All language subtitles for Weekend Of A Champion (2013)

Damn, it's gonna rain.

It can't help but rain
with that wind,

look at the cloud.

Damn.

Damn,
look at it up there,

black as night.

[PA] At 3 o'clock this
afternoon,

we'll see the start of the
29th Grand Prix of Monaco.

A unique race through
the streets of the town,

over 80 laps of the circuit,

which is just under
2 miles long.

Ranging from the gas works...

[crowd cheering]

Jackie!

[crowd cheering]

Jackie!

Yeah.

Jackie! Jackie!

- Jackie!
- Jackie!

[crowd clamoring]

- Bonjour, monsieur.
- Bonjour.

Could I have a picture
for my son?

Sure. Roman,
you have the camera.

- Sure.
- Oui, oui.

How old?

He's 20 and loves racing cars.
He wants to be a racing driver.

- Oh good.
- He wants to be a
champion like you.

- He has an admiration for you.
- Merci.

You are a great champion.

- Thank you.
- I thank you.

You'll let him be a
racing driver?

Why don't we stand by the car.

If he can be like Jackie, yes.

If he becomes a great
champion like you,

he has all permissions.

You know, this is where
the race starts from.

Louis Chiron drops the flag.

We're breaking around
now for the corner.

It's called Sainte Devote,
the corner here.

You're out here around this,
not using all the corner,

not using all the road.

You're getting
into Sainte Devote,

you're clipping,

close down here again,

feeding it out, very fast
section of the course,

right out here,

still in third gear here.

Third gear corner,
Sainte Devote.

We're going up the hill,

you've engaged
fourth gear about now.

This is in fact your line.

So, you're coming
around on this line,

the car is in third gear and
you're drifting out this way.

See this rise here, when the car
goes over this rise,

you slide all the way down
this hill in third gear,

flat in third gear,
very fast down here,

underneath the bridge,
still in third gear.

Now, the breaking distance
from this manhole cover,

there's a manhole cover there.
You brake there,

you change into second gear,

if you have light fuel tanks
for this corner.

Again, you got to
be very careful

you don't touch the curb.

If you touch the curb,
you bust a wheel,

or you puncture a tire.

You come down here,
you're in second gear,

you straight line this and
you come straight in here.

You pass this truck.

You change then into first gear,
you're down in here,

on the right hand side,
where this rock face,

and then again,
you clip over here.

Not too difficult here,
but you're in full lock.

You've got your arms
crossed over like that.

You come out on that sign there.

You come in and you
change into second gear here,

not going right over to
the left-hand side of the road.

You're going towards the tunnel.

You engage fourth gear
just about now.

Now, you're going
into the tunnel.

Bright sunshine or
whatever the hell it is.

Then you're into the
darkness of the tunnel,

dramatic change of light,
you know.

Tremendous noise in here,

even we can hear the difference.

I'll go in the rain.

Should be OK but let's try it.

That's OK.

I tell you what I might need.
I might need for Monte Carlo

the steering wheel just
a little bit closer.

- All right, yeah.
- Yeah.

And around here,

because you're doing
this so much.

How about this one?

That's wider there now.

It's not raining now.

When I walked down the hill,
it was raining.

Well, I tell you,

there are puddles
around the track,

the place is a mess.

I mean,
what compound are we on?

30-40.

We don't have anything else?

If you can't, you've got to
re-thinkg the whole deal.

At the moment, you're using
the first four gears.

Yeah.

So, the fact that this is
1,200 revs higher

- and maybe in the wet,
you can accept that?
- Yeah.

I don't know

but this is what we've
got to find out.

I should think I will
be able to accept it?

Well, anyway,

- one lap and in.
- Yeah.

[PA] The expected weather

for tomorrow morning's
early practice

because so far everybody
is at least 25 seconds

outside of the lap record

because of the
appalling weather.

Normally they don't go out
until the rain stops.

Well, what if the
rain stops next week?

Well, they'll have to go out.

It's the one scene nobody
took into consideration, no?

Except Jackie.

Well, it looks as though
there's not much hope

of any improvement

in these filthy
weather conditions

and so people
are beginning to

go out for practice
and face up to it

Not very easy conditions,

so Jackie Stewart
can get used to

what is practically a
brand new car.

Rebuilt after
last weeks accident.

- Tell me, did you...did you
win the competition yourself?
- I did.

- You filled it in yourself?
- Yes, I filled it in

and sent it.

Fantastic.

I think I better get her
to fill my competition forms in.

But I've been doing this
for years and years.

Well, you see, you've got a
full day of racing because

it's Formula 3,
two qualifying heats,

then the Formula 1 final
qualifying for grid positions,

and then the final
Formula 3 race

which is quite an
important race.

So, you've got one, two, three,
four different times of racing.

And where you are,

you can at least get
out of your seat

and go down to the swimming pool
and then go into the harbor

and see the yachts and so forth.

So, I figured,
if the girls get fed up,

they can always go and
have something else.

There's still the presents
to give away.

Oh, there's presents.

- I'm trying to attract
your attention
- Oh, I see.

because I've got
another appointment.

Well.

- Well. Are these small?
- Large, medium.

Here we are,
large, medium and small.

I've got small,
medium and large,

and I don't know how
many small, medium

and larges did we have.

This is like, this is a
dress rehearsal now.

Have you tried that one?

No.

Oh, this is smaller, Bill.

So, that's pretty right.

It suits you.

[PA] Well, these drivers
have much better luck

for the weather this morning.

It's very important for
these young drivers

hoping to following
the footsteps

of men like Jackie Stewart

who started in this way,

to get good practice runs in
before their race tomorrow...

Do you think this is the
safest place to watch them?

I tell you, if you'd been
standing here yesterday,

you'd wet yourself
if I had come up here

because this is where
i stopped.

- This is where you stopped?
- Yeah.

- Right here?
- Right there.

I spun off
and came around here.

- Look at the cloud.
- Yeah.

Never known it like this
in Monte Carlo

and you know, the forecast
isn't good for the weekend.

