John Cooper, winner of Formula 3 race at Rouen, 1952. Artist: Unknown

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John Cooper, winner of Formula 3 race at Rouen, 1952. By 1948 John Cooper and his father Charles Cooper were making rear engined 500cc formula 3 cars. The inroduction of this new breed of car re-wrote the F1 record books by rendering front-engined machines such as the Vanwall, Ferrari Dino 246 and Maserati 250F obsolete by the end of the 1958 season.

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Size: 4983px × 3773px
Location: World,Europe,France,Haute-Normandie,Rouen
Photo credit: © National Motor Museum/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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