The Tom Tom Grands Prix
#1
Posted 09 November 2003 - 17:11
One of the few GP's that had been shown live was the '67 Italian, and the tension involved in recreating the "Hondola" passing Jack Brabham on the line was palpable.
Anyway, is it just me, or are there other sad specimens out there whose brains are little more than a repository for useless rubbish?
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#2
Posted 09 November 2003 - 17:17
Remember Jeremy Carrad, not quite sad enough to recollect Jon Earle - at all.
#3
Posted 09 November 2003 - 17:25
PS - A disturbingly prompt response JJ
#4
Posted 09 November 2003 - 21:15
#5
Posted 09 November 2003 - 22:02
Originally posted by Cirrus
Anyway, is it just me, or are there other sad specimens out there whose brains are little more than a repository for useless rubbish?
/ me raises hand
Jeremy Carrad is still around, currently living in Bristol - after Tom Tom he moved on to regional news. He's done some theatrical production too - funnily enough, there was a short article about him in the Western Daily Press a few days back.
#6
Posted 10 November 2003 - 12:33
Would have been interesting to see the same approach taken to other racing of that period. 1-liter F3 would probably have meant a Scalextric track with about 40 slots on it.
#7
Posted 10 November 2003 - 15:50
One model was actually set alight to recreate an instance of a car being in flames as it passed the pits. Can't work out which race that would have been though...
I recall sending off for a special Grand Prix results chart that you could fill in as the year progressed.
#8
Posted 10 November 2003 - 15:52
#9
Posted 25 February 2008 - 22:17
Like David, I have no memory of these programmes, but then at that time I was at College and had other, more 'interesting' things to think about!!!!
Anyway, the details of the programme are all here with me along with some splendid photos, the copyright to which, I am unable to vouchsafe.
I could always scan them and make them available, privately, to anyone who is interested.
I would LOVE to see one of the programmes.
(Thread revived after over 4 years.... )
#10
Posted 25 February 2008 - 23:09
One website reports that viewers were encouraged to follow the progress of the various teams via mail-order posters available from the programme. Anyone remember those? I seem to remember that Prof Eric Laithwaite (he of linear motor fame) was the resident scientific expert.
I believe that it ran from 1966-69 and one race, in particular, which springs to mind for some reason was the '66 German GP.
#11
Posted 25 February 2008 - 23:11
"...we should continue the grand prix story by covering the 1966 Grand Prix Driver's Championship. This we did using a giant scoreboard and moving scale relief models across it as the points were scored, causing the cars and drivers to 'race for the Championship' as the season progressed. This was an instant and, indeed, almost paralysing success for letters in excess of 40,000 poured in during the first two races alone."
The article goes on to explain how this success led to the much more ambitious race recreations which apparently commenced in 1967 - so, Alan, your memory doesn't quite serve you right, but almost. (i.e. the programme WAS running in '66 but not in the form it later took.).
#12
Posted 26 February 2008 - 08:25