You know, they say Saturday is
going to be about the same

and maybe even Sunday.

No, they said Sunday
would be good weather.

Yeah, but, you know, if you
haven't got the car sorted out,

you've got a car sorted out
and a damp track,

it's a totally
different machine.

Yeah, I know.

You see, that guy got
the wrong line altogether.

Totally wrong. He's coming
up too far to the right.

And he is braking too early.

And changing gears too early.

Watch the quick ones;

they don't change down
until they go past

that zebra crossing there.

So therefore,
braking is very important.

If the balance of the brakes,

you know,
if that's not right,

it really screws you up.

That's to say, the balance
from the front to the rear.

You're going to have the
front wheels braking

just beginning to lock,

to stop before the rear
wheels do that

- because these are the
only ones you can see.
- Yeah.

You know, if the
rear wheel is locked,

well then, of course, as soon
as you get into the corner

you immediately start
sliding around.

Whereas, when the
front brakes do that,

at least you can see the
puffs of smoke coming off them.

- Under the wheels?
- Yeah.

Nearly right.

He's quick.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]

He's just waking up.

[FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

I think they're all pissed.

[PA] Now the Formula 1 cars
are coming out

ready for their second
practice session

and thank goodness,
for the very nearly dry track.

This will give everybody a
chance of getting in some time.

Stewart really reviling in these
half-damp drying out conditions

and his mastery
is really showing.

He is consistently
the fastest now.

Of course, everybody's target

is last year's lap record
set by...

Jackie Stewart
keeps up the effort,

1 minute 23.2 seconds.

He's really got the new car
sorted out now

and is absolutely incredible,
to think he never sat in it

until yesterday when it
rained all day.

Having equalled the lap record
in this morning's practice,

Jackie Stewart is in
pole position so far

with one more session to
come tomorrow afternoon.

And pole position is
very important here.

It's not easy to pass around
Monte Carlo through the streets

and if you can get
in front of the car...

[CROWD CLAMORING}

Um...

The corner after the way down
after the Hotel de Paris,

- the Mirabeau?
- Yes.

Second or first?

Second.

It's very low.

I know...

but I'm not sure, you know
first gear is...

First gear is wrong because
it wants to get to the limit.

Yes, yes.

And in first gear,
it's not good.

Maybe, we can use
a shorter second.

A shorter second would be good

if we have one because it would
also be good for the waterfront.

For the?

The one going on
before the tunnel.

Yeah, because in
second it's too slow too.

You said first around
the hairpin,

first, first on the left
to the hairpin?

- And then, second?
- First.

First for the left,
the right one,

under the...

Everybody's listening.

Helmut.

All my secrets, Helmut.

Come over here.

Third, yes.

I'm doing this,
are you're doing it second?

I think so.
I'm not sure.

Third.

Uh, second.

Again, it feels a little heavy.

In Monte Carlo, it's more
important not to be nervous.

- You have to be very smooth.
- Very smooth and very quiet.

We'll find out.

And you want to be in
a position where

not only is it good
to go fast at the beginning,

but if somebody makes
a charge at the end of the race,

you got to be able to go.

Because if somebody
catches you in the closing laps,

and you're geared for
full tanks or half tanks,

you're screwed.

[SINGING]

...Happy birthday Dear Louis,

happy birthday to you.

- Remember, we all came here.
- Yeah.

That was for his 70th birthday
and that was in 69.

Bloody awful.

Never, never seen it like this.

- I just want dry.
- What time is the practice?

- Three o'clock?
- Three o'clock.

So...Terrible.

Do you want three cups?

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

I see. So, OK.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

You prefer that I take three
coffees and one tea

for two people.

- Yeah.
- OK.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

I haven't been...

I haven't been sleeping
well for about...

I don't know,
two and a half weeks.

Hmm-hmm.

Well, you know, I sleep,
but I'm waking up too early

and I don't really feel
as if I've, you know, slept.

You don't sleep deep enough.

No, I have...I haven't
been sleeping deeply at all.

So, it hasn't been too good.
But, you know, I'm...

Maybe you said you
shunted your cars incident?

No, no, but before that.
I thought about that.

You did?

It was before that.

That was a great job,
I must say.

I saw it later on
the television.

It really went straight
under the camera.

I know.

I choose my places well.

I think you did it with purpose.

If you're gonna crash,
do it with publicity in mind.

I tell you what, the cameraman
really stayed on it,

you know, because
I mean, literally, I was...

- I saw you right under...
- You know, from here
to the door

from the camera,

you know, when it stopped.

I mean,
shunts like that are plenty.

- Oh yeah.
- Uh-huh.

And then just
walk out of that car?

Well, you know,
now a days, I think the cars,

really, these seat belts
I wear are fantastic,

you know, because
it's...it's...belt,

two belts here, two right here
and two through the crotch,

and the one's through
the crotch, fantastic.

- Because you don't--
- Slide forward.

You don't slide forward.

You don't, what they call,
submarine and that's the key.

I can tell you one thing,

I have no intentions
of becoming a racing driver.

No. Well, I think
it's well advised,

having traveled with you,
Roman,

I think you're deciding
the right way.

- You think so, huh?
- Yup.

You're driving,
as a racing driver,

you're a very
good film director.

Yes.

This guy Chiron,
when did he win the race?

He was a bell-boy

and apparently he finally got
a chance to drive the car

and he became a racing driver.

- He's the flagman, isn't he?
- He starts the race.

How the hell he's never been
killed, I'll never know.

- Yeah.
- They took him off...

They took him off the job
for two years

because it was such a disaster.

Because he kept, you know,

he would go in the
middle of the track

and he keeps going like this,

you know, "No, no, no,"
and he's got the flag like this

and you know before he drops it
because he's such in an age now,

you know, he's 72,

that you see his knees go
before he drops the flag.

You know, because he can't
bring the flag down

just with his arms.

So, he's up on his tiptoes

and his knees bend
and everybody leave,

you know, because...they
know he's committed

he's gonna come down.

