A little bit of history with your morning coffee.[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dghEXW5fJI [/media]

Does anyone recognize these names/people besides me? I met the first one in person. I suspect Jim might. Hard to believe it's been 60 years since these guys were on the track together.

 

Nice piece of history. I can't say that I recognized the names, but I enjoyed the clip.

 

Imagine how it felt to be known immediately as "number 2" or "number 3" or worse.... "number 4" ???? Obviously, they were never going to be Number 1.

Number 4 was at another disadvantage: His name didn't begin with "F" and his name didn't even SOUND eye-talian

 

Hey mate, Reg was British. Can't all be Italian.

 

That was cool except for the soundtrack.
What were they playing?

fltsfshr

 

Fits, that is the Italian National anthem. And yes I'm familiar with all those drivers having read every racing book in our local library at a very young age. My favorite drivers from that era are Tazio Nuvolari, the flying Mantuan, and Hans Hermann.


Here is a link to Fangio's museum.

http://www.museofangio.com/

 

Good man. I too scoured the libraries for anything on European racing.

Tazio's victory in an Alfa P3 over Mercedes and Auto Union in the '35 GP placed him up with greatest drivers of all time. A little before my time but a great read.

I got to see Hans Herman drive an Abarth-Porsche at the 1962 LeMans. He took 1st in 1600 class and 7th overall.

 

"I remeber when the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny."

 

....and when lawyers were barristers and could SPELL remember in the King's English

 

It blows my mind, Dave, that you don't come to the Zippo Historic Races at Watkins Glen in September. I just sent in my registration for Sept 2010