A frontal view of the car. I am not sure when the track picked this car up. But it was before they announced the US Grand Prix would come to IMS.
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It's definitely a B191. It's not a B193, because the rear tires are too wide (FIA narrowed the rear tires for the 1993 season). And it's not a B192, because that car had a much higher front nose than this one.
The reason this car is causing so much confusion is because the car number is wrong for the model year. Benetton had car #s 19 and 20 for the 1991 and 1992 season (and years previous too). They changed to Number 5 and 6 in 1993, but even then, Schumacher drove car #5, Patrese had #6, and they both drove a completely different model to the one shown. This car is basically a 1991 model with a 1993 paint job.
There was a guy by the name of Larry Connor, a one-time SCCA Fomula Atlantic racer, who actually owned a Benetton B191 like this, and actually raced it at historic events across the country a few years back. This car may very well be it.
The reason this car is causing so much confusion is because the car number is wrong for the model year. Benetton had car #s 19 and 20 for the 1991 and 1992 season (and years previous too). They changed to Number 5 and 6 in 1993, but even then, Schumacher drove car #5, Patrese had #6, and they both drove a completely different model to the one shown. This car is basically a 1991 model with a 1993 paint job.
There was a guy by the name of Larry Connor, a one-time SCCA Fomula Atlantic racer, who actually owned a Benetton B191 like this, and actually raced it at historic events across the country a few years back. This car may very well be it.
Thanks. I'll admit to living a sheltered, deprived life, spending hours in a darkened room and ogiling over beautiful F1 machines like these. I love this photo by the way.
Funny thing is, If you showed me pictures of the F1 cars from this season with the liveries off, I probably couldn't tell them apart. I still watch today's F1, but I have a preference for the cars from way back (particularly from the 60s to the mid-90s). I think the late 80s-early 90s F1 machines were the peak of aesthetically-pleasing, grand prix cars, like this one.
Funny thing is, If you showed me pictures of the F1 cars from this season with the liveries off, I probably couldn't tell them apart. I still watch today's F1, but I have a preference for the cars from way back (particularly from the 60s to the mid-90s). I think the late 80s-early 90s F1 machines were the peak of aesthetically-pleasing, grand prix cars, like this one.
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