They took him off the job
last year which was a pity

- because he was, that's coffee.
- Do you want some?

Yeah. I mean,
he's part of Monte Carlo.

Somebody else started the race
and it didn't quite the same.

So, he, um...I think the
Prince put him back on and,

you know, maybe, he's gonna
get run over this time, but...

Between the Tabacconist
and the Gazometre hairpin

I'll probably between times,

I'll do three things
in that section.

I will rest my neck
against the head rest

because the neck muscles get
terribly sore in Monte Carlo

because, in Monte Carlo,

you're starting
and stopping all the time.

You know, you're...you know,
you're going back and forward

and the corners
are so abrupt

that your 'G' load
on your neck.

Your neck muscles get
terribly sore because,

you see,
the way you lie in a car,

you know, to get down like this
and drive like that.

So, look at the strain up there.
You're driving like that.

- You touch the --
- No, no.

You're not touching
the headrest until,

you know,
you need to rest,

and then,
you just rest your head back

and maybe give it
a little flex.

Do that and deep breathe
at the same time.

You know, you really give
yourself a chance

to breathe properly.

Between the waterfront
and the tunnel,

I'll probably look
at the oil pressure,

the water temperature.

And when you're not doing that,
you don't do that every lap.

When you're not doing that,
you must try to remember...

I'll look at the profiles of
the tires in the mirrors,

have a look at the mirrors

because if you strain your
head a little bit to the side,

you can see how
flat the tire is.

Now, if you got a
puncture or anything,

the tire begins to go
into slight concave,

so therefore
you look in the mirror...

You know, if you feel the car
not responding properly,

the first thing I do
is look at each tire,

all four tires, to see if
there's any sign of a concave

on the tire

because these tires only,

they're only pressured
to 16 pounds.

A racing car is like a very,
very finely balanced sort of,

you know, knife edge.

You've got to keep it
up right all the time.

If it gets over this way,

you know,
you got to be able to recognize

that it's moving
in any direction at all.

I remember one year
in Monte Carlo,

I had a rubber goggle band
on my helmet,

you know, I was wearing
goggles in these days,

and it kept getting stuck
a little bit, just a little bit

so that my head couldn't
freely go like that.

You know,
when I went around corners

and occasionally,
this thing would stick.

You know, and the
whole car changed,

the whole characteristic
of the car changed.

It was like, uh,
a different car.

I thought the thing had become,
you know, a bastard.

You know, it just...you know,
I was going around the corner,

and all of a sudden,
my head would stick like that

and the car would go around.

I wasn't being able
to move with the car.

Look, Monte Carlo should be
driven smoothly and quietly.

In the Formula 3 race,
you'll see a group of young guys

who have never driven in
a close confines of a city,

you know, not a city, a town.

Around road courses.
you know

they have been used to airfields
and wide-open spaces

where if you go over
the white line

that marks the edge
of the track,

it means sweet Fanny Adam.

Here, you do it
and you hit a 6-inch curb,

you know,
and you break your wheel

or you'd bend your suspension.

You know, they feel a
claustrophobic effect

in their driving and they
don't drive very well.

You know...and then, you see the
young guy who's going to make it

and he comes in and he's
clean and he's not rushed.

When I watch you practicing,
you look the slowest, you know?

- I'm happy.
- Yeah.

- I'm happy.
- That's exactly...

I'm happy it looks like that.

Let's say this is
the corner, right?

Now, which way do
you want me to go?

Go this way, Roman.

All right.

From this moment,
you start --

- Coming in.
- Coming in, right?

- Using the shortest
possible line.
- That's right.

You clip on apex

and right here,
you start accelerating, right?

Instead of coming in here
and getting the power on here,

you get the power on here.

You start to take
the load off the car.

Instead of braking harshly here,
you brake a little quietly,

nice and gentle,
just touch them,

you know, make them feel.

You know, don't...jab the brakes
because if you jab the brakes,

the suspension goes down,

the whole car
changes its character.

Be nice to it.
Touch the brakes,

allow the car
to stay as level as possible.

Mm.

And when you take
your foot off the brake,

don't do that.

Feed the brakes out

because that way,
the car comes up gently

to its proper ride height.

You know, to...to the way
it best is suited

for its road holding.

And when that happens,

then, you allow then
to go into the corner

with power on way back here.

And again, the power
doesn't go on like that.

The power goes on smoothly.

And this is where you see the
guys going round with

opposite lock on,
with their wheels spinning

and the whole scene
looking like, uh,

a disaster in the making.

- You know, every
corner is an adventure.
- Yeah.

Now, from Monte Carlo or
even any other racetrack,

that's not the answer.

So, when you get
the power on here,

feed it in nicely.

As you go around the corner
be more progressive,

bring in the power
stronger and stronger,

but again,
don't go way out here.

Don't get here

because again,
you've got the gutter

and then you've got the curb.

And you only need
to clip the curb

and you'd broken the wheel
or you punctured the tire.

There isn't a corner in
Monte Carlo that is taken

any different than that.

And if you do
these sorts of things,

you're doing it with gentleness,

you're being kind
to your motor car.

It's being kind to you.

You're great friends.
You're married.

You're having a
fantastic affair.

You know,
everything is united.

You're not arguing with anyone.

You know, when you
change gear, the gear...

There's no rush to change gear.

You're usually a little gear
higher than anybody else.

So, therefore,
the car is more docile.

It's not as highly strung

because if you have the
car in second gear

instead of third gear,

you only have maybe a
thousand revs to work with

because before you
must change gear.

If you have it way
down the rev range,

you've got plenty of time
and you let it run up

and then you change gear.

That's the opposite of
what they were doing --

It's the...It's
the...I'm not sure.

I am not sure if the
very best drivers

all the way through
the life of racing

have not basically done
the same thing.

I don't think too many of them
have explained it

the way they want to explain it.

But I'm sure if you
spoke to Fangio,

he would tell you that the
smoothest and the quietest way,

the slowest way, around
Monte Carlo is the fastest way.

