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Post by Henrik on Apr 4, 2002 14:12:16 GMT -5
In chatting yesterday, I realized that there are some members that may not have been around in the "old" days. I know I love to reminisce about how it used to be, and I love to look at photos of those days long gone. So, here is kicking off a new thread, for the old timers to post, and the young ones to learn. Starting off the thread, here are some pictures of a master of opposite-lock driving...Ronnie Peterson! Ronnie was one of those drivers that was not too good at working on the set-up of a car. He would chose to "drive" around the problems. He had a spectacular style, but did not win too much.
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Post by dani on Apr 4, 2002 14:18:49 GMT -5
cool! Thanks Henrik, I wasn't around in the "old" days in fact, I don't even think I was around for much of the "modern" days! lol! So keep up the picture posting ;D
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Post by da_silva on Apr 4, 2002 14:29:10 GMT -5
Keke at the Dutch GP '79 sliding a ground effects car!!
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Post by da_silva on Apr 4, 2002 14:44:55 GMT -5
Keke, Monaco '80
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Post by pabs on Apr 4, 2002 15:23:34 GMT -5
Full opposite lock always amazed me. Look at the banking angle on that thing. Amazing car control!!!!
And how in the world do you slide around a car in ground effect??? Those damned things are GLUED to the ground!!!! I can't image what cornering speeds they were doing.
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Post by JWK on Apr 4, 2002 22:39:36 GMT -5
as one of the members who has only known F1 in its current 'slot car' state, excellent.
*sigh* I wish i had the opportunity to watch pre'96 F1.
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Post by OT on Apr 7, 2002 1:19:22 GMT -5
There was nothing too flash about how they moved them around in the 60's in Aus. Jimmy Clark's Lotus 49T having arived in the "paddock" at Warwick Farm in '68.
My last photo of Jim - prior to the start of the '68 race at Warwick Farm. They were very happy days...
This is the one I have trouble with... for me... the end of the story... lest we forget.
April 7, 1968
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Post by Henrik on Apr 9, 2002 5:03:56 GMT -5
I think it is fair to say that a "memory lane" thread could never be complete without revisiting some of the classic cars, and most certainly not without the Eagle Weslake! Enjoy! (I know I will)
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Post by Henrik on May 1, 2002 16:31:04 GMT -5
I thought it might be fitting to put some pics up of another master who is no longer with us since 8 years: How I like to remember him, at Monaco with the 1 on the car. And a few years before. Wonder what he was thinking?
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Post by da_silva on May 1, 2002 16:54:23 GMT -5
One more.
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Post by OT on Jul 8, 2002 20:21:53 GMT -5
Just thought I’d revisit this thread – Henrik – I have to agree with you about Dan Gurneys Eagle Weslake.
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Post by OT on Jul 8, 2002 20:24:37 GMT -5
Ohhhhh.... And those pipes....
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Post by OT on Aug 26, 2002 6:09:04 GMT -5
I have taken this text direct from F1 Racing mag - credit to Pete Windsor - I thought it was worth sharing...
Spa makes peace with Clark
Jim Clark disliked the Belgian circuit for personal reasons - he had lost some good friends there.
At Spa in 1964, where top speeds were in the 280kph mark and the average speed was nearly 225pkh, despite the presence of the La Source hairpin, Dan Gurney and the Brabham-Climax seemed to be in a race of their own. Dan took the pole y 1.8s from Graham Hill (BRM) and Jack Brabham himself. Peter Arundell (Lotus Climax) and John Surtees (Ferrari) shared the second row, while Clark suffered numerous problems in practice and qualified sixth.
From the start, Gurney raced away from the field, although he was led initially by Arundell's Lotus. The green and yellow Lotus 25 was a familiar sight to the regular F1 spectators, less familiar was Arundell's Jaffa-orange, peakless helmet. He was immensely quick, Pete Arundell, but his race at Spa ended with an engine problem. He was critically injured in an F2 accident at Reims a few weeks later and was replaced in the Lotus team thereafter by Mike Spence.
This Belgian Grand Prix began its astonishing climax when Clark rushed into the pits with four laps to run, demanding water for his overheating Climax engine. Then Gurney stammered into the pits, short of fuel. Hill inherited the lead from McLaren, whose Climax engine had started an electrical misfire; Gurney was now third, but catching Hill fast; Clark was fourth.
The pits were after La Source hairpin in those days; without TV screens, or data monitors, you listened to the engine notes as they climbed up from Blanchimont and then braked for the hairpin. As the last lap neared completion, Hill and Gurney were ominously overdue. It later transpired that Hill had run short of fuel on the run up from Stavelot; Gurney, meanwhile, had cruised to a halt at Stavelot - also out of fuel. McLaren misfired his way around the last lap, exited La Source with a dead engine and was pipped on the line by Clark.
On his slowing down lap, unaware that he had won, Clark also ran out of fuel. He stopped right by Gurney's Brabham and began commiserating with his friend, telling him to look forward to the next race, at Rouen (which Gurney duly won!). It was while he was listening to the PA system in the background, trying to hear the results, that Clark learned of his third consecutive victory in the Belgian Grand Prix. He would win again in '65, in the wet, despite this being the circuit that he disliked most. Archie Scott-Brown had been killed at Spa in '58, when Clark first raced there, and in '60, in his first Belgian Grand Prix, Clark was shocked by the deaths of both Chris Bristow and Allan Stacey. In '64, it seems, Spa tried to make peace with Jim Clark.
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Post by Henrik on Aug 26, 2002 8:01:17 GMT -5
Okay, Thanks for waking up this thread again OT! So, we have had some Ronnie, Keke, Clark and Senna. I thought it was time to admire some Gilles too:
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