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Rush (Ron Howard's 1970s F1 film)
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27-03-2012 7:40pm#1I've been hearing bits and pieces about this for a while, a film that will try to evoke those heady days when men were men, assuming they survived to tell the tale, the days of James Hunt, Jackie Stewart ... Niki Lauda ... Ronnie Peterson.
Folks watching Formula One today, a sport in which the last person to die was Ayrton Senna in 1994, won't quite understand what the early days were like. Safety only became a priority in the late 1970s, largely thanks to the efforts of Jackie Stewart. Fatalities by decade:
1950s: 15
1960s: 14
1970s: 12
1980s: 4
1990s: 2
2000s: 0
Given Ron Howard's recent track record, this could go either way. Filming is underway, and he's been tweeting pictures from the set:
You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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As far as I can tell from Ron's tweets, that's his F3 car, in a scene from before he was in F1. It's still early in the production, and there are many more pictures. Like this:Wait wait wait wait wait... why is Hunt's car green?
You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I've been looking forward to this film for a long time and people like James Hunt were great Characters. I hope its a great film as I really thought Senna was a film that everybody even non-motorsports fans were captivated by.
Check out Hunts comments here in a live broadcast. Go on James!
Just a point on fatalities. F1 is still dangerous. There have been fatalities quite recently
A marshal died at the 2000 Italian Grand Prix at Monza and in 2001 a marshal died and spectators were injured at the Australian Grand Prix.
Because F1 is such a high speed sport I have no doubt that someone somewhere at some stage will be killed again. When people don't believe it will happen thats when things get dangerous.0 -
As far as I can tell from Ron's tweets, that's his F3 car, in a scene from before he was in F1. It's still early in the production, and there are many more pictures. Like this:
Oh right, fair enough. I jumped to the conclusion that they couldn't get McLaren's permission or something, and an inaccuracy like that would bother me.losthorizon wrote: »Just a point on fatalities. F1 is still dangerous. There have been fatalities quite recently
A marshal died at the 2000 Italian Grand Prix at Monza and in 2001 a marshal died and spectators were injured at the Australian Grand Prix.
Because F1 is such a high speed sport I have no doubt that someone somewhere at some stage will be killed again. When people don't believe it will happen thats when things get dangerous.
Indeed, and sure in the last year there were driver fatalities in two of the next biggest motorsport series - Wheldon in IndyCar, Simoncelli in MotoGP. Not to mention the likes of Surtees in F2 and others. The threat will never fully go away; we've already got lucky on a couple of occasions - Massa springs to mind instantly.
At the very least, I think we can rely on the fact that a driver death now would be down to tragic chance, rather than human error or something else preventable. It would be a piece of debris hitting the helmet or something, because everything else is so rigorously checked.0 -
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Original Ferrari 312T, (formerly) worth £2 million. :eek: Picture by driver Sean Edwards, who has more pics.You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The BBC showed a preview of the film in their Monaco GP coverage last weekend - which I missed, but here it is:
You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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