What Race Cars Would Secretariat, Affirmed and Alydar Be?

"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy) 11/11/2016 at 20:30 • Filed to: QOTD, Question of The Day, Racehorses, Secretariat, Affirmed

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Secretariat. Affirmed. Alydar. They are demigods, the racing horses to beat all racing horses, legends among every Thoroughbred, rivaled only by Count Fleet, Man o’ War, Kelso and Citation (their QOTD is lined up, coming next week).

Surely, then, that there are race cars that are their mechanical parallels.

One is considered history’s greatest racehorse to have ever run, winning the Triple Crown in record-setting fashion. The other two are horse racing’s most storied rivalry.

You don’t really need to mention a car of the same year, just merely think of a car that has more in line with what these three horses have done.

Rainbow > Wheelerguy 11/11/2016 at 10:09

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City On Line would be a Mustang.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2009/05/67104365/1#.WCXeQPkrLIU

Come to think of it, he might have actually been a mustang... I don’t know how horses work.

Maxima Speed > Wheelerguy 11/11/2016 at 10:15

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Porsche 917, the iconic race car to represent an iconic horse.

Everybody likes the gulf and martini liveried ones but look at the wing and paint job on this one. Stunningly beautiful...... do I have a problem? I can’t stop looking at it.

Edit: just realized it’s still martini just not the normal one.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Wheelerguy 11/11/2016 at 10:23

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I’m going with the Daytona Charger, because they weren’t beaten on the tracks they were designed for.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Maxima Speed 11/11/2016 at 10:32

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The truly dominating one was the 917/30:

It basically killed it’s own series.

Mattbob > Wheelerguy 11/11/2016 at 11:08

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Go Karts with a bit over 1 Horse Power..... lol

Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) > Wheelerguy 11/11/2016 at 12:08

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Secretariat: F2004. Dominant car, still holds records to this day.

Affirmed & Alydar: Ferrari 330 P4 vs Gt40

Shane MacGowan's Teeth > Wheelerguy 11/11/2016 at 13:59

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Truly, Secretariat is all of us.

moltenwok > Wheelerguy 11/12/2016 at 06:51

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For the ‘80s, it would be the Porsche 956 / 962 .  WEC, IMSA, Le Mans many times in a row.

Image: Wikipedia

For the late 70s, the 935 / 936 would be up there. Usually won.

Image: Wikipedia

moltenwok > moltenwok 11/12/2016 at 07:12

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