Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren.

I came across this Merc at Miller at the First of August. It is a very edgy car and pretty fast. I can't say that I am a great fan of it, but it is a nice car anyway.

See what I wrote on my other blog site. I also have more photos on that site. Thanks. Paul

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One thing that I like is the art of race car wheels. Here is a bunch of various racecar wheels sometimes at speed and sometimes at rest. I hope that you enjoy them.

The economy of racing. You of course know how to make a small fortune in racing? Start with a large fortune...So you want to go racing with an exotic Formula car, a Formula 1 Ferrari would be nice! Cost, mega bucks. Older F-1 cars with Cosworth Ford V8's are reasonable...that is until you get to engine rebuilds, $60,000.00 for an engine rebuild. That's out of my budget.

While at Miller I came across a possible solution. How about a 1987 March 87-B Formula 3000 but without the Cosworth and in its place a Near stock BMW V-12 production car engine. The BMW V-12 is a little bit longer than the Cosworth V-8, like 14 inches. At least the chassis needed to be lengthened that much. The stock BMW V-12 puts out about 300 horses and the rebuilds only cost $6,000.00.

One advantage of using the long BMW V-12 is that it made the car more stable and less twitchy and evil to drive.

If you double click on my pictures you can enlarge them.

At "The Thriller at Miller" this year was a 1967 Lola T70 Mk3 The owner driver was Bob Rowley. It was a great pleasure to listen to and watch this car at speed. Lola's are meant to be driven and driven fast.

The Lola T70 Mk3B was built in the mid to late 1960's. They first T70's were spyders and were primarily designed for the Can-Am series. Roger Penske picked the Lola T70 for his driver Mark Donahue. After the introduction of the Mclaren race cars the Lola was not as successful and Lola converted the Spyder to coupe form and used it in endurance racing.

About 100 T70's were made in both the coupe and spyder form. I really like the shape of the spyder over the coupe. When Steve McQueen was making the movie Le mans the had to crash several cars and rather than crash a Ferrari or a Porsche they put on a fake body on Lola T70's and crashed them.

The most common engine in a Lola GT70 Coupe is a 5 liter Chevy. Other engines were used Dan Gurney used a Ford engine in his Spyder and Lola built a car for Aston Martin using an Aston engine of course.

The Embassy Hill Formula 1 race car.

The Embassy Hill Formula 1 race car. At the end of the 1972 racing season Graham Hill realised that it was getting harder and harder for him to get a decent ride in Formula 1. Graham Hill who was a double Formula 1 Champion and winner of the Indy 500 was not quite ready to hang up his helmet. At age 43 he formed his own team and bought a F-1 Shadow and with sponsorship from Embassy he raced as a constructor. His next step was to have Lola build a car for him using the standard Cosworth Ford. These he called Hill-Lola's. These cars were based upon the Lola T370 and some features of the Formula 5000 Lola, this car turned out to be on the heavy side and bulky. Graham then turned to designed Andy Smallman to build a new car. The new car was based upon the Lola but bit by bit it became the Hill GH-1 and a genuine Hill. The Hill was driven by Graham Hill and Rolf Stommelen with mixed to poor results. In the Spanish Grand Prix Rolf Stommelen had an accident when his car lost its down force and left the track and four people were killed and Rolf was seriously injured. Graham replaced the injured Stommelen with Tony Brise and he finished the season with a well deserved 6th place in Sweden.Every thing came to an end on a November day in 1975 when the plane piloted by Graham Hill and carrying Andy Smallman and Tony Brise crashed in the fog north of London.The car you see here is a Hill GH-3 driven by Chris Ronson at the "Hero's of Speed" last month at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah.

Penske Porsche RS Spyder

I am posting a few more photos of the Penske Porsche RS Spyder that races in the ALMS series.

Penske Porsche RS Spyder

Hello my name is paul and I like to take pictures of race cars and infact all kinds of cars as long as they are interesting. This is my first time at posting on this web site. I am going to post aome photos of a Penske Porsche RS Spyder I took at Miller Motorsports Park on May 15, 2007. The Penske crew got a little mad when I took the picture of the exposed rear suspension. The car was just sitting in the open and I like to take pictures of race car suspension detail so I snapped a couple of photos. As soon as they saw me they covered the rear of the car, by then the damage was done I had already taken the photo.