Re: Departed During 2022
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:35 am
A sad way to go. A woman in a man's world back then.
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He attended one of the Autumn series matches this month in Edinburgh. He looked very frail. Motor Neurone Disease is a terrible thing.
I recently lost a good fishing friend to it.TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 8:00 pmHe attended one of the Autumn series matches this month in Edinburgh. He looked very frail. Motor Neurone Disease is a terrible thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... es-aged-52
Many years back I lost a friend to MND. He was only 34 and left a wife and 2 young kids. We celebrated his 34th birthday with a party two weeks before he died. I had reason to think of him last year as I was maintaining/rewriting some code for a client, the code having not been touched for some 26 years and there was his name. He had written the original program. The first time I have found poignancy in programming code I can tell you.ribrash wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 8:34 pmI recently lost a good fishing friend to it.TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 8:00 pmHe attended one of the Autumn series matches this month in Edinburgh. He looked very frail. Motor Neurone Disease is a terrible thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... es-aged-52
Pinky, the photo was taken in 1972 when Sue Baker was the Evening News Motoring Correspondent. It was taken during an interview with John Surtees who had set up his own racing team in 1970 and he gave her a chance to sit in the new F1 car and become acquainted with the controls. Surtees retired in 1972, as a driver, but had his greatest success as a constructor with Mike Hailwood winning the F2 Championship in 1972 for the team in a Surtees designed and built car.Pinky the pilot wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:42 amTGA; That photo of Sue Baker sitting in what appears to be a 70's Formula 1 car; Can you supply any details?
Just curious.
I had the pleasure of seeing Scheckter secure his win in the BOAC Sunshine Formula Ford Series in 1970, with BOAC paying for him to race in the British Formula Ford Championship the following year. He went on ultimately to win the F1 World Championship for Ferrari.In the French Grand Prix Jody immediately impressed by taking the lead at the start. Then came a collision with Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus, which sent the Scheckter McLaren somersaulting off the circuit and the reigning World Champion into a towering rage. This madman, fumed Fittipaldi, is a menace to himself and everybody else and does not belong in F1. The anti-Scheckter movement gained considerable momentum in his next race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Jody had qualified sixth and was fourth on the opening lap when the crowded field of 28 cars converged on the 150 mile an hour Woodcote corner. The Scheckter McLaren went out of control and spun wildly through the middle of the pack before thumping hard into the cement wall in front of the Silverstone pits. As Jody clambered out of the smoking wreckage, completely unhurt, the chaos he had caused continued for some time. Great clouds of smoke and dust obscured the details but there were glimpses of cars flying through the air and bits of wreckage rained down over a considerable area. Mercifully, the only injury was a broken leg suffered by the Surtees driver Andrea de Adamich, but eight cars had been totally destroyed and Jody Scheckter was held responsible for causing the most massive Formula One accident of all time. The Grand Prix Drivers Association's demand for his immediate banishment was put off when McLaren agreed to "rest" its rash rookie.
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