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1955 Belgian GP,

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schnurrbart
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Re: 1955 Belgian GP,

Thanks for posting that! Got to go to the 1978 Grand Prix of Monaco. Only one I have been privileged to attend and it was great. Only ticket I could afford was on Pauper Hill which overlooked a stretch of the road they raced on next to the harbor. What a blast!

Re: 1955 Belgian GP,

   I've not seen that good a film from that era.  I'd really ;like to see at least one GP, I started reading competition Press, road and track, Car and Driver around 1963 and have followed F! Sport Car racing about every year sinceLot of articles about Nuvalari, Fongio, Moss and Farina, the Alfas,Ferraris, Maseratis, Coopers, the pre war races, John Surtees, , Jimmy Clark, Grahram Hill, and Phil Hill, Richey Ginther, BrabhamDennis Hulmewere the fastest drivers then.  But I've not seen that good of a film of FangioMoss and Farina from that eraIt's really neet they caught them drifting through corners, sawing the wheel, no power steering, Fangio had some muscular armsThat's the last of  front engined cars a few years later the first successful rear engined cars.  Drivers to day look more like ballet dancers, big guys have a hard time fitting in those tight cars, but they work out and are very athelitic.  I've only read about the technic, watching the Mistro at work is a treatThat's the last of  front engined cars a few years later the first successful rear engined cars dominated

 

  I imagine Monaco just isn't a place I would be comfortable atMonza, Spa would be more to my taste, but I I just happened to be close to Monico--

 

  I quit following F! for a few years after Rint, Mark Donahue, BandiniClark ate it.   Senna's death was cold water, a freind was taping TV coverage during that time.   It was all reading, was very little TV coverage.   What little TV coverage I've seen lately was too painful with the anounsers blabbing away about them selves, like the idoit jock doing Football, I can't stand to watch with all the commercails.  I'd rather be outside.   I follow F1 it on the  web now, they have live charts showing the times in three sections of the track, the commintater seems to go to sleep at time.  It british site, so al the English drivers are so special, to bad those Finns and Germans  A  They do a fair job of presention 

schnurrbart
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Re: 1955 Belgian GP,

I got to see Donahue race a Laguna Seca in CA when I was attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA in '67. They ran counter clockwise on that track and his car was set up for clockwise and he ran out of gas on the last lap and got beat on the straight to the checkered flag!! Jimmy Clark was probably my favorite. Hated it when he bought it.