SIMCA 1000 Youngtimer racer.

[scmick]

Have recently sold my Honda twin cam powered SIMCA track car along with a half built one with a B series Vtec. The reason is I had chance of something better in track SIMCA 1000s. It's a Rallye 2 originally raced in the Youngtimer trophy race series on the Continent. In recent years it has had Class wins in Classic Thunder races with Dan, its previous UK owner. For me, after running and racing SIMCAs since the early 80's, it's a retirement 'Trackday Toy'....

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[scmick]

The other photo that should have come up with the last post.

[scmick]

another photo....

[🇿🇼Kingludba🇬🇧]

very nice indeed. love those arches... fatboy!!

[65mustang]

Daniel Burrowes ?, nice fellow ! He once picuked up a gastank for a simca over here in the netherlands.

[scmick]

65mustang
This is the car your gastank went into. It is Daniel's latest 'creation' on our SIMCA Club UK stand at Practical Classics Restoration Show earlier this year. It is a LHD Rallye 2 totally restored and fitted with a 1442 engine on throttle bodies.

[thebaron]

Congrats on the new purchase. That really looks like amazing fun.

[scmick]

More photos....

[dikkehemaworst]

What an amazing car ! Well done !!

[scmick]

Spare front arches that cam with it.... different style. Rear ones are same as those on car

[scmick]

For the local Eckington Classic Car Show at Renishaw Hall yesterday, I decided to take a 'period' SIMCA racing team outfit... my 1100 Vf2 pickup towing the Youngtimer racer. The outfit caused loads of interest. The pickup has a MATRA Bagheera engine to cope.

[scmick]

Tried it out for the first time at a trackday at Blyton last Friday. Really fast and sticks like glue on the twisty bits. On top of that it does something my past SIMCA 1000 racers struggled to do.... cools well even after a hard thrashing.

[peter96]

Absolutely love it.

[scmick]

Frank Breidenstein's current racing SIMCA.... a Rallye 3, just 1000 of which were made for homologation and to mark the end of SIMCA 1000 production in 1978.

[Brigsy]

Looks awesome Scmick

[scmick]

First trackday of 2018 for me at Blyton yesterday. Really wet early on but this hangs on really well. Real fun and puts up a great performance compared with the modern stuff. Now have to clean off all the muck ready for the NEC Classic & Restoration show next weekend.

[scmick]

More photos of it in action...

[820]

Shame the weather was so horrible, your car is so clean in the first pictures.
Must be quite a knack to driving these in the wet, I guess the steering must be very light yet traction out the corner must be much better than front engine cars.
The pictures are great but would love to see some on board video for the full effect.

[scmick]

There's an in car video on youtube of this on one of my runs up Shelsley Walsh hill at RRG 2016. I'll look out the link for it. Post '69 SIMCA 1000s have a really direct steering rack, the group 2 rack is even quicker. Cornes are a case of getting this right going in and, once you're heading in something like the right direction, accelerating hard which serves to sit the back end down to more negative camber.

Photo... A 2005 'Youngtimer' race with this car on the left near the front.

[820]

I have watched many of those Youngtimer videos, really good racing, I might have posted a link in one of your other threads with the Simcas very competitive.
Bit like the Imps in the Historic touring cars, watched far to many of those on board vids too, so fast in the corners just need another 500cc for the straights.