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Titolo: Chris Bristow

Tre soli gp di F1 disputati, ma uno stupefacente terzo posto in griglia a
Monaco al gp del debutto.
Trovň la morte a Spa-Francorchamps nel '60, in maniera bizzarra: un passero
gli urtň il casco, provocandone l'uscita di pista (tra l'altro quello
risultň, 34 anni prima di Imola, il gp piů tragico della storia della F1,
visto che in un secondo incidente perse la vita un altro inglese, Alan
Stacey).
Per me, questo sarebbe stato un futuro campione del mondo
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http://8w.forix.com/brisstac.html
Particularly in the case of Chris Bristow, the record books only show
the promise of his outstanding qualifying performances in a private
year-old Cooper. Yet Bristow is now remembered by some who knew him as
"a Michael Schumacher of his day". A meteor in the true sense, his
career took off in dramatic style and came to an even more dramatic end.
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 career took off in dramatic style and came to an even more dramatic end.
Io penso che le giovani generazioni dovrebbero sapere che una volta c'erano
piloti che non arrivavano a vincere il mondiale non perchč si bruciavano su
macchine non competitive (come succede adesso), ma perchč trovavano la morte
prima di esprimere tutto il loro potenziale. Come Bristow, o come Tony
Brise, perito assieme a Graham Hill e il suo team Embassy
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http://8w.forix.com/brisstac.html
Stacey ha corso in F1 con una gamba artificiale!!? Giuro che non lo
sapevo... stupefacente
Meanwhile, three years of club racing had taken Alan Stacey to works driver
status with Team Lotus by 1958, when he made his F1 debut in the British GP.
He was eighth in the same race a year later, but promotion to Innes
Ireland's number two for 1960 only brought frustration, with retirements in
Argentina, Monaco and Holland, where he had run third for almost the entire
race before the transmission broke on lap 57.
Going to Spa he had only a fourth place in the International Trophy at
Silverstone by way of consolation. Journalist Gerard (Jabby) Crombac knew
Stacey well, both professionally and socially. "He had an artificial leg,"
Crombac writes in Colin Chapman, The man and his Cars. "His right leg was
cut just under the knee, and in order to double-declutch he had a motorcycle
throttle on the gearlever. His mechanic was Bill Bossom, who had a missing
arm. So there was this weird combination of a guy with one leg and a
mechanic with one hand!" They were tremendously popular with everyone
because, despite their particular handicaps, they had each risen to the top
of their branch of the sport
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http://8w.forix.com/brisstac.html
On the next day, during the race, Bristow was embroiled in an aggressive
dice for sixth place with the Ferraris of Wolfgang von Trips and wild Willy
Mairesse when, on the 20th lap, he made what appeared to be an unforced
error at Burnenville. The apple green Cooper rolled over several times,
decapitating him in the process. Clark, in his first season of F1 for Lotus,
nearly struck his body where it lay. This horrifying experience, coupled
with the death of Archie Scott-Brown two years earlier, lay at the root of
the peerless Scot's absolute detesting of Spa.
Two laps later Stacey, lying seventh, crashed at 140mph. Though his Lotus
burned, there was sufficient evidence to convince his mechanics that he had
been struck in the face by a bird.
Qui dice che fu Stacey ad essere colpito da un volatile. Avevo letto che
fosse stato Bristow
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 sapevo... stupefacente
Archie Scott-Brown correva con un braccio solo..
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