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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 within the French round at Lohéac. Although reference is made to 100 or so heads produced for homologation, it is sure that very few complete engines had 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 adopted by the A108, the primary to make use of a spine chassis, and forerunner of essentially the most famous of Redele's cars the A110 Berlinette”.
However in actuality, Smith is confronted with the convergence of three automotive producers and one hungry-for-publicity oil firm, and the story, which includes sports car racing, rallying, System three and sports prototypes, begins within the early Nineteen Fifties. 1 He didn't realise that in England the earlier year, Sunbeam had introduced a sports activities coupe derived from the Sunbeam Talbot and known as the " Sunbeam Alpine ". This naming difficulty was to trigger issues for Alpine throughout its history.
Launched in 1961 the A110, like previous highway-going Alpines, used many Renault elements, together with engines. By this time the competitors cars g-forums had been fitted with 1440 cc engines derived from the Renault R8 Gordini Competitors successes became numerous, helped since Alpine were the first company absolutely to take advantage of the competition elements homologation rules.
The truth that the 4CV, Renault Dauphine and the Renault 8 all used rear mounted engines was the key to Jean Redele's designs. To offer a lighter automobile he built a lot of particular versions with lightweight aluminium bodies: he drove in these at Le Mans and Sebring with some success within the early Nineteen Fifties. After an in depth history 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 following goal was to win at Le Mans Renault had additionally taken over the Gordini tuning firm and merged the 2 to type Renault Sport Various more and more successful sports racing automobiles 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 first firm to run in and win a world rally with a turbo car way back to 1972 when Thérier took a specially modified A110 to victory on the Critérium des Cévennes.
