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for e well this is nice but we don’t have any audio that’s Michael B that’s Marino that’s cloria h for also yeah has basically changed from this 250f to that Ferrari yeah yeah and then [Music] off the palace the Yachts are popping in the harbor the champagne corks are popping race engines are being fired up it’s the 14th Monaco historic good morning morning everyone I’m Andrew Marriott alongside me a man who has reported almost 50 Monaco Grand pris it’s well con jurus it’s qualification day here for Sunday’s eight different races will be across all of them plus a spectacular lunchtime Cate parade Bob cars from 100 years ago to 40 so what’s the format and what’s the first race or first qualification we’re going to see now well yes we they are all different divisions uh various different classes as well within those divisions uh they are divided by engine capacity by front and rear engines uh by disc brakes and drum brakes as well by ground effect nonr effect so each group of cars has a different uh type of uh specification for example we start off with series A2 front engine Grand Pre cars built before 1961 and we’ve got 26 of those practiced yesterday and uh hopefully we’re going to see 26 you can see the the participants coming up on the screen yeah we got iconic Maserati 250ss we got some Ferraris a lovely little Dino and of course we’ve also got the Lotus 16s always quick Round Here originally grae Hill I remember driving one of those around here but the big story in this is last year A lady called Claudia hen a German woman who raced here and won here 24 years ago was put into a car at the very last last minute owned by Alex burkenstock of the shoe company and she wasn’t entered in the car for this meeting and suddenly she is in the same car defending her title from last year and she is quick I mean 24 years ago she was winning here it’s incredible now we should explain that this event is only every two years and uh the other intervening year of course is the Lal classic so that’s how they work it so that’s only every two years as well but this is going to be interesting we’ve got some real interest here as well with Marino franki yeah just to go back to the origins of this Monaco historics in 1997 it was to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Grimaldi family which is the royal family here in Monaco and that was the origins of it and it’s taken place on average I think we can say every two years occasionally it was three years and then it was one year gaps but on average it’s every two years Co got in the way a bit didn’t it yes and then so but also we have had in this race in the past British winners of course and very interesting car a guy called Tony wood in a thing called a techmech now the techmech only ever raced in one Grand Prix it was a Maserati 250f base but they changed a rear suspension and it was meant to be the latest phase of the car but uh I think the money ran out before they really got it going since then the car of course has been developed like 50 years later and suddenly the thing’s really quick so so I think Tony wood is going to be right in this and that’s a story I think we’ll find throughout the weekend uh throughout today particularly so many cars that perhaps weren’t properly developed didn’t have the money behind them all the way up to the fitt pales if you like didn’t have the money behind them since then they’ve had a lot of work done on them a lot of development and have become much more competitive than they were in Period so uh to some extent you’ll expect to see rather strange or now there’s a bit of a uh divide here between the Cooper Bristols uh the Maseratis the lotuses front engine lotuses no rear engined and the Maserati so and also of course we got the Ferguson as well which was not really a Formula 1 car at the time but raced in a Formula 1 meeting and won the gold gold cup at Alon Park yeah four-wheel drive I was there Bob one of the first formul one races I ever attended I was taken there for a birthday and of course Sterling Moss won that race car later went down to Australia in the Tasman series driven mainly by a guy called Jack Fairman um bit of a journeyman but still did a very good job in that car four-wheel drive um developed by a chap called Harry Ferguson who was best known for um tractors but it the car has changed hands recently the new German owner has been receiving a lot of coaching from a guy who’s won here a lot called Stuart Hall and um Stuart told me yesterday that uh it’s going to make a little bit it’s make it could be going quite well I think it was about halfway down in practice just explain that yesterday we had a complete day of practice didn’t count towards the grid and uh that practice saw quite a few shunts actually it’s brutal around here isn’t it absolutely I mean is the classic iconic racing Circuit of all time certainly a street circuit I suppose there three big circuits aren’t there the trilogy is Indianapolis Lam more and here people talk about track limits these days in Formula 1 and Porsches and all sorts of things track limits here don’t really exist if you go off out of the track limit you’re in the barrier and it’s very solid yeah absolutely there a couple of places where you could where you can overshoot aren’t they yeah yeah um mirabo for example that sheain um and also sand devot look at this scene of the gots now in two weeks time you’ll be here again Bob for the Monaco Grand Prix for current Formula 1 cars all that lot all that lot in the middle your screen will have grown hugely yes it be much bigger Yachts now the interesting thing the cars that you will see will all look pretty well the same the shape of them as Formula One developed and we’ll see it through this whole meeting as we go towards the latest cars of 1985 all those cars were designed by guys with pencils now they’re all designed on the computer of course the guy with the keyboard and obviously everything’s converged course computer says do this but back in the B and in the 80s there was lots of different thoughts of how to get the performance in the best way so car’s out on the track now the first thing look two what a magnificent sight 250 F MTI side by side coming yeah absolutely and into the tunnel when they raced here that tunnel was completely different it was sort of rounded shorter tunnel so uh we’ve got something like 26 cars out there we’re expecting to see uh as a said before Cooper Bristols there’s a Conor there’s a couple of ginis Ferrari Maserati Tober laggo Lotus one Scarab which actually in Period failed to qualify here but good to see Mark Shaw from Scotland in that car and uh he’s uh we’ve seen Julian Bronson in that car in the past driver it is the same is the same uh car and uh I think that’s going to be very competitive and uh but it wasn’t in period it it was very uncompetitive but since then huge amount of work’s been done on it and lots of testing which is they never did before and now you could say it it could be competitive you did mention the Ferguson four-wheel drive I believe it was the last front engine car to win a Formula 1 race and uh also the one car we don’t have here that was front last one of the last Formula One front end cars Aston Martin but we don’t have have one of those this time but we got pretty well everything else of of that period And there’s a low to 16 and pretty soon we’ll be getting some times up it’ll give him a couple of laps and um see who gets to the front we watch out also for uh Marino frankii former winner of the Sebring 12 hours his brother better known brother because Dario was supposed to be here this weekend but he’s still very much involved in the ganassi Indie team so at the last minute he had to go there but wasn’t going to be in this race he going to be in a later race and there that’s the techmech that’s the techmech that you were talking about earlier on you can see it’s a lot lighter it looks a lot Slimmer than the 250f which is quite quite bulky quite heavy looking and the 250f got oldfashioned leaf springs where I believe the techm has got a more modern rear suspension system we might get a close to through that tricky chicane just taking a little bit of curb and it’s always fascinating to look at a whole range of cards when you’ve got say half a dozen Maserati 250 FS they’re all different they’re not the same at all uh whereas these days you’d have an absolutely identical car yes in those days each person modified them as they wished now you see a big roll over cage on that car that wouldn’t have been there in Period here he goes through rascas and you can see on these skinny tires they’re scrabbling for grip all the way around they put a certain amount of rubber down yesterday and now we’re getting some competitive times we should from John Spears first of all at 2 minutes 18 and uh the Spanish driver G Fiero Ela and Tony wood two minutes dead Fiero let has been a winner here in the sports car race and uh just just looking at the result Tony wood in that Tech Mech last two years ago the last event here was second Claudia hen in the Ferrari he won in 18 and he W in 16 so Tony wood definitely one of the Front Runners as I say 2 minutes dead is his uh fastest time or his quick time at the moment how much quicker it gets we will see but uh the camera’s following the tech Mech all the way around so the second at the moment is uh man who used to run a wholesale butchers but he’s retired now I used to call him the Sausage King I spoke to him yesterday and he’s Max Smith hiard I said are you Max Smith Hillard or you just max Hillard cuz that’s what on the car he said I don’t mind so I think they call him Max Hillard cuz it’s quicker um and then then um f renol the paint king of Spain yes he is and I’ve been racing in historics for a long time and quick third fastest at the moment so we were talking about Marino frankii he’s just gone fifth the fastest and there’s a a late substitute isn’t there um with Stephan deg Gro who’s a current racer it’s Mausam team from Germany who cloudy hin driving for them but that’s John Spears on screen as it says the English driver yeah John was winning last weekend at Donington in a very different car at TVR and um John Spears a multi-millionaire sold his business um which was an investment compy I think it for 165 million no he paid a lot of tax because lot yeah it helps he’s a lovely FL and I think he’s 72 years old but he’s still very very quick well that’s the point it’s something we’re going to see a lot of we’ll see drivers who are in multiple different Machinery they’ve got multiple different Machinery if you’ve got as much money as John spear sold his company for you’ve got lots of different cars and you can be racing virtually every weekend and when you take the helmet off there can be an awful lot of gray hair and you’ll see them not very much hair at all like me and not like you but uh that’s something we’ll see a lot of this weekend and a lot of these drivers with a huge amount of experience in various different cars this is Claudia hen on the screen at the moment in number 20 that’s the Ferrari Dino 2.4 L 6cylinder beautiful little car and and again two masera it’s almost side by side going down onto the harbor at 48 yeah yeah I mean the great Sterling Moss who there was a a marvelous um event at uh in London two or three four days ago wasn’t it for Sterling celebrating his life and he loved the 250f Maserati and he thought it was a just magnificent car to drive well Marino Frank said exactly the same thing he said it’s the nicest racing car he’s ever driven it’s just a pure joy to drive that car owned by his father-in-law who happened to be a drummer is a drummer I suppose he still is yeah he has a band called the sorcer full of secrets does he and that is Nick Mason of course formerly of Pink Floyd Pink Floyd yeah and Nick Mason does not look like a rockar he looks more like a backman he doesn’t mind me saying that he he and he came out of a motor racing family his father was a one of the very first Motor Racing filmmakers that’s right he made films for Shell didn’t he he did but John Spears is still at the top of the list that’s a bit of a surprise I don’t think we’ve seen Spears here in the his 250f before and I see Max hilard just gone fastest in the first [Music] sector John Spear’s founder of best invest that’s what he sold yeah yeah that’s what he sold he’s also representing England in the world golf cro Champion yes I don’t know what golf cro is but um do you think you play cro but as though you’re playing golf I don’t know or vice versa maybe maybe you find him in the padet I yes that would make sense wouldn’t it yeah so he’s driven as you said the TVR he’s had Noella Lotus CA e type uh he was in the 250f here two years ago oh so so yes so Spears hertan Smith ilad and then wood in fourth place at the moment Franky in fifth and then sixth is Mark Shaw then it’s Fierro Aleta in seventh F russino in eighth place the two Spaniards there then Stefan dut in ninth who is down here as French even though he sounds very uh Dutch and 10th is Yan sergison the Scotsman uh from the Midlands of England so uh that’s the order at the moment but it can all change still 15 minutes to go golf cro is a sort of faster version of cro apparently and [Music] um it’s not quite it’s it’s a bit like you know Cricket with a different discipline shell is it is it a good walk spoiled even more I don’t know oh there’s lots of tactics aren’t there and oh and we got going backwards the 14 car of uh Julia de balanza that’s at mirabo she’s gone straight on there fortunately you can go straight on there and not hit anything yeah so uh if you miss your breaking that’s the best choice just go straight on reverse do a spin turn or anything like that that’s that’s earlier we talked a lot