Topic: German G.P.

[gerhed]

A couple pics from the '71 German G.P.
On the old Nurburgring "Nordschliefe" circuit.
14 miles around.

pic below--your correspondent.

[malcolmgb]

Would that be Francois Cevert, the first picture I mean , not sure about the second Looks like a Ferrari in the background.

[bender01]

Were you a reporter or just an avid fan? You seem to pull out some cool photos.

[gerhed]

Would that be Francois Cevert, the first picture I mean , not sure about the second Looks like a Ferrari in the background.

malcomb,
Good call. Yes that's Cevert. Stewart won in the other Tyrrell, of course.
Yes, the Ferrari in back belonged to Regazzoni--Ickx and Andretti were also in Ferraris.

[gerhed]

Were you a reporter or just an avid fan? You seem to pull out some cool photos.

bender,
Thanks.
Just a fan--living the dream that summer--went to French, German, and Monaco GPs.
grhd

[JS550]

Those are great pics! Thanks for sharing.
jim

[gerhed]

Those are great pics! Thanks for sharing.
jim

Thanks
here's Ickx

[malcolmgb]

Yes it was great back then when they actually raced on the track, I have some padock pictures somewhere from the same era.

[JS550]

I could look at those all day. I dvr'd the Goodwood fest & watch it all the time. Love the old race cars & bikes!

[Sam Green Racing]

Those are great pics! Thanks for sharing.
jim

Thanks
here's Ickx

Jackie was a top bike racer before turning to cars.

Sam.

[Ecosse]

thanks for sharing gerhed, great pix! wasn't the passing of cevert what pushed stewart to retire?

yeah that was a different era. kinda wish i was an adult then rather than 6.  really the best of gp was from '60 to early '70s. the eighties did have the turbos and 90's had senna and a young shuie, though.

keep the pix and stories coming. 

[HavocTurbo]

Kinda melodramatic but I always liked Grand Prix with James Garner.

Reminded me of where cars were before I was born. 

[gerhed]

thanks for sharing gerhed, great pix! wasn't the passing of cevert what pushed stewart to retire?

yeah that was a different era. kinda wish i was an adult then rather than 6.  really the best of gp was from '60 to early '70s. the eighties did have the turbos and 90's had senna and a young shuie, though.

keep the pix and stories coming. 

I think Stewart was one of the first of the top level drivers to push for safer tracks.
Cevert's car managed to get under the aarmco at Watkins Glen.
You don't want that to happen.

Pic below-Jo Siffert and Pedro Rodriguez at Monaco '71
--both now departed in racing accidents.

[Ecosse]

i had read the rodriguez brothers were quite remarkable drivers; this reminds me of a desire of mine to further my knowledge of racing history- targa florio, endurance racing of all kinds, can am, and f1. i'm a huge admirer of sir jackie. when he was an up and coming, racing deaths were pretty much commonplace. with his hero and friend jimmy clark dying in '68 and his (jackie) 'shunt' where he ended up chest deep in fuel after a crash, i think that clinched it for him. i think he managed a strike of sorts by the drivers, or a threat of one, which was unheard of then. drivers were considered meat.

great pictures! you have a knack for it.