

That evolution required significant capital improvements to the facility, such as the construction of the new Pagoda control tower, an infield road course that included parts of the famous 2.5-mile oval, new pit-side garages and various safety improvements.

IMS and INDYCAR also led the development of one of the greatest safety innovations in motorsports history – the energy-absorbing SAFER Barrier – during Mari’s tenure as chairman. That barrier system was first installed in 2002 at IMS and soon adopted at nearly every major oval track in North America and many road courses worldwide.

These contributions to IMS and motorsports – along with her charitable work for the racing community – led to Mari being inducted into the IMS Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2015.

Mari’s commitment to racing was equaled by her generosity for supporting local, regional and national causes.

She was devoted to the arts and education and served for years as a trustee at the Rose-Hulman Institute for Technology in Terre Haute, which was founded in 1874 with significant assistance from the Hulman family. She received an honorary doctorate degree from Rose-Hulman in 1998 and from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, also located in Terre Haute.

The Hulman-George family also made large contributions to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana State University, Purdue University, Indiana University and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, among other art and educational institutions.

Mari also was a leading charitable force to benefit animal care, especially for horses and greyhounds, two of her greatest passions.

Her dedication to learning and horses led to the endowment and establishment in 1989 of the equine science program at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, named the Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies. The school also conducts the Mari Hulman George Thoroughbred Adoption to provide proper care for horses.

She also raised, bred and rode horses at the family’s farm, Circle S Ranch near Terre Haute, the family ranch in Wyoming and at stables in Florida. Her quarterhorses and thoroughbreds competed in numerous events. The Mari Hulman George Stakes remain a prestigious annual stakes race at Indiana Downs, in tribute to her dedication to horses and racing.

In 2001, the Indiana Department of Homeland Security renamed its search-and-rescue training area at Camp Atterbury the Mari Hulman George Search and Rescue Training Center, recognizing Mari’s contribution to the care of animals displaced and affected by disasters.

She worked tirelessly to promote adoption of retired racing greyhounds, leading by example by taking in many of the dogs at her farm. She also housed stray dogs at an extensive kennel at the family’s farm.

Besides serving as chairman of the board for Hulman & Company, IMS and the IMS Foundation, Mari also was a longtime board member of First Financial Bank, a publicly traded company headquartered in Terre Haute.

Mari is survived by three daughters, Nancy George, Josie George and Kathi George-Conforti; a son, Anton H. “Tony” George; a stepdaughter, Carolyn Coffey; seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and her longtime companion, Guy Trollinger. She was predeceased by her husband, Elmer, and a stepson, Joseph George.

Funeral arrangements are pending and have been entrusted to Callahan & Hughes Funeral Home in Terre Haute, Indiana.


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Posted 05 November 2018 - 02:42

Malo pornjave za ljubitelje Ferarija:

 

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Posted 05 November 2018 - 20:47

 

IndyCar legend and four-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Sr. discusses the 25th anniversary of his final run at the Speedway from 1993 with King Racing and what led to his decision to retire the following year, when his son Al Jr. went on to score a memorable win for Roger Penske.

 


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Posted 06 November 2018 - 11:48

 

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Posted 08 November 2018 - 01:30

RETRO: The year they all went to jail
By: Marshall Pruett | 5 hours ago

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Randy Lanier, 1986. Image by IMS


In the normal telling of the 1980s tale, IMSA is the place where racing’s drug smugglers made their home. It was Miami Vice-era sports car drivers, run amok in the GTP series, evading the FBI and DEA from Daytona to Monterey.

As RACER’s Robin Miller wrote for On Track in 1986, the dubious marijuana-related deeds of Randy Lanier, Bill and Don Whittington, and John Paul Jr. (to a lesser degree), also took a toll on the CART IndyCar Series. The story might have started in endurance racing as the smugglers spent lavish sums on exotic GTs and prototypes that bore no sponsorship markings, but CART is where the ugly end came crashing down.

