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Alfa Dana
This Danish manufacturer first built a car for the 500cc F3 formula in the late fifties, nothing more happened until a Formula Junior car appeared in the sixties apparently based on the Stanguellini. Both cars were designed by Uno Jensen, the first was front-engined the latter rear-engined. When the 1-litre F3 was introduced one, or perhaps two, of the rear-engined Junior cars were converted to the new formula using an Alfa Romeo engine for 1964, in 1965 the BMC A series based engine from F Junior was employed. Unsurprisingly they weren’t very competitive with the more modern designs.
1964
The pictures of the 1964 Abarth F3 indicate that the chassis was the same as that used for the F2 design, in addition track and wheelbase dimensions were virtually identical. It was a conventional spaceframe design with wishbone-based outboard suspension front and rear. Front track was 1320mm, rear 1330mm, wheelbase 2300mm and the chassis weighed 400kg. The engine was a 982cc Fiat-based unit with a four-speed gearbox, a Weber 40DCD carburetor was used and power was quoted as 88bhp at 7900rpm.
For whatever reason, perhaps the F3 engine wasn’t up to the job, the Abarth never raced.
Drivers
1964 Poul Johannessen, Tommy Larsen.
1965 Poul Johannessen.
1966 Tommy Larsen.
