As per the title, anyone else got any favourites they'd like to share ?
http://grandprixweb....ca-de-1978.html
I wonder who said what ?
Posted 24 October 2014 - 22:14
As per the title, anyone else got any favourites they'd like to share ?
http://grandprixweb....ca-de-1978.html
I wonder who said what ?
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Posted 24 October 2014 - 23:38
i love this shot of Jackie Oliver http://f1.imgci.com/...17600/17647.jpg
Posted 25 October 2014 - 08:44
You could caption that "It wasn't me - honest!"
Edited by D-Type, 25 October 2014 - 11:00.
Posted 25 October 2014 - 09:53
Posted 25 October 2014 - 10:03
Posted 25 October 2014 - 14:17
You could caption that "It wasn't me - honest!"
Or he could be mentally counting his lucky stars....
Posted 25 October 2014 - 14:45
Posted 25 October 2014 - 14:51
You could caption that "It wasn't me - honest!"
Thinking about what to say to Colin.
Posted 25 October 2014 - 19:43
And the mechanic is thinking "Oh dear! This means another all-nighter"
Posted 26 October 2014 - 02:24
Re the Oliver wrecked Lotus pix from Rouen, 1968...
Is the car sitting at track-side or has been lugged off to an access road well clear of the racing surface? The reason I ask is if it is indeed the track proper, I'm aghast at the wooden fence c/w wire stringers and capped with barbed wire. I'm all for safety but many is the time that I think that modern day requirements are just a bit too stringent. In this case, I would think it very appropriate to labelled an unacceptable risk.
Posted 26 October 2014 - 02:32
Of the Oliver/Lotus 49B crash shot, one is wondering if he has a job tomorrow, the other knows he has a job tomorrow.
Posted 26 October 2014 - 06:27
Posted 26 October 2014 - 08:20
To be fair, the accident occurred on the straight section leading past the pits where they obviously assumed that the chances of an accident were low.
You'd think that the events at the end of the 1962 GP would have had some influence, though . . .
Posted 26 October 2014 - 08:20
There is film of the aftermath of this incident, the BBC happened to be producing a documentary on Chapman and were at Rouen for the GP. It's great stuff, if you haven't got a copy, treat yourself: http://shop.classict...n-dvd-109-p.asp
Posted 26 October 2014 - 08:26
i love this shot of Jackie Oliver http://f1.imgci.com/...17600/17647.jpg
This incident was also documented in that 1968 documentary about Colin Chapman (called "Millionaire" (?)), which was discussed in another thread on this forum.
There's footage of Chapman in the pits right after he's had a look at Oliver's car - He goes over to Bruce McLaren, who's sitting in his own car in his team's pit, and warns McLaren that he thought the bellhousing was defective - with a warning to McLaren to do due diligence on their own drivetrain parts, which were shared among the Cosworth-powered teams.
Posted 26 October 2014 - 08:29
Edited by 2F-001, 26 October 2014 - 08:30.
Posted 26 October 2014 - 08:57
Whatever is going through the mechanic's mind could be of interest too...
Though he appears to be over his initial shock.
The mechanic being Dale Porteous
Posted 26 October 2014 - 09:15
'(possibly the one Gary mentioned above)'
it is indeed that [programme.
Posted 26 October 2014 - 10:10
As the accident took place in practice, Oliver has probably realised that he has very little chance of starting in the GP (he didn't). The mechanic may be wondering if the other car (Graham Hill's) is going to have the same problem. Presumably Lotus didn't have a spare car at Rouen.
Stu
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Posted 26 October 2014 - 17:31
I seem to remember that, in the film mentioned, Jackie Oliver looked rather less nonchalant once the enormity of the accident had sunk in.
Posted 26 October 2014 - 17:57
he IS rather white and a little shocked when he gets back to the pits! Chapman asks him if he'd hit anything and he replies no, he'd just spun.