Don't forget about Super-Vee - popular in the 60's - Bill Scott - owner of
the Summit Point Raceway was a 2x World Champ. This class raced in Europe
and the US and was a support race for many F1 races at the "Glen" !
Gil
----- Original Message -----
From: "James S. Kellar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [F500] Editorial: How did F1000 go wrong?
Eric D Christensen wrote:
Actually I believe the FF predated FV. If memory serves, FF sprouted up
in Europe sprouted in Europe in the late 50s / early 60s largely as a
less expensive alternative to Formula Junior (which had become cost
prohibitive due to fairly open engine modification rules).
FV was an American invention in the late 60s and was intended from the
beginning as a low buck, low tech, home builder friendly club racing
class.
While in college in the mid-sixtys (sometime 1966-67 as I recall) with no
money to race, I took care of a "rich" guy's race car to generate income.
His car was an old beat up Formcar (FV) that was several years old
(already
maybe 3 - 5 years old).
While at a national race at Continental Divide Raceway (Colorado) we saw
our
first FF, it was a Lotus 51. The guy immediately called Lotus Southwest
in
Dallas and secured one to be coming in on their second shipment of 51's.
It was so new to the US that it came with a wimpy little English rollhoop
(approx 6" at the widest point) we sawed it off and constructed a new one
that would pass tech. I also remember this was the first time I saw the
English method of brazing (in lieu of welding) we took it to an old timer
who immediately recognized it as manganese-bronze or silicon-bronze. He
told
us it was as strong as tig welding, he had some of the matching rod and
brazed our new bar on in the same manner
We had to run with the assorted formula cars including FB, FC and Formula
Juniors until later when the formula ford became a real SCCA class.
I'm not sure of any manufacturers that preceded that.
Jim in Honolulu
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