{"id":13204,"date":"2015-03-19T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=13204"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T19:14:53","slug":"tbt-stp-novi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/tbt-stp-novi\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1965 STP Novi Race Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1965 was a transitional time\u00a0in Indy racing. That year, only 6 cars in\u00a0the race still used a front-engine design. Andy Granatelli, then CEO of STP, outfitted all Novi crew members with STP \u201cpajamas.\u201d He wore an STP logo-bedecked suit himself, complete with tie. He also painted whitewalls on the cars for easier identification.<\/p>\n

Granatelli’s team used the Novi engine from 1961 to 1965, finally developing a four-wheel-drive version, trying to harness the power. The Novi engine was last used at Indy in 1966, when a qualifying crash ended its career.<\/p>\n

Despite never powering a race winner, few engines have become as much of a ‘celebrity’ in automobile racing as the Novi engine. The final STP-version of the Novi V-8 had a revised two-stage centrifugal with a power output of 837 horsepower at 8,200 rpm.<\/p>\n

In this 1965 press photo, we have Bobby Unser\u2019s Number 9 Novi-powered car that ran a Ferguson AWD system. Granatelli later used the Ferguson technology on other Indy racecars. Eventually, Indy outlawed AWD when Granatelli\u2019s cars were deemed unbeatable. Unser finished 19th<\/sup>, at the 1965 Indy 500, succumbing to an oil fitting failure.<\/p>\n

Jim Hurtubise\u2019s number 59 Novi qualified 23rd but left the race after one lap with a busted transmission. He finished last. But it was his car\u2019s paint scheme that made the car memorable. It was hot reddish\/orange with gold leaf lettering. The car would later be painted blue and yellow. Hurtubise finished 33rd at Indy in 1965, due to a transmission failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite never powering a race winner, few engines have become as much of a ‘celebrity’ in automobile racing as the Novi engine.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":13199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,2169],"tags":[1337,2181,2179,963,1863,2182,2177,2180,1870,2178,2170,663],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-throwback-thursday","tag-tbt","tag-1965-indy-500","tag-andy-granatelli","tag-engines","tag-indy-500","tag-jim-hurtubise","tag-novi","tag-novi-engine","tag-stp","tag-stp-novi","tag-throwback","tag-throwback-thursday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/STP-Novi-sm-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-3qY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13449,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions\/13449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}