about 250 F Maserati that’s the earlier car from 1952 the A6 GCM I should know what GCM stands for I can’t remember and there’s a there’s four different classes actually in this group so uh that’s probably it’s from the earlier class Julia deal Daner she’s in class three which is F1 cars from 54 to 60 under 2 L or 750 CCC supercharged so as you can see there are various different uh subcategories as well Spears hgen smithard would then franki and Shaw Fiero Aleta FR ruso dut and scherf in the Ferguson up into 10th place so all that coaching has borne fruit at the moment interesting bunch of drivers here yeah Stephan um used to race I me’s 44 years old now from Harlem in Holland but he he did race quite successfully in um Formula 3 uh back back to years ago and he he did some races actually in the UK in British former 3 Championship we thought I knew his name yes yeah so he is from Harem so he is from Holland yes even though he’s down here as a Frenchman so I wonder what Tony wood has got in the tank you know he’s been a winner here currently he’s he’s languishing well languishing in fourth place how far is he off the pace one point I mean the first four are separated by about 1.4 seconds and wood has just gone fastest to the longest sector the middle sector we have a timing screen here um as you would in a a Formula 1 race which has got the track split into three sectors I presume they’re the same sectors they have in Formula One Bob and so we can tell whether on the lap just like commentators on Modern Formula 1 R can who who’s making progress in the middle of the lapic wood goes fastest only wood goes fast back in the day when these cars were racing we found how was fast as about half an hour after the session was over that’s about right a bit later on you and I what we used to do is the all the teams had their own timekeepers specialist eke Keepers often the wives people like Helen Stewart and so on but Matra had their own special U timekeeping woman did it all on stopwatches and doing a lot of very quick mental arithmetic and at the end of the session you go around three or four of them and get a consensus of what the times were and the actual time for the practice session will not be published till half an hour later but usually all all the time ke they were all were all female were right so once again we are following Tony wood uh the man who at the moment is fastest from John Spears Claudia hen Smith Ard franki in fifth the mark Shaw in six Mark Shaw from Scotland uh so we’ve got a couple of Scots here we’ve got serg as well back in 12th Place at the moment so Tony would quickest but we’ve still got 11 and A4 minutes to go session was talking to Marino yesterday and he said he’s still really learning how to drive this 250f I mean you know he he’s raced a lot of modern cars particularly ler won the Sebring 12 hours for gassie a few years ago it’s a very different piece of Kit really um and he said I’m still finding things out about how to make it go quicker and really this is not the place to learn is it not really is it I mean we see him racing this car at things like the Silverstone historic Festival Tober lgo there and number 30 there is Fiero ala the slower of the two Spaniards in the race but not particularly slow in fact there’s actually another Spaniard who’s even slower but that’s well slow is a relative word in this turn and to about L I got a dinky of that yeah me too yeah and of course Richard Pilkington used to race one of those and uh the torbet Lago is very very well known meanwhile just saw the Lotus 16 and I think here he is and what what’s significant about the helmet you you missed it he’s wearing a Graham Hill helmet with a London Rowing Club iconic helmet the same that his son Damon Hill raced with and Damon Hill’s son also with the and the actual Stripes if you see the ulum they’re of course they’re rowing blades and the I mean it started there was they all wore a cap with that same on it and U I think it was Gray’s why bety encourage him to put that on his crash on man Smith ard’s gone fastest with Marino franki in second spot Tony wood is now in third John Spears fourth hen very quick in the first sector on this lap in fifth place and Mark Shaw in sixth so uh it’s changing all the time oh someone squeezing through there in the Maserati just get was that Claudia hen yeah Claudia hen in the Ferrari apologies in the dino about 9 minutes to go I and Cloud H just fastest turning it purple as we say in this business and she’s squeezing through getting past all the slower cars the Ferrari 246 of course is the car that Mike hawthor won the 1958 World Championship in yeah in the in the classic battle against Sterling Moss of course yeah who was in the van wall and which he never which he never really liked much he told me once he much prefer the two Hand 250f um the Van Wart cars built by Tony vandell vandell bearings and his son Colin a great racing Drive in his time he lives here in Monaco lots of racing driers course living in Monaco heren goes up into third spot so it’s Smithy the yard fastest from franki second hen third Tony wood in fourth John Spears fifth Mark Shaw in sixth then the two Spaniards Fierro ala and F rusinol and theier Aleta improves goes up into fifth place pushing John Spears back to six so uh it’s changing regularly and the uh owner of the uh Ferguson Australian Thomas Scher are still in 10th place when I spoke to me sounded very German Australian according to this Australian nationality maybe Australian license definitely speaking with a German accent tall man and as he said been being coached by stall where where is the Ferguson the moment oh ten I think that’s a very good result for him you know that car is it’s not easy Stuart Stuart’s driven the car and he says you can’t really feel that it’s four-wheel drive you can’t feel the effect but in the rain of course a different matter which Stuart is that Stuart Hall Stuart RS or Jackie oh well that’s very interesting because Stuart RS family of course were part of that whole there so Stuart Hall who’s double winner here two years ago and has been coaching this guy oh that was close to the barrier wasn’t it oh she’s very quick on this lap Claudia hgen yeah she actually ended her single seater career originally original single seater career here by uh badly injuring her hand in a Formula 3 race so she ended the single Seer career went off and did other things and now has come back and he’s back in a single seater uh age we shouldn’t really talk about her lady’s age but she’s uh well there she goes fastest whatever her age is she’s fast enough to go fastest overall clodia hen it was a 93 Formula 3 race I think she was upside down as well tra trapped in it if I remember um she’s had some you know subsequently had class wins at the day dayt of 24 hours she’s won a couple of DTM races I think she the only woman to have done that she won the Dubai 24 hours overall she’s had good results at spa just tremendous competitor six minutes to go of the session hen fastest then from smithard second franki third wood in fourth Spears in fifth place and then Mark Shaw in sixth then Fier ala and f r seventh and eighth dut in ninth place and Thomas schare in 10th place at the moment and those are covered by 8 seconds it’s quite a a big gap so herun is fastest by um8 of a second roughly speaking but Ben Smith hilard is only 400s ahead of Marino Frank hit so it’s still all to play for and heram very quick in the first sector on this lap again so she’s really stringing together some quick laps and out of the top 10 but there’s some well-known drivers uh and and people involved in the sport there’s Jeffrey O’Neal there he’s in 14th Place he runs a historic Festival over in Sonoma so Raceway in right the heart of the wine area in uh California and we got also we’ll see probably much nearer the front in the next race Michael Birch if you catch side of somebody with a Ruben marello helmet on it’s him and Michael’s got a big string of racing cars but is always very successful in the Lamont classic in the pre-World tourbo to sports cars so uh her you know the thing I love about that Ferrari is you the where the the carburetors are under a plastic cover you can see them and we just had a great shot you see it again look see the little blister on the front and there you see the uh carburetors the Scarab at the moment Mark Shaw doing a good job in sixth place in the Scarab that was of course uh Lance revent blow’s hobby team if you like uh from the United States wanted to conquer Formula 1 but it came out just at the wrong moment because at that time uh rear engine Formula 1 cars were beginning to win and it just arrived at the wrong moment and all of a sudden it had scarcely arrived and it was outclassed Scar and ason Martin at the same time I was just a little sum earli on in this meeting is about 50 just over 50 different makes of car we haven’t talked about the sports car race yet because we’ve got seven Formula 1 races and one sports car race the very good reason for that was just over 50 different makes but looking at the ones most of those have been in Formula 1 well over 40 three of them three of them maybe four four of them in a way remain though so obviously we we still got Ferrari in there we still got McLaren in there we can see some McLaren later and we still got Aston Martin there they’ve been and out of Formula One a lot of course and um Williams and we still got Williams of course it’s changed its ownership just the once actually um but all the others Formula 1 teams long gone we got got a lot of um ex Formula 1 mechanics here we were in a hotel with two or three very well-known mechanics from Top teams and and engineers and they’re they’re they’re hosting some trips around the paddock you couldn’t have better host could you people like Dave laugh and so on so herun is going faster again Bob isn’t you look that last lap was a fast is yet and now she’s pulled out almost a second on on Max Hillard or Smith hilard over a second yeah yeah oh yeah 1.2 as you say and Marino in there in third and then wood fourth I think it’s is going to be a a hugely entertaining race tomorrow Ju Just a recap for everyone today it’s all qualifying but you’re going to have a great and Center parade at lunchtime and then all the races are tomorrow we’re live streaming all of this all the action will be here on whichever stream you pick it doesn’t matter which stream you pick Bob you still get us great yeah exactly great improvement from uh uh the two Spaniards in fact F Russ’s gone up into fourth place pushing Fier ala back into fifth place so great improvement from that Fiero actually won in 2021 here that was there were only seven entries so there weren’t very many of them here false rinol was third in 2018 Fiero ala was fifth so this Spaniards have been a great um competitors in this class they were fourth and fifth in 2016 so they’ve been around for a while yeah I don’t know why but he’s he’s based in Malta he’s a Spaniard based in Malta I think he’s in the financial World there’ll be a reason won’t there John Spears in eth um the X Formula 3 Racer the gro now is in ninth and the fabulous Ferguson have we seen the Ferguson on screen yet you seen it no it’ be lovely if our director could pick up that number 62 car now we haven’t got any purple on our screen which is indicates the best time in a sector so we haven’t got that yet but we’ve only got a minute to go yes indeed and so uh well last year’s winner a two years ago winner um doing a great job of Defending that champion position and Claudia hun there’s the Scarab look so heran vaniti smithard tremendous there Mar Shaw getting through rascas with lots of power you can hear the tires scrabbling he’s uh Mar Shaw runs a family property business in abedine but the czecher flag is being ready there are just a matter of seconds to go it’s still hurt and fastest from Frank H then Smith hilard false rusinol Fiero ala Mark sha in six then Tony wood in seventh surprising Tony wood back there and then John Spears in eighth Stephan deut in ninth place and Thomas Scher in 10th Place who’s managed to maintain that 10th Place very well and the checker flag is now out checker flag for the end of the session and uh it is just one session so that was set the grid for tomorrow’s A2 race front engine Grand Prix cars built before 1961 so what a superb session for Claudia hen so B Bob when you and I first came here to report the Formula One race because the circuit was slightly different wasn’t it we didn’t have the swimming pool section um there was Corners like the station hairpin and the Gas Works hairpin was all Chang their names and the station haing still the same Trace around it what was the Gas Works and now lass gas and that corner’s been uh haded it turns left before it turns right now and of course uh the station well the station’s moved about three times station itself yeah here’s the Ferguson look 62 car in the Rob Walker colors cuz Rob Walker racing team from sry operated that car on behalf of Ferguson research and Sterling was of course racing the car and winning that famous race at all part part the Gold [Music] Cup I think next we’re going to go back in time aren’t we Bob to the pre-war for one that should be it next coming up next so uh qualifying over for these uh front engine Grand Prix cars built before 1961 with heran fastest from Marino franki heran in the Ferrari Dino from Marino franki in the Maserati 250f then Smith hilard in third spot driving the Lotus 16 um and then fourth false renol in the Spanish driver uh he in classic team Lotus is lotus 16 and then fifth GMO Fiero Aleta uh and he is in a Maserati 250 as well and then in sixth place Mark Shaw in the scarum Formula 1 car bit of a story with that he’s he’s had a new engine built by ofen hasard ofen haser used to make the