De Tomaso P900, 2022. A new, track-only hypercar based on the De Tomaso P72 that will be be made in limited edition of 18 cars costing $3 million each including support from De Tomaso Automobili for track days. The cars will be powered by a naturally aspirated V12 built by the German engineering firm Capricorn that produces 888hp and can hit 12,300rpm. An F1-sourced V10 is also available. Power is sent to the rear axle via a sequential Xtrac gearbox. 

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De Tomaso Automobili “P900″

Gli altri sport: Frank Williams

Un uomo che visse più di una vita, nel mondo dell’automobilismo internazionale… Francis Owen Garbett Williams, conosciuto come Frank, nacque il 16 aprile 1942 a South Shields, in Inghilterra e il padre era un ufficiale dell’aeronautica militare, mentre la madre un’insegnante. La sua passione per le auto nacque grazie alle sue amicizie, che lo introdussero nel mondo delle automobili e da lì decise di intraprendere la carriera da pilota, che fu però abbastanza breve e priva di grandi successi. Williams gareggiò principalmente in Formula 3 e in campionati GT, capendo dopo poco che quella del pilota non era la sua strada, capendo di essere un buon  imprenditore e manager e nel 1966 fondò la sua scuderia, la Frank Williams Racing Cars. Inizialmente la scuderia di Frank gareggiava principalmente in F2 e F3 e Williams decise di ingaggiare come piloti alcuni dei suoi amici, come Piers Courage, che nel 1968 portò la Frank Williams Racing Cars a vincere il campionato in F2. Dopo un paio di stagioni, nel 1969 Frank passò con la sua scuderia in F1, riconfermando il suo pilota Courage, serie ottenne due podi e terminò la stagione ottavo in campionato. Nella sua carriera da dirigente della Williams, Frank vide la morte più di una volta e la prima di fu proprio quella del suo amico Courage, che morì nel 1970 nel Gran Premio d’Olanda. Nei primi anni in F1 la scuderia Williams non produceva le proprie vetture, ma si affidava ad auto provenienti dalla Brabham, March e Alejandro de Tomaso e solo dal 1972 iniziò a a costruire le proprie vetture, dando vita alla Politoys FX3. Inizialmente, la gestione della scuderia non fu facile per Frank, che dovette affrontare dei gravi problemi finanziari, e nonostante l’aiuto di colossi come Marlboro e Iso Rivolta e, tra il 1969 e il 1975, Frank non vide mai nessuno dei propri piloti salire sul podio. Nel 1976 Williams vendette il 60% della sua scuderia a Walter Wolf, un magnate petrolifero, che diede anche il nome alla scuderia, cambiandolo in Walter Wolf Racing e un anno dopo   abbandonò definitivamente il timone della sua scuderia, non sentendosi più parte di essa. Frank però non si diede per vinto e  chiese aiuto al suo ingegnere di fiducia Patrick Head, con cui creò la Williams Grand Prix Engineering, puntando sul talento di Alan Jones e Clay Regazzoni, che terminando il campionato in seconda posizione nella classifica costruttori. La competitività del team diventò evidente agli occhi di tutti nel 1980, quando Alan Jones vinse il mondiale e, insieme a Reutemann, portò a Frank anche la vittoria campionato costruttori, così come nella stagione successiva. Frank nel 1983 affidò la produzione dei suoi motori alla Honda, che con le sue idee per un motore turbo convinse la Williams a stipulare un accordo e la scuderia tornò a vincere il campionato costruttori nel 1986 con Piquet e Mansell con la FW11. Il 1986 fu per Williams un anno davvero difficile dato che, mentre si trovava in Francia e stava andando all’aeroporto, perse il controllo dell’auto, che si ribaltò su se stessa e subì la rottura della spina dorsale e fu costretto a vivere per il resto della sua vita su una sedia a rotelle. Nel 1986 la squadra vinse il titolo costruttori e anche quello piloti con il brasiliano Piquet, anche se ci fu l’abbandono della Honda, che non riponeva più fiducia nella scuderia e la fornitura dei motori fu affidata alla Renault, che divenne un valido alleato. Negli anni della collaborazione con la Renault la Williams vinse cinque volte il campionato costruttori e quattro volte quello piloti, con piloti del calibro di Mansell, Prost, Hill e Villeneuve. Quando il 1 maggio 1994 Ayrton Senna morì nella tragedia del circuito di Imola, Frank venne indagato per omicidio colposo, ma fu poi assolto. Intanto la Renault abbandonò la Williams, che trovandosi in difficoltà, trovò nella BMW la fornitrice dei propri motori, ma negli anni della loro collaborazione non arrivò nessun titolo mondiale. Gli anni successivi furono difficili e le due stagioni dove la Williams tornò a farsi vedere furono quelle con Massa e Bottas nel 2014 e 2015, che non andarono oltre un terzo posto nel mondiale costruttori. Dal 2016 in poi la Williams risprofondò nelle ultime zone della classifica, entrando in una vera e propria crisi dal 2018. Nell’estate del 2020 il fondo statunitense Dorilton Capital comprò il team e, pochi mesi dopo, Frank e la sua famiglia annunciarono il loro abbandono della società, chiudendo  un’era durata per ben 43 anni. Il 28 novembre  2021 Frank Williams morì a Londra all’età di 79 anni, lasciando un’eredità unica nel  mondo delle corse, la sua scuderia resta infatti la quarta nella storia della Formula 1 come numero di successi, con nove titoli costruttori e sette titoli piloti vinti nella sua storia. Read the full article

