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[Bauble]

Otherwise, I would have chosen to go to Monza 1967. I would have loved to see Clark's pole-paced chase to make up a lost lap.
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Blew up his engine didn't he?

[D-Type]

Otherwise, I would have chosen to go to Monza 1967. I would have loved to see Clark's pole-paced chase to make up a lost lap.


Blew up his engine didn't he?

No, he ran out of fuel and coasted over the line to take third.

Graham Hill's engine blew when he was leading and Clark was fourth. Three laps later Clark was in the lead but driving the whole race at qualifying pace took just too much fuel.

[Slurp1955]

Monaco 1970 and 1981 ( Jochen and Gilles )

PAR

A fine choice Phil. I would take myself back to Zandvoort in August '79, a race I actually watched from Tarzan, albeit with a totally sh#gged Exacta SLR that went through two rolls of film without producing a single shot. Nothing of Jones, Scheckter et al, and of course nothing of Gilles tearing off into the distance on four wheels and three tyres. It was weeks before this photo disaster became apparent, the joys of InterRailing for a month around Europe for about £80. No pics at all of any that either, and that includes the extraordinary Armelle Forget, who despite her surname I have not forgot. For Jochen, Silverstone '69, Hockenheim '70 JP

Edited by Slurp1955, 15 January 2012 - 19:11.

[Glengavel]

No, he ran out of fuel and coasted over the line to take third.

Graham Hill's engine blew when he was leading and Clark was fourth. Three laps later Clark was in the lead but driving the whole race at qualifying pace took just too much fuel.

I thought he did have a bit left, but the fuel pump couldn't scavenge it from the tank. Which is the same thing as running out, I suppose.

[ensign14]

DOHC - fantastic pic. Those cars look so much more outrageous than today's clinical efficiency...the difference between Slade and Sade, perhaps.

[Barry Boor]

Amphicar = post #17 and Ristin - post #42, I was lucky enough to be there at both of those.

For me it has to be Monaco 1961. I never saw a Sharknose Ferrari an the track until Goodwood a couple of years ago and to have seen them chasing SCM all day has long been high on my wish list.

[Barry Boor]

Amphicar - post #17 and Ristin - post #42, I was lucky enough to be there at both of those.

For me it has to be Monaco 1961. I never saw a Sharknose Ferrari on the track until Goodwood a couple of years ago and to have seen them chasing SCM all day has long been high on my wish list.

Edited by Barry Boor, 15 January 2012 - 08:17.

[Stephen W]

For me it has to be Monaco 1961. I never saw a Sharknose Ferrari on the track until Goodwood a couple of years ago and to have seen them chasing SCM all day has long been high on my wish list.

This came up on the night but I can't remember who suggested it!

[Tony Matthews]

Look at that! Two cars built to the same technical regulations that couldn't look much more different. If only...

Nice photo, DOHC.

[Allan Lupton]

Look at that! Two cars built to the same technical regulations that couldn't look much more different. If only...

Quite so. Too much micro-management of design in the technical regs these days, not to mention invisible competition numbers now that you need 'em more than ever.

[fuzzi]

British Grand Prix Silverstone 1951.

Gonzales in the Ferrari took on the Alfa Romeo team and beat them for the first time.

[David Beard]

Look at that! Two cars built to the same technical regulations that couldn't look much more different. If only...

Absolutely. And just look much nicer the Lotus is of the two...

And absolutely nice photo, too.

[David Beard]

I want to revisit the 1958 British GP and talk to myself and dad at Woodcote corner.

[cpbell]

My shortlist:

1914 GP de l'ACF
1923 GP de L'ACF (opposite the pits so I could enjoy the chaos in the FIAT and Sunbeam pits )
1937 Donington GP
1953 GP de l'ACF
1957 German GP
1961 Monaco GP
1967 Italian GP
1972 French GP (to hear Amon wailing that Matra round the Charade circuit after the pitstop)
1978 Canadian GP (Giles; need I say more?)
1988 Japanese GP
1993 GP d'Europe (for THAT drive.)
2008 Brazilian GP

Turns out my shortlist isn't really very short.
Trouble is, there are so many others, such as:

1912 GP de l'ACF
1924 GP de l'ACF
1935 German GP.
1937 Monaco GP.
1938 German GP.
1951 British GP
1954 Italian GP
1958 Italian GP
1962 German GP
1964 Belgian GP
1970 Monaco GP.
1971 Italian GP
etc.

