{"id":7033,"date":"2019-10-18T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=7033"},"modified":"2019-12-09T23:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T02:19:43","slug":"renault-alpine-a442-b-2-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/renault-alpine-a442-b-2-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault-Alpine A442\/B #2 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1978 Renault-Alpine A442\/B<\/strong>\nPilots: D. Pironi, J-P. Jaussaud \nTeam: Renault Sport<\/em>\nRace: 1st overall (class Group 6) at Le Mans in 1978\nSpark - 43LM78 (resin) <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 10\/18\/19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 1971, Alpine had very strict ties with Renault, and by 1976 Renault bought the company. And with that, Alpine became Renault\u2019s race car development department. In 1975 Alpine started developing a new car for sports prototype racing, the A442<\/strong>. The new car was a direct descendant of the A440 and A441, but with one big difference: turbocharging. The A442<\/a> used a 1997 cm\u00b3 V6 Renault-Gordini engine boosted by a large Garrett turbocharger. In race trim, power output was around 490 hp. The chassis was a relatively small steel space frame enveloped by a much longer glass fiber body. It had a particularly long tail to improve aerodynamics, especially because of the Mulsanne straight. But maybe the most eye-catching aspect of the car was the acrylic roof, that granted an extra 8 km\/h at La Sarthe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"A442\/B
I really like the yellow, black and white Renault livery of the 70’s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
For the 24 Heures du Mans <\/em>of 1978, Renault Sport had three different cars in the race. The team counted on a A442\/A<\/a>, one A443<\/a> and a A442\/B. However, only the A442\/B #2 finished (and won!) the race. The A442\/B was the only one with the acrylic roof, and therefore earned the nickname of \u201cBubble Top\u201d. The win at Le Mans was the last race of chassis #4423. After the race Renault retired the car and to this day it still participates in a few historic races around Europe, with the same livery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"A442\/B
I kind of liked my old pw model, but the Spark is another level.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Like what happened with my Jaguar XJR-12 #3<\/a>, this A442\/B #2 is also the second time I buy this model. I bought it with the Jag from C-K, where it was listed as Ixo, but in reality it was a pw<\/a>. In all fairness a very<\/em> decent pw, but that\u2019s not what I paid for. So it was a model I had to replace, just out of spite. And since this one\u2019s from Spark, now I have a great model of the first Renault to win Le Mans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1978 Renault-Alpine A442\/B Pilots: D. Pironi, J-P. Jaussaud  Team: Renault Sport Race: 1st overall (class Group 6) at Le Mans in 1978 Spark – 43LM78 (resin) Published 10\/18\/19 Since 1971, Alpine had very strict ties with Renault, and by 1976 Renault bought the company. And with that, Alpine became Renault\u2019s race car development department. In … Continue reading “Renault-Alpine A442\/B #2 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7033","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8252,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7033\/revisions\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}