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1967 Renault Dauphine Gordini W
The Alpine A220 is a prototype that participated in races in 1968 and 1969. The three Vialle cars also competed in the French spherical at Lohéac. Although reference is made to a hundred or so heads produced for homologation, it is sure that very few full engines have been assembled, maybe 20 at most. This engine would provide the idea for the turbo Renault F1, and sports racing engines. His first mannequin was the A106 launched in 1955, this was followed by the A108, the first to use a spine chassis, and forerunner of probably the most well-known of Redele's cars the A110 Berlinette”.
But in actuality, Smith is confronted with the convergence of three car producers and one hungry-for-publicity oil firm, and the story, which involves sports activities car racing, rallying, Method 3 and sports prototypes, begins within the early Fifties. 1 He did not realise that in England the previous 12 months, Sunbeam had introduced a sports activities coupe derived from the Sunbeam Talbot and called the " Sunbeam Alpine ". This naming difficulty was to cause issues for Alpine all through its historical past.
Launched in 1961 the A110, like earlier road-going Alpines, used many Renault components, including engines. By this time the competitors cars here have been fitted with 1440 cc engines derived from the Renault R8 Gordini Competitors successes became quite a few, helped since Alpine had been the first firm absolutely to exploit the competition parts homologation rules.
The fact that the 4CV, Renault Dauphine and the Renault 8 all used rear mounted engines was the important thing to Jean Redele's designs. To provide a lighter automobile he constructed various special variations with light-weight aluminium our bodies: he drove in these at Le Mans and Sebring with some success in the early Fifties. After an in depth historical past and outline of the development of the V6 Turbo and chassis, Smith tracks F1 race results from the Renault perspective from 1977-1979 and follows up by way of 1985 with plenty of technical insights between the chapters on the races.
The next purpose was to win at Le Mans Renault had additionally taken over the Gordini tuning agency and merged the 2 to type Renault Sport Various increasingly profitable sports activities racing vehicles appeared, culminating within the 1978 Le Mans win with the Renault Alpine A442 B. This was fitted with a turbo-charged engine; Alpine had been the primary company to run in and win a global rally with a turbo car way back to 1972 when Thérier took a specially modified A110 to victory on the Critérium des Cévennes.