[kayemod]

Slightly surprised that no-one so far has mentioned Silverstone 1969, one of the best races I ever saw, at least until Jochen slowed.

[Barry Boor]

Another one I saw.

[RStock]

1935 AVUSrennen. Favorite track and two favorite drivers, Bernd Rosemeyer (debut race) and Tazio Nuvolari (in the Bimotore)

[cpbell]

1935 AVUSrennen. Favorite track and two favorite drivers, Bernd Rosemeyer (debut race) and Tazio Nuvolari (in the Bimotore)

Does it count as a Grand Prix, though?

[Slurp1955]

Slightly surprised that no-one so far has mentioned Silverstone 1969, one of the best races I ever saw, at least until Jochen slowed.

I did mention it at the end of post #53, although I wasn't there. I first went to a Grand Prix in '71, Stewart winning that one at Silverstone too, JP

Edited by Slurp1955, 15 January 2012 - 17:02.

[longhorn]

Slightly surprised that no-one so far has mentioned Silverstone 1969, one of the best races I ever saw, at least until Jochen slowed.

Silverstone 1969 was the first time that I attended a GP & I was lucky enough to witness that fantastic battle between Stewart & Rindt. However, in sticking to the thought that we should only have one race that we wished that we had seen, I went for Monaco 1933 & the Varzi/Nuvolari battle.

[Stephen W]

Silverstone 1969 was the first time that I attended a GP & I was lucky enough to witness that fantastic battle between Stewart & Rindt. However, in sticking to the thought that we should only have one race that we wished that we had seen, I went for Monaco 1933 & the Varzi/Nuvolari battle.

Exactly, we should only nominate ONE race rather than put together a wish list.

BTW I discounted any race that I attended as I thought it would be implied that it concerns races that one didn't attend!

[Glengavel]

I'd like to have seen the exciting race featured in the Brockbank cartoon, the one where an irate viewer is blowing up his television.

Joking aside, I'd like to have been at Monza in 1967, preferably above the Lotus pit so that I could lean over and shout "MORE PETROL!" during JC's fateful pit-stop.

[D-Type]

Exactly, we should only nominate ONE race rather than put together a wish list.

BTW I discounted any race that I attended as I thought it would be implied that it concerns races that one didn't attend!

Sorry, it's my fault for publishing my wish list while making up my mind. Since then I've thought of a few more possibilities.

[kayemod]

Joking aside, I'd like to have been at Monza in 1967, preferably above the Lotus pit so that I could lean over and shout "MORE PETROL!" during JC's fateful pit-stop.

There were a few other races where that would have been helpful advisc, just ask Mario. Chapman was notorious for cutting race fuel to the bone to save weight, several times, Lotus mechanics went against his orders and added an extra gallon "for luck", and they were right more often than not.

[sonar]

I can't remember why I didn't go to the Dutch Grand Prix in 1985 (other than that I had just got out of hospital (again)) and couldn't walk very well, but had I know what I know now I would have crawled there if I had to.

Knowing now it was to be the scene of Niki Lauda's last GP win and Stefan Bellof's last ever GP , I always regretted not going, so that's the one for me.

[RogerFrench]

Monaco 1929, to see Caracciola manhandle that SSK to third place.

Again in 1961, for reasons given often above.

[MCS]

I want to revisit the 1958 British GP and talk to myself and dad at Woodcote corner.

Great post.

[jeffbee]

At last night's TNF NW gathering Roger Clark asked the following question:

"If you could attend just one Grand Prix from 1904 up to the current date which one would you pick?"

So this morning it has been suggested that a new thread be started so here it is!

I'll start the ball rolling with my choice:

The 1938 Donington Park GP - I have chosen this as it was the first GP that my father went to and I would have loved to have been around to see the mighty Silver Arrows.

Monaco 61 - because no one except a Ferrari driver should have been able to win.

Reims 61 - because it was the first time I had seen such a close finish.

Rome GP 63 - because Bob Anderson won and because it must be the only time that a de Tomaso came anywhere near challenging for the lead, albeit briefly.