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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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> According to forix ( www.forix.com ) they started on the left hand side.
> Matt
> The tracks (apart from Monza banking) were also the same ones.
> Chris
> >Rich
> >The GP film bears no resemblance to GPL in reality. It was
> filmed in 1966
> >whereas GPL is set in 67.
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Thanks again for the offer.
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Regards,
Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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> John Nelson
> > Now that's an interesting point, Jan, and I may be totally wrong in my
> > statement that they started on the left-hand side.
> > I have dredged through my reference stuff and cannot find a photograph
that
> > shows a starting grid when the full course was in use. Lot's of other
> > interesting stuff but no description or picture! :-(
> > (My assumption that they started over on the left-hand side is based on
the
> > starting grid after the oval was dropped from use.)
> > It is difficult to find any thing concrete on this because, apart from
the
> > last F1 race in 1961, the oval was incorporated into the Italian GP only
> > three times previously: 1960, 1956 and 1955. (There was an open-wheeler
race
> > held there in 1958 but it wasn't a GP) .
> > I do know that at one point in the circuit's life there was actually a
> > raised concrete barrier that separated the left-hand section from the
> > right-hand...along the pit straight! This was back in the 1930's I
believe.
> > Sorry I can't cast any more light on this for you. Perhaps someone out
> > there has the answer.
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Bruce Kennewell,
> > Canberra, Australia.
> > ---------------------------
> > > > Jan, they started on the left-hand side (direction of travel) of the
> > main
> > > > straight then, at the completion of the first lap, after exiting the
> > > > Parabolica, the cars would be on the right-hand side...the side
closest
> > to
> > > > the pits. The track then split beyond the pits...where there is now
a
> > > > barrier in GPL...and this led onto the oval.
> > > > When coming out of the oval the cars would be back on the left-hand
> > > > side....and so it went, lap after lap.
> > > So, started at the left, road course, exit parabolica, right on
> > > straight, oval, left on straight, road course......
> > > In the movie they started with the oval. Was that wrong ?
> > > --
> > > Olav K. Malmin
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I said it bears no resemblance to GPL in "REALITY", meaning historical
accuracy. I was merely pointing out that in context of running the Monza
banking, (The original question) Frankenheimer would have had trouble seeing
Jean-Pierre*** out of a tree, 30 feet in the air <G>
Of course there was some resemblance Chris. They were 3-litre F1 cars of the
same decade after all.
This is true. The director (JF) used the same artistic licence that was used
in picking up tracks for the fictitious season, and even the fact that most
of the cars were a motley collection of "paint jobs", with a fair proportion
of them not even being GP cars at all.
I beg to differ. The British GP was run at Silverstone in 1967. Not Brands
Hatch as in the film :-)
Cheers Chris
MS
> Chris
> >Rich
> >The GP film bears no resemblance to GPL in reality. It was
> filmed in 1966
> >whereas GPL is set in 67.
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For the first time though, the film makes sense to me - they look like
they were running a double loop one inside the other, but I don't know
whether the track was ever run in this configuration.
Cheers,
Steve.
