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F1 Legends: Throwback Tuesdays & Thursdays

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  1. Gatorrari

    Gatorrari F1 World Champ
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    If I recall, at the start, Mario Andretti made a rather impulsive start in the Parnelli, causing the two Ferraris to run into each other and eliminating them on the spot!
     
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    Out of my memory, and that's becoming slighly dated now, wasn't Mario's Parnelli pushed first by Vittorio Brambilla? And then, and only then, he took the two Ferraris out?
    Always kinda liked that Parnelli: pretty car; admittedly, an up-to-date of the Lotus 72, as it has been designed, like the 72, by Maurice Philippe, but it deserved better results.

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  3. jgonzalesm6

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  4. Gatorrari

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    I don't remember, but knowing Brambilla's reputation, I wouldn't doubt that's what might have happened. Vittorio wasn't nicknamed the Monza Gorilla for nothing!
     
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  5. nerofer

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    Well, I had to check, just to see if the memory is still working O.K:

    "Paradise lost: Montjuïc and the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix"
    "Motorsport Magazine", Formula One, April 27th, 2020

    [...] The first shunt was before the first corner [of the race]. The Ferraris, Niki Lauda ahead of Clay Regazzoni, filled the front row, but under braking for the first hairpin Lauda was nudged in the back by Mario Andretti, who’d in turn been hit by Vittorio Brambilla. This sent Lauda’s Ferrari broadside into Regazzoni. Lauda was out and his fellow Ferrari continued several laps down after repairs.

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    Right. Brambilla was actually from the town of Monza. And he looked the part of a gorilla.
     
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    He was a skilled mechanic as well. I saw him get out of the March in the Watkins Glen garage, remove his helmet and started to work on the car.
     
  8. nerofer

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    ...his 1975 season was probably the best: he shone in the Belgian and Swedish Grand Prix, and won the Austrian Grand prix in his "customary style": for those who might have forgotten (or who are too young to remember), quote from Wikipedia:

    "He spun off and wrecked the nose of his car as he took the chequered flag, and completed his slowing down lap with the front of the car destroyed while waving to the crowd."

    For a man who always forced his way, he died form a heart attack, at 63, while mowing his lawn...

    (reminds me that I'm just exactly that age now, so I shall not mown the lawn this year)


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    Monjuic is a great track very challenging... I race it in my sim. in those days F-1 had outgrown the track and its safety. The only reason they raced is the organizers and the govt. threatened to confiscate all the cars, unless they race.
     
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  10. Gatorrari

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    Shades of A.J. Foyt!
     
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    10 years ago Richard Griot displayed the restored 312T-022 (the very car that Niki Lauda drove at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix) at the Seattle Auto Show and then at his main store in Tacoma. Even though Griot is an active vintage racer he never vintage-raced the 312T because, by his own admission, he couldn't fit in the cockpit. It has since been passed on to another collector.

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    Fantastic image! The clarity of the Ferrari is remarkable for the period--possibly digitally enhanced? Who took the photo?
     
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    When cars were slim and light ! :(
     
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    I don't know. It's from a Facebook group I follow but no photographer was acknowledged.
     
  18. Gatorrari

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    Remember that the cars arrived at Monaco with the high wings they had been running since early '68, but those wings were banned after the first day. Some teams (like Ferrari and Lotus) were able to fabricate mini-wings that met the new rules, but other teams (like Matra) ran without them.
     
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  21. Gatorrari

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    Rather like the Red Baron's Flying Circus!
     
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    Very dangerous :(
    Jochen heading to his disaster -

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  23. Gatorrari

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    And the same thing happened to teammate Graham Hill, which led to the subsequent wing ban at Monaco, and the result shown in post #2114.
     
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  24. Peter Tabmow

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    I was there! I took my little brother to his first race that day. We sat at Paddock Bend and gasped at Ickx' outside pass of Lauda in the downpour.
     
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    yes, I was there.

    Getting old :(
     
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