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(dramatic music)
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- [Narrator] 70 years ago,
something special started.
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(car engine roaring)
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Formula One.
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Man and machine in perfect unison.
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Pushing each other to their limits.
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Supported by teams,
aiming for that top step.
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- Well, the name of the game is winning.
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- [Narrator] Seeking perfection.
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The road hasn't always been smooth.
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We've marveled at great moments,
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had smiles brought to our faces,
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(man laughs)
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cried with our heroes.
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(car engines roaring)
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Witnessed incredible
bravery, (light explosion)
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and terrible sense.
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Moments never to be forgotten.
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For 70 years, this has been their Everest.
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(car engines roaring)
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This is what makes them special.
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This is the story of Formula One.
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(air whooshing)
(soft music)
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- Well, now, James they've changed
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the regulations concerning
the air boxes and the wings,
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and yet you're still extremely fast.
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How do you do it?
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- Big balls.
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(both laugh)
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- I get it.
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(suspenseful music)
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(car engines roaring)
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- Being a Formula One driver means a lot.
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It is so many different things.
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You'll pass through many,
many risks in your life,
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but, is a dream.
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(soft music)
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(crowd cheering)
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- I think that every child, at some point
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in their adolescents,
need to have a dream.
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- [Announcer] Now, hold on to your hats.
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(car engines roaring)
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- [Man] Your body and the car
are working perfect together.
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- The songs, the cars, the
personalities, the drivers,
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all those things created an
illusion or a dream in me,
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that said, I want to do this.
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- F1 was the dream from a very early age.
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Did I think I'd get to F1
at the age of eight or nine?
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No, definitely not.
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I used to think these
guys were superhuman.
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(car engine roaring)
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- Formula One was my absolute first dream.
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- There's only one
driver, any racing driver,
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who's got any knowledge whatsoever
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of the history of motor
racing and Formula One.
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And regrettably, the current
generation of drivers
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wouldn't know their aunt from their uncle,
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because they're not interested in history,
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as Juan Manuel Fangio.
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- [Announcer] In 1956,
Fangio drives for Ferrari,
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faced by a rising generation of opponents.
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Mus on Maserati, Hawthorn on BRM
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and Brooks also on BRM cannot prevent
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the now 45-year old Fangio from winning
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the British Grand Prix
at his fifth attempt.
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- As a person, I never heard
anybody complain about him.
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Either his driving behavior
or his behavior as a person
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in the paddock or with other people.
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He was a fantastic person.
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- He was a complete god
as far as I was concerned.
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Fangio, I still think was the
greatest driver of all time.
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Because he carried the sport
in such style, such dignity.
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(clears throat) And he was
well out of motor racing
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when he came to Monaco, I
won the Formula three race.
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My first race out of Great Britain.
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And it was a big deal.
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And I was still in the cockpit,
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and Juan Manuel Fangio
came on, came across,
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and he wanted to shake my
hand and congratulate me.
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And I thought, oh my God,
this was god speaking to me.
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I knew everything about
Ascari and Ferrari.
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(mumbles) Taruffi and Farina,
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of course Stirling Morrison, everybody.
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But Fangio was just that bit different.
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He carried it in such style.
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- [Announcer] The German
Grand Prix of 1957.
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Race day was warm and dry as
the cars assembled on the grit.
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Fangio on Maserati, Moss Vanwall,
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Collins and Hawthorn on Ferrari,
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amongst an impressive field.
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(air whooshing)
(car engines roaring)
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Into the South turn,
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the Ferraris of Hawthorn and
Collins lead Fangio's Maserati.
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(car engines roaring)
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But after three laps, Fangio
leads by five seconds.
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And with 12 laps gone,
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his lead is 28 seconds
over the two Ferraris.
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As he pulls into the pits to take on fuel
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and change the rear wheels.
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A 52 second pit stop
puts him 3/4 of a minute
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behind Hawthorn and Collins,
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whose cars can go
through the race nonstop.
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10 laps to go and 45 seconds to pick up,
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Fangio begins the race of his life.
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(car engine roaring)
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For three laps he makes no headway,
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but on lap 16, the gap
is done to 33 seconds.
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On lap 19 to 13 and a half.
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(car engines roaring)
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On that 20, Hawthorn and
Collins screen past the pits,
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straining every nerve, with
Fangio snapping at their heel.
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(car engine roaring)
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Into the South turn and he's closer still.
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(car engines roaring)
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Into the North turn
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and the fantastic Fangio
takes Collins on the inside
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and with a lap and a half
to go, he leads the race.
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A race in which he broke the
lap record 10 times in 22 laps,
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reducing it from nine
minutes 37.4 seconds,
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to nine minutes, 17.4.
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To prove beyond all doubt,
his claim to immortality
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as one of the greatest drivers
the world has ever known.
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(crowd cheering)
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(soft music)
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- Fangio was a fantastic man.
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The only team lose with Mercedes,
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was when a Mercedes,
doesn't matter who's it was,
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had 30 seconds lead believe it or not,
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on the next car in the race.
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Then they put out a sign,
it said, 'REG, regulary'.
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In other words, hold your position.
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And of course at entry,
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I didn't have as good a
start I think as Fangio.
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Anyway, I dropped back a little bit
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and then I managed to catch him up
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and I managed to pass him.
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- [Announcer] Here we have,
what looks like a come back,
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Stirling Moss in the Mercedes.
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(car engine roaring)
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There's Fangio, about three
cars length between them.
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They've closed right up.
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Now very, very close indeed together
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as we go back to Raymond
Baxter at the grandstand.
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- [Raymond] Still Stirling
Moss leads by two cars length
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and there's less than
1/4 of a mile to go now
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as they come into Tut's corner,
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and they're going to let
Marcel on the Maserati there,
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they're not, and the
crowds rise to greet Moss.
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And Moss is waving Fangio up,
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and they gain to go across
the line in (indistinct)
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giving the victory to win the
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(indistinct) Grand Prix of 1955
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to Stirling Moss a great victory
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from Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine.
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- I said to him quite often,
did you let me win it?
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Because he was this sort
of guy who would say,
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look, it's Stirling's home Grand Prix,
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what the hell, I've got so many others.
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And he said, "No, no."
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He said, "It was your day."
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Well, it was my day winning.
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So, whether it was my day
'cause he backed off a bit,
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I don't know.
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I truly don't know.
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Because he's such a gentleman,
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he would never have said
anything that wasn't right.
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- Somehow from the New Zealand
Grand Prix Association,
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I managed to get Stirling's
mailing address in London.
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It was King William the fourth street
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or vaguely from memory.
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So, of course my best school
boy joined up writing,
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I wrote a letter and in
return, I got by email,
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a signed photograph of
Stirling, sitting in the W196
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with no bear, there.
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And that's just absolutely
magic, isn't it?
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And the same time when I
became infatuated with racing,
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at age 14, I told all the relatives
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that all I want for
Christmas and birthdays
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are motor racing books.
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So, I was given Stirling Moss's
first book of Motorsport.
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Which I must have read
a hundred times over,
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I knew every word of the thing.
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And so, now I'm a total Stirling Moss fan.
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And you have to admit it's
a good name, isn't it?
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And then of course I wrote again,
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and I guess I got a second photograph
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and I don't know what's happened to that.
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And then the third time,
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Judy Newt was his secretary
at that time, pre Val Perry.
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And she wrote back and said,
"You've had a fair run,
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"you need to knock it off, sincerely."
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So I did.
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But the magic for me
was then in later life
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becoming friends with Stirling.
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When you become friends with your hero,
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it's kind of just completes
the picture, doesn't it?
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- Stirling was a very
professional racing driver,
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he was extremely good and
very, very close to Fangio
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and in sports cars,
there's probably not a lot
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to choose between them.
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But I think in Grand Prix cars,
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you have to recognize Fangio
as number one in that period.
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- I think that Monaco offers something
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that nowhere else does.
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Even when we used to race on Rose Monaco,
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it was still the number one.
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And I remember Pete Collins
and I went into the hotel
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The Parrot, to have a cup of coffee.
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And there was this lady who'd
obviously got down there
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to see her years out,
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and she said,
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"Are you one of those young
men making all that noise?"
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(upbeat music)
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And she said, "What were you doing?"
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We said, "We were practicing."
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She said, "Can't you
practice somewhere else?"
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I thought this poor old lady.
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(dramatic music)
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(air whooshing)
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- [Announcer] And it's
Fangio who leads Moss
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from the hand, Collins third.
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At the station on the first lap it's Moss,
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Fangio, Collins, Schell, Brooks,
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Trintignant, Hawthorn, Trix.
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(car engines roaring)
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(dramatic music)
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- I mean, in our time,
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your first competitor
was in fact, the circuit.
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If you span the car,
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you are immediately in
the lap of the gods.
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- [Announcer] Moss into
the SUK, he over shocks.
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Fangio has slipped through,
but Peter Collins is hit
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by a falling pole and crashes too.
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Immediately, Hawthorn joins him.
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Ferrari hopes are dashed.
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But most importantly, the
three English men are unhurt.
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Look closely at the
faces of these young men.
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Motor racing is dangerous.
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Still it's Fangio and Brooks.
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- The second thing, is of
course you then had competitors.
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(chuckles)
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So, you had to try and drive
faster than they could do.
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(car engine roaring)
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- [Announcer] There are those who say
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that's Fangio is the
greatest driver in history.
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Fangio says that Tony
Brooks is the man to watch.
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But once Mike Hawthorn and Stirling Moss,
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find themselves together,
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and able to watch from the road side,
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the pair of them in action.
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(dramatic music)
(car engines roaring)
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To his mechanics, Fangio is a near dead.
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And once again their efforts
are rewarded by his victory.
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And what a drive it was, that
brought Tony Brook's Vanwall
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second to the play, but
25 seconds behind Fangio
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after 105 laps round the heights.
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- There was no doubt that
he was the best driver,
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of the '50s.
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- [Announcer] And what
a gallant gentleman,
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is this man, Fangio.
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(indistinct chatters)
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- Last night I saw a film on Sky,
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of the years of music,
(sighs) was my time, the '60s.
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(upbeat music)
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(car engine roaring)
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Getting to be in Monte Carlo
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and suddenly having the
Beatles come up to talk to you.
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I mean, they were gods.
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The swinging '60's was
an incredible period.
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And, because you were a
top line racing driver,
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they wanted to be with you,
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when in fact, we desperately
wanted to be with them.
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(car engine roaring)
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- My father became known as Mr. Monaco.
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So, something must have
clicked with him as a driver,
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I think he might've liked the
setting, (chuckles softly)
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maybe it was the glamor,
and the track itself.
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(car engine roaring)
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So, Monaco was his track
and he made it his track
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in actual fact in 1960s,
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winning five of the 10
races in that decade.
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- We had enormous pleasure,
we had enormous upsets.
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We had bad times and good times,
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but it was a wonderful
life being a racing driver.
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If Louis wins the race,
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he's got to go to and
speak to his sponsors
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and chat them up and all.
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If I won a race, I could
go try and chase the girls.
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So, I ask which is the better way to go.
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(car engines roaring)
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- Well, winning Monza,
at any year is special.
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Particularly in a way,
I suppose it was for me,
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because I'd had the success
of the Elm Two-Wheels.
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And so, I was pretty well
accepted by the Italian
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as someone who was one of them.
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And so, when we won that race,
of course it was incredible
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and had to virtually
stay locked in the garage
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to say safety for quite
a period in the evening.
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The last race of the year in Mexico,
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I started off, the championship
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and things was not in my mind.
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It may sound strange to
you, but I was just worried,
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analyzing, driving the
car around, analyzing,
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trying to listen to make certain,
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it was still staying okay.
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Because we'd had a lot
of mechanical trouble,
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so, it was a main thing,
I gotta get this home.
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And so, I was doing my utmost
just concentrated there
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and it didn't really hit me
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until I came around and
I saw Julio Passare,
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a couple mechanical, head
mechanic, and other lads.
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So excited they were, others thought,
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"Oh, it's a championship."
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(soft music)
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- Lotus really were the favorites going
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into the championship in 1968.
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The DFV and the Lotus 49
started its life in 1967,
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showing a lot of promise,
but being also quite fragile.
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(soft music)
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(car engine roaring)
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(guys chatting indistinctly)
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So going into the season,
everyone was very optimistic
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and in fact, Jim won the first race
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in January in South Africa,
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but then sadly tragedy struck.
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- [Announcer] He's been acclaimed
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as one of the greatest
drivers of all time.
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Now, at 32, he has died in an accident
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during a Formula Two race in West German.
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- Certainly, in the case of Lotus,
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they were so closely linked to Jim Clark.
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Jim Clark had been their driver
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from the very earliest days
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and they'd enjoyed all their
early success with this driver.
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So, the loss of Jimmy was massive.
336
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And I think that they knew
that winning the championship
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would have been a
fabulous tribute to Jimmy
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as well as a way of restoring some
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of their enthusiasm for Formula One.
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In 1968 Mexico also hosted the Olympics.
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And so, the Grand Prix had to be delayed.
342
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It was going to be a
couple of weeks before,
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but somehow or other, they
managed to miss the fact
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that there was an Olympics going on.
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I don't know how they did
their candidates in those days.
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(speaking in foreign language)
347
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We went to Mexico with
everything hanging on the line,
348
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with three potential
winners with Jackie Stewart
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and Denny Hulme in contention
for the world championships.
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So, it was a very tense period.
351
00:17:07,990 --> 00:17:10,410
But I think my dad must've
felt pretty confident.
352
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He knew he had the right equipment.
353
00:17:11,910 --> 00:17:14,570
But mechanical failures
were rife in those days.
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So, reliability was a huge problem.
355
00:17:16,990 --> 00:17:18,330
Nothing was taken for granted.
