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to a driver

and there is an accident,

of course it--

it hurts you so much more.

He was, I would say,

my best friend,

best friend I've ever had.

Max mosley:

There was no barrier,

and the car

went in full speed,

into the trees.

I'd always explained

to my wife that

as long as you were

reasonably careful,

it was all perfectly safe.

Sir Jackie Stewart:

We suddenly realized that if Jimmy died...

( Sighs ) God,

anybody could be killed.

Sir Jackie Stewart:

In 1968, we had a driver die

every month

on the same weekend

for four consecutive months.

And we were racing

on the fifth weekend

in circumstances that we should

never have been allowed to go out in.

You couldn't see

sixty meters of visibility

because of the fog

and the heavy rain.

And the very first

question I asked

when I got out of the car

was, "is everybody okay?"

Max mosley:
If you spoke

to the fia or the organizers

and you said, "this is

really very dangerous,"

they'd say, "well, if you

think motor racing's dangerous,

"then slow down a bit. Don't drive so fast.

It's entirely up to you."

Sir Jackie Stewart:

They were blind to the reality.

They didn't

know those drivers.

They didn't know

the drivers' wives

and the drivers'

fathers and mothers.

Max mosley:
I thought

to myself in those days,

if ever I get into a position

of any power in this world,

I will do

something about it.

One month

after Clark's funeral,

Graham hill climbed

back into his lotus

and won

the Spanish grand prix.

Damon hill:
What my dad

did with lotus,

he regalvanized the team

by not letting this tragedy

be totally destructive to everything.

Max mosley:
In '68,

Graham hill went on,

and he still won

a world championship.

( Spectators cheering )

Max mosley:
And you just realized

this was another world.

The drivers

could just go on.

Some just don't

care about risk.

Man:
Down from the vialone,

185 Miles an hour,

four cars virtually together,

and down to the parabolica

they come.

Can Stewart hold the line

on this, the last lap?

Somebody's challenging--

it's rindt going through!

Jochen rindt takes the lead

in the parabolica,

on the last corner

of the last lap.

And it's gonna be a fringe

factor to win. It must be!

It's... it's over

the line together!

And it's almost a dead heat!

It's Jackie Stewart,

rindt, beltoise, and mclaren!

Nobody has ever seen the finish

of a motor race like that!

I won the race by

about this much,

from jochen rindt.

And the crowd went

absolutely bananas.

They suddenly

were on top of us,

and the police were

trying to keep them back.

We ended up by locking

ourselves in a toilet!

And they were still outside banging the doors,

trying to get in.

( Spectators shouting )

There was no more enthusiastic

a crowd of spectators

than that of the Italians.

They really follow

the motor racing with a passion.

They're so spirited,

they're so enthusiastic.

From that point of view

at monza,

it's certainly

the capital of the world.

( Opera singer singing in Italian )

Man:
It's one of their

beloved ferraris in the lead,

and another of them

in second place.

The tifoall around me

are erupting.

The Ferrari flags are flying.

The counting horses

are counting.

And Michael schumacher

wins in Italy!

Since 1929,

Ferrari fans have come

to monza--

the tifosi.

Tens of thousands strong,

cheering,

praying,

crying,

for a German...

Or a South African...

Or an englishman.

The Italian fans

stormed over

and lifted me up

and carried me down

to the podium.

It was incredible.

In my early years,

I struggled

to sort of understand

what it means, Ferrari.

Yeah, okay,

it's a race car.

Yeah, right,

it looks good,

but didn't understand

about the history.

Enzo Ferrari,

il commendatore,

created a dynasty.

In the first two decades

of formula one,

his powerful engines had

delivered six championships.

Ferrari had also

lost six drivers.

( Speaking Italian )

By 1969, Ferrari,

like every other team

on the grid,

was chasing Chapman and lotus

into a brave new world.

Sir Jackie Stewart: Suddenly,

we were running biplanes.

Max mosley:
When the wings came,

it was a step change.

The aerodynamics

gives the tire more grip.

That enables the car to go

faster round the corner.

Obviously, the drag

from the wings

makes the car go slower

on the straight,

but peak cornering

speeds went up.

Mario andretti:
Obviously,

as you increase the cornering speed,

things become more dangerous.

This was the evolution

of the sport.

You cannot stop progress.

The first team

to take advantage

of aerodynamics was lotus.

Herbie blash:
I remember

Colin Chapman arrived

at 4:
00 in the morning, and he'd

suddenly had this dream--

huge wings.

In Spain, at the second

grand prix of the '69 season,

Chapman ordered his mechanics

to expand the wings

the morning of the race

for his defending champion,

Graham hill,

and his new driver,

a German-born formula two

star named jochen rindt.

Eddie Dennis:
We could

see from the pits

the wings appear

to start to buckle.

Graham's went first.

One of the boys ran back

to try and signal

jochen's car.

Rindt's wings collapsed

at the same turn in the track.

Hill escaped unhurt,

then fought to pull

his young teammate

out of the wreckage.

Rindt suffered a broken nose,

a fractured jaw,

and shattered confidence

in the man building his cars.

If Jim Clark had been like

a brother to Colin Chapman,

jochen rindt

was like a petulant son.

Eddie Dennis:
Jochen had a few

ups and downs with the old man.

Orphaned when he was

just 15 months old,

he assumed his family

inheritance at 18,

and started buying

racing cars.

At 25, he married

a fashion model, Nina Lincoln,

the daughter

of another racer.

John Miles:

Jochen was acerbic,

apt to react very

strongly to situations.

( Speaking German )

Eddie Dennis:
On one

or two occasions,

rindt wouldn't actually drive

one or two cars because he felt

that the design of

the car was unsafe.

Max mosley:
Drivers,

when they're young,

they will drive

whatever you give them.

Jochen rindt

was completely different.

Eddie Dennis:
I can

remember at one point

he put a dollar sign

on his helmet.

He was looking for someone to buy him

out of his contract.

Max mosley:
Jochen, he had

this mysterious manager

called ecclestone.

John Miles:
Rindt and Bernie

were always playing cards,

and he had

a sort of a live-wire,

sort of businessman

feel about him.

Herbie blash:
Bernie could

handle Colin Chapman.

Normally people

went up to Colin

and they were more or less

on their hands and knees.

He wanted jochen to drive a car

that jochen didn't want to drive,

thought it wasn't safe.

They had a few arguments

over that.

All these cars

were super light

and probably not safe.

It was certainly

gonna be quicker.

In 1970,

Chapman unveiled

a new-look lotus

for his steely young driver

that would bring formula one

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