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2) John Watson won his first GP there in 1976 driving a Penske.

3) Alan Jones won his first GP there in 1977 driving a Shadow, also their
first win, and if I am correct their last.

4) Ronnie Petersons last win was there in 1978.

5) Elio de Angelis won his first race at the Osterreichring in 1982 driving
a Lotus-Ford 0.0125 seconds ahead of Keke Rosberg in the Williams.

6) I also think Niki Lauda had his first F1 race there in 1971, he only
managed to win his home GP some 13 years later.

7) The 1987 race was restarted 3 times (Martin Brundle usually explains this
several times a season) and the race wans't held for another 10 years.

8) The GP went back to the same location in 1997, the Austrians managing to
completely #$%^ up a brilliant circuit!

Chris

Let me guess: the Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing?

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BTW: Hows Cambridge?  I'm grew up in Arbury Road:)

And I was there to see it :)
Unfortunately during sunday warm-up Mark Donohue crashed heavily in the 1st
corner, right before our eyes. For us he seemed almost unhurt, when they
took off his helmet. And still he died the next day  :(

Also a marchal was killed.

That was F1 in the seventies...

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Grant.

Don't know of any movies with David Essex in that weren't shitty. On a
par with his music really. :-)  Though, of course, the one you are
referring to I would imagine is Silver Dream Racer.  

I can see the lamplight... shining through my window...

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--
Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington)

No person's opinions can be said to be
more correct than another's, because each is
the sole judge of his or her own experience.

The "racing" scenes before Essex's final firey demise have people rolling
on the floor in hysterics:-)

- Michael

Is that the one were an american hillbilly boy enters GP motorcycle
racing with his selfmade bike and beats the reigning champion (an
Austrian?) ?
That was an very american movie, I think.

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Matthias Flatt

Video releases often are changed to be even more interesting.
So it's quite possible that the translator of the script run out of
coffee and made an Austrian out of the Australian. Saves typing two
letters every time it occurs.
And when reading about David Essex, the translator probably thought:
isn't that a place in England? Certainly foggy all the time. Dull.
Let's call it Amarillo, Texas instead, and then we name the flick
"Rodeo Ridin' Ringo, the fastest son of a gun under the sun".

There was a documentary about Muhammad Ali on the TV recently, showing
Ali during a speech in the 60s, citing "Mary had a little lamb".
The translator obviously understood "lamp", and so the German audience
got tortured with a translation starting "Mary had a small light".  

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