[Tigers] V6 Alpine eats most Tigers?

[Buck Trippel]

Back in 1965, Sports Car Forum campaigned two Sunbeams for Rootes - one was 
the SCF Tiger driven by Don Sesslar and the other was the SCF Alpine that 
Don drove to the 1964 FP SCCA championship. Both were well prepared and well 
driven.

The two cars would compete at the same events but ran in different groups. I 
have copies of the lap times for both Sunbeams for entire season and I've 
studied them to see what light they'd shed on the question of the relative 
quickness of the Alpine as compared to the Tiger.

At every track, the Tiger was not just quicker but a whole lot quicker than 
the Alpine. At a typical track the difference was 3 seconds per lap. To put 
this in perspective, at vintage races today, I consider 2 tenths per lap a 
big difference in performance.

Buck Trippel



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Subject: Re: [Tigers] V6 Alpine eats most Tigers?


> For years few Tigers could match the time of Uncle Wally in
> his Alpine.  At Road American  Rosemary Smith was showing  Steve
> Arcala's tailights to many Tigers.
>
> Its not only the HP.  but its the driver behind the wheel.
>
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