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None of them would have
felt overly confident
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about going into that last race.
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(car engines roaring)
(upbeat music)
359
00:17:27,790 --> 00:17:31,710
(speaking in foreign language)
360
00:17:54,830 --> 00:17:56,010
I was only eight years old
361
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when my dad won the championship in 1968.
362
00:17:58,830 --> 00:18:01,770
But I remember going to Heathrow Airport
363
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where there's a big
kerfuffle with the press
364
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and photographers and my dad turned up
365
00:18:06,950 --> 00:18:10,210
and he brought this
massive Mexican sombrero,
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which we would have a lot of
fun plunking on our heads.
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00:18:13,030 --> 00:18:14,250
And we've got some great photographs
368
00:18:14,350 --> 00:18:17,490
from welcoming him home
at Heathrow Airport
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wearing these Mexican sombreros.
370
00:18:21,910 --> 00:18:26,530
(indistinct chatters from a distant mic)
371
00:18:26,630 --> 00:18:27,730
- Good morning.
(upbeat music)
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00:18:27,830 --> 00:18:32,410
- You know when I left
Brazil, I landed in Gatwick.
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And I was looking on the clouds,
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00:18:34,590 --> 00:18:38,130
and I see a hole on the
clouds, I see a green.
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00:18:38,230 --> 00:18:43,050
I said this country of Jim
Clark, Jack Stewart, Graham Hill.
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- Take one.
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(upbeat music)
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- I'm coming to England.
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And for me it was like a
realization of a big dream
380
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since I was five, six years old.
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- I drove my car up from
South Brook to London,
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00:18:59,830 --> 00:19:01,830
to start to live there.
383
00:19:03,710 --> 00:19:06,330
And Max Mosley, funny
enough had an apartment
384
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near Victoria station.
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00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:12,190
I rented it for him, and then I was lost.
386
00:19:13,030 --> 00:19:15,250
Then I went to the Pit Stop bar,
387
00:19:15,350 --> 00:19:18,430
I think was the name, in Kings road,
388
00:19:19,630 --> 00:19:21,090
and there I met James.
389
00:19:21,190 --> 00:19:25,810
He was drinking and he said,
"Niki, you can do enough,
390
00:19:25,910 --> 00:19:27,890
"you want to be a real racing driver,
391
00:19:27,990 --> 00:19:29,290
"let's have a drink."
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There it all started.
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- Are we now on the air?
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What do you wanna learn,
comments on the course?
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- [Reporter] Yeah.
396
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- Well, it's a typical road course.
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You know, some of the guys
complaining it's a bit bumpy
398
00:19:43,590 --> 00:19:45,410
but I think, you know,
399
00:19:45,510 --> 00:19:47,010
road racing is what we are in for.
400
00:19:47,110 --> 00:19:48,610
So if you drive your
street car around here,
401
00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:50,010
you wouldn't complain if it's too bumpy,
402
00:19:50,110 --> 00:19:52,930
so I reckon that's all right.
403
00:19:53,030 --> 00:19:55,530
It's very narrow, but we've
got a couple of places to pass
404
00:19:55,630 --> 00:19:58,810
but which, you know, it's
better than Monte Carlo.
405
00:19:58,910 --> 00:20:00,910
Otherwise it's just bloody hard work.
406
00:20:01,790 --> 00:20:03,850
- It was very emotional
for me to be in England.
407
00:20:03,950 --> 00:20:08,690
I left, was kind of out
time in Brazil, February.
408
00:20:08,790 --> 00:20:12,290
I arrived in England was
very cold wind, (laughs)
409
00:20:12,390 --> 00:20:14,610
but it was the commitment to try
410
00:20:14,710 --> 00:20:16,570
to make it happen and do it.
411
00:20:16,670 --> 00:20:20,570
And that I loved the
sport and it was my life.
412
00:20:20,670 --> 00:20:23,170
- How do you feel?
- So, don't drive too fast.
413
00:20:23,270 --> 00:20:24,010
- Okay.
414
00:20:24,110 --> 00:20:26,010
- Don't set a record now, (car whooshing)
415
00:20:26,110 --> 00:20:28,050
because you know that,
- I know, I know.
416
00:20:28,150 --> 00:20:30,130
- You'll feel differently relaxed.
417
00:20:30,230 --> 00:20:31,210
- Yes, okay, okay, no, no, no.
418
00:20:31,310 --> 00:20:33,330
- So, take it easy.
- Okay.
419
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1973, the first Brazilian Grand Prix
420
00:20:36,030 --> 00:20:37,290
for the world championship.
421
00:20:37,390 --> 00:20:39,930
The atmosphere of the
Grand Prix was incredible.
422
00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:41,170
It's too hot.
423
00:20:41,270 --> 00:20:44,170
I think it was end of January,
or beginning of February.
424
00:20:44,270 --> 00:20:47,350
And it was right in the middle
of the Brazilian summer.
425
00:20:48,550 --> 00:20:52,770
And the five truck comes
with water into the public.
426
00:20:52,870 --> 00:20:56,170
When you race home, it's
a tremendous pressure.
427
00:20:56,270 --> 00:20:58,450
And that was the track
that I started racing,
428
00:20:58,550 --> 00:21:03,130
motorcycle, carting,
formula V, everything.
429
00:21:03,230 --> 00:21:05,810
It was my life in Interlagos,
430
00:21:05,910 --> 00:21:09,530
and then comes to the,
day of the Grand Prix
431
00:21:09,630 --> 00:21:12,450
was, I was a tremendous pressure
432
00:21:12,550 --> 00:21:16,490
but I took the pressure
on the positive way.
433
00:21:16,590 --> 00:21:19,970
And that makes to drive 110%.
434
00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:23,270
(car engines revving)
435
00:21:24,670 --> 00:21:28,690
It was fantastic to win in
Brazil the first Grand Prix ever.
436
00:21:28,790 --> 00:21:30,170
It was a tremendous day.
437
00:21:30,270 --> 00:21:35,270
I remember again, calling,
jumping, and throwing his hat
438
00:21:35,710 --> 00:21:39,460
on the track and there was
a single from team Lotus.
439
00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:42,640
(indistinct chatters)
440
00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:44,740
It was already, the beginning
441
00:21:45,740 --> 00:21:48,280
of the Brazilian Grand
Prix drivers history.
442
00:21:48,380 --> 00:21:50,120
(crowd cheering)
443
00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:52,800
(car whooshing)
444
00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:54,520
- I always remember, you know, when I was
445
00:21:54,620 --> 00:21:57,800
in the Grand Stand, watching the race,
446
00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:00,760
supporting Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna,
447
00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:04,240
Reautemann Lole Carlos,
I was there, you know,
448
00:22:04,340 --> 00:22:06,600
standing up every lap
that they were passing.
449
00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:07,920
I remember so well.
450
00:22:08,020 --> 00:22:10,960
So the dream by being
there racing already,
451
00:22:11,060 --> 00:22:12,400
something that is amazing.
452
00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:14,800
And then, being there, winning the race,
453
00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:18,080
is like the most incredible
feeling you can have
454
00:22:18,180 --> 00:22:22,080
you know, in your, in your life.
455
00:22:22,180 --> 00:22:24,120
- I got an outrageous demand.
456
00:22:24,220 --> 00:22:26,220
- Oh yeah, what's that?
457
00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:28,360
- The last side, of
which was cough up now.
458
00:22:28,460 --> 00:22:30,740
(laughing)
459
00:22:32,340 --> 00:22:33,880
- Yeah well done, thanks very much.
460
00:22:33,980 --> 00:22:37,280
But you've put the checks
in the post, is it? (laughs)
461
00:22:37,380 --> 00:22:42,380
- I started off originally
providing beds, and (indistinct)
462
00:22:43,380 --> 00:22:46,220
and then it sort of built
for there because of that.
463
00:22:47,380 --> 00:22:49,360
I became a friend of Bubbles.
464
00:22:49,460 --> 00:22:52,320
- At the time I was a used car dealer,
465
00:22:52,420 --> 00:22:55,840
and I tried to sell Alexander a Bentley,
466
00:22:55,940 --> 00:22:58,920
and I ended up buying his Mercedes,
467
00:22:59,020 --> 00:23:01,040
and that's how we met.
468
00:23:01,140 --> 00:23:02,760
But it turned out that his Mercedes
469
00:23:02,860 --> 00:23:06,320
was his mother's Mercedes,
and not his to sell.
470
00:23:06,420 --> 00:23:08,440
So I thought, well, he
did that rather well.
471
00:23:08,540 --> 00:23:11,240
And we became great friends.
472
00:23:11,340 --> 00:23:13,500
- It's expensive introduction of my life.
473
00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,680
- Bubbles voted me up there,
474
00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:21,240
and Harvey said, "Beaky
I'm designing a new car,
475
00:23:21,340 --> 00:23:23,640
"came be chief mechanic, and Bubbles."
476
00:23:23,740 --> 00:23:28,600
And I was going, "Okay, Lord Hesketh?"
477
00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:32,520
So I met, you know, this is different.
478
00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:34,760
This is unbelievably different.
479
00:23:34,860 --> 00:23:39,200
- We found James, and he'd
just been fired by March,
480
00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:43,760
and sort of knew of him, but
didn't know a lot about him.
481
00:23:43,860 --> 00:23:48,860
And basically we needed a driver,
482
00:23:50,380 --> 00:23:53,840
and 'cause I was retiring from driving,
483
00:23:53,940 --> 00:23:55,040
cause I wasn't very good.
484
00:23:55,140 --> 00:23:57,720
- Lord Alexander Hesketh, put me in a car,
485
00:23:57,820 --> 00:23:59,800
put everything right, and
he put me on the road.
486
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:00,600
It was as simple as that.
487
00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:02,440
And I haven't really changed myself,
488
00:24:02,540 --> 00:24:04,520
he's just giving me the
right opportunities.
489
00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:06,280
And I've got a very
good team behind me now,
490
00:24:06,380 --> 00:24:07,840
which I never had before.
491
00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:10,400
- Great drivers have something about them.
492
00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:12,920
Great sportsmen, have
something about them.
493
00:24:13,020 --> 00:24:15,560
(car engine roaring)
494
00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:17,660
The thing about James is that,
495
00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:21,100
he had attitude, very important.
496
00:24:23,260 --> 00:24:25,820
In a way, he was a bit
of an enigma really.
497
00:24:27,020 --> 00:24:30,180
(car engines roaring)
498
00:24:32,260 --> 00:24:37,260
We had a driver who I
believed had huge talent.
499
00:24:37,620 --> 00:24:39,720
Bubbles believed he had huge talent.
500
00:24:39,820 --> 00:24:42,260
And we had persuaded Herd Pasavuet,
501
00:24:43,420 --> 00:24:45,520
to come with the car from March.
502
00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:48,880
Cause he was number two on
the design side of March.
503
00:24:48,980 --> 00:24:53,980
And in a way it's a bit like
when you launch a rocket,
504
00:24:56,180 --> 00:24:58,740
once you press the
button you got ignition,
505
00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:01,800
you got to be go.
506
00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,000
- An airplane landed on the race track,
507
00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:06,560
'cause of the runway is
the race track, right?
508
00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:08,520
So got some local hero in his Cherokee
509
00:25:08,620 --> 00:25:10,440
going chuk, chuk, chuk.
510
00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:11,280
(man laughing)
511
00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:14,120
All clear, friendly air
field in sight, uuh!
512
00:25:14,220 --> 00:25:19,220
- Hesketh racing was, in a
way was quite schizophrenic.
513
00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:23,200
There was the working side of the team,
514
00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,880
and we were very serious.
515
00:25:25,980 --> 00:25:30,980
We were absolute attention
to detail, pushing ourselves.
516
00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:34,840
And I'd like to think
every bit was professional
517
00:25:34,940 --> 00:25:38,440
as any other team in the paddock.
518
00:25:38,540 --> 00:25:40,980
(indistinct)
519
00:25:46,180 --> 00:25:47,560
Don't mind, build nine new cars,
520
00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:50,120
but let's have one of them finish.
521
00:25:50,220 --> 00:25:54,080
- We spent our time going into
state of terminal depression,
522
00:25:54,180 --> 00:25:56,640
if we were on the fourth row of the grid.
523
00:25:56,740 --> 00:25:57,480
I mean, it really was.
524
00:25:57,580 --> 00:25:59,760
I mean, there was, I mean basically,
525
00:25:59,860 --> 00:26:01,200
I mean is it worth getting the gun out
526
00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:04,000
and shooting myself, you
know, this is terrible.
527
00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:06,800
- And then there was the party side,
528
00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:11,900
which was the yachts and the enjoyment.
529
00:26:13,460 --> 00:26:16,120
And that in a way was
just as professionally run
530
00:26:16,220 --> 00:26:17,800
if you're into the party business.
531
00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:22,560
So it was a sort of team of two parts,
532
00:26:22,660 --> 00:26:24,760
and the two did go together.
533
00:26:24,860 --> 00:26:28,860
- There wasn't a great
deal of magic to F1.
534
00:26:30,180 --> 00:26:32,160
It did require a certain amount of money
535
00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:35,840
but nothing likes as much as you think.
536
00:26:35,940 --> 00:26:39,560
Because one of the problems in all sports,
537
00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:44,660
is you can throw indescribable
sums of money on them.
538
00:26:46,380 --> 00:26:51,370
- Monaco, we had a
yatch for the mechanics.
539
00:26:53,370 --> 00:26:57,470
We had our own yacht on
the harbor, fabulous.
540
00:26:57,570 --> 00:26:59,570
- This is almost embarrassing.
