| Poland's contribution
to F3 racing, Rak (the Polish for crab) was the brainchild of four men Jerzy
Jankowski who led the group and his three assistants Krzysztof Brun, Zbigniew
Kulczynski and Jerzy Przybysz who had first built sports cars but then,
in 1961, moved onto single seaters with a F Junior car. The team then switched
to the new F3 producing a spaceframe car with double wishbones at the front
and top link, lower wishbones and twin radius rods at the rear. The 1965
cars seemed to favour Wartburg power whilst the 1966 models used Skoda or
Ford engines, in 1967 the cars were shown as "PZM" powered and
for '69 and '70 it was either Ford or Wartburg power units. The cars ran
quite well with a handful of reasonable places in German F3 races but their
appearances were rare. Jerzy Jankowski had raced his own cars but a serious
accident saw him retire in 1966, he also built the Promot (q.v.)
F3 car. |
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| 1965 |
Longin Bielak,
Josef Kielbania, S. Kolecki, Henryk Nowak, Antoni Weiner. |
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| 1966 |
Longin Bielak, Jerzy Jankowski, Josef
Kielbania, Wladislaw Szulczewski. |
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| 1967 |
Ksawery
Frank, Josef
Kielbania, Zbigniew
Sucharda, Antoni Weiner. |
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| 1968 |
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| 1969 |
Longin
Bielak, Ksawery Frank, Josef
Kielbania, Henryk
Nowak, Zbigniew Sucharda. |
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| 1970 |
Longin
Bielak, Jan Frank, Ksawery Frank, Josef
Kielbania,
Zbigniew Sucharda. |
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