The Cortina at Sebring
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2024
- Another period gem from the archives of The Garagista, The 1964 Sebring 3 Hour race. Presented by English Ford Line. The Cortina at Sebring. Filled with period images of significant cars and drivers.
the grip on the cortina is amazing to watch
Priceless film of a great era...The Lotus Cortina...really an amazing racing car!
those twin cam lotus engine's are just perfect loved my lotus cortina
Fantastic history; a driver who has a great feel for the car can run a car like the Cortina sprung like a buggy and hang her out there !!!
No one could wheel a Cortina like Clark, then or now ... 😎
That little segment starting at 7:05 of Jimmy Clark teasing Dan Gurney is priceless!
Lotus Cortina one of my favourite cars.
Jim Clark, el mejor piloto de la historia!!! Un caballero de las carreras muy distinto a los fatuos divos de hoy en día.
Their are too few of these cars around, great show, thank you.
Back in the 60s I built a lotus cortina out of a GT cortina with an engine from a burn out ,used it for rallying the lotus rear A frames were not reliable leaf springs were reliable ,,later I built a rally car out of a ford classic fitted with a lotus cortina engine,and modified suspension !
I'm not so sure why it hasn't been said before, there are more Lotus Cortinas racing today than Lotus managed to build 👌
Great period footage! My friend owned 166 RUR. I was lucky enough to meet up wiith him and Dan Gurney at Goodwood a couple of years ago, where Dan was reunited with the Cortina.
FORD!!!!!!!! ,FORD!!!!,and.....,and......FORD!!!!!!!!.Thanks for sharing!!!
Wow what a different time seeing people walking along some parts of the track must have been exciting
Pretty good when you consider that the cortina was a modified family car up against specifically designed race cars! 😎👍
When you take a good look at the Mk1 Cortina - it is a remarkably efficiently designed car - I read Ford used a computer designed to calculate stress in aircraft components to refine the design. They didn’t waste any structural steel. Everything seems to be minimal size and weight for its job. It would have made the basic family car cheaper to build, sell and get more MPG for the owner. The crash protection is lacking. Looking at my Mk1 Cortina - which weighs 750kg - it is a lightweight little thing; mine has been stripped of its rear seats, given a 2.0 Cosworth engine with Webers and 5 speed gearbox, and even in a fairly mild state of tune she is exhilarating to drive even by modern standards. Modern cars all end up heavy, and to have lightness is new to me! I haven’t had her long - still a lot of work to get her the way I want her - but in my opinion one of the ‘special ingredients’ of the Mk1 Lotus Cortina is the efficiently built structure. Back in the day Chapman lightened it further with aluminium door skins, bonnet and boot lids.
Fantastic video.
I'm wondering how on earth Gurney ever fit inside the Cortina without the steering wheel getting in the way of his knees!
Awesome video! I found a short clip of this a while ago and wanted to see the whole thing, thanks for sharing!
Brought back great memories of Sir John Whitmore and Jacie Icxx at the Marlboro 12 Hour Thanks
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
JIM CLARK - By far the greatest driver ever - no doubt. He is and was the Best of the Best. No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark.
This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps...For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just four examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
great stuff, thank-you, twas unaware of galaxie and falcon campaign,,owned a fairlane myself
Had a 65 GT, a kid across town had a Lotus. We met , we ran ,He won.🏁
Love the upturned tyres to stop drivers cutting corners!
They look absolutely lethal.
Great Cortina
13:00 remove race car radiator cap bare handed! Tough hands!
No , that must have been filmed when the engine was cold .
LOL! Rose-jointed suspension anyone? It does have a rubber cover though...
How many of today's V8 Super Car drivers can fix their own cars?
what are we gonna call it???hoisting an inside front,,if it twas a mini hoisting an inside rear we called it takin a leak
"Racitis" Lots of people suffer of that.
Lol you what mate?