DE TOMASO HISTORY

DE TOMASO

What is De Tomaso who poured hot Latin blood into Charade?

Text by Takumi Yoshida (motor journalist)

The completion of the Charade De Tomaso II is a proud occasion that prompts me to express my heartfelt thanks and congratulation to all that have made this project possible.

This is the second version of the Charade De Tomaso which, in close collaboration with Daihatsu, reflects my input of expertise and know-how.

It is my sincere wish and intention that this is only the second step in a more frequent and wider future collaboration with Daihatsu and, as such, I consider the Charade De Tomaso II an epoch-making model.

I am very proud indeed in presenting the new Charade De Tomaso II and hope that the young people of Japan will derive as much pleasure from it as we all did in working to make it a reality.

This car is the second Charade that I have tuned as a production car.

There is a deep connection between Daihatsu and our company, and I am happy to be able to show my skills again. I think that such attempts should be made more, and in that respect, the Charade de Tomaso is a car of great significance. It is my sincere hope that the feeling of Charade de Tomaso will be strongly supported by young people in Japan.

A young De Tomaso who was active as a racing driver. In a hot Latin country, sports cars and

Italy, the kingdom of motor sports. From long ago, the insatiable admiration for speed has been the spiritual backbone, and many beautiful and high-performance sports cars have been created by making full use of the mechanism and genius for beauty unique to Latin people. And De Tomaso also had such a postwar

Born Italian sports big money

It is one of the mu. Just as Ferrari had Enzo and Lamborghini had Ferrucci, De Tomaso had, of course, a founder with a strong personality who established his own sports car philosophy and established it as a manufacturer. . That is Alessandro De Tomaso.

However, unlike Enzo and Ferruccio, De Tomaso was not a genuine Italian. His grandfather and grandmother were born in Italy, but he was born of Italian and Spanish ancestry in Argentina, South America, where his grandfather and grandmother emigrated.

Argentina, a country in Latin America, is far from Europe, the home of motor sports, but people have a strong passion for Italians, and races have been actively held since ancient times. If you remember that Argentina was the birthplace of Juan Manuel Fangio, the famous racing driver who won the F1 world championship five times in the 1950s, you can understand what kind of country it was.

It would have been no surprise that De Tomaso, who had grown up there and had Italian heritage, would have been inspired by Fangio's success to become a racing driver. It was in 1951, at the age of 25, that he drove his first racing car in Argentina. In the mid-1950s, De Tomaso moved to Europe and settled in Modena, northern Italy, a mecca for high-performance sports cars 1, home to Ferrari and Maserati. He knocked on the door of Maserati there, first working as a mechanic and then quickly becoming a racing driver. His first result as a Maserati driver came in 1956 when he finished fourth in a sports car race in Argentina.

De Tomaso soon left Maserati for Osca. Originally Masse

Founded in Bologna by the Maserati brothers, who were the founders of Larti, Osca was a manufacturer specializing in small-displacement racing sports cars, but De Tomaso's most glorious career as a racing driver was at this Osca. It will be built in time. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he drove a small Oska sports car with his ferocious driving style to numerous small-displacement class victories.

1959 in Modena

Established De Tomaso Automobili. But at that time another ambition flared up in Alessandro De Tomaso. It was to send out racing cars and sports cars bearing his name according to his own plans. In 1959, he founded a company called De Tomaso Automobili in Modena. Modena and its environs are the perfect place to create fast and beautiful cars, with countless studios with artistic craftsmen building every new chassis and body.

De Tomaso spent the first few years developing and building racing cars with a focus on single-seater formulas. De Tomaso probably thought that if he wanted to use his experience as a racing driver, he should make a racing car. Starting with the introductory Formula Junior, through F2, and finally to F1, these machines never achieved great track success.

One of the reasons for this is said to be Alessandro de Tomatsu's "new-things-loving personality." He said he got so caught up in it that he didn't take the time to mature his first car.

