"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/28/2014 at 11:05 • Filed to: f1
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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A couple of days ago, I posted this remarkable photo and asked folks to name as many people as they could in the photo. If you haven't seen it, give it a try. Then scroll down for the answer.
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Bruce McLaren: McLaren cars and drivers have won a total of 20 world championships. Between 1967-1972 McLaren cars dominated CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins, many with McLaren at the wheel, and five constructors' championships. In addition, McLaren won three Indianapolis 500 races, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring. McLaren died at age 32 when his Can-Am car crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote corner at Goodwood Circuit in England on 2 June 1970.
Stirling Moss: 67 races, 16 wins, 24 podiums. Inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, has been called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship."
Tony Brooks: participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 July 1956, and scored the first win by a British driver in a British car in a Grand Prix since 1923, in 1955 driving a Connaught at Syracuse in a non World Championship race.
Graham Hill: He is the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport—the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship. Hill and his son Damon are the only father and son pair both to have won the Formula One World Championship. Hill died when the aeroplane he was piloting crashed in foggy conditions near Arkley golf course in North London.
Joakim Bonnier: His greatest achievement in F1 was taking victory for BRM in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. 108 races, 1 win. in a hideous accident on the straight between Mulsanne Corner and Indianapolis at Le Mans in 1972 when his open-top Lola-Cosworth T280 collided with a Ferrari Daytona driven by a Swiss amateur driver Florian Vetsch. His car was catapulted over the Armco barriers and into the trees right next to the track. The 42-year old Swedish Bonnier was killed instantly.
Wolfgang von Trips: He participated in 29 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix races, debuting on 2 September 1956. He won two races, secured one pole position, achieved six podiums, and scored a total of 56 championship points. At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, his Ferrari collided with Jim Clark's Lotus. His car became airborne and crashed into a side barrier, fatally throwing von Trips from the car, and killing fifteen spectators.
(Baby) Damon Hill: Drove for Brabham, Williams, Arrows and Jordan. 122 races, 22 wins, 42 podiums, 360 career points. Won the Drivers' Championship in 1996 driving for Williams.
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Jonny Edge (@thejonnyedge)
> ttyymmnn
04/28/2014 at 11:20 |
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It's so sad that so many of those guys died in accidents.
Yet, the funny thing about these guys is they never seem "dead" anyway. We still see them all the time in films and video, and what they did in their lives will forever be relevant and meaningful. It's strange, but wonderful.
McLarry
> ttyymmnn
04/28/2014 at 12:09 |
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I figured the father/son pair must be Graham and Damon Hill, but couldn't actually recognize anybody. Quite a remarkable picture.
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> ttyymmnn
04/28/2014 at 12:13 |
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I've seen this one before, explaining how many of the people in this picture died in racing incidents.
Very powerful photo.
TxBrumski
> ttyymmnn
04/28/2014 at 12:36 |
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Really cool photo. That'd be like Hamilton, Bruno Senna, Kimi, Schumacher, and Vettel all around Vettel's kid (whenever that thing will be born) if it were done today.
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ttyymmnn
> TxBrumski
04/28/2014 at 12:40 |
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But they wouldn't all be wearing tailored suits. And to me, that's what makes this picture even cooler. It was a different era, a Golden Era. It's just sad that it was also a deadly era.
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TxBrumski
> ttyymmnn
04/28/2014 at 14:51 |
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Haha true