The Matra-Simca MS650 is a Group 6 prototype race car introduced in 1969 for the International Championship for Makes. The MS650 replaced the previous...
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MS640 Matra-Simca MS650 Matra-Simca MS660 Matra-Simca MS660C Matra-Simca MS670 Matra-Simca MS670B Matra-Simca MS670C Matra-Simca MS680 334 races, all categories...
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The Matra-Simca MS660 is a Group 6 prototype race car introduced in 1969 for the International Championship for Makes. The MS660 replaced the previous...
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season. Applications: Matra MS120 Matra MS120B Matra-Simca MS660 Matra-Simca MS670 Matra MS670B The next iteration of the Matra Sports V12 was the MS71...
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race when his Ferrari 312PB prototype ploughed into the back of the Matra-Simca MS660 of Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who was pushing the car along the track after...
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Length 9.181 km (5.705 miles) Race lap record 2:35.300 ( Henri Pescarolo, Matra-Simca MS660, 1970, Group 6) Circuit Routier Length 6.530 km (4.058 miles)...
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise (category Matra Formula One drivers)
the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix with BRM. Beltoise competed in Formula One for Matra and BRM, finishing fifth in the 1969 World Drivers' Championship with the...
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Henri Pescarolo (category Matra Formula One drivers)
in the Matra Formula 3 team for 1966, but the car was not ready until mid-season. However, in 1967 he won the European Championship with Matra and was...
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Porsche and Ferraris. Matra had kept away from the championship to concentrate on winning Le Mans. However, development of the new MS660 had been difficult...
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Chris Amon (category Matra Formula One drivers)
several further podiums with March in 1970 before a two-year stint with Matra. Amon then made sporadic appearances for Tecno and Tyrrell in his 1973 campaign...
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completed the takeover of Simca creating Chrysler Europe, and this also meant the Matra company was renamed Matra-Simca. Matra entered only one 660 for...
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the track was relatively fast with Chris Amon setting the lap record in a Matra MS120 with a 167 km/h (104 mph) average during the 1972 French Grand Prix...
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Pescarolo Équipe Matra - Elf Matra-Simca MS650. 3 h 27 min 23 s 000 1970 Jack Brabham François Cevert Matra Sports Matra-Simca MS660. 5 h 49 min 41 s...
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He was leading the race when his car ran into the back of the disabled Matra driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise was pushing to the pits. Both cars were caught...
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