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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 additionally competed in the French spherical at Lohéac. Though reference is made to 100 or so heads produced for homologation, it's sure that only a few complete engines were assembled, perhaps 20 at most. This engine would offer 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 the most famous of Redele's automobiles the A110 Berlinette”.
However in reality, Smith is confronted with the convergence of three automobile manufacturers and one hungry-for-publicity oil company, and the story, which involves sports activities automotive racing, rallying, Formulation three and sports activities prototypes, begins in the early 1950s. 1 He did not realise that in England the previous year, Sunbeam had launched a sports coupe derived from the Sunbeam Talbot and called the " Sunbeam Alpine ". This naming difficulty was to cause problems for Alpine all through its history.
Launched in 1961 the A110, like earlier street-going Alpines, used many Renault parts, including engines. By this time the competitors vehicles here were fitted with 1440 cc engines derived from the Renault R8 Gordini Competition successes grew to become quite a few, helped since Alpine have been the primary company fully to take advantage of the competitors components homologation rules.
The truth that the 4CV, Renault Dauphine and the Renault eight all used rear mounted engines was the key to Jean Redele's designs. To supply a lighter automobile he constructed a lot of particular versions 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 history and outline of the development of the V6 Turbo and chassis, Smith tracks F1 race outcomes from the Renault perspective from 1977-1979 and follows up by way of 1985 with loads of technical insights between the chapters on the races.
The subsequent purpose was to win at Le Mans Renault had additionally taken over the Gordini tuning firm and merged the two to type Renault Sport A number of increasingly profitable sports racing vehicles appeared, culminating in 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 world rally with a turbo automotive way back to 1972 when Thérier took a specifically modified A110 to victory on the Critérium des Cévennes.