Although the quartet of owner-driver-smugglers are permanently linked to IMSA, when all four were taken down in 1986, most had become IndyCar’s problem. With the 1984 IMSA GTP championship in hand, Lanier went in search of a new challenge by entering 10 CART races in 1985, and by 1986, open-wheel racing was his primary focus. Lanier, the highest-profile of the lot, was a full-time member of the CART fraternity driver when the feds came knocking during the summer of 1986. Lanier’s close friend and teammate Bill Whittington, a four-time Indy 500 starter through 1984, followed the same IMSA-to-IndyCar path by entering 11 CART races in 1985, and on a less hectic migration, Whittington’s brother Don entered four CART events as well.

Paul Jr., a fixture in IMSA with his father, got an earlier start in CART, winning the Michigan 500 and finishing eighth in the championship as a rookie in 1983. Sporadic CART opportunities came for Paul Jr. through 1985 as he concentrated heavily on GTP, and after finally qualifying for the Indy 500 that same year, he secured a seat to give it another go in 1986.

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John Paul Jr. Image by IMS

With sentencing coming in May – the same month as the Indy 500 – Paul Jr. would surrender the ride and his freedom as the Greatest Spectacle In Racing took place. Any IndyCar plans the Whittingtons held for 1986 would also be canceled, as their indictments for smuggling and tax evasion came prior to the season opener in April.

Lanier, having impressed at Indy and taken four top 10s in the first nine races, would break a leg in a bad crash on the Michigan superspeedway. The incident brought about a premature end to his CART campaign, and with the government hot on his trail, the ensuing months would be spent on the run as Lanier fled to Europe, then the Caribbean, where he was eventually taken into custody.

Written just prior to CART’s November 9 season finale at Tamiami Park in Florida, Miller brings us inside the main subject bubbling up within IndyCar’s paddock.

“As an otherwise good season of Indy car racing heads for the finale in Miami, the CART community must address an important, somewhat embarrassing, moral issue. How to deal with drug dealers?” he asked. “The recent arrest of Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Randy Lanier on drug trafficking charges was the third such black eye CART has received in 1986. Bill and Don Whittington pleaded guilty to similar charges last March and are awaiting trial in federal court.

“John Paul Jr., one of CART’s most promising young talents, is currently serving a five-year prison term for involvement in marijuana smuggling. With baseball, basketball and football scarred by drug scandals the past few years, Indy car racing has now joined the club.”

Mario Andretti, CART’s biggest name, aimed his fury at rivals who dragged IndyCar into their trafficking mess.

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Mario Andretti. Image by Marshall Pruett Archives

“It’s appalling, but it’s almost a sign of the times,” he told Miller. “No phase of sports or industry is immune from it. You pride yourself in the image you try and portray, and a couple of rotten apples spoil it. Those people are messing with my livelihood and it’s been clean for 30 years. I resent it, tremendously.”

By 1986, relaxed views on recreational drug use had dramatically changed as crack cocaine made national headlines and First Lady Nancy Reagan was ever-present with her “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. Harmless stereotypes of stoners passing around a joint had been replaced by network coverage of drug overdoses and death as Scarface-style shootouts in the streets among smugglers and dealers scared the s*** out of average Americans.

From Andretti’s comments to the sentiments offered by others interviewed in Miller’s story, their words are clearly colored by fear of hardcore drugs overrunning CART. Whether they fully grasped the difference between CART drivers using drugs and those who were trafficking hundreds of tons of marijuana is less certain.

“I asked Bill last May about being indicted,” said Frank Arciero at the time, who ran a two-car effort for Lanier and Whittington in 1985 and Lanier on his own in 1986. “And he said, ‘Ah, it’s a bunch of B.S., I make my money selling mobile homes.’ I heard a rumor about Randy halfway through this season and asked him. He denied it, too, saying he was totally against any drug habit.

