The 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991 Championship winning cars at Honda Headquarters in Tokyo… Image Unavailable, Please Login
1966. Dan Gurney, in his Eagle leads Graham Hill in a BRM. Mexico . ?? Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yes, Mexico. I've seen another photo of cars entering that same corner. I remember that white "thing" in front of the mound at 2 o'clock from Graham's head and the tarmac paint behind him.....
Interesting that Graham's BRM has a "Monaco nose". I know that Mexico City's elevation sometimes required bigger intakes, but that seems like overkill. In '67, Dan's Mexican race was much shorter. At the start, he ran into the back of Clark's Lotus 49 and gored his radiator on Clark's exhaust pipe, resulting in his retirement shortly thereafter.
Another shot of the 1979 Lotus. I took this photo of Mario on the grid for the Argentine GP, his first race as World Champion. Mario qualified 7th and finished 5th. The race had to be restarted after a crash after the pit straight on the first lap took out 6 drivers, including Mario. Lole's #2 Lotus finished second in his home GP. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Speaking of "kill", it looks like the BRM wants to swallow the Eagle. Reminds of some fishes mouth ('can't recall the name of it) I just saw on some documentary that opened like that for ingesting plankton or some such (no, not a whale).
Yes, he was spectacular and I thought somehow he’d get a Lotus drive the following year because of it. Think he ended up at Tyrrell maybe?
Yes, at Tyrrell for the 1979 season, after Depailler left Tyrrell for Ligier. Oddly maybe, but I always thought that his interim at Lotus was not as astonishing as the first two races of 1975 with the Shadow, which he put in pole-position: in Argentina, where the transmission broke during the formation lap, and of course in Brasil, "the one that got away" at the 33rd of the 40 laps, after having led most of the race on his talent and merit. He really, really should have won that one! He shone again in Brasil 1976 with the Shadow; and basically, that was it. (I have already written that he drove a good part of the car chases in Frankenheimer's 1996 movie "Ronin", this from the Right Hand Seat of a RHD car propped with a steering wheel at the left for the actor pretending to be driving) Rgds
You're probably right; some teams (like Ferrari) used a nose with a bigger opening in Mexico, but it looks in the photo like the nose cone was removed entirely.
Nurburgring, Germany 1968. Dan Gurney, wearing a full face helmet for the first time, wheels his Eagle around. He was doing well but had to pit for a cut tire. He ended up ninth after rejoining in last. Image Unavailable, Please Login
