Fangio vs Brabham 1978

Cazzie

Cazzie

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"Here is an extremely memorable piece of footage where 5-time world champion, Juan Manuel Fangio, aged 66, races against Jack Brabham. The 4 lap ‘demonstration’ was run after the Australian Grand Prix at Sandown in 1978. With Fangio in his W196 Mercedes Benz and Brabham in his Repco Brabham, a car 12 years newer than Fangio’s. An awesome exhibition of great racing cars, pushed to their limit against one another, a special clip."

Turn up the sound, that straight-eight Mercedes is something else.

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Caz
 
Can I say "I was there" .........?????
:jump:
This was the first of the long distance rounds in the Australian Touring Car Championship and a special 'Fiftieth Anniversary' celebration of the Australian Grand Prix.
It is worth noting that Jack had only retired from Formula 1 seven years earlier while Fangio had departed motor racing twenty one years previous.
Fangio was exactly as I'd always imagined him to be, a thoroughly charming man off the track and smooth as he was fast on it.
The W196 (fitted with a 3 Litre 'Temporada' engine BTW) was clocked at 180MPH at the top of the back straight ........ and Brabham wasn't holding back either.
He admitted later that he was giving the Repco a good workout.
I would put that weekend down as one of my favourite 'Motorsport Memories'.
The 'Historic' celebrations were packed with legendary cars and drivers, while the Touring Car round (The 'Hang Ten 500') was a classic event and another 'Peter Perfect' victory, albeit a close one, while I managed to avoid the indignity of being lapped by the F5000 runners in the main open wheel event.
I was driving a Surtees TS15 FVA in the under 2 litre class as a result of a very kind owner who had decided he was off the pace and gave me the seat for several Gold Star rounds that year.
Sandown is still operating today, modernised but still very close to the layout shown.
Good find Caz.
:applause::applause::applause:
I shall go through my old B&W negatives, that week I shot more film than I used for the entire year!
 
Terry said:
If they would bring those cars back I would start watching F1 again.
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Check the three of us out.......aged 66, 64 and 63.
I doubt we fit the 'Target Audience' for Mr. Ecclestone's present day 'Formula 1' demographic.
:icon_eek:
 
wombat666 said:
Can I say "I was there" .........?????
:jump:
This was the first of the long distance rounds in the Australian Touring Car Championship and a special 'Fiftieth Anniversary' celebration of the Australian Grand Prix.
It is worth noting that Jack had only retired from Formula 1 seven years earlier while Fangio had departed motor racing twenty one years previous.
Fangio was exactly as I'd always imagined him to be, a thoroughly charming man off the track and smooth as he was fast on it.
The W196 (fitted with a 3 Litre 'Temporada' engine BTW) was clocked at 180MPH at the top of the back straight ........ and Brabham wasn't holding back either.
He admitted later that he was giving the Repco a good workout.
I would put that weekend down as one of my favourite 'Motorsport Memories'.
The 'Historic' celebrations were packed with legendary cars and drivers, while the Touring Car round (The 'Hang Ten 500') was a classic event and another 'Peter Perfect' victory, albeit a close one, while I managed to avoid the indignity of being lapped by the F5000 runners in the main open wheel event.
I was driving a Surtees TS15 FVA in the under 2 litre class as a result of a very kind owner who had decided he was off the pace and gave me the seat for several Gold Star rounds that year.
Sandown is still operating today, modernised but still very close to the layout shown.
Good find Caz.
:applause::applause::applause:
I shall go through my old B&W negatives, that week I shot more film than I used for the entire year!
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Well, you were one lucky bloke! :icon29:

The US GP at Watkins Glens that year was my 5th US GP. A crew of us always went to the Glen. It generally rained. October in New York. I saw the great Jackie Stewart. Sadly I was there the year Cevert was killed. What a charmer, the US lassies literally drooled over him.

I only went to one modern day Indy GP. I was not impressed. Like NASCAR, it had become too big for its breeches.

But I was firmly into F-1, which we called Grand Prix and I wish they would go back to that name, by the early 1960s when Phil Hill won the Championship in 1961.

I eat motorsports like a Catholic drinks at Happy Hour! :ernae:

Caz
 
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