- 12 Οκτ 2024, 08:08
#874408
I'd like to add some details to this event if I may. 11-12 May 1984. Ca. 90,000 spectators. Top six qualifiers were Prost, Reutemann, Senna, Hulme, Jones and Watson. "A few drivers, including Laffite, missed practice". The 'local drivers to fill the gaps? Hans Hermann, Klaus Ludwig ('78 'Ring 1000K winner w/Heyer/Hezemans), Manfred Schurti ('79 1000K winner w/Wollek/Fitzpatrick) and Udo Schutz ('67 1000K winner w/Buzzetta). Race results: Senna, Lauda, Reutemann, Rosberg, Watson, Hulme, Scheckter, Brabham, Ludwig, Hunt, Surtees, Hill, Schurti, Moss, Prost, Laffite, Hermann, de Angelis, Jones and Schutz. As part of a "Ford - Sixty Years of Racing History" exhibition a '73 Tyrrell-Ford w/Tom Wheatcroft and a '84 IMSA Mustang were featured. Johnny Cecotto demonstrated a BMW bike, Hermann Lang demonstrated a '54 Benz W154, Marc Surer a '84 Arrows-BMW, Manfred Winkelhock a '83 Brabham-BMW. As part of 'Auto Motor und Sport's' exhibits, a '62 Porsche ('61 French GP winner), a Benz W196 and an Auto Union V-16 were featured. Fangio was listed as demonstrating a '27 Benz sports car.
One thing that Scott didn't mention but you can read on Senna's biography written by Christopher Hilton: Senna was so committed to win this race that once he discovered what car model would be used, he rented a similar enough Mercedes model and drove it with a friend to a "practice" trip. It is said that it was enough to make Senna understand how the suspension worked, then on the race day he just had to make the adjustments necessary because of the car modifications.
Some back stories from this race.
Alan Jones led the first few laps but his car died and gave Senna the lead.
James Hunt kept cutting the first corners just because he wanted to.
John Surtees liked his car so much he took the race smoothly as he wanted to keep it.
The driver he refers to at 9:39 is Jody Sheckter who set the fastest lap.
Although he did not race Juan Manuel Fangio did still attend this event and even demonstrated his 1955 Mercedes W196.
The reason for the first two laps being missed was due to the President of the region of Germany delivering a prolonged speech.
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