This one has been sitting for over three years, needing just that I find enough courage to tackle a few remaining bits.
This is the 1967 Eagle T1G Weslake, designed, built and driven by Dan Gurney to the win at the Belgian GP that year. The Weslake V12 was very fast but unreliable, and the win in Belgium remains the only Grand Prix win by a US-built car of any make; Gurney is one of very few people to design, build and race their own car successfully.
Shown with the BRM P83 with the H16 motor, which took 2nd place at the same race in the capable hands of Jackie Stewart. The H16 engine, consisting of a pair of flat-8s stacked one on top of the other, turned out to be excessively complicated, unreliable, heavy, bulky and underpowered, and the engine's only win came in the 1966 US GP in a Lotus chassis, driven by Jim Clark. After a series of trials, BRM chose this engine over the Weslake V12, which was then taken up by Gurney. In the end neither car did particularly well, with poor reliability being a major issue with both engines.
I have Chris Amon's third place Ferrari 312 ready to start; this will round out the podium with a more successful car.These are 1/43 scale kits by Model Factory Hiro and feature multiple microscopic bits. Once the Ferrari is complete, that's it and I am going back to building in more reasonable scales. Stay tuned!
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