Amon and McRae and F5000's

[Terry S]

here is a fantastic and very detailed article on Amon and McRae and their times in F5000 when it was at its peak in Australia , NZ and USA

Includes some really great photos which bring back such wonderful memories.

https://primotipo.com/2018/09/06/amons-talon-mcraes-gm2/

[khyndart in CA]

Thanks Terry,
That is a very interesting read and the photos do truly bring back memories of what seems like a magical era now.
Ken H.

[Ray Bell]

I've skipped through that, no time to read properly now...

But it is full of interesting detail, stuff I've never seen before and lots of good pics.

Thanks, Terry.

[khyndart in CA]

I just wanted to point out that a photo I put on TRS in August 2015 was used by "primotipo" in Feb. 2016 and then again in this article as "unattributed "
Kelli Ramsey is a friend of my daughter and her dad was a mechanic for Chris Amon's team at the Inaugural Long Beach GP in 1975.
They gave me this photo of Dave bleeding the brakes on the Talon.
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I used it here on TRS. August 2015
http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?1818-Rolex-Monterey-Motorsport-Reunion/page3&highlight=talon+long+beach


Then it was used again in this excellent "primotipo" article in Feb. 2016.

https://primotipo.com/2016/02/26/life-is-all-about-timing-chris-amon-and-the-ferrari-312b/

Now again here.

(Just to show that if you put a photo on-line you never know when it may show up again, in this case it is all good as I think
"primotipo.com" is an excellent site. )




Ken H

[Allan]

I note the fancy coke bottle fluid container.

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very hard to comeby now. used to find them everywhere, now they are collecters items

[khyndart in CA]

Sept. 1975.
A few days later Chris was knocked off a bicycle he was riding on the streets of San Juan Capistrano, south of Long Beach, and he was injured enough that he had to spend a few days in hospital, but he did not want the world to know at the time.
A friend of ours was on the hospital staff and he told me he had a patient with a "funny accent" and he seemed pretty tough. He did not have a clue who Chris Amon was !
(Just another bad luck episode for Chris.)


(Ken H )