1969 TASMAN SERIES Highlights CHRIS AMON
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2013
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New Zealander Chris Amon won the 1969 Tasman Series in his Ferrari 246T. This video contains Alec Mildren film highlights from Lakeside, Warwick Farm and Sandown. Note the introduction of wings on the cars as talked about by Kevin Bartlett in one of our previous videos.
All credit to the original owners.
For more info on the 1969 Tasman Series, see: www.sergent.com.au/motor/tasma...
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What a great driver Amon was loved following his career in the late 60s and 70s
RIP Chris Amon, who sadly passed in 2016.
Tx for sharing, I hadn't known .
fantastic driver and beautiful car, Amon and Ferrari
Some great memories there. My introduction to motor sport photography back then...
The next time Ferrari would score a 1-2 finish in the Australian Grand Prix would be in Adelaide in 1987 when Gerhard Berger won with Michele Alboreto finishing 2nd. Alboreto had finished 3rd on the road, but the Lotus Honda of Ayrton Senna was disqualified for having oversize front brake ducts. Thus the race was a 1-2 for the actual Scuderia (Amon and Bell's Ferrari's, although factory cars, were run in the Tasman Series by David McKay's Scuderia Veloce team out of Sydney).
I had one of the best seats for that race, being part of the recovery crew.
Sitting in the truck at The Causeway corner, I remember the best display of wet weather driving ever by Jochen Rindt.
For those who don't understand a lot of anger towards CAMS and their fuckups over the decades, and their seemingly intent on destroying Australian motor racing, this was a 2.5 liter series unique to Oz/NZ that stopped a whole bunch of F1 teams coming over from Europe.
Many more teams would have come over for the Tasman Series, and many more Australians could have afforded older F1 cars to compete if not for that idiotic 2.5 liter engine displacement rule which was in no man's land, hell they could have had F2 rules and lots more teams and drivers would have come over.
Although F5000 wasn't perfect, it did illustrate this fact when numbers of English, Canadian and Americans came over, and of course many Australians bought cars from the same places.
... but what could have been for Australia had CAMS allowed 3.0 cars in the 1960s.
This is fantastic stuff. I just watched Derek Bell in an interview in a Driving for Ferrari series on Motorsport.com. He speaks very favorably about his performance and how much fun he had driving the Tasman Cup series and the off track antics as well. Hopefully more folks will come find this great content. Were there Crocs in that pond for the first race?
Derek Bell in his first years of an outstanding career mainly in sports Cars.
I noticed Hill's wing collapse, something that occurred often.
The height of them got out of hand.
The Mildren Alfa Romeo was actually powered by the same 2.5L Alfa Romeo V8's that powered the Alfa Romeo T33/2 sports cars.
A bit of a farce wasn't it. A great race at Sandown as it had been in the NZ rounds at Puke, Wigram and Teretonga. Levin and Warwick's Farm were tight circuits completely unsuitable for these 2.5 litre F1 derivatives or the later F5000 cars. Lotus didn't have the time to get across the Tasman and prepare at Lakeside and that really wrecked the series. On paper it was a great field , with a full Lotus F1 team , Ridn't and a full Ferrari team. But again Bell is basically only has a spare engine.
That Ferrari V6 dated back to the mid fifties I think
Seems Chris Amon didn't get his wish about wings.....
Yes. The high and dangerously spindly supported wings of the time did get outlawed though. Replaced by safer, lower down, more strongly attached ones.
Carl Cushman Hybels But not before some spectators were killed at the Spanish GP.