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AutoCult continues its mission to model history's more obscure machines with this smashing little likeness of the car that won the 1954 Rallye des Alpes - an event run in July of that year but in conditions that were sometimes downright hostile. Driven by its creator, Wolfgang Denzel, the speedster zipped along mountain passes still partially covered in snow, besting Porsches, Renaults,Triumphs and even a Sunbeam Alpine piloted by Stirling Moss.

 

Sporting Success  

Wolfgang Denzel, supplier of the cars of the same name, achieved over 300 successes at sporting events in his career – on two and four wheels – and the greatest success of his career was the overall victory at the “XVII Rallye international des Alpes” in 1954.   On July 8, 1954, the riders started in Marseille and covered over 3,000 kilometers in the winding and mountainous roads of France and Italy before the racers finally finished their marathon ride in Cannes on July 13, 1954. 46-year-old Wolfgang Denzel was sitting behind the steering wheel and his companion Stroinigg guided him the way from the passenger seat. From today’s perspective, the fact that the duo chose a 1300cc Denzel convertible for the rally is unusual, because in the still snow-covered heights of the French and Italian Alps, temperatures were anything but summerly.   With the numbers of their starting number 228 painted in bold on the two doors, the two Austrians confidently dominated the “1001-1300” displacement class, so that they were rated as the fastest in their class at the finish line in Cannes. For Wolfgang Denzel, this was the greatest motorsport success, not least in his own car, which underlined his myth in the scene as the feared opponent of the Porsche drivers.   Of course, the victory was an enormous proof of the performance of the Denzel engine and the Denzel 1300, so that it not only increased aware....

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As Sir Jackie Stewart states in his Foreword, “Pete Lyons was one of the best journalists in Formula 1 at the time I was racing.” Lyons himself writes that when he became obsessed with motor racing, “It felt like my true road.” This memoir retraces his steps along that road, focusing on the days when he wrote about and photographed the Can-Am sportscar series in his native America during its finest period from 1966 to 1972, then switched to Formula 1 for four great seasons from 1973 to 1976. Lyons witnessed Chaparral, Lola, McLaren and Porsche create ever-more-monstrous Can-Am beasts to be tamed by the likes of Jim Hall, John Surtees, Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Mario Andretti and Mark Donohue. His cameras, notebooks and typewriter also were there when Tyrrell, Lotus, McLaren and Ferrari were the dominant forces in Formula 1, with Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda and James Hunt the World Champion drivers. Immersed in this golden age of racing, Lyons brought a unique blend of evocative description and fastidious factual detail to his craft, putting his devoted readers at the heart of the action. This captivating memoir will transport you back to those times.....
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