Fry (racing car)

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The Fry was a Formula 2 racing car from 1959.

The Fry was a one-off that David Fry built for Stuart Lewis-Evans in 1959 . The Briton was supposed to drive the car in Formula 2 in 1959. Lewis-Evans was so seriously injured at the 1958 Grand Prix of Morocco that he died of burns a few days later after being improperly transported to Great Britain.

So Mike Parkes became the substitute. Parkes had already helped build the vehicle and now drove the car in British races. The monoposto was a strange vehicle with a monocoque as a middle section and a 1.5-liter Climax engine ( type FPF ) in the rear. The unit was covered by a hood that gave the car the shape of an arrowhead. Persistent failure ended the project in the early 1960s.

literature

  • David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 106.