Carlos Reutemann

[René]

Fantastic! Never seen this before. So very 1970's!

Here is the T3 at Fiorano in an even earlier iteration.

[charleselan]

Jul 26, 2021 12:47:27 GMT René said:

Fantastic! Never seen this before. So very 1970's!

Here is the T3 at Fiorano in an even earlier iteration.

It is a great little film clip isn't it, very good quality and seeing and hearing Carlos & Gilles just adds to the specialness of it.

I like the rubbed down GRP and filler on the T3 in the photo, I wonder what shape it was before the "work".

[René]

This is hot news on many F1 sites:

Ecclestone tells ‘truth’ about 1981 F1 injustice

Feb.13 (GMM) Former F1 driver Carlos Reutemann’s daughter says she is glad that Bernie Ecclestone confessed to interfering in the outcome of the 1981 world championship.

In his early days of running the sport, Ecclestone doubled as owner of the Brabham team – whose Nelson Piquet arrived at the Las Vegas finale locked in a title battle with Williams’ Reutemann.

“After the first day of practice it was obvious that the drivers were going to have problems with neck pain,” former F1 supremo Ecclestone said in a new documentary about his life called Lucky.

“Carlos was speaking to the masseur in the pits. I went to see that person and after a financial discussion they decided to favour Nelson instead.

“We won the championship and that was the end for Carlos who stopped racing soon after. I don’t know if I ever told him that,” Ecclestone, 92, added.

Reutemann, who later became a prominent Argentinean politician and died in 2021, ultimately lost the 1981 title to Ecclestone’s driver by a single point.

When told about the masseur story, Reutemann’s daughter Cora told Cadena 3 radio: “I already knew that.

“Not just what he confessed about the masseur, but something far more serious, which is that the Brabham was unfit for racing because of the prohibited ground effect.

“The day before my father died, I sent Bernie a message asking him to be honest with my father and tell him before he passed away that he was the true champion of 1981.

“Unfortunately, he died the next day and the matter remained in limbo. I never imagined it would have such significance as it does now.

“Bernie told me I could ask him anything I needed,” Cora added. “I asked him to tell the truth. He did it publicly, which is much better.”



The true 1981 World Champion? Certainly the moral one.

[Carl]

The poison dwarf is apparently trying to arrange dispensation of his sins to facilitate his entry into heaven.  Considering his multitude of major offenses against morality, he should be worried.

Has he tried bribing a Cardinal?

[chrisb]

Matt Bishop is a massive Carlos fan and is someone I follow on twitter so will be interested to see what he says about this latest scandal, and what the possible recriminations might be,

[robmarsh]

Why am I not surprised. 1983 was also dodgy I believe. As a 14 year old who fell in love with motor racing but especially F1 I thought all the people in F1 were the greatest in the world and could do no wrong. Time, knowledge and wisdom has proved the error of my thinking and sadly there are very few people in F1 who have the right to call themselves role models. Certainly not most team managers and high ranking officials in the team.

[mikael]

Yes, I recall having listened to stories about dubious moral even by races at the national championship level; so it's not so surprising that some would be tempted to go far in order to win the Formula One World Championship. And yes, there are probably many more skeletons in the cupboard ...