Inside the Kojima Engineering garage past midnight
At Kojima Engineering garage, there were two KE009s inside. One was that of Kazuyoshi Hoshino's, which already seems to have finished its set up work and the other was that of Noritake Takahara's, which on the other hand was fiddling with front suspension set ups until the very last moment
Mechanics were gathered around the "Italia" sponsored car of Noritake Takahara's KE009. They were still measuring the wheel base, the track, the toe in etc and being only 16 years old at the time, I remember being very worried watching them still trying set up the car after midnight.
This is the pinnacle of motor sport, Formula One team's garage in 1977. Compared to the ones in 2003, it is clearly very different...
On the side of the garage, there laid the No. 243 Ford Cosworth DFV without its spark plugs, which was used on Kojima KE007 and Dome's Le Mans cars as well.
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