Monaco GP 1970
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Eric Mc

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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Why I once loved F1.

[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmzyHri8xK[/url]

fozzi

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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This ones pretty cool too!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcLlISUx0Y&mode=related&search=

Amazing how many people just seem to be wandering around next to the circuit!!

Edited by fozzi on Saturday 8th July 12:51

Eric Mc

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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Nice footage - hadn't seen that before.

Derek Smith

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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Eric Mc said:
Why I once loved F1.

[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmzyHri8xK[/url]
According to the chap with the chequered flag, the race is still going on! Poor old Jack.

kevin ritson

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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Thanks for that link, Eric - there are many reasons why I wish I'd been around in that time, and that's one of them. Grand Prix (the Frankenheimer movie) dropped through my letterbox this morning, been watching loads of that, too

BTW there's a good 10 min Brands Hatch feature on the DVD with A1GP footage and Palmer describing the corners

Eric Mc

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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I was checking Play.Com and Amazon.Com this morning and they were giving the release date for "Grand Prix" as July 11.

kevin ritson

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Saturday 8th July 2006
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Ordered mine from Play - they normally arrive on the Saturday before release

Jonnylayze

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Monday 10th July 2006
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc

This is pretty good too - neither Mansell nor Senna were satisfied with 2nd....

fozzi

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Monday 10th July 2006
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Jonnylayze said:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc

This is pretty good too - neither Mansell nor Senna were satisfied with 2nd....

Shame about the god awful music!

viper_larry

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Monday 10th July 2006
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I'd say he parked it there on purpose

TimmyArt

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Wednesday 12th July 2006
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Awesome race. Remember watching it

F.M

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Thursday 13th July 2006
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Excellent links ..Thanks..

FourWheelDrift

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Thursday 13th July 2006
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Here's a rare one (silent as it's on home 8mm film) the 1973 Nine Hour race from Kyalami.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc

If you go here http://keepvid.com/ and paste the link in and choose Google, you can download the avi of it.

F.M

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Thursday 13th July 2006
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Igloo124

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Friday 14th July 2006
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Absolutely fantastic - I remember watching that as a kid, the late great Jochen Rindt chasing Black Jack around Monaco. It was a great season for F1 till Monza. I also remember a race that season in Britain, where at the end of the race, Rindt pulled off the circuit, and drove his F1 car straight to where his plane was waiting to take off (so must have been Silverstone). Where are the drivers like that today. The only clip I have seen recently which equals that is the French GP with Villeneuve versus the two Renaults. 77 I think?

kevin ritson

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Friday 14th July 2006
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'70 BGP was at Brands wasn't it? If my history serves me well (couple of years before I existed, sorry 'bout that!), very similar finish to Monaco, poor old Jack ran out of fuel on the last lap, Jochen beat him to the line again

Eric Mc

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Saturday 15th July 2006
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Yep. Fuel put in by a mechanic called Ron Dennis.

Ironically, Jack Brabham might have been World Champion if those two last lap disasters hadn't happened.

Even more ironically, Brabham had intended to retire at the end of 1969 anf put all his resources into helping his other driver, Jochen Rindt, win the title. Rindt was tempted to join Lotus by Colin Chapman and Brabham decided to drive for one more year.

Paul Dishman

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Tuesday 18th July 2006
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Igloo124 said:
Absolutely fantastic - I remember watching that as a kid, the late great Jochen Rindt chasing Black Jack around Monaco. It was a great season for F1 till Monza. I also remember a race that season in Britain, where at the end of the race, Rindt pulled off the circuit, and drove his F1 car straight to where his plane was waiting to take off (so must have been Silverstone)


I saw that too, I thought it was Oulton Park.

Eric Mc

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Wednesday 19th July 2006
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Definitely Brands. It was the GP. No World Championship GPs have ever been held at Oulton Park.

Paul Dishman

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Wednesday 19th July 2006
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Eric Mc said:
Definitely Brands. It was the GP. No World Championship GPs have ever been held at Oulton Park.


It was a non championship race - the Oulton Park Gold Cup in 1969 or 1970.He was second in the four wheel drive Lotus 69?? or it could be my memory as it was nearly forty years ago....


Edited by Paul Dishman on Wednesday 19th July 12:52