The Greatest Moment In Formula One History! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Ryan. I can only be touched. All of my tutelage in the Personal Injury realm is finally paying off!

I am so pleased you may now get so excited over a guy (whos potential loss of earning may be in the tens of millions) getting hit by a car (due to negligence) on international television!

 

My vote for greatest of the modern era is Villeneuve and Arnoux battling for 2nd place in the French Grand Prix:

http://rapidshare.de/files/3814109/f1.wmv.html

 

Not really F1, but Nuvolari's victory at the 1935 German GP in an Alfa

 

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It could have saved him millions. Taki was a pay driver!
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Agreed but let's not forget Fangio @ the Nurburgring in 1957

 

WOW, thanks for the clip. I wish we could see that type of racing today.

 

That gets my vote. Even Fangio said it was an accomplishment he never fathomed he could do and one he hoped to never repeat. Supposedly he could not sleep for days afterward.

One of my favorite parts about Fangios famous win at the Ring in '57 is that both Hawthorne and Collins after the race seemed to be as happy and amazed at what he had done as Fangio himself was. Sportsmanship like that is long dead in F1.

I have the great Nicholas Watts print "Fangio the Maestro" hanging in my office signed by the artist and Fangio himself. Its one of my favorite things.


Terry

 

A close second in my mind, as the Alfa 8c 35 was really a piece of crap compared with the Mercedes and Auto Unions

 

Both drives are incredible in their own right and I have personally spent large amounts of time studying each drive in great detail. A note on each race:

Nuvolari 1935:

Motor Sport magazine probably put it best when they refered to the win as 'Such an unlikely victory that it called for a recalculation of the very laws of physics themselves' . It was an incredible drive and a true display of defiant driving in the face of impossible odds. Many do not know that on the victory rostrum the Germans, so certain of a German victory, did not have the Italian national anthem available. No problem, Nuvolari had brought a copy with him just in case. I will post a picture of me with the winners trophy later

Fangio 1957:

Interestingly this victory would not be possible today. When Fangio pitted and lost all that time he did not go tearing out of the pits like a man possesed as many think. Bertocchi actually took Fangio's arm and told him to take it easy on the out lap. Fangio did this and upon passing the pits the first time, the stopwatches showed that with the number of laps left, it was a hopeless case to catch the Ferrari's. The Ferrari team boss relayed this message via pit boards to the Ferrari drivers and it was a full 3 long Nurburgring laps before Ferrari realized the possessed drive Fangio was on.It took an additional lap to warn the Ferrari drivers which was now too late. Today this would not be possible as pit to car radios would have warned the Ferrari's as to the threat of Fangio (remember that both Collins and Hawthorne picked up their pace at the end to lap record beating times). This display of calm and confidence under huge pressure (Fangio needed the win to clinch the World Championship) is a great lesson in self control. I had the pleasure of staying at the home of Mike Hawthorn's fiancee when he died and she expressed the great joy Fangio gave Mike and Peter that day.

 

*WOW*. That GV video is honestly the most impressive display of driving I've ever seen.

 

Another Nuvolari moment was in 1947, with the Cisitalia 1100 single seater. The lock pin holding the steering wheel on to the saft broke, and he was driving with his hand on the steering shaft itself!

 

Prost at the Mexican Grand Prix in 1990 (for Ferrari no less) must rank among the best.

BHW

 

our friend taki inoue again

would you believe his car got rolled over after colliding with a pace car while being towed to the pits. an illustrious f1 career.
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Yeah, especially after this dismal season.

 

Best racing ever!

I can't help but notice how close they were in the corners, no way any of that is possible in a modern F1 car.

 

Many times repost but still


http://www.haeferl.at/lyso/Filme/sennavsprost.wmv

 

All the posts and clips are such a depressing reminder of exactly how bad and boring F1 has become.



Terry

 

Now THAT is racing! I would be embarrased to even call today's F1, F1. Terminally boring!!

 

Wow, I've never really seen the Senna/Prost stuff before! I'm a bit young to remember that stuff, that was absolutly awesome. Where is that kind of F1 racing today?

 

god dang - just watched both the Senna clips and the Villeneuve/Arnoux clip. I didn't realize until just now how much of a zombie I had become watching the current bi-monthly F1 parade.

 

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