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9th September 2011, 23:33 #1
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1961 Italian Grand Prix
Tomorrow will be the 50 years since Phil Hill (USA! USA!) won the F1 title and his teammate, Wolfgang von Trips, perished along with spectators.
http://youtu.be/5N2ezGlgKtMMarco Simoncelli 1987-2011
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10th September 2011, 21:05 #2
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And, by a sad symmetry September 10th is also the anniversary of Ronnie's fatal accident and Mario becoming the second US champion in 1978.
And digging further back, Giuseppe Campari, Baconin Borzacchini and Stanislas Czaykowski all died at Monza on 10th September 1933.
On a more cheerful note, September 10 1967 saw Jim Clark make one of his greatest drives. He had trouble early on (something like having to change a wheel) and made up a complete lap on the whole field, including team mate Graham Hill, only to run out of petrol a couple of laps from the end.Duncan Rollo
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27th November 2011, 11:08 #3
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Monza Bonanza
Originally Posted by D-Type
Not to mention that there's something sacred about that track. Which is why I regard the Italian GP as F1's annual Indianapolis 500.FIDO - Forget It, Drive On
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27th November 2011, 16:35 #4
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Originally Posted by AAReagles
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27th November 2011, 21:30 #5
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and Clark rated Gurney first among all his (Clark's) contempories.
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13th December 2011, 09:44 #6
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I'm currently reading "The Limit" by Michael Cannell.
Has anyone else read it?Riccardo Patrese - 256GPs 1977-1993
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Yes, and it was, to be charitable, a rather poor imitation of the Robert Daley "blood, gore, guts, and Grand Prix" school of automotive sports journalism. One may correctly infer that I did not think very much of it.
Popular memory is not history.... -- Gordon Wood
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30th March 2012, 04:38 #8
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