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Post by Mark Huber on Nov 29, 2014 8:49:33 GMT -5
The picture is from the sixties, but it was on this date in 1975 that we lost one of the great ones.
While Jim Clark was quiet, Graham Hill could be loquacious (except before a race). But it was fun to hear Graham hold forth, almost as enjoyable as watching his determined and talented racing. He is missed.
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Post by Brian on Nov 29, 2014 8:58:28 GMT -5
RIP Graham
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Post by David Lawson on Nov 29, 2014 12:05:47 GMT -5
Surely it was 1975
David
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Post by Mark Huber on Nov 29, 2014 15:42:53 GMT -5
That it was. 40 years next year, not this year.. My arithmetic always bears checking.
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Post by tedm01 on Feb 13, 2015 7:03:53 GMT -5
This Sunday would have been the great man's 86th birthday - and its my 60th. I will be thinking of him. Like all great men, he had his flaws but who hasn't? I can't see anyone else ever achieving his remarkable motor racing triple crown but you never know! TED
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Post by f143 on Feb 13, 2015 20:31:58 GMT -5
My favourite driver, saw him win at Le Mans 1972. Over the years I have missed his overwhelming presence outside of the car as much as in it. Happy birthday Ted Regards Nigel
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Post by tedm01 on Feb 14, 2015 5:29:40 GMT -5
Thanks very much, Nigel. They say you are as old as you feel-that makes me about 90....BTW,the picture added to my post is excellent. TED.....
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Post by stuck on Sept 8, 2015 12:17:48 GMT -5
A Graham Hill story that's made me laugh for years, which I thought I'd share.
Graham regularly travelled to my home county, Herefordshire, to shoot with Eddie Portman near Hay-on-Wye. One day in the early 1970s, he stopped at a fuel station in Hereford to fill up, and presented a cheque for a vast amount to the rather insular, and fearsome, old girl who ran the fuel station.
I seem to recall that Hill was driving a Ferrari on that occasion (a Daytona I think), which had a rather large petrol tank. Anyhow, the old girl refused to accept the cheque on the grounds that it might bounce. Members of her staff, and others, tried to persuade her that this was World Champion racing driver, the great Graham Hill, a thoroughly honourable man who was most unlikely to bounce a cheque.
The old girl had never heard of Hill and said: "Oy dunna give two buggers who the 'ell you think you be, you binna comin' in yer takin' moy bloody petrol. There's a bank in town and you can go there and get proper money to pay yer bills like every bugger else."
After Graham had stopped laughing he fought through the traffic, got cash, returned with a bunch of flowers, gave the old girl a big kiss and left. Her reaction: "Some silly buggers just won't take tellin'."
Laurence
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Post by tedm01 on Sept 8, 2015 17:57:55 GMT -5
Great story-I hadn't heard that one. I can't imagine some of todays over-paid,self-important journeymen reacting with such good humour. My favourite Graham H story is the one concerning Innes Ireland and a cactus... TED.....
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Post by Aurora on Sept 9, 2015 5:38:24 GMT -5
I can't see anyone else ever achieving his remarkable motor racing triple crown but you never know! TED I can see Montoya doing it if he has the motivation.
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Post by Andrew Rowland on Sept 9, 2015 15:36:23 GMT -5
Bit late for Montoya to be an F1 world champion isn't it?
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Post by Aurora on Sept 16, 2015 5:05:12 GMT -5
A victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans is the missing piece that would give Montoya the Triple Crown.
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