Any F1 fans?

[Lucky13]

The GOAT?

Graham Hill (pictured in 1969) is the only driver to have completed the Triple Crown....

The Triple Crown of Motorsport is an unofficial motorsport achievement, often regarded as winning three of the most prestigious motor races in the world in one's career: the Indianapolis 500 (first held in 1911), the 24 Hours of Le Mans (first held in 1923), and the Monaco Grand Prix (first held in 1929).

 

[pbehn]

The GOAT?

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Graham Hill (pictured in 1969) is the only driver to have completed the Triple Crown....

The Triple Crown of Motorsport is an unofficial motorsport achievement, often regarded as winning three of the most prestigious motor races in the world in one's career: the Indianapolis 500 (first held in 1911), the 24 Hours of Le Mans (first held in 1923), and the Monaco Grand Prix (first held in 1929).

From a different era in sport. Graham Hill and Jacki Stewart interview - Bing video

 

[N4521U]

Verstapen just has a thing about Singapore.

 

[GrauGeist]

I think that depends on where you live!. To me it was an RD250LC (Race Developed 250 Liquid Cooled) but it was marketed under various names around the world. It was basically the same as the RD350LC which had same stroke and a bigger bore, the 350 had twin disc brakes at the front. With all the tuning "bitz" the 250 was good for 120MPH with tall gearing, within the rules allowed standard exhausts and carbs.

Same with the Norton. In UK there never was a 750SS. The Norton 88 (500SS) grew to the 99 (650SS). I had a friend who had a Norton 650SS Dominator in the 1970s and he was an "officionado". The 750 version was known as a Norton Atlas (in UK). Later came the 750 Commando based bikes. In racing most racing Nortons at the end of the 60s early 70s were engines made by people like Paul Dunstall in aftermarket frames like Seely. Ken Redfern used all sorts, eventually having frames made to his own design. I found this video, I knew the maker back in the day, he ran an insurance shop so he sold me my bike insurance (no kidding). H is the guy I saw racing at Croft and owns an ex Redfern Norton (or he did 11 yrs ago when it was made).
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMkSzl44-HE

I have a healthy respect for Nortons.

Years ago, I was carving Turnbull Canyon (Southern California) on my Katana 1100 and I saw motion in my mirrors.
Shortly afterward, I could heard the bass rumble of an engine working almost in unison with my 1100 beast and there it was, a Norton Commando overtaking me on those twisting and winding curves.

Got a nod from the rider as he passed, too.

 

[Lucky13]

When I was still living in Sweden and worked for FFV/SAAB, a colleague of mine had two Norton Commando's, a black and a yellow one, don't remember if both were Roadsters, Fastbacks or one of each, he was a British and Norton bike fan though....
You could hear him coming long before that you actually saw him...

 

[Zippythehog]

When I was still living in Sweden and worked for FFV/SAAB, a colleague of mine had two Norton Commando's, a black and a yellow one, don't remember if both were Roadsters, Fastbacks or one of each, he was a British and Norton bike fan though....
You could hear him coming long before that you actually saw him...

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I always thought the Fastback looked the best. I saw one done in polished aluminum at Mid-Ohio Vintage days. When the sun shone, it almost hurt to look at.

 

[Lucky13]

Why F1 is no longer great, why it's shite....

Ronnie Peterson and Clay Regazzoni, 1974....

 

[Marcel]

Why F1 is no longer great, why it's shite....

Ronnie Peterson and Clay Regazzoni, 1974....

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So it's boring now because you don't have a Swede competing?

 

[Zippythehog]

Ummm, I think the assertion is based on Clay, passing the JP Special on the outside of a slightly on camber turn with spectators a stone's throw from the Armco.

 

[Sabrejet]

The GOAT?

Graham Hill (pictured in 1969) is the only driver to have completed the Triple Crown....

The Triple Crown of Motorsport is an unofficial motorsport achievement, often regarded as winning three of the most prestigious motor races in the world in one's career: the Indianapolis 500 (first held in 1911), the 24 Hours of Le Mans (first held in 1923), and the Monaco Grand Prix (first held in 1929).

Nowhere near a Fangio, a Moss or a Nuvolari. Casting the net wider, I'd include Loeb, Elford, Redman, Kristensen and a number of others, many of whom never even drove an F1 car.

 

[Lucky13]

So it's boring now because you don't have a Swede competing?

It's been shite, boring for ages, or at least since the Stonehenge, or the pyramids were new!

 

[Lucky13]

Ronnie Peterson, Lotus 78-Ford Cosworth DFV, Gilles Villeneuve in the 312T3, Monaco 1978....

 

[Marcel]

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Ronnie Peterson, Lotus 78-Ford Cosworth DFV, Gilles Villeneuve in the 312T3, Monaco 1978....

The time when on average 2 drivers died each year.

 

[Lucky13]

View: https://youtu.be/Z1_aOkJLHR0?si=N7gyoXh-8GlRbELL

 

[Lucky13]

View: https://youtu.be/qhr-1qcJ8i4?si=j1jTtS-6VZu3lwDM

 

[Lucky13]

View: https://youtu.be/l0NVfcbPKuY?si=JCw3cmhQZash05Uw

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Lucky13]

Colin Chapman apparently once said that if he put Ronnie in a pram he'd push it flat out, if he's not fast enough it's the car's fault!

Source: Mario Andretti – Full Throttle – Fifteen Minutes With….

 

[Lucky13]

Once Colin Chapman watched Peterson from Les Signes at Le Castellet, taking the long curve flat out on opposite lock. When asked why he was driving like that, Ronnie replied: "Oh that, it's to fight the understeer on that car !"

Definitely not the fatest way to take corner....

 

[Lucky13]

As I've been saying, s.h.i.t.e!


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