“I asked him if he was connected with Whittington, and he said, ‘No.’ It was a shock to me when I heard about Randy. I still believe him. He’s not been indicted, but if he is screwing with that stuff, they should put him in jail. If he’s guilty, I don’t even want to see him again.”

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Don Whittington mastered the art of sponsor-free racing. Image by IMS

As Robin wrote about the 1986 rules, CART had the latitude to ban smugglers from driving in the wake of their indictments, but such moves would have been little more than ceremonial gestures. Whatever reputational damage was done, and with prison sentences varying from a half-decade for Paul Jr. to life for Lanier, a CART competition license wasn’t much to surrender while stuck in a cage.

A question of how CART should protect itself against future intrusions by smugglers was, at least in late 1986, the new and worthy subject to explore.

“We’re not a detective agency, but we need to police our own actions,” offered three-time Indy 500 winner Johnny Rutherford. “I can maybe see a hardline coming out of this. If convicted, you can’t race.”

Andretti disagreed.

“I don’t think you could ever put it in a rule book to set a guideline,” he countered. “It’s up to us, as individuals: Are we really going to resent these people? They should be totally alienated from future involvement or connection. I can assure you, they won’t be allowed to walk in my pit. There’s nothing those people could say to justify this.”

CART’s rule book at the time provided no specifics on drug usage or distribution. Article X gave its leaders wide permissions to punish or expel those who “perform any act tending to bring discredit or disrepute or CART or its members,” and elsewhere, in Miscellaneous Section 12, someone felt it necessary to include, “All drivers shall remove all dentures before starting an event,” but leafy and powdery substances had yet to make it onto the series’ regulatory radar.

Former CART PR Director John Evenson responded with two angles to pursue during the off-season.

“We’re concerned,” he said. “There could be possible changes in the rules and policies. There’s two things to look at: The problem of drug use and the involvement of importing it.”

After 1986, three of CART’s four smugglers would never return to the cockpit of an Indy car. Only Paul Jr., released halfway through 1988, was able to redeem himself as the man’s driving talent, rather than his prison record, proved too hard to ignore. Andretti’s take on the drug situation, compared to Rutherford’s preference for a lifetime ban, had been adopted.

Relegated to smaller teams, Paul Jr. entered 12 CART races from 1989-1994, earning a best of 10th at the Indy 500 in 1992. With the advent of the all-oval Indy Racing League, his career would receive another boost from 1996-1999.

Well-liked by most on both sides of the CART/IRL split, Paul Jr’s win for Byrd-Cunningham Racing at the 1998 Texas 500 felt like an overdue reprieve for the Indiana native. Most reckoned his father was responsible for the majority of the smuggling and skullduggery, anyways.

Don Whittington, the next to be freed, went back to more comfortable racing circles in 1999 when he took part in a few sports car events. His brother Bill, out in the early 2000s, poured his energy into the family-owned Springs Resort & Spa in Colorado. With old habits proving hard to kick, the 68-year-old was sentenced last month to an 18-month prison stay for tax evasion.

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Bill Whittington’s legal problems have continued to the present day. Image by Marshall Pruett Archives

Lanier, unexpectedly released from his life sentence late in 2014, has kept busy with amateur racing and driver coaching in Florida.

CART’s big smuggling fright of 1986, as the coming years would demonstrate, was an isolated affair. IMSA, not CART, has taken all the reputational hits that Miller’s interviewees feared. But if you step back in time and marvel in the closing comments provided by Arciero 32 years ago, his concerns over a drug-fueled future for CART were warranted.

“They say you don’t know a man until you’ve slept with him, but I don’t plan to sleep with my driver,” he said, delivering one of the best quotes of the decade. “My driver next year will be Jeff MacPherson. He was in my Super Vee for three years, he’s driven a couple of Indy car races this year for me and I know his family. He appears to be a clean-cut kid. But I’m starting to ask myself, ‘How the hell can you tell anymore?’”


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