Now on display in the Škoda museum is the pair of Favorit 136Ls that helped the company win the FIA’s Formula 2 World Rally Championship in 1994.
The ranks of loyal Sÿkoda competitors include brothers Viktor and Andrej Mechi, who contested the Star Rally in Czechoslavakia with this Favorit 136L.Photo: David Prachar, CZE
A road-going Sÿkoda Popular Sport Monte Carlo, Type 909, from 1937.Photo: nemor2 from Wikimedia with permission
Pavel Sibera and Petr Gross in the factory Sÿkoda Favorit 136L splashing through Rally Australia during the marqueÕs championship-winning 1994 season in the FIA F2 World Rally Championship.
Cheever’s best day in the 185T came in Detroit, where he finished 9th, a placing Patrese matched next time out in England, but the 185T was then abandoned in favor of a revised version of the prior car, and Alfa left F1 at year’s end.
The 185T appeared for the start of the 1985 season, but by midsummer it had been replaced by an updated 184TB, and neither driver managed to score any points during the entire 16-race season.Photo: Centro di Documentazione Storica Alfa Romeo
Enzo Osella also used AlfaÕs turbo V8 to power his eponymous Grand Prix cars, and Piercarlo Ghinzani drove his FA1F-Alfa Romeo to a fine 5th-place finish in 1984Õs rigorous United States GP in Dallas.Photo: Maureen Magee
Andrea de Cesaris stirred the hopes of the Alfa faithful in 1983 with runner-up finishes in both Germany and South Africa, and also qualified his 183T 3rd and led for 18 laps at Spa before the engine failed.Photo: Centro di Documentazione Storica Alfa Ro
Alfa Romeo introduced its turbo V8 at the Italian GP of Õ82, but it did not race there, instead making its debut in the 183T chassis at the 1983 season opener in Brazil. Development was still needed, however, and it did not realize its best form until mid
Turbocharging the ubiquitous Offenhauser four-cylinder Indycar engine enabled it to compete with the quad-cam Ford V8s that became the primary force in Indycars during the mid-’60s. This is the installation in Dan Gurney’s 1970 Eagle that finished 3rd at Indy in that year.
AlfaÕs 159 dominated the first two seasons of modern-era Formula One in 1950 and 1951, winning six races in the former year and four in the latter as first Guiseppe Farina (shown) and then Juan Manuel Fangio earned the title of World Champion.
The 182T, the 182 chassis fitted with the Turbo V-8, first appeared at Monza, near the end of the 1982 season, although it was not run in the race. Photo: Centro di Documentazione Storica Alfa Romeo
Donington’s symbolic Dunlop Bridge became one of the casualties of the changes to the circuit.Photo: Pete Austin
