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Showing posts with label CN. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Wolf GB08

 

Wolf GB08 at the Course de Côte de Tonnerre 2020

See more photos from the 2020 Tonnerre Hillclimb via this link.

Wolf Racing Cars, Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia, Italy.  Wolf Racing Cars are an Italian racing car constructor who as Avelon Racing bought the rights to us the Walter Wolf name in 2009.  The original Walter Wolf Racing was a F1 constructor that famously won its first race when Jody Scheckter won the 1977 Argentine GP.  The F1 adventure ended in 1979 when Walter Wolf sold his team to Fittipaldi.  

The first car from the new Walter Wolf Racing was the GB08 a CN group prototype car.  The original GB08 had a Honda engine in common with many CN cars.  The cars are used in trackdays,  hillclimbs, prototype racing series and Endurance races all over the world.  The livery of many of the cars recall the F1 days.  

Saturday, 10 September 2016

Ligier JS49-Honda CN

Bruno Berton, Ligier JS49, Course de Cote de Sancerre 2016
Pour plus de photos de la Course de Cote de Sancerre, suivez ce lien.

Fo more photos of the 2016 Sancerre speed hillclimb, click on the link above.

Automobiles Martini, Magny Cours, France.  In 2004 Guy Ligier acquired a majority shareholding in Martini and started building cars at their factory using his Ligier brand name.  One of the cars they produced since 2007 for amateur sports car racers is the Ligier JS49.  It is built to CN regulations and sold in Europe and USA.  It competes in hillclimbs, VdeV racing, Britsports and SCCA C sports.  It has an aluminium chassis, composite body, 6 speed sequential gearbox, and a 2 litre Honda V-tech engine producing 240bhp.  The car won the 2008 VdeV championship.