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Post by chrisb on Jul 3, 2023 16:29:27 GMT
Thanks Mikael it really was another 1958 season for me brilliant racing overshadowed by tragedy
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Post by mikael on Jul 22, 2023 19:45:01 GMT
The British Grand Prix at Aintree 1955 - in full colour.
This is very interesting. (Personally, I have never seen GP cars of the 50's in such detail before!)
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Post by René on Jul 23, 2023 10:10:17 GMT
Fantastic footage!
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Post by Carl on Jul 24, 2023 2:33:12 GMT
Although Aintree was not as scenic as I had imagined, it would be a dream for any of us to sit in the shade next to a beautiful woman and enjoy some of the greatest drivers and Grand Prix cars in their element. Great film!
I wonder whether Jim Clark, on his family farm in Scotland and barely 19, took any note and what he may have thought. At that age, he still had no idea of his immense natural talent. |
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Post by René on Jul 24, 2023 9:41:19 GMT
Although Aintree was not as scenic as I had imagined, it would be a dream for any of us to sit in the shade next to a beautiful woman and enjoy some of the greatest drivers and Grand Prix cars in their element. Great film!
I wonder whether Jim Clark, on his family farm in Scotland and barely 19, took any note and what he may have thought. At that age, he still had no idea of his immense natural talent. It's amazing what you say about Clark and shows how much has changed. Racing, even at the highest level was about talent and guts but seldom were drivers trained from a very young age. Very different times. |
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Post by mikael on Jul 24, 2023 14:35:39 GMT
According to Wikipedia, Jim Clark participated in his very first race in the summer of 1956, aged 20. So indeed, in the previous summer (of 1955) he must have had no idea whatsoever about his potential.
It has probably become a kind of a hobby horse of mine, I know, to point out the case of Takuma Sato. His case was not very different from that of Jim Clark's, trying a racing kart for the very first time at the age of 19.
It could be that his natural talent/aptitude is just as large as that of, say, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso; but it could be his lack of early training that let him down, kind of, in the ultimate test: Formula One.
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Post by chrisb on Jul 24, 2023 17:10:54 GMT
Apparently Jim’s first event was June 3rd 1956 at a place called Stobs camp and drove a Sunbeam mk3 and was the only finisher
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Post by Carl on Aug 29, 2023 23:12:48 GMT
A summary of 1937's Grand Prix season
Too cool for comfort 
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Post by René on Aug 30, 2023 16:30:41 GMT
Too cool for comfort indeed! Very cool stuff and I love that clip of Valtteri in the pre-war Merc: "You need big balls to drive cars like this", "Felt just like a rocket on wheels!".  |
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Post by mikael on Aug 30, 2023 18:56:48 GMT
Yes, interestingly, the very last prewar Grand Prix cars were more spectacular, and more refined and advanced, than the first postwar (i.e. 1950) Formula One cars.
Donington 1937
Silverstone 1950 |
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Post by René on Aug 31, 2023 16:16:36 GMT
Yes, interestingly, the very last prewar Grand Prix cars were more spectacular, and more refined and advanced, than the first postwar (i.e. 1950) Formula One cars. Yes probably. I think the German racing cars were used by the Nazi regime to demonstrate their technical excellence. They have spared no expense. |
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Post by Carl on Aug 31, 2023 17:22:51 GMT
Mikael and René,
You both make very good observations. The Nazis hid their extreme psychosis behind massive public works, autobahns and technical achievement. Fascists in Italy had to be content with trains running on time and whatever national pride ensued from conquering Ethiopia.
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Post by chrisb on Sept 2, 2023 10:10:36 GMT
One of my most memorable moments was at Donington in 1978 seeing Fangio driving the wheels of a Merc W125, awesome
Incidentally I visited Ethiopia around 2000, and there were still signs of Italy's invasion and one such memory which we were not allowed to photo was a tunnel with Mussolini's name above it - riddled with bullet holes, not sufficient to mask his name though.
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Post by mikael on Oct 9, 2023 14:06:34 GMT
Suddenly, today, Felipe Massa and his court-case about the outcome of the 2008 season appears on the (online) front page of one of the two major (serious) newspapers of Denmark ("Politiken"). "Filipe Massa wants to have the 2008 World Championship awarded after explosive news in the scandalous case", the headline says. Are there really "explosive news", or is it just this newspaper that is reacting slowly? (I cannot really find "explosive news" from other sources, so I tend to believe that that's the case.)
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Post by Carl on Nov 4, 2023 17:55:46 GMT
When Woodcote was fast and trophies bare breasted 
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