1960's F1 - Jim Clark and Dan Gurney

Here are a fabulous series of articles on 1960's Formula One races centered on Jim Clark and Dan Gurney. The 1967 season is in part 5 and Jim Clark's death is detailed in part 6. For those of you who were not around or old enough in those days to know about this stuff, and have discovered the era though Grand Prix Legends, part 5 and 6 at least are a must read. http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan24/okeefe.html http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan31/okeefe.html http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb07/okeefe.html http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb14/okeefe.html http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb21/okeefe.html http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/aus/preview/okeefe.html

"Buford" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > Here are a fabulous series of articles on 1960's Formula One races > centered on Jim Clark and Dan Gurney. The 1967 season is in part 5 and > Jim Clark's death is detailed in part 6. For those of you who were not > around or old enough in those days to know about this stuff, and have > discovered the era though Grand Prix Legends, part 5 and 6 at least > are a must read. > > http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan24/okeefe.html > http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan31/okeefe.html > http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb07/okeefe.html > http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb14/okeefe.html > http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb21/okeefe.html > http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/aus/preview/okeefe.html > >

Fortunately, or unfortunately, I remember the times. I was a Clark fan, and a Siffert fan, and Courage, and McLaren, and Rindt, and Cevert, and Peterson, and particularly Donohue. I drifted away from following racing closely for a few years in the early 90's, and then saw Greg Moore driving his family owned Indy Lights car and that brought me back to the fold. The more things change, the more they stay the same. KFG

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:47:48 GMT, "Kevin Gavitt" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"Buford" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> >> >> Here are a fabulous series of articles on 1960's Formula One races >> centered on Jim Clark and Dan Gurney. The 1967 season is in part 5 and >> Jim Clark's death is detailed in part 6. For those of you who were not >> around or old enough in those days to know about this stuff, and have >> discovered the era though Grand Prix Legends, part 5 and 6 at least >> are a must read. >> >> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan24/okeefe.html >> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan31/okeefe.html >> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb07/okeefe.html >> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb14/okeefe.html >> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb21/okeefe.html >> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/aus/preview/okeefe.html >> >> > >Fortunately, or unfortunately, I remember the times. I was a Clark fan, and >a Siffert fan, and Courage, and McLaren, and Rindt, and Cevert, and >Peterson, and particularly Donohue. > >I drifted away from following racing closely for a few years in the early >90's, and then saw Greg Moore driving his family owned Indy Lights car and >that brought me back to the fold. > >The more things change, the more they stay the same. > >KFG >

Yeah - as Dan Gurney said after he killed a spectator at Zanvoort, "This is a cruel sport." Always was, always will be. Growing up in a racing family in the 50's and 60's I saw all my heroes killed, somethimes in person. Racing myself for 12 years, I saw many more. I started racing with 4 other guys. They all got killed. Today's race fans do not have a tough enough mental mindset. They grew up in the "safe' era and in the past few years it has gotten more lethal again. Many can't handle it. Want to point fingers of blame everytime one of their heroes is carried off on his shield. Maybe that's good. Maybe we should have done that too. Maybe it would have gotten safer, sooner had we not been so numbed to it. But I have always looked at it, "Nobody puts a gun to your head to climb into a race car."

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 04:54:39 -0700, Buford <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> > >Here are a fabulous series of articles on 1960's Formula One races >centered on Jim Clark and Dan Gurney. The 1967 season is in part 5 and >Jim Clark's death is detailed in part 6. For those of you who were not >around or old enough in those days to know about this stuff, and have >discovered the era though Grand Prix Legends, part 5 and 6 at least >are a must read. > >http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan24/okeefe.html >http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan31/okeefe.html >http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb07/okeefe.html >http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb14/okeefe.html >http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb21/okeefe.html >http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/aus/preview/okeefe.html > > >

a fantastic read! i'm very interested about this lotus 33 model that was used earlier in the 67 season , has anyone tried to do a version of the 33 physics and all i mean.? would be nice, to have a spin in Cheers Rich