No rhyme, no reason, one old Formula 1 pic per post

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:02 pm

just fit some chains on the kart tires and let the kids slide on icy gravel

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:20 pm

LucasWheldon wrote:

just fit some chains on the kart tires and let the kids slide on icy gravel

Works for me. I'm counting this as F1 on account of the drivers

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:50 am

That must be fun

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:01 pm

try racing those in the snow and throwing snowballs on the other racers

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 9:43 am

safety, what's that?

that street light :8:

micha · PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 9:58 am

well, at least they respected the track limits.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 3:41 pm

what about those people on the outside right in the braking zone where there is no guard rail, any brake failure or slight oversteering there and it was a tragedy

Omega · PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 4:28 pm

LucasWheldon wrote:

what about those people on the outside right in the braking zone where there is no guard rail, any brake failure or slight oversteering there and it was a tragedy

and yet this didn't happen (often)

siggy · PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 7:28 am

Because they respected everything, because every screw up could cost their lives. Today, the biggest fuckups doesn't even end up as a DNF.

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 8:12 am

siggy wrote:

Because they respected everything, because every screw up could cost their lives. Today, the biggest fuckups doesn't even end up as a DNF.

The year before this, Lorenzo Bandini was killed in Monaco after clipping a kerb and then a lamppost. Drivers were furious at the way the marshals failed to help quickly enough, and that their requests for actual barriers around the harbour (rather than hay bales) were ignored. There's a good Nigel Roebuck column on it this week.

Chris Amon wrote:

"It disgusted everyone," said Amon, "that they made such a bloody mess of trying to put the fire out.

"As well as that, they'd ignored our request for guardrails on the harbourfront, and just had strawbales there. After the accident, of course, they did put guardrails in - if we'd had them in '67 Lorenzo would have got away without a scratch..."

'Respect for track limits' is definitely some distance from 'Street furniture on a racetrack is fine'.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 5:12 pm

gkmotorsport wrote:

siggy wrote:

Because they respected everything, because every screw up could cost their lives. Today, the biggest fuckups doesn't even end up as a DNF.

The year before this, Lorenzo Bandini was killed in Monaco after clipping a kerb and then a lamppost. Drivers were furious at the way the marshals failed to help quickly enough, and that their requests for actual barriers around the harbour (rather than hay bales) were ignored. There's a good Nigel Roebuck column on it this week.

I think that photo IS form 1967. Ferrari boycotted Monaco in 1968 because they didn't think they had taken enough safety precautions. I think they demanded guard rails all the way down to Tabac.

1968:

I can't find a photo of the sea front from 1969, but they were back then. This is how it looked like in 1970:

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 5:22 pm

Yeah, the photo is from 67 according to Google image search - I thought that it was Bandini in 66 at first, hence being reminded.

Good finds, though - shows how slowly anything happened in 60s F1!

Bleu · PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 8:20 pm

Talking about safety at Monaco - there's that famous photo of photographers

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2017 12:31 am

Another thing about Monaco 1968 - 16 cars started and only 5 were left on lap 20 :8:

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 2:27 pm

iks · PostPosted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:38 am

John Watson and Roger Penske in 1976 at the German Grand Prix.

And Mario Andretti in 1976 at Paul Ricard:

Bleu · PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:39 pm

Before Azerbaijan GP, previous time when Australian and Canadian driver shared the podium it was this race:

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:26 am

Another fun stat is that Stroll is the first non-Villeneuve Canadian that has scored points, or got on the podium in an F1 race.

iks · PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 6:38 pm

Stroll, Jacques, and Gilles all scored podium in their first year as well. Not counting 1977 for Gilles. The funny thing is, it took Gilles more races to get a podium than it did for Lance.

iks · PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:43 pm

Didier Pironi in Long Beach in 1982:

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