I don't race, but I always like a GOOD story when I hear one! I know what
the thrill of a "slingshot around a turn" is like when sailing my catamaran
at 25 + knots!
Mike Hudson '67 -1600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Glasgow" <gsglasgow@comcast.net>
To: "Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:00 PM
Subject: Something for the F1 fans
> If you get the chance, pick up the January issue of F1 Racing magazine.
It's
> all about "Quick." What it is, who is, etc. It's really a very interesting
> issue.
>
> One of the features is "Top 10 Quick Moments" from F1 history. They don't
> try to put these in any order. Some of them I remember seeing, like
> Mansell's pass of Senna at Barcelona in 1991, Mika Hakkinen and Michael
> Schumacher blowing past poor Ricardo Zonta on either side at Spa in 2000,
> and Alonso's incredible pass on Schumacher around the outside of 130R at
> Suzuka in 2005.
>
> But the one I'd heard about for years was Fangio's incredible performance
at
> the old Nurburgring circuit in 1957. For those who won't be able to find
the
> magazine, here it is:
>
> Hampered by a botched pit stop that turned his 28sec lead into a 50sec
> deficit, the great Juan Manuel Fangio began the charge of his life - a
> mesmerising chase around the 14-mile switchback as, with devastating
> commitment, he reeled in the leading Ferraris of Mike Hawthorn and Peter
> Collins. "If you left the car in a higher gear for some of the faster
> corners, as long as you went in at the correct angle, you came out
faster,"
> he said, "I began to take nearly all the bends like that." Slashing a
> massive 20sec from the lap record, he finally caught and passed both red
> cars on the penultimate lap. It was Fangio's last win. "On that day, I
> finally managed to master the Nurburgring," he later wrote. "I made such
> demands on myself that I couldn't sleep for two days. I knew I'd never be
> able to go so fast again, ever."
> Gordon Glasgow
> Renton, WA
> www.gordon-glasgow.org
>
> "The difference between what we do
> and what we are capable of doing
> would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
> - Mahatma Gandhi
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