Grand Prix
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- 1966
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The drivers are all on the grid now, and
the Monaco Grand Prix is about to start.
There's Scott Stoddard
with his Jordan BRM.
And with him now, is Jeff Jordan himself,
talking to this brilliant English driver...
... who's won so many races
in the dark-green BRMs.
Even faster than Stoddard in practice,
was the Frenchman, Jean-Pierre Sarti.
Twice world champion, an absolute master
of these twisting Monte Carlo streets...
... he's won the Grand Prix here
three times.
He drives for the great Italian manufacturer,
Ferrari.
His teammate is the Sicilian, Nino Barlini,
who's also won a place on the front row.
Barlini's the former world champion
motorcyclist...
... who made a very successful switch
to car racing last year...
... and is certainly a potential
world champion in Formula 1 racing.
On the second row, is Pete Aron,
the American, now driving for BRM.
Pete hasn't won a Grand Prix since
he left Ferrari three seasons ago.
But in spite of two bad accidents last year,
he's still just as fast as ever.
Yesterday he lapped only a tenth slower
than Scott Stoddard...
... number one driver in the BRM team.
Let's try and get the season
off to a good start. Shall we?
Drive the car, don't try
to stand it on its bloody ear.
Tim Randolph, another American, driving
a Japanese Yamura, also on the second row.
This team's only been in Formula 1 racing
for two years...
... and so far the car's not been
reliable enough to win a Grand Prix.
But the Japanese have
the most powerful engines of all.
Ten seconds.
Five...
...four...
...three...
...two, one.
Go!
Ste. Devote,
then Sarti in the lead.
From Stoddard, Aron, Hulme,
Anderson and Randolph.
Stoddard's drawing level with Sarti
up the hill. He's going to overtake him.
Now, it's Sarti in the red Ferrari,
number 17 leading...
... past the Hotel de Paris
and into the Casino Square.
Along the seafront, at the tobacconist...
... it's Sarti's red Ferrari ahead of
Stoddard's green BRM number 12.
As they finish the first lap, it's Sarti first,
Stoddard second, Aron third...
... and fourth now
is Barlini's Ferrari, number 16.
I used to think nothing
could be better than motorbike racing.
Three times I'm awarded champion
on my motorbike. I'm happy.
Then I go into one of these...
These cars... You sit in a box, a coffin.
Gasoline all around you.
It is like being inside a bomb.
Crazy.
But, of course, the cars are faster.
And that is the most important thing.
You have to remember that at Monte Carlo,
because of the nature of the circuit...
...you shift gears over 2600 times
during the race.
That's an average of once
every three seconds.
No reason to expect gearbox trouble.
On the other hand, potential problems
are in the back of your mind all the time.
I've driven this course six times before...
...the way I see it, I've only got
three big problems today, and that's:
Two Ferraris starting ahead of me
and my own teammate, Scott Stoddard.
Walking the course is just about the last
thing I'd do on the morning of a race.
It's become a bit of a thing with me.
I do a lot of thinking...
... collecting my thoughts about how I'll
run the race, all that sort of thing.
Of course, it originated with my brother,
Roger. He used to do the same thing.
As a matter of fact, before I started racing
I often used walk the course with him.
you know...
...the day he was killed, he hadn't walked
the circuit for some reason or another.
I suppose I'm rather superstitious
about that.
I love the challenge of Monaco.
Driving through ordinary streets full out,
is to me what racing is all about.
It's a pity it's the only one
left of its kind.
At the end of 10 laps the order is still
Sarti, Stoddard, Aron and Barlini.
Stoddard can't quite squeeze his BRM
past Sarti's Ferrari.
There's very little room to pass
on these narrow Monte Carlo streets.
Barlini and the other Ferraris
can't quite...
- Oh, my darling. You're not ready?
- Ready? For what?
Pat, you've forgotten.
Hugo, the way I feel now...
...if I could remember my own name,
I'd consider myself very fortunate.
- What have I forgotten?
- Last night.
I told you I'd be by to take you
to the winner's circle...
...if Scott wins.
- Hugo, there's lots of time.
The dungarees.
Hugo, have you ever had ouzo?
I have had everything, my dear.
I was with two Greeks last night
and we drank ouzo. A lot of ouzo.
And where, may I ask,
was your husband...
...while all this Greek
and ouzo business was going on?
Where he always is the night before a race:
Trying to sleep.
The danger? Well, of course.
But you are missing
a very important point.
I think, if any of us imagined,
really imagined...
...what it would be like to go into a tree
at 150 miles an hour...
...we would probably never get
into the cars at all. None of us.
So it has always seemed to me,
that to do something very dangerous...
...requires a certain
absence of imagination.
Number 17, the Ferrari of Jean-Pierre Sarti,
is still in front...
... but he just cannot get away from
number 12, Scott Stoddard in the BRM.
And the second BRM driver, number 11,
Pete Aron, is only three seconds behind...
... with Nino Barlini in number 16
Ferrari breathing down his neck.
That's 25 laps gone.
One-quarter of the race distance.
As Sarti and Stoddard fight for the lead,
they're leaving Aron and Barlini behind.
Stoddard's pressing Sarti. The Frenchman's
usually unbeatable at Monaco...
... but today the Englishman is faster
on some parts of the circuit.
Now that Stoddard's out in the lead,
his lap times are faster and faster.
And he's going steadily away from Sarti.
There doesn't seem to be anything
the Ferrari driver can do about it.
There's Scott Stoddard completing his
30th lap and increasing his lead over Sarti.
But there's the third man, Barlini,
in his red Ferrari now well-clear of Aron.
And he's just lapping a slower car.
That can be tricky here at Monte Carlo.
It's almost impossible to pass...
... unless you can rely on the driver in the
slower car to move over and make room.
That's 32 laps completed and the order is
Stoddard, Sarti, Barlini, Randolph, Aron.
- Get back out there.
- It's sticking in between third and fourth.
It didn't do it in practice.
Do you suppose it could be you?
All right, I'm doing it on purpose.
On purpose or not,
you're breaking her up.
- I didn't build the damn car.
- We can't do anything about it.
- Do the best you can.
- What lap is this?
- Forty-two.
- It's a cinch. I'm halfway home.
Pete Aron's away again.
He's had some sort of gearbox trouble.
There's Stoddard now. He'll lap
his BRM teammate, Aron, next time round.
Stoddard's driving a tremendous race.
Bet he's broken the lap record again: 129.3.
Blimey, they nearly collided
at the Gasometer hairpin. That was close.
Louis Chiron's waving
the blue flag at the American...
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