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Your all-time favorite race cars?
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Dad's old car... Lola chassis with a peugeot engine. circa 1985



Porsche 962 of Dyson Racing, old friends from Limerock.




Ferrari 333sp, mid-late '90s. Most amazing sound ever.....

and....

the MP4/6.
Mazda 787B
Porsche 962
Aston Martin DBR9 (prefer the old, brittish racing green ones over the Gulf ones but Gulf DBR9s are ass kicking good looking too!) and V8 Vantage GT2


Group B and IMSA GTO Audi


Bentley Speed 8 LMP1


I have 3 pics already so: E46 M3 GTR, E92 M3 GT2, E30 M3 DTM (all BMW :P) and Mercedes E190 DTM EVOII, 2008 (and 2005-2007) Audi A4 DTM

Prolly forgot tons of them but it will do for a while.
Quote from Primoz :Bentley Speed 8 LMP1

Hate to be pedantic, but that's the Bentley EXP Speed 8, not the Bentley Speed 8 Different car entirely
My list doesn't need pics, you should all know what they look like.

Ford GT40 (LeMans)
Ford Sierra Cosworth (Touring car)
Ford Escort Mk1/2 (Rally cars)
Ford <add pre 90's model here>
BMW E30/36 M3 (Touring cars)
MG Metro 6R4 (Rally car)

That's all I can think of right now. Gotta love ye olde Ford's.
Most of my favorites were already posted, but you guys forgot my Lancia Top3


Stratos


Delta


037

Funny how some liveries seem to be made especifically for one car
And just to not post only Lancia/rally cars, there's also the BMW M1 (big picture so you gotta click).


And something more unknown, the little brazilian beauty Willys Interlagos:

(no, it's not a Renault Alpine :razz
MP4-20 For purely sentimental reasons.


Lancia Stratos For purely sentimental reasons.
just come in off nights so can't be bovered finding images so here goes
(in no particular order and picked for their looks as well as their mechanical merrits)

lotus 79 ( in martini colours)

lotus 72 (JPS colours)

lotus 49 (gold leaf)

porsche 917K ( gulf obviously)

porsche 935 ( not the moby dick ) ( martini )

porsche 956 ( not the 962, it just never looked as pure to my eyes)(rothmans or shell)

Lancia stratos ( alitalia or steve perez's vodka kick)

escort MK11 (tarmac arches ) (rothmans)

Audi Quatro sport (not the pike peak version ) (works colours)

Peugeot 205 T16 (non evolution ) (works colours )

Ford Rs 200 (works colours)

BMW e30 M3 (metalic back, saw one in this scheme in the brit touring series)

BMW M1 procar ( beautiful road car made better by arches and wing) (marlbro colours)

Dallara x1/9 (any colour )

ferrari 156

and for some unfathonable reason

Arrows A2 doodlebug (warnsteiner)

i've just realised that i've not picked a single Mclaren F1 car but until the late 90s they nevrer semed to flow as a design and by then we'd started the trend for more add ons vanes etc than the average citroen saxo which are also the reasons why iv'e not picked anyone elses f1 car since the early 80s also no tyrrels which surprised me as i used to support then as a kid in early 70s but looking at it the one i remember the most is the 007 which was just a tidied up lotus 72.
#37 - Dru
#38 - MR_B
"Om nom nom nom" 1998 or 1999 BTCC Volvo S40
Audi R8 (lemans)
noble M12
Quattro S1.

they all looked so good back in TIR.
Ever since a younger kid whenever I think "racecar" I see this in my mind's eye. At the exact same angle too - probably because I was shorter at the time.
Jaguar XJR9


Aston Martin DBRS9


Ferrari F40
Any of the F1 cars from circa 1965.

This was the Golden Age of F1 racing for me. Gritty, all-mechanical and very dangerous.

I still watch the movie 'Grand Prix' (1966) every now and then just to see the cars and the racing footage, although they actually used F3 cars dressed up to look like F1 cars for the movie. The footage used in the longer shots were extracts from real F1 races though.



Apparently, director John Frankenheimer refused to film the cars moving slowly, then speed the film up, so all the footage in this film is the real deal.

A genuine museum piece of the era.

For those who haven't seen it, here's a clip from the movie:

Grand Prix (1966) Clip

and there's some trivia about the movie here, if you're interested:

Grand Prix (1966) Trivia

#46 - MR_B
Quote from deggis :I must say the in the render the Gulf livery looks better than real life...


What render? The quoted pics is just a studio shot. It's a real car. And yours is too.
Never thought about studio shot, because it looks too clinical imho. I don't know.

Still the picture is so much darker and that colour looks better. Obviously they sticked with the authentic historic colour, but "modernized" version could have been cool too.
Quote from deggis :

Porsche 917/30 (Can-Am)

Because it's so outrageously badass. Numbers speaks for itself: twin-turbocharged 5.4L flat 12 @ 1100 bhp (reportedly 1560 in qualifying trim) and very advanced aerodynamics for that time thanks to "no limits, anything goes" rules of Can-Am. Puts the original 917 into shame.




Porsche 996 GT1 EVO 98

I guess nothing special otherwise about this car but the looks makes it extraordinary. Not many race cars have so smooth curves than this one and this EVO 98 wasn't based on production model (unlike the previous 1996-1997 version). It managed to win Le Mans in 1998 when other cars failed to finish. Also well known for doing the famous backward flip in Road Atlanta in 1998.




Ford RS200

Not the most successful car from the Group B era, maybe if Group B wouldn't have been banned, this would have become a winner. It's my first memory of race/rally car. I was little bit too young to witness Group B but after the end of Group B this model was used in the European Rallycross Championship in late 80's and that I remember watching on tv.

Quote from deggis :Just yesterday watched World Sportscar Championship review from 1988 and I think these Jags looked somehow amusing from the side, like some kind of flea. Mostly because of the covered rear tyres.

Sauber Mercedes C9 is best looking Group C proto.


+1

Oh and I <3 the 787B.
Audi S1 Sport Quattro. By far.

"In principle, this car is too fast for my thoughts" - Walter Röhrl.

Your all-time favorite race cars?
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