Best-Worst-Last-First-Whatever Lists

[Stan Reid]

Various lists about motor sports and other stuff

[Stan Reid]

My Top Five Motor Sports Films:

5-Grand Prix (1966) F1
4-Buck Privates Come Home (1947) Midget cars
3-Le Mans (1971) Endurance
2-The World's Fastest Indian (2005) LSR MC
1-Rush (2013) F1

Yours?

[Stan Reid]

Other sites where I post regularly:

1-Casebook.org
2-JTRForums.com
3-Websleuths.com
4-WW2Aircraft.net

[Storm]

Nice.

[Grundo Farb]

5 favourite rally wheel rims:

1. Speedline corse evolution (Lancia Delta Integrale Evo2)
2. Enkei (Nissan 240RS)
3. Mini-lights - classic and hard to beat
3. Cromodora (Fiat 131 Abarth)
4. Speedline (Audi S1)
5. Speedline corse 037 (lancia 037)

[Stan Reid]

My hypothetical retrospective grand prix world driving champions from 1945-49 as I calculate it using the 1950 points system (car):

1945~Jean-Pierre Wimille(Bugatti T59/50B)
1946~Raymond Sommer(Maserati 4CL)
1947~Jean-Pierre Wimille(Alfa Romeo 158)
1948~Jean-Pierre Wimille(Alfa Romeo 158)
1949~Alberto Ascari(Ferrari 125)

[Stan Reid]

My five list of biggest failed attempts to run a 2-cycle engine in a major racing series:

5=AAA Championship(IRL)=1934=Cummins Diesel=Supercharged I-6 Cummins=6.0 Liter=At first this car, driven by Hartwell "Stubby" Stubblefield, doesn't look like a failure because it raced all 500 miles at Indy, finishing in 12th place and ahead of the Cummins 4-cycle car, however as soon as the race ended, the engine seized up and the company never ran a 2-cycle car in the race again.

4=AAA Championship(IRL)=1931=Duray Special=Supercharged V-16 Duray=4.0 Liter=Driven by Leon Duray in the Indy 500, this car, although fairly fast, suffered from overheating problems so bad that it could barely complete its qualifying run. In the race, it dropped out on the sixth lap with overheating.

3=European Championship(F1)=1935=Monaco Trossi=Supercharged Double Row (8x2) Radial-16 Fiat=4.0 Liter=The car practiced for the Italian Grand Prix driven by Carlo Felice Trossi but did not make a qualifying attempt due to poor handling unrelated to the engine's performance.

2=Can Am=1970=Mac's IT Special=Four I-2 Rotax (One .8 Liter at each wheel and 8 total cylinders)=3.2 Liter=This car practiced for the Laguna Seca race driven by Hiroshi Fushida but did not attempt to qualify because of slow speeds.

1=F1=1951=Guidobaldi=Supercharged Radial-8 Guidobaldi=1.5 Liter=The car was tested by M. F. Guidobaldi but performed poorly due its unique suspension and did not enter a Grand Prix that year. The following year, the World Championship was run under F2 rules and thus the car's engine was then too big to compete.

[Rollo]

My five list of biggest failed attempts to run a 2-cycle engine in a major racing series:

Conversely, the list of successful attempts to run a 2-cycle engine in a major racing series is massive. Really massive.

[Stan Reid]

Conversely, the list of successful attempts to run a 2-cycle engine in a major racing series is massive. Really massive.

Yes, they are successful in outboard powerboats, snowmobiles and motorcycles but in auto racing, unless you count go carts, the number is pretty much zero.

[Stan Reid]

Pure thrust car two-way average record speeds by year (speed/driver/car/setup/sactioner):

1961-331.0 mph/Nathan Ostich/Flying Caduceus/1-Turbojet/SCTA

1962-342.9 mph/Art Arfons/Cyclops/1-Turbojet/SCTA

1963-407.4 mph/Craig Breedlove/Spirit of America/1-Turbojet/FIM-retroactively

1964-413.2 mph/Tom Green/Wingfoot Express/1-Turbojet/FIA-retroactively
1964-434.0 mph/Art Arfons/Green Monster/1-Turbojet/FIA-retroactively
1964-468.7 mph/Craig Breedlove/Spirit of America/1-Turbojet/FIM
1964-526.3 mph/Craig Breedlove/Spirit of America/1-Turbojet/FIM
1964-536.7 mph/Art Arfons/Green Monster/1-Turbojet/FIA

1965-555.5 mph/Craig Breedlove/Spirit of America-Sonic I/1-Turbojet/FIA
1965-576.6 mph/Art Arfons/Green Monster/1-Turbojet/FIA
1965-600.6 mph/Craig Breedlove/Spirit of America-Sonic I/1-Turbojet/FIA

1970-630.5 mph/Gary Gabelich/Blue Flame/1-Fluid Fuel Rocket/FIA

1983-634.1 mph/Richard Noble/Thrust 2/1-Turbojet/FIA

1997-714.1 mph/Andy Green/Thrust SSC/2-Turbofan/FIA
1997-763.0 mph/Andy Green/Thrust SSC/2-Turbofan/FIA

Note: 1964-65 is known as the era of the Jet Wars.