541
00:27:01,210 --> 00:27:05,910
We had a rather big yacht in the harbor,
542
00:27:06,010 --> 00:27:10,350
and we got permission to land
the Bell helicopter jet ranger
543
00:27:10,450 --> 00:27:12,530
alongside it on the key.
544
00:27:13,410 --> 00:27:16,030
The idea being that if
anyone had an accident
545
00:27:16,130 --> 00:27:20,190
it could be used to fly
them to nice hospital.
546
00:27:20,290 --> 00:27:23,870
We had a very interesting
pilot who was ex Vietnam
547
00:27:23,970 --> 00:27:27,950
who flew here is rescuing troops,
548
00:27:28,050 --> 00:27:31,190
picking up troops from
battlefields in Vietnam.
549
00:27:31,290 --> 00:27:34,970
And he could put a helicopter
into any space at all.
550
00:27:36,650 --> 00:27:41,310
And, and there was a Porshe,
and a big Suzuki motorbike.
551
00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:43,410
So yeah, we had all the toys.
552
00:27:44,210 --> 00:27:48,230
- Alexander, had an ice
cream cone back to front
553
00:27:48,330 --> 00:27:52,670
on his nose with elastic
band walking up the pit lane.
554
00:27:52,770 --> 00:27:55,590
Bernie says, "David, can
you come here a minute?"
555
00:27:55,690 --> 00:27:59,310
Ricky, "Can you tell him to
take that bloody thing off,
556
00:27:59,410 --> 00:28:01,950
"this is, this is serious."
557
00:28:02,050 --> 00:28:04,690
This is, we are in pit lane.
558
00:28:05,770 --> 00:28:07,110
So I went to Alexander said,
559
00:28:07,210 --> 00:28:08,950
"Bernie said, take it off."
560
00:28:09,050 --> 00:28:12,670
He says, "Go back and tell the little man,
561
00:28:12,770 --> 00:28:14,790
"that I'm not a member of Folker.
562
00:28:14,890 --> 00:28:19,890
"I am totally private, so I
can do what I jolly well like."
563
00:28:20,490 --> 00:28:23,350
- All sports, all activities,
564
00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:27,070
there is a level of pomposity,
politics everywhere.
565
00:28:27,170 --> 00:28:31,030
Where people say, this
is for professionals,
566
00:28:31,130 --> 00:28:33,070
all closed shops like to pretend
567
00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:34,950
that they have a uniqueness,
568
00:28:35,050 --> 00:28:38,870
which is some something
which is sort of handed down
569
00:28:38,970 --> 00:28:40,870
in a way, which is impossible to describe
570
00:28:40,970 --> 00:28:42,470
and suddenly impossible for anyone trying
571
00:28:42,570 --> 00:28:43,510
to get in to understand.
572
00:28:43,610 --> 00:28:46,310
And it's basically by law (beep)
573
00:28:46,410 --> 00:28:47,630
- You could be competitive.
574
00:28:47,730 --> 00:28:49,710
I mean, we very nearly
in our first year won
575
00:28:49,810 --> 00:28:50,990
the American Grand Prix.
576
00:28:51,090 --> 00:28:54,030
We were sort of two tenths of a second
577
00:28:54,130 --> 00:28:56,950
behind Ronnie Peterson, the flag.
578
00:28:57,050 --> 00:28:59,230
It was done on a shoe string.
579
00:28:59,330 --> 00:29:00,830
So that is extraordinary.
580
00:29:00,930 --> 00:29:03,990
And you obviously, you can't do it now.
581
00:29:04,090 --> 00:29:06,670
I mean, the whole system is set up.
582
00:29:06,770 --> 00:29:08,350
So that is impossible.
583
00:29:08,450 --> 00:29:10,950
- Bubbles, managed to deliver
584
00:29:11,050 --> 00:29:12,790
something creative, unbelievable.
585
00:29:12,890 --> 00:29:17,750
If you actually could
produce a cost per point,
586
00:29:17,850 --> 00:29:21,430
I believe that you would
look at Hesketh racing
587
00:29:21,530 --> 00:29:24,070
and see that I paid less money
per world championship point
588
00:29:24,170 --> 00:29:28,950
than anyone in the 70 years
of championships being going.
589
00:29:29,050 --> 00:29:32,310
- I think our arrival in F1, the time,
590
00:29:32,410 --> 00:29:33,990
and everybody was sort of going on,
591
00:29:34,090 --> 00:29:35,230
"Oh, look at these Cowboys."
592
00:29:35,330 --> 00:29:36,190
You know?
593
00:29:36,290 --> 00:29:38,470
And then suddenly we started doing well,
594
00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:42,070
the underdog taking on the big guys.
595
00:29:42,170 --> 00:29:45,870
Was just, The Daily
Express, and television,
596
00:29:45,970 --> 00:29:47,390
and the press loved it.
597
00:29:47,490 --> 00:29:51,190
And got, I think more people
interested in Formula One.
598
00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:53,550
(car engine revving)
599
00:29:53,650 --> 00:29:57,350
- Principal emotion,
when the flag came down
600
00:29:57,450 --> 00:29:59,850
and James went across and
he was still in front.
601
00:30:01,490 --> 00:30:06,150
We had beaten two red
cars, that meant more
602
00:30:06,250 --> 00:30:11,110
than anything in the world
because I respected the comment
603
00:30:11,210 --> 00:30:16,030
on Tori more than anyone else, he was,
604
00:30:16,130 --> 00:30:20,410
and his legend today is
still the biggest name.
605
00:30:21,850 --> 00:30:23,270
And that is the picture.
606
00:30:23,370 --> 00:30:26,470
The only picture you will
find in any house of mine is,
607
00:30:26,570 --> 00:30:30,410
one red white and blue car
with two red bonds behind him.
608
00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:34,090
(crowd cheering)
609
00:30:36,890 --> 00:30:39,790
(driver chats indistinctly)
610
00:30:39,890 --> 00:30:44,830
- My mother always watched
the race from the car packing.
611
00:30:44,930 --> 00:30:46,830
I say, "Mommy, you have to watch the race.
612
00:30:46,930 --> 00:30:48,110
"Don't stay on the..."
613
00:30:48,210 --> 00:30:51,790
She was afraid because
myself and my brother race,
614
00:30:51,890 --> 00:30:55,930
and then I put my mother
on the top of the suites
615
00:30:59,930 --> 00:31:04,330
woodcut, to watch first
Grand Prix,(laughing)
616
00:31:05,770 --> 00:31:06,670
(car engines roaring)
617
00:31:06,770 --> 00:31:08,770
And top cars crush.
618
00:31:09,810 --> 00:31:11,430
(car engine roaring)
619
00:31:11,530 --> 00:31:13,510
(cars crushing)
620
00:31:13,610 --> 00:31:16,310
It was the first time
she watched a Grand Prix.
621
00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:17,310
(laughing)
622
00:31:17,410 --> 00:31:18,550
- I always say my biggest achievement
623
00:31:18,650 --> 00:31:20,790
in Formula One was coming out alive.
624
00:31:20,890 --> 00:31:22,550
Surtees wanted to kill me 'cause
625
00:31:22,650 --> 00:31:24,350
they wrote off three of his cars.
626
00:31:24,450 --> 00:31:26,110
I went to the 60th anniversary
627
00:31:26,210 --> 00:31:28,950
of Ferrari and Deada Mitch was there
628
00:31:29,050 --> 00:31:31,150
and he was still upset with me.
629
00:31:31,250 --> 00:31:33,650
'Cause he broke a ankle so.
630
00:31:34,730 --> 00:31:37,470
(laughing)
631
00:31:37,570 --> 00:31:40,110
(car engine roaring)
632
00:31:40,210 --> 00:31:43,190
- With innovation and
problem, Bernie loved it.
633
00:31:43,290 --> 00:31:44,950
He loved the unfair advantage.
634
00:31:45,050 --> 00:31:46,270
If ever were on pole,
635
00:31:46,370 --> 00:31:47,670
he used to get guys to just cover,
636
00:31:47,770 --> 00:31:49,950
he wouldn't let drivers out again.
637
00:31:50,050 --> 00:31:50,810
He just covered the cars up, as a sort
638
00:31:50,890 --> 00:31:52,470
of a statement to the
other teams. (laughs)
639
00:31:52,570 --> 00:31:56,740
And the fan car was so fast in qualifying.
640
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,220
And we told the drivers
641
00:31:58,320 --> 00:31:59,780
'cause the other teams were very upset
642
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,180
led by Chapman of course.
643
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,340
Very, very upset.
644
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:03,860
There were all sorts of
stupid rumors going around
645
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,380
that the car threw stones out the back.
646
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,980
And it was all Chapman trying
to wind the other drivers up.
647
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,580
- I don't know whether
people really believed
648
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,120
that car was gonna work, including me,
649
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,460
at the beginning, or Gordon perhaps.
650
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,980
But after the first round we
realized, it was gonna work.
651
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,380
- We had the flat 12 alpha,
652
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,820
and it wasn't a neat little
package like the Ferrari.
653
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,300
It was quite a monster.
654
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,940
I think it was a cooling
fan from a centurion tank.
655
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,180
If I remember correctly.
656
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,220
Standing still, you could
stick it on the ceiling.
657
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,940
It had maximum engine revs
and it would stay there.
658
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,420
Which meant it was making more
659
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,460
than its own weight and down force.
660
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,700
Which meant you could get
a 2G, think about it start.
661
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,100
So you had no wheelsman, when
the driver slipped his foot
662
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,580
off the clutch, it went from zero
663
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,820
to 30 in nothing, basically.
664
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,080
(car engines roaring)
665
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,300
The fan car was quite unique
666
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,980
from a driving style point of view.
667
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,580
Because, the drivers had
668
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,420
to virtually forget everything they knew.
669
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,740
We had John Watson, and
Niki Lauda in those days.
670
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,340
Niki got it fairly early on,
671
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,540
but it was terrifying because,
672
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,340
normally approaching a corner,
673
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,620
you brake at the correct time,
674
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,380
you aim at the apex, and
you normally in those days
675
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,180
for the amount of
downfalls these cars had,
676
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,660
you would start accelerating
just on or just after the apex.
677
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:24,740
(car engine roaring)
678
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,140
You went into the corner, at 12,000 revs,
679
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,820
which was our maximum on the flat 12.
680
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,500
And you backed off, and held 12,000 revs
681
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,140
all the way through the corner.
682
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,540
And when you got out of the corner,
683
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,340
you change gear to the next thing.
684
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,980
And that way you got the maximum suction,
685
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,260
and a corner like paddock, we could go
686
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,120
through 30 miles an hour
quicker than a conventional car.
687
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,660
(indistinct)
688
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,700
But, if the driver
wasn't ready, the engine,
689
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,180
he fly off the road.
690
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:54,180
(car engine roaring)
691
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,100
And then of course, the
other problem I had is,
692
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,200
if a skirt broke or lit,
693
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,940
and they arrived at the
corner with 12,000 revs,
694
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,980
thinking they were gonna
have the down force,
695
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,960
and they didn't, they would
also fly off the road.
696
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,060
There was so many things
that could've gone wrong
697
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,540
but we just kept fixing the things
698
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,620
and then arrived in Sweden.
699
00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:14,940
And of course won the race.
700
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,180
So I went back to Bernie and said
701
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,300
that's the championship done and dusted.
702
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,940
Every race we finish,
703
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,780
we actually don't even
have to race very hard.
704
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:23,700
We can take it easy.
705
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,540
Every race we finish, we'll win.
706
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,000
But Chapman of course had drummed up,
707
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,900
the other, (laughs) a lot of support,
708
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,860
and he could see his
championship disappearing.
709
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,940
Bernie came to me and said, "You know,
710
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,980
"I think they're telling us
if we don't withdraw the car,
711
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,020
"that's the end of the
constructive association."
712
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,660
- The thing that Bernie
did, Bernie recognized
713
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,380
that this had the potential
to destroy this union
714
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,100
of teams that were being
built to ultimately
715
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,220
become what Formula One your today is.
716
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,060
He saw the danger.
717
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,200
- Colin Chapman said to me, "Teddy, man
718
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,220
"we're all gonna build this.
719
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,940
"It'll take another three
months for us to get this done
720
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,940
"and the car so quick, it
would be dangerous anyway.
721
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,340
"And it'll cost us a lot of money."
722
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,620
So withdrew the cars, never
disqualified, we just withdrew.
723
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:16,420
- We had a third fan car,
724
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,780
which we hadn't had time to assemble.
725
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,460
It was in the back of the truck.
726
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,820
And I got the guys to soar
it up and put it in the bin.
727
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,380
Sorry, I did that now.
728
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,180
(soft music)
729
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:26,580
- If your hopes are going to Formula One,
730
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,100
and when you get into Formula One,
731
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,620
your hopes that you're
going to win a Grand Prix.
732
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,220
So, Cabida was driving the Shadow,
733
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,180
was a bit of a soft sprung old girl
734
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,660
and it just happened
to suit the conditions,
735
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,100
and we won the race.
736
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,460
But, certainly unexpected
to the extent where
737
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,980
they didn't have the national
Australian Anthem ready.
738
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,060
And so a drunk played happy
birthday on a trumpet,
739
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:48,900
(chuckles)
740
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,820
still sounded good to me.
741
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,620
Well, I had a phone
call not long after that
742
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:55,260
for Montezemolo saying, would
I like to drive a Ferrari?
743
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,980
You know, which is a bit
of a stupid thing really,
744
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,580
it's like saying, "Hey,
would you like $1 billion?"
745
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,860
And I said, "Yeah."
746
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,220
And so he arranged for
me to fly over to Milan,
747
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,700
to meet Mr. Ferrari Enzo.
748
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,780
And he said, but we
must keep this a secret
749
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,380
because we want to make an announcement.
750
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,460
I said, "Okay."
