F1 Quiz Chain

[xpensive]

I believe that this is Monza 1978 and Mario is showing the calendar to "Gimax", or Carlo Franchi, who was desperatly slow in qualification with his Surtees, problem is that Mario was not yet WDC at the time?

[MikeC]

I believe that this is Monza 1978 and Mario is showing the calendar to "Gimax", or Carlo Franchi, who was desperatly slow in qualification with his Surtees, problem is that Mario was not yet WDC at the time?

That is the right year, although at the time the photo was taken Mario had a good lead in the WDC, but hadn't clinched it. I am sorry if the wording made you think it was after his championship year.

It's not Monza, and from all that I know about Mario he would not make such a gesture to someone he did not know very well, certainly not to a new-comer.

Another clue: take a closer look at the type of car in the race. There's a higher resolution copy of the photo at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N ... otostream/




Mike

[Roland Ehnström]

Could it be his son Michael, then?

[CMSMJ1]

I reckon that is Brand Hatch....hmmm more to follow I am sure

[MikeC]

I reckon that is Brand Hatch....hmmm more to follow I am sure

Brands Hatch is correct. Before the startline grandstand was built.




Mike

[xpensive]

I reckon that is Brand Hatch....hmmm more to follow I am sure

Brands Hatch is correct. Before the startline grandstand was built.

Mike

I'm not certain that I understand the question, at the time of the 1978 British GP, Mario was a long way from becoming WDC
and is he hanging out the calendar to a slow one-time only GP driver, or just to someone he knew very well? Please clarify?

[CMSMJ1]

I read it that he is showing the calendar as a pisstake to someone he knows well who races saloon cars and who probably managed just the one F1 start..


So..I have no idea!

[Onch]

As far as I unserstand this is not the British GP, but another race (sports cars?) held at Brands...
The showing of the F1 calendar might also be a compliment, i.e. "you deserve a place back in F1"...?

That said I have no idea who the hell that guis!

[MikeC]

I read it that he is showing the calendar as a pisstake to someone he knows well who races saloon cars and who probably managed just the one F1 start..

Very close! The driver in question had a good career in small sports cars, didn't quite get to start his first and only GP, but then went on to great success in F1.

So..I have no idea!

The answer to the "one-time" part has already appeared in this chain. You'll kick yourself.....



Mike

[CMSMJ1]

Right right. I did think this as my first guess one but never knew that our man, Colin Chapman, has entered an F1 race.

I knew he was handy behind the wheel...

SO, Colin Chapman!

[MikeC]

SO, Colin Chapman!

Correct! Here's the original caption to the picture as written by Andrew Ferguson who is the face to the right of Mario:

On those occasions when a race organiser invites team managers to
take part in a celebrity race it provides the team's full-time
drivers with the heaven sent opportunity of giving back a little of
what they have had to endure themselves. At Brands Hatch in 1978
as Colin strove to do his best in just such a celebrity event Mario
Andretti wandered over to sit on the pit wall and observed the
time-keepers' watches and lap charts in full swing as they charted
the guvnor's progress. "Forget all that", he drawled, "at his lap
speed he don't need times, just show him a calendar".

Over to you CMSMJ1.



Mike

[MikeC]

Right right. I did think this as my first guess one but never knew that our man, Colin Chapman, has entered an F1 race.

I knew he was handy behind the wheel...

SO, Colin Chapman!

Correct!

This is the original caption to the picture as written by Andrew Ferguson who is next to Mario on the right:

On those occasions when a race organiser invites team managers to
take part in a celebrity race it provides the team's full-time
drivers with the heaven sent opportunity of giving back a little of
what they have had to endure themselves. At Brands Hatch in 1978
as Colin strove to do his best in just such a celebrity event Mario
Andretti wandered over to sit on the pit wall and observed the
time-keepers' watches and lap charts in full swing as they charted
the guvnor's progress. "Forget all that", he drawled, "at his lap
speed he don't need times, just show him a calendar".

Over to you CMSMJ1



Mike

[MikeC]

Right right. I did think this as my first guess one but never knew that our man, Colin Chapman, has entered an F1 race.

I knew he was handy behind the wheel...

SO, Colin Chapman!

Correct!

Here's the original caption to the picture as written by Andrew Ferguson who is the face to the right of Mario:

On those occasions when a race organiser invites team managers to
take part in a celebrity race it provides the team's full-time
drivers with the heaven sent opportunity of giving back a little of
what they have had to endure themselves. At Brands Hatch in 1978
as Colin strove to do his best in just such a celebrity event Mario
Andretti wandered over to sit on the pit wall and observed the
time-keeper's watches and lap charts in full swing as they charted
the guvnor's progress. "Forget all that", he drawled, "at his lap
speed he don't need times, just show him a calendar".


Over to you CMSMJ1




Mike

[MikeC2]

Right right. I did think this as my first guess one but never knew that our man, Colin Chapman, has entered an F1 race.

I knew he was handy behind the wheel...

SO, Colin Chapman!

Correct!

This is the caption to the photo written by Andrew Ferguson, who is the face next to Mario:

On those occasions when a race organiser invites team managers to
take part in a celebrity race it provides the team's full-time
drivers with the heaven sent opportunity of giving back a little of
what they have had to endure themselves. At Brands Hatch in 1978
as Colin strove to do his best in just such a celebrity event Mario
Andretti wandered over to sit on the pit wall and observed the
time-keeper's watches and lap charts in full swing as they charted
the guvnor's progress. "Forget all that", he drawled, "at his lap
speed he don't need times, just show him a calendar".

I am posting this from a different account to the question because it seems that sometime between 1 and 10 posts to this BB your messages will be halted until scanned for spamming or something. So I'll use this one to hand the baton to CMSMJ1 and then retire it.
If three more posts using the same quote as above eventually appear all I can say is sorry 'bout that.


Mike

[MikeC]

SO, Colin Chapman!

Correct!

I've written a post with more information, but it seems to be falling into a newbie's spam trap operated by this BB. I'll repost when out of the trap. Meanwhile over to CMSMJ1.....




Mike