Grand Prix: The Killer Years.
On the Velocity channel. Looks promising.
Grand Prix: The Killer Years.
On the Velocity channel. Looks promising.
Carpet Racers on Documentary Channel
I watched the Gran Prix one. History I was not aware of. WAY too many good people dying in bad ways. Safety has come a very long way, with many people kicking and screaming in protest. I never heard of driver's strikes before.
I caught some of carpet racers. Recording the rest.
Was the Grand Prix show a new one, or was it the show that was on the BBC a while back?
The Grand Prix show was an eye opener.
Such a well-done docu. Jackie Stewart is one noble dude. I'm surprised Francois Cevert didn't get mentioned, though.
Amazing how far safety has come and how little (none) was around in the early days.
I thought it was well done, my wife even stopped in and watched it.
I watched it last night. Great documentary, it was too short though, I would have preferred 2 hours of that type of content.
It got to the credits and it seemed to me like the end of the story was "...and the racers got their safety requests fulfilled and everyone lived happily ever after, The End."
In reply to failboat:
Even though fatal incidents didn't stop, their frequency certainly dropped to a much lower rate. The good thing (and, I think the point of the film) is that the drivers finally took a strong enough stance to affect significant changes regarding safety concerns.
Take a look at this list and you'll see what happened after 1973: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_fatal_accidents
With the possible exceptions of Koinigg and Donohue, the other fatalities were caused more by driver error, mechanical failure and freak occurrence. Knock on wood, but F1 hasn't had a death for nearly twenty years.
Worst accident IMO has to be Tom Pryce. Having a fire extinguisher take off your head at 160 is one gruesome way to go
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Worst accident IMO has to be Tom Pryce. Having a fire extinguisher take off your head at 160 is one gruesome way to go
I thought of that last night in bed after I typed about Francois Cevert. I wonder why that was omitted. It was the opening scene of "Champions Forever/The Quick And The Dead" from back in the day.
Certainly one of the most horrifying incidents in F1. The dude Pryce hit got turned into tartare. 
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