An unexpected advantage OW cars have over CW

What do you expect? It's a Maserati Typo 250. Voted the greatest race car ever designed and built! It's the kind of car Juan Fangio used to win the greatest Formula One race in the history of the sport at the Nordschleife (the old Nurburgring for you kids) in 1957. I was 14 and spent HOURS rereading the story in Autoweek.

Second photo is with less damage. Both are with Fangio at the wheel.
 

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Fangio may be the common thread between the pictures but it doesn't look like the same car - maybe another of the same chassis but there are numerous bodywork differences. Each car was "bespoke" as the English would say so no doubt there are a lot of differences even between chassis with numbers that are close. Would they have made that many body mods between races in that era?
 
The 250F is the left one as he drove at Nordschleife. The one on the right is a model 250F also but with slightly different body work :)

He also set a New LAP record 10 times during that race.
 
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I think the awesomeness of the car (historically and now) is perhaps causing us to miss the salient point that the driver bump-started himself by rolling the rear tire like a wheelchair...
 
That was amazing and not surprisingly he didn't really gain a lot of speed. Just managed to get it rolling enough to get the engine to turn over maybe once/twice in 4th gear (enough to start it). Pretty quick thinking there :) :)
 
westipton said:
Video was good, but the advertisment was really bizarre!
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LOL, Wes. Trouble is, the ad changes every time you visit the page. Did you catch the one with the woman sitting on the 'can'. And, advertising air freshener?? LOL.. that was good and very unique. Had to be British as, she was.
 
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