751
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,580
So I flew into Milan, and
when I got off the plane,
752
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,820
here's an Italian dressed
in power blue overalls,
753
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,180
emblazoned with Ferrari.
754
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,100
With a big Alan Jones sign over him.
755
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,420
So that's their idea of keeping it secret.
756
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,180
And I went to the factory and I went in
757
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,980
and Mr. Ferrari was sitting
at his desk and he was white.
758
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,740
He was white as a sheet.
759
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,060
And I thought this bloke's dead.
760
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,460
You know, they're playing
a 'Weekend's at Bernie's'
761
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,420
or something here, signed
a contract basically.
762
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,900
But he did tell me that he
wanted a North American driver
763
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,580
and that I'm looking for Mr. Andretti.
764
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:42,900
And then as soon as I found out
765
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,900
that Andretti had resigned with Lotus.
766
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,020
I didn't hear from them,
767
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,420
I thought, this is very strange.
768
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:48,820
When I finally spoke to them, they said,
769
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,820
"Well you know how we wanted
a North American driver?"
770
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:51,620
I said, "Yes."
771
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:53,460
"Well we have signed Mr. Villeneuve."
772
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:54,580
"Oh, okay, great."
773
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,580
But in the meantime, like all drivers,
774
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,260
you're talking to all
the different team owners
775
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,640
behind tents and caravans
and what have you.
776
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,100
So I immediately got on
the phone to Frank said,
777
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:04,920
"Frank I've been giving
us a lot of thought
778
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,370
"and I'd love to drive for you."
779
00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:11,470
- We had one conversation, and
he and I got on quite well.
780
00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:16,490
Frank went off and did a
deal with him financially,
781
00:37:16,590 --> 00:37:20,650
which, you know, in the scale
of things taps fairly low.
782
00:37:20,750 --> 00:37:23,650
We probably thought that we
would have Alan for a year,
783
00:37:23,750 --> 00:37:27,450
and then step up to one of
the sort of race winners.
784
00:37:27,550 --> 00:37:29,970
I didn't think it took too
long before we realized
785
00:37:30,070 --> 00:37:33,170
that Alan would be perfectly
capable of winning races.
786
00:37:33,270 --> 00:37:36,130
If we could give him a good enough car.
787
00:37:36,230 --> 00:37:37,570
- Frank Williamson and Patrick Head
788
00:37:37,670 --> 00:37:40,190
were the two best people
I've ever driven for.
789
00:37:41,350 --> 00:37:45,050
Patrick had a fantastic
understanding obviously of the car
790
00:37:45,150 --> 00:37:46,130
but we all just jelled.
791
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:48,010
And I think we came
together at the right time.
792
00:37:48,110 --> 00:37:50,770
We're all approximately
about the same age.
793
00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:54,530
We all had ambitions of
becoming world champions.
794
00:37:54,630 --> 00:37:56,050
Frank was very competitive.
795
00:37:56,150 --> 00:37:59,090
- You guys had never met Alan
Jones, you'd have loved him.
796
00:37:59,190 --> 00:38:00,210
He was a man's man.
797
00:38:00,310 --> 00:38:02,310
(indistinct) somebody.
798
00:38:03,190 --> 00:38:03,890
(car engine roaring)
799
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:04,810
- I wanna go full tanks.
800
00:38:04,910 --> 00:38:06,930
(indistinct chatter)
801
00:38:07,030 --> 00:38:09,030
(beep)
802
00:38:11,870 --> 00:38:12,770
- Well if we didn't do it now,
803
00:38:12,870 --> 00:38:14,610
we'll never get another car.
- I think we ought to do it.
804
00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:15,470
- We're gonna do full tanks Aaron.
805
00:38:15,550 --> 00:38:16,510
- A very strong and much too big in a way
806
00:38:16,590 --> 00:38:18,250
to be a racing driver.
807
00:38:18,350 --> 00:38:20,410
'Cause he's very, seven, six feet tall,
808
00:38:20,510 --> 00:38:22,570
very strong, well-built man.
809
00:38:22,670 --> 00:38:24,730
- If we didn't get qualifying right,
810
00:38:24,830 --> 00:38:28,410
and Alan was on the third or fourth row.
811
00:38:28,510 --> 00:38:31,970
Everybody in the team thought
he was gonna win the race.
812
00:38:32,070 --> 00:38:34,550
The next day, he had such confidence.
813
00:38:36,150 --> 00:38:39,730
And if I say contempt, it
wasn't a pleasant contempt
814
00:38:39,830 --> 00:38:42,850
but such contempt for
all the other drivers.
815
00:38:42,950 --> 00:38:45,290
- Well, I mean my fellow
drivers with all due respect
816
00:38:45,390 --> 00:38:48,190
and I hate to sound whatever
I'm gonna sound like,
817
00:38:49,190 --> 00:38:51,250
but I didn't have any respect
for any of them to be honest.
818
00:38:51,350 --> 00:38:54,570
I mean, I didn't even
socialize with many of them.
819
00:38:54,670 --> 00:38:55,810
As far as I was concerned,
820
00:38:55,910 --> 00:38:58,210
they were just things
to be passed and beaten.
821
00:38:58,310 --> 00:39:01,050
(car engine roaring)
822
00:39:01,150 --> 00:39:03,150
Nice guys don't win in Formula One.
823
00:39:04,230 --> 00:39:09,230
- Frank, was, how can I
say, not out of control,
824
00:39:10,990 --> 00:39:15,990
he was sort of, he was kind
of going flat out everywhere.
825
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:18,430
- He was very competitive.
826
00:39:18,830 --> 00:39:23,050
Frank was a guy that went to win.
827
00:39:23,150 --> 00:39:25,650
- Frank was totally consumed.
828
00:39:25,750 --> 00:39:27,050
Everything was about Formula One.
829
00:39:27,150 --> 00:39:30,010
And I think I remember we,
we sort of struggled a bit
830
00:39:30,110 --> 00:39:32,330
and it was all, we were
always looking for money.
831
00:39:32,430 --> 00:39:35,250
And I think I thought
that Frank would have
832
00:39:35,350 --> 00:39:37,250
to get a proper job at some point.
833
00:39:37,350 --> 00:39:40,690
- Nowadays it's fashionable
to walk around a track.
834
00:39:40,790 --> 00:39:42,130
Frank used to run around.
835
00:39:42,230 --> 00:39:45,330
- Frank was very, very energetic.
836
00:39:45,430 --> 00:39:46,690
He was very fit.
837
00:39:46,790 --> 00:39:50,570
So he projected bounding energy.
838
00:39:50,670 --> 00:39:55,610
A lot of his earlier
sponsorship came from Italy.
839
00:39:55,710 --> 00:39:57,650
So he spoke Italian.
840
00:39:57,750 --> 00:39:59,410
(Frank laughing)
841
00:39:59,510 --> 00:40:03,430
(speaking in foreign language)
842
00:40:33,670 --> 00:40:36,050
- 1980, it was actually typical Jones
843
00:40:36,150 --> 00:40:38,690
'cause nothing ever happens easily for me.
844
00:40:38,790 --> 00:40:40,210
I had this thing going on
845
00:40:40,310 --> 00:40:42,370
with Nelson Piquet for most of the year.
846
00:40:42,470 --> 00:40:46,330
And, I think he won
the Italian Grand Prix.
847
00:40:46,430 --> 00:40:48,490
And we went into Montreal,
848
00:40:48,590 --> 00:40:50,870
I think with him maybe
being a point in front.
849
00:40:53,790 --> 00:40:56,730
I was quicker than him in,
in the initial qualifying.
850
00:40:56,830 --> 00:40:57,930
And then after that,
851
00:40:58,030 --> 00:40:59,850
I think the second and final qualifying,
852
00:40:59,950 --> 00:41:01,930
he found like half a second,
853
00:41:02,030 --> 00:41:04,410
and I thought, "Bloody hell,
where has he found that?"
854
00:41:04,510 --> 00:41:06,690
So we were both on the
front row of the grid.
855
00:41:06,790 --> 00:41:09,490
Going into the first hand,
and we rubbed wheels,
856
00:41:09,590 --> 00:41:12,010
and he lost it, went into the fence.
857
00:41:12,110 --> 00:41:17,290
Thus, rendering his race car inoperable,
858
00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:21,770
where they had, then go
back to his qualifying car
859
00:41:21,870 --> 00:41:24,090
that had the same engine in it,
860
00:41:24,190 --> 00:41:26,510
as it did in qualifying, I'll say no more.
861
00:41:27,830 --> 00:41:30,110
They check your fuel
after every Grand Prix.
862
00:41:31,510 --> 00:41:33,450
So in that, they had to put racing fuel,
863
00:41:33,550 --> 00:41:36,850
the proper racing fuel in that car.
864
00:41:36,950 --> 00:41:38,410
It detonated and blew up.
865
00:41:38,510 --> 00:41:42,050
(car engine roaring)
866
00:41:42,150 --> 00:41:44,690
When you're a young boy, you
want to get into Formula One,
867
00:41:44,790 --> 00:41:47,250
once you get into Formula One,
you wanna win a Grand Prix,
868
00:41:47,350 --> 00:41:49,770
once you win a Grand Prix,
you wanna win a championship.
869
00:41:49,870 --> 00:41:53,890
So when all this happens, it's
just an unbelievable feeling
870
00:41:53,990 --> 00:41:55,610
because it's the combination of a lot
871
00:41:55,710 --> 00:41:58,550
of hard work and the
realization of the dream.
872
00:41:59,670 --> 00:42:02,610
I remember sort of almost going
into tears on the last lap.
873
00:42:02,710 --> 00:42:04,090
And I thought, come on,
pull yourself together,
874
00:42:04,190 --> 00:42:07,170
you can't (chuckling) hop
out of the car crying.
875
00:42:07,270 --> 00:42:11,290
So, I pulled up, and Jackie
Stewart was on the podium
876
00:42:11,390 --> 00:42:14,250
and presented me with the
Laurel and so forth and so on.
877
00:42:14,350 --> 00:42:17,480
And you know, all the
Williams boys gathered around
878
00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:21,160
and it was realization that
I'd just become world champion.
879
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:23,260
And it was just surreal.
880
00:42:24,380 --> 00:42:25,720
- When I first joined
the Formula One paddock,
881
00:42:25,820 --> 00:42:28,840
in the mid eighties, the
names were extraordinary.
882
00:42:28,940 --> 00:42:33,080
P.K, Cross, Senna, Lauda, Roseburg,
883
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:36,940
Tom Bay, Laffite, Arnoux,
it went on and on.
884
00:42:38,740 --> 00:42:41,280
And so to join such a
group of eminent drivers,
885
00:42:41,380 --> 00:42:43,080
but they were household names.
886
00:42:43,180 --> 00:42:45,520
- You know, that sort of
eighties, mid eighties,
887
00:42:45,620 --> 00:42:46,480
I was 10 years old.
888
00:42:46,580 --> 00:42:49,120
So that was like, you
know what a glorious time
889
00:42:49,220 --> 00:42:50,760
to follow the sport.
890
00:42:50,860 --> 00:42:52,560
That ticked all the boxes for me, mate.
891
00:42:52,660 --> 00:42:55,740
(car engine revving)
892
00:42:59,380 --> 00:43:01,040
- The battle between Ayrton Senna
893
00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:03,920
and Alan Prost, was one
of the most intense,
894
00:43:04,020 --> 00:43:08,240
personal battles I've
ever seen in Formula One.
895
00:43:08,340 --> 00:43:10,960
Two men cut from
completely different cloths
896
00:43:11,060 --> 00:43:13,240
and, Ayrton used to wear
his heart on his sleeve.
897
00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:15,600
Very emotionally driven man.
898
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:19,800
Alan Prost, the professor was
somewhat more mentally driven.
899
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:22,440
- We didn't, never had
any group discussion
900
00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:24,280
about the drivers.
901
00:43:24,380 --> 00:43:27,380
And they wanted to have
Nelson as a driver.
902
00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:30,600
And I said, and this
one was a good friend.
903
00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:32,160
He was always close to me.
904
00:43:32,260 --> 00:43:34,280
I said, "Well, why Nelson?"
905
00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:36,720
If you want to make a
strong team, take the best.
906
00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:40,360
Take the youngest, take
the one for the future,
907
00:43:40,460 --> 00:43:42,280
take Ayrton.
908
00:43:42,380 --> 00:43:44,080
When he came first test was
909
00:43:44,180 --> 00:43:46,680
This was Imola 88, with new car.
910
00:43:46,780 --> 00:43:51,780
And I remember very
well, done a series of,
911
00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:54,600
I mean two series of four or five laps.
912
00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:59,700
And I said, that's a
winning car. (chuckles)
913
00:44:02,060 --> 00:44:04,900
Then Ayrton came and tested the car.
914
00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:11,040
And I've seen, I've seen
a few things, (chuckles)
915
00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:12,760
a few details.
916
00:44:12,860 --> 00:44:17,660
And I realized that mmh
it's going to be difficult.
917
00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:23,520
And, remember Portugal
race, you know a few things,
918
00:44:23,620 --> 00:44:25,860
let's say it was on the limit.
919
00:44:28,380 --> 00:44:29,120
(car engines revving)
920
00:44:29,220 --> 00:44:31,120
(dramatic music)
921
00:44:31,220 --> 00:44:33,280
- Yeah, I was very
surprised because normally,
922
00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:35,240
especially the first lap when you do that,
923
00:44:35,340 --> 00:44:39,100
with your teammates, you don't
have a big problem like this.
924
00:44:40,220 --> 00:44:43,080
But, I don't understand
they should have some reason
925
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:46,220
to do it, but that's a
problem between him and me.
