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Morning Qualifying – History Lesson, Part II
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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Students, if you will take your seats, we can begin today’s lecture. Thanks to a less than generous stipend from the Hooniversity (due to an over-expenditure of funds on shooter sandwich fixins) , we will forego the scheduled transformation of the commentariat into atomic supermen enslaved to my will alone, and instead continue our viewing…
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Morning Qualifying – Finland, Finland, Finland edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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Rally Finland, previously known as The 1000 Lakes Rally and before that The Rally of the Midnight Sun, is best known for yumps. If you are a rallying fan, all I have to say to you is “Ouninpohja” and your eyes will glaze over, while your head is filled with flying rally cars, like…
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Morning Qualifying – V.I.S.I.T. edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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So there you are, on your way to another day in your plastic fantastic, Madison Avenue scene, when you see this over the hood of your new Edsel.
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Morning Qualifying – The Car You Always Promised Yourself edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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The early 1970’s saw BMW and Ford locked in an automotive steel cage match for supremacy in the ETCC (that’s the European Touring Car Championship). For Team Propellerhead, their weapon of choice was the E9 3.0 CSL. Tuned and prepared by Alpina, Schnitzer and BMW’s works team, the CSL was fearsome machine. Not…
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Morning Qualifying – Plucked from Obscurity edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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It’s the early 1960’s, and you are Southern California’s hottest young sports car driver. One day, unbeknownst to you, one of the motor industry’s most powerful men is in attendance at one of your victories. He invites you to race one of his production cars overseas, and being further impressed with your effort, offers you…
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Morning Qualifying – History Lesson, Vol. I
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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All right class, settle down. In the late 1960’s, Bill Mason and Shell Films prepared a multi-part documentary on the history of motor sport, entitled “The History of Motor Racing”. This documentary, filled with rare footage, is the gold standard for motor sport films. It is also long out of print in any format (and…
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Morning Qualifying – Attack of the Killer B's edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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When the SCCA Trans-Am series began it’s 1971 series, they found themselves in a bit of a quandry. The Over 2 liter class had been the star of the Trans-Am show to that point in series history, but various outside pressures and SCCA mismanagement had removed the Big 3 from the playing field, leaving only…
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Morning Qualifying – Citroen SM, I presume? edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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In the 1972 Rallye Cote d’Ivoire (aka Rallye Bandama), 45 entrants, crewed by some of the sport’s biggest names, went into the West African jungle, and none left it. No one finished. So, if you’re Citroen the obvious thing to do for the 1973 rally, is send a pair Citroen SM’s into the jungle. Perhaps…
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Morning Qualifying – Master of the Silver Arrows edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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Today would have been Alfred Neubauer’s 120th birthday. The impact of ‘the Big Man’ on motor sport history and modern motor sport can not be underestimated.
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Morning Qualifying – Brown Car Appreciation Society edition
Jennings R. Scroggs, Jr.
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There exists, on Facebook, a pack of aesthetically challenged riff-raff cognoscenti of automotive brunneous……ness. While the primary subjects of their ardor originated in the malaise-era, the Brown Car Appreciation Society welcomes mocha-coloured machinery from any epoch. Which brings us to today’s subject: Ferrari 250 GTO, serial #3451GT.
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Morning Qualifying – Master of the Silver Arrows edition
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Today would have been Alfred Neubauer’s 120th birthday. The impact of ‘the Big Man’ on motor sport history and modern motor sport can not be underestimated.