So I'm waiting for F1 qualy to start in Canada and there is a story on the F1 site about the first F1 safety car at Canada 50 years ago... and it was a yellow 914!

Thought I knew most of the 914 trivia but had never heard that before!

Only problem was they picked up the wrong car for the leader, and it took quite a while before they knew Peter Revson was the winner...

Didn't see another safety car for 5 years...

This was posted by @Wyvern

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=273531

Another 914 was outfitted with fire suppression equipment for use in formula 1, Helmut Marko of Red Bull raced a 914.

just been watching the qualifying highlights down here somewhere north of the south pole. what a session.

go the hulk.
good thing he did not have a 914 in front of him.

verstappen is an emotionless dutch machine, kind of like schumacher the robot.
its impressive for sure. but sometimes its hard to get excited.
but i just love it when someone with a bit of a dry sense of humour and a vaguely scandinavian mind set rocks the boat. the hulk. hes got a touch of the kimi r to him?

as usual alonso is proving what a laid back total master he is.
terrific driver having a ball at the end of his career.

love the canadian grand prix. always have. its a great race.
lets see who the wall of champions claims this year.
i hope its george russell. he embodies everything i hate as an australian.

also i derive a great deal of pleasure watching ferrari screw up yet again.
italians! fix it again tony.

Today on the Montreal pre race show Natalie Pinkham, Danica Patrick and Jensen Button did an interesting piece noting it as the 50th anniversary of the Safety car in F1
No mention about the first one or any others that were used.
Mercedes wouldn't want to share any credit ?

merc got their due karma.
george russel didn't hit the wall of champions, instead smacked another one just as good.

The O.N.S Safety car

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And of course this creation should have been the next iteration... at least in KJ's mind:

https://www.gunnarracing.com/Misc/914-6%20T...uck/080411.html

In the pre-race show, they showed footage of the first F1 safety car, a yellow 73 914 2.0.

I'm pretty sure I was there, but I don't remember it. My older brother took me to almost every F1 (grand prix) and CanAm race at Mosport in the late 60's and early 70's. Usually a long weekend and we would camp the weekend.

I don't think it was the first time Mosport ever used a safety car, it was just the first time for an F1 race.
BTW the first F1 safety car would have been at the Mosport track, not Montreal.

A company called Siku made a model.


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A company called SRC makes a slot car of this.



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I think this is version 2 of the car?

Guess I missed that part.

There's video of it out there, I saw it many many moons ago. Like Mark said, it was at Mosport (one of my fav racing tracks).

think this is it.

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Does anyone know what happened to the 1973 F1 safety car? The original vehicle? Is the VIN known?