926
00:44:48,740 --> 00:44:51,640
And I don't want to tell anything bad,
927
00:44:51,740 --> 00:44:55,480
because I think we should
solve the problem very quickly.
928
00:44:55,580 --> 00:44:57,320
It's no problem at all.
929
00:44:57,420 --> 00:45:00,300
- And '89 was absolutely a disaster.
930
00:45:01,260 --> 00:45:05,580
- Prost, was not the flavor of the month,
931
00:45:06,740 --> 00:45:08,720
as far as Honda was concerned.
932
00:45:08,820 --> 00:45:11,480
Although that's, that's
how they positioned it.
933
00:45:11,580 --> 00:45:14,400
- I've seen the engines coming, you know,
934
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:19,320
and it was written, and, on the
engine 'Special for Ayrton.'
935
00:45:19,420 --> 00:45:22,120
Seeing like this, what does that mean?
936
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,720
Is the engine better or
maybe it's exactly the same?
937
00:45:24,820 --> 00:45:26,120
I don't know.
938
00:45:26,220 --> 00:45:30,000
- Honda wanted Senna at all costs,
939
00:45:30,100 --> 00:45:32,400
to win everything, to do everything.
940
00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:34,780
- Psychology of a racing driver, is,
941
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:37,960
a big big part of his performance.
942
00:45:38,060 --> 00:45:39,440
I always said 70, 80%.
943
00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:42,060
It's very subjective,
but it's a big, big part.
944
00:45:44,580 --> 00:45:46,120
If I put my word one table,
945
00:45:46,220 --> 00:45:50,760
I will never do anything
strange or uncorrect.
946
00:45:50,860 --> 00:45:53,400
- Yeah, they've seen
what happened in Imola,
947
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:57,000
was really down to, I had some problems,
948
00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:00,600
because the plan was that nobody's going
949
00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:03,340
to pass each other at the start.
950
00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:06,440
And the most important thing
is to keep the Ferrari's
951
00:46:06,540 --> 00:46:08,000
and the Williams behind.
952
00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:12,380
And after the TOSA, Africa
was the first corner,
953
00:46:13,820 --> 00:46:15,820
then you can race.
954
00:46:16,260 --> 00:46:19,640
(car engines revving)
955
00:46:19,740 --> 00:46:22,560
Prost was began, Ayrton
was in front problem he
956
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:25,640
had to look at the
mirror, yep, no problem.
957
00:46:25,740 --> 00:46:28,720
Then the second lap has the accident,
958
00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:30,600
which got hurt badly.
959
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:33,600
(car engine revving)
960
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:34,960
They stopped the race.
961
00:46:35,060 --> 00:46:40,080
So for the next start, 'cause
is, it was a complete new race
962
00:46:40,180 --> 00:46:43,440
and they all bought same
agreement, yes same agreement.
963
00:46:43,540 --> 00:46:45,080
Okay, no problem.
964
00:46:45,180 --> 00:46:47,540
This time a line was upfront.
965
00:46:49,420 --> 00:46:52,280
- I saw him on the left,
and with plenty of space,
966
00:46:52,380 --> 00:46:55,640
and say, "Okay, take, take
the normal line just to be,
967
00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:57,760
"exit, better."
968
00:46:57,860 --> 00:46:59,440
And then he overtook me.
969
00:46:59,540 --> 00:47:03,120
(indistinct) discussion with Elton.
970
00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:05,400
When we had the argument, Juan was there,
971
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:07,240
John again from Marble was there.
972
00:47:07,340 --> 00:47:10,360
So yes, we had an argument
for the first start,
973
00:47:10,460 --> 00:47:11,840
not for the second start.
974
00:47:11,940 --> 00:47:12,760
- Now you go first, I'll go first,
975
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:14,860
nah, nah, nah, you go first.
976
00:47:15,980 --> 00:47:19,560
My sort of take on that
was neither of them
977
00:47:19,660 --> 00:47:23,600
had made a clear decision on
what should have been done.
978
00:47:23,700 --> 00:47:26,270
- He had his own holes for sure.
979
00:47:26,370 --> 00:47:30,750
His own perception of, I
think obviously he wanted
980
00:47:30,850 --> 00:47:35,590
to beat me in, that is why,
that was the first target,
981
00:47:35,690 --> 00:47:37,790
that was his goal.
982
00:47:37,890 --> 00:47:40,150
- The race is history because from then on
983
00:47:40,250 --> 00:47:42,950
they never have debriefings together,
984
00:47:43,050 --> 00:47:44,870
they never talked to each other.
985
00:47:44,970 --> 00:47:46,990
(crowd singing cheerfully)
986
00:47:47,090 --> 00:47:48,510
- [Reporter] A 20 point
lead in the championship,
987
00:47:48,610 --> 00:47:50,950
What can stop you winning
the world championship?
988
00:47:51,050 --> 00:47:53,830
- I know what can stop me,
989
00:47:53,930 --> 00:47:56,670
but on a normal condition I would say,
990
00:47:56,770 --> 00:47:58,470
"Okay, should be worth world champion,
991
00:47:58,570 --> 00:48:01,550
"20 points is a lot for races to go."
992
00:48:01,650 --> 00:48:04,030
But, at the moment I have so many problems
993
00:48:04,130 --> 00:48:06,310
that sometimes I can have one second,
994
00:48:06,410 --> 00:48:09,110
another even more difference (indistinct)
995
00:48:09,210 --> 00:48:11,230
(car engine roaring)
996
00:48:11,330 --> 00:48:15,910
- I sat them down and that conversation
997
00:48:16,010 --> 00:48:20,830
was incredibly difficult,
incredibly emotional.
998
00:48:20,930 --> 00:48:22,750
I came away feeling very bad
999
00:48:22,850 --> 00:48:25,630
about myself for being so tough.
1000
00:48:25,730 --> 00:48:27,730
As it happens,
1001
00:48:29,170 --> 00:48:34,030
I focused their anger at each other on me.
1002
00:48:34,130 --> 00:48:36,310
So then I was the bad
guy and they coupled up
1003
00:48:36,410 --> 00:48:38,270
and said, "Well, we can't let one better."
1004
00:48:38,370 --> 00:48:39,750
And perfect solution,
1005
00:48:39,850 --> 00:48:42,190
'cause they completely forgot
the fight they were having,
1006
00:48:42,290 --> 00:48:44,290
they took the fight to me.
1007
00:48:46,730 --> 00:48:49,950
- On the day of the accident in Imola,
1008
00:48:50,050 --> 00:48:51,230
and I remember Alan said to me,
1009
00:48:51,330 --> 00:48:52,870
"Oh, is it I spoke with Aytorn?"
1010
00:48:52,970 --> 00:48:54,970
At the driver's meeting and said, "Yeah.
1011
00:48:55,810 --> 00:49:00,030
"I think it's a different
manner of how it was then,
1012
00:49:00,130 --> 00:49:02,190
"and we may become good friends."
1013
00:49:02,290 --> 00:49:06,070
(car engines roaring)
1014
00:49:06,170 --> 00:49:07,750
I was very happy to hear that,
1015
00:49:07,850 --> 00:49:11,990
but, (smacks lips)
1016
00:49:12,090 --> 00:49:15,170
(car engine roaring)
1017
00:49:29,010 --> 00:49:29,750
(somber music)
1018
00:49:29,850 --> 00:49:34,290
- It was an enormous shock for all of us
1019
00:49:35,690 --> 00:49:40,690
and the worldwide grief of this tragedy.
1020
00:49:41,570 --> 00:49:43,570
I had absolutely no precedent.
1021
00:49:45,090 --> 00:49:47,150
- I've called a few persons,
1022
00:49:47,250 --> 00:49:51,510
I would like to go, but I
don't know if it's good or not.
1023
00:49:51,610 --> 00:49:52,790
I was not very confident.
1024
00:49:52,890 --> 00:49:54,430
And then when I came in,
1025
00:49:54,530 --> 00:49:56,070
I think that's the best thing I've done
1026
00:49:56,170 --> 00:49:58,170
because I really wanted to do it.
1027
00:50:00,330 --> 00:50:03,550
Well, it was a very big emotion, but yeah,
1028
00:50:03,650 --> 00:50:06,290
I'm very happy to have met with him.
1029
00:50:10,450 --> 00:50:13,070
- The most awesome thing
I've ever seen in Formula One
1030
00:50:13,170 --> 00:50:16,270
I have to say and still,
still remember it now
1031
00:50:16,370 --> 00:50:20,390
was the time when Nigel
came in for his pit stop
1032
00:50:20,490 --> 00:50:22,870
in Monaco '92.
1033
00:50:22,970 --> 00:50:26,070
So the contest here is
this, Nigel had never
1034
00:50:26,170 --> 00:50:28,790
won the, the Monaco Grand Prix.
1035
00:50:28,890 --> 00:50:30,030
This was his season.
1036
00:50:30,130 --> 00:50:33,590
He had the dominant Williams, 14 B.
1037
00:50:33,690 --> 00:50:36,030
He was winning every race.
1038
00:50:36,130 --> 00:50:39,310
This was his chance to win Monaco finally.
1039
00:50:39,410 --> 00:50:42,090
And he was winning it by a country mile,
1040
00:50:43,010 --> 00:50:47,190
until he had a puncture,
very near the end of the race
1041
00:50:47,290 --> 00:50:50,370
and had to come in for a
completely unplanned pit stop.
1042
00:50:51,730 --> 00:50:56,730
And Arnet, was coming
second and coming through.
1043
00:50:58,730 --> 00:51:00,990
And I just remember as
Nigel left the pit lane,
1044
00:51:01,090 --> 00:51:04,070
left the box with his new tires,
1045
00:51:04,170 --> 00:51:09,030
Nigel going out through
this blind bit of tarmac,
1046
00:51:09,130 --> 00:51:10,470
absolutely on the limit.
1047
00:51:10,570 --> 00:51:15,110
So the backend waving
the whole way down to try
1048
00:51:15,210 --> 00:51:18,550
and get out, and be onto the track,
1049
00:51:18,650 --> 00:51:20,650
which he failed to do unfortunately.
1050
00:51:22,210 --> 00:51:23,310
- It wasn't a puncture at all,
1051
00:51:23,410 --> 00:51:24,870
it was just a loose wheel nut.
1052
00:51:24,970 --> 00:51:28,070
And if they tightened it up,
he would have been able to get
1053
00:51:28,170 --> 00:51:30,110
out of the pits before Senna arrived,
1054
00:51:30,210 --> 00:51:33,350
but he didn't, Senna took the lead
1055
00:51:33,450 --> 00:51:37,410
with the knowledge as a
multiple winner at Monaco.
1056
00:51:38,690 --> 00:51:40,830
There was no way that
Nigel was gonna pass him
1057
00:51:40,930 --> 00:51:41,670
if he didn't help him.
1058
00:51:41,770 --> 00:51:44,270
And he wasn't about to do that.
1059
00:51:44,370 --> 00:51:47,450
(car engine roaring)
1060
00:51:50,770 --> 00:51:52,350
Nigel Mansell was trying to go
1061
00:51:52,450 --> 00:51:55,130
over the top, underneath,
around the side, anything,
1062
00:51:55,970 --> 00:52:00,550
but Senna in a car which hosing is good,
1063
00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:05,790
won on a race by sheer
ability and craftsmanship.
1064
00:52:05,890 --> 00:52:07,890
It was a brilliant exposition.
1065
00:52:11,770 --> 00:52:13,950
(car engines roaring loudly)
1066
00:52:14,050 --> 00:52:14,790
(soft music)
1067
00:52:14,890 --> 00:52:16,990
- Go karting and motor
racing in generally,
1068
00:52:17,090 --> 00:52:18,950
Finland is very big sport.
1069
00:52:19,050 --> 00:52:22,550
So I got involved Go-karts
when I was around,
1070
00:52:22,650 --> 00:52:23,550
five, six years old.
1071
00:52:23,650 --> 00:52:25,910
And I got a spark.
1072
00:52:26,010 --> 00:52:26,750
I got the spark.
1073
00:52:26,850 --> 00:52:27,630
I said, this is it.
1074
00:52:27,730 --> 00:52:29,730
I, I like this!
1075
00:52:31,810 --> 00:52:35,820
I had to look, what team
would be the best me to go.
1076
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:40,060
And if you look the history
of McLaren, it's unbelievable.
1077
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,180
So I said, that's it.
1078
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,640
And Ron was happy to take me.
1079
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,880
It was not long before
the first race in Kyalami,
1080
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:55,000
when, Ron said to me,
Mika, sorry, no racing.
1081
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,340
There will be a test driver.
1082
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,680
But he said Mika, I promise
you will be racing with us.
1083
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:05,840
Before the Portuguese Grand Prix
1084
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,780
I did quite a few tests
with Ayrton same time.
1085
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:12,720
And every time Ayrton was
quicker than me in a testing.
1086
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,720
But I knew, that performance
of the cars were not same.
1087
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,420
We were testing completely
different items in a car.
1088
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,720
So I knew that it was obvious
Ayrton was able to go faster.
1089
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,860
And I knew also, why they let him
1090
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:29,140
be a little bit faster too.
1091
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:29,940
(man laughs)
1092
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:30,940
So when I went to Portugal
1093
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,260
I was very confident that
we are gonna go flat out.
1094
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,180
And I have a chance to
do the great result.
1095
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,300
It's difficult with Ayrton,
everybody can imagine,
1096
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,880
he's tough and he is very good driver.
1097
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,900
But, I enjoy working with him.
1098
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,580
And we working together very closely.
1099
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,760
Every corner, together.
1100
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,340
Because we both of us are on no limit.
1101
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,440
Ayrton is a no limit, I'm no limit.
1102
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,700
We can easily to improve the car.
1103
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,360
Well not easily, but it helps you know.
