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Post by ttocs78z28 on Jun 2, 2012 13:02:51 GMT -5
I hadn't seen this before. Pretty interesting
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Post by herk56 on Jun 2, 2012 14:52:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, very interesting! It was worth the hour just to see the in-car with Clark. And Rindt's wife, what a classy woman! It's ironic that when it was so dangerous, there was that air of fellowship, drivers were accessible and everyone was smiling, at least most of the time. Since $$$ sponsors became involved, the pressure to succeed has bled all that out of the sport. Maybe safety shouldn't be the be-all and end-all. If there was an escalator to the summit of Everest, would it still mean the same thing to get there? I think racing needs a certain level of risk to maintain its status. JMHO!
Brian
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Post by Patrick on Jun 2, 2012 23:32:29 GMT -5
Jackie Stewart said that sometimes it was his friends and sometimes they were acquaintances, but always they were a loss. Yes, to me these were the true golden years of racing, but some of my favorite drivers died. Bandini, von Trips, Rindt, Schlesser, and my local driver, Bart Martin whom I saw die. The losses drove Stewart to to be proactive for safety. Thank the great maker.
Patrick
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Post by mjjracer on Jun 4, 2012 11:59:25 GMT -5
Watched that on the Velocity Network, very good if gruesome. They seem to have a bit of a fixation on the dark side of the sport - they are showing a film on the '55 Le Mans crash on Sunday, June 10.
The 60s & 70s are my favorite era of racing, not only because of the great innovation but because the drivers were all larger than life. Nascar does a bad job in that they promote their drivers as everyday people, so a whole lot of yahoos think they could go out there and beat everybody, rather than being part of a very small group of exceptional people. But that's a different subject.
Growing up in the 60s & 70s was tough. Not only did none of the other kids, who idolized Mickey Mantle and Ernie Banks (grew up in northern Illinois), have any idea who Stirling Moss or Jim Clark were, their heros didn't dance with death everytime they played their game.
MJ
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