Grand Prix Insider

  No 1º episódio anunciei uma retrospectiva detalhada sobre a Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft, ou DRM, da temporada de 1977. Após algumas semanas de correria, eis então o relato começando pela BMW e sua participação na Division 2 com os novos 320i na versão grupo 5

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  Born in Bologna, Montezemolo studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza, earning a law degree in 1971, and went on to Columbia University in New York to earn a master’s degree in international trade law in 1973. He drove briefly for the Lancia rally team, but upon graduating went to work for FIAT.

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  Harald Ertl was born in Zell am See. He was in the same school as Jochen Rindt and Helmut Marko, so he had an early relation to motorsports.

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O aniversariante destaque de hoje é:

Maurizio Sandro SALA, 49 anos, ex-piloto que chegou a testar pela Toleman na F1, mas infelizmente não teve a chance de provar seu talento na categoria máxima do automobilismo. Nasceu 30/08/1958 em São Paulo.

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10/1/1941, Ignazio Giunti dies.

Italian driver who made his name in saloon and Sports Car Racing in the late 1960s. In 1968, driving for Alfa Romeo, he was 2nd in the Targa Florio and 4th in the Le Mans 24 Hours race co-driving with Nanni Galli.

In 1970 Giunti was signed by Ferrari primarily for their sports-car team and won the Sebring 12hrs and the Targa Florio as well as achieving several other high placings. His success earned him a F1 chance and he did splendidly to finish 4th on his debut in the Belgian GP at Spa and raced three more times that year. Ferrari were also trialling the Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni and he put in some excellent drives to restrict Giunti’s chances though he was re-signed by Ferrari for 1971.

Tragedy struck in his first drive in 1971 when his Ferrari 312 PB prototype ploughed into the back of a Matra 650 stopped on the track in the Buenos Aires 1000km race giving the popular Italian no chance of survival.

Born: 30th of August 1941 in Rome, Italy.
Died: 10th of January 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mal os fuxicos no paddock conectaram o Nico Rosberg com a Toyota, com uma bela de uma comissão sobrando pro Frank Williams, o loiro já vem querendo estragar a festa, divulgando que não iria a lugar nenhum e pretende respeitar o contrato com a Williams. Tá querendo enganar quem, moleque?

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  1937, Born 70 years ago. 
Died 37 years ago. (2/6/1970) , aged 33   
 
Bruce Leslie McLaren was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was a racing car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.

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  O campeão de Fórmula 1 de 1976, James Simon Wallis Hunt, faria 60 anos hoje, nasceu 29/08/1947 em ……….. na Inglaterra e faleceu em 1993 aos 45 anos de uma ataque cardíaco horas depois de pedir a namorada Helen em casamento.

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  The son of a former Chairman of the Alvis company, Mike Parkes was born into a world of cars and motor racing. He died 30 years ago on the 28th of august 1977 , aged 46. 

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Long before McLaren cam up with their two-seater Formula 1 car a couple of guys went experimental on how to accomodate a passenger in a single-seater.

Any idea who these two nutters might be? Naming location and even the car would be bonusses.