1104
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,620
(car engines roaring)
1105
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:11,300
It got really difficult
to relate at the moment,
1106
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,760
when I was quicker than
him in a qualification,
1107
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,060
he understood time to race.
1108
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,800
I went to the garage, and,
Ayrton came to talk to me.
1109
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:22,060
"What did you do?
1110
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,000
"How you quicker than, you
know, what did you do?"
1111
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,340
And I just, I don't know if you'll have
1112
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:30,220
to show this in television,
1113
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,220
but I showed to him like this. (laughing)
1114
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:33,940
He got so upset.
1115
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,960
He got so upset about it.
1116
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,480
Of course, I meant it as a joke,
1117
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,180
but to do that for three
times world champion,
1118
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,500
who've been having amazing career,
1119
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:49,940
and then young Finnish guy come in
1120
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,180
and beat him in a qualifying.
1121
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,380
It was (indistinct) for him.
1122
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:54,220
Really, really bad.
1123
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:55,860
So, he really looked at me as of,
1124
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:57,980
" Mika, do you understand I'm
three times world champion.
1125
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,540
"You have never even won a crown
1126
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,640
"so what you're telling me like that?"
1127
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:04,700
It's a joke, try to understand,
1128
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,060
but he did not understand.
1129
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:09,020
I learned a lot from Ayrton, you know,
1130
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,660
I think I changed after that discussion.
1131
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,620
Why you so serious?
1132
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:16,580
But I understood really,
1133
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:18,380
you cannot go from Lavonne and just,
1134
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,380
you have to be a tough guy to be there.
1135
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:26,380
You just gonna go there and
smiling, and having fun, no!
1136
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,020
You have to really focus.
1137
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,300
- I think he's the
fastest driver I ever had
1138
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,540
as a teammate or raced
against, pure speed.
1139
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,740
He was just, it was just
a pure racing driver.
1140
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:39,840
- '95 was really hard year,
1141
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:43,840
Mercedes had a high
expectations for the results.
1142
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,040
Car didn't work really well in '95.
1143
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,500
Also what happened with Nigel Mansell,
1144
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:55,760
he arrived to the team
but didn't last too long.
1145
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,020
Very difficult year.
1146
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:04,120
And then, the other accidents,
(car engine roaring)
1147
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,220
There was a tire explosion.
1148
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,320
So I hit the barrier, crack my skull.
1149
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,660
And of course it was in a
most horrible corner where
1150
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,460
the speed is really high,
but there was a good thing.
1151
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:33,100
There was just a medical
team was just in that corner.
1152
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,980
- They performed a tracheotomy at the,
1153
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,340
on the side, by the side of the car,
1154
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,260
as he had a significant amount
1155
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,360
of blood go down into his lungs.
1156
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,300
And, it is without doubt,
it's their behavior
1157
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:53,300
and their performance, which was assisted
1158
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,640
by Professor Watkins, about one minute
1159
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:00,980
or so after the accident,
that saved his life.
1160
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:02,180
- These guys are professionals,
1161
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,180
things happen in racing and
they get on with their racing.
1162
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,500
I mean, we hope there's nothing,
1163
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,660
I mean, for sure, Mika won't
be here tomorrow racing
1164
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,220
but let's hope he's all okay.
1165
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,300
- That's really, I think helped me
1166
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,680
to appreciate life.
1167
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:21,780
It felt like before my accident,
1168
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:26,480
I was always running flat out without,
1169
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,420
really didn't know how to walk.
1170
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,660
So it teach me to learn to
walk first and run after.
1171
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:38,760
- Could have hit a specific
point that I've seen drivers hit
1172
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,080
and they say, I'm gonna stop.
1173
00:57:42,910 --> 00:57:45,890
And that's the point at
which they experience fear.
1174
00:57:45,990 --> 00:57:47,690
- I just wanted to live.
1175
00:57:47,790 --> 00:57:49,370
I just wanted to get rid of the pain.
1176
00:57:49,470 --> 00:57:53,690
That was the main purpose
of my feeling that time.
1177
00:57:53,790 --> 00:57:56,130
There was no any interest
1178
00:57:56,230 --> 00:57:58,470
of the motor racing,
and it took a long time.
1179
00:57:59,630 --> 00:58:00,550
- So this injury and
recovery, and everything
1180
00:58:00,630 --> 00:58:02,630
we go to Paul Ricard.
1181
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:06,770
I said, let's just see how this goes.
1182
00:58:06,870 --> 00:58:09,530
Michael had been testing
there for three days.
1183
00:58:09,630 --> 00:58:11,850
So obviously putting in
that time in his second lap
1184
00:58:11,950 --> 00:58:16,450
because faster than
Michael been in three days
1185
00:58:16,550 --> 00:58:17,490
and it don't just go,
1186
00:58:17,590 --> 00:58:19,770
never been in a racing
car for months, you know?
1187
00:58:19,870 --> 00:58:22,250
I mean, it was just awesome.
1188
00:58:22,350 --> 00:58:24,930
- John Dennis sent the message, "Mika,
1189
00:58:25,030 --> 00:58:27,570
"you will win with us, you
will be world champion."
1190
00:58:27,670 --> 00:58:30,170
I believe that, I believe
him a hundred percent
1191
00:58:30,270 --> 00:58:33,530
because the history talks,
I have a mission here.
1192
00:58:33,630 --> 00:58:35,970
I've been doing this sport all my life.
1193
00:58:36,070 --> 00:58:37,370
I'm here to win.
1194
00:58:37,470 --> 00:58:39,850
And finally when we get to Mereseres,
1195
00:58:39,950 --> 00:58:41,950
we started getting stronger.
1196
00:58:44,950 --> 00:58:49,770
- Mika Hakkinen, a double
world champion in Formula One
1197
00:58:49,870 --> 00:58:52,250
was racing and fighting
for his world championships
1198
00:58:52,350 --> 00:58:54,370
against Michael Schumacher.
1199
00:58:54,470 --> 00:58:57,970
I think that makes his
championships even more special.
1200
00:58:58,070 --> 00:59:00,090
I really do.
1201
00:59:00,190 --> 00:59:02,130
- Racing against Michael,
1202
00:59:02,230 --> 00:59:05,250
the race was never over
until they check your flag.
1203
00:59:05,350 --> 00:59:06,610
So you never could have take it easy.
1204
00:59:06,710 --> 00:59:08,290
You never could have slowed down.
1205
00:59:08,390 --> 00:59:11,490
Never underestimate him,
Michael was so tough.
1206
00:59:11,590 --> 00:59:15,290
But when we met to final (indistinct)
1207
00:59:15,390 --> 00:59:17,390
I was some reason so confident,
1208
00:59:17,790 --> 00:59:21,110
I was confident because
Tim gave me the confidence.
1209
00:59:22,430 --> 00:59:25,190
Tim gave me the trust,
said, "Mika, you can do it,
1210
00:59:27,230 --> 00:59:29,290
"Mika we will do everything for you,
1211
00:59:29,390 --> 00:59:32,970
"that way you can do it."
And I felt like, "That's it!"
1212
00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:34,210
I'm gonna do the same,
1213
00:59:34,310 --> 00:59:37,570
so I'm gonna go, I'm gonna
make a perfect weekend.
1214
00:59:37,670 --> 00:59:39,330
So I tried to figure it
out, how I can do this,
1215
00:59:39,430 --> 00:59:41,430
how I can win it.
1216
00:59:41,750 --> 00:59:43,970
And suddenly it clicked in my mind,
1217
00:59:44,070 --> 00:59:46,450
I said, "Now I know what I have to do."
1218
00:59:46,550 --> 00:59:48,170
So I put all of my concentration,
1219
00:59:48,270 --> 00:59:51,130
all my energy, only in the start.
1220
00:59:51,230 --> 00:59:53,230
Nothing else.
1221
00:59:54,990 --> 00:59:56,170
I didn't think about the first lap,
1222
00:59:56,270 --> 00:59:58,270
or second lap or whatever.
1223
01:00:00,150 --> 01:00:02,150
It worked out fantastic.
1224
01:00:02,830 --> 01:00:05,130
Even when Michael was out,
1225
01:00:05,230 --> 01:00:07,570
I saw it on the track,
I saw it in the screen.
1226
01:00:07,670 --> 01:00:09,670
I knew that's it, enough.
1227
01:00:12,470 --> 01:00:16,230
Walter said, "Mika, focus,
concentrate it's not over yet."
1228
01:00:17,470 --> 01:00:19,530
(car engine revving)
1229
01:00:19,630 --> 01:00:21,630
And I'll never forget because,
1230
01:00:22,590 --> 01:00:25,270
it was important to finish
the race, and win the race.
1231
01:00:30,230 --> 01:00:31,450
After the race, the lap around the track,
1232
01:00:31,550 --> 01:00:36,550
it was an amazing moment, the
feeling inside, the relief.
1233
01:00:39,310 --> 01:00:42,130
Coming to the pits, coming out of the car,
1234
01:00:42,230 --> 01:00:44,230
I didn't know.
1235
01:00:45,190 --> 01:00:47,190
Is it real or not?
1236
01:00:47,670 --> 01:00:48,970
This is because it took so many years.
1237
01:00:49,070 --> 01:00:49,810
It's horrible.
1238
01:00:49,910 --> 01:00:54,750
And I took since '91 and
finally, seven years later.
1239
01:00:57,150 --> 01:00:59,570
I don't think it's a mistake
to show your emotions.
1240
01:00:59,670 --> 01:01:03,290
I think it's very important
to show your emotions.
1241
01:01:03,390 --> 01:01:05,390
It was incredible.
1242
01:01:06,030 --> 01:01:08,490
(crowd cheering)
1243
01:01:08,590 --> 01:01:11,170
Michael was a very, very
difficult competitor.
1244
01:01:11,270 --> 01:01:13,370
You know, it was fun.
1245
01:01:13,470 --> 01:01:17,010
It was really good fun
too, because I knew I'm so
1246
01:01:17,110 --> 01:01:18,330
much quicker than him.
1247
01:01:18,430 --> 01:01:20,430
So the overtaking should be quite easy,
1248
01:01:21,870 --> 01:01:23,050
but it was not easy.
1249
01:01:23,150 --> 01:01:24,490
Every time when I tried to overtaking him,
1250
01:01:24,590 --> 01:01:26,590
he closed the door.
1251
01:01:27,430 --> 01:01:30,210
And sometimes not so nicely, to be honest.
1252
01:01:30,310 --> 01:01:32,370
And I thought, if I'm gonna overtake him
1253
01:01:32,470 --> 01:01:34,050
I have to do it flat.
So I said, "That's it.
1254
01:01:34,150 --> 01:01:35,250
"I'm gonna make a risk."
1255
01:01:35,350 --> 01:01:37,130
I thought the car gonna explode,
1256
01:01:37,230 --> 01:01:40,850
ran out of pressure, was so
hard because the car was heavy.
1257
01:01:40,950 --> 01:01:43,070
And I nearly flew coming out of the rules.
1258
01:01:43,990 --> 01:01:47,170
And I saw that, (indistinct) so easy now.
1259
01:01:47,270 --> 01:01:49,270
And then I see there's a black market.
1260
01:01:50,150 --> 01:01:52,890
I said, "Okay, let's go for it."
1261
01:01:52,990 --> 01:01:55,170
Because Ricardo is there.
1262
01:01:55,270 --> 01:01:56,410
So all I have to do, pass Ricardo inside.
1263
01:01:56,510 --> 01:02:00,090
But I knew that Victor Ricardo
don't see us in a mirror
1264
01:02:00,190 --> 01:02:04,430
and if he suddenly moves inside or outside
1265
01:02:05,750 --> 01:02:07,090
we are history basically.
1266
01:02:07,190 --> 01:02:09,130
- Miki has obviously decided he's going
1267
01:02:09,230 --> 01:02:10,970
whichever side Michael doesn't go.
1268
01:02:11,070 --> 01:02:13,650
And it, it showed great speed,
1269
01:02:13,750 --> 01:02:16,330
great bravery, scale, precision.
1270
01:02:16,430 --> 01:02:17,690
And then you got to collect it all up
1271
01:02:17,790 --> 01:02:20,010
when you arrive at the braking zone.
1272
01:02:20,110 --> 01:02:22,630
It was unbelievable feeling, you know?
1273
01:02:24,790 --> 01:02:26,210
And I think when I overtook Michael,
1274
01:02:26,310 --> 01:02:28,490
he gave up, he said, that's it.
1275
01:02:28,590 --> 01:02:31,530
This was already too much for him too.
1276
01:02:31,630 --> 01:02:32,610
You know.
1277
01:02:32,710 --> 01:02:34,250
It was a good battle.
1278
01:02:34,350 --> 01:02:36,850
(crowd cheering)
1279
01:02:36,950 --> 01:02:38,730
- Michael in Monaco in 2006 was not
1280
01:02:38,830 --> 01:02:40,970
his finest moment in qualifying.
1281
01:02:41,070 --> 01:02:42,890
- Michael had occasional aberrations.
1282
01:02:42,990 --> 01:02:44,490
I mean, things that you could never
1283
01:02:44,590 --> 01:02:46,450
really give a logical explanation for.
1284
01:02:46,550 --> 01:02:48,610
- We have a meeting with the team,
1285
01:02:48,710 --> 01:02:51,210
we were talking about the qualifying
1286
01:02:51,310 --> 01:02:53,440
and then you have two sets of tires
1287
01:02:53,540 --> 01:02:55,320
for the qualifying.
1288
01:02:55,420 --> 01:02:59,040
And, and then Michael said something.
