Brickyard Legends Team present :
Ford Escort 1300GT
Introduced in January 1968, Ford's original Escort was the latest of a line of small family cars, specifically engineered to be simple, cheap to buy and economical to run. Like previous small Fords, the Escorts had front-mounted engines, driving the rear wheels, and had independent front suspension, and a beam rear axle suspended on leaf springs. The Escort, though, was the first small Ford to use the robust little 'cross-flow' 'Kent' engine, which proved to be remarkably tuneable for use in races and rallies. Escorts of this type were in production until the end of 1974, with a total of more than one million being produced in the UK alone at the Halewood factory, near Liverpool. Tens of thousands were of the GT derivative.
Although the Twin-Cam, and that car's successor, the RS1600 were most suitable for motorsport use, the 1300GT was also very competitive in 1.3-litre classes. in 7th of July 1968, Broadspeed rolled their version of Escort 1300GT in ETCC racing world by replacing aging group 5 Anglias to make better competition against Alfa Romeo (GTA Junior) and BMC (Cooper S). In Nurburgring 6 hour race, these escorts driven by Chris Craft, Roger Clark, John Fitzpatric and Trevor Taylor took two first places in under 1300cc class. Lots of victories followed same and following year, unfortunately for the 1968 championship the opposition had too much advantage season being in half when the Escorts arrived.
Broadspeed's 1300GT, was very special built etcc group 5 regulations version with exceptionally short 5-speed gearbox made by Hewland. Engine was good old pre-crossflow pushrod, but with head modified beyond any imaginary limits: as the rules stated that homologated head had to be used, but allowed very hard modifications, Broadspeed soldered the old, too narrow, restrictive intakes and drilled new ones to optimal angle. These modifications allowed the engine breathe better and with cutom made cam and mechanical fuel injection, they were able to get it produce over 140bhp @ 9000 rpm. Another interesting thing in these victorious cars is the arches; the cars featured arches only in front. It has been claimed that Broadspeed might have used anglia rear axels able to use wider tyres rear without arches... however there's no exact fact about what was the real reason archering only front.
For the 16,000 mile London - Mexico Daily Mirror World Cup rally of April-May 1970, which included a complete circumnavigation of Europe and South America, Doug Harris bought a standard 1300GT, prepared it with all available factory-supplied pieces to stiffen up the body structure, and improve the chassis, and contested the event as a genuine private owner. Although only 23 of the original 96 starters finished this gruelling event, Harris (and co-driver Mike Butler) carried out their own on-event service and repairs, and completed the event, their Escort being the smallest-engined car to make it to Mexico City, and also the winner of its capacity class.
Mod features a whole lot of real world 1300GT skins and above mentioned ETCC1968 cars are featured. all cars have the ETCC1968 group 5 specsed physics and it should compete nicely against 1968 Cooper 1275 S and Alfa Romeo GTA Junior. (just like in real world it did.)
The mod is linked to TC65 class and the Alfa GTA.
Credits :
- papag21 : 3d, mapping, file structure, template, skins
- tincorna : updates, skins
- kiwisteve : skins
- hkhoy : skins
- Ned : skins
- Nappe1 : physics, testing
- Joni Jurmu : advanced "The Stig" testing.
- Ney.Dias : testing
Installation instructions:
- extract folder to Gamedata\Teams\TC-65
Enjoy
Ford Escort 1300GT
Introduced in January 1968, Ford's original Escort was the latest of a line of small family cars, specifically engineered to be simple, cheap to buy and economical to run. Like previous small Fords, the Escorts had front-mounted engines, driving the rear wheels, and had independent front suspension, and a beam rear axle suspended on leaf springs. The Escort, though, was the first small Ford to use the robust little 'cross-flow' 'Kent' engine, which proved to be remarkably tuneable for use in races and rallies. Escorts of this type were in production until the end of 1974, with a total of more than one million being produced in the UK alone at the Halewood factory, near Liverpool. Tens of thousands were of the GT derivative.
Although the Twin-Cam, and that car's successor, the RS1600 were most suitable for motorsport use, the 1300GT was also very competitive in 1.3-litre classes. in 7th of July 1968, Broadspeed rolled their version of Escort 1300GT in ETCC racing world by replacing aging group 5 Anglias to make better competition against Alfa Romeo (GTA Junior) and BMC (Cooper S). In Nurburgring 6 hour race, these escorts driven by Chris Craft, Roger Clark, John Fitzpatric and Trevor Taylor took two first places in under 1300cc class. Lots of victories followed same and following year, unfortunately for the 1968 championship the opposition had too much advantage season being in half when the Escorts arrived.
Broadspeed's 1300GT, was very special built etcc group 5 regulations version with exceptionally short 5-speed gearbox made by Hewland. Engine was good old pre-crossflow pushrod, but with head modified beyond any imaginary limits: as the rules stated that homologated head had to be used, but allowed very hard modifications, Broadspeed soldered the old, too narrow, restrictive intakes and drilled new ones to optimal angle. These modifications allowed the engine breathe better and with cutom made cam and mechanical fuel injection, they were able to get it produce over 140bhp @ 9000 rpm. Another interesting thing in these victorious cars is the arches; the cars featured arches only in front. It has been claimed that Broadspeed might have used anglia rear axels able to use wider tyres rear without arches... however there's no exact fact about what was the real reason archering only front.
For the 16,000 mile London - Mexico Daily Mirror World Cup rally of April-May 1970, which included a complete circumnavigation of Europe and South America, Doug Harris bought a standard 1300GT, prepared it with all available factory-supplied pieces to stiffen up the body structure, and improve the chassis, and contested the event as a genuine private owner. Although only 23 of the original 96 starters finished this gruelling event, Harris (and co-driver Mike Butler) carried out their own on-event service and repairs, and completed the event, their Escort being the smallest-engined car to make it to Mexico City, and also the winner of its capacity class.
Mod features a whole lot of real world 1300GT skins and above mentioned ETCC1968 cars are featured. all cars have the ETCC1968 group 5 specsed physics and it should compete nicely against 1968 Cooper 1275 S and Alfa Romeo GTA Junior. (just like in real world it did.)
The mod is linked to TC65 class and the Alfa GTA.
Credits :
- papag21 : 3d, mapping, file structure, template, skins
- tincorna : updates, skins
- kiwisteve : skins
- hkhoy : skins
- Ned : skins
- Nappe1 : physics, testing
- Joni Jurmu : advanced "The Stig" testing.
- Ney.Dias : testing
Installation instructions:
- extract folder to Gamedata\Teams\TC-65
Enjoy
