{"id":18430,"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acpmotorsports.com\/?p=18430"},"modified":"2024-03-05T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:42:07","slug":"honda-ra302-france-1968-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/honda-ra302-france-1968-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"honda ra302 france 1968 #F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-8912\" src=\"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_honda_ra302__france_1968_-d6ew58x-750x960.jpg\" width=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Jo Schlesser&#8217;s) #Honda RA302 &#8211; #Honda RA302E, 2991cc V8 naturally aspirated Mid-engined, longitudinallymounted<\/p>\n<p>The car was built based on the order by Soichiro #Honda to develop an air-cooled Formula One engine. Thus, the car was forcibly entered in the Formula One race alongside the water-cooled, aluminum-bodied RA301 which had been developed by the existing #Honda team and British Lola Cars. It would only appear in one race, the<\/p>\n<p>1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts, driven by Jo Schlesser.\u00a0Schlesser was chosen to drive the RA302 because normal #Honda driver John Surtees (who was the\u00a01964 world champion) refused <!--more-->to drive it as he deemed it to be unsafe and labelled it as a &#8220;potential deathtrap&#8221;. This was proven on lap two of the Grand Prix Schlesser crashed at the Virage des Six Fr\u00e9res section of the circuit and the car came to rest sideways against a bank. The magnesium-bodied #Honda and 58 laps worth of fuel ignited instantly, killing Schlesser and destroying the original RA302.<\/p>\n<p>1968 French Grand Prix, Rouen-Les-Essarts Circuit<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jo Schlesser&#8217;s) #Honda RA302 &#8211; #Honda RA302E, 2991cc V8 naturally aspirated Mid-engined, longitudinallymounted The car was built based on the order by Soichiro #Honda to develop an air-cooled Formula One engine. Thus, the car was forcibly entered in the Formula<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,141],"tags":[137,89],"class_list":["post-18430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-golden-age","tag-f1","tag-race-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44048,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430\/revisions\/44048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}