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Austin-Healey Le Mans Sprite at Spa Francorchamps
Jim Prentice expertly pilots the Austin-Healey Le Mans Sprite around Spa Francorchamps in the wet. This car competed at the 1966 Le Mans 24 hour race in the hands of John Rhodes and Clive Baker.
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Triumph GT6 on the rolling road
Racing Green Cars brought down a very nice GT6 for a rolling road today. Fitted with triple Webers this 6 cylinder classic is on it’s way to it’s new owner Phil Paterson in Australia.
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John Rhodes on his Mini Cooper driving style
John Rhodes, Mini racing legend, explains his driving style in this short clip from the late 1960’s. The cars were setup for chronic over-steer. By lifting off Rhodes could encourage the rear to slide before mashing the throttle and pulling out of the corner.
“One thing he used to ask for if he was driving one of our cars was that it had to have violent oversteer. We’d use the strongest bumpstops on the back so that as soon as you’d turned into a corner it sat straight on the bumpstops which would put you straight into oversteer which he loved.” – Harry Ratcliffe, British Vita Racing Team
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