Van Diemen RF90 Formula Ford

Maxime Lebreton, Van Diemen RF90 Formula Ford, Charade, Historic Tour 2016.

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Van Diemen, Snetterton, England.  Founded by Ralph Firman and Ross Ambrose in 1973, Van Diemen were best known for their Formula Ford cars.  The marque was named after Van Diemen's land or Tasmania where Ambrose was born.  The RF stood for Ralph Firman.  They produced cars in volume for many of the lower formula, over 5,000 chassis being produced.    Van Diemens won the British Formula Ford Championship every year from 1980 to 1988 and again in 1990 and 1991.  The RF90 was the Formula Ford car for the 1990 season when Frenchman Michael Vergers won the British Championship in one of these cars.  In 1990 FF cars had the Ford Kent 1600cc engine.

Lola T620

Thomas Beaufils, Lola T620, Course de Cote d'Etretat-Benouville 2015

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Lola, Huntingdon, Engl;and. The T620 was a car produced in 1978 and 1979 to race in Formula Super Vee.  About 26 were originally constructed and had Volkswagen 4 cylinder 1,600cc engines. This one looks as though it has had some development over the years with its untypical side pods.  A few famous drivers cut their teeth in the Lola T620 including Arie Luyendijk. He won a number of European Championship Super Vee races in 1978 in a T620 before eventually moving on to Indy Car racing.  Thomas Beaufils runs this car in French Hillclimbs in the class D/E (2) which is for single seaters up to 1,600cc.  It would appear to now have a Skoda engine.

Lola, Huntingdon, Angleterre, La T620 était une voiture de course fabriquée en 1978 et 1979 pour Formule Super Vee.  Environ 26 était produit avec un moteur 4 cyl 1,600cc Volkswagen.  La voiture dans le photo a un moteurSkoda et quelques modifications.  Peut etre le plus connu pilot de la T620 était Arie Luyendijk qui gagnait deux courses de Super Vee en 1978.  Thomas Beaufils et le pilot actuel.

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1969 Grac MT6 Formule France

1969 Grac MT6 Formule France à Kartland pour le Slalom Seine et Marne 2015.

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Grac, Valence, France.  Grac were a successful marque in Formule France in the late sixties winning the championship in 1968 and 1969.  GRAC was founded by Serge Aziosmanoff and stood for Groupe de Recherches Automobiles de Course or Grangeon, Roche, Aziosmanoff, Cromen. The MT stood in respect of Maurice Trintignant the great French GP driver.  About 16 of these MT6s were made.  Their main competitors in 1969 were Pygmée and Martini.  The works Grac driver Denis Dayan easily won the 1969 championship in a works MT6 winning eight of the races.  Sadly Denis Dayan died the following year driving a Grac F3 at Rouen-les-Essarts.