With Rob Walker --- Brands Hatch, circa '66 . . .
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With Rob Walker --- Brands Hatch, circa '66 . . .
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Yardley-BRM . . . . .
'. . . La Shelby Cobra de l'équipage Bondurant/Neerpash/Siffert, ici photographiée au Nürburgring en 1964 . . .'
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Jo Siffert leads Jacky Ickx, 4.5 litre Porsche 917 ahead of the 3 litre Mirage M3 Ford Cosworth. Osterreichring 1969.
"The 1968 British Grand Prix was a fantastic race won to everyone's surprise by Jo Siffert in Rob Walker's Lotus Ford . Rob Walker was a privateer . Imagine that today -- a private formula one entrant. Siffert was 4.4 seconds ahead of Chris Amon in a Ferrari ."
Excellent additions........
From the helmet graphic, that's a photo of Bob Bondurant in the FIA Cobra that he shared with Jochen Neerpasch in the 1964 Nurburgring 1000 km. Jo Siffert did not co-drive this car. In both Ed Heuvink's definitive bio Jo Siffert: The Swiss Racing Legend and on RacingSportsCars.com, Siffert is listed as finishing the 1964 1000 km in 8th overall driving the Porsche 904 GTS 2.0 that he shared with car-owner Heinz Schiller. Siffert did drive a Cobra 289 FIA for Shelby later that year, at the Freiburg-Schauinsland hill climb, bearing start-number 67. Not the car in the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by LongRanger
Don't believe everything that you see on Wikipedia. Just sayin'...
-- David
P.S. I visited the Schlumpf museum back in 1993. It is very cool -- and I hear that it's gotten better under current management. The Schlumpf brothers were the perfect customers for Jo Sifffert -- they compulsively bought every Bugatti that they could lay their grasping hands on, and weren't too picky about what they paid (which eventually caught up with them when they bankrupted their textile business and the employees took their car collection hostage). The cars on display in Mulhouse aren't over-restored, as tends to be the case here in the U.S. of A. I personally hate to see rows of beautiful sports cars that should be out being thrashed in all their hand-built oily glory through the nearby Vosges mountains!
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The Le Mans running start...
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