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- From: james@Bridge.COM (James Montebello)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
- Subject: F1 Historical Question
- Message-ID: <1237@racerx.bridge.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 07:05:02 GMT
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- I've been reading Doug Nye's great 2nd edition of his History of the
- Grand Prix Car and I've noticed that, around 1974, privateers like Rob
- Walker simply vanished from competition. No one seemed to buy
- "customer" or "used" F1 cars from the big teams and run them themselves
- anymore.
-
- A quick scan through Nye's book doesn't throw any light on why. Anyone
- know? Was this a rules change or did it just fall out of fashion? I'm
- inclined to think some sort of rule change happened because of all of
- the trouble Larousse had with purchased Lola chassis two or so years
- ago.
-
- Mr Jones? Mr Burden? Mr Henry? Other net.historians?
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- That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all
- the lessons that history has to teach. - Aldous Huxley
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