Alloy Moriwaki

ALLOY MORIWAKI

Mamoru Moriwaki remains racing’s most innovative privateer with the aluminum-framed Kawasaki endurance and Formula One machine he made for Australian Wayne Gardner. The frame has rectangular cross-section aluminum tubes and is lighter, lower and shorter than Moriwaki’s chrome-moly chassis. The rear shocks are unusual, mounted directly to a bridge located underneath the aluminum swing arm.

Specific details on the chassis are not available. However, it must work, since Gardner used it to qualify fastest at the 1981 Suzuka Eight Hour. Gardener’s record qualifying time of 2:14.76 put him in front of Graeme Crosby on a factory/ Yoshimura Suzuki and Ron Haslam and Mike Baldwin on factory Hondas.