engines for Indianapolis but it wasn’t quite ready he was hoping to have the new engine for here so that engine a little bit tired I think so two years time could explain why he’s he’s where he is but mine is pretty good result anyway yeah well look at that shot of the harbor you say B there’ll be a lot bigger I mean there are a few big ones in here aren’t there don’t know if you’ve ever stayed on one of those Yachts I I I once stayed on the ex Eddie Jordan yacht in can at the film festival which is a another story really but it was spectacular I have to say and now just cycling through the results here all the way down to 24th Marshall Bailey in the Lotus 16 that must have had a problem being right down there um yes I mean there are some very good cars there are you both those you sergison as well I would have expected to be higher up otherwise pretty well as we thought it might be great job by Marina I have to say you know he said he he’s getting to grips with that 250f and uh how nice of his father-in-law would you like to marry into a family that can provide you with a 250 F race terrific not only a 250f I mean he’s got a huge number of cards I’m I’m hoping to get Marino up here a bit later in the Box he said he’d come um but I mean that that family is so engrossed in motor race and of course they’re related to Paul dester as well some people know as a a Formula 1 racer for Williams for a while and yeah yeah let’s not forget Holly Mason uh as she was before she married Marina she races as well yeah she does so both Mr and Mrs and and uh Nick obviously raced he raced at La mall and and his wife’s I mean they all raced yeah but the frankis um who really are em embrac the whole of motor racing history I mean Dario is a fantastic historian and a huge F Jim Clark the famous Scots bard of farmer world champion was his hero so we’re about to uh see the front engine here here it there the highlights of it this is the queue of cars waiting to go out onto the circuit number 18 uh that is jeanan Jean Jac Bali is it Jean Jac B in the gold Le yeah there were some ginis we didn’t mention them but there were some ginis out there as well yeah French ginis a little underpowered weren’t they yeah so uh there was one with a lot of murals on the it which we didn’t really think was quite period but uh it was fun yeah it’s it’s nicely done if uh not entirely suitable in terms of paint job so number 30 there is uh y f 60 there’s there’s the techmech that’s the techmech which ended up in seventh place in the end yeah big appointment of previous winner of course yeah Tony wood and uh [Music] 34 34 there is uh that’s John Spears who ended up in eighth place still in the top 10 and you can see that the Maserati is bit heavier than the techm uh number 20 started Claudia H started to make her presence felt in that lovely little Ferrari Dino 246 Dino of course the name of Enzo Ferrari’s son who died early um as a Young Man the IMA RAC tracks named after him as well is obviously Dino road cars Ferrari Dino road cars which I I’ve always coveted one I did do the motor news road test oh here’s a bit of action that’s number 44 that’s Max smithard who ends up in third place at the end of the session so good effort in the little Lotus um and with the Graham Hillcraft gram Hill Dam Hill London rowing Cod crash helmet we mentioned so number 58 that is uh Stefan deut in what was the Ninth Place uh Tech not Tech Maserati 250f also yeah it’s for that stable te disable as cloudy hin guy I think he at methus racing yeah yeah they swap cars basically they did now the group certainly a good standing for Claudia mum is a a champagne bottle that holds six liters isn’t it but also a god an ancestor of Noah I think way there’s the Scarab there’s the Scarab overtaking gee plant and check a flag for the end of the session so uh 25 5 minute session fortunately mainly without incident and Claudia heran comes out on top well done to her ahead of Marina Franky second Max Smith hilard in third Yim FZ rusoff in fourth Gore Fiero ala in 5ifth and March or 6th yeah and just on the screen now uh our French commentator we we don’t hear him he’s just updating the French side but uh good practice session cloudia delighted to see her having won the race last time they’re on the pole and uh so first one here 24 years ago it’s amazing isn’t it it absolutely is just looking out of our box what a great view we’ve got Bob we’re looking up at the palace and I said in my opener the sun glinting off the The Palace walls and it really is um and the galdi family of course this little Enclave in the south of France but it’s separate principality and such a magical place just looking here at ail Viller ferari and uh I was very much involved with a film about the villain of Peroni uh battles when this car was was new well we’ll see this car La w’t we we will yeah so that that film um came out last year and uh we got some great interviews with J’s wife and with peron’s twin twin boys you know who who and one of them work with lisis Hamilton uh as a race engineer but I think he’s moved to the Ferrari sports car program now but uh similar car Jody sha has got a similar car to this one but the one a bit later won the World Championship and it’s for sale this weekend I believe this weekend or in two weeks I maybe it’s two weeks time but anyway in in upcoming couple of weeks his whole collection is being sold for whatever reason there is absolutely no leg room in that is there look at them oh between your foot and the barrier is not very much just see behind the car’s being pushed back into the paddock area The Paddock area here is great because it’s all alongside the uh the harbor and um then the very latest cars the G Group which we’ll see right at the end of the day the fastest of all car ground effect cars they have the main garages that used in the Grand Prix but uh it’s quite compact you can walk down and see all the cars all the groups and they’re very well signposted uh I’m not sure without a pass whether you can get down there Bob but this is a wonderful event to come to isn’t it oh it’s fantastic and uh this is all the area which is covered in motor homes and that sort of thing support trucks as well during the Grand Prix but uh as you can see there’s a a temporary structure uh covering all the cars all of the cars apart from that uh G category the L category yeah they’ve got proper garage it’s not that these guys are complaining at all so uh it’s a bit cramped but they adapt AR they yeah all the cars are laid out together and you walk around this these cars and you see the evolution of the Formula 1 car absolutely right in front of yeah I I don’t know what they’ll do in the future whether they’ll have another class because now we’re getting into the youngest class of cars that you know 40 years old now and uh they have moved the classes around a bit in the past here and split them up in slightly different ways and at one stage we just have a formul of jit race but the reason that they stop at 40 is that it got to complicated with turbocharging yeah it’s complicated and expensive and that’s a very good reason for them stopping at the gclass and uh I think that’s that’s probably why and I can’t see them restarting because turbocharged cars are expensive to maintain very difficult to run very complicated to run you’ve got to laptops you’ve got to have so many different sensors on the car etc etc up until then it was relatively simple Yes cos with DFS mainly yeah plug them in Plug and Play they were really weren’t they and no absolutely right Bob I think that I don’t think they’ll go into the the next era and and of course these these cars give great racing they do race regularly but in different all the Formula 1 cars I mean there’s a lot more Formula One cars than race on a regular basis lot come out especially for event but there’s a the Master Series which the ownership just changed actually from from British to French um that they run regular races um for for the basically mainly dfv cars great thing about this is um we see ferar is so we see Alpha we see Formula 1 non dfb Formula 1 cars here a lot of them whereas in the the the Master Series runs over the whole whole um season there’s very few non DF in that yeah there’s only about eight races I think in the uh in the master series and of course there are certain races that that are absolutely iconic for historic racing uh this obviously being one of them uh the Goodwood Revival Lamar classic the nurburg ring Oldtimer The Spar classic as well the Silverstone classic all those are uh regular regular high-profile events I but it’s interesting think in brit the biggest motor racing event outside the British Grand Prix is is is the the goodward Revival and probably the next one is is the goodwi members meeting and the Silverstone in that Silverstone does have some more modern uh Vehicles got a lot of sort of historic touring cars and racist like obviously the Leon classic is dedicated as of course it should be being the Leon 24 hours Revival uh to uh just sports cars lots of different classes there I did it last year i’ done it before it’s a that’s a Marv of Ed too um but very cleverly they they don’t Clash them it’s alternate years and then in the states of course you presumably you got Monteray yes mon various Classics there as well and and the Masters group do run a Formula 1 series over there as well and uh say those the festival at Sonoma the chat was in the previous practice session runs and anyway we’re getting ready now for series A1 which is the oldest cars that we have racing here and this is a slightly smaller grid and uh just looking here we’ve got wonderful eras English racing autos and we suspect that an RA could be fastest in this well this is very much um again sort of slightly National type of thing with the the Bugattis uh which was introduced the Bugatti 35 was introduced in exactly 100 years ago uh amazing to think that and here they are still racing and the erra there a pair of eras both of which have been owned by paddin Dowling and he drives one of them and the second is now raced by Brad Baker the uh Canadian driver uh and then there’s some Maseratis as well 4 cm 6 CMS as well and also Vettes which are those under 1500 C in fact the AR uh one it’s CL here uh in Monaco I think in 1935 or 36 uh in 36 they dominated what was called the Rainier cup which was for one and a half liters one two three uh led by beerer uh r2b that’s Romulus rather than Remis which is racing this weekend uh Marcel Leo and Nikki embos in their private Cars one two three beating the M Maserati uh the there were some something like 17 R type eras produced before 1939 uh r5b uh was completed in March 1936 with a 1 and a half liter engine and a Murray Jameson supercharger and it was named Remis and it was owned by Prince chuler of sayam and driven by his brother a cousin cousin defin cousin uh and then Tony R and then it was modified by Freddy Dixon and that car and then r10b which is the other erra was completed in 1936 similar engine first owned by Peter Whitehead and then Peter Walker as well yeah at different times Prince beer had three different eras there’s another one that was Romulus Reis and Hanuman if you remember and they they the racing colors of sayam are are blue and yellow and quite recently I wrote an article about it did quite a bit of research on the color scheme but Prince be was given r2b car we going to see darling racing in very 21st birthday that was a nice present by his cousin and by his cousin who wrote a couple of books about Prince Beer’s um racing exploits mainly based in the UK and it’s a marvelous period read actually a terrific books so we’ll see I’m sure we see an RA in just a moment here waiting in the pit Lane meanwhile that’s uh is it Ralph eming Y and is Riley brockland yeah and we’ve seen him here it’s his seventh history storic in fact yes and there’s a Bugatti the iconic shape of the radiator Martin haoa the uh Austrian Finance was UK based I don’t know if he still is I I think he’s based in Monaco now but he started something called Apex and partners one of the biggest investors in the world basically five daners Martin ala and of course his two sons also racing here now that car number 52 and that is uh Blakey Edwards Patrick Blakeley Edwards in the phasing Ash dropped a valve yesterday so they’ve repaired that they hope it’s going to be okay but they repaired it in the padic yesterday yeah PB he’s had a lot of success you see PB on his crash he RAC got modern cars as well cobras a lot and uh P I believe was in a rock band when he was a just a young man but he’s a a fine racer great engineer so I think he’ll be in the mix here’s m we saw Michael Burch in the previous session now he’s he’s got out and got into his lovely uh number 70 uh machine there and Michael I think be a lot more competitive in this race than he was in the previous one and uh that uh that Masarati from 1936 um it was raced mainly by number of Italian drivers but Michael goes very well in that so getting ready for this next session looking down on the Harbor here and all the Terracotta buildings behind there are various Bugattis there the were the 35 was the normally aspirated just the 35 on its own that was the one that was introduced at Leo in 1924 um and then uh that was 2 L with 90 horsepower pumping up the fuel pressure there if you wonder what he was doing 35a was a simple rad car so I don’t think we’ve got any 35 A’s no but B is a big one isn’t it B the 35b was the was the quick one exactly or TC that was the 2.3 with a larger supercharger and 37 of those cars were made and that’s a model that won the very first Monaco Grand Prix with the enigmatic Williams another great book Joe Seward’s um what it the last sapur is it called saur Williams was William Grover Williams was a sort of upm Market chauffer