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1922 год
Владимир Коваленко:
Avus rennen 1922
Олег Сидоров:
В книге "Amedee Gordini: A True Racing Legend" написано, что про заезды Нуволари на "Бруклендсе" стало известно из некролога в Times, написанного Джерардом Кромбаком по случаю смерти Гордини в 1979 году:
В скором времени в журнале MotorSport (номер за январь 1980 г.) выходит статья, в которой обоснованно ставится под сомнение информация из некролога в Times. Причём указано, что редактор Times "сможет съесть" редактора MotorSport, если реальность заездов подтвердится. Но видимо этого так и не произошло.
Oh, Auntie!
There will be many who are absolutely delighted that The Times newspaper has been able, at the cost of £30-million, to weather an industrial storm and recommence publication. For "Auntie" is essentially a very British institution. And has been for nearly 200 years. But we hope that the long break in its daily doses will not be responsible for reduced standards of accuracy, in a paper whose once-proud boast was that you could trust its every word.
The reason we say this is because in a long obituary about Signor Amedee Gordini that appeared in The Times last year it was stated that this engineer who was responsible for the Gordini-Simca and other racing cars, and who worked for Renault (not mentioned), designed a chassis round an old Hispano Suiza engine in 1921, and that after Tazio Nuvolari had tested this car at Monza he "took it over to Brooklands, where it was timed at nearly 150 m.p.h.".
It has been our belief that Nuvolari, one of the greatest of racing drivers, only drove once at Brooklands, in Earl Howe's Bugatti, and that in 1933 in practice for the BARC Mountain Championship, in which he failed to start. If Nuvolari came to the Weybridge Track 12 years earlier and drove so quickly there, this would be of the greatest interest, to a great many people. But we think we can safely say this never happened.
In the first place, although The Times says Gordini met "the great Nuvolari" in 1921, at that time Turin was only just commencing his motorcycle racing, and had scarcely earned such acclaim. Secondly, in 1921 the Track lap-record stood at under 122 m.p.h., the Land Speed Record at 124.1 m.p.h., and there was great excitement when K. Lee Guinness' big Sunbeam was unofficially timed at 135 m.p.h. over the Brooklands half-mile that year. It was another 14 years before Cobb's big Napier-Railton was timed at over 150 m.p.h. at Brooklands. When America claimed a record of more than 156 m.p.h. from Milton's twin-engined Duesenberg in 1920, no-one in Europe would accept it. If a then little-known Italian driver, using a car with an old Hispano Suiza engine, had been timed at nearly 150 m.p.h. on Brooklands, surely the feat would have aroused considerable comment?
Of course. Nuvolari's 1921 visit might have happened on a non-race-day, when few were present. If The Times can convince us that it definitely happened, the Editor of Motor Sport will have to eat a Times' Leader, however indigestible. A number of racing cars was built with V8 Hispano Suiza aero-engines around this period, apart from Miller's well-known Brooklands Wolseley Viper which delighted and alarmed Track visitors for several years. These engines seem often to have been of smaller capacity than the well-known war-time Hispano Suiza aero-engines, and they were used in the D'Aoust, the EG, the Becquet Special, the Borgenschutz. and in an Isotta-Fraschini Special. It seems probable that it was the last-named, which Alfieri Maserati raced successfully, that Nuvolari also drove, but not at Brooklands, surely? It may seem harsh to harp on this presumable mistake, except for the impeccable reputation The Times should have. We remember when someone who was reporting a Goodwood motor race meeting for that great newspaper wrote ERA when he meant HRG, from a lapse of concentration. He told us that the fuss was immediate and at top-level; he was made to understand that errors might creep into mere motor journals but must never appear in The Times! Which is why we would like confirmation of whether Nuvolari did or did not come to Brooklands in 1921. We notice other errors in the Obituary, such as naming Cattaneo as "an Hispano Suiza expert" when he was the lsotta-Fraschini designer and ascribing a fictitious win in the 1934 Bol d'Or to Gordini. Now we all make mistakes — only last month Motor Sport said that ex-W. 0. Bentley employee Walter Hawgood was unknown to the BDC, whereas he appears as "believed deceased" in the Club's list.
But with standards falling everywhere, it will be a great pity if we can no longer rely on The Times newspaper for almost 100% accuracy. It is possible that their Amedee Gordim obituary was not written by a staff-man and that they used commercial hand-out, which they singularly failed to check? —W.B.
Скан страницы со статьёй из MotorSport:
https://pp.vk.me/c636622/v636622684/1fb02/-MmKvv0wFpc.jpg
VlaDDracula:
ссылки на подшивку французской газеты L'Auto 1922 год
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/JrNe/81inUFhUj
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/8bTR/nVw7KhChQ
Сергей Мингазов:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53094257b/f1.item.r=bugatti.zoom
Пьер де Вискайя с механиком и единственная "Бугатти", вышедшая на старт. Источник датирует фотографию днем гонки, архив "Бугатти" (http://www.bugatti-trust.co.uk/photographs/v/album-05-type-29-30/130+D1028_27.jpg.html) уточняет, что это третий пит-стоп. Вопрос: если ФИАТ дал Бугатти пять колёс, то откуда еще три?
P.S. Шины однозначно "Пирелли", узнаются по протектору и серой боковине, а на крупных планах (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53094255f/f1.item.r=bugatti.zoom) видно слова "Pirelli", "Milano" и "Cord".
Влад Шайхнуров:
Настырный по-хорошему ты, Сергей. Надо же, столько времени прошло, а тему не забросил.
Бегло пробежался я по французским газетенкам... там вообще написано про 4 комплектных колеса. Но, поскольку французский - не мой конек, для точного понимания написанного мне надо врубаться. Не уверен, что найду для этого достаточно времени. К сожалению, поскольку история очень интересная.
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