On the other hand, De Tomaso seems to have been quite loyal. One of the reasons why he didn't get into sports cars for a while after working for De Tomaso Automobili was because of his loyalty to the Maserati brothers. Tsuma de Tomaso was about to move to Italy and make a name for himself as a racing driver. I didn't like it.

first sports car

Small high performance Vallelunga.

However, in the early 1960s, De Tomaso began developing a sports car. Its first creation was the Vallelunga, a small high-performance GT named after a circuit on the outskirts of Rome. First introduced at the 1963 Turin Auto Show with an open aluminum body, the Valenta was released two years later with a low FRP coupe body produced by Carrozzeria Ghia. It was a small but hard-hitting car with a hidden suspension and a mid-engined engine. De Tomaso didn't have its own power unit, so the engine installed in the midship was a tuned British Ford mass-produced OHV 4-cylinder. However, the Vallelunga was a lightweight model of 640 kg, so it demonstrated high performance reaching a maximum speed of 208km/h, and it was said that a racing specification would reach 230km/h. The Vallelunga was a GT that could be used for racing, as was the case with De Tomaso's work at the time, when he was fully immersed in the world of motorsports. The Vallelunga was a fan favorite, but it was not a commercial success, with only 580 built, including prototypes. Therefore, it was a super sports Mangusta that was much larger than the next model de Tomaso planned by taking advantage of the relationship with Ford and Ghia cultivated by Vallelunga. The Mangusta, which made a spectacular debut in 1966, was a mid-engined backbone chassis with the same basic configuration as the Vallelunga, with a Ford 4.7ℓ V8 engine from the United States mounted in the mid-engined car. The sharp shape of the designed body gives it a fresh appeal.The maximum speed was announced to be over 250km/h. DeTomaso has finally created a supersport car on par with Ferrari and Lamborghini.

Pantera became a super long-selling super sports.

The successor to the Mangusta was announced in 1970 as the Pantera, a super sports super long-selling model that has survived to this day. The V8 engine was expanded to 5.8L, and at the same time, it was designed by Tom Giarda, who became the new gear chief. was a model. The Pantera is much heavier than the Mangusta, and although it loses some of its sharpness as a supersport, the rigidity of the chassis has been greatly improved, and the price in the United States is less than 10,000 dollars. As a supercar, an exceptional price was realized. As a result, in the early 1970s, just before the oil crisis, De Tomaso produced 2000 cars a year.

In 1990, De Tomaso showed that it was still a supersport manufacturer by introducing a new edition of the Pantera with a Ford 4.9L V8 in a body reworked by Gandini. In addition to these mid-engined sports cars, De Tomaso also added large, high-end front-engined cars to its lineup in the 1970s, such as the Longchamp sports coupe and the Deauville 4 door saloon. Later, the prestigious Maserati was also brought under its umbrella, and the Biturbo series was released to the world.

Innocenti Mini with Daihatsu engine.

On the other hand, De Tomaso also tried his hand at small passenger cars. In 1976 he bought Innocenti, which produced Bertone-designed Italian Minis based on British Minis, and dominated it until 1990, when he sold it to Fiat. In fact, the relationship between Daihatsu and De Tomaso was born from this Innocenti Mini. De Tomaso, who was looking for a new power unit for this car, took notice of the first-generation Charade's SOHC 3-cylinder 1-liter engine, and from 1982 produced the Innocenti cylinder equipped with it. As a result, Daihatsu asked De Tomaso to design a sporty model of the Charade, and after several prototypes, the Charade was created in 1984 based on the second-generation Charade.

It was de Tomaso Turbo.

After that, the relationship between Daihatsu and De Tomaso

The midship prototype that was exhibited at the 1985 Tokyo Show, and the De Tomaso version of the 3rd generation Charade base that was exhibited at the 1987 Tokyo Show were both produced in cooperation. And now, the name of De Tomaso has been revived in the sporty model of the 4th generation Charade, bringing back the hot Latin air. By the way, I met Mr. Alessandro De Tomaso in Italy a few years ago. When I visited Modena on a tour of a classic car race called the Mille Miglia, Mr. De Tomaso, a local auto-industry celebrity, attended dinner with me. There, I shook hands with him and exchanged greetings, but I didn't reach the point of conversing, but it was the car he drove that left an impression on me.

After a long, Italian-style dinner, I stepped out of the restaurant just after two o'clock in the morning to find Mr. De Tomaso about to get into the car driven by his female secretary, who was his success. It was a modest thing that was quite different from the image of He got in the passenger seat of a black Innocenti Mini. I felt like I saw an unexpected side of Mr. De Tomaso there, but now that I think about it, that Innocenti Mini might have been a cylinder model with a Daihatsu 3-cylinder engine.

