The Formula One season gets started this weekend in Australia, so of course Jackie Stewart (number 8 on the top 100 F1 drivers of all time list) is talking. We were struck by how much...well, flat-out human carnage that the man has witnessed.
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We can only imagine Mr. Stewart balancing the ethical pros and cons of proclaiming to the world that the Tempo is a driver's car. It drives, right? We're wondering if he's still driving one today.
We were watching some random, modern F1 footage last night and started wondering if we were just idiots for not being into it. Then we ran across this segment on the GP at the Nürburgring back in '67 and realized that no, we weren't. This, friends, is damn-wonderful hairy-chested F1 awesomeness at its finest. Plus, it's got Gurney totally freaking dominating until his driveshaft goes and Ickx face-stomping Formula One guys in a Formula Two car. The genie of death may lie there, but damn if the 'Ring + 1960s F1 vehicles doesn't send shivers of the best kind. Flugplatz, anyone?
While there may or may not have been any more Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones in 1977, it was certainly the year that AJ Foyt won his fourth Indy 500. Tune in as Jim McKay, Jackie Stewart, and Chris Economaki don the mustard yellow sports jackets to bring you the constant variety of sport, then say so long from Indianapolis. – Mike Bumbeck
It's a cavalcade of clothing of questionable taste and manly manliness. It's Scotland vs. England. It's James May receiving lessons in speed from Sir Jackie Stewart. Plus, a TVR! All it's missing is Sir Jackie's shotgun. – Davey G. JohnsonMore »
There's no question the late-60s Grand Prix cars were the sexiest in that series' history; there's plenty of old TV footage to back that up. But there's almost no way for we modern F1 watchers to get anything close to the kind of jeeblies they must have gotten from seeing a live GP race on the Green Hell of the N
rburgring, back when the F1 was held on the Nordschleife and S
dschleife. Then there are the names: Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Bruce McLaren, Dan Gurney, Jacky Ickx, and on. In this clip, Stewart narrates a brief tour of the 'ring during a practice session (presumably not while driving). And we even get a quick shot of "the jump." We never had it so good in history class.
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