Oh, shit.

I just cut myself.

Well, tell him to get
off the telephone,

I've cut myself.

He likes blood,
it's part of his movies.

Roman!

It seems like that,
let me see that, what?

Well, look what
you've done now.

- Did you cut yourself already?
- Yeah.

Well, it's great for your movie.

- You love blood in your movies.
- Oh, come on...

Well, this is a serious cut.

Good job,
I got my doctor with me.

I am here just to try

to give him the medical
attention he needs

until he is in a definite
hospital for his treatment.

As you know, there have
been several accidents

and a few of Jackie's
friends died the last year,

three of them
as a matter of fact,

and sometimes...

Well, he thinks that if

he has somebody to look
after him directly,

he could...this could be of
a certain benefit to him.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm here now.

Yes, okay now...I'll
come down now.

No,

you won't get down now
because the circuit is closed

and the Formula 3 race
is just going to start.

- Helen.
- Yes.

What could I eat just now
that wouldn't be very...

Chicken sandwich.

No, I don't want a sandwich.

Maybe, some soup,
consommé?

No, I'll be alright.

Here's that race starting.

No, their just
starting their engines up.

How long will they do that for?

How many laps is the race?

Fifteen.

Fifteen laps, Is that all?

That car, it was so funny,

it came up there skidding
all over the place,

Somebody Cully,
McCully...an Australian

Has he lost a wheel?

Lost a wheel and came up,

and it was,
yeah but it was still there.

What about this thing?

I've got a hole in my sock.

Yeah.

A bit big around here.

That's the Formula 3
race starting now.

Maybe I can take that
sticky stuff off now.

You might make it
bleed again?

Christ, I tell you what,
they have canaries over there.

Now, we've got to be sure
that we're down there in time

to get into that car.

That's all that concerns me.

No, but I want to get down for
the, you know, one lap job.

Yes, yes.

- Oh, so you're doing
it before practice?
- Yeah.

I saw a report in one of
the newspapers last week,

about Jackie's life with me,

and on the bottom it was
five of our closest friends

who have been killed,

and I suddenly realized
that these five people

are the closest people we've
ever come to in racing

and there's nobody
left in racing

as far as we're concerned.

All of our friends
are out of motor racing.

I think Jochen's death has
the greatest effect on me

because of our families
being intimate,

our children play together.

Nina is my best friends
and still is.

She came here this time
because of me.

The way he feels has
a great effect to me.

This morning he
woke up and he said,

"I don't want to be disturbed."

So then I get nervous because

I'm doing things
not sort of naturally,

and I'm trying
not to disturb him.

Then, you hear the
people outside shouting

and you look out the window.

You see the masses of people,
you get the atmosphere.

All of a sudden, my stomach
goes round in circles

and continue that way
until the race is finished.

Last year, you were less
nervous before the race.

I don't know--
Yeah, that's right.

You were quite
relaxed last year.

As I said it again, Jackie
is the one that affects me.

He is nervous this morning.
I can feel it.

[PA] And it's raining again,
oh dear, oh dear.

We're all going to find out
what Formula 3 event,

and now it's pouring again.

This means,
that yesterday's times

will almost certainly
be the one's

that count as the grid places...

Now, this weather of course,
as I said earlier,

has produced
a very serious situation,

from a qualifying point of view.

Particularly, I think,

particularly sad for
Mario Andretti,

he was stuck up in
the car all day

and he hasn't got
any more time in.

On a wet track I can't see much
chance of him being able to

improve substantially.

It's very slippery indeed.

I think this very attractive
and fast

and effective new surface

along the back of the fence,
along the harbor wall

is probably very dicey
on these sort of conditions,

well the Formula 3's
were all over the place.

So, we'll see what happens

but it's going to be
very difficult

for anybody to get up
into the middle 20's

which is where
you've got to be

if you want to be
sure of a place

after the conditions
like this...

You've got to go out
in that one first.

Yeah, OK.

In that case, I want to
leave these tires on.

Just one lap
and come in.

New engine,

- then, you've got new pads.
- Yeah.

bed your pads,

- you haven't got to fade them
- No.

- and you're on full tanks also.
- Oh shit.

Alright.

- OK?
- Yeah.

Has it...Has it been
found that these are quicker?

It is thought
that they would be.

It hasn't been established,

but Beltoise did his time
with these tires.

What's his time?

43-4.

What?

43-4.

Quicker than mine.

[PA] Stewart getting further
and further ahead.

Stewart more and more in time.

Francois Cevert number 12

Jackie Stewart's young
French teammate

and a very promising number 2
on the Tyrrell team.

He's been trying out some new
twin disc rakes at practice here

and it looks as though
he's got them well cooked.

Maybe they don't have to go back
to the normal brakes this time.

The twin disc are very are
very experimental at this stage,

but Cevert did qualify
yesterday on the dry track

and these wet conditions...
...stop the grip by any one now.

So we should have both Tyrrells
in the race tomorrow afternoon.

I was having trouble
with my...with my hand,

blisters in my hand and, uh,

we thought by changing
the shape to this, in fact

would eliminate the blisters,
but if we go in that way,

you're changing gear
like that normally but,

you know,
up and down like that.

When in fact you have to
go from fourth to fifth,

- you do it like that.
- Like this, yeah.

You know.

So, you just change around,
whatever way you want it.

I mean it's,
there's...there's enough room.

There's a little bubble goes
over here in the body

so it can look after that.

Eh?

Do you want to hear about it?

I get a blister there and I
get...I get blisters here.

- This is --
- No, no, there, there, there.

Now, you obviously...

You obviously hold it is
different from me, don't you?

I think I probably do.

Well, I must say
it's the first time, Jackie,

very impressed I was.

Very quick.

Yeah, but what about today?

What about today?

I was driving my ass off
and I couldn't do any better

- than 33.3, yeah.
- Point 3.

- Yeah, do you find that...
- I couldn't drive any faster.

Do you find that extraordinary?

No, but I mean, two and a
half seconds is a long way.

