Speed Heroes....

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My 2 Personal hero's growing up.

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Mark Donohue who won in everything he drove, from go karts to Formula 1, and for NASCAR it was Joe Weatherly

The only driver to win a championship driving for multiple teams in the same year. His primary team reduced their entries to just the major events due to sponsorship and finance issues, so he begged and borrowed cars for the remaining events

 

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In the first organized race on the old Daytona Beach & Road Course in 1936, Bill Schindler was the only driver to compete in a Dodge.

Photo courtesy of NASCAR Archives & Research Center.

 

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The boys in blue!
John Surtees, Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Dan Gurney, Jo Bonnier, Jim Clark, Richie Ginther and Bruce McLaren....

 

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Ronnie Peterson (Lotus Ford Cosworth), Emerson Fittipaldi(Lotus Ford Cosworth), Jackie Stewart, (Tyrrel Ford Cosworth) Swedish GP, 1973....

 

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[cammerjeff]

had to ad my hero growing up Mark Donohue. He seemed to win in every type of racing he entered

 

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Speed record Sunbeam car engine heard again after 90 years

The newly-restored engine is switched on for visitors to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.

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had to ad my hero growing up Mark Donohue. He seemed to win in every type of racing he entered
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It's a +1 for Mark Donohue; one of the greatest. His book is also a firm favourite.

My all-time top five would include Stirling Moss, Tazio Nuvolari and Vic Elford but Mark would come close. Not sure who else would make it into the top 5 though. Too many supposed "greatest" didn't do much outside of one particular discipline, and there's too much focus on Formula 1 as if it is somehow the pinnacle of motorsport without question.

 

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You know -- all that car stuff can be cool, but I tend to favour a different kind of Speed Heroes...

 

[cammerjeff]

Lake Speed, another personal hero that I actually had a chance to interact with in the pits in former lifetime in both of his major race series. He won the international Carting Championship the 1st American driver to do so, and in a long NASCAR carrier he posted only 1 win (that I was lucky enough to witness from the pits) And a great guy, even if he did repeatedly try to save my soul. Maybe not the greatest driver of all time, but when I would get cocky he would teach me how much better he was behind the wheel than I was by swapping go Karts with me and beating me in my much slower machine! Plus could you have a better name as a race driver? Plus his name is the tread title!

 

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A most improbable airplane. Doolittle had to be a hero to fly this thing hard...

 

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A most improbable airplane. Doolittle had to be a hero to fly this thing hard...

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Cast-iron balls.