Anniversaries in 2013

[D-Type]

What anniversaries have we got coming up this year?

1913 - 100 years since nothing special as far as I can see
1938 - 75 years since Tazio Nuvolari hit a stag in practice for the Donington GP. He went on to win the race. And the stag? He had it's head mounted and shipped home to Mantua
1953 - 60 years since the first Coronation Safari
1963 - 50 years since Jim Clark shook up the US racing establishment by nearly winning Indianapolis in a totally different type of car
1988 - 25 years since Ayrton Senna's first World Championship

Any more?

[slorydn1]

1998-15 years since Dale Earnhardt Sr FINALLY won the Daytona 500 on his 20th try, after so many close calls and last minute debacles kept him from winning the Great American Race (man I cannot believe its been that long already).

Thanks for the great topic

[BDunnell]

30 years since Hannu Mikkola became the first world drivers' champion in the World Rally Championship driving a four-wheel drive car.

[FAL]

30 years since Hannu Mikkola became the first world drivers' champion in the World Rally Championship driving a four-wheel drive car.

Which sort of highlights that he ought to have been, by a significant margin, for the previous two years in that car!
Must be some "last two-wheel drive" anniversaries too?

[FAL]

In fact, "30th anniversary of the end of International Rallying as we knew it". (ie. the end of the two year extensions of the old Appendix J Gps 2 and 4: the end of regulations that allowed easy home DIY modifications to vehicle models not already incorporating an expensive high spec)

[BDunnell]

Which sort of highlights that he ought to have been, by a significant margin, for the previous two years in that car!

Indeed!

Must be some "last two-wheel drive" anniversaries too?

Off the top of my head, was Didier Auriol's 1988 Tour de Corse victory the last in the WRC by a rear-drive car?

[Rollo]

What anniversaries have we got coming up this year?

1913 - 100 years since nothing special as far as I can see
Any more?

Isn't it the 100th year of the moving automotive assembly line? I seem to remember some Ford Motor Co. hoo-haa about this in an email they sent.

[FAL]

Well, it seems we have one today.
On this date 50 years ago, Eric Jackson and Ken Chambers set off from London in Cortina MWC448 to break the London-Cape Town record.
By my reckoning, that also makes it the second "works" Cortina, TOO528 just beating it by appearing on the 62 RAC (Jeff Uren, then Henry Taylor on the 63 Monte).

[D-Type]

Follow this link and wander round the site that tells all about Eric Jackson. Enjoy

[D28]

In the power to the rear movement, it will be 50 years on in June since the 1st win for a mid-engined layout at Le Mans. Bandini and Scarfiotti drove their Ferrari 250P to the win. Since then all outright winners have used this format.