but later became a spy and it’s a terrific read I was definitely a film in that that I think there are also some uh Bugattis out there 37s as well which use the same chassis as the 35 1 and A2 lers uh or the 37a which was supercharged 1 and a half lers 67 of those were made as well so um they are not uncommon we’ve got how many Bugattis uh seven Bugattis in the field so here we are the 14th Monaco Grand Prix historic and coming up A1 pre-war Grand Prix cars and fettes and there that’s what I talked about Bob look there is the uh palace with the sun glinting off it and as you see the clock just coming round to 9:00 as the cars go out on track now for this second qualifying session of this uh wonderful Saturday spectacular we haven’t mentioned the casino yet here one of the great features of Monaco yeah well it’s uh it’s slightly different isn’t it in front of the casino because uh there used to be it was rather nice that little Casino square with some uh uh gardens around they seem taking the gardens away which makes it look a little bit pler should we say earlier in the earlier in the week when people first arrived people with the super guys just try and park them right in front of the casino wasn’t it then you’ve got the odd Triumph TR4 that managed to find a way into one of the slots so we’re just looking back at uh this race and uh previous winners here and two two years ago it was uh the journalist turned PR man for Volks Volkswagen the states Mark Gilles and I thought Mark was going to be here but not on the entry list this time that was in an erra that was in erra and um H Tober lgo won it in 21 and d d who is here we think will be probably the fastest man out there um daring won it in eight 18 and he was a close second in 14 and he was a close second in 12 he was yeah 12 to to Julian Bron is now retired from racing Great Character and 14 to the alpha P3 of Matthew Grist which we don’t have so quite a sort of open battle here be intered to see though how to Pat BL Edwards goes yes having not practiced although he practiced in another car so it’s not as so he doesn’t know the circuit but um just a matter of running that car in uh an interesting uh character here is Fritz burkard in the Alpha Romeo 8C Monza that’s number 28 although it’s got 28 yes it’s got 28 actually in the on the painted on the radiator it was delivered uh in uh 1928 to uh Tao nuari and the Ferrari team there it is number 28 and the Ferrari team but uh meanwhile we go that’s Pat Blakey Edwards number 52 that comes from brunting Thorp in bature where this um the test track isn’t buting thought Jonathan Palmer’s test track so uh the eldest cars all warming up and they are ready for 25 minutes of qualifying that that 12 looks really strange in the yellow doesn’t it not a color we used to seeing uh one of those car and number 12 is Jonathan Bailey from the UK in a 35c of course you know the back in the day when these had National racing colors and I mentioned the cam colors of of blue with the yellow wheels of course France was always blue Italy was red and yellow of course was Belgium so I don’t know if that’s got a Belgian collection there’s Michael Burch again tells me that uh that Michael that it’s his name is Michael but it’s a it’s not a barell helmet he’s going to be retired at the end of this year license will a run out and he’s not sure what he’s going to do next well the the Jonathan Bailey car was actually delivered new in 1927 to Elizabeth junck who was a very very famous uh racing driver so uh yes quite uh a 2 L model um and uh it was was at the start of the first three Monaco Grand pris it was second in 1929 and uh then in 1930 with uh uh shiron and then sixth in 1931 so uh a car with quite a history yeah we did just see uh Center frame a minute seconds ago the the beera colors San s race in colors so I am of course now Thailand so the cars coming onto the circuit this is the second of the practice sess qualifying sessions today uh and just to go over just in case you’re only just joining us uh this uh today Saturday is devoted just to qualifying for all the races Bob that Hill is much steeper than it looks from that shot the angle just and then they they turn left very fast Corner into Casino square and then just as they turn around the corners the the hotel to Parry which is the place to stay isn’t it absolutely on the left hand side yeah St has a suite up there there behind there there is the casino and and there are the gardens that have gone there are the non-existent gardens yeah well a sh so the earliest cars that are racing here this weekend what do we got anything it’s exactly 100 years old um the Bugatti 35 yeah is there anything older no mg magnet from oh a to yeah 1928 em Riley Brooklyn’s oh there’s 20 Carson 27 aren’t they yeah they yeah those some of those Bugattis yeah a 1925 buatti 35 so the basic uh oh full course yellow already now why is that and that’s race control and a couple of wellknown names in trying to spot Mark goz famous race and rally driver was Factory driver for Austin Rover that is number 52 that is the repaired Blakey Edwards car and obviously the repair hasn’t quite managed no we stopped by the garage last night and they had just finished it and that’ll be a deep disappointment for the mechanics this is why they’ve stopped the session two years ago blaton Edwards was running away with this race and he got some sort fuel V vaporization probably and stopped halfway through when he was well in the lead so just not his lucky track is it no obviously not those Marshals are going to work there very well rehearsed very well practiced but I think uh that’ll be hooked up up and pulled out of the way because there’s a dangerous spot just there you uh you can’t be a marshall I think after 55 years of old age I didn’t know that is that so yes there are a huge number of Marshals they’re as you say very well trained uh they have training sessions uh during the year and uh very very devoted guys and of course they’ve had two weeks ago they had Formula E here and in two weeks time of course they will have the Monaco Grand Prix here as well yeah when they first came in Formula E didn’t use use the whole circuit did they yeah no ex now now they do as as that uh we going to gen 3 or whatever they call is it good Gen 4 coming up um I like to hear the noise of racing engines and the rasp of the motors and these are brilliant the noise from these cars fantastic at the ra they said the noise was like ripping Calico well I’ve never heard the never heard the sound of Calico being ripped but I suppose I listen to an RA I know what it sounds like 18 turns around this Monaco circuit squeezed into 3337 km or 2 2.07 miles 18 and I I’ll come up with another stat a bit later on about the amount of uh action that goes on in the driver’s cockpit uh that Mercedes told us a few years ago yeah well I mean there’s a lot of gear changes obviously these days it’s a flick of the flick of the switch isn’t it but in all these cars it’s it’s still oldfashioned crossy h y and a clutch as well and maybe in this race pre-selected gearboxes actually yeah because possibly yeah I think the Fraser asash may have a pre-selected gearbox I had a scooter once with a pre-selected gearbox I won’t go into the technicalities of it but it it the gearbox did blow up and that was the end of that scooter never rode it again you have been spared dear listener so so uh just gently reversing this car back yeah they unfortunate push it down right to the bottom of the hill I think aren’t they well I don’t know there’s uh H that’s a long way to go but I think there’s an opening on the right hand side here just coming up in theory but uh as well they’ve got about eight people helping yeah they’ve got that’s one thing there is not a shortage of in Terms of people here Marshals so paddin Dowling is the driver we think is going to be the most competitive and he is an Irishman based in uh the United States so uh originally um he was interested because his father was interested in Motorsports so he saw his first uh racing at Melo park I think in yeah I’ve been there yeah um doesn’t race much in it’s not a sort of BL we see at Goodwood really um I I presume must race in the States but here is super competitive so they’re just uh at least going around at a reduced Pace with a full course yellow full course yellow means a yellow flag all the way around the course restricted speed and the speed will be govern actually by the driver who is at the front of the queue which is uh who is the Frenchman um Fran fuk V that’s a real tongue twist isn’t it so I suppose we should just put this in context a bit that what we don’t have here is the might of the German cars that came at just before the war of Mercedes and aut Union and they’re very rare and very difficult to operate and nobody races those cars they are demonstrated on occasion um but uh sometimes around here some of the Italians had a little go at them didn’t they so we’ve seen quite a few of these drivers for a while and I think we’ve got a green flag I think we’re under way that is Michael burs leaning out of the cockpit there look head to one side and you really see the drivers working in these cars you kind a glorious sound as well so Michael bur there in the Maserati 4 cm of 1935 [Music] and this is what we call the Lou shiron class and famous French racing driver yeah who had lot of success here so we’ll start to get some times through shortly hopefully but as I say padin Dowling is the the driver we’d expect to see very very competitive as I say he’s earned owned three different R eras r2a and then r 5B uh to now and also r10 uh B which he bought from Nick Mason and has now sold to Brad Baker uh the Canadian driver uh who is in number Brad Baker in number 10 uh 56 rather 56 in 10th place so Dowling uh and it looks if so I think this is going to be between Dowling and Birch um for the pole and there’s Michael resting at the wheel driving on the throttle skinny tires not affording a lot of grip so uh that’s really what they’re scrabbling for all the time in these cars and that’s going to be the first competitive time 2 minutes 17 for Michael Burch and let’s see what we get from Dowling the yellow wheels the Thai flag on the side of the car I wrote an article about the The Siam color scheme and it did evolve quite a lot over the years actually and sometimes had the yellow stripe down and sometimes they didn’t just on the back the flag of Thailand amazing ra is not particularly competitive uh in terms of grand pris with the with the German C in period but certainly very usable and he goes fastest easily by 9 seconds paddin ding ahead of Michael bur but bur he’ll be working up and that that gut will come down won’t it absolutely I see he’s quicker in the first sector than Dowling on his quickest lap so I think bur is going to be right there third at the moment it really hasn’t got into its Rhythm yet this session has it because of the the uh pat pat BL Edwards car stop stopping on the hill and uh really unfortunate but we’re following Michael Burch and uh Pat Padden stying is about 1.8 seconds quicker in the first sector on this lap so Dowling still looking uh as though he could go quicker again bur in second Jonathan Bailey in third Brad Baker in fourth Mark winter in fifth the German driver and then Martin haloa the Austrian driver who’s got a couple of sons who will be racing here yeah um we’ll see them later on and we’ve got another car slowing in fact two is two cars slowing or one well they are almost 100 years old these so yeah so I think uh Mark winter is that it’s not his real name no and Strang because there was a German called John winter who won Lamar and that was not his real name either and uh Mar Winter surely Sayang Venus in blue jeans oh come on Bob now number 16 is going slowly that’s Stefan Rosen the uh uh Stephan Rosen the shipping magnate uh from Italy yeah early career in rallying and he’s uh raced here in an aella Toyota but uh obviously going slowly in that Bugatti at the moment padon stying are coming up to complete another lap it was uh 2 minutes 08 it’s now 2 minutes 06 the fastest time and I mean we’re sort of halfway through this session now bit more actually and I think I don’t think we’ve seen a we obviously haven’t seen a fully competitive lap for Michael bur yet and they down his scate Road yeah that’s Stephano Rosen down the skate road yeah so unfortunate there that’s a later bu got he isn’t it a tip 44 Stefan Ros in the 3744 yeah I suppose it an upgraded card I’m I’m sure the difference between the 37 and the 44 in it the 37 was the same chassis as the 35 but 44 will be as you say a slightly more advanced version of it he’s raced McLaren M8 as well an Alba Buick Maserati 35 GT Lola T70 and Bs serini so another driver with a lot of experience you did mention cheron and one of the classes Nam he won the race here in Grand Prix in 1931 and uh then then we had Alpha victories in in 32 2 34 I think a Bugatti won in 33 but then of course it was the Mercedes dominating 35 36 37 Mercedes one here fagioli kakola and uh and B Brit and of course during that era we had the first rear engine car where we talk about front engine rear engines we’re going to come to the crossover shortly and that crossover when we talk about the first rear engine car uh this is the Alpha Romeo ooh o That’s burkard o getting a real tank slapper oh a jazzy crash helmet I think that’s Lo up you cover your previous thought yeah yeah oh that’s really unfortunate now people might might say there why is a uh why is that alphao got a Ferrari batch on it because it was delivered to scoia Ferrari ah look Dowling and Dowling is off the circuit at Sand devot now is that because there was some oil down from the Alpha Romeo could well be couldn’t it possibly he stopped Wheeling himself backwards Wheeling