News these days is supported by the new test Valentino Rossi at the wheel of Ferrari's Formula 1.Il champion on two wheels has shot for two days at the Mugello resulting in discrete time and confirming that probably could have been a good driver in Formula 1, although it appears now from the possibility of see him driving a Ferrari into something more than a few sporadic test.L 'eclecticism of Rossi, while commendable, must not forget that years ago the transition from two to four wheels was well consolidata.Clamorosi practice cases of pre-war Nuvolari and Varzi, the most recent and crowned with some success in Brambilla, Hailwood and Cecotto, as well as the famous flop of the great James Agostini.Ma certain that the pilot was able to pass the most successful was the Englishman John Surtees, nicknamed "Big John". Born in 1934, John ran with the bike from '52 to '60, graduating with the sample 350 in '58, '59 and '60 and the 500 four times ('56 , '58, '59, '60). also triumphed three times in a row to the legendary Tourist Trophy.A 26 years the change, the transition to the four ruote.Surtees proves right at home debut in Formula 1 in the 196th; the second appearance by Lotus in England is the second and third race in Portugal has already pole.Il in 1961 driving a Cooper, is a learning year and gets only four punti.L Surtees' year after leading the most competitive Lola achieve different positions and thrilling second place at the Nurburgring where the employment earning below the water 1963.Al with Ferrari for the first year with the Reds win their Big John at the Ring, but there is nothing against the rule of Clark's Lotus and is again quarto.Il '64 is a good year, with two wins and a bit 'of luck (and help Bandini that eliminates the last race before Hill and then gives him the second place) Surtees is standard and is the first time and for the last hour that a driver world champion on the degree two and four ruote.Il 1965 vintage is disappointing and English is only fifth, while the '66 is the year in which collaboration with the Maranello is suddenly because of a story now buried in the dust the years, and strangely reminiscent of the recent spy story that has seen opposing Mclaren and Ferrari.Il result is that stable pilot thrown away a golden opportunity to repeat the World '64; Surtees, who meanwhile moved to Cooper, however, won two races and eventually secondo.Il ' 67 sees the move to Honda, with whom John scored his last victory and fourth place finale.Inizia a slow decline, characterized by the last challenge of his adventurous career, the creation of a stable of his own career Formula 1.La Surtees as the manufacturer is fluctuating, the best result came in 1972 when another former rider, Mike Hailwood won the Formula 2, but the rewards in the premier class is scarce, as well as the resources available to John and closes 1978.Il his record shop in particular resists forty-four years now and can hardly be equaled.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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On June 3, 1984 Monaco, home of the sixth Grand Prix Formula 1 season, wakes up in a real diluvio.I riders have never ridden for the entire order week under water and in the warm-up off the road one another, to the surprise faster Lauda, \u200b\u200ba pilot after the events of the '76 Fuji, considered the most allergic to water, followed by a spectacular De Cesaris.Tra the first faces the young Ayrton Senna, Brazil's promise of Toleman, who hopes thanks to rain luce.La rain to get in swing continues until the beginning of the race, so a flood in Monaco did not remember the edition of 1972, one of the only victory Beltoise and last triumph of BRM.Prima departure pilots seek and obtain that the trucks allaghino the asphalt under the tunnel to avoid the difference in conditions that are part tratto.Finalmente, Prost (other driver not too comfortable in the wet) got away well from pole and above Mansell, behind them the two colliding Renault also involving Patrese and De Angelis, to have the worse it will be back Tambay that the fracture of the fibula. During the first round leaves the stage for an even touched De Cesaris, the protagonist can under water. Time ten laps and Mansell, fast in the flood with the Lotus, it leads to comando.Mansell is the fifth year of Formula 1, but not yet with great satisfaction and Monte Carlo seems to be his big day arrived, but the fifteenth lap, on the slope leading to the Casino, the Black Lotus is in English acquaplaining, skewing is knocking down barriers and breaks a sospensione.Al command shows Prost, with a lead of half a minute the excellent Lauda, \u200b\u200bwhile at the back you bring into light to the sound of overtaking the two young talents that year, Senna and Bellof