1289
01:02:59,140 --> 01:03:01,760
Yeah, but I mean, if we
are quicker, straight away
1290
01:03:01,860 --> 01:03:05,380
and then we went for the
second set and Ross Brown said
1291
01:03:07,060 --> 01:03:09,340
that maybe we can create a yellow flag.
1292
01:03:10,580 --> 01:03:15,580
And he said, I said, for fun,
not a serious thing, for fun.
1293
01:03:16,340 --> 01:03:18,120
- Michael, would come
out of the swimming pool,
1294
01:03:18,220 --> 01:03:21,000
seeing his sector times
on his dashboard is Delta,
1295
01:03:21,100 --> 01:03:25,080
realized he wasn't going
to get on pole and fate,
1296
01:03:25,180 --> 01:03:27,180
a clumsy little shut into Russ cars.
1297
01:03:28,340 --> 01:03:29,360
One of the greatest drivers
1298
01:03:29,460 --> 01:03:32,400
of all time having a 30 mile an hour crash
1299
01:03:32,500 --> 01:03:33,560
it just didn't compute.
1300
01:03:33,660 --> 01:03:34,680
Did it?
1301
01:03:34,780 --> 01:03:37,940
(car engines roaring)
1302
01:03:40,180 --> 01:03:44,440
(guys chatting indistinctly)
1303
01:03:44,540 --> 01:03:46,540
- Exactly that.
1304
01:03:46,900 --> 01:03:50,940
So Michael used that funny
thing for him, (indistinct)
1305
01:03:52,260 --> 01:03:56,180
(speaking in foreign language)
1306
01:03:58,380 --> 01:04:00,380
- No way.
1307
01:04:00,780 --> 01:04:05,340
You had this incredible
competitiveness that drove him.
1308
01:04:06,420 --> 01:04:07,680
And sometimes in short circuit.
1309
01:04:07,780 --> 01:04:09,520
- Afraid to say it's all got a bit nasty
1310
01:04:09,620 --> 01:04:11,600
after that great poll from Michael Renno,
1311
01:04:11,700 --> 01:04:13,160
I've come out and said that that's
1312
01:04:13,260 --> 01:04:14,920
the way Ferrari manage their team.
1313
01:04:15,020 --> 01:04:16,440
And that Michael did it deliberately.
1314
01:04:16,540 --> 01:04:18,240
What's your reaction to that?
1315
01:04:18,340 --> 01:04:20,360
- I think they should cool down a bit
1316
01:04:20,460 --> 01:04:21,600
and let the facts come out.
1317
01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:25,280
And then they can make,
they can have their opinion
1318
01:04:25,380 --> 01:04:27,520
but there's a lot of emotions
running around at the moment.
1319
01:04:27,620 --> 01:04:28,840
So I think they should wait.
1320
01:04:28,940 --> 01:04:30,720
- A lot of the other teams
think he did it on purpose,
1321
01:04:30,820 --> 01:04:31,920
what do you think?
1322
01:04:32,020 --> 01:04:32,760
- I don't think so.
1323
01:04:32,860 --> 01:04:36,680
Honestly I mean, I think
he just break late.
1324
01:04:36,780 --> 01:04:39,360
He was only on his try on new tires.
1325
01:04:39,460 --> 01:04:41,520
- Would Michael do something
like that deliberately?
1326
01:04:41,620 --> 01:04:43,680
- Not the Michael I know.
1327
01:04:43,780 --> 01:04:46,080
- I remember so well that media, I said,
1328
01:04:46,180 --> 01:04:47,760
"Oh, I can't believe he did it."
1329
01:04:47,860 --> 01:04:49,760
You know, he did it.
1330
01:04:49,860 --> 01:04:51,320
And then the only thing is
1331
01:04:51,420 --> 01:04:54,260
that he was not able
to say that he did it.
1332
01:04:56,100 --> 01:04:56,840
(crowd cheering)
1333
01:04:56,940 --> 01:05:00,160
- Unfortunately, no, I
mean, I have to apologize
1334
01:05:00,260 --> 01:05:03,000
for not being able to tell you much more
1335
01:05:03,100 --> 01:05:06,760
than what you know, I know nothing either.
1336
01:05:06,860 --> 01:05:08,000
(reporter chats indistinctly)
1337
01:05:08,100 --> 01:05:09,320
Nope.
1338
01:05:09,420 --> 01:05:12,480
I mean, other than if he call pushing
1339
01:05:12,580 --> 01:05:14,840
too hard something wrong.
1340
01:05:14,940 --> 01:05:16,440
- He stopped hitting qualifying
1341
01:05:16,540 --> 01:05:18,560
and it's just something
that you just don't do.
1342
01:05:18,660 --> 01:05:19,840
And then he got pulled up on it.
1343
01:05:19,940 --> 01:05:20,700
You know, he got
disqualified from qualifying
1344
01:05:20,780 --> 01:05:23,280
he had to start the race
in the back of the grid.
1345
01:05:23,380 --> 01:05:26,240
And I think that was just
Michael, you know, he's
1346
01:05:26,340 --> 01:05:28,120
he would do anything to win.
1347
01:05:28,220 --> 01:05:31,100
- Monaco poll is normally a
given, you know, you want it,
1348
01:05:33,460 --> 01:05:35,400
but on that occasion with
the strategies that we had
1349
01:05:35,500 --> 01:05:36,260
and the tires we had, and the car we had,
1350
01:05:36,340 --> 01:05:38,240
was actually the need for it.
1351
01:05:38,340 --> 01:05:40,040
There was just a stupid move.
1352
01:05:40,140 --> 01:05:42,440
I won those little
glitches, short circuits
1353
01:05:42,540 --> 01:05:45,840
that Michael had two or
three times in his career.
1354
01:05:45,940 --> 01:05:47,040
- He did get away with it many times.
1355
01:05:47,140 --> 01:05:49,240
But he didn't get away with it that time.
1356
01:05:49,340 --> 01:05:51,320
But he's not the only one
that's done that in Monaco.
1357
01:05:51,420 --> 01:05:54,160
- So he took one year for him to tell me
1358
01:05:54,260 --> 01:05:56,200
that he did by purpose, one year.
1359
01:05:56,300 --> 01:05:59,320
I mean, you know, I said,
how can you do that?
1360
01:05:59,420 --> 01:06:01,080
You know?
1361
01:06:01,180 --> 01:06:03,280
So, you know, he shows
1362
01:06:03,380 --> 01:06:04,960
that everybody makes mistakes in life.
1363
01:06:05,060 --> 01:06:07,060
And this was definitely
1364
01:06:08,900 --> 01:06:09,660
- [Announcer] What was going inside line,
1365
01:06:09,740 --> 01:06:10,880
remember, if he can stay ahead.
1366
01:06:10,980 --> 01:06:12,120
But where does Fentel go now?
1367
01:06:12,220 --> 01:06:16,000
Dancing round the outside,
Weber, just about keeping ahead,
1368
01:06:16,100 --> 01:06:18,880
covers the line beautifully.
1369
01:06:18,980 --> 01:06:21,320
Going through turn one, forces
Sebastian to back off...
1370
01:06:21,420 --> 01:06:23,280
- He's gonna have to go right,
1371
01:06:23,380 --> 01:06:25,960
he's gonna stay right to
defend against his teammate.
1372
01:06:26,060 --> 01:06:26,800
- Who's got a great run.
1373
01:06:26,900 --> 01:06:29,080
- He needs to force his
teammate left, he's done that.
1374
01:06:29,180 --> 01:06:30,640
He's got the high ground as it were.
1375
01:06:30,740 --> 01:06:31,960
He needs to make sure
we can keep it inside
1376
01:06:32,060 --> 01:06:37,060
and then not get a fully
alongside as you can,
1377
01:06:37,380 --> 01:06:40,100
claim it turn five, and
that's exactly what he's done.
1378
01:06:41,740 --> 01:06:43,720
- Careful Sebastian, careful.
1379
01:06:43,820 --> 01:06:45,720
(car engine roaring)
1380
01:06:45,820 --> 01:06:47,320
- Should they be telling
Sebastian Vettel to be careful.
1381
01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:49,420
It's looks a pretty fair fight.
1382
01:06:50,620 --> 01:06:54,800
- Yeah, the multi 21 race
was very difficult just
1383
01:06:54,900 --> 01:06:56,680
because Seth thought there
was a bit of hangover
1384
01:06:56,780 --> 01:06:59,680
from Brazil the previous
year where I might not
1385
01:06:59,780 --> 01:07:01,960
have helped him on the starts.
1386
01:07:02,060 --> 01:07:05,520
So I think he was premeditated on again,
1387
01:07:05,620 --> 01:07:06,840
another tit for tat on that one.
1388
01:07:06,940 --> 01:07:10,160
And I was controlling the
race early on and frankly sort
1389
01:07:10,260 --> 01:07:13,380
of really supporting
Sebastian in that early part
1390
01:07:14,260 --> 01:07:15,020
of the race, because he was always trying
1391
01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:17,120
to get the undercut, to
stay away from Louis,
1392
01:07:17,220 --> 01:07:18,720
'cause Louis was trying
to tear off against him
1393
01:07:18,820 --> 01:07:19,800
around the stops.
1394
01:07:19,900 --> 01:07:23,240
And we gave Sebastian every stop lap
1395
01:07:23,340 --> 01:07:24,440
that he needed, effectively.
1396
01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:27,320
And on the last stop I went,
I was well out of ties and
1397
01:07:27,420 --> 01:07:30,160
and ultimately went longer
than I needed to just
1398
01:07:30,260 --> 01:07:33,280
to keep him away from, from Louis.
1399
01:07:33,380 --> 01:07:36,020
And then when it come to
shutting the race down
1400
01:07:37,060 --> 01:07:38,440
then he didn't want to borrow that.
1401
01:07:38,540 --> 01:07:41,120
So I was constantly ringing
the team saying, well
1402
01:07:41,220 --> 01:07:43,280
as he got the call, because
it doesn't look like he has
1403
01:07:43,380 --> 01:07:45,320
because this is not the
pace we're doing now.
1404
01:07:45,420 --> 01:07:47,040
We're just going to do the last eight
1405
01:07:47,140 --> 01:07:49,600
or nine laps of the
flag and bring it home.
1406
01:07:49,700 --> 01:07:50,440
(car engine roaring)
1407
01:07:50,540 --> 01:07:52,880
- [Narrator] Oh look,
it's wheel to wheel again,
1408
01:07:52,980 --> 01:07:55,600
for the two Redbulls,
Sebastian (indistinct)
1409
01:07:55,700 --> 01:07:57,480
the Colombian sign, has he now stolen
1410
01:07:57,580 --> 01:07:59,000
the lead from his teammate?
1411
01:07:59,100 --> 01:08:02,310
However scrap back, fantastic stuff!
1412
01:08:02,410 --> 01:08:04,270
Mark Webber regains the lead,
1413
01:08:04,370 --> 01:08:06,270
but the battle is not over yet.
1414
01:08:06,370 --> 01:08:08,630
And there is barely a
meter between the two cars
1415
01:08:08,730 --> 01:08:10,150
and down the hill they blobbed,
1416
01:08:10,250 --> 01:08:11,010
and side by side almost toward
1417
01:08:11,090 --> 01:08:13,570
the braking zone in zone four.
1418
01:08:14,450 --> 01:08:17,030
Webber on the inside, has
he got the pena traction?
1419
01:08:17,130 --> 01:08:17,870
No.
1420
01:08:17,970 --> 01:08:19,670
Vettel goes dancing round the outside.
1421
01:08:19,770 --> 01:08:22,550
And it's a dance that takes
him into the lead of this race.
1422
01:08:22,650 --> 01:08:23,910
Wow!
1423
01:08:24,010 --> 01:08:26,350
How good was that?
1424
01:08:26,450 --> 01:08:28,750
- This is silly Seb, come on.
1425
01:08:28,850 --> 01:08:29,650
- I mean one of my only regret is
1426
01:08:29,730 --> 01:08:30,870
I should have turned the engine back up
1427
01:08:30,970 --> 01:08:34,030
and got back into it, I
defended it best I could,
1428
01:08:34,130 --> 01:08:34,870
but I was like, you know,
1429
01:08:34,970 --> 01:08:37,070
just still my old school,
I suppose my moral compass
1430
01:08:37,170 --> 01:08:39,830
I just wanted to keep
looking after the equipment.
1431
01:08:39,930 --> 01:08:42,050
But said, he had other ideas.
1432
01:08:43,130 --> 01:08:45,430
I was in my head thinking,
this is such a shame.
1433
01:08:45,530 --> 01:08:47,310
And I was questioning
at the time increased,
1434
01:08:47,410 --> 01:08:49,550
what are we doing here?
1435
01:08:49,650 --> 01:08:52,150
- As the checkered flag comes out
1436
01:08:52,250 --> 01:08:54,510
and is waived for Sebastian Vettel,
1437
01:08:54,610 --> 01:08:57,190
who wins the Malaysia Grand Prix.
1438
01:08:57,290 --> 01:08:59,110
His teammate Mayweather, who led the race
1439
01:08:59,210 --> 01:09:03,870
for such a long time,
beaten into second place.
1440
01:09:03,970 --> 01:09:05,630
- I was doing the podium
interviews that day
1441
01:09:05,730 --> 01:09:07,710
but to get from the
commentary box to the podium
1442
01:09:07,810 --> 01:09:09,670
you have to go through a long
tunnel underneath the track.
1443
01:09:09,770 --> 01:09:10,910
You lose communications.
1444
01:09:11,010 --> 01:09:14,450
I had no idea what was
going on about multi 21.
1445
01:09:25,690 --> 01:09:27,690
Adrian knew he's standing there,
1446
01:09:29,250 --> 01:09:30,430
and Mark is glaring at Sebastian,
1447
01:09:30,530 --> 01:09:32,530
and he's going, "Multi 21 sip."
