pic.twitter.com

[XHawkeye]

1968 Dutch GP at Zandvoort Pedro Rodriguez and Dan Gurney chatting.



John Greenwood - Bernard Darniche - Burt Greenwood Chevrolet Corvette #76 "Spirit of LeMans"



1960 Riverside Roger Penske and Bob Holbert arrive at Riverside with their Porsche 718 RSK.

[XHawkeye]

1967 #Targa_Florio Jo Bonnier - Alfa Romeo T33



rikky von opel austria 1973 #F1

[XHawkeye]

The start crash at Hockenheim in 2001 between Schumi and Burti.. what a crash this was! #F1 #RetroF1 <--- Open for video

[XHawkeye]

1966 Spa Jochen Rindt - Cooper T81/Maseratti+



1972 Mark Donohue sits in his Porsche 917/10TC entered by Penske Racing at the Donnybrook Raceway for the Can Am.



1954 #Le_Mans_24_Hours Zora Arkus Duntov, his wife Elfi and crew celebrate the class win in a Porsche 550. A year after he will be at GM.

[XHawkeye]

1969 Daytona 24 hours Lola GT MK3 (2nd place) Lothar and crew hoping it's not serious.



Jacques Villeneuve in his BAR 002 - Honda RA000E #V10 at the Nurburgring. #F1 #OTD 2000 #EuropeanGP



Night racing… pushing it all the way to the red line.

[XHawkeye]

1976 Swedesh GP at Anderstorp Couple of Alfa Romeo flat 12 engines in their boxes in the Brabham Paddock.



2003 MONACO Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren-Mercedes MP4-17D #F1



Caroll Shelby posing in a Lotus 20 Formula Junior in the old Riverside pits in 1961.

[XHawkeye]

59 years ago today, Colin Chapman & Jim Clark after winning the 1964 Dutch Grand Prix @ Zandvoort. Bernard Cahier's photo.



Monaco 2009 Kimi Raikkonen on the front row of the grid & only 0.025s behind the dominant Brawn of Button



Ralf Schumacher in his Jordan 198 - Mugen Honda MF-301HC #V10 at Monaco. #F1 1998 #MonacoGP

[XHawkeye]

You might be cool, but you'll never be Leon Duray cool. Duray - aka the Black Devil (for his gleaming black Miller cars & black racing suit), aka The Flying Frenchman (even though he was born George Stewart in Cleveland) - in his '26 and '28 Miller 91s. #DavesCarIDService



Born 1894, Miller legally changed his name to "Leon Duray" as a tribute to Arthur Duray, one-time land speed record holder and runner-up at 1914 Indy. Lended him Gallic intrigue and flair; oddly enough Arthur Duray was a Belgian born in NYC, but later became a French citizen.



from 1925-29 Leon Duray blazed a 5 year streak in Indy qualifying, winning the pole twice and never worse than 3rd. His 1928 FWD supercharged Miller 91, with a finned intercooler of his own design, is a masterpiece & now in the Smithsonian.

Due to mechanical issues he never won at Indy, but held the qualifying record there for 9 years. He also drove it to a world closed-course record in 1928 at the Packard test track at 148 mph in 1928, a record that would stand for 26 years.

[XHawkeye]

Duray designed and built one of the craziest motors of all time, a two stroke 16 cylinder twinned-piston U16, for 1931 Indy. It never qualified, but is remembered as the loudest car ever to run at Indy. And sorta presaged the W16 of the Bugatti Veyron.

[XHawkeye]

Speaking of Bugatti & French intrigue: in 1929 Duray took his Millers to Europe, setting a course record at Monza, but went broke. Ettore Bugatti was obsessed with the Miller motors, and offered Duray cash and 3 Bugattis for them. He reverse engineered them to create his Type 51.

Duray became the 1st Bugatti dealer in the USA, but only sold those 3. Sometime in the late 1950s, his Millers were found hidden in a Bugatti warehouse in France, carefully dissembled to take engine design specs. They were later restored & placed in the Smithsonian.

My inner patriot is a bit outraged by Bugatti's underhanded cribbing of all-American racing technology, but in all honesty Harry Miller's DOHC 91 design was itself, um, inspired by the earlier Indy Peugeots like Arthur Duray's.