Thanks to 63Corvette........



Questions:
1) Who are the people?
2) Where?
3) When?
4) What has just happened to precipitate this meeting?

Garrett (63Corvette) will adjudicate the answers. :D


[Modified by 67HEAVEN, 9:50 PM 7/29/2002]

 

Well, not sure where or why, but it's F1 related, as many drivers are assembled. So many look familiar, and I'm sure most of the names will come to me ..... but off the top of my head; Jackie Stewart, and Emerson Fittipaldi. F1 will always be the "cream of the cream" in my book.


[Modified by 66427-450, 3:22 AM 7/30/2002]

 

Yozers!!!!!! Look at the 'burns on some of those guys :eek: :eek:

I love it!!

 

I can only guess that is from the days of Dave Morgan, Don Yenko, Tony DeLorenzo, John Greenwood, etc. They ran those awesome ZL1 and L88 powered C3 Corvettes all over the planet. Even the French race fans liked them at Le Monds.

 

Here are my guesses:



1978 Cannonball Run rules meeting. :lol:

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

What were you and Burt doing with them?

 

BTW, this was an early 70's drivers meeting at Mosport before the F1 guys moved to montreal. Right? :)

 

Here's another famous guy from our forum in the backround......

 

Mark,

You must be having a rough day at work.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

The guy who looks like Burt Reynolds is Clay Ragazzoni, and the guy standing with the top of the head out of field is probably Emerson Fitipaldi. I recognize the guy kneeling at the right and I want to say Francois Cevert, but I'm probably wrong.

The guy labeled Stirlling Moss is not Moss - maybe Teddy Pillette, and that sure looks like Tom Smothers in the amber shades.

Duke

 

Okay Garrett, time to put us all out of our misery.
:crazy:

 

I took this picture at the 1973 USGP at Watkins Glen. This emergency driver's meeting was called on Saturday after Tyrrel driver Francois Cevert was killed at the "Esses" over the East tunnel. His team has withdrawn, and his teammate Jackie Stewart (on the floor, in the hat) has just retired, and did not run what would have been his 100th GP race.

His chief competitors, Team Lotus, had Lotus stickers reading "Won 2 One 2" on their rear wing. Interestingly enough, there was also a Team Lotus sticker on Jackie Stewart's Tyrrel Rear wing, which read "World Champion-Nice One, Jackie". I'm sure Michael Schumacher got one of those from Williams and Mc Laren.

Duke, you got some of them right. Emerson Fittipaldi did get cut off at the top of the picture (sideburns). Niki Lauda's future partner, Clay Regazzoni is in the light shirt, with a small moustache. However, the bald guy sitting on his right is the best Motorcycle racer who ever lived, Mike "The Bike" Hailwood. John Watson sits blurred in the foreground (with the beard). And Jo Siffert in the blue jacket, leans on his hand. Lauda was there with current Ferrari CEO, Luca De Montezemolo. I took their picture, which they kindly autographed for me the next year (A different age in motorsports).
Jackie Ickx came into the pits, slowly got out of his car and said "Francois is muerte". Rob Walker asked him "How do you know?" Jackie said in English, "Because there is a crowd around him, and no one is doing anything". I truly don't remember all of the names of the drivers in the picture. Arturo Merzarrio who later pulled Lauda from his flaming Ferrari at Nurbergring in '76 was there. Graham Hill was there, and American, George Follmer. The driver in dark glasses is Andrea something. Too many years!
Duke, I'll try to get you a picture so you'll recognize Sterling Moss.
Guess that's about it for this trip down memory lane.

 

It's frightening to think how many of those guys are no longer with us instead of enjoying their grand children. Regazonni was probably luckly that he survived his Long Beach shunt as a parapalegic. Stewart was smart to quit, and it is so utterly ironic that Hailwood was killed in a road accident!

So who is the guy whose head is just visible below Stewart? I recognize the face, but I can't put the name to it.

Duke

 

This post is for 63Corvette.......


"Here is the picture of Stirling Moss I promised Duke (I know he knows what Moss looks like). Moss is obviously the bald guy in the vintage blue (NON flameproof) Dunlop driving suit (far right). Unfortunately, he is not very well centered in this picture, because, holding court in the center of those other drivers is Carrol Shelby (Invisible from this angle. I've got another picture somewhere).

The scene is the Vintage race and (new, 5 liter) Can Am held at Green Valley Raceway near Fort Worth, Texas in September 1984. Stirling drove one of Joe Marchetti's Ferrari's (in the foreground), and Shelby drove a competition 289 Cobra from the collection of Rick Nagle.

There were some great cars in this race, including Comp Daytonas and GT40's. I broke while running fourth (Oh yea, that's me in the blue and white ball cap).

Shelby finished 2nd after a GT350R blew up and pieces of it's flywheel were embedded in the Cobra that Shelby drove.

By the way, as far as I know, this is the ONLY time that Carrol ever drove a Cobra in competition.......and this was long before his heart transplant (nice gentleman)."

63Corvette
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Garrett.......you wild man, you! :lol:


[Modified by 67HEAVEN, 8:44 AM 8/1/2002]

 

Amazing career. He was one of the greats!

 

Duke,

You are absolutely correct about the danger of motor racing in those days. However, I prefer to focus on those fabulous people who are still with us. Moss, Shelby, and Stewart, to name three of the famous; but also Reggazoni, Fittipaldi (who twice broke his back), Lauda (burned horribly, yet a top F1 team principal today), Ickx, Follmer, and don't forget Luca deMontezemolo, who was Ferrari Team Manger in '73, but today is CEO of Ferrari, and tomorrow will probably be the next Prime Minister of Italy (you heard it here first). We lost many great characters, but our lives are richer for having met or read the words of people like Rob Walker, Graham Hill, and Ken Tyrrel. They were indeed terrible times. Fortunately due to the safety efforts of people like Jackie Stewart we have a much better chance of seeing today's Grand Prix hero's like Schumaccher live to enjoy ripe old age with their families.

 

Sometimes I wish I was there with you old guys in the 'glory days'. :cool: NOTHING I seem to be involved with these days seems half as exciting. :(

 

Who knows the name Skip Panzarella?