#OnThisDay in ’60 Jim Clark scored his first #F1 GP podium finish, in a crudely patched-up Lotus 18 (pic), mastering the bumpy asphalt of Boavista (Portugal) like the veteran he wasn’t, for it was only his 5th F1 GP. Jack Brabham (Cooper T53) won his 5th consecutive F1 GP.
A much different race, track and challenge to what @IndyCar teams & drivers experience now. It was very smooth and we ran wide open around the bottom. We got track position by not taking tyres on the last stop as getting temp into them was a big time loss. G loads were massive!
#OnThisDay in ’58 Collins (Ferrari) drove superbly to become the first Brit to win a #BritishGP at Silverstone. British drivers finished 2nd (Hawthorn; Ferrari), 3rd (Salvadori; Cooper) & 4th (Lewis-Evans; Vanwall). Here’s 1min of British Pathé nostalgia.
Wonderful British Pathé film of the ’49 #LeMans24Hours, the first post-WW2 running of the famous race, won by Peter Mitchell-Thomson (aka Lord Selsdon) & Luigi Chinetti, who was born #OnThisDay in 1901.
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#OnThisDay in 2001 Häkkinen (McLaren) drove a prodigiously impressive #BritishGP to beat pole man Schumacher (Ferrari) by 33.6sec, carving fastest lap on the way to his 19th & penultimate #F1 GP win. Pic: Häkkinen’s winning McLaren MP4-16 - a stunner then & a stunner now.
AVE speed of 133.98mph. Not bad for a 1.5 litre car and a lap that includes a first-gear hairpin. No wonder the white peak on his Everoak helmet blew off on the Masta straight!