Yeah, well that's a little bit
shorter than I am

- behind you in the dry anyway.
- Well there you go.

But I reckon that was, you know,
a bloody good time.

I don't know where I'm
going to see that time from

but you can rest assured
I shall be trying.

But it shan't interest
you too much

- as I'm so far back.
- No, I wouldn't be

Oh, listen to that.

The problem is
Roger when I...when I'm all,

you know,
I've got in my mind

a certain attitude
towards the car.

And it's just a lot better.

This car when you go round,

when you go around the Casino,

the car goes round,

you get it round and
all of a sudden

two-thirds the way around,

the thing seems to lean over
on itself and fall over,

you know, it feels as if you're
just getting up on your tiptoes

and then the damn thing,
you know,

so mebody pushes you
from behind

and you fall over because
it's a mechanical happening.

You know, it builds up
and it builds up

and it's not in the bump rubbers

because, you know, there's not
that much cornering force.

But obviously it wasn't flowing.

The same thing when
Reine Wisell was behind me

in that last few laps.

I was driving as
hard as I could.

I couldn't shake him off at all.

He was catching me.

Did he do the fastest lap?

- No, no. Stommelen I think.
- Stommelen?

I think so.

What did he do?

I'm not sure. I think it's
about 30 point something.

I'm not sure about that.

Well, I was driving my ass off
was he in...was he in...

What sort of tires was he using?

Oh, well then,
we're really in...

We're really in the shit,
aren't we?

If it rains tomorrow
we got to go...

We've just got to take
a big gamble

because the way we are just now,
we're in no shape to compete.

Anyway.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[PA] Perhaps the most
disappointing

is Mario Andretti,
he had trouble...

[CROWD CHEERING]

Damn,
it's going to rain.

I can't help
but rain with that wind,

look at the cloud.

Damn.

Damn, look at it up there,
black as night.

[PA] At three o'clock
this afternoon,

we'll see the start of the 29th
Grand Prix of Monaco.

A unique race
through the streets

of the town of Monte Carlo.

This afternoon's
over-cast skies

may well be causing anxiety
to a number of people,

in particular the
world champion...

[V/O] I think at
Monte Carlo this year

I wanted to win more than I've
ever wanted to win a race

because of so many things
going on around me.

I really desperately
wanted to win it.

It was...I want it to be my race
because I put so much into it,

so much preparation into it.

I suppose I was more and more
and more intense in than I...

I would normally be.

There's a whole lot of people
watching me at Monte Carlo

hoping like hell I'd break down

because their guy,
they're willing him on.

And they think, hell,
I hope Stewart has trouble.

Maybe they don't
want to see me crash.

And if they do want to
see me having an incident,

I don't really think they want
to see anyone die because of it.

I think they want to
see...they want to see danger.

They want to see
violence in the way

that every time a
race car goes off the road

it's a tremendously
destructive thing.

I mean, it has such
volume of violence

that it would be difficult to
interpret in any other way.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[PA] Of course,
the big problem today

for drivers and team managers

is what to do about tires.

It's a gamble as to what's
going to happen today.

It's overcast and cloudy.

Now, we're obviously having
a bad year in Monte Carlo

this year for weather

and anybody who makes the
wrong decision about tires

is going to be in trouble.

If they go for the slick,
quick, dry-weather tires

and it rains during the race,
they'll have to stop.

Anybody who opts perhaps if not
for the very wet weather tires

for the intermediates
might get by...

[V/O] But I was more concerned
about the weather in Monte Carlo

than I suppose
I've been all year.

You know, I have done
my practice in the dry

and had got pole position.

In the rain,
we weren't competitive,

the car just wouldn't perform,

whereas in the dry
we had an advantage.

In Monte Carlo,
this year was different somehow,

I had, I don't know,
I was very tired,

I was very uptight
and I couldn't unwind.

I was much more alive to what
was going on around me

than I would be normally.

Normally, I'd just
forget everybody else,

I wouldn't want to talk to them.

I wouldn't want to
discuss anything with them.

Hi.

If it rains we have a big
problem, you know,

Even a little bit of rain.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

Huh?

If it doesn't rain...

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

He says, if it rains,
it rains for all.

I know.

I know.

That's the trouble.

I'd like it to rain
for the others.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

- Jackie.
- Sorry, I didn't get onto
the boat, but...

Look, after the race...

- Jackie.
- Yeah, If I can.

Hello. Thank you.

Jackie, after the race the
bunnies are all coming aboard,

- If you like it...
- OK. If I can I will.

OK, thank you.

[V/O] I try to eliminate the
feeling of occasion normally

but in Monte Carlo,
I couldn't do it

- then I forgot a simple thing
- Where's my helmet bag?

like putting on a second
layer of thermal underwear.

Now, because of the walk down,
I didn't want to dress fully,

so therefore I kept one
of my undershirts off

because I wear double layers.

You know, I forgot to put it on
and that's like...

It's like a man forgetting his
gun if he's going to shot.

You just don't do it and
it's something that I did.

Now, I was halfway along
to my race car

when I remember that I had
only one set of underwear on,

you know, vest on.

And I had to go back and do it
and that annoyed me.

that upset me.

That upset my balance,
my preparation

because I'm sort of plugged
into a countdown.

Personal countdown
prior to the race,

an emotional countdown
and that irritated me

and there was a photographer.

I gotta get the Goodyear
logo though.

Yeah I know,
well for Christ sake,

what do you want me to do,
give you a studio?

Literally, he wanted me
to pose, you know,

it's not my scene.

That's not what I'm there to
do and that irritates me.

That wouldn't
normally irritate me.

[PA] The drivers are all
being presented to the

Serene Highnesses Princess Grace
and Prince Rainier of Monaco,

being presented by the top of
the course Louis Chiron

on the starting grid.

Louis Chiron, of course at
the ripe old age of 72,

very excited to be starting
the race again this year.

He had given up doing it,

but this is the 40th year
anniversary

of his victory in this race
in 1931.

