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Description: SCROLL DOWN to read short story about this legendary race car series...Racecar 1960s Grand Prix Winner...High End, Investment Grade, Museum Quality F GP Formula 1 Lotus 18 Vintage Race Car 43 Sport Midget 24 Exotic 1960s 12 Rare Concept A Rare Classic, Historic High Detail, Precision Metal Body Model Art Approx. Nine (9) Inches Long ...Long out of production...with Original Factory Box....Note to those who are searching for “perfect”...OUR BOXES ARE NOT PERFECT. 1960's short HISTORY of F1: why HIGH WINGS were BANNED?Lotus were continuing to raise their rear wing ever higher in an effort to get it out of the turbulence created from the chassis, with other teams quickly following suit.Racecar driver, Jochen Rindt had already stated his dislike for the high wings and had begun a campaign to try to get them banned. In the Spanish Grand Prix of that year, Rindt was about to prove his point in just the way he was trying to avoid. Graham Hill was on lap 9 of the race and had just crested the rise after the pits when his Lotus became airborne, resulting in a huge negative load on his already fragile rear wing. His wing folded upwards and then failed dramatically and the car crashed heavily into the barriers. He was able to emerge from the wreckage unscathed.Eleven laps later, while leading the race, Hill’s teammate Jochen Rindt was to suffer an identical failure in exactly the same place. He then proceeded to collide with Hill’s car which had been abandoned by the side of the track, which flipped his own car resulting in it landing upside down. His car was rolled over by the marshals and he was pulled unconscious from his car by Hill (who was watching the race by the side of the track where he had crashed) and was fortunate to have only sustained a broken nose and some minor cuts and bruises (and I’m sure also had a significant concussion which I suspect wasn’t taken seriously by team managers or even doctors at the time).97009GS

Price: 249 USD

Location: Dyer, Indiana

End Time: 2024-11-24T00:00:32.000Z

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