himself backwards yeah oh yeah you see he got quite crossed up yeah now I I don’t understand why he couldn’t get in first gear though then yeah at that point he could have driven off but for some reason it’s just rolling back under its own weight isn’t it so I must have the engine must have died well what a turn up for the books yeah suddenly we’ve got several cars who have stopped on circuit Dowling with the fastest time 2 minutes 0 5.9 got most massive 8C lead over Burch and this session now got 10 minutes to go so they might get back to full speed I think but they’ve wheeled these out of the way we haven’t actually even got a yellow flag out at the moment wait well I do hope the dowling’s car is still a runner and also that car of burkard yeah well that didn’t look good at all did it that that smoke out of the back of it Fritz Berard owner of the Pearl collection a collection of cars in Switzerland that you think well let me just yes he oh yeah he’s the boss of a watch company he CEO of Lang and song which are very up market and he as you said to me the other day father of six girls goodness I’m the father of four it’s enough and um I think I was wrong I think he still owns that Pearl collection of Battis also very interested in Bob slay and skeleton would you believe which suggests that that his collection is housed somewhere in eastern Italy uh swiz the the car the 4cl was the car that was introduced really to by aarati to take on the M of Germany in introduced in 1939 but because it wasn’t really raced after the war but uh and it debuted in the the Triple E Grand Prix that well we even know the chassis number uh 1564 it’s one and seven of those cars built and that’s the car of Michael Burch uh no that’s the car of of Fritz is just that’s an Alpha Romeo you Alpha Romeo yeah sorry yes the 8 C Monza yeah okay I need to check my notes there um so many different cars here uh this weekend so Dowling still fast is from bir second yeah the Gap is still 8.2 seconds between those two and then Brad Baker in third in the second of the eras Jonathan bayor Bailey in four fourth place um and then Jonathan Bailey in the another big atti and then fifth is Mark winter in the Maserati 6 cm and then sixth is Fritz Bart in uh the Alfa Romeo uh 8C Monza from 1933 we didn’t see darling getting back underway but it obviously did fire up and off he drove and now there’s setting quick times again oh so he’s back on circuit again yeah yeah B bur is not on the Pace well nobody’s on that pace are they I mean we now have we got no there’s Michael B doesn’t sound right that car did it no no he’s coming into the pits yeah there’s a problem with that it’s it’s not running correctly so he’s into the pits is Michael bir in that uh Maserati 4 cm so still seven minutes to go so maybe somebody will get a bit closer to the american-based Irishman Dowling Brad Baker with quite a lot of experience the uh Canadian driver TI shanan is in the pits in number 58 uh French driver in the Riley jobs and there’s uh mechanics looking at Michael bur’s Maserati yeah there’s a man called Hector dos or that uh worked on that Riley yeah he’s a car that actually was raced by Grand Prix driver called Roy salvadori who lived here in Monaco for many years uh in later life and had a flat I believe um that overlooked the track and the car was owned by Billy cotton the band leader and then wilky Wilkinson who of course is very famous for his involvement with Jaguar but Billy cotton was a racer as well as B quite quite a few uh musicians like that we mentioned Nick Mason but of course famous trombonist Chris Barber was a a racer not at this level but once had to out bid Chris Barber for a Lotus CA no yeah and when I saw him several years later he said you were lucky so the Gap has come down Brad Baker has gone into second place and has brought the gap down to 5 Seconds between himself and the former owner of his car paddon’s Dowling Michael bur now third Jonathan Bailey fourth Mark winter fifth Fritz Berard in sixth Martin heloa in seventh and then franois fuk Hada in eighth place uh stapped who is a French driver in n place in number 18 he’s a replacement um who has come in and Ralph Emily from France in the Riley Brooklyn’s in 10th place at the moment yeah just just on that U that Alpha Romeo that I’m mistakenly Tred being a Maserati um that car was raced by the famous tazio new valari one of the all-time greats of of racing prear of course and uh apparently for a while it finished up in South afria but run by the scad we mentioned that Ferrari badge on it run by Enzo Ferrari before he set up his own own racing Factory so Brad Baker improving on this lap the Gap was 5 Seconds between him and Padden staling fastest around the circuit and uh what does it come down to it was 5 seconds and it comes down to 3.4 seconds between the two of them so uh Brad Baker just getting used to a yellow flag goes out as someone goes down the Escape Road at Sand devot and we’ll have a look and see who that was I didn’t quite catch who it was initially here it is here’s the replay and uh it is I think it’s Brad Baker isn’t it in 56 yeah so uh just popping off to see the uh the church at Sand devot nice little mention thank you very much uh Neil Woody one of the team that produces Sky Formula 1 programs suppose he’ll be here in a couple of weeks enjoying our coverage and so it’s streaming on the sky F1 um stream and there’s the 56 so baker has made a mistake he’s followed the the other erra down there there it is with it’s that is the other ra as you say ping stalling it doesn’t need to do anything now does he I mean Maker’s got within three and a half seconds of him and I don’t think that’s going to change much now so I’m pretty sure that Dowling is going to be on the [Music] pole and some of the real opposition you know obviously blly Edwards has had the problem never did a lap Michael burer we thought might be some opposition is he back on track now Michael bur it came past it sounded really rough something simple like plug lead falling off or something like that um and so I think Michael B’s got one shot trying to go on the front row of the grid now and uh well in on this lap he’s pretty slow in the first sector there’s only 2 minutes and 20 seconds to go yeah he might just go back to do one more lap hadn’t he yeah might get out there for another one but P Dowling still very very quick even on this lap and I don’t think he’s going to go quicker on this lap but uh he still has that 3.4 3.5 second really advantage over Brad Baker Michael bur in third place Mark winter in fourth Jonathan Bailey Fifth and fren burkart in sixth place then Martin haoa uh then fuk hetv and then stats and emiline completing in the top 10 and really it’s a matter of keeping these cars trying to keep them running reliably and with their performance that’s what it’s all about yes lots of varying different cars and I say Vettes as well as Grand Prix cars there wasn’t a a pre-war World Championship as such it was a European Championship wasn’t it pre-war yeah the world championship started in 1950 didn’t strangely enough the motorcycle World Championship started a year before that so yeah World Championship stle a little bit of smoke there as well and uh a minute to go the interesting thing of course that like a the batti we’re seeing there you could race it in sports car races as well you Bol the wings on and suddenly you had a sports car and phas LH and others did the same that’s what uh happened a lot with the toall but Lagos didn’t they we saw in the last race he did didn’t he yes they took off the they took on and took off and still did when Richie Pilkington owned the car you notice he’s not sitting in the middle of the car he’s sitting to the right hand side I mean it’s effectively a sports car isn’t it lovely shot there that chicane has has changed its face over the years hasn’t it and then uh haoa has improved up one place up to fifth place now for Martin haoa we’ll see his two of his sons Out Racing later yeah hugely enthusiastic have a chat called Alex AES who a good racer runs that operation don’t put all the cars with the same preparation comp they use two or three different ones mainly in the UK I mean we have to say this Bob but the historic racing scene is dominated by the British and you look through all the victories here over the over the years since 13 previous Runnings of this event as a ccken flag goes out um many more British winners than any other nationality and of course one new British winner in Formula 1 who just happens also to live here in Monaco Landon Norris I wonder if he put it in an appearance we saw coup of drivers yesterday didn’t we wandering around the pits we and of course we’ got late R Racing Adrian Nee very much in the news at the moment and also in the news uh the boss of McLaren so who better to coach him around this circuit I know than uh his newest race winner yeah so padn dling takes the checker flag fastest in that session from Brad Baker’s second gap between the two uh 3.4 seconds it might change on this lap Michael bur has just gone quicker uh Brad Baker doesn’t go quicker so it stays second Michael bur in third Jonathan Bailey in fourth Mark winter Fifth and Martin heloa back to sixth place again and then Fritz burkart in seventh Fuki Hada in eighth place STS in ninth and emling in 10th yeah just going back to Zack Brown and McLaren we saw him after his uh practice session yesterday with his Williams fw7 he wasn’t racing McLaren but he’s got a collection of cars racing a Williams fw7 I think definitely a car race very by Alan Jones and who was he debriefing with Fernando Alonzo Fernando’s a great enthusiasm wonderful he’s going on to his 40s racing you know that little period where he’s racing Sports guys one Lamar of course and Offroad events you know just a massive Enthusiast so uh the checker flag greets final Runners and uh that is I suspect it yeah 16 in this field I think the next race going got much larger field than that and hopefully Blake Edwards can get his car fettled again but I suspect that if theyve I think didn’t you think that BL yesterday had dropped a valve and they changed a valve if they thought they fixed it and they didn’t it means there’s other big problems I would say yeah maybe in the engine [Music] so where there we are we’re going to have a little repre of of what went on they’re Downing with the ER they the sun glinting off the harbor and just scrolling down at the bottom of your picture the final qualifications for that race which was so eloquently read out by Bob just a minute ago what have seen it is here is it I mean lots of lots of other street races around and particular these days of course former e people seem to keep finding new street races and there some other great French ones of course po um and angul lame but in Britain of course we’ve only ever had on the mainland burum super pre yeah it’s around for five years but there’s some there some magic about street racing I I feel and then Long Beach has been very successful of course in the states and lots of other street races in in uh the United States so yeah just yet again many many many years ago of course when these cars were racing and even even postwar as well French towns would literally have a Formula 1 race a non-championship Formula 1 race and uh uh people would turn up you you’d have a maybe I don’t know 10 12 cars come uh which were formula One cars of the time and uh they would race just for start money etc etc around the the the streets of a town yeah well the they say the first race and I put it in inverted comments a little bit in the UK was Beck Hill on the south coast but it wasn’t a race it was a two side by side two cars together Sprint and uh but if you drive into beex Hill it CLS to be the the birthplace of British Motor Racing and it’s a wonderful actually put some very nice signs up along the along the Route you been down to see there’s a little Museum there as well no no and wrong ends of Sussex get to Sussex for you and Sussex a long thing Cy takes a long time to drive across we found out many times but anyway here we are with the little lots of lovely SL slmo shots there Padden stying fastest from Brad Baker er er Michael Birch in the Maserati Jonathan Bailey in fourth place in the B the mg M uh sorry Jonathan Bailey in the Bugatti in fifth fourth place and then fifth Mark winter Maserati and then sixth Martin haloa uh Bugatti so a little pause until our next session which will be coming up shortly here are highlights in the meantime oh yes just tightening that that mirror up on the Bugatti and you can see no rollover Hoops with these cars there’s Michael Birch qualified third and cars accessing circuit then up that hill which is much steeper than it looks from that TV angle then all the various apartments behind turning left into the casino Square then down the hill past Tip Top Bar of course and onto the sea front through the new tunnel and uh little temperamental these cars now the best part 900 years old bit of traffic in the harbor through tobac Corner sure if the tobacconist is still there no not certainly is thing it is um round the swimming that’s a new section relatively new section Bob I used to go straight on there and there the man who absolutely set the [Music] pace you hear the transmission even whining a little bit just through that corner was that supercharge wi oh was it super yes J I think you might be right [Music] supercharge being mechanically boosted whereas turbocharged is gas boosted using the exhaust gas to boost the induction into the engine yeah but this saw Michael bur’s car getting a little bit of work on we were worried it it had a problem but now we’re going to we’ll be going back rear engine for the first time uh we going not back going to rear engine cars when Siri B comes up we just have a