Topic: Puzzle #43 - Solved! 1969 Cosworth Four Wheel Drive Forumula 1 Car.

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

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[Otto Puzzell]

I would have thought one of or race fans would have hazarded a guess about this car. Though it's configuration was not successful in the venues for which it was designed, it was hardly unique for its time.

[shamrock]

its the cosworth 4wd F1 car

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes! Well done, sir. 

1969 brought a brief flowering of four wheel drive to the 3-litre era of Formula One (F1). Lotus, Matra and McLaren tried 4WDs and Cosworth, the engine maker, built one of their own. The 4WDs did not perform well, but they were brand new and barely developed, while teams concentrated on the main-chance 4x2s. The drivers also objected to the heavy handling, or was it just "different"? Some thought that there could not be a 4WD success unless a team and its drivers wholeheartedly committed themselves to the system - a similar phenomenon later occurred in the F1 turbo-car era. (4WD however was later banned from F1.)



http://www.4wdonline.com/ClassicCars/Racing.html

[Amsterdam]

Wich car is this? for one point

[Amsterdam]

Experts?

[Allan L]

This seems to be a repost

[woodinsight]

Cosworth 4WD 1969 Formula One car

[Ray B.]

This seems to be a repost

It sure does.
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=352.0

Merge them?

[Otto Puzzell]

merged