The adventures of Chris Amon.

[AAReagles]

Finally got my hands on the latest edition of Motorsport (June) and while reading about an interview with Chris Amon, I couldn’t help but crack up when I came across the story of his trials and tribulations at the 1967 Le Mans while driving for Ferrari;

“Just before midnight I was passing the pits when I felt the right rear tyre go flat… on the Mulsanne there were sparks coming out the back, and I though ‘I’m going to have to change this tyre.’ The Ferraris carried a spare wheel and a tool kit with jack, hammer and torch, so halfway down the straight I pulled onto the verge. I was crawling about at the back with cars coming past at 200+ mph.

I got the back door open, found the torch-and the battery was dead. So I just had the passing headlights to see by. I got the hammer and waited for some lights and then took a swipe at the knock-off hubcap- and the head came off the hammer and disappeared. So I thought I’d get the thing jacked up and try to get the wheel off with one of the spanners (wrenches). Then I found that they forgot to put the jack in… so I had to drive it back.”


:laugh:

I couldn’t help but bust up on this story, as I experienced similar scenario at night while driving a company truck, after the passenger mirror fell off, on a major highway. No professional racers passed by at 200 mph. The drunks, late-night meth-heads and other sleepy truck drivers (like myself) were enough.

[ArrowsFA1]

Finally got my hands on the latest edition of Motorsport (June) and while reading about an interview with Chris Amon, I couldn’t help but crack up when I came across the story of his trials and tribulations at the 1967 Le Mans while driving for Ferrari.
Different days indeed, and great to see another fascinating "Lunch with..." article :up:

Mind how you go on those roads AAR :D

[AAReagles]

Different days indeed, and great to see another fascinating "Lunch with..." article :up:

Absolutely. Quite a nice refreshment from some of today's media reports centered around controversy.

One other humerous item I read years ago about Amon in Jackie Stewart's biography, "Faster! A Racer's Diary", was when Stewart was mentioning the quality and personality of his competitors.

On the subject of Amon, he of course cited how good a driver he was, however Stewart mentioned that his personality perhaps got the best of him at times. On occassion, Stewart noted during practices and qualifying sessions that if Amon came into the pits dissatified with the handing of a car, he would stomp out of it and scream towards the sky "%@#king car!".

Stewart referred to these special moments as Amon's "Rainbow moods." :laugh:

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[futuretiger9]

When Amon was not in a "rainbow mood", however, he had one of the most sublime talents of anyone who ever sat in a racing car. How he never won a World Championship GP is beyond me.

[Azumanga Davo]

Strewth, talk about unlucky man. Didn't similar silly little failings happen whilst in the lead of a race at Monza in a Ferrari F1 car?

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[Knock-on]

When Amon was not in a "rainbow mood", however, he had one of the most sublime talents of anyone who ever sat in a racing car. How he never won a World Championship GP is beyond me.

Didn't he win one with March before Max Mosley managed to get him out?

[ArrowsFA1]

Amon did win eight non-championship GPs.

[Knock-on]

Amon did win eight non-championship GPs.

Ahhh, my mistake.

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[futuretiger9]

Strewth, talk about unlucky man. Didn't similar silly little failings happen whilst in the lead of a race at Monza in a Ferrari F1 car?

Ironically, he won at Le Mans, which arguably places a great emphasis on luck!

He was in the leading bunch at Monza in '71 when he had problems with his visor. He would have won at Clermont-Ferrand in '72 but for a puncture. He also had several good chances to win with Ferrari from 1967-69.

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[AAReagles]

When Amon was not in a "rainbow mood", however, he had one of the most sublime talents of anyone who ever sat in a racing car. How he never won a World Championship GP is beyond me.

A terrible case of (career) misfortune, perhaps the worst of any well-known driver.

Which quite understandibly, when Motorsport dispatched another article on Amon (back in 2003 I believe), they appropriately titled it:

"There are lies, damn lies and then there's Chris Amon's race record."



As much as I feel a sense of pity for him, I do have to agree with article about him in this year's Motorsport, stating that not only did he survive racing during a dangerous era, but that he competed during a time when the 3-liter cars were still going over the 'yumps' on the Nurburgring, Monza & Spa were flat-out courses to feast upon, along with a not-so-close-under-the-microscope attention from the media that most drivers suffer from nowadays.

And of course, when drivers back then weren't so self-swerving. Ooops... I mean 'serving'. ;)