What did F1 look like when you were born?

[Rare White Ape]

This thread is partially (well, mostly) inspired by XHawkeye's balls-out good pic.twitter.com thread.

I made up a little game. Find the next Grand Prix after your birth and post a pic of the winning car.

For me the British GP of 1982 happened to be on my birthday and the winner was Niki Lauda in a McLaren-Ford. Back then they ran ground-effects and some drivers chose not to run front wings at some circuits. I was probably less than 36 hours old...

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2785/4163268906_0715321e1a_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/7kTQNo)
1982 British Grand Prix (Brands Hatch) (https://flic.kr/p/7kTQNo) by JohnM47 (https://www.flickr.com/people/37692943@N07/), on Flickr

[MR2 Fan]

1978, apparently looked like this:

http://www.ausmotive.com/images/Lotus-F1-1978.jpg

[G'day Mate]

1981 German Grand Prix winner Nelson Piquet in his Brabham

http://f1-grandprix.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/piqu_brab_1981_470313.jpg

[Blerpa]

The race must be one valid for final championship points or not? Back in the days they did run 3-4 non-point races, which were fully official F1 championship races.


NON-point race - Race of Champions, 17th of March 1974 at Brands Hatch - winner Jacky Ickx on Lotus 72
http://obviousmag.org/archives/uploads/2007/070507_blog.uncovering.org_lotus72-ickx-1974.jpg


Point race - South African GP, 30th of March 1974 at Kyalami [one of my favourite tracks ever! - Peter Revson died during practice :( ] - winner Carlos Reutemann on Brabham-Ford Cosworth BT44
http://collaverglas.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/tawrxzz-1.jpg

[Kchrpm]

I was born during the off-season before the 1982 season, so Alain Prost at Kyalami 17 days later is the guy for me (they had a race in January?!).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7zMBQeG4yE

He won despite having a puncture while leading.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47442000/jpg/_47442390_southafrica1982_512.jpg

[Blerpa]

In the old times they used to race the 2nd of January or about, even.

[Cam]

Ironically, the Canadian GP, 1971. Jackie Stewart won the race in heavy rain after it was red-flagged.

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[Dicknose]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/G._Hill%2C_Ginther%2C_Clark_and_Gurney_at_1965_Dut ch_Grand_Prix.jpg/640px-G._Hill%2C_Ginther%2C_Clark_and_Gurney_at_1965_Dut ch_Grand_Prix.jpg

This was from the right year.
But the first race after I was born was a non championship race at Goodwood

A young fellow called Jackie Stewart got pole
But Jim Clark won the race.

[Fiat500]

I was 17 days old at the time of the first F1 Grand Prix in Canada, in the year of Grand Prix Legends.

Jack Brabham won it in the Brabham BT24.


http://i.imgur.com/ThB1ThN.jpg

Edit: heh, found this on Wikipedia:

"Having already changed his battery on the grid, losing six laps, Al Pease spun and stalled out on the circuit during the race, and suffered another flat battery. He ran back to the pits for a new one, ran back to the car, fitted the battery himself and continued. He was still running at the finish, albeit 43 laps down on the winner."

[CudaMan]

Alan Jones, Long Beach 1981.

http://media.speedcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Alan-Jones.jpg

[Freude am Fahren]

Born in December, so the next GP was the 86 opener in Brazil. Senna wins pole, but Piquet gets the win.

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=611&d=1401727046

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=612&d=1401727080

[Random]

The 1972 Italian Grand Prix @ Monza was the next race after my birthday. Jackie Ickx sat on pole in a Ferrari 312, but the race was won by Emerson Fittipaldi, who also cliched the season championship (and the constructors' championship for Lotus-Ford), becoming the youngest to do so until Alonso won his a few decades later.

Race trivia from Wikipedia: this was the first race @ Monza with chicanes on the main straight and at Ascari. Fittipaldi's car was apparently a 1970-spec car due to a transporter accident on the way to the race that wrecked his 72D.

Ickx's not-highly-attractive 312B:
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/141/f/3/ickx_ferrari_312b2_won_72_ring_by_partywave-d3gwqzr.jpg

Fittipadli's car wasn't that much better, though this is the all-conquering Lotus 72, so it at least has that going for it:
http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/151366/lotus-fittipaldi-inline.jpg

[overpowered]

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/216/f/6/1963_dutch_grand_prix_by_f1_history-d6gkff5.jpg

[The359]

Piquet won the opening round of 1983 in the Brabham BT52

http://f1superswede.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bt52b1.jpg

[Godson]

Born in December, so the next GP was the 86 opener in Brazil. Senna wins pole, but Piquet gets the win.