So it's being celebrated by
allowing Louis Chiron

to start the race once again
as clerk of the course.

So with Jackie Stewart
in pole position

and leading the world
championship by 15 points

to Mario Andretti's 9.

Mario Andretti not
having qualified

at all to start the race,

Stewart is in fact in
a very strong position

at the beginning of this event.

[V/O] When I climb
into the racing car.

It's like a guy being
given an injection.

You know, all the pain
and everything disappears.

You've been given an anesthetic

and you lose all relation
to grief, to pain,

to emotion outside of
what you want to do

or what you want to get
out of that racing car.

And ever so often the anesthetic
wears off and there you see

the cold, hard, horrible world
that you're involved in.

You know, you see things
that you don't want to see,

so you really quickly want
to have another shot

to get back into the comfort and
the warmth of your own escape.

[PA] Beautiful start by Stewart,

making sure of a lead in the
early stages is what he wanted

because it's not easy to
pass on this circuit.

Up in the town
with Steward still leading.

And here they come out of the
tunnel into the chicane,

through the chicane and into the
back of it for the first time,

coming into our sight,
towards the end of the first lap

and it's Stewart.

Stewart leading with Siffert
second and Ickx for Ferrari.

Here's the end of
the first lap,

up into..again
Stewart pulling away.

And a great fight going on for
fourth place between Rodriguez,

Peterson and Hulme.

And here they come out of the
Chicane for the second time

coming into the back
of Stewart still in front

being chased...

And there's something
gone wrong.

Hill has gone off.

Hill seems to have hit
the wall on the inside

and then bounced across
to the other side.

There's a lot of smoke
and jumping up and down,

but there's no fire,
he's not on fire.

Hill is out,
Graham Hill out safely.

Everybody getting really excited

but I'm afraid the car is
really badly damaged,

Graham Hill has won this
race five times before,

that's the end of this race
for Graham Hill

with a badly bent Brabham.

But the driver is alright.

Stewart still pulling away,

pulling away from the battle
for second place

between Cevert and Ickx.

Five laps gone and Stewart
is now three seconds ahead.

Jackie Stewart
who won this race in 1966

and the world championship
in 1969.

now nicely in the lead in 1971,

in the race and the
championship.

And Cevert in the pits
already only after six laps.

It looks like a damage wheel;

he must have hit a
curb somewhere

which is always a hazard
here at Monaco.

Stewart getting further
and further ahead.

Stewart getting more
and more in front.

Thirteen laps and Ronnie
Peterson is in fourth place.

Peterson is past Rodriguez.
Rodriguez having...

Twenty laps gone and in the lead
number 11, Jackie Stewart.

Eight seconds ahead
of 14, Jo Siffert.

Third number 4, Jacky Ickx.

Number 5, Regazzoni in trouble
again with the Ferrari

and it looks like the
old Monaco bogey

of touching another
car or a barrier.

Two tires gone this time
on the one side.

Twenty-nine laps,
Stewart still in the lead

and Ronnie Peterson
in second place.

He must have passed Siffert
and Ickx both on the same lap.

Thirty laps gone

Stewart now 17 seconds
ahead of Peterson

and then Siffert,
Ickx and Hulme.

Now, as the race goes on
it must be getting

more and more tense
in the Tyrrell pit.

They don't want any pressure
during the closing laps.

Last year,
Brabham found out

that it can go all wrong
right at the end.

Jochen Rindt passed him,
in fact,

on the last corner of
the last lap of the race

and Tyrrell doesn't want
anything like that happen

to Jackie Stewart.

Seventy-three laps,
7 left to go.

And it's clouding over
more and more

and if it rains now
everybody will be in bother.

This could give Peterson a
chance, you never know

and he has in fact gained
a couple of seconds.

Five laps to go and
it's beginning to drizzle.

The weather has
gone wrong at last

and this is very tricky for
everybody on worn, dry tires.

Stewart hanging on
and easing up a little bit,

trying to make sure of his
second win here in five years.

Even now this rain could
change the whole race.

Peterson is still gaining...

And the tension in
the Tyrrell pit

at this stage must be frantic

for Ken Tyrrell, Helen Stewart
and everybody else.

With so much hanging
on this race

and Jackie having
led for so long,

this rain must be
really frightening.

Here he comes,
the checkered flag ready

and Jackie wins the Monaco
Grand Prix for Ken Tyrrell.

This puts him well ahead
in the world championship;

Ronnie Peterson has driven
a magnificent race

into second place with
Jacky Ickx third,

Dennis Hulme fourth.

Jesus champagne,
oh it nips.

It's cold?

No, I've got a blister.

Let me see it.
Let me see.

So, that's your blister.

Bravo! Bravo!

I never worked out why you
wanted to do this movie

in the first place, I mean...

Well, in those times I was
a great enthusiast

of motor racing.

I love motor racing.

You took me to see your testing,
whatever you were testing,

I don't remember,
tires, new engine.

And I wanted to do a
movie about a friend.

How do look at yourself
when you see this film?

- Well...
- I see myself silly, you know.

Me, I look at myself
and I think,

oh God, he needs a haircut.

And the sideburns...

Ah, the sideburns,
everybody was wearing sideburns.

Yeah, but the long...it seemed
that the longer the sideburn,

the faster you went

because Emerson Fittipaldi
used to say,

"If Jackie has got the
longer sideburns

I'm going to have
longer sideburns."

They seemed so silly and funny,
but everybody was wearing them

and they looked really good

and they were the symbol of
the period, those sideburns.

I mean, like,
when you look at that film

only some old cockers
like us now, don't wear them.

Yeah, I guess so.

Maybe we can't.

But it was a trendy time.

- It was a trendy time.
- Very trendy time.

But you know, I always remember
you as safety champion

and a lot of those
things happened

and were installed
thanks to you,

you were always
fighting for the red light

on the back of the car,
in the rain.

In the rain, yeah.

- You were fighting
for the barriers.
- Yeah.

I can't remember the
number of things

that you were really
fighting for.

