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1958年摩納哥大奖赛由莫里斯·特罕狄釀(Maurice Trintignant)驾驶庫珀Cooper-Climax T45獲勝。
庫珀汽車公司(英语:Cooper Car Company)由查爾斯·庫珀(英语:Charles Cooper (motor manufacturer))和他的兒子約翰·庫珀(英语:John Cooper (car maker))成立於1946年。起初與約翰的兒時玩伴埃里克·布蘭登(英语:Eric Brandon)一起在查爾斯位於英格蘭薩里郡蘇別頓(英语:Surbiton)的小車庫裡建造賽車。1950年代到1960年代早期,他們因他們的後置引擎而接觸了賽車界的最高水平的賽事,改變了一級方程式和印第安納波利斯500的單人座賽車面貌,而他們的迷你庫珀更是稱霸於拉力賽。英國現在仍是一個興旺發達的賽車工業國家,一部份要歸功於庫珀的開創先鋒。(en.wikipedia.org/庫珀汽車公司)
According to John Cooper, the stroke of genius that would make the Coopers an automotive legend—the location of the engine behind the driver—was merely a practical matter at the time. Because the car was powered by a motorcycle engine, they believed it was more convenient to have the engine in the back, driving a chain. In fact there was nothing new about 'mid' engined racing cars but there is no doubt Coopers led the way in popularizing what was to become the dominant arrangement for racing cars.
Based on the 500-cc cars and powered by a modified Coventry Climax fire-pump engine, these cars were called "Bobtails". With the center of gravity closer to the middle of the car, they found it was less liable to spins and much more effective at putting the power down to the road, so they decided to build a single-seater version and began entering it in Formula 2 races.
With a modified Cooper 500 chassis, a T12 model, Cooper had its first taste of top-tier racing when Harry Schell qualified for the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix. Though Schell retired in the first lap, this marked the first appearance of a rear-engined racer at a Grand Prix event since the end of WWII.
Jack Brabham raised some eyebrows when he took sixth place at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a rear-engined Formula 1 Cooper. When Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's privately entered Cooper and Maurice Trintignant duplicated the feat in the next race at Monaco, the racing world was stunned and a rear-engined revolution had begun. The next year, 1959, Brabham and the Cooper works team became the first to win the Formula One World Championship in a rear-engined car. Both team and driver repeated the feat in 1960, and every World Champion since has been sitting in front of his engine. (en.wikipedia.org/Cooper Car Company)
Coventry Climax was a British forklift truck, fire pump, racing, and other speciality engine manufacturer. In 1950, Harry Mundy (previously of Alvis, ERA, Morris and BRM) and Walter Hassan(previously employed by Bentley, ERA and Jaguar) joined Coventry Climax, and a new lightweight all-aluminium overhead camshaft engine was developed in response to the government's ambitious requisition outline asking for a portable fire pump that was capable of pumping double the amount of water specified in the previous outline, with half the weight.
This was designated the FW, for "Feather Weight". The engine was displayed at the Motor Show in London and attracted attention from the motor racing fraternity for its very high "horsepower per pound of weight". With strong persuasions at the show including those by Cyril Kieft (who had Stirling Moss as a F3 driver) and a young Colin Chapman, Lee concluded that success in competition could lead to more customers for the company and so the team designed the FWA, a Feather Weight engine for Automobiles.
In 1955, the first Climax engines began to appear in Formula One in the back of Cooper chassis. Initially, these were FWBs but the FPF engine followed. Stirling Moss scored the company's first Formula One victory, in Argentina in 1958, using a 2-litre version of the engine. In general terms, however, the engines were not powerful enough to compete with the 2.5-litre machinery and it was not until the 2.5-litre version of the FPF arrived in 1959 that Jack Brabham was able to win the world championship in a Cooper-Climax. (en.wikipedia.org/Coventry Climax)
Owen Richard Maddock (24 July 1925 – 19 July 2000) was a British engineer and racing car designer, who was chief designer for the Cooper Car Company between 1950 and 1963. During this time Maddock designed a string of successful racing cars, including the Formula One World Championship-winning Cooper T51 and T53 models.
Almost immediately the T43 design was replaced by the Mark III version of the "Formula Two" chassis. Maddock and the Coopers upgraded the existing design by switching the front suspension for an improved double wishbone suspension arrangement with coilover shock absorbers, in place of the older cars' transverse leaf spring design. New step-up gears in the transaxle allowed Maddock to lower the engine (now including Climax's stretched 2,207 cc (134.7 cu in) FPF in the works Formula One car), reducing the centre of gravity of the new Cooper T45 (Mark III) by mounting the dry-sump engine much lower. Maddock credited this particular innovation to Jack Brabham, who received the suggestion from his Australian friend, Ron Tauranac. Brabham and Cooper contributed other detail improvements, but Maddock left the fundamental chassis frame virtually unaltered from the T43. The T45 was immediately successful. In the hands of Maurice Trintignant, Rob Walker's new T45 won the very next World Championship round, the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix. (en.wikipedia.org/OwenMaddock)
官方明信片犯了两个错误。 那场比赛没有3号赛车。 赛车的颜色也不正确。 正确的颜色是英国赛车绿色。 在接下来的十多年里,英国赛车和车手在F1中占主导地位,绿色赛车赢得了大部分比赛。
我无法找到1958年摩納哥大獎賽的赛事照片明信片。谁可以找到或印出这楼层的明信片? 我们需要明信片因为在1929年摩纳哥大奖赛庆祝一百周年。 |
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