Graham Hill's first F1 championship win - 50 years ago today
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:11
Vince H.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:36
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:40
A nice moment to remember.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 10:17
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 10:35
In late June we should be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Georges Boillot's first win in the Grand Prix de l'ACF. I find it frightening to think that Hill's win is as long ago now as Boillot's was then.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:09
It is also, of course, the 50th anniversary of the Lotus 25, which, arguably, changed Grand Prix racing more than any other car.
In late June we should be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Georges Boillot's first win in the Grand Prix de l'ACF. I find it frightening to think that Hill's win is as long ago now as Boillot's was then.
I would say depressing more than frightening.
Meanwhile do we think that racing cars per se advanced more during the 50 years that separated Boillot from Hill or the next half century that has passed sinced Zandvoort '62?
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:36
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 14:32
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 14:40
Or is it lost in Time?
I have pulled out my ORMA membership card in honour of the occasion...
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 22:44
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 01:54
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 02:15
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 12:05
photo: courtesy of Michael Argetsinger/ IMRRC
#17
Posted 21 May 2012 - 18:22
Same year, different place. http://www.eafa.org....atalogue/143169 and the first motor race I went to. Very distinctive sound from GH's car and a short interview at the end.
What a wonderfully evocative piece of film. If nothing else it shows what a makeshift venue Snetterton was in those days...
DCN
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 18:29
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 18:36
I didn't realise that the top hairpin was such a quick corner.
Me neither. Did it change?
The quality of the film on a relatively big PC screen is actually really good. Wonderful. More please!!!
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 18:39
#21
Posted 21 May 2012 - 19:23
The map of Snetterton in my Austosport Directory 1955 does show the corner to be quite a wide radius but even so, those cars seemed to go pretty quickly through there.
And it didn't seem speeded up. Great camera position too. In fact overall the camera locations were excellent
Rare to hear Jimmy speak - his Scottish accent is surprisingly slight.
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 20:51
At the end of the day we ignored protesting officials and drove round part of the circuit to get out as did one or two others, makeshift indeed as even in road car the track was incredibly bumpy.What a wonderfully evocative piece of film. If nothing else it shows what a makeshift venue Snetterton was in those days...
DCN
#23
Posted 21 May 2012 - 20:51
Excellent. What a wonderful photo.
Count the number of exhaust stacks ? Wasn't the 1962 BRM famous for shedding individual pipes during long races ?
GRAHAM R
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 21:38
Count the number of exhaust stacks ? Wasn't the 1962 BRM famous for shedding individual pipes during long races ?
GRAHAM R
Looking closely at the photo it seems as if all 8 stacks are still there, I think it's just the angle of the photo, but for sure the second stack from the rear on the left bank looks as if it's almost ready to drop.
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 04:48
Count the number of exhaust stacks ? Wasn't the 1962 BRM famous for shedding individual pipes during long races ?
GRAHAM R
I've always wondered that. Indeed, in the first motor race I attended, the International Trophy on May 12 1962, I recall Graham Hill slithered across the line with, iirc, five of the original stacks still in place.
One day when I'm wealthy, I mean to purchase that apparently excellent three volume series on BRM, The Saga of British Racing Motors. Bet the answer's in there. Wonder who the author is. He might be kind enough to enlighten us...
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 06:46
And it didn't seem speeded up. Great camera position too. In fact overall the camera locations were excellent
Rare to hear Jimmy speak - his Scottish accent is surprisingly slight.
I too was surprised, the first time I heard him. - quite 'puritanical' I thought. I never managed to see Jim Clark race although he was my hero. (Like so many of us, of course) I never saw anything other than a few film clips & bits of TV races from 1967. So it wasn't until I stumbled across TNF a couple of years ago, that I began to realize there was so much more to see & hear. The excellent film event by Michael Oliver & Gary Critcher also helped to answer my curiosity, albeit 40 years late.
Well done everybody.
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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:19
Yes, and one turned left into the filling station half-way along the Norwich Straight, and thence on to the A11 heading South West!At the end of the day we ignored protesting officials and drove round part of the circuit to get out as did one or two others, makeshift indeed as even in road car the track was incredibly bumpy.
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Posted 27 May 2012 - 04:39
Photos by Ted Langton-Adams, copyright Eric Faulks
Vince H.