Well, when we were racing
in that period,

if I had raced for
a five-year window,

let's say from '68 to '73,

there was only a one
out of three

that I was going survive,

two out of three
I was going to be killed.

A terrible batting average and
yet nothing was being done

by the governing body,
by the track owners,

by the officials.

It took an enormous
amount of pressure

with the drivers
coming behind me.

But the fatality rate,
Helen and I one night at home

counted 57 people,

enough that there
were friends or I raced with,

many of them acquaintances,

but some of our
very best friends

at least five of our best
friends were killed.

Yeah, I know.
I remember those times, yeah.

That changed, you know since
that happened Roman,

it's been 17 or 18 years

since a driver
was killed in Formula 1.

I mean, what a risk
management victory

into comparison to where it was.

I mean, when we become flippant,

we say that in the
'60s and the '70s,

motor racing is dangerous
and sex was safe.

- Yeah, that's right.
- Because the AIDS
hadn't arrived.

Each accident was usually
ending up with a bonfire,

you hardly see a
fire now anytime.

Lorenzo Bandini
died here in Monaco,

not far from downstairs
out of this window.

And they never got the fire out.

They tried to put
the extinguishers on,

Lorenzo never got
out of the car.

The fire just enveloped
everybody

and there was not
enough equipment,

not the right fluid in
the fire extinguishers

and not enough people
and the driver died.

Today, we don't get fires,

but it's because we've got
different fuel tanks,

we've got fuel tanks
that take combustion

and don't explode,

don't allow the vapor
to get out to ignite.

And now if there is a fire,
we've got the best

fire extinguishers in the
world to look after it.

And the best medical
people to give resuscitation.

Quite a few drivers over these
years have died in the car,

but been jumpstarted
with anaesthetist

by somebody who specializes

in bringing the heart
back to life

and these people are here today,

whereas in the past years
they were lost forever.

And the accidents are just
as spectacular,

even more spectacular than
they were in those times.

Sometimes you see things
that just blow your mind.

You think this is a
cinema special effect

and the guy gets out of it and
walks away from the car.

I mean, that's a
great victory too.

And someone like me
watching it,

knowing the dynamics
of an accident.

When Kubica had his
accident in Canada,

I was watching...
I was there in Canada.

I was watching it and
I was watching it on the screen

as well as on the track
and I thought he's dead.

Nobody can survive
impacts like that.

The accident seemed
to go on for minutes.

He was carried out in a
stretcher but he was conscious

and he walked out of the
hospital next morning

from such debris
surrounding him.

And not too long ago,
I mean, just 12, 18 months ago,

Mark Weber
had an accident in Valencia.

He hit the back of another car

and he just went
right up into the air.

Certainly, certainly five, eight
meters in the air

and then came down upside
down with him in the car, bang.

And walk out of the...

And the car then righted itself
in short that maybe,

maybe a 130 miles an hour,

I thought,
"My God, he's got to be dead."

And moved out,
took of his seat belts,

got out of the car
and walked away.

I know.

Changed times.

They're great,
great, great change.

You were talking about
all those people that died

in those times.

I mean, the death of Francois
who was then racing with you,

shook me tremendously,

in fact, I'd lost completely
interest in the sport

because I knew him personally.

We are not friends like us,

- but I would often
ski with him,
- Yeah, yeah.

- although he was forbidden to.
- Supposedly.

But we did it secretly.

And he was such a young,
promising, charming driver.

He was so glamorous.
He was so colorful.

He was so exciting.

He was so good-looking,

very...I mean, he was very
dangerous with the young ladies.

I mean, there was a lot
of damage done

and yet he such a basic man
and my role with him was like,

a student and a professor

because I was passing on
everything I knew to him

because I saw he had
enormous potential.

He had great natural skills.

He was a racing driver
that would, in my opinion,

unquestionably have gone on
to win the world championship.

And he's one of the
drivers who sadly,

violently lost his life.

It would have been my last
Grand Prix of my career,

it would have been my 100th
Grand Prix in Watkins Glen,

the race he had won
the previous year.

And we were able to win it
that weekend

because I had already secured
the world championship,

the car was great,

and then Saturday he just had
the most violent accident.

The debris around
the track Roman,

was just impossible
to drive through

and all of the drivers stopped

and I was one of the
last to arrive.

And we had three cars
in the race that year,

Chris Amon, a New Zealander,
was driving for Tyrrell

and I saw Chris because he was
walking back from Francois,

and I thought,
"Are you, OK?"

- I thought it was him.
- You thought it was him.

And he says, "No."

and then I knew it was Francois.

So, I get out my car and I go,
the barrier's destroyed

and Francois was still
in the car but...

I mean, what I saw that day,
in a way no man should see.

So, it would have been
my last Grand Prix.

We, in respect to Francois,
we withdraw.

I thought it would
have been crass.

- To drive...
- Drive and win another race.

One of my greatest regrets
is that I didn't stay longer.

He still had his helmet on.

In those days,
you had to go to the driver

because there weren't enough
people to look after them.

The medical facilities,
the marshaling was not

anything like it
should have been.

One of the race tracks,
Grand Prix race track,

the chief medical officer
was a gynecologist.

I mean, racing drivers
were amateur gynecologists,

but to have that specialization
as the chief medical officer

that was the bizarreness...

- Of this time.
- Of the time.

Today, a modern
Grand Prix driver

would not know how to deal

with the type of circumstances

that the drivers of my
era had to endure,

and looking after the
wives and the girlfriends,

and Helen would have to go
and pack the suitcase

of the close friend
who's no longer with us.

Even when Jochen died
at Monza in 1970,

25 or 30 minutes later,
I was back in the car

and you know when
the visor goes down

I think the lights go out.

And I did the fastest lap I've
ever done at Monza at that time.

And yet, I was in tears
before I get into the car

and I was in tears when
I got out of the car.

I was so affected
by what I had seen

and yet the racing driver,
the animal,

a very exceptional
person at that time

to accommodate the grief,
erase it...

From the time of the race.

