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of manmade speed

and ingenuity.

They won four world

championships between them,

and a record five

British grand prix.

But for all their success,

they failed to take

the checkered flag

at the most famous

motor race of all.

Fast cars and courageous souls

from all over the world

have been racing through

these streets since 1929.

Monaco is terrifying.

You cannot believe

it's possible

to hold a motor race

round Monaco.

In the first few laps, you stick your head up

to see where it went, 'cause

it's just guardrails

that you can't hardly see.

You're millimeters

away from barriers.

Jenson button:

You either do a lap that you're so proud of--

you're always wondering

if you're ever gonna do that again--

or you end up in the wall.

Lewis Hamilton:

The danger aspect to this

is one of the parts

that drives us racing drivers.

It's something we love.

One man

mastered these streets

like no other driver

in history.

Jo Ramirez:
Monaco was

a special place for senna.

He was the best in the world.

His concentration on

one lap was just uncanny.

Narrator:
Ayrton senna

won Monaco a record six times,

one more victory than the man

with the derring-do mustache.

Graham hill came

to Monaco in 1966

to defend his

third straight victory.

Graham hill:
It's a tremendous race

and a great one to come and watch,

and if anybody's gonna come and see

a grand prix, this is really the one.

It's such a nice place

to be, anyway.

To come to Monaco

and talk to men

is a waste of time,

so excuse me.

That's when motor racing

was really dangerous,

and sex was safe.

Mario andretti:
Still today,

what defines formula one

is the sense of prestige.

It's an event.

Kings want to be there.

Princess grace of Monaco: For me,

it's a thrill to see an expert at work.

Upon meeting Graham hill,

you like him.

Watching him made me become

more interested in racing

and what these men were doing.

In those days,

hill's fiercest rivals

were also

his closest friends.

( Indistinct remarks

and laughter )

Sir Jackie Stewart:

The intimacy was incredible,

from the racing drivers

to the mechanics

to the wives

and the girlfriends.

The camaraderie

was very deep.

Sir Jackie Stewart:

We went on holidays together.

We lived together.

We traveled together.

Brigitte hill:
You felt

very much part of this family

growing up together.

Motor racing

was just a part of it.

The drivers

formed a trade union,

the grand prix drivers'

association.

The women soon followed suit

with the doghouse club.

Damon hill:
Well,

the doghouse club

is where i was kept growing up with

the wives and girlfriends of drivers.

What do they call them now?

Wags, I think.

Brigitte hill:
Betty brabham

stood up at one dinner,

and she said,

"Jack's in the doghouse."

And they all realized they were all feeling

very much the same way.

Sally swart:
They were always

playing with engines

or something like that,

not paying nearly enough

attention to us.

Bette hill:
The fact that he's going

to work all night on his car,

and then it's going to

break down after two laps.

You have to love this man

to be a good wife

of a racing driver.

Vocalists:

gimme some lovin'

gimme,

gimme some lovin'

gimme some lovin'

brigitte hill:

Wives did the lap scores,

and that would

decide the grids,

because there was no real

sort of official time keepers.

These kind of slightly

romantic memories

that everyone's got

of the whole thing.

So glad you made it

hey, hey

so glad you made it

we just were

a clan to ourselves.

They traveled by caravan,

town to town,

country to country,

for six months straight.

Even the most celebrated

drivers raced

in the lesser

formula two series

in the off weekends

to keep this family circus

on the road.

Max mosley:
I drove formula two

with Bruce mclaren

and jochen rindt and Jackie Stewart

and Jim Clark--

all sorts of top drivers

of that era.

I got the shock of my life

because they were putting the brakes on

at about the point going into the corner

that I was taking them off.

John surtees:
There is

a point where you don't think

you should take it beyond,

when you're on the edge,

and you're just pushing

your luck a little.

Max mosley:
The problem is,

when you push it to the limit,

it's irresistible,

and as soon as you've done it,

you want to do it again.

The charismatic

young Italian lorenzo bandini,

racing for Ferrari,

died after a fiery crash

at the 1967 Monaco grand prix.

This was the beginning,

when the evolution

of the machines

began to overtake

the standards of the tracks.

The seeds had

already been sown

for an uprising

within the drivers' ranks.

Just months

before bandini's death,

the fia changed

the formula for entrance.

Max mosley:
They doubled

the size of the engine

and more than

doubled the power.

Sir Jackie Stewart:

They were just racing on the same tracks

as they had done

almost pre-war.

The racetracks hadn't changed.

The medical facilities

hadn't changed.

The marshaling hadn't changed.

And suddenly the cars were

going almost twice as fast.

That same year,

Colin Chapman convinced

the mighty

Ford motor company

to invest

in a powerhouse engine

for his new,

even lighter design.

He signed Graham hill

to drive for team lotus,

alongside

his old rival Jim Clark.

The number one man

in motor racing

started selling space

on his racing machines,

like billboards in motion.

Sponsors meant money.

Money meant

making better cars.

He'd paint the car

any color you wanted,

as long as he could have more resources

to realize his ideas.

For the 23 drivers

in the grid,

sponsorship meant exposure.

Soon, every boy's hero

was a racer.

Maurice Hamilton:

My first real hero was--

was Jim Clark,

no question about it.

To me, he was the guy

I would like to have been.

One of Jim Clark's

first drives

in the red-and-gold colors

of gold leaf tobacco

was in Germany.

Max mosley:
It was

a formula two race.

It was 1968, at hockenheim.

In April.

And I was on the grid.

( Indistinct p.A.

Announcements in German )

( P.A. Announcement

in German )

Sally swart:
The whole world

stopped when that happened.

Damon hill:
You don't understand

when you're young, really, what's going on.

But I remember watching the television

when Jim Clark died.

As you have probably heard,

yesterday Jim Clark,

racing driver Jim Clark,

was killed in Germany.

And I believe

he was a friend of yours.

Yes, he was a good

friend of mine, Peter,

and I think, you know,

I'm very sad about it,

and everyone involved

in motor sport

all around the world

will be very sad.

He was a very fine

driver, wasn't he?

I think

one of the greatest,

perhaps, uh, perhaps

the greatest yet.

Sally swart:
It was a deflating tire,

that's what Colin thought.

He was really,

really devastated.

He was never quite

the same after that.

Colin Chapman:
This is

the tragedy of motor racing,

is when you do get close

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