Whom was /were your favourite Grand Prix Drivers growing up!

Berger and Keke were my favourites.


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The outstanding drive by Rindt in the wet at Warwick Farm in 1969 was the impetus for me to travel to Europe to watch F1. Less than 2 months later I was in South Africa for the first round of the championship
On arriving in the UK, the first race I went to was at Silverstone, a non-championship F1 race - Daily Express Trophy I think. In the wet, Rindt had misfiring issues in the Lotus 49 and was 40 secs behind Brabham (the leader) with 20 laps to go when he got back on to full song. With rain coming down, he picked up ~2 secs a lap and only just missed out on the win by a smidgen. A great drive by JB, but mesmerising to watch Rindt go through the field in those conditions.

All this came to a sorry end when I was at Monza in 1970

I rate him as the the most exciting and talented driver I have seen.

 

Rindt Warwick Farm 1969
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Great post.

 

Amazing story, sorry I mostly missed that era (genuinely). For me, the greats were Niki Lauda (for his courage as much as Ferrari) and Prost (just liked his calm, neat driving; was at Suzuka for the big tussle with Senna).

 

For me it was Amon then Lauda. Even had the 2m x 1m poster of Lauda in the B3 on the bedroom wall.

 

James Hunt

 

At the risk of becoming a BTC -

I was at his 21st Birthday
Started in the bar at Brands Hatch on Saturday afternoon and finished at Pitstop nightclub on Tuesday night

I remember some of it

 

Your kidding
That’s a fairly good effort by all involved
If you told me George Best turned up I’d have to put the kettle on

 

Hunt was famous in the UK even then, he was probably dazzled by Mr Millard's charm.

(or very drunk already)

 

Going back on topic, it was Stirling Moss for me. I was dazzled by the Valiant Hemi TV adds he did on the beach in Melbourne.

the model at 3:12 is Mrs Geoff P

 

+1

I'm a March-o-phile so have always been a Ronnie Peterson fan.

btw it was the Italian doctors who killed him, not the accident.

 

Yes Maureen. Gurney had no profile here when I was a lad. I'm much younger than you

 

I didn't know what a Ferrari was until I saw a 308GTB parked in Perth in 1975. As a teenager, I was only interested in motorbikes.

 

I distinctly remember standing there open mouthed, I'd never imagined a car could look so good.

 

Fat embolism - a well known risk in a badly broken leg, and taught in every medical school (except Italian ones)