final few images of this second of the eight practice sessions we’ll be having today we’ll go right through Bea break at lunchtime Bob and then we’re going right through to about 6:00 I think I think it’s early than that 4 oh God otherwise we might run out of words probably actually um but I said this is one of the smallest Fields here most of got over 30 cars yeah and uh comes a pretty busy old circuit yes here very difficult to get a clear lap whereas these didn’t have the problem course we form one is so difficult with a huge size that kind to overtake on incredibly short breaking distances breaking distan is so much longer in these sort of cars anded some of the cars coming up makes it a bigger window of opportunity to overtake so I we’ll see plenty of overtaking over the weekend now there are two very contrasting yachts and uh here’s our our man he’s got it’s a bit like euro vision Euro what’s it isn’t it um that’s who he is but anyway he’s waxing lyrical as are we so we’ll take a brief break and we’ll come back with the series B um and those are for car’s Grand Prix cars 1500cc from 1961 to 19665 Formula 2 cars from 1956 to 1960 our first rear engine cars and uh absolutely a huge field of these cars and it’s the difficulty for all the drivers is to get a clear lap we’ll be back shortly for [Music] for for [Music] B spe [Music] fore for for for spe [Music] for for for [Music] see e for spe [Music] [Music] spe for welcome back we coming up next Siri B for rear engine Grand Prix cars 1500cc cars built between 1961 and 1965 and formula 2 cars and a few of those in their own class of 1956 to 1960 interesting period Bob consent JS you’ll see for the lowest power Formula 1 cars we’ve ever had in the history of the sport and uh we went from 2 and A2 liters I think the authorities thought the cars were getting a bit too fast so they uh reduced the capacity to 1,500 and uh the key cars in this period were Ferrari and British brms and of course also very much Locus um very Nimble cars as well very very uh Nimble but very quite difficult to drive in fact you could compare them in a way to the 2 L for three cars that we used to have so you had to be very careful on the driving not scrub off too much speed uh so you had to be very precise and for that reason uh it did promote uh some very very good drivers indeed this could be a battle between Lotus and Ferrari um the winner last time out here was Joe colaso kisaco kisaco sorry kisaco put my teeth back in who won um very well last time uh in 22 um but the man who who maybe will be on the poll is Andy middlehurst um from the northeast of England with his classic team lotus lotus 25 a ground bacing car uh Bob because the way of constructing Formula 1 chassis in this period changed massively from space frame that’s a chassis made out of uh a network of tubes to a bathtub design of sheet aluminium and it was absolutely groundbreaking and uh changed the way racing cars were built for a long time until uh carbon fiber came into being um so Andy middlehurst fresh from winning in a very different car in a Nissan Skyline at Donnington a week ago but in practice had very quick laps from the older style Lotus 21 uh of the abdine base driver Mark Shaw he was right on the pace as well so there is the pit Lane and on our graphic there for race B is the Ferrari for a little while and a lot of people love this Ferrari R red with blue wheels didn’t they exactly uh there are 33 of these cars so it does get very very busy around this uh relatively short circuit well the shortest in Formula 1 anyway 2 points 07 mil 3337 km 18 turns so you can imagine it’s uh very difficult to overtake but having said that they’re relatively small cars particularly in comparison to Modern Formula 1 cars there are at least two cars in this race one The Monaco Grand Prix there is the Cooper from 1962 which won with Bruce McLaren at the wheel and of course the famous Sterling Moss Lotus 18 in the Rob Walker colors we’ll see that in the minut it which beat the Ferraris here beat the shark noos Ferraris Hill one of the great classic wins by Sterling moss and the car course it got so hot it took part of the Bodywork off so you just see the chassis frame uh I did ask uh classic team Lotus are running it if they were going to do do that here but apparently they’re not it’s not warm enough no it’s not quite warm enough and uh so and the uh the the Bruce McLaren winning car from 62 will be number 14 driven by by Richard Wilson we’ll see him in a couple of races and the uh Lotus 18 the x MOS car is uh being driven by maybe remind me Bob if you’ve got that to your hand is I’ve got a feeling that it’s not katsuaki kaboto is it no no I don’t think so anyway we’ll we’ll we’ll get to that in a moment but to terrific group of cards we got some uh lesser known names haven’t watch out for the gilby which is uh one of those very small makes CH called Sid green actually and Kyle Tilly who runs a big racing team in America lots of different colors here L of was just starting to come in wasn’t it Bob and some Finance houses like UT leol um started to uh to back cars on bow makerman Yan credit I think did Baker become Yan credit the other way around anyway um so mango Turner family but this should be a cracking cracking battle I think and uh there’s so many cars and Joe kisaco uh interesting the way uh that all came about his father was actually uh a an alpar Romeo mechanic um and was sent to the states after the war to look after Alpha Romeo in the states so that’s how he went from Italy to the states and it was uh looking after Alfa Romeo and subsequently establishing his own business Joe kosako met up with Lawrence Oriana it says Oriana there I been told it could be aelia but I’m not certain um and uh he met up with this man uh Lawrence Oriana uh who owned the Ferrari and Joe kosako has raced it ever since he’s raced a lot of other cars as well that’s a lot of success in America I think in sort of smaller single seater cars 1600 CC power Honda single seaters but the car in Period only did two races this car raced by John CES once and then by Lorenzo Bandini well uh yeah the Ferrari one yes it’s a relatively uh Bandini actually was second here in 1965 in12 which is exactly that Ferrari so as you say it didn’t do a lot of didn’t do a lot of work it’s not a very wellknown car no so the cars are on circuit now for 25 minutes of qualifying and it’s going to be a very busy 25 minutes we had one or two incidents yesterday uh we had yobst stopped on circuit uh we also had a little bit uh an accident at the chicane um uh which was uh unfortunate that was Philip bon in the Bron BT Ford um and uh we also had uh car stopping up the hill we’ve also got Andy Willis uh who has replaced Charles McCabe in the brm p578 so watch out for him as well cuz he’ll be competitive in number five I just to go back to that Sterling Moss winning car the Lotus 18 which beat the Ferraris it been driven by the Welsh but teon Salsbury I think his second time here and uh we talked to Clive Chapman F of classic team Lotus son of Colin Chapman of course the founder Lotus um he was telling us his career has been quite sh in these Char he’s getting quicker and quicker well right at the start is Mark Shaw uh setting the pace but I’m sure that is going to be a big battle for the pole for this one and uh in the number one car which is a bt1 climax the American John Romano this is I think his ninth time he’s he’s taking part here most of these engines are climax engines an engine that was found uh 25 is uh not quite in the barrier I think he’s avoided it that’s Christopher Drake yeah Chris Drake is a very competitive racer has done well in this event in a car so little mistake by him cold tires maybe and interesting the front of that car I think it maybe it’s the paint workor but it looks completely different here it is again he just outbreaks himself and almost makes it and then decides he’s going to try and then decides he’s not going to try and uh did he touch the barrier I think he might have done yes just a nudge with the front left yeah so uh climax engines most of them uh the climax engine of course was 2 and a half 1 and A2 liter engine which powered uh fire engines or fire trucks fire pumps fire pumps static fire pumps uh mainly company uh Wally Hassen was the chief engineer aluminium very lightweight engent wonderful elegant design and these ancient little V8 uh the Ferrari is a flat 12 um and uh also brm’s and Alpha Romeo engines yes um the brms are pretty competitive with the climax climax uh were sold to Jaguar and the name just disappeared but now the engines are being built um in uh East Sussex yeah proba the original designs by a company called cross and Garder who are unbelievably clever engineering company they built complete pre-war Mercedes-Benz and Alis out catching people out all around here look another that’s a mirabo yeah that so the early running Andy middle Hur has just gone fastest the 151202 and uh there he is coming up the hill in the green and yellow car uh that is going to be the the car to watch Andy middlehurst yeah again a a man when he takes his helmet off the hair has been uh sprayed the wrong color it’s quite gray oh look between the two of them there’s enough space that’s the point around his circuit everyone in Formula 1 says you can’t overtake you can’t overtake but in these cars you can way back in the ’90s Andy middle Hur was a production saloon car Champion 1990 95 96 97 98 he started racing on motorbike grass trck and Speedway um 1980 did 1980 okay he did the fora Ford Championship won the star of tomorrow in 82 a you know quite important form for Championship but he’s had lots of succcess at goodward but he’s won this event four times in 12 14 16 and 18 but I don’t think he was here in 20 um but Joe kisaco is I think he’s from New York isn’t he Joe uh New York area he’s just gone fastest in the middle sector but I think those top three we’re going to have a terrific scrap between them for the pole Lucas haloo you mentioned his dad in the previous race he is fourth fast Andy Willis late minute substitute is in fifth and there’s a man you might see on a timing screen and you wonder what is that all about Mr Jon a b is 13th at the moment Mr Jon a b runs a huge corporation which does a lot of carbon fiber and composite work for airplanes and all that sort of stuff and he races under soon name but um maybe a bit later we well we can tell you his actual name is Johan Remy Gard he’s got a lot of great cars he’s got a lot of Lees and Matas terrific collection he’s got a Bentley Speed eight from Lamar and uh his basic comes from bezier ah rugby country yeah so number seven there that’s Mark Shaw in the Formula 2 car and he’s doing a really good job in that formula 2 car that’s Formula 2 from 56 to 60 which is uh I think pretty much the same size of engine but just earlier cars yeah I’m wondering about that car actually and there he is getting past number 23 and 23 was Stefan yobst who stopped yesterday on the circuit during practice middle H fastest middle H fastest but by only point4 of a second that is close kosako second the American driver third is Mark Shaw now Christopher Drake is up into fourth place but he is uh what 2.6 seconds further back behind uh Mark Shaw so quite a big gap there and then L Lucas husa in uh fifth place Andy Willis sixth Philip buaer seventh then ston from Italy in eighth place Dan Collins ninth and Stephan yst from Australia in 10th place then it’s Taylor John Clark Mr John a mentioned earlier on Tims and McCarthy completing the top 15 but there’s a lot of them out there and lots of time lots of potential for improvement but middlehurst really the man to be and uh it’s going to be quite a duel between middlehurst and kosaka with Mark Shaw surely playing an important part in there as well yeah I think that cars hasn’t got the V8 engine but I think it’s got an earlier climax engine in four cylinder that card was raced at the end of 1961 by the great uh Jim Clark uh in South Africa and that’s where it stayed race down by a guy called a well known South African racer called Ernie pus um in three South African Grand pris counting for the world championship so strictly not a former a former 2 car I think is it in the for 2 class seven is that um red is that red pass there’s number four that’s Joe kosako in the Ferrari with the blue wheels that we’ve been talking about and kosako from New York as Andrew just mentioned but uh his uh Paton if you like um Lawrence Oriana from California just going through the station hairpin or Lowe’s hairpin as it became and then Gra Grand Hotel hairpin or Fairmont hairpin it’s G through many many name changes and you can see the difference in cars there number 18 is uh one of the Formula 2 cars and that was Elliot hand you you found something El can’t can’t hold it back can you on our timing screen the blue section is a Formula 2 okay but this is the this is the class 2 this is the for a one cast with four and six cylinders okay so it is a climax I think is what I said it was the earlier climax engine but one and a half liters but not the V8 So in theory it’s got a lot less power than middlehurst or or the Ferrari so Mark Shaw basically from abine doing a fantastic job another spinner number 15 I think that was and that is uh Dan Collins gets going is another of the classic team Lotus customers been racing with them for years a huge Enthusiast Bel Lotus and look at this wheel to wheel that’s what I mean about being boxed in finding your way through the traffic another spinner there yeah that that car owned by a g champ called Nick Taylor and he had a business sold o O-rings and stuff like that right next door to the pride Park football stadium and oh that doesn’t look nice at all no that’s in the in the barrier just at the entrance to the comp uh tunnel