As we continue our photographic review of the 2011 SOVREN Historic road races, Nathan McGrew has delivered another awesome gallery. This one focuses on small and medium bore sports cars. In these photos you’ll see some beautiful cars like historic offerings from Lotus, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Datsun, and a host of others.
Nathan was hustling all day long, moving around the track to get the best angles on the best corners. His hustle really paid off in this gallery because he got some totally killer action shots. Unlike the very stiffly sprung large bore V8 cars we showed you yesterday, these small cars lean and bend and slide, making for super cool snaps.
Don’t believe us? Check out the Lotus below and then hit the link to see a gallery of some truly cool and historic race cars lapping the course at the SOVREN historics!
Thanks to Nathan McGrew for the photos!
RACE GALLERY: SMALL AND MEDIUM BORE SPORTS CARS AT THE 2011 SOVREN HISTORICS
Great photos.
However, I must point out that the Alpine seems to have the offset stripe on the wrong side.
Traditionally, when racing stripes were offset from center, they were aligned with the driver (i.e. on the right on RHD cars and on the left on LHD cars) The theory was that the stripes aided the ability of the driver to keep the car pointed straight nad gave the driver a better reference for spin recovery (e.g. line up the stripe with the edge of the road).
Some also claimed thzt offsetting the stipe to the driver’s side provided help to safety workers in the event of a crash when LHD and RHD sedans were competing in the same event.
Now that big stripes are a street car fad again, I occasionally see “ricers” get the alignment wrong (i.e. incorrectly copying British and Japanese RHD stripe placements on hideous LHD econoboxes). But I’m surprised to see this mistake on a vintage race car.
All I cared about with the Alpine is that it was the worst under-steering car I’ve ever seen. Pushed hard through every corner. We all watched to see if he would lose it.