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5 Aug 2002, 21:47 (Ref:469992) | #1 | ||
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F1 in the 60s/70s
To stop threads getting to long I thought I would start one about F1. How about the Lotus Turbine in 71
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5 Aug 2002, 21:49 (Ref:469993) | #2 | ||
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Also G Hill in the Brabham Claw
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5 Aug 2002, 21:50 (Ref:469994) | #3 | ||
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1971 Silverstone
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Re: F1 in the 60s/70s
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5 Aug 2002, 22:11 (Ref:469984) | #5 | ||
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Well not sure about happy days...That Lotus just 'whistled' when it went by, thank God it did not catch on. Otherwise no more V12 / V10 / V8 roars.
I too was at all three of the photo's but at different parts of the track. I do look back and ask what the hell happened to F1 as now all the cars are alike and little scope for the lateral thinker. Simon |
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6 Aug 2002, 10:00 (Ref:469986) | #6 | |
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how to relax after a race
or for some people, how to relax before as well |
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7 Aug 2002, 20:52 (Ref:469995) | #7 | ||
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Not sure when . G Hill & J Stewart in background is it J Siffert in foreground?
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7 Aug 2002, 21:00 (Ref:469988) | #8 | ||
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Yes Fred, in Rob Walker's Lotus. I think it is the Race of Champions at Brands in 1969. It's not the GP that Siffert won in 68 because it has a high front wing. The high wings were banned at the Monaco GP a month or so later.
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9 Aug 2002, 21:46 (Ref:469991) | #9 | ||
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1973 Ensign MN01 Formula one Cosworth DFV driven by Rikky Von Opel
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17 Aug 2002, 10:55 (Ref:469989) | #10 | ||
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The first lap of the 71 British GP at a remarkably flat and featureless Silverstone!
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20 Aug 2002, 20:05 (Ref:469985) | #11 | ||
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Good to see some things never change eh!
Right will someone please hurry up and invent a time machine, I envy those of you who were at these meetings in person. You're lucky people! |
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20 Aug 2002, 20:27 (Ref:469990) | #12 | ||
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Paulzinho - yes they were great times but there was a downside too. We tend to look back thru' rose tinted glasses, but some things have improved greatly as they should. When it was wet it was just as muddy as Silv was in 2000 as there were no proper tarmac footpaths. Anyone remember the old Silverstone seats in the stands? It was a 'sack cloth' type material suspended between scaffolding poles. When the person next to you stood up, you sank. When they sat down again you took off! The stand roof always leaked too. The toilets are far better now despite a few gripes still.
The racing was sometimes processional like now and the attrition rate was often terrible but there were some cracking races too particularly below F1. For me, the cars were just so much nicer to look at and you could get so close! The variety was great too. I remember an International Trophy race at Silverstone in the early 70s. The F1/F5000 race with great sounds and top drivers of the day supported by the British F3 Championship ( 75 cars - 2 heats and a final!), the RAC British Saloon car Championship, a 2 litre Group 5 sportscar race, Formula Atlantic, historics and a stand alone F5000 race - all at the same meeting! For this reason, the golden age of racing for me personally was the mid 60s to late 70s - the period I grew up in and fell in love with the sport. |
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