Ferrari: Race to Immortality
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- 2017
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You'll find that drivers
are a very happy lot of people
because they appreciate life
far more than the average man does.
A driver usually
gets killed on a Sunday
and if he's a close friend of yours,
well,
you think what a stupid sport this is
and you think seriously of giving it up.
Then on Monday you think,
well, maybe he was just unlucky.
Maybe I shouldn't give it up yet.
I'll give it up next year.
Then on a Tuesday you start thinking
about, now, there's a race next Sunday,
maybe I'll go.
Then on Wednesday you go to the race.
Enzo Ferrari once said,
"Win or die, you'll be immortal,"
talking to his drivers,
and of course he's right
because every time I go to a Grand Prix
those essences are part
of what makes the sport what it is.
Without drivers like Mike Hawthorn
and Peter Collins,
it would be all the poorer.
The Ferrari name is
very important to Formula One today
because it's a symbol
of the history of the sport
that was once
the most dangerous sport on earth
and still trades on those associations
of risk and glamour.
We think these guys must be daredevils
because Collins and Hawthorn
were daredevils.
I look back on it now and I just
perceive them, the drivers of the time,
as an entirely different breed.
Controlling this powerful beast
under your rear,
balancing this car on this tightrope,
and taking the best line
through the corner,
this gave you a sense of ecstasy.
It was an era
of great glamour and great risk.
These men went out
to drive these red cars
not knowing
whether they would come back alive.
Mike Hawthorn described
how we, as young men,
were all willing
to jump into the cooking pot
under which Mr. Ferrari
kept the fire stoked.
When it came to running drivers,
Ferrari's approach was
the more pressure you put on them,
and the more unsettled they feel,
the faster they will go.
These guys were experiencing
the buzz of competition in cars,
but they were subjecting themselves
willingly to all the attached dangers.
There is something
about the motor racing world
that, as far as we were concerned,
when catastrophes would happen
we would kind of just carry on
and not let it get us down.
And I think that was the attitude
of a lot of people then.
Fear is really a lack of
understanding of what is happening,
like a child frightened of the dark
'cause you don't understand
what's there.
I am not normally afraid
of killing myself.
I am frightened of being killed by
something over which I have no control.
The great thing about
Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins
is that they would do what land speed
record-breaker John Cobb described.
He said, "It's pretty much akin
to seeing how far you can lean out of
the window before you finally fall out."
And that's what those boys
with Ferrari did in the 1950s.
They willingly leant out of the window
as far as they possibly could
and a few of them, and in retrospect
far too many, fell out.
At age ten you watched your first race.
How did you experience that moment?
I was shaking like a boy
who is dreaming of having the chance,
one day,
to take part in that competition.
Ferrari had a difficult early life.
His father died when he was quite young
and then his only brother also died,
leaving him more or less alone
when he was still in his teens.
But he was very keen on cars.
So when he had
to make his own way in the world,
cars and motor racing were the things
that attracted him most.
What mattered the most in your life,
your passion or the drive to succeed?
Mostly, it was passion.
What do you feel before the "Go"?
Anxiety? Fear?
Before the "Go", I feel...
a mix of feelings,
all of which disappear
as soon as the race starts.
The hero of the event
was the brilliant young British driver,
Mike Hawthorn, number four.
Peter Collins in the Ferrari
took and held the lead
from the beginning.
Enzo Ferrari was a great talent scout
and after the war, although there were
many good young Italian drivers,
who were starting
to do very well indeed.
Hawthorn and Collins
had some years between them.
Mike was the older
by two or three years.
He really made his name in the little
Riley that was prepared by his father.
Every time they went to a race meeting,
here was a young man who expected
to come away with a trophy.
Peter, when he started racing
with a 500cc Cooper
that his father, Pat, bought for him,
he was immediately quick
and he was only 17 years old.
Hawthorn and Collins
met as rivals on the race track,
but eventually when they both
found themselves in Modena
driving for Ferrari,
Mike was a sports-jacketed
beer-drinking one of the lads.
He and Peter Collins were like a pair
of rather irresponsible schoolboys.
Tremendously fun-loving.
Peter was a life enhancer.
When he came into the room,
things got jollier, noisier
and altogether more entertaining.
When I first met Mike
he was tall, good-looking.
I thought, "That's a lovely-looking
man." So I set my heart on him.
He was a great character, a very flash
sort of a guy, who was a lot of fun.
I think he used motor racing as
a stepping stone to enjoyment of life,
whereas to me it was the life.
You were either a Hawthorn fan or
a Moss fan. You couldn't really be both.
Peter, in particular, I think,
was very much a Boy's Own character
at what an exciting racing driver
should be.
The girls loved him and I didn't see
too great an effort on his part
to fight them off.
a soft spot for the Brits.
Mike went there and the old man
was pretty impressed
because here was somebody
who was prepared to put it on the line
and that was the sort of
thrusting, aggressive young driver
that Mr. Ferrari really rated.
When I was with Mike he just
stood out amongst the others
as being very beautiful.
We were intoxicated by the atmosphere
of these wonderful, wild men.
It was fun. It was like
a big family. Everybody knew everybody.
But it was dangerous and wherever
you get danger, you get this thrill.
Hawthorn did very well
in his first spell with Ferrari.
He won a couple of races,
but then when his father was killed
and he wanted to drive sports cars
for Jaguar, he went back to England,
and I think Ferrari
was very disappointed by that.
I'm sure he wanted to hang on to him.
I think for most of the Grand Prix
drivers, Le Mans was a bit of a bore
because it was a test of the car,
but not the driver.
And I think that Mike and Fangio
got involved in what had become
a Grand Prix more or less,
at the beginning of the race,
so taking the boredom out of it.
Drivers are requested
to get to the places assigned to them.
Stand by.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero!
Lap after lap, Hawthorn
and Fangio, no more than yards apart,
hold the crowd enthralled
with an exhibition of driving skill
no words can adequately describe.
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