GPL related - Speedvision

Last night's "Legends of Motorsport" on Speedvision was "1956 Formula One - part two". In addition to highlights from Silverstone, it showed some great footage at both the Ring and Monza - complete with banking! If you missed this, you might want to scour the Speedvision schedule for a replay. Dave Ewing -- ***************************************************** David A. Ewing Xilinx Boulder [email hidden] *****************************************************

don hodgdon wrote: > Peter Collins turning his Ferrari over to > Fangio at the Ring, thus passing up his own chance to win and enabling Juan > Manual to take his fourth World Championship. It's likely the kind of > sportsmanship never to be seen again. Correct on all counts, except it was at Monza, the last race of the '56 season, where Collins turned his car over to Fangio. Collins could have won the Championship himself had he continued and managed to beat Moss. He knew it wasn't likely he could catch Moss with 13 laps to go, but he also knew that Fangio had enough to points that a second-place finish would win him his third consecutive Championship, so he stopped and handed Fangio the car. I'm sure Schumacher would do the same for Barrichello, if such things were still allowed...not. BB

So under modern rules Mika would be the first driver ever to win his third consecutive title? "Barton Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > don hodgdon wrote: > > Peter Collins turning his Ferrari over to > > Fangio at the Ring, thus passing up his own chance to win and enablingJuan

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> > Manual to take his fourth World Championship. It's likely the kind of > > sportsmanship never to be seen again. > > Correct on all counts, except it was at Monza, the last race of the '56 > season, where Collins turned his car over to Fangio. Collins could have > won the Championship himself had he continued and managed to beat Moss. > He knew it wasn't likely he could catch Moss with 13 laps to go, but he > also knew that Fangio had enough to points that a second-place finish > would win him his third consecutive Championship, so he stopped and > handed Fangio the car. I'm sure Schumacher would do the same for > Barrichello, if such things were still allowed...not. > > BB

Harjan Brand wrote: > > So under modern rules Mika would be the first driver ever to win his third > consecutive title? Hard (for me, anyway!) to figure...remember that back then a Championship point was also awarded for fastest race lap, so you'd have to go back through all the races from 1950 on (and also remember that for many years, the Indy 500 figured in the GP World Championship) and recalculate the whole mess. One thing that can be said with some certainty is that by current F1 points allocation, Moss would have been World Champion in 1958. BB

"Barton Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > don hodgdon wrote:<blah, blah, blah>

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> Correct on all counts, except it was at Monza, the last race of the '56 > season, where Collins turned his car over to Fangio. Collins could have > won the Championship himself had he continued and managed to beat Moss. > He knew it wasn't likely he could catch Moss with 13 laps to go, but he > also knew that Fangio had enough to points that a second-place finish > would win him his third consecutive Championship, so he stopped and > handed Fangio the car. I'm sure Schumacher would do the same for > Barrichello, if such things were still allowed...not. > > BB

Of course...Monza it was. That's what I get for trying to write while sleeping! Thanks for the correction. -- don New GPL Programs for the Converted Tracks: http://www.ianparker1.plus.com/gpl/bapom/ You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

"David Ewing" <[email hidden]> wrote > Last night's "Legends of Motorsport" on Speedvision was "1956 Formula > One - part two". In addition to highlights from Silverstone, it showed > some great footage at both the Ring and Monza - complete with banking! > If you missed this, you might want to scour the Speedvision schedule for > a replay. They also were showing a great show about the All-American Racing Eagle team towards the years, with some great 1966-67 footage of their F1 experience. Included in it was a in-depth presentation of a restaured 1967 Eagle Gurney-Weslake, in all it's beauty and in all it's angles. If anybody at GPLEA wants to do an accurate Eagle, this is the show you should had taped :) The show was "Classics - Dan Gurney". -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.