Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Larry T and Sarti...

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

Yea, it was in the mid 60's at Riverside Raceway. Every year the L.A. Times 
Grand Prix for sports cars was held in in October, and Clark was driving a 
beautiful British racing green Lotus 19. Back in those days the typical grid 
was filled with F1 names like Clark, both Phil and Graham Hill, Dan Gurney, 
Masten Gregory, Ritchie Ginther, plus American Sports Car and USAC regulars 
like Roger Penske, Jim Hall, Parnelli Jones, and A.J. Foyt, among a host of 
others. A standout was in 1958, when 17 year-old Ricardo Rodriquez brought his 
brand new silver RSK Spyder for the under 2 litre portion of the race. He 
kicked everybody's ass, including Ken Miles. WOW!

Access to the paddock/pit area was no problem either. We either used one press 
pass for entry, then passed it over the fence to get the other people in our 
party?in, one by one, or just simply bluffed our way in. Remember Doug? 
Wandering the pits was no problem either. I've got a a photo of my son, Willi 
Dieter sitting in the cockpit of Nelson Piquet's Brabham in the pits at Long 
Beach in the '70s. 

If anyone has a copy of John Zimmermann's book, 'Dan Gurney's Eagle Racing 
Cars,' turn to page 42. Yea, that's me in the picture, holding the refueling 
hose, over the wall in the hot pits helping,?while Dan refuled during a pitstop 
on his way to winning the 1967 Rex Mayes 300 Indy Car race at Riverside.

Ach, those were the days --? Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: Regards
Subject: RE: [Ferrari] Larry T and Sarti...



Larry.....
Super story about Colin Chapman and your friend! Obviously, the concept of
customer service wasn't wasted on Mr. Chapman. I was a big Jim Clark and
Lotus fan in early/mid 60's, before Chapman's creations started killing
drivers.  It is too bad that both Clark and Chapman were taken much form us
much too early. Ferrari Willi (aka, Bubba) had the good fortune to meet Jim
Clark and described him as friendly and reserved. Ach, those were the days.


Regards
-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT 
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Larry T and Sarti...

Oh yeah, it's all coming back now.  It's obviously time for me to watch it 
again ;-)  Actually, my wife bought me a copy of GP on DVD not too long 
ago - I already have a copy on VHS so my collection is complete - maybe a 
little too complete --

Anyway, time to watch it again and refrech my memory.  You;re right about 
the missing Lotus - very unfortunate as they were the ultimate team at the 
time.  Course, knowing how CC operated he probably asked for a piece of the 
action in exchange for his team's participation!  Even if it was just his 
logo!  He was ever vigilent for funding.

I had a Lotus years ago as did a friend.  One Saturday he was working on his

and had a question/   He got on the phone and called UK - got thru to Lotus 
and asked to speak to someone about a technical question.  A few minutes 
later a Brit answered and helped him with his problem.   As they were 
getting ready to say good bye my friend asked for his name so he could add 
it to his notes for future reference (engineers, you know how we are)  and 
to his surprice the voice on the phone says Colin CHapman.  How cool is 
THAT?

Well, better go - time to do some grilling -
;-)

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Petrick" <rtpetrick [at] comcast.net>
To: "'LarryT'" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Ferrari] Larry T and Sarti...


> It was Brian Bedford playing the quintessential Brit racer, Scott
> Stoddard.....supposedly a Jim Clark clone. The logic broke down however, 
> as
> Lotus was not represented in the film, so Stoddard drove for Jordan BRM
> (interesting team name). Further, if I remember correctly, Stoddard's 
> helmet
> had a band of Tartan plaid around it, similar to Jackie Stewart. I don't
> think the film ever identified clearly whether Stoddard was English or
> Scottish, but his dead brother, Roger, drove a BRG Vanwall F1, with which
> Scott kicked off the second act after the intermission. The sound of the
> idle was really great with the lumpy full-race cam.
>
> Regards
>
>
> About the air cannon - I knew it was used to send Garner into Monaco 
> Harbor
> and I believe the guy who was passing Garner at that moment (what was his
> name? it's on the tip of my tongue!) that nearly ended his career was sent
> against the rock wall -
>
>