Patrick Bridger driving a1965 Renault 8 Gordini in the Sprint event at motorsport at the palace 2011
Patrick Bridger driving a1965 Renault 8 Gordini in the Sprint event at motorsport at the palace 2011. Gordini is a French sports car manufacturer. The firm was founded by Amédée Gordini nicknamed "Le Sorcier" (The Sorcerer). Gordini competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Gordini worked with Renault as an engine tuner, entering Renault-Gordini cars at the 24 Hours of Le Mans between 1962 and 1969. After this, Gordini retired and sold his firm to Renault. Renault sold Gordini-badged performance versions of models including the Renault Dauphine, Renault 5, Renault 8 and the Renault 12. In November 2009, Renault announced that it would be reviving the Gordini name for an exclusive line of hot hatches, in a similar fashion to Fiat's revival of its Abarth name. The Renault 8 (Renault R8 until 1964) and Renault 10 are two small family cars produced by the French manufacturer Renault in the 1960s and early 1970s. The 8 was launched in 1962, and the 10, a more upmarket version of the 8, was launched in 1965. The Renault 8 ceased production and sales in France in 1973. By then the Renault 10 had already been replaced, two years earlier, by the front wheel drive Renault 12. The 8 design looks very similar to the Alfa Romeo front-wheel drive prototype tipo 103 (1960), because Alfa Romeo and Renault had a business relationship in the 1950s and 1960s. Renault was marketing Alfa Romeo cars and Alfa Romeo was building the Renault Dauphine (1959–1964), A more powerful version, the 8 model R1134 Gordini, was released in 1964, with a tuned engine of the same capacity but developing 90 PS (66 kW; 89 hp) and with a five-speed close ratio manual transmission. The Gordini was originally available only in blue, with two stick-on white stripes
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Location: Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace, London
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 8, 1965, crystal, gordini, motosport, palace, park, renault, sprint
