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Old 12 Jun 2000, 12:24 (Ref:16840)   #1
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Dan Friel should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridDan Friel should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Ok then, over the years of watching motor sport, I've seen many daring moves and great races... But what is greatest moment that you've seen??

Doesn't have to be F1 or any top form of motor sport, hence putting this in this forum..

Mansell going past Piquet at Stowe???

Or one of mine is J J Lehto driving a McLaren at Le Mans in 1995, and being quickest on the track by 25 clear seconds every lap - at night and in the rain, simply awesome..
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Old 12 Jun 2000, 20:05 (Ref:16923)   #2
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Jacques Villeneuve's outside pass of Michael Schumacher at the Parabolica.

Danny Sullivan's hair raising spin at Indy and the subsequent save and win.

Zanardi blitzing the field at Cleveland after going one lap down.

Gary McCoy backing past the leaders at Welkom this year in GP bike competition.

Nigel Mansell's BTCC rain rain at Brands Hatch where he showed the regulars how wet weather racing was done.



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Old 12 Jun 2000, 20:59 (Ref:16937)   #3
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Oh my, where to start?

Well, in no particular order, here are some of my favourite moments. First of all seen in person...

Keke Rosberg's all time fastest lap of Silverstone, full turbo boost, qualifying tyres, grenade engine, and a no-nonsense driver determined to wring the very last out of his unsuspecting Williams. Lovely.

A celebrity race at Brands Hatch, 1985. Mark Rennison, rally driver, losing his Ford Escort XR3i at Clearways. It snaps totally sideways, and he catches it, but over-corrects. It snaps the other way, and he catches, but again over-corrects. And now he's on the grass. He catches the next slide, but over corrects, and now he's headed straight for the barrier - and, as it happens - I'm on the other side of that barrier. But he snatches back the tank-slapper for one last time, and this time it bites, he smooths out, misses the armco by about 4 feet, and carries on with his race.

Goodwood Revival, 1998. The final handicap race. By rights, a 1964 Lotus 25, a rear engined monocoque GP car should easily have the legs of a 1953 Cooper Bristol, a front engined single seater with a chassis and a touring car engine in it. But nobody told Roddy MacPherson, owner of the Cooper. Once he has the Lotus in his sights, he starts to match it for cornering, and what he misses in acceleration, he makes up in some extraordinary late braking. And before that race was run, Roddy MacPherson took that Lotus on the inside at Lavant. Brilliant stuff.

On TV, I shall never forget

John Watson winning from the back in the Long Beach GP of 1982. Then for an encore, he did it all over again at Zolder.

Nigel Mansell's pass of Nelson Piquet at the 1987 British GP. I was actually there, but the pass was at Stowe, and we were based at Abbey. We knew he had got past, because the roar spread down the crowd faster than the time it took the cars to reach us.

On board with Derek Bell, driving the Porsche 956 around Le Mans. Awesome.

Old and creaky, I know, but one of my favourites is a black and white clip of Bernd Rosemeyer driving around the Nurburgring during an Eifelrennen event in an Auto Union. This was a car so powerful that it would spin its wheels and powerslide in any road conditions, in any gear, at any speed. Rosemeyer was the only man who ever tamed it.

So many, so so many...
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