When racing/rally cars were racing/rally cars

Someone posted a link to Kenny Roberts' TZ750 flat tracker. King Kenny did a few laps on the bike he said "they don't pay me enough to ride" at last year's Indy Mile in Indianapolis (it was on the same weekend as the Indianapolis MotoGP round).

He was only supposed to be doing a few demo laps, as he hadn't ridden the bike for over 30 years and, as he said himself, "a quick practice on the bike would have been a waste of time. Either I'll do it or I won't, but I've got my bone doctor on standby…"

They didn't look like demo laps when he got out there. He was pretty fast. Fast enough to convince Valentino Rossi that his request, made before Kenny's ride, to have a go was maybe a little bit rash! He bottled it in the end, saying "only Kenny can ride this bike…"

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They didn't look like demo laps when he got out there. He was pretty fast. Fast enough to convince Valentino Rossi that his request, made before Kenny's ride, to have a go was maybe a little bit rash! He bottled it in the end, saying "only Kenny can ride this bike…"

Is there a video of that anywhere?

Here you go PeterPoddy

King Kenny's TZ750 at the Indy Mile

My brother in his FIA Sprint GT;

I have one of these with Historic Monte Carlo Rally pedigree;

Proper racing car (24litre engine)

and this is what 24 litres sounds and looks like (warning, flames content);

YouTube

oh, and a brm 1.5 litre v16 – you can hear every gear change roudn the entire circuit, magic; v16 sounds…

Is this the greatest sounding car off all time the IMSA Audi, so fast that the yanks changed the rules to ban it

Another great clip of Ari doing his thing

anyone got a photo of Nick Manns Moggie 1000, an amazing thing, saw it at Shelsey Walsh.

Somehow forgot the 190 Evo…

Here you go PeterPoddy

King Kenny's TZ750 at the Indy Mile

FFFING SUPERB! Thanks! 🙂

Had forgotten just how good that video of Ari Vatanen in his 405 T16 going up Pikes Peak was… It's incredible!

Seeing Kenny on his TZ750 too… WOW! Hitting more than 150mph down the straights, on dirt, with no brakes! JESUS!!!

As we're onto sounds now… Here's a couple for you…

The mad crazy Mazda 787B

A Euro special M3 hillclimb car with a Judd V8 F3000 engine in

The mad, bad, but sadly shortlived, Aprilia RS3 Cube

Yay, BX. Now we're talking!

wwas – that Alfa is flipping gorgeous! I love old Alfas and hate anything post 1995ish. A real shame.

I give you the landcrab http://www.landcrab.net/mainframes/main_rally.htm

real race winning rally car

And another winner http://www.ridelust.com/citroen-sm-breadvan-racer/

Jim Clark Room Duns:
http://www.duns.bordernet.co.uk/local/clark.html

28 – 30 MAY 2010
http://www.jimclarkrally.com/

Been posted already but an amazing machine!

A friend I was at college with worked at a engine builders and a customer had his RS200 engine on the dyno making over 650bhp when it decided to let one of its legs leave the bed! The customer sat in the corner of the dyno room crying! Engine blocks were rather hard to come by…

Bl00dy fantastic thread!!!

Alfa 155 V6 DTM car… About the most dominant (whilst it was racing) car any touring car racing series has ever seen. It pretty much cleaned up everything in 93-96!

Almost 500bhp at 12,000rpm from a 2.5 litre V6!

Nigel Mansell's 1987 Williams FW11-B… The most powerful F1 car ever!

Conservative estimate put the power at around 1000bhp in race trim, and approx 1200bhp in high boost, qualifying trim. I say conservative because these beasts, with no electronic aids, were hitting 220mph down the longest F1 circuit straights, running lots of wing on biiiiiig slicks! Some of the optimists reckon that the engine was capable of putting out as much as 1500bhp for a hot qualifying lap, but the pistons and the block would likely melt together very quickly at this output…

Here is my pal's Mk1 Mini Cooper S. How many folks could build a present day works rep in a shed?

Mboy I had forgotten about the Alfa 155 stunning car :-).

Love the Ari clip, one of my hero's.

Also a PSA fan, having had a 309GTI, BX 16valve and an Mi16 – best handling cars in their day, bloody quick (esp. the BX 16 valve) and remarkably reliable.

Just had a look on t'web – no wonder they were so quick, barely weighed a ton!

Go home pretenders…

Ari's PP 405. Thread closed.

PP Hill Climb 405 Iconic Film

Aston Martin DBR1

DP214

RHAM1

Pass the Kleenex, would you?

That TZ750 video is mental

Motorbike wise – the Aprilia cube was pure evil sounding in the flesh.
Remeber lying with alcohol poisoning and sunstroke at Donnington, the sound was like no other bike on the track – oh how i want one of them for my garage.

R.I.P MG 🙁

OK, I'm fully aware that this is all wrong, but still…

The Zakspeed Capri

BMW batmobile

Some great cars here…even the Toyota,but the clip of Kenny Roberts did it for me.As cool as….

1991 Jordan 191, simply the best looking F1 car 8)

Some important F1 cars still missing from this thread:

or better still:

Also:

and

…anybody recognise what my 3rd picture is (without cheating)?

I don't think we've had one of these yet either – fast and beautiful.

Another 917, this time the 917-10 Can-Am version.

the 917-30 – this was the one that made 1200bhp in it's usual trim and was uprated to 1500+ for the successful attempt on the closed circuit record.

and saving the best 'til last, the Alfa T33

aracer – Member
…anybody recognise what my 3rd picture is (without cheating)?

Brabham fan car….

Mental and beautiful too. The 935 'Moby Dick' Not as successful as the 'regular' 935 though.

Younger brother of the 956; unbeatable in its day. The 962.

on and on, that's the Zakspeed Mustang. This is the Capri to end all Capris

I have this lurking in my shed, desperate to once again see the light of day. 30 years old now beleive it or not…. go the Sud!

I have this lurking in my shed

Your definition of a shed is quite different to mine! 😆

God, this thread has made me yearn for my Rally Car Top Trumps.