Motor Racing at the BBC: That Petrol Emotion
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A bit predictable in what they covered, but you can never tire of the '55 Mille Miglia (despite them referring to it as a 'rally') and '57 Nurburgring GP can you.
Liked Raymond Baxter's clipped accent and racing spade...
All in all a fine way to spend 30 mins and looking forward to the 60s and 70s ones.
Liked Raymond Baxter's clipped accent and racing spade...
All in all a fine way to spend 30 mins and looking forward to the 60s and 70s ones.
Not bad, but a little disappointing though it might improve over the series. I wonder if my series link will notice that it's on at 8.30 next week, not 8pm.
I had to laugh at the start of the sequence on winter driving where they showed a car on a track being driven into a skid, then pan right to a large group of uniformed policeman standing exactly where the car would have landed if the guy hadn't been able to control it.
I had to laugh at the start of the sequence on winter driving where they showed a car on a track being driven into a skid, then pan right to a large group of uniformed policeman standing exactly where the car would have landed if the guy hadn't been able to control it.
to spot a shot of the '54 Merc streamliner in the section about the '53 French GP at Reims?Just watched this prog. I agree that the clips-with-captions format can be irritating - especially when you're eating your dinner and you miss a caption through trying to spear a recalcitrant pea - and there were a few errors, but overall I enjoyed it, and the clips were priceless.
Did anybody else spot the reference to the "Nurberg" race?
I always get very irritated when it's stated that the M1 (or 'the London to Yorkshire motorway' as the Cholmondeley-Warner type phrased it in the programme) was Britain's first motorway.
And was, of course, wrong.I assumed they were specifically referring to Formula 1, in which case I thought Hawthorne was indeed the first.
Did anybody else spot the reference to the "Nurberg" race?
I always get very irritated when it's stated that the M1 (or 'the London to Yorkshire motorway' as the Cholmondeley-Warner type phrased it in the programme) was Britain's first motorway.
Leithen said:
andym1603 said:
Leithen said:
Starter for ten. Which British driver first won a world championship race?
The answer was said in last nights programme.Tony2or4 said:
I assumed they were specifically referring to Formula 1, in which case I thought Hawthorne was indeed the first.
Indeed they were, and in doing so they completely ignored the '53 World Sportscar Championship, of which Le Mans was one of the races. Won by a British Car (Jaguar), driven by British drivers (Rolt & Hamilton). Arguably the most famous "Motor Race" of the time and of course won two years earlier by the same team and British drivers....They no doubt couldn't find the footage, if the BBC ever had it.
A real missed opportunity, once again, IMHO.
Over 10 years ago I approached the BBC with an idea of a 90 minute DVD of motor racing film from their archive ...'Treasures From the BBC'.
Remember that I used to work for the BBC in the Film & VT Library and have produced programmes / DVD's.
Through my contacts I spoke to the guy who was the head of '2Entertain' (I think it was then), the BBC's official programme releasing company. He was a guy I knew when I worked there. I explained what I wanted to do; would produce the whole thing myself, get someone like Murray Walker to do the links, interrogate the BBC computer system properly (rather than a 'researcher' do it for me) and thereby pull some un-seen gems from the archive and put it out.
His reply? It was too much like hard work for them.
Even though I offered to do EVERYTHING for it! Oh well.............
Over 10 years ago I approached the BBC with an idea of a 90 minute DVD of motor racing film from their archive ...'Treasures From the BBC'.
Remember that I used to work for the BBC in the Film & VT Library and have produced programmes / DVD's.
Through my contacts I spoke to the guy who was the head of '2Entertain' (I think it was then), the BBC's official programme releasing company. He was a guy I knew when I worked there. I explained what I wanted to do; would produce the whole thing myself, get someone like Murray Walker to do the links, interrogate the BBC computer system properly (rather than a 'researcher' do it for me) and thereby pull some un-seen gems from the archive and put it out.
His reply? It was too much like hard work for them.
Even though I offered to do EVERYTHING for it! Oh well.............
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