Rush, the movie

I can certainly understand that.

But you have to stay fair with your comments: Given your critical eye, where would that leave "Grand Prix" and "Le Mans"?

Grand Prix has a truly dopey fake soap opera story and Le Mans wish it would have any kind of story.

 

I always agree with what you have to say. And you think things out a little bit better than I do

I hope for F1 sake that it can get American's to realize what is the primo Motorsport is instead of redneck bumper cars. I'm looking out my apartment window in mannhattan and can see the Site of the NJ F1 site and hope we can have this race for many years to come. Maybe this movie can help.

 

The NBC sports guys sure are pimping this movie hard

 

NO Doubt! they were creaming their jeans in FP2 it was as contrived as it gets.

Dollar Dollar billz y'all

 

The average wide release movie spends over thirty million bucks on publicity.
It's got to go somewhere.

 

Careful there: You haven't heard my ideas for sprinklers and reversed grid.

 

Won't make it's money back . I wish it the best for my own personal benefit (F1 picking up steam in the US)

But lets be honest all 10 of us watching F1 on Nbcsn ( which is a premium channel that I pay an extra $30 a month for) if all of us go to the movie they bring in $200 dollars.

 

You Ticinese too Andreas?

 

Sorry no, "German".

But show me a Swiss who doesn't love Rega. He was the best. After Seppi.

 

Clay was killed in a part of Emilia that I used to frequent as a kid in the summers. Always liked him. Gave frank Williams his first win.

 

Silverstone 79 got me hooked on F1

 

I was the photographer for the International Race of Champions dinner in Atlanta. Clay was very friendly.

 

DRIVEN was the biggest POS movie I've ever seen. It single handidly ruined CART. Comparing any movie to that is harsh. Ron Howard typically makes very good movies. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

 

Based on the Rush trailer I'd say they blame it on a mechanical failure.

 

Rush has been pushed back a week, to September 27th.

I'm not sure why, as a casual glance at the schedule makes it look like the move puts the film into tougher competition for an audience...

 

My wife wanted to watch "Le Mans" a couple of weeks ago. Halfway through the movie she said: this movie is just about car racing.

 

I don't think Enzo was such a big part anyway: yes he was pissed that Niki gave up and ultimately fired him but that was past the season.

My expectations are not too high as well though. Then again what is the competition? I know people drool over Grand Prix and Le Mans but in reality they are just car porn. They don't have real or interesting stories. So if Rush only looks good, it's already in the Panteon of racing flicks

 

By which she said nicer things than the critics...

I'm currently rewatching Vaillant and must admit that my memory of it was flattering to it. The movie is eye candy but the story stupid. Like most racing movies

Next up is Driven, lets see whether my perception changed there too

 

Ok, Enzo certainly exerted pressure on Lauda but I believe the biggest pressure came from within. He wanted to survive, get fit again and into the cockpit to race Hunt again.

Yes, Enzo's role would have been a good addition but I don't think it is a big loss not to have him there. Lauda is such a strong character, he needed motivation from nobody. To this day.

We might have a different view of Enzo. I thought he stood more in the way of his drivers than anything. A great entrepreneur with a great sense for business but not a good team principal (which wasn't his role to begin with).

Yeah, the flexing of fibreglass is a sight to behold.

 

Alright, I thought we'd settled this months ago on a different thread. Those cars did have fiberglass bodies. What do you think a 917 or 512S body was made of; sheet metal?