At the end of last year, Autosport_Show asked fans to select their favourite motorsport moments from a list chosen by a panel that included three-time F1 world champion Sir Jackie Stewart. Here, we tell the stories behind the top 10 📝
, will be signed by Stewart and raffled, along with many other motorsport items, to raise funds and awareness for Race Against Dementia’s research. You can text MEMORY to 70215 to enter the free prize draw.10. 1957 German GP: The greatest drive of a legend,“I had to risk – that’s something I never did before in my life.” Such was the dangerous nature of the sport in the 1950s and the enormity of his ability that Juan Manuel Fangio rarely extended himself for long periods.
Ferrari eventually responded and hung out the ‘FLAT’ boards to Hawthorn and Collins but it was too little, too late. Fangio swept into the lead on the penultimate lap and, despite Hawthorn gamely hanging on, won the 22-lap, three-and-a-half-hour race by 3.6 seconds. Jackie Stewart’s Ken Tyrrell-run Matra and Lotus star Jochen Rindt had been the pacesetters of the 1969 Formula 1 season, but Rindt’s poor luck meant there wasn’t a title fight. When they arrived in Italy for round eight of 11, Stewart led Jacky Ickx by 29 points , while Rindt was still waiting for his first win and had just three points on the board. Fortunately, both Stewart and Rindt were to be key players throughout the 68-lapper.
“Nobody has ever seen the finish of a motor race like that,” said legendary commentator Murray Walker. Despite all the slipstreaming and place changing, the ‘laps led’ statistic reveals the advantage Stewart’s long fourth gear had given him. He had crossed the start/finish line in the lead 58 times out of 68. It was his sixth win of the year, scored against his strongest rival, and fittingly secured Stewart his first world crown.8.
In response, Cleland boldly dived down the inside into Brooklands, the Vauxhall up on two wheels before forcing the BMW wide. Soper retaliated at the following Luffield right-hander, hitting the Vauxhall in the side. Both retired in the gravel. Cleland’s “the man’s an animal” line demonstrated his frustration as Harvey completed his final lap to snatch the title.
Only in the closing stages did Toyota really begin to get a grip on the race. The Porsche had been the faster car in the night but, as the temperatures rose on Sunday morning, the TS050 at the very least came onto a par with the 919. The 14-lap stints the low-drag Toyota could achieve compared with the Porsche’s 13 laps ended up proving decisive. Or should have done.
So hugs all round were fully deserved. Reckon I still owe Kaz a commiseratory embrace all these years on.6. 1987 British GP: Mansell chases down Piquet on home ground, We’d been counting down the gap, lap by lap, as Williams duo Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell blew past at fearsome old Silverstone. Mansell, the true grit, true Brit hero of the masses, was on a mission in front of his deeply partisan and noisy ‘barmy army’.
That much was evident to the crowd too – including this writer, 13 years old and standing among the Mansell faithful right at the braking point for Stowe. If I close my eyes, I can still see it unravelling in a 190mph flash: the cars appearing into view almost as one from Chapel Curve, the violent vibrations of speed down Hangar Straight, the dummy left, Piquet’s jink to defend and Mansell’s glorious swoop to the inside.
He’d made three previous attempts on the Mille Miglia, all with Jaguar – all had ended in failure – before he rolled the gleaming Mercedes-Benz 300SLR up the Brescia starting ramp just ahead of 7.22am on 1 May 1955. The idea of carrying a navigator had originated from American team-mate John Fitch, while journalist and friend ‘Jenks’ had made himself the obvious candidate by his complete lack of nerves on a lap with Moss in a Maserati A6GCS around fearsome Pescara.
Felipe Massa had started the season finale seven points behind Hamilton , but level on five wins apiece. The Ferrari driver led away from pole on intermediate tyres – the first sector of the Interlagos track had been doused with an intense but short rain shower – while Hamilton started fourth. “It was a fantastic race,” recalls Massa. “I started on pole position, I won the race, fastest lap – everything was just perfect.”
Finally, Stewart underlined his wet-weather genius, completing the first lap eight seconds ahead and his second tour more than half a minute clear of the field. He recorded 9m36s for his eighth lap of 14, which was 15s faster than anyone else would manage before conditions got even worse. He was helped by the fact that his Dunlop tyres were superior to the Firestones used by Lotus and Ferrari, but still the sheer driving challenge was huge.
This time, after glory at Daytona and Sebring, eight of the seven-litre GT40 MkIIs lined up for the Big One, from three camps: a trio from Shelby American, three more from Holman Moody and a pair from Alan Mann Racing. United by a cause to avenge Enzo Ferrari’s snub of Ford’s advances in 1963, after 22 wasted days of negotiation, the two US teams and the British outpost remained fiercely opposed on how each planned to be the one to put down the dreaded Prancing Horse once and for all.
The epilogue was tinged in tragedy. As Ford started a roll of four straight Le Mans victories, Miles returned to the States to develop the lightweight J-Car – and crashed to his death at Riverside in August. Recognition would come eventually, but from an unlikely source. A Hollywood leading man? With that face? You’d better believe it.1.
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