Tyrrell.Il with the Brazilian, who started thirteenth, when visibility is impossible to reach and exceed drivers like Rosberg, Lauda Arnoux and even outside Saint Devote.Al twentieth lap Senna was second to more than half a minute to Prost, but is literally unleashed, earns second failure while behind him, as does Bellof. Meanwhile, even Lauda is a victim of the terrible conditions of the asphalt, the casino turns committing one of his rare mistakes and ritira.Dopo thirty laps Prost still about ten seconds on the Seine, but the rain increased and the Brazilian also come to earn giro.Quando four seconds to the next hook seems, the race director (who is Jacky Ickx, ironically, Rainmaker in his time), waving the red flag and stopped the race with a decision that will unleash thousands of controversy. In fact, Ickx was then pilot nell'Endurance official Porsche, Prost and McLaren's engine was equipped with Porsche, but you will not go further than mere suspicion, and the rest of the rain was really tremenda.Al Toleman box gets party, while it is true Senna Prost who was about to reach the other few people know that the Brazilian in his frantic comeback was slightly damaged a suspension, and technicians at the box were apprehensive because there were still advance without interruption for 47 laps then finire.A Bellof was perhaps the most corrupt, which was running even faster than Senna with Tyrrell in perfect working order, but let's not forget that soon after the glorious British team will be excluded for irregularities techniques, and the results erased, including the beautiful podium Monaco.Prost is obviously beaming for the prestigious statement, never imagined that the world will lose half a point, and that at the end of the six points of a second full he would have been much more useful of the four and a half of his triumph halved.
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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François Cevert: 35 years after
Thirty years have passed since that October 6, 1973, when a terrible accident at Watkins Glen deprived France and Formula 1 drivers of one of its most skilled and popular , by all accounts a future world champion: François Cévert.Madre Nature was been very generous with this son of Nazi-occupied Paris (he was born February 25, 1944), scion of a wealthy family, beautiful film as an actor, with talent equal to the rail as on the piano keys, at the height career was a true idol of the French girls and was in the limelight for a rumored romance with Brigitte Bardot.Iniziò pushed to run from the future in-law, Jean Pierre Beltoise, against the wishes of the family, putting in light immediately in Formula 3 and, ' 69, in the formula 2.Immediato debut in the highest category on March nel'70 Tyrrell team, after the sudden withdrawal of Servoz Gavin (who is also the protagonist of an extraordinary story, which sooner or later we will talk) and on the advice the great Stewart.E François rode in '71 to make the official team from second to Jackie. That year the rates were
Tyrrell, Stewart won by dominating the iris and Cevert just the first full season, won third place in the world and the first race at Watkins Glen.Il '72 season was a disappointing and François was only sixth with 15 points, of that year, remembers the second place in Le Mans on Matra.Nel 1973, Tyrrell returns to the car to beat and Cevert proves to have been fully learned the tricks of Stewart and now to be His livello.Per finished second six times, on some occasions (such as the difficult Nurburgring) seems faster than his team leader, but disciplined, the merely to escort traguardo.Stewart has already decided to retire from sample to end of the year, even if the only Tyrrell are aware of it, and all are in agreement that the '74 will be the year of Cevert, but, as they say in these cases, the fate is in agguato.Il October 6 we run the final race at Watkins Glen, the very fast track of his only trionfo.Alla them up the hill Cevert loses control of Tyrrell for reasons never found, The crash was violent and a wheel come off the ends on the head; François died on colpo.Si speak of mechanical failure, of illness (she had vomited just before) or simply approached a curve too fast, but the real cause was never clarified and of Moreover, little importa.La Tyrrell team withdrew and so Stewart will not run his last race, was the Scottish centesimo.Lo is extremely impressed by the death of his young dolphin, nevertheless makes a strange gesture: when the evidence comes down to resume track and off the seventh time. "I could not stop it" shall declare to those who asked why he came back on track after the death of his friend.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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