Your Porsche pic of the day......
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Re: Your Porsche pic of the day......
Looks like a modern hillclimb paddock to me.
But that is what is likable about the hillclimbs, it is grass, it is full of club root motorsport and many of the people look like that!
But that is what is likable about the hillclimbs, it is grass, it is full of club root motorsport and many of the people look like that!
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Yep - same people, just 30+ years older911hillclimber wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 7:24 pm Looks like a modern hillclimb paddock to me.
But that is what is likable about the hillclimbs, it is grass, it is full of club root motorsport and many of the people look like that!
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I question whether competition of any sort in any era, let alone rallycross, in a 911 could be called 'grass roots'.....Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:03 pm .
From the good old days of 'grass roots' racing - before giant motorhomes, clinical pit garages & 'corporate hospitality' took over ...
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Same as clubman rallying - out in the wet - especially the service crews without huge tents erected to drive your works car into. Not a lot has changed as said at the grass roots level of motorsport.
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Grass roots motorsport to me always meant where you could turn up in your everyday road car and compete. Nav rallies , hillclimbs, sprints and autotests used to be the main such events. These days you could compete, but you wouldn’t be competitive.
Stage rallying was the next level, Clubman’s I would have known it as, where you now have a dedicated car. So I’d agree with Winston, Rallycrossing a 911 ain’t grass roots motorsport
Stage rallying was the next level, Clubman’s I would have known it as, where you now have a dedicated car. So I’d agree with Winston, Rallycrossing a 911 ain’t grass roots motorsport
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Interesting to see a Peugeot 404 in the photo.....
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Took this at Spa on a trip with some 964 owners
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Every photo is more interesting with a 404 in it!Arfor Jones wrote:Interesting to see a Peugeot 404 in the photo.....
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- can anyone enlighten me as to why there is a small hole at either end of each louvre ?
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To stop cracks spreading...
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But the hole is separate from the louvre pressing…….
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I would guess for a chrome trim if it was a road car - but imagine this isn’t so don’t have a clue.
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Yes, but on louvered panels it's not uncommon for a crack to form at the end of each louvre, especially on stressed aluminium panels - the hole stops the crack spreading any further. Drilling a hole accurately would be nigh-on impossible at the very end of the stamping. As it is, the crack could spread a mm or two and stop.jwhillracer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:08 am But the hole is separate from the louvre pressing…….
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