2008 Monaco Historic Grand Prix 2


Page 2.	6th MONACO HISTORIC GRAND PRIX May 10 - 11, 2008



Kate & Junmei find the Yellow Submarine but no Beatles



Sunday Race Day - Group F
Hamish (above), Rick & Garreth (below)	Over Somerville's BT37, Carlino & Brahin, ready to roll... as it were...



Racer Rick and the Flame Out Surtees

Hamish in the Brabham BT37

Garreth, Rick & Davide















Below: Hamish, interrupted.... whilst lapping the back-marker Hesketh of Lee Brahin, which quite suddenly experiences a disastrous blue-flag/rearview-mirror malfunction
Back-marker Hesketh gets launched off of lapping Brabham's tire....	...and overturns

Fortunately, Lee B. suffered only a banged-up shoulder in his ex-James Hunt Hesketh


	The air scoop took the brunt of the hit



Hamish immediately pulls in to make sure Brahin's OK	No chance to reenter the race though.,,
Let's go to the video....

The Brabham escaped unscathed, but Hamish pulled out of the race


We had such a great shot at a podium finish with the BT37.... alas, it was not to be.

Meanwhile, Rick is having a great time in the Surtees and stays out of trouble











A beautiful drive and very respectable finish for Rick in his Group F Surtees

Sunday Race Day - Group G
Next up, Rick Carlino in his Group G Hesketh (#20)










Another great run for Racer Rick at Monaco!

It's no small thing to win at Monaco, so we give our friend Simon his due below. Well done mate! "Race E: Pre 1966 rear engined Formula 1 Grand Prix cars Shortly after the mid-engined revolution changed the outlook of Formula 1, the sport’s governing body cut the displacement limit to a mere 1.5 litre for the period between 1961 and 1965. The low output engines placed emphasis on chassis design more than ever before and probably since. The result was a series of very high tech machines that today are rarely campaigned. Fortunately they were out in force headlined by a series of Climax and BRM V8 engined cars. Amazingly Simon Hadfield managed to pip all of them in his four-cylinder engined ex-Jim Clark Lotus 21. At one point in the race he looked to be under siege from ‘Fearless’ Frank Sytner in a V8 engined Lotus 24 (also prepared by Hadfield), but Sytner was forced to retire before he could challenge Hadfield. This cleared the path to the podium for James Hanson in the rare Scirocco BRM and Marcus Mussa in a Lotus 24 BRM." - Ultimate Car Page







French champagne makes a swell shower (careful with that new Chopard watch, dude!)



With the sun setting over La Rascasse, we head back to Heavenly Daze, and (for some of us) home; for Rick, Italy and the Mille Miglia, and for Hamish, Lee & Chuck, Spa-Francorchamps and the FIA Historic Formula One Championship!




We're already looking forward to 2010 for the 7th Monaco Historic Grand Prix!

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