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I thought you would all appreciate having a look at one of the most amazing race cars that was in the (in)famous Le Mans in 1955. Has anyone ever seen this car?
Developing his ideas to their extreme, he soon produced an asymmetrical, catamaran like car, the Bisiluro ("twin torpedo"), with one sleek hull for the driver and one for the engine. These were connected by a wing-like structure that housed an ingenious curved radiator, flaps to aid braking and a negative-lift wing to keep the car from taking off into the sky.
The car is stunning, but it didn't do so well at Le Mans in 1955. While it averaged 89 mph, its off-kilter construction made it almost impossible to control on turns and it was eventually run off the track and into a ditch by a Jaguar D-type driven by Mike Hawthorn, who went on to win the race. (As it turned out, from Mollino's perspective that minor crash might have been for the best; a bit later in the race, a Mercedes-Benz 300SLR driven by Pierre Levegh clipped Lance Macklin's Austin Healey 100S. Levegh's car hit a wall and exploded into the grandstand, killing 77.
The Bisiluro remains intact after all these years, and is usually housed at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan. But for now the car itself, numerous sketches chronicling its production, and photos of its short history (at once glorious and somewhat comical) can be found at Turin.
Developing his ideas to their extreme, he soon produced an asymmetrical, catamaran like car, the Bisiluro ("twin torpedo"), with one sleek hull for the driver and one for the engine. These were connected by a wing-like structure that housed an ingenious curved radiator, flaps to aid braking and a negative-lift wing to keep the car from taking off into the sky.
The car is stunning, but it didn't do so well at Le Mans in 1955. While it averaged 89 mph, its off-kilter construction made it almost impossible to control on turns and it was eventually run off the track and into a ditch by a Jaguar D-type driven by Mike Hawthorn, who went on to win the race. (As it turned out, from Mollino's perspective that minor crash might have been for the best; a bit later in the race, a Mercedes-Benz 300SLR driven by Pierre Levegh clipped Lance Macklin's Austin Healey 100S. Levegh's car hit a wall and exploded into the grandstand, killing 77.
The Bisiluro remains intact after all these years, and is usually housed at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan. But for now the car itself, numerous sketches chronicling its production, and photos of its short history (at once glorious and somewhat comical) can be found at Turin.