And then come back to it
and see it

and still have to deal with
the family, the children

and the wife and the mother
and the father

and the brothers
and the sisters

who were just in despair.

The sport was so violent
in those days.

Nothing compared with today.

Now, I would take the
opportunity to ask you,

how did you start
all that thing.

We never talk about it,
you never told me.

Because I left school
at 15 with no education,

I worked in a garage
and I became a mechanic.

And as a mechanic I was
preparing cars for customers.

And one of them was
a well-off customer,

but his family's trust
would not allow him to race.

So, he had other
people drive his cars,

but I was preparing the car,
I was the mechanic.

And as a little reward,

he gave me a chance to drive
in a very small event

in Scotland which I finished
second in the first race,

he said, you should do
the next one,

let's do the next one
and I won the next one.

- And that's how it all started.
- And it was like a rocket ship,

how life changed completely,

but, you know, your early life,

I think has a lot to do
with how you develop.

My early life
was such an aggravation,

such pain because
of my school problems.

When we did the movie,
I did not know I was dyslexic.

I was a disaster at school.

I was a complete failure.

I left school at 15
with no education.

My greatest loss.

I still can't read
or write correctly.

I can't do the alphabet.
I don't know the alphabet.

I don't know the words
of my national anthem.

I was faking any perceived
wisdom that I had

when we did that movie.

I was still feeling insecure

because I knew I wasn't as
clever as people thought I was.

I knew I could drive
racing cars.

I knew I could
communicate with people,

but I still couldn't read
and I still couldn't spell.

And all these years I thought
I was stupid and only...

You never told me that.

I'd be ashamed.

In those days I would
have been ashamed.

I couldn't have...you know,
Helen didn't know.

I couldn't tell Helen.
She did not know.

I faked it.

But when you were young,
when you started racing,

did you think I'm
going to kill them all?

- No.
- No?

I had no idea it was going to
turn out to be successful

as I turned out to be.

I mean, just in victories or
money or anything you want.

I never thought that I could
ever have reached that level

and I never thought that I
could keep it at that level.

And I always thought that other
people were clever or better

or more skilled
than me to do the job.

Yeah, I know.

But you know I just think
that all those things

must be really subjective.

I think that the way you feel,

when you talk about
driving in general.

You say it has to be smooth,
it has to, you know,

break gently,
lift the foot gently,

don't fight with the car.

But when I sit next to you
and you drive around the track,

you know, in the rain
as you drove me,

it all looked...

Where's the smoothness you
talked to me about, you know?

Yeah but that's different.

That's when you're
right over the limit

and you're trying to
bring the car back

from circumstances that
you may have hit aquaplaning,

you know, the water
was too deep

and the car doesn't cut through
the water that goes over it.

When it's no longer in
contact with the--

- The surface...
- the surface,

you are out of control,

so you've got to
bring the car back.

The more I raced, the
longer I was in the business,

the more I could
exercise that desire.

You know, if you turn the
steering wheel in too fast

the car is nervous,
you upset the car.

So I learned that I could put
very little steering angle in,

in fact,
to get round in the corner

because you imagine you've
got to do a lot of that,

but in fact you don't.

And when you take the
steering angle off,

you can take it off earlier
than most people do

because the car
has now taken up,

it's set it's position
and in fact,

the steering wheel or the
steering angle is little to do

with that change of direction.

The dynamics of the car
of doing that.

As I developed, found
that I was more complete

in being able to interpret
before the car reacted

what his next movement
was likely to be

and eliminate that sudden
rush of activity

that you have to go
through at high speed

to bring the car back
under control.

So the object was,
at my last year of motor racing,

the car very seldom
ever get out of control

because it didn't need to be.

It could actually, I could
drive slower and go faster.

Yeah, I understand, but this
is a very subjective feeling

because you
several times told me,

you compared it to
the slow motion

when you're driving the car,

but when I sit next to you,

it doesn't feel like
slow motion,

but it's rather like
a silent movie, you know,

16 frames per second.

It's such a joy that we're able
to sit down here now

and look back.

- After all this time.
- Forty years.

But isn't it funny to
be in the same place,

the same suite?

The same suite,
the same view.

They've changed the
furniture a little bit.

- Well, this has changed.
- Yeah.

- Look at the number...
- The yachts are bigger.

They're bigger,
there's more of them.

The harbor is bigger.

I mean, they put this out
to take cruise ships now

that come in.

See there, the big one
out there is Atlantis,

which was the Niarchos yacht,
still is the Niarchos yacht,

still there,

and of course the same size,

but then are bigger
ones than it now.

This was the Station
Hairpin in the old days.

Of course, now
this is the Fairmont Hotel

and they've even got a grand
stand right up on the roof.

This is exactly
the same as it was,

but the curbs are not sharp,

they're smooth now
you can go on them,

wherein the old days
they were completely sharp.

You know, very dangerous,
you would break a wheel.

And finally, after you've
come down the hill,

you head for the tunnel.

Much longer
than when I was in it.

My day, the tunnel
was much shorter.

The lights were hardly
any light in here at all.

That's why I had to wear
the orange lens

so we could get light.

You're going fast, you're going
from third gear to fourth gear

to fifth gear, to sixth gear,
to seventh gear through here.

At least 185 miles per hour.

Onto this piece of road
which we didn't use before.

The yachts on the
left-hand side,

they will be pushed back
so that if there is an accident,

a wheel comes off,

there's no risk of it
going onto the yachts.

A lot of people are sitting
and watching

the race from the yachts.

And maybe a few more pretty
girls like this on the day.

- Look at the size
of the grandstand.
- Yeah, look at that.

Wow.

All the way along here.

Full.
Never a seat empty.

This Roman, is where we
used to see the pits.

- Here. On this side, yeah.
- Yeah.

- Under those trees.
- Yeah.

And you and Helen,

was you're talking to her
underneath these trees

and the race track
had no barrier

between you
and the race cars.

- Yeah, you could step
down to the race car.
- Yeah.

And all the fuel and everything
if anything had happened,

it would have been a disaster.