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=611&d=1401727046

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=612&d=1401727080

Same for me.

http://img.favcars.com/williams/fw11/images_williams_fw11_1986_1.jpg

[XHawkeye]

http://i.imgur.com/Rfs4V.jpg

'64 Honda FA271

http://www.ridermagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/John-Surtees-Ferrari.jpg

Champion John Surtees in a Ferrari

[player2]

I should have got race 1 of 1963 but I'll settle for race 3 and my compatriot Jim Clark in one of his wins in his first title-winning season:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/1963_Dutch_Grand_Prix.ogv/1963_Dutch_Grand_Prix.ogv.360p.webm

[Godson]

Holy cow, where did you find that?

[GB]

Jackie Stewart's first Monaco win, Owen Racing BRM.

http://www.brianwatsonphoto.co.uk/FormulaOne/66/images/141.jpg

[KillerB]

Alan Jones, Long Beach 1981.

http://media.speedcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Alan-Jones.jpg

Oh, hey, me too. Except the race took place just a few hours after I was born. :)

I wonder if the GP of Long Beach will ever get F1 again...

[Yw-slayer]

1979, so the Lotus 80 was an experiment that didn't work out.

Doesn't matter, though since they ended up creating the ELise.

[IMOA]

Emmo winning at watkins glen 4 days before I was born

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86906319/1970_watkins%20glen.jpg

And since it's 1970 Jochen Rindt deserves a mention

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86906319/jochen_rindt__great_britain_1970__by_f1_history-d5f8j62.jpg

[Dicknose]

At least I'm not the only one with black and white photos!

[Reynard]

Jackie Stewart's first Monaco win, Owen Racing BRM.

http://www.brianwatsonphoto.co.uk/FormulaOne/66/images/141.jpg

Ditto. Was just about 2 months old for this race.

Happy to see my man Nelson dominating this thread though. :cool:

[Phil_SS]

A non points event at Brands Hatch took place two days after my birthday in 1975. Photo courtesy of Racing Sports cars.

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[Alan P]

11 days after my Birthday Emo won in this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VjgpnOBBafE/TpisL2ROzMI/AAAAAAAAO5Q/xkbwJiPurZk/s640/3983.jpg

The McLaren Ford M23.

[2ndMoparMan]

http://worldcarslist.com/images/williams/williams-fw07b/williams-fw07b-05.jpg

French GP 1980, one month after I was born. Previous race was Monaco, but that was before I was born.

[Fogelhund]

http://f1.imgci.com/PICTURES/CMS/900/906.jpg

Jim Clark wins the South African Grand Prix, January 1st, 1968. I was born three days later, and sadly it was his last F1 race.

[jimeez]

I couldn't find any cave drawings of F1 when I was born


Circa 1953

[Random]

1953 was peculiar (and not just because you were born): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Formula_One_season

[tigeraid]

Jesus you people are old.

Formula One season finale at Watkins Glen, about 1 month before I was born. I won't post that abortion that Il Commendatore forced Gilles to drive.

Instead, this:


http://fotos.subefotos.com/fc4803c38246a228102c0a5a84ca191fo.jpg

[SportWagon]

http://www.stirlingmoss.com/sites/default/files/photos/MOSS56MON02.JPG

http://www.stirlingmoss.com/photos/1956-monaco-grand-prix-monte-carlo

Perhaps I need to track down some photos from the French Grand Prix at Reims.

http://www.stirlingmoss.com/photos/1956-french-grand-prix

http://www.stirlingmoss.com/sites/default/files/photos/56_FRA04.JPG

Edit: I still need to learn to read the rules properly. I've still not posted the winning car

http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr053.html

Peter Collins in his winning Ferrari from the 1956 French Grand Prix at Reims.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3pPrn5edk8/UiN86U-GvCI/AAAAAAAAKrw/Yl6eM5iXyVA/s200/1956fr_collins.jpg
from a difficult-to-navigate blog entry...

http://second-a-lap.blogspot.ca/2013/10/gp-56-round-5-xlii-grand-prix-de-lacf.html

Of course, all the colour pictures are artificial, since the world was really still all black-and-white back then.

Here's Reims in 1953...
http://www.grandprixhistory.org/images/reims3.jpg

http://www.grandprixhistory.org/french1953.htm

[Godson]

he's smiling around the corner. That's awesome

[Jegato]

http://en.espnf1.com/PICTURES/CMS/9300/9332.jpg

Jim Clark taking the chequered flag in his Lotus at the 1962 USGP at Watkins Glen Oct 7, 1962... 4 days before my birthday

The story -> http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/44583.html

[SupraDupra]

Born in the off-season. First race of 1972 was Argentina! I can't believe it's been over 15 years since they were there...

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/205/5/7/jackie_stewart__argentine_1972__by_f1_history-d6exdxt.jpg