“Mark had rebuilt the engine himself, in his garage next to his house… but we had trouble starting it (at Spa). Meanwhile, in 1966, Mark Konig was racing with Peter Clarke in the latter’s 275LM Ferrari, and they persuaded Bob to mechanic for them at the Spa and Nurburgring 1000 kilometre races. I approached various people who I thought might like me to build them a car!” “A mate and I rented a railway arch at Ravenscourt Park, and besides bodywork, I started to dabble in setting up cars: roll bars, suspension and all that malarkey.”īut Bob Curl knew where he wanted to go with this career he’d started: “I’d designed a Lotus 23-like sports car, provisionally with a 1000cc engine. I worked on the Chequered Flag Elans at Chiswick, and there was Mark Konig again, having his car fettled there, so I enlarged his wheelarches too. I basically had a bootful of fibreglass and some phone numbers. Team Elite, Chris Barber, Les Leston, Peter Jopp, I modified their cars, among others. Mark Konig and his wife Gabriel had a yellow Elan, which she crashed, and that was when I first met Mark.”īob left Lotus once the service department moved back to Cheshunt, and busied himself building up an Elite from a crashed car, and “enlarging wheelarches, among other jobs, on customers’ race cars. Bob’s role was fixing the fibreglass bodywork of Elites and Elans: either those of road car owners who had had a moment, or “the racing Elites and Elans. “Having designed the car, and with no development going on at that stage, my role at the track was mechanic / refueller / adviser.”įour years earlier, Bob Curl had been working for one Colin Chapman, in the Lotus service department, initially at Cheshunt, then at Panshanger (on a London Flying Club aerodrome), near Welwyn Garden City. I can still see Tony pulling his gloves on before the race, he was really up for it, and he drove beautifully for those 45 minutes. Tony was ahead of two of them, and we were really excited. “There were three, 2 litre, Alfa Tipo 33s in that race, works cars, whereas the Nomad had been built in a shed. But the car was going well while it lasted. “Tony Lanfranchi started the race,” begins Bob, “but the crankshaft (of the quite experimental, Chris Steele-built 1800cc Lotus twin-cam) broke after 45 minutes, which was a bit of a bugger.
Little did I know that 47 and a half years later, I would meet the man who had designed one of the entries in that race, the Nomad. This was my first endurance sportscar race, and I was utterly captivated, more so when my hero, Jacky Ickx, won the race, with Brian Redman, in a Gulf GT40. I was just 11 years old, Bob was a little bit older. Our story begins on 7 April 1968, at Brands Hatch for the BOAC 500. And he’s still at it, from his home just a few miles away from where MC sits.
It quickly became apparent that Colin’s elder brother, Bob, has played a significant role in motor sport, for upwards of 50 years. You might want to do that if you were running this as a cron job to track timing details of a specific URL.įor details on the other information that cURL can provide using -w check out the cURL manpage.Having had to retire from editing DSC, Malcolm Cracknell eventually ended up living in rural East Sussex and just along the lane lives one Colin Curl. The format file for this output provides a reasonable level of flexibility, for instance you could make it CSV formatted for easy parsing. The other timing details include DNS lookup, TCP connect, pre-transfer negotiations, redirects (in this case there were none), and of course the total time. Jon was looking specifically at time to first byte, which is the time_starttransfer line. -s tells cURL not to show a progress meterĪnd here is what you get back: time_namelookup: 0.001.-o /dev/null redirects the output of the request to /dev/null.Step two, make a request: curl -w -o /dev/null -s Step one: create a new file, curl-format.txt, and paste in: time_namelookup: % For our purposes we’ll focus just on the timing details that are provided. Jon’s recent Find the Time to First Byte Using Curl post reminded me about the additional timing details that cURL can provide.ĬURL supports formatted output for the details of the request ( see the cURL manpage for details, under “-w, –write-out ” ).
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