coming out of pti8 red flag now how’s he got there and you think he’s clashed with somebody else yeah not sort of pleas it is it is through portier oh it’s blown up it’s gone and blown up and then somehow I wonder if then locked up number three Michel jandre in a Lotus 24 so uh does the clock stop yes the clock does stop so in practice the clock would have continued but as in Formula 1 in qualifying the clock stopped so just a matter of recovering that car getting it off the circuit that I was talking about that Nick Taylor car and I was just saying that he his uh workplace next door to the Derby County football ground and he sold that business recently but he loves that Lotus uh 18 he’s got which been driven by many different people and there look at the oil slick I’m not certain it is I think so I mean it certainly would appear so but you can see the difference in shape of the cars now there’s number 12 there is Cliff gray um in the Cooper t43 from uh earlier now number 20 that I think that’s a Rob Walker car yeah that’s the famous cing Moss winner yeah is absolutely the genuine car as a as the owner of a Rob Walker car ah yes every time I see uh Rob Walker colors I’m very attracted should we say yeah we saw the Ferguson in those colors earlier but you for our younger listeners and viewers going to explain who was Rob Walker and and it’s a story which also concerns whiskey so just tell us car you own just as we got a break here we got a little time to discuss fil Vagas and uh Rob Walker famous both successful independent Formula 1 team owner for many years yes he was the patchar really of uh of stering moss and promoted his his uh career massively and was very very important but also R people like Morris trantino uh Joe bonier Joe cfet for example uh quite a few other drivers as well later Mike hawood I remember yeah and the well we’ll see his car later on we oo 30s lovely little dolly they’re just pushing under there to lift the car up and had a lot of success of course did Rob Walker yeah ran a very very good team and uh later went on to be a superb journalist and uh his wife very much part of the organization remember walking down the the pit Lane and handing brownies to mechanics which bet it you’re absolutely wonderful woman wonderful wonderful couple um from Wilshire I think and uh Somerset Somerset sorry yeah and uh came from the the Johnny Walker whiskey company for many years Johnny Walker was a huge sponsor of this race you remember they used to have the chat Johnny ders Johnny Walker walking down the grid before the Formula One race uh so all these cars with the blue really the blue color scheme I’m not finished with you yet mate oh okay explain a fil Vega to people well the Fel Vega he actually drove three different Road goinging fil Vega on the road did Rob Walker and these these were American par American par French built cars and you have three of them no well I’ve got three of them but not the three that he owned I’ve got one of them that he owned and it’s in the most beautiful blue color uh and we paid tribute to him at Goodwood a few years ago and uh I think we were all a bit worried that we had the right color but fortunately we all had the right color except for a little pickup or a little minivan that they used at the factory yes which was a bit paler but uh people like uh you know there were not just um drivers who started their careers but particularly one Herby blash started his career and Herby blash went on to be an FIA uh Deputy Clerk of the course I think and also uh Steward and all sorts of things and of course worked for braam for many many years as team manager at braam and then worked for the FIA and consultant with Yamaha as well and Porsche yeah and uh Michael blash but picked up the name Herby originally from Rob Walker yeah mechanics I think they called him proper little Herby yeah that was it he was Herby from then on he told me once that when he went to Lotus he was hoping they didn’t know his nickname was Herby but they found out pretty Jolly quickly they and when we talking about team Lotus McAn as he was um the most Chief mechanic uh Bob dance uh 89 yesterday Bob was coming to this event till a couple years ago and congratulations to Bob making 89 terrific guy and it like all the nearly all these Lotus M had a nickname he was known as the vica because he liked a cup of tea appar more tea vica um they used to get up to some quite interesting tricks here and games here particularly at Monaco couple of guys called Clive hickon Kenny samansky one of their famous tricks they did outside the Tip Top by a little fat 500 and ch went and parked it um when he came back it was sitting on four chairs right um so there we are I think that’s he could be his driver coach there whose name will come to be in just a second that’s number seven that’s Mark Shaw who has gone quickest he’s the uh Scottish um Scottish property developer from abedine and uh Edinburgh also he’s got a uh a base in Edinburgh passionate SNP supporter so he’s got a few um uh interesting conflicts it’s an extensive career uh he’s racing in a number of different um a number of different classes this weekend he started off in Formula First back in 1991 and uh he is 5 2 years old barbar sa also Formula 3 and Formula 3000 and a 14-year gap before he returned in various historic cars that’s Mark Shaw in number seven who is fastest at the moment yeah um and his fastest by point4 of a second from Andy middle her second and then the 710 Gap back to Joe kako in third spot and then quite a big gap of 2.3 seconds back to Philip boofer in fourth place and Philip boofer is from Switzerland and he races uh he’s raced quite small cars for example formula Junior cars as well a Lotus 44 uh and the lus 24 here at Monaco he’s finished third here at Monaco so certainly a driver to be watched races at goodward as well he’s got Lotus Alan Swiss businessman and he won in in Formula Junior Lola at the start of this year so he’s already been a winner that’s Philip boofer in fourth place in from Switzerland Lucas haloa uh in fifth place in number 24 um 22 rather second youngest son of Martin heloa did a track day on his first race in 2014 he’s raced e types all sorts of [Music] things yes I used to have um Formula 3 race is part of this meeting for a while because Formula 3 was such a part of the Grand Prix where young Stars used to emerge and and the liks of K and CH we used to watch at the hairpin and decide who who they might sign um John Clark from Switz from Scotland here um in the uh yman credit C Cooper I think that’s the yman credit colors and uh in number 56 uh a driver with a huge network of dealerships in Scotland 13th fastest at the moment and uh now we’re going back to another Lotus 18 now that had a Scottish band on the front because in his Island race that car who was engaged Scot like Rob Walker became a great uh Formula One reporter and and critic and writer what a character yeah yeah was a a captain of a fishing boat at one time um got up to all kinds of tricks in this Pinelli there in the Cooper uh he’s 23rd at the moment in the little Cooper and uh quite a nice little run down 48 there is uh nice to see him that’s Robert pulin in the Lotus 18 the Lotus 18 a bit squarer and older so quite recognizable a Lotus 18 whereas from the 21 and 25 you can see quite a lot of work taking place on the circuit to try and soak up all that oil I was that was a big blow up wasn’t it yeah yeah I was slightly tricked by the the shadow of the posts when I said I’m not hopefully certain if it is but as you can see they’ve got all the all the tricks all the machines to uh Hoover up the what used to be cement dust I don’t think it is any longer you call it KY L yesterday it’s a bit more like that which ab actually absorbs the oil and um then they can pick it up with this what is basically a large vacuum cleaner so bit of a Hiatus at the moment 14 minutes still to go Mark Shaw a little surprisingly I suppose in uh provisional pole but uh a lot of uh quite a lot of laps to go yet before this is decided Bob very elegant these little cars aren’t they from from this era they are they they’re very very attractive and very manageable able and easy well relatively easy to run looking at Sid hul there who’s uh well done well yeah and the Cooper I mean s’s been racing forever has I think he’s had quite a bit of success here in the past yeah I think he’s beenin on the podium um in 2022 it was kisaco from Drake uh Dan Collins was in fourth in 2021 it was Shaw from Nick Taylor boofer not so many Runners then uh in 2018 middlehurst one of his wins from kisaco so you can see it goes right back and then James King um who was quite a competitor was in third place uh in 2016 it was middlehurst again from caco so uh they’ve got quite a lot of uh history those two 2014 middlehurst again from sidul in second and then 2012 Sid was second to Middle Hurst as well yeah the chap was leaning down into Mark Shaw’s cockpit maybe his driv Horacio Fitz Simon fine young racing driver a lovely Man actually and uh spends most of his time in the United States um and his father race before him we’ve seen him going very quickly goodward lots of success in Lotus of land and for a junor car so that’s who I just sometimes you just can’t get the name can you it came to me um love the look at that exhaust system that’s that’s art isn’t it and actually building those cars was was such art as well wasn’t it because of course the you know the the the the mechanics had to be had to make so much but the the coloso car the exhaust system on that that’s just got two pipes coming out Chrome but it’s just it is you I think you described it yesterday PL to Spaghetti it is the most fantastic piece of metal work and looks almost like a sculpture I mean if you took it out of the car and put it on a wood wood plank everybody say what a i of a sculpure um well all these Marshals about 15 or so of them working hard to clean this circle up but they’ve got to do that because you know no grip at all if uh if they haven’t clean that up and just obviously holding the proceedings up a little bit Yeah there’s still 14 minutes and 20 seconds of the session to go so uh certainly worth everyone waiting for the restart number nine there is going to be the first driver out onto the track and that’s Costas Michael uh in a Cooper t73 yeah but those front three while were quite substantially quicker than the rest of the field I think actually that’s been pushed off isn’t it that maybe that was the car that had stopped or was it ah it could have been they number nine Costas Michael that’s interesting that it’s been wheeled back we didn’t think it was number nine did we well it’s difficult to see from the angle the number it was but so lots of uh chaps with brooms working away trying to get rid of that spilt oil and remember that it’s much more easy to make a mistake uh with a gear change with breaking uh than it was than it is these days they have they have fail safe in uh the formula cars these days you don’t have blown engines you don’t miss a gear You’ got a computer controlling it exactly yeah yeah rather than a a driver so it was much easier in those days to make basic basic mistak yeah which could mean losing a position or losing an engine yes ster not so heavy on these these little cars of course they got narrow tires relatively speaking Yeah so mark shw from Andy middlehurst Joe kisaco Philip boofer Lucas haloa Christopher Drake and then Andy Willis and uh then number 34 Andrea stoni from Italy Dan Collins Stefan yst quite a few as we mentioned the Cooper firm and some of our younger listeners will know manyi Coopers of course and there’s a long history to that so Cooper car company is very successful racing car manufacturer from ceton in Su originally run by Charles Cooper and Then followed up by his son John and uh one of many came out very early early 60s when they they The BMC British BM who built the minis got Cooper to do a hotted up version and um and that Association has stuck ever since right through to the period now well obviously latest Mini Cooper is basically BMW owned by BMW obviously but Cooper also totally transformed the Indianapolis 500 scene by going rear engine didn’t they with with Jack braam going and uh all the the old boys in wonder what the hell was going on with this car appeared in the pit Lane little car with the engine in the back but yes it gave him a nasty shot yeah it did and the Cooper family are still involved and some occasionally come to to to race meetings I’ve seen them at Silverstone and the Cooper name lives on but I think Cooper had successful Formula One you know was successful in Formula One with people like Bruce McLaren and Jack braon were their Factory drivers and both both of them of course went off to set up their own um Formula 1 teams their own manufacturing facilities and uh then sort of Cooper sort of went downhill as a racing team after that very distinguishable The Works cars with their uh stripes white stripes on blue the greeny blue yes yeah so Costas Michael uh has a Works car so to Richard Wilson and there um actually Christopher Drake’s car is but he’s got a slightly different uh paint Scheme on his whereas Sid huls is an exr Walker car that color scheme with the with the thick white strikes I don’t recognize that it may was was the history of that car well it it was built in order to take part in the British Formula 1 races its first driver was John Taylor who raised the international trophy in 1964 yes John Taylor big expert at malerie Park circuit was John Taylor but just see that Alan rollinson um fine young dri or driver many years ago in lights of all I think he tried tried to qualify the car did he I just yeah yeah failed to qualify for the next British Grand Prix and uh also Pier’s courage for the next month yeah at um the