1448
01:09:33,530 --> 01:09:35,530
- Multi 21 sip.
1449
01:09:39,010 --> 01:09:41,010
Yeah, multi 21.
1450
01:09:54,170 --> 01:09:55,350
- To quote Murray Walker,
1451
01:09:55,450 --> 01:09:58,050
"You could cut the atmosphere
with a cricket stump."
1452
01:09:59,090 --> 01:09:59,810
- [Announcer] Well, I hope you all enjoy
1453
01:09:59,890 --> 01:10:00,670
that race as much as we did.
1454
01:10:00,770 --> 01:10:03,630
What an incredible fight, all
the way through the field.
1455
01:10:03,730 --> 01:10:05,310
- I think if there's something to say
1456
01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:07,630
we need to talk internally, but for sure
1457
01:10:07,730 --> 01:10:09,350
I think we both enjoyed that.
1458
01:10:09,450 --> 01:10:12,270
Of course, I'm standing in the middle now.
1459
01:10:12,370 --> 01:10:15,030
So I just enjoyed it probably
a little bit more, but yeah
1460
01:10:15,130 --> 01:10:17,110
I think we have plenty
of time to talk about.
1461
01:10:17,210 --> 01:10:18,990
- Probably a good time
for me to walk across
1462
01:10:19,090 --> 01:10:22,070
and speak to Mark and
see how he felt about it.
1463
01:10:22,170 --> 01:10:23,510
- The team told me that the race was over
1464
01:10:23,610 --> 01:10:25,910
and we turned the engines
down and now we go to the end.
1465
01:10:26,010 --> 01:10:28,510
So I won a race as well.
1466
01:10:28,610 --> 01:10:30,950
But in the end, the team
here made a decision now
1467
01:10:31,050 --> 01:10:32,270
which we always say before the start
1468
01:10:32,370 --> 01:10:33,670
of the race is probably
how it's going to be.
1469
01:10:33,770 --> 01:10:35,270
We look out for the tires
to get the car to the end.
1470
01:10:35,370 --> 01:10:38,030
And in the end set, made
his own decisions today
1471
01:10:38,130 --> 01:10:39,150
and we'll have protection as usual.
1472
01:10:39,250 --> 01:10:40,150
And that's the way it goes.
1473
01:10:40,250 --> 01:10:41,790
- Formula One is a team sport
1474
01:10:41,890 --> 01:10:44,470
and our biggest interest is the team.
1475
01:10:44,570 --> 01:10:45,490
And then of course you got, the drivers
1476
01:10:45,570 --> 01:10:46,950
got his own interests
1477
01:10:47,050 --> 01:10:49,310
and trying to control
drivers is the hardest thing
1478
01:10:49,410 --> 01:10:50,590
in the world.
1479
01:10:50,690 --> 01:10:52,990
- So you told Seb to stay in position,
1480
01:10:53,090 --> 01:10:55,090
then he attacked and passed the mark.
1481
01:10:56,210 --> 01:10:57,190
- It was Christian who said
1482
01:10:57,290 --> 01:11:01,710
we'll have to look after the
tires and stay in position
1483
01:11:01,810 --> 01:11:04,830
but then I don't know how he
was immediately behind him.
1484
01:11:04,930 --> 01:11:05,870
And then there was a race,
1485
01:11:05,970 --> 01:11:09,470
and the C stage you can't
talk to race driver.
1486
01:11:09,570 --> 01:11:11,390
So I mean.
1487
01:11:11,490 --> 01:11:14,750
- He had a helmet in
his corner, big style.
1488
01:11:14,850 --> 01:11:16,790
So I had a little bit of that
as well to, to deal with.
1489
01:11:16,890 --> 01:11:18,350
- It's three weeks to the next race.
1490
01:11:18,450 --> 01:11:19,430
So we're fortunate.
1491
01:11:19,530 --> 01:11:21,190
We have three weeks,
1492
01:11:21,290 --> 01:11:24,070
we'll catch some waves
in Australia on my board.
1493
01:11:24,170 --> 01:11:26,990
And, and I think this would
be good medicine for me
1494
01:11:27,090 --> 01:11:28,790
but there was a lot of things in my mind
1495
01:11:28,890 --> 01:11:30,590
in the last 15 laps of the
Grand Prix, to be honest.
1496
01:11:30,690 --> 01:11:32,790
So whether the medicine
is enough, we'll see.
1497
01:11:32,890 --> 01:11:34,170
- You know, after the press
conference, I said, well
1498
01:11:34,250 --> 01:11:35,990
I've got my phone, I'm going to Australia,
1499
01:11:36,090 --> 01:11:36,790
let's have a chat.
1500
01:11:36,890 --> 01:11:37,710
He didn't chat that week.
1501
01:11:37,810 --> 01:11:38,630
And then we got to China
1502
01:11:38,730 --> 01:11:39,950
and we had a very bad discussion there
1503
01:11:40,050 --> 01:11:43,950
about how that, well, he said,
he'd do the same thing again.
1504
01:11:44,050 --> 01:11:46,110
- I think I said enough.
1505
01:11:46,210 --> 01:11:47,990
Bottom line is that I was racing.
1506
01:11:48,090 --> 01:11:48,830
I was fast.
1507
01:11:48,930 --> 01:11:49,670
I passed him.
1508
01:11:49,770 --> 01:11:50,470
I won.
1509
01:11:50,570 --> 01:11:52,510
- So, if that's where you're at, then,
1510
01:11:52,610 --> 01:11:54,830
then we're not gonna be
on the same page at all,
1511
01:11:54,930 --> 01:11:56,270
going forward.
1512
01:11:56,370 --> 01:11:57,670
We get on well now, Sebastian
and I get on well now.
1513
01:11:57,770 --> 01:12:00,390
We went through definitely a lot
1514
01:12:00,490 --> 01:12:02,470
but in the end, look, I'm not
1515
01:12:02,570 --> 01:12:04,190
there's no sour grapes at red bull.
1516
01:12:04,290 --> 01:12:05,550
I had it.
1517
01:12:05,650 --> 01:12:07,310
You know, that's what it's, it's.
1518
01:12:07,410 --> 01:12:08,750
It is the, the sort of
the, sort of the yin yang
1519
01:12:08,850 --> 01:12:10,590
and this whole thing of the,
you know, I had a great car.
1520
01:12:10,690 --> 01:12:12,230
I really enjoyed working the mechanics
1521
01:12:12,330 --> 01:12:14,430
that guide, which is, it was brilliant.
1522
01:12:14,530 --> 01:12:16,650
But at times it was
challenging at the time.
1523
01:12:18,610 --> 01:12:21,370
(crowd cheering)
1524
01:12:27,850 --> 01:12:29,910
- You cannot have a conversation
1525
01:12:30,010 --> 01:12:32,550
about greatest Formula
One driver of all time
1526
01:12:32,650 --> 01:12:36,750
without including Lewis
Hamilton in the reckoning.
1527
01:12:36,850 --> 01:12:39,570
(crowd cheering)
1528
01:12:42,810 --> 01:12:44,310
- And he was quite exceptional in GP, too.
1529
01:12:44,410 --> 01:12:47,070
I remember a few races where,
you know, for whatever reason
1530
01:12:47,170 --> 01:12:49,910
there'd be in the middle of the
field and there's overtaking
1531
01:12:50,010 --> 01:12:52,390
and GP two was quite exceptional.
1532
01:12:52,490 --> 01:12:54,950
So I think we all knew we had something
1533
01:12:55,050 --> 01:12:57,590
very special starting in formal lawn
1534
01:12:57,690 --> 01:13:01,150
and McLaren thought they
had something very special,
1535
01:13:01,250 --> 01:13:02,630
but no one realized how special.
1536
01:13:02,730 --> 01:13:05,190
- And then his first ever Grand Prix
1537
01:13:05,290 --> 01:13:07,910
in Melbourne, he went around the outside
1538
01:13:08,010 --> 01:13:11,580
at the first corner, when
most rookies would be
1539
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:13,420
a little bit tentative.
1540
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,860
I think Lewis laid down
his cards right then.
1541
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:19,900
In the first corner of
his Grand Prix career.
1542
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:21,300
- They took everyone's breath away.
1543
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:24,300
He shook the establishment, (chuckles)
1544
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:26,400
in more ways than one.
1545
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,940
And it was clearly, you're
one of those drivers who come
1546
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,980
along almost once a decade.
1547
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,380
- His natural ability is extreme.
1548
01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:42,300
Naturally, I would say he's
probably the best driver
1549
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,400
that no one's ever seen.
1550
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,320
- I get this kind of
weird experience where
1551
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:51,920
it's really hard to really
explain it, but I feel like my,
1552
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:56,100
as I'm accelerating I'm
getting to high speed
1553
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:57,260
I feel the car continues,
1554
01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:01,300
and it's almost like, like
I slowed down for a second
1555
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:04,460
and it'll suddenly it speeds
back up to towards me.
1556
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:05,780
And it's, it's a real rush.
1557
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,220
There's nothing else I experienced
1558
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:09,260
that gives me that feeling.
1559
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:12,740
- [Announcer] It's Lewis
Hamilton, champion of the world.
1560
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:17,260
Lewis Hamilton, now only has
Michael Schumacher ahead of him
1561
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:19,720
in terms of world championships won.
1562
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:23,960
- Lewis Hamilton, six time world champion.
1563
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:28,540
When we were teammates
we had both won one,
1564
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:29,860
and now he's gone on and won six.
1565
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,740
Whether he beats Michael's seven
world championships or not,
1566
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:37,840
he's gonna be remembered as one
of the best in the business.
1567
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:44,820
And the one that probably
changed the sport the most.
1568
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,860
- If you're having a top five of all time,
1569
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,620
he's gotta be in it top three, probably.
1570
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:55,100
Greater stuff, I think
that's a personal opinion.
1571
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:58,460
- Formula One has such a
big following in the UK
1572
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,900
and to have a British world
champion that might achieve more
1573
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:05,380
than any other driver in
the world, fair play to him.
1574
01:15:05,480 --> 01:15:07,480
You know, I know how hard he's worked.
1575
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:10,900
You know, I don't, I
think he's a character
1576
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:15,020
that some probably
don't understand so well
1577
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:17,620
but being his teammate for three years
1578
01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:19,020
I got to know Louis very well.
1579
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:23,060
And you know, he is a
very down to earth kid.
1580
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:25,860
His love for motor sport
is the most important
1581
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:29,300
thing we should really applaud him for
1582
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:30,940
the time and effort that he puts
1583
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:33,200
into this sport and
wanting to be the best.
1584
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,260
And I hope he does challenge Michael's,
1585
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:39,360
seven world championships.
1586
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:42,300
(crowd cheering)
1587
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,140
- I live and breathe for Formula One.
1588
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:49,240
It is such a brilliant,
global, exciting, edgy
1589
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,940
slightly scary sport.
1590
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:58,380
That is bigger than pretty much
everything on a global scale
1591
01:15:58,480 --> 01:16:00,500
apart from the Olympics and the world cup.
1592
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,460
And they happen every four years.
1593
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,940
- My dad used to switch on
the TV, black and white.
1594
01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:09,460
I think back then, we used to watch F1.
1595
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:11,620
You know, drivers from around
the world, fighting it out
1596
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:16,300
and a dangerous sport, putting
their life on the line.
1597
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:17,780
- Formula One is my life,
1598
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:20,060
and my whole family revolved around it.
1599
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:22,020
My dad was the reason I got
1600
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:23,860
into motor racing and he's still alive.
1601
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:25,660
And he still watches the races,
1602
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:28,260
watching them in front of the TV,
1603
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,740
screaming and shouting, and
whether it's doing well or not.
1604
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:33,620
I hadn't realized how
passionate they were.
1605
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:35,900
- We give so much pleasure to so many fans
1606
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:37,940
and that's all that matters.
1607
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:41,500
How many eyeballs are watching
our sport around the world?
1608
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:42,540
And are they enjoying it?
1609
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:47,120
Are we giving them some
entertainment at 200 miles an hour?
1610
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:51,660
- I used to think these guys,
1611
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:55,140
they weren't born, they
must have descended
1612
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:56,620
in a pillar of light.
1613
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:59,900
- The gladiators that drives the cars,
1614
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:04,500
the fearless, brave, talented people
1615
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:05,980
we put behind the wheel.
1616
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:10,420
- Formula One was a dream,
and I was able to achieve.
1617
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:11,660
It was my life.
1618
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,340
- It's to be the ultimate in motor sports
1619
01:17:14,440 --> 01:17:18,540
for many, many reasons,
because it's got the elements.
1620
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:22,860
The elements of the
technology, is still supreme.
1621
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:24,740
- This thing that people don't
see so much in Formula One.
1622
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:26,500
They see the guy cross the finish line
1623
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,140
and think it's all about
that one individual.
1624
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:31,060
- Then you see a sub two second pit stop.
1625
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,740
(car engine revving)
1626
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:38,340
- It's such a team sport, you
strive for just excellence.
1627
01:17:38,440 --> 01:17:40,520
And it finds people at first.
1628
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:44,060
- It's that competitive
spirit I think we all love.
1629
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:46,100
And it's from people from
all around the world,
1630
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,380
all different walks of life
that have been able to come
1631
01:17:48,480 --> 01:17:51,660
into this sport and fight
for world championships.
1632
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:52,900
- And I think that says everything
1633
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,700
about what we've achieved in 70 years.
1634
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,940
- As a purist, like I feel I am,
1635
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,040
I love this to go on forever.
1636
01:18:04,440 --> 01:18:06,900
(car engine roaring)
1637
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,560
(upbeat music)
1638
01:19:04,390 --> 01:19:07,470
(car engine revving)
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