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Originally Posted by SoCalPVguy
Right Track. :up:
Keep Digging. :)
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Originally Posted by SoCalPVguy
Right Track. :up:
Keep Digging. :)
It' s the same car, but a year earlier:
(Sir) Jack Brabham
1964
Brabham BT12-offy
Indy 500
Brabham cars competed at the Indianapolis 500 from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. After an abortive project in 1962,[49] MRD was commissioned in 1964 to build an Indycar chassis powered by an American Offenhauser engine. The resultant BT12 chassis was raced by Jack Brabham as the Zink-Urschel Trackburner at the 1964 event and retired with a fuel tank problem. The car was entered again in 1966, taking a third place for Jim McElreath.
1962 Zink Trackburner turbine.....
Indy
Dan Gurney
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Originally Posted by Chris R
Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding. We have a winner. :bounce:
Gurney switched to Mickey Thompsons team for the race. If you look closely you can see the intake for the turbine behind the roll bar.
Good work Chris. :up:
Your Turn
Here is some more info on this beastie...Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenixent
This is excerpted from Dan Gurney's AllAmericanRacers website, and it addresses his first Indy 500 and inviting Colin Chapman...who he hooked up with Ford and who ultimaely revloutionized open-wheeled racing the following year with the Lotus:
"But first, The Rookie Test: It was good that Chapman was such a self-sufficient guest, because Gurney was not able to play full-time host at the Indy 500 party. He wound up driving one of three mid-engined cars designed by Englishman John Crostwaite for Mickey Thompson, who powered them with aluminum Buick V8s as the Harvey Aluminum Specials. Thompson, like Gurney, had seen the future in the Cooper Brabham drove in ‘61, and he was there with a team the year after Brabham’s pioneering run in the Cooper.
Before he could drive, Gurney, like any first-time Indy driver, had to take and pass his rookie test. The car he drove for that test was, ironically, an Offy, John Zink’s "Trackburner Special". It was his first drive in an Offy and his first drive on an oval track.
"I had never driven a lap on an oval track before," Gurney says, "or on those old, very hard, narrow-tread Firestone tires, that were essentially built for rigid-axle cars."
"The rookie test was not a slam-dunk affair," Gurney says. "There was no guarantee you were going to be able to get the car up to the speed you needed to go to qualify for the Speedway."
Gurney managed. He says the difference in feel between the Offy and the mid-engined monocoque was not as vast as one might think.
"There wasn’t that much difference in the steering effort of the front-engined Offy and the rear-engined Lotus I drove the following year," Gurney says. The thing that impressed him was the track itself."
According to his, the Zinc Trackburner was an Offy roadster...and Gurney drove it only to complete his rookie tests....
This information finally prompted another party to contact Donald Davidson, the Historian at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, who is an authority on not only the IMS but many aspects of the history of Open Wheeled racing.... Here is "The Word" from Donald Himself:
1962 -- John Zink (with a "K") did in fact enter both a turbine and a Front Engined Roadster with the offy that year...Gurney took his Rookie Test in the Offy car, and practiced in it as well, because the turbine was not ready yet...in addition to Gurney, Duane Carter Sr. and Bill Cheesbourgh, among others, also did practice in the Zink Turbine car once it was ready to run, but it was still very experimental...none could get it up to speeds needed, so the car was not entered into qualifying....that was when Gurney had to get his ride with Mickey Thompson that I described above... BTW...this Turbine also was a Boeing engine...
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...=guessthis.jpg
here is a new one... year, track and at least the front two cars.....
great info on the Zink turbine - here's hoping for a new era of innovation!!
Drivers- Car #3 Don Branson inside pole and Car #98 Parnelli Jones outside pole
Year- 1961
Car- Car #3 Epperly-Offy and Car #98 Watson-Offy
Track- Milwaukee - August Race
Phoenix has it! (I feel sort of like Tom Carnegie saying "and its a new lap record" as often as I have typed that!!)...
good work!
your turn
Thanks Chris. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris R
That Epperly sure looks different next to the Watson. They had 26 cars on the track for that start. Sure would be nice to see 26 cars at Milwaukee again.
New photo coming up.
Driver, Car, & Year
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