Mediterranean Grand Prix when when we went from uh this category up to uh three lers uh Cooper used Maserati engines for a while didn’t it big Maserati engines which were a bit oldfashioned but didn’t really do the job and they had here for example such a short nose do you remember and the massive radiator at the front yes they had a special short nose first stop hitting the hairpin and stuff yeah very stubbed nose and and great Austrian driver some of you remember Yen Ren he started his formula one career with with Cooper for some reason it seemed a much bigger engine yeah I think it was quite oldfashioned wasn’t it that that motor it certainly didn’t have the power Ferrari of course really got to that first didn’t they so let’s hope we get a restart fairly soon I think we should do we should I mean they were doing a very good job of clearing that this Jabs having a little sit down look next to Mark Shaw’s car well there’s a funny car number 35 that’s the Assa ASA guy ASA guy yes Julian Ellison very much a one-off special that he got little Alpha Romeo engine in yeah and um don’t think that ever raced in a Grand Prix but uh well it raced in the South African championship in 1963 and was one of the local cars entered in the Rand Grand Prix which was held in December in the presence of lotus brm Lola teams oh yeah the South Africans built a few it was a thing called the LDS which is a guy called Doug suru and but I think that was basically was based on a coer and they used Alpha Romeo engines quite a lot yeah they did um was a very healthy scene in South Africa racing in Formula 1 to back in the um 70s they had a quite a successful Formula 1 championship a lot teams used to sell their last year’s car to um to different different organizations so there was a lot of tobacco sponsership there the Lucky Strike brand and the Gunston brand there was a big war going on and their two main drivers was a guy called Dave Charon who had a series of lotuses and then there was a Zimbabwean but that rodian in those days driver called John love and they used to really battle out that Championship quite a lot lot of other quick guys like Eddie kaizan and number of good South African drivers so the track looks relatively clear Let’s uh just keep an eye on the flags green light is flashing green light yeah so those Marshals have done a good job but took a little while it’ll be a moment or two before that uh dust dissipates as well when they do go out but it’s 14 minutes and 19 seconds remain of the session so now those are the main pictures that we see there where the Formula 1 cars will be in two weeks time proba well they’ll turn up to probably a week on Monday were they well yeah they immediately after the San Marino well it’s not San Marin Grand Prix it’s the Grand Premier the imia Roman yes which uh is next weekend at the town of s yeah IM but used to have the San Marino day yeah so the cars are started as I say 14 minutes and 19 seconds still to go and they’re ready to go and it’s just a matter of the light turning grin at the pit lane exit and they will be on circuit but Dan hot Collins that helmet with the yellow and blue very characteristic helmet there the 46 car we talked about in his irland and the the aoan Scotsman uh who rased that car in that light green color at one time he was a Scotsman called Ireland living in Wales yes indeed lived at prestain prain house in Wales there’s that helmet again and we talked about the um the blue wheels on the Ferrari for a long time Lotus had yellow wheels and you just saw them there that 46 car leads them out of Kurt doban in the BRP with a brm engine that’s also a V8 BRP standing for British racing partnership uh involved with u Sterling B’s father wasn’t it I believe set that up or Ken Gregory was it his man manager yeah they were in it together were they three lotuses in four lotuses in a row so they got to be tiptoe a little bit on the dust down at portier got to be a little bit careful they’ll be aware of it now where are the quick boys positioned in this so we’re looking for number seven Mark Shaw we’re looking for for Andy middlehurst of course and we’re looking for the number four car of Jo colaco you a beautiful Ferrari so here they go yeah setting up a little bit of uh putting up a little bit of dust actually the Marshalls have done a good job with their vacuum cleaner and have uh got most of the Dust haven’t they yeah that that stripy flag if you’re not used to flag signals um saying liquid on the course usually oil but can be some other things yeah this is liquid on the course or just slippery track surface I play slippery track surface yeah yeah yeah doesn’t actually go into what it is no so uh the car’s back out on track again remember Shaw from middlehurst kisaco boofer haloa and Drake that’s the top six then Willis ston Collins and yst in the top 10 and trying to look a bit uh further down see if anybody might jump into that top 10 maybe uh Sid Hall experiencing that Cooper katsuaki Kubota the oh yeah he’s just on the on the edges there Japanese driver and Nick Taylor we mentioned with his well car was actually raced by the count Wolf Gang B trips early in his career before he joined Ferrari that’s a car just gone through the pitch of white with the checken flag stripes two team Lotus cars wheel to wheel up the hill they go yeah you were talking about no to that white car in the padic he had the car and on the dashboard of the car where it was part he had a little model of the car he beautifully presented that and he had a book the whole history of the car one of those photo books uh which apparently he made to send to goodw because he’s having trouble getting an entry and that did it well there he is uh I think that is uh is that baratti Federico baratti no no it wasn’t but uh yeah the yellow wheels you were talking about yellow wheels the yellow wheels of course on team Lotus cars yes yes but you can see it’s not easy to get a quick lap when you’re right in the traffic very very difficult we asked yesterday if uh they perhaps are allowed to use radios to uh perhaps suggest the drivers as they would in Formula 1 in modern Formula 1 that they drop back or whatever and the answer came from classic team Lotus no don’t complicate it any further so uh they just have to find their own piece of track and uh use it accordingly so coming up to complete the first flying laps and uh keeping well out of the way there I think sidul doing a good job keeping out of the way yeah as you know Bob I I followed this quite closely but there a champion I’m not aware of as a Ninth Place T Tony Italian racer but not sure of his history no and so it’s still sure midur kisaco boof is coming to the pit aloa looking if he’s looking a bit racy could move up the uh top five but we need one more lap really don’t we to establish uh what’s going to happen still effectively on and out lap this is Mark Shaw we’re looking at at the moment who’s fastest and he’s got a clear track although he’s got number 20 ahead of him that’s teon Salsbury in the xra Walker former winner around the circuit as you’ve said earlier so Mark Shaw just gaining on him he should catch him in the tunnel should be able to get past fairly easily if not before and teon Salsbury keeps out of the way and allows Mark Shaw to go through much more polite this lot AR they just 21 Lotus 18 the chassis is very similar they really streamline the body down between them Lotus 18 on intriguing shape at the back isn’t rear of the car yeah some of the early cars you see you see quite a lot of the uh the Mechanicals of the car but with with this formula you couldn’t see much and uh you see the the suspension there the coil springs at the rear Lucas haloa there in the braam uh very recognizable with its gold Central stripe yeah umoa at the moment in fifth place Mark Shaw I think maybe on this lap go a little bit quicker that he’s on the pole perly at 1509 and uh middlehurst I got got3 of four middle Hurst just gone fastest in the first uh sector so I think middle Hurst on a bit of a push now which he needs really with seven minutes or so remaining and kosako not on a quick lap at the moment but uh Shaw goes faster down to 50.0 and we interest see middle sector for Middle Hurst that puts sure 1.2 seconds ahead of middlehurst but middlehurst as you say very quick in the first sector and a very canny uh competitor he knows how to do it he knows how to make this car go quickly and he knows when to put the hammer down especially on a slippery surface that we’ve already had so there he is yeah all those years of racing right back to the 1980s and he for a long time was a big Nissan dealership uh he’s sold that now he’s he’s just selling new secondhand cars very almost new secondhand cars and still got a big Workshop up in the Northeast so uh wasn’t wasn’t so quick in the middle sector might have been boled on that lap yeah there is that yeah there there he is pushing his way through the famous Lotus colors he’s done it he’s gone fastest has 148 Point 49 first place into the 49 49.5 with middle Hurst that puts him about half a second quicker than Mark Shaw so uh there’s six and a half minutes still to go still plenty of time two or three laps for these guys just wonder what kosako is on his kosako is on his lap and it’s not looking if he’s going to challenge uh for the pole uh the race that he won last time out two years ago and middle Hur gone faster again going faster again on this next lap I think anybody else moving up or down Bob um Collins still in N Taylor still going well in that former Privateer Lotus 18 which is originally raced by Swiss driver Michael May Ian it’s so different in those days you could as an independent you can turn up the racing C PR yeah yeah here with your car on a flatbed VW yeah transporter tracking with middle Hurst here through the swimming pool section Christopher Drake has improved in fifth place and stoni has improved in seventh um sidul was in the pits katsi Kabota is in the pits they both are still so is Andy Willis in ninth place but they’ve got 5 minutes to go so uh it’s getting to the sharp end of this session and uh if they’re going to make their move it’s got to be soon yellow flag at Sand divot who’s gone off there probably up the Escape road yeah number 15 that’s uh Dan Collins yeah but so just talking you mentioned Sid hall because back a decade ago he finished second twice to Middle HST here w oh number 50 breaking late late late and uh that was James Hagen the American I think he’s American I’m sure he is or is he Irish I can’t remember but uh think he’s a fora two car James Hagen Irish yeah yeah actually played rugby until he injured himself so came to play cars instead oh that was the tangle W yes two different shades of green yeah a 40 six car going around and that’s uh Kurt gain from the states in the [Music] BRP looking pretty racy there wasn’t he that hump as you dive down the hill which everybody tries to avoid in in modern formula Cars 3 minutes and 40 seconds no improvements at the moment Mar might be might have a bit of a go here look uh it’s 6 1.6 seconds behind middlehurst yeah so age has not di the speed of Andy middlehurst as he said it what a race last weekend at Donington in the fire breathing uh Nissan Skyline Godzilla they called that model didn’t they eras a lot Australian nickname and Andy Willis into the top 10 now in Ninth Place Nick Taylor in eighth place couple of British drivers there and then the Welsh driver Salsbury in the X Sterling Moss winning car here beating those Ferraris fantastic race oh there the a guy is there and so is Mark Shaw yeah well I I guess SP shw was going a lot quicker than the ASA guy is Tangled and Driver climbs out sort of Ferrari shark noos copy there with Ellison yeah he’s got uh Mark Shaw’s got got scars on the front of the car but mechanically I think it’s okay isn’t it yeah it looks like it look at there this is how it happened just huge closing speed and uh he went for a gap and it closed basically yeah I yes I was Mark should have really seen him coming and moved moved over given a bit more room so uh two minutes to go and the ASA gu is stranded at the swimming pool I wonder if they got any spare wishbones for that car yeah well there he is so uh a rare car that yeah well it’s a oneoff isn’t it a low budget operation as well and down on power course that little Al for Romeo engine but yeah Julian Ellison so any chance I think Mark Shaw had a matching the middle Hurst time has gone there full course full full course yellow Marshall hasn’t actually come into the pits and uh interesting just a minute and 20 seconds so that’s it Andy middlehurst will be on the pole with Mark Shaw and Joe kisaco the three that we thought would be there Bob yeah and then haloa bher Drake Stony good job by him Nick Taylor Andy Willis and Dan Collins rounding out the top 10 and the red red flag goes out so that’s the end of this session because they will not have time to restart it so Andy middlehurst again showing his prowess around this circuit on Pole Position from the Scottish driver Mark Shaw second and then third Joe kosako in the Ferrari in third spot in fourth Lucas haoa in uh number 22 um and then fifth is Philip boofer from Switzerland um and sixth completing the top six is Christopher Drake from the United Kingdom so uh once again very competitive from Christopher Drake then uh our new discovery storton in seventh place yeah he has raced that car before he’s also raced a Lotus 11 um but not sure of his complete history [Music] but a good job by certainly by St Tony looking at the pictures of him on the internet heavily bearded so perhaps disappointing uh kateki Kabota in 15th Place we’d expect to see him perhaps uh a little bit higher up the order um ah T Tony H raced in the Glover trophy at Goodwood three years ago and we’d expect perