Niki Lauda at the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, with the March-Ford 721X @ STP March Racing Team.
Photo by The Cahier Archives.
Caroll Shelby (1923 / 2012)
A racing driver with a dream of so much more.
Shelby raced for a large number of teams in the 50’s, such as Maserati and Aston Martin. With the latter, he even managed to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959.
But aside from the driving, Shelby wanted to build properly fast cars. The fruits of his labor are definitely not unknown to the world, mainly in the US: names as big as the Shelby Cobra and the Mustang Shelby will certainly be rembered for many years to come.
You’ll be missed old man.
“To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one’s ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”
Bruce McLaren, 1964
The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is easily one of the top ten cars of all time, and it’s certainly one of the top 5 of the 1960′s. The car made it’s first appearance at the 1967 Turin Motorshow and was responsible for quite literally blowing the mind of every automotive journalist in attendance.
The 33 Stradale was fitted with a 2.0 litre V8 that was an engineering revelation in 1967, it had fuel injection, 4 ignition coils, 16 spark plugs, 4 chain-driven camshafts, a red line of 10,000RPM, a race spec horsepower rating of just over 270hp, a 0-60mph time of 5.5 seconds and a top speed of 160mph.
