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be part of the gdpa

because it didn't quite

suit the image of jacky ickx.

( Vintage audio )

Jacky ickx:
I was not part of it

because that's the way I am.

Nigel roebuck:
What he

didn't like was threats.

You know, "we will not race

tomorrow unless you do this."

You know, union tactics.

Max mosley:

The fia in those days was very weak,

and anyway the fia consisted

of the organizers,

so there was

no proper organization.

Sir Jackie Stewart: For me,

it was a very simple, black-and-white case.

You know, we had to get

the race tracks themselves

to recognize they

needed to do more--

had to put more fencing up

or more barriers up.

It was all costing money,

and they had never had to spend the money

on the race track before.

Stewart became

the new face of formula one,

as steel armco barriers

were installed

at places like zanvoort

and silverstone.

Max mosley

became a constructor

and team owner

of march engineering.

Bernie ecclestone joined him

in the paddock as an owner,

after buying Jack brabham's

old team.

And on the wings

of aerodynamics,

a new stable

of young guns arrived

to fill the empty

drivers' seats.

We were very aware then

that the drivers had

massive respect for each other

because they knew,

a bit like fighter pilots

in world war ii,

that they

might not come back.

There was Jody scheckter

of South Africa;

the quiet Austrian,

Niki lauda;

John Watson

of northern Ireland;

other British hopefuls--

James hunt,

David purley,

and Roger Williamson;

the super Swede,

Ronnie Peterson;

American playboy

Peter revson,

whose family created

revlon cosmetics;

and the renaissance man

from France, Franois cevert,

handpicked by Stewart

for team owner Ken tyrrell.

( Speaking French )

Sir Jackie Stewart: He was

like a young fighting cock.

He was enormously

good looking,

had an incredible

pair of eyes, and, uh,

did a lot of damage

with the young ladies.

Franois absolutely

idolized Jackie.

Paddy McNally:

He was almost up to

Jackie's standard

at that time.

We had probably one

of the strongest teams

that would have been

in motor racing.

Everything I knew

about the sport,

I was passing on to him.

What do you think about

emerson as a pilot? Who?

Emerson fittipaldi.

Who?

You know, the guy who won

the world championship.

Oh, yes! Ha ha!

Colin Chapman had

his fourth world champion

in eight years,

a brilliant young Brazilian

named emerson fittipaldi.

Emerson fittipaldi:

We were, like, 21 drivers

establishing

grand prix racing.

Your odds

are 7-to-1 to survive.

Colin told me, "emerson,

I don't want to get too close to you,

"and you know

the risk you have.

At any time,

I can lose you."

Cevert's gonna be

your danger, I reckon.

You beat him, I reckon

you'll win the race.

That was Colin Chapman.

John Watson:
My first

grand prix was in silverstone,

the British grand prix.

Graham hill walked into the room,

it was like--

almost like a

God walking in.

But if you can't

compete with them

and get into that car,

and go out

and literally "put

your cock on the block,"

then you shouldn't be in it.

Man:
The cars now coming up

onto the grid,

and they'll only be

held there for seconds

before the flag falls

and the start of the race.

At the beginning, you were just trying

to prove to yourself

and to other people that you were

fast enough.

Man:
The flag's up.

Man:
Jackie Stewart

going through on the inside,

behind Ronnie petersen.

Jackie Stewart made

a blinding start.

It's still petersen,

just holding Stewart out

as they go through copse

for the first time.

Jody scheckter:

What a driver is there for is to take it

to the limit and keep it

at that limit,

and that's in every part

of every corner.

It's keeping it

right on that limit.

Man:
And then

Franois cevert.

Jody scheckter's lost it.

Jody scheckter has been hit,

a multiple shot

at the end of the first lap.

Jody scheckter,

with the mclaren.

Man:
They're

stopping the race.

Here comes Jackie Stewart,

terribly fast,

and Ronnie petersen

coming up, terribly fast.

Jody scheckter:
It's a lot of

adrenaline's gone into you,

and you're nearly just laughing all the way

to the pits

until you tell the guys

what the bloody hell happened, you know?

Eleven cars retired,

but no one was killed.

Very lucky.

Silverstone, which

was one of the biggest,

if not the biggest accident

in formula one,

brought it home to me--

to win, you've got to finish.

Man:
Two minutes to go...

( Continues indistinctly )

The next race was the Dutch

grand prix at zanvoort.

We were up on a hill

because my father could film

very good from there,

and then you could walk

down to a fence.

Behind the fence

was the armco.

As a kid 11 years old,

I want to be in that

vortex of sound and color.

( Engines roaring )

Koen vergeer:

The sound goes through your bones

into your stomach

somewhere,

and I remember

the first time I saw the cars coming.

I thought,

this is my world!

Eight laps into the race,

there was a single-car collision

with the newly installed armco barriers.

Koen vergeer:
I saw a car

flying through the air,

and I looked straight

into the cockpit.

But it was in a flash,

and the car shattered

on the asphalt.

Nineteen seventy-three,

when I had march,

it was Roger Williamson.

One of our cars.

He was a close friend.

Jo Ramirez:
David purley

stopped his car, got off,

and he was trying

to lift the car.

And there was all--

lots of people

just watching.

Nobody came to give him a hand,

and he was desperate.

Sir Jackie Stewart:

We passed it every lap.

Yellow flags were being

flown to slow us down,

but the race

was never stopped.

In those days,

they didn't stop races.

Jo Ramirez:
Jackie was probably

the greatest ambassador

the sport has ever had,

and he was a great

pioneer of safety,

but if he had to drive,

he would jump

in the car and drive.

Sir Jackie Stewart:

When the visor goes down,

you escape from the grief--

the dramas, the troubles,

the pain and suffering.

And it was only

when you came back--

you know, the visor

went back up--

that reality,

you became aware of,

again.

Man:
Williamson's dead.

There's no lap of honor.

Quiet presentation.

Jacky ickx:

It's clear that, in racing,

we are

all the same.

In life, we need

just some extra luck.

Koen vergeer:

For me, at 11 years old,

it was terrifying,

but also fascinating,

what was happening there.

I think they thought

we were gladiators,

and if you went

into the coliseum,

you knew there

was lions in there,

and that chances are

you wouldn't get out.

Koen vergeer:

I really began to cry,

but at the same time,

I thought,

how can you cry about someone

you knew nothing about?

Max mosley:

He was an ordinary working-class lad

who'd just done it

by his own talent.

Those things have a big,

big effect on you.

The year

Roger Williamson died,

the fia established mandatory

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