3 h de Lourenço Marques - Moçambique - 1970

Lourenço Marques 3 h - Mozambique - Nov. 29, 1970

Alfa Romeo T33/2 (Paddy Driver)

Brian Redman - vencedor

Chevron B16 Spyder Ford #4 (Brian Redman) / Mazda RX3 M10A #18 (Jody Scheckter)

Fotos gentilmente cedidas por MIT650 via Autosport:

 http://autosport.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=as.stories/63411

Classificação final

1 - Brian Redman /GB - Chevron B16 Spyder Ford - 116 voltas
2 - Paddy Driver / ZA - Alfa Romeo T33/2
3 - Clive van Beuren / Red Whitehouse ZA - Porsche 906
4 - Frank Gardner / AUS - Mike De Udy / GB - Ford Boss Mustang 302
5 - Geoff Ortlepp - S. Taylor - Chevron B8
6 - John Rowe - Ecosse
7- John McNicol / ZA - Willie Ferguson / ZA - Lola T210
8 - Jody Scheckter / ZA - Spencer Schultze / ZA - Mazda RX3 M10A

Classificação final detalhada:

http://autosport.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=as.stories/63411

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Em 1955, quando Brian Redman tinha 18 anos, esteve no Grande Prêmio da Inglaterra com seu pai e avô. Stirling Moss venceu, seguido de perto por Juan Manuel Fangio, ambos pilotando Mercedes W196. Houve rumores de que Fangio poderia ter passado, mas deixou o inglês vencer na frente de seus conterrâneos.

Após a corrida, Brian aproximou-se de Fangio e perguntou como tinha andado tão rápido. Fangio respondeu que era simples: “Mais acelerador, menos freio”.

História contada em: http://www.charl-art.com/more-throttle.htm

In 1955, when Brian Redman was 18 years old, he attended the British Grand Prix with his father and grandfather. In the race Stirling Moss won, followed closely by Juan Manuel Fangiio, both driving a Mercedes W196. Rumor had it that Fangio could have passed Moss, but he let the Englishman win as he was racing in front of a home audience.
After the race Brian approached Fangio and asked him how he went so fast. Fangio told Brian it was simple. “More throttle, less brake”.

Check this history at: http://www.charl-art.com/more-throttle.htm

Mercedes 300SL - Luanda

O preparador português "Mestre" Jaime Rodrigues alinha o Mercedes 300SL de José Manuel Simões em Luanda.

Foto: Mário Rodrigues (filho de Jaime Rodrigues) via:
 http://www.interclassico.com/?a=imgthreads-view&i=8&d=243
No link acima, bela reportagem com toda a história do conhecido preparador.

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The Mercedes Benz 300SL was one of the first road-going cars to be fitted with a high-performance chassis.

Two chassis designed on general space frame principles appeared in 1952 - the Lotus Mark Six and the Mercedes Benz 300SL.

The development of chassis having adequate torsional stiffness is a fairly recent one. Sports cars of an earlier era made up for this deficiency using extremely stiff suspension; many, in fact, gave the impression that there were no suspension springs in their make-up.

 The early sports car chassis was constructed on massive lines, and its design owed more to bridge-building than to light engineering. Even today (1961) the chassis of many production sports cars are stiff only in bending.

"Racing and Sports Car - Chassis Design - Michael Costin and David Phipps - 1961"

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300 SL Owner´s Manual / Manual do Proprietário da 300 SL

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