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[quote name='maryportfuncity' timestamp='1119803156' post='18388'] Well remembered. That 'beheading' was more of a bludgeoning when Tom Pryce's Shadow car ran close to a marshall and the driver's helmet collided with the fire extinguisher. South African Grand Prix 1977. Piers Courage collected a few yards of catch fencing in the early laps of the Dutch Grand Prix 1970, not smart when he was driving an alloy bodied car full of fuel. There was bound to be a spark. The resulting fire reduced pretty much everything - including him - to ashes. Jim Clark - who has some rightful claim to being the best driver ever to step into an F1 car - collided with a tree in a meaningless formula 2 race at Hockenhiem in 1968 in an accident never fully explained. Thankfully the tree - though shaken - survived. Jo Siffert rather pooped the party when Brands Hatch staged an end of season race meeting in 1971. Officially it was to celebrate Jackie Stewart's second world championship although it had rather more to do with the Kent track wanting a cash windfall because the British Grand Prix was at Silverstone that year. Anyway, Siffert's race ended in a bit of flame grilling as the pathetic marshalling at the track battled for what seemed hours to put out the fire. In all honesty one of the most ghoulish bits of sports film in existence. [/quote]

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Phantom

Posted 16 May 2013 - 08:44 PM

Rotten Ali, on 16 May 2013 - 08:30 PM, said:

From Wiki...
Dick Trickle died May 16, 2013 from an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound. The incident occurred at 12:02 at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Boger City, NC. The Lincoln County Communications Center received a call apparently from the victim that "there would be a dead body and it would be his."

A cemetery is usually the perfect place to find a dead body

Dr. Zorders

Posted 16 May 2013 - 08:44 PM

No way....... this saddens me tremendously....... who's gonna top themselves next? Dick Pound? Joey Buttafuoco?

Death Impends

Posted 16 May 2013 - 08:40 PM

Blew his load

Rotten Ali

Posted 16 May 2013 - 08:30 PM

El Muerte

Posted 25 April 2013 - 12:06 AM

Foyt is expected to be in Indy for the 500 next month.

Red Flag

Posted 24 April 2013 - 10:32 PM

American racing legend and serial death avoider AJ Foyt has back surgery. He's 78 now

Grande Pablo

Posted 31 March 2013 - 12:45 AM

^{Not sure if they use a chequered flag in Speedway, but if they do Adam Roynon may not see another one.}

^{http://www.bbc.co.uk...kshire-21981036}

Octopus of Odstock

Posted 26 March 2013 - 10:19 PM

Giancarlo Martini, excellent F2 driver, who was one of the better drivers never to make a full F1 bow, has died , aged 66. (Report in German - http://www.ran.de/de...-gestorben.html)

Octopus of Odstock

Posted 17 March 2013 - 09:21 PM

Who's Sterling Moss? Any relation to Sir Stirling Moss?

That said, you need a young English chap who has thinning hair and slightly larger ears to play him, who isn't a poofter. Wayne Rooney, step forward for your film debut...

Lard Bazaar

Posted 17 March 2013 - 06:54 PM

Spade_Cooley, on 15 March 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

Sterling Moss "doesn't want a poofter to play him in his life story".

Well that's Tom Cruise out of the equation then.

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