SCARAB F1, 1962, Riverside, Ca. (Actual Audio!)

(THE ENTIRE CLIP: HD & remastered,
(1)-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0hEXkkstFc
(2.)-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubCFd5QdaGA&feature=related

The F1 SCARAB chassis, but with a 301 Chevy installed to compete as a "Formula Libre" car. IN-CAR footage included. Lance Reventlow, Chuck Daigh shown...as well as a very young Riverside:
http://www.vintageracerules.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number...

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[McFly2015AD]

Imagine driving F1 in a tin bathtub with narrow tires . . .

[zuzulo56]

@McFly2015AD In that era, in California, almost half the cars were VW's. So, it was mighty easy to come by VW (5.60/15) tyres! I know this first-hand...as I was living there, then...and piloted a "BUG".

[95in3rd]

i was 14 in 1965 & lived about a 5 minute walk from the track. we used to sneak in under the fence at RIR. i always wanted to run on that track when i "grew up" :-) gosh i miss that track and those days.

[zuzulo56]

@95in3rd I fancy ya missed a grand opportunity to "run on that track" after each time you sneaked in. The back straight would 'ave been an appropriate stretch to see what your "Sneakers" could do...no need for a motor car, what? Provided you were into Wind Sprints.

[375GTB]

A nice enough 1955 car.. but it was 1960...and underpowered despite desmodronic valves..

230 hp when Coventry Climaxes had 245 and Dino V-6s had maybe 285!!

Goodyear Blue Streaks were nowhere compared to Dunlop R4s..

Even Ferrari went with Dunlop....

[215jami]

F1 and a dirt seat, thats scary

[tontosage]

@95in3rd: Nice car! I didn't know the track in Nashville had closed. It was a unique track and I wonder why it was closed. At Riverside, toward the end, every time I went the housing developments kept getting closer and closer. The end was inevitable but it still sucks that a world class natural road course was replaced by industrial parkland and mini-malls. In my mind's eye, I can visualize every turn from different perspectives but I always sat at Turn 6 on raceday to enjoy the esses.

[zuzulo56]

@95in3rd In THIS life...but, in the next the numbers continue to increase.

[95in3rd]

@tontosage I got a honda s2000 a few years back & began running high speed driving events at Nashville Superspeedway. Now, they have closed THAT track. My heart is broken with all the tracks going away.

[tontosage]

I'm about the same age as you and I also still miss Riverside. What a great track! The driver of the Scarab (Lance Reventlow) is taking turn 8 too fast. Only the last apex leading on to the straight is really important.

Great footage of a world class venue now an industrial wasteland... : (

[jedgarsquink]

I was wondering why it sounded like a V8 until I re-read the uploader comment.

Even with the generous engine setback, the iron Chevy must have changed the handling considerably from the 2.5 liter four.

Problem with the car in original form was partly that it was front-engined at the end of the front-engine era, and partly that it was rendered obsolete by the change to the 1.5 liter formula for 1961.

[2007Colonial]

Lance realized he wasn't ready for Formular 1 when they ran at SPA, said it scared the shit out of him, but Chuck Daigh did quite well there, shame they didn't make it in F1, his cars were beautiful and superbly engineered, the Scarab sports car was winning until 1963! Also one of the most beautiful racers ever!