Ultimatecarpage.com update (05-22-08)

[Wouter Melissen]

Dear Ultimatecarpage.com visitor,

At the recent Monaco Historic Grand Prix the most exciting cars were the Formula 1 racers built for the 3-litre era between 1966 and 1978. There was a record number of these very fast and valuable machines entered and the group was cut into two classes. In today's update we take a closer look at the winner of each group.
The 1966 - 1974 race was won by American Duncan Dayton in his beautiful Brabham BT33, which was one of three cars built for the Works team for 1970. All of them have survived and are pictured in our well our feature. Sir Jack Brabham drove a BT33 to victory in the first Grand Prix of the 1970 season and looked set to challenge for his fourth World Championship. Silly mistakes and a lot of bad luck however prevented Brabham from winning another race and he retired at the end of the season.
Fellow American and professional racing driver Paul Edwards finally managed to convert his superior pace into victory after failing to do so in 2006. His ride was a Penske PC3, which unlike the Brabham never was very competitive in period. It was raced by John Watson for Roger Penske and never got a better result than fifth in a Grand Prix. The F1 effort was one of the rare failures of Penske, whose team had before and since won virtually everything it entered. As with the BT33, the PC3 article includes both cars constructed in a sparkling 18-shot gallery.

Enjoy the links:

1970 - 1971 Brabham BT33 Cosworth - Images, Specifications and Information

1976 Penske PC3 Cosworth - Images, Specifications and Information

Regards,
Wouter Melissen