Carr great photos, must be 1970? I was at the F1 race with my dad that year, the last time they used the old pit configuration - just before the uphill esses - shown in your photos.
Carr great photos, must be 1970? I was at the F1 race with my dad that year, the last time they used the old pit configuration - just before the uphill esses - shown in your photos.
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1970, Probably, it was a Test in the Spring with Seppi & Mario. It was so Foggy they they didn't go out much & this 11 year old got to hang out with the Legends as there were 20 People tops at the Track
A nice shot from an interesting article on Heuer and F1 drivers, written recently by Mark Moss:
http://www.calibre11.com/ambassadors-heuer-formula-1/
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Seppi
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With, I believe, an almost always grim Gulf team manager David York standing with hand on his slacks next to him.......
Nice pic, looks like Sebring.
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Affirmative; 1970 -- a year that David Yorke had particular reason to be grim, as Porsche had shipped him a run of defective front hub/uprights that took the Gulf-Porsches out of contention early. Siffert and Redman drove like maniacs -- at one point Redman had the vertical cooling-fan fly off into the parking lot, but he was able to bring the car in before it overheated. Siffert eventually wound up in Rodriguez's car and they managed to finish that car fourth, behind one of Andretti's greatest drives in the Ferrari 512S, the McQueen/Revson 908, and an Alfa 33/3.Originally Posted by Chuck Miller
The years 1966 and 1967 marked Siffert's transition from the world of Formula One to the world of sports car / endurance racing.
1970 was the worst year for him in F1, he also drove in F2 and was one of the best in endurance and CanAm.
Bad luck with wrong/not really competitive F1 cars/teams.
The sad irony is he died in one of it.
At the end of 1971 he was gone, only 3 months after team collegue Rodriguez died at Norisring too.
Last edited by 911T1971; 12-18-2013 at 10:36 AM.
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