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Innocenti

De Tomaso P72, 2020. A prototype for a new De Tomaso supercar has been revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car has been created by Apollo Automobili and shares its carbon monocoque chassis with their Intensa Emozione. It takes its inspiration from the 1960s De Tomaso P70, a prototype race car developed by Alejandro de Tomaso and Carroll Shelby. No technical details have been released but the car will be powered by a combustion engine. Production will be limited to 72 examples priced at €750,000 ($845k) each

De Tomaso Automobili was an Italian car-manufacturing company founded 1959 in Modena - Italy 🇮🇹. © Photos: @jgucars _ STORY: It originally produced various prototypes and racing cars, including a F1 car for Frank Williams in 1970. The company went on to develop and produce both sports cars and luxury vehicles, most notably the Ford-powered Italian-bodied Mangusta and Pantera. From 1976 to 1993 De Tomaso also owned the Italian sports car maker Maserati and was responsible for the development of the Maserati Biturbo, Kyalami and Quattroporte III. At the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed the entirely new reformed DeTomaso brand introduced the P72. A retro-styled sports car, designed by Jowyn Wong. The car is a homage to the P70, a race car built by Carrol Shelby and styled by Peter Brock for De Tomaso introduced the late 1960s. The design of the car is meant to be hailing back to the LeMans race cars of 1960s. DeTomaso says that the chassis will be built to match LMP1 standards, so that the car might compete at the 24h of LeMans! Only 72 of these will be built and sold at approximately 750.000 € each. #911LND #911LegendsNeverDie https://www.instagram.com/p/B7gSu83oIhX/?igshid=kprg129s5qmj

De Tomaso P72 Concept - 2019 

"Designed and built Apollo Automobili to celebrate the company's 60th anniversary, the P72 plays tribute to the original De Tomaso P70, a collaboration with Alejandro De Tomaso and Carroll Shelby. Norman Choi, chairman of De Tomaso says that the De Tomaso P72 is a modern day homage to the prototype days of the '60s. The P72 is based on an all-car bon chassis, featuring the first all-carbon fibre production chassis. The monocoque, as well as subframes and crash structure adhere to FIA LMP safety requirements. Only 72 examples of this bespoke all carbon-fibre chassis will be produced."

By Perico001

DeTomaso P72 is STUNNING 😮🇮🇹 ______________________________________ [7/4/19] Celebrating the iconic brand’s 60th anniversary is nothing better than a glorious revival at Goodwood with their debut STUNNING P72 dubbed as a modern day classic and indeed it is so! The brand is saying the P72 will be in a class of its own and was all thanks to the support and team at Apollo Automobili who relaunched DeTomaso after buying the rights to the brans back in 2014. Let me tell you, this thing should put Pagani and Spyker on notice because the interior is the new standard of stunning! The instrument cluster, dials and knobs look like they are fine jewelry crafted out of fins copper with a diamond pattern. Oh yeah the MANUAL gearbox has exposed copper linkages too… 🤤 🇮🇹 @Allcarnews Spec Sheet: The specifications are tight lipped right now but the brand said the car is meant to be analogue and sits on a similar monocoque chassis as the insane Apollo Intensa Emozione! If that is the case, it could get the same screaming 6.0L N/A V12 making around 720HP but some say a V8 is also possible. 🇮🇹 Just 72 examples will be made and yes, they will be coming to the US thanks to the exclusive dealer at @millermotorcars right here in the east coast! The exterior design is modeled off the never releases P70 prototype racer from 1964 that was designed by Carroll Shelby and Alejandro de Tomaso! Event the LED lights upfront mimic the T logo and the rear exhaust port looks like a fine brass instrument made from copper…..Just Stunning! Pricing is starting around $850k before customization options which will be close to endless! _______________________________________ ACN EXTRA: Anyone want to band together and buy a collective one? (Disclaimer: organs may have to be sold) ________________________________________ - - - #DeTomaso #Apollo #V12 An #allcarnews post #Italian #V8 #Ferrari #italy #Pantera #ApolloIE #IntensaEmozione #carbon #exotic ||#powerful #performance #turbocharged #supercharged #advanced #SupercarsRevamped #Supercar #HyperCar #ItsWhiteNoise #CarLifeStyle #MadWhips #CupGang #Carstagram #BlackList #AmazingCars247 https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgC89_hQmN/?igshid=1fol475vurdgp

De Tomaso is Officially Returning: The De Tomaso brand is coming back for its 60th anniversary, thanks to the core team behind Apollo Automobili. via /r/cars

De Tomaso is Officially Returning: The De Tomaso brand is coming back for its 60th anniversary, thanks to the core team behind Apollo Automobili. http://bit.ly/2LJ1hwz

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