What's your Favorite Motorsport cars of all time?

[timbob]

So many to choose from, but a few favourites:

The Honda RA300, Honda's only ever GP winning maching prior to this weekend just gone. Fantastic maze of exhaust pipes, and ridiculous sound at full pelt:

The Peugeot 205 T16. Possibly my favourite Group B car. Maybe with the exception of the S1 Audi Quattro Sport, but that's been had already:

The Auto Union C Type from 1936. Awesome car - 520bhp, 6 litre V12, all the weight at the back, driver stuck out front, skinny crossply tyres with no grip. And the noise....oh, the noise

Edit: Booo, 2 of my choices went whilst I was typing!

 

[vanpeebles]

Daihatsu P-5, i cant find the spec at the moment but i remember it being very small and lightweight and very fast

 

[Diesel]

Metro 6R4:

 

[volospian]

3. Lister Storm GT. I don't know why, I just love it

2. Maserati 250F (as has already been mentioned). Beautiful car

1. Mercedes 300 SLR. Sterling Moss, Mille Miglia, 1955, 159.65 km/h. Need I say more?

 

[Mad old tory]

Jag Dtype, such a shame the factory burnt down when they were building the roadgoing versions

Ford GT40, they couldn't buy Ferrari so built they're own racer and won Le Mans by themselves.

 

[Burned_Alive]

But, more specifically the Michelin Pilot:

 

[JRS]

Ford GT40, they couldn't buy Ferrari so built they're own racer and won Le Mans by themselves.

Not quite "by themselves", considering Lola did most of the chassis work and Weslake consulted on the engines....

 

[Siliconslave]

Ford GT40, they couldn't buy Ferrari so built they're own racer and won Le Mans by themselves.

was just about to post that

played too much sega rally in my youth so:

great

and after seeing this at silverstone, MMMMMmmm

 

[Mike]

Most of my fav motorsports cars have been posted (Group B's) with one glaring exception:

 

[John_V85]

There can be only one!

 

[Vita]

Pulsar GTR Rally Car

 

[JRS]

"Dan Gurney For President!"*

The Eagle T1G - 3 litre V12 Weslake motor, beatiful bodywork, and Mr Gurney giving it some beans.

* - and I guess nobody will get that reference on here....

 

[timbob]

"Dan Gurney For President!"*

* - and I guess nobody will get that reference on here....

I'm sure I've seen a poster with "Dan Gurney for President!" written on it, back in my GPL days... Wasn't it his fan club or something?

 

[volospian]

Most of my fav motorsports cars have been posted (Group B's) with one glaring exception:

6R4 images

Metro 6R4:

6R4 image

Not so glaring, it seems

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Pulsar GTR Rally Car

GTi-R; Interesting choice as while a great road car (I owed one) it was not a successful rally car in its day. I believe people have had more success with it since.

 

[Mr Nice]

The King......

RS500 Cossie

 

[JRS]

I'm sure I've seen a poster with "Dan Gurney for President!" written on it, back in my GPL days... Wasn't it his fan club or something?

There was a public campaign to get him nominated as a candidate for president, I think Road and Track magazine featured it pretty heavily at the time. Figured that the only way anyone on here would have heard of it was if they had been a part of the GPL community!

 

[Jonny69]

427 Cobra S/C

Couldn't find any decent pictures on the track from back in the day, but this will suffice

 

[Garrett]

BMW M3 GTR:

 

[Darryn]

As saitrix has already posted the Lotus 49 is a thing of beauty.

I also truely love the Tyrrell P34 6 wheel F1 car.

This sort of thing has been made impossible in F1 now with the super tight regulations and it would have been great to see (be alive) when this sort of car was being rolled out onto the track, just to see the oppositions faces.

I realise this wasnt by any means the first 6 wheel F1 car, but it was the first successful one, and the only reason I went to the Silverstone Classics last year, having posted that pictures ive returned to my archives from the event and so many great cars were on track, including, Original Ford GT40s, GT350s, Race winning Gille Villeneuve Ferraris, JPS liveried F1 cars even some mint condition Ford Anglia 105Es