2003 known for 'The Priest' deciding to hold a protest in the middle of Hangar Straight....... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This pre-dates the Safety Car and VSC but is functionally the same. Is this dude out of the loony bin yet? We might need him on Sunday, another arrow for the Ferrari quiver.
June 27, in '64, at Rouen, Dan Gurney scored the 1st ever GP victory for the Brabham team. Jim Clark led early on but then retired (engine failure). Even so, Gurney had stayed with the flying Scotsman - the only driver to do so - & fully deserved Brabham's historic 1st win. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The 6th GP held at Paul Ricar track took place on June 28 in '80. The 4 French cars - 2 Renaults & 2 Ligiers - qualified 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 6th, & finished 2nd, 3rd, 5th & RET. But Aussie Alan Jones #27 in his British Williams Racing upset the locals by stealing the win. Sacrebleu! Image Unavailable, Please Login
June 29th 55 years ago Clark (Lotus 25) led the French GP from flag to flag, from pole, with fastest lap, finishing 65sec ahead of the field. Pic: at the start Clark leads G Hill (BRM P61), Gurney (Brabham BT7), McLaren (Cooper T66), Brabham (Brabham BT7) & Maggs (Cooper T66). Image Unavailable, Please Login
Remembering Nino Farina, the 1st F1 champion ('50), killed at the wheel of a Lotus Cortina on June 29 '66 near Aiguebelle (Alpes de Savoie) en route to the French GP at Reims. Pic: cornering a Maserati 4CLT in the non-championship '51 Paris GP, Bois de Boulogne, which he won. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Juan Manuel Fangio clipping the grass in his Alfa Romeo 159 at Reims July 1st in '51. He won that French GP , of course, with team-mate Luigi ***ioli, the 1st of 3 occasions on which 2 drivers would be credited with a GP win after sharing a car. Image Unavailable, Please Login
July 1st, in '79 Villeneuve & Arnoux waged 1 of F1''s most frenetic & now legendary battles, at Dijon, for 2nd place, which Villeneuve eventually won. But spare a thought for the oft-ignored achievement of Jabouille, who won that amazing day, his & Renault's first F1 victories. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Today '67 French GP , held 51 years ago, the only championship F1 GP ever run on the Le Mans Bugatti circuit. Jack Brabham & Denny Hulme (cars #3 & #4) finished 1st & 2nd in their Brabham BT24s. Jackie Stewart (BRM P261, car #10) was 3rd. Image Unavailable, Please Login
2 French GP wins today for Jack Brabham, 1 in '60 for Cooper (pic 1) & the other in '66 for Brabham (pic 2), at age 40, becoming the 1st driver to win an F1 championship race in a car bearing his own name. Both GPs took place at Reims, the '66 race being the last one there. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Heartbreak for John Watson (Brabham-Alfa BT45B) today in '77, at Dijon, having led the French GP almost all the way, then having to concede the lead & the win to Mario Andretti (Lotus 78) when his Alfa engine skipped a beat (owing to low fuel) on the very last lap. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Today in '82 Pironi scored his final GP victory, at Zandvoort. The 126C2 was never a pretty car but it was an effective one: Ferrari won the constructors' championship in '82 & would surely also have won the drivers' had Villeneuve not been killed & Pironi not been injured. Image Unavailable, Please Login
(Nigel Mansell's) Williams FW12 - Judd CV 3.5 V8 F1 Mexico GP (first pic) & British GP "Tyre Test Session, Silverstone 1988"
Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (MRD International), Brabham BT53 (finished 2nd) Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (Marlboro McLaren International) (finished 1st) Österreichring 1984"
The first red cars in the frame are the Alfa Romeos. The Ferraris are so far back they're almost invisible!
Seriously now.....it's a man's name for cripes sake..... This is too scary. edit: 'Sorry guys, I hadn't gotten down to your posts yet. No harm in echoing the sentiment tho', eh? I refuse to walk on eggshells. If one mis-interepts something, that sure as hell isn't the poster's/stater's fault. Let them get their sheet together, don't try to force the rest of us to comply. Sad state when the weak determine the course of things. Only the human race, huh???.
