Title: 1955 Le Mans race
Post by: thebear on April 07, 2004, 04:44:01 am
??? O.K., why didn't the Moretti entries compete? ???
Title: Re:1955 Le Mans race
Post by: jpchenet on April 07, 2004, 09:48:42 am
They gridded too late!!
(At least that's what my Internet search told me!! ;D)
(At least that's what my Internet search told me!! ;D)
Title: Re:1955 Le Mans race
Post by: thebear on April 08, 2004, 01:20:00 am
They gridded too late!!
(At least that's what my Internet search told me!! ;D)
;DAnd it was right! ;D(At least that's what my Internet search told me!! ;D)
(sound of more pages turning furiosly)
Title: 1955 Le Mans race, more . . . .
Post by: thebear on April 08, 2004, 01:26:27 am
8)What can be said about Brigs Cunningham's enine in the #22?
Title: Re:1955 Le Mans race
Post by: hgb on April 08, 2004, 08:12:46 am
The car was the self build C-6R with an Offenhauser engine. It didn't finish, though. Why was 1955 the last year that Briggs Cunningham competed in Europe ? ;D
Title: Re:1955 Le Mans race
Post by: Steve Pyro on April 08, 2004, 10:51:05 am
The car was the self build C-6R with an Offenhauser engine. It didn't finish, though. Why was 1955 the last year that Briggs Cunningham competed in Europe ? ;D
1955 was final year for Cunningham cars due to the US Internal Revenue Service only allowing 5 years before classifying such a business as a non-deductible hobby and, therefore, the factory closed its doors at the end of the year.
Title: Re:1955 Le Mans race
Post by: hgb on April 08, 2004, 02:32:05 pm
Right you are. ;D Interesting, quitting racing just to avoid the tax.
Title: Re:1955 Le Mans race
Post by: thebear on April 09, 2004, 01:49:46 am
Right you are. ;D Interesting, quitting racing just to avoid the tax.
:( Not exactly avoiding the tax but loosing the deduction for the expenses. :'( B.C. was also the first to show up at a racetrack with his cars in a large enclosed trailer with car ramps and an integral machine shop. 8)
:) No new `teasers' for a while as I am preparing to go to Long Beach California where I will be a marshal at the OWRS (nee CART) race. ;D That will be followed the next weekend by a Porsche Reunion at Daytona, and the following weekend also at Daytona for an SCCA National club race. :o I will be running the radio net at Race Control at Daytona. :D
