is like saying there is not another pele or maradonna or renaldo ... pointless as each are their own ... and someday one will come along to put senna in place like fangio
Are Brazilian drivers overrated?
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Posted 22 June 2001 - 09:52
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It actually looks pretty respectable for three bits of the Disunited Kingdom! Poor old Wales doesn't get a look in though. But isn't Peter Gethin really Welsh - Gethin sounds like a Welsh name, maybe? If only Tom Pryce had been spared, their might be some wins and even a WDC on the list for Wales.Originally posted by Williams
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Posted 22 June 2001 - 10:22
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Originally posted by BRG
It actually looks pretty respectable for three bits of the Disunited Kingdom! Poor old Wales doesn't get a look in though. But isn't Peter Gethin really Welsh - Gethin sounds like a Welsh name, maybe? If only Tom Pryce had been spared, their might be some wins and even a WDC on the list for Wales.
A little surfing shows Gethin as being born in Elwell, Surrey (England ?). Too bad, I would like to have seen a Wales representative in there as well. Losts of F1 winners from Surrey though: Gethin, Hunt and Surtees.
An interesting thing about Gethin's win was that he and John Surtess were the only Brit drivers with non-Cosworth wins during a streak that lasted from 1967 to 1983. Gethin was BRM, Surtees was Honda.
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Posted 22 June 2001 - 10:25
Surrey is clearly the place to be.
Unless you can be in Scotland that is.
Unless you can be in Scotland that is.
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Posted 22 June 2001 - 10:33
Yes mel, went I started looking at it, I was kind of hoping that the Scots (I have some Scottish blood in me) would take it, considering they have have two of the top three Brit drivers for wins. But no, too many (good) English drivers in there.
Oh yes you're in Surrey now, a refugee from Bonnie Scotland aren't you ?
Oh yes you're in Surrey now, a refugee from Bonnie Scotland aren't you ?
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Posted 22 June 2001 - 11:04
I hate to admit it, but the weather is certainly better down here.
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Posted 22 June 2001 - 12:12
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I imagine that is Ewell, near Epsom, in Surrey (where I too was born raised and still live). But that doesn't necessarily mean that Gethin wasn't of Welsh parentage. Ewell is a London suburb and London is a very cosmopolitan place. Maybe I'll ask about him in TNF...Originally posted by Williams
Gethin as being born in Elwell
