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2007 UK 1.5 litre F1 Proxy Invitational - 2006/12/28 22:08
The image is used by kind permission of Michael Turner of Studio 88 www.studio88.co.uk
2007 UK 1.5 litre F1 Proxy Invitational
The 1961 to 1965 1.5 litre F1 period was a wonderful period in motor racing with many significant innovations, personalities and events a feature of the grand prix scene in the swinging sixties.
It was the era that marked the real shift towards the British based specialist F1 designer/builders with Colin Chapman leading the way but it also featured the patriotic BRM team’s heyday and it sewed the seed for many future smaller teams that would be such a feature of F1 racing in the late 1960s and into the 1970s and beyond.
This era saw the refinement of the rear-engined cars that had been introduced in the last couple of years of the 1950s 2.5 litre formula. All the pundits expected slower less entertaining racing with these smaller engined cars but great drivers including Jim Clark, Graham Hill, John Surtees and Dan Gurney intense racing and world championship title battles were ensured. There were still wonderful circuits almost unchanged since World War 2 and the cars were still resplendent in their patriotic racing colours. These lightweight “cigar tubed” cars combined increasingly neat and refined engineering and punchy V8 engines from Coventry-Climax, BRM and Ferrari. All this combined to push lap speeds way beyond the large front-engined cars of the 1950s.
Let’s hope that this proxy race series recaptures some of this spectacle and atmosphere.
This is a friendly event with entries by invitation.
General Rules
Cars should be 1/32 scale models of F1 cars from the 1961-65 1.5 litre period.
Hard body shells only.
Reasonable scale appearance and representation of authentic colour/number/driver schemes. Wheels, inserts and tyres (see below for limits) should be in keeping with the prototype.
Tyres.
Rears: 0.80" minimum diameter, maximum width 1961-63 0.3", 1964-65 0.36"
Fronts: 0.75" minimum diameter
Free motor choice.
Minimum ground clearance 3mm.
Accurate wheelbase and track (tolerance 1.5mm).
Single guide with a maximum penetration into the slot of 3/16". Guide not to be visible from directly above the car in the straight ahead position.
No traction magnets
Cars not deemed to be within the spirit of the event will be excluded.
Venues
Blackpool
Ladybrook Valley Raceway
Midford Combe
Earls Hall Park
Southend Slot Racing Club
Others TBD.
Points Scoring
In keeping with the period, points will be awarded to the the top six finishers in each race: 9,6,4,3,2,1. If there are nine or less qualifying races only the best five results will count towards the total. If there are more than nine races the best six results will count. Tied results will be resolved by placings, etc.
Each race will feature a Concours parade (preferably a photo at each venue) but there will be no points awarded.
OR
Concours points will be awarded to the six "best dressed" cars at the beginning of the series 9,6,4,3,2,1. These points may count as one round towards the championship as described above. (NB. the points dropping structure would help give a well detailed but slightly less competitive car a bit of a "step up").
Each venue will be able to choose their own method of running races but ideally each participating driver would keep to a designated lane and drive every car once.
Invites so far:
Graham Windle
Dave Jones
John Prince
Charlie Prince
Bryan Jones
David Lawson
Chris Pomeroy
Joel Thura
Pete Shepherd
Charlie Fitzpatrick?
Graham Green?
Alan Tadd
Mark Gussin
Mac Pinches
Barry Boor
Jay Hardy
Phang Yuen Loong
Lim Cheng Law
Bill Charters
*Please Note* This particular topic is a locked post and only moderators can edit this post, ie to add names to the list etc. If you want to make posts about the event please feel free to make your own topic posts and any discussions can take place on those individual subjects, questions etc in there. This is to keep the forum tidy and ordered - thank you.
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