As someone who saw Frank race in Australia many times, I can assure you that it is absolutely NOT pronounced 'Matik'. It's 'Matich' as in 'Choo Choo'. His hopes of racing in CanAm with the SR4 were stillborn when his main sponsor Repco decided that with the Bruce and Denny show in full swing, any venture by Frank would be of little value. The photo of Frank in the Matich A50 Repco Holden is one that I took on his victory lap after he won the 1971 Australian Grand Prix at Warwick Farm. It was a car that he designed and built using the same people who had constructed the SR4, and it set pole position, fastest lap and won its first race, against a very competitive field. Thanks for the video.
Hope you enjoyed it - that's one of the biggest challenges with doing research primarily through written sources, any linguistic peccadillos are all but completely impossible to discern from the outside looking in. And coming from a primarily Germanic and Slavic language background, it adds a whole additional layer of fun!
As someone who saw Frank race in Australia many times, I can assure you that it is absolutely NOT pronounced 'Matik'.
It's 'Matich' as in 'Choo Choo'.
His hopes of racing in CanAm with the SR4 were stillborn when his main sponsor Repco decided that with the Bruce and Denny show in full swing, any venture by Frank would be of little value.
The photo of Frank in the Matich A50 Repco Holden is one that I took on his victory lap after he won the 1971 Australian Grand Prix at Warwick Farm.
It was a car that he designed and built using the same people who had constructed the SR4,
and it set pole position, fastest lap and won its first race, against a very competitive field.
Thanks for the video.
Hope you enjoyed it - that's one of the biggest challenges with doing research primarily through written sources, any linguistic peccadillos are all but completely impossible to discern from the outside looking in. And coming from a primarily Germanic and Slavic language background, it adds a whole additional layer of fun!
Thank you for filling in another gap in my knowledge of sports cars and their history. And there are many gaps. And it's done with style and humour.
Glad you enjoyed - have a great weekend!
@@lenslrAnd you too. Your videos are one of the jigsaw pieces of happiness and contentment.
At 2:42, that looks like stove pipe or dryer ducting to the rear brakes. Whatever works.
Haha, engineering is not always glamorous, especially when you've just got the stock of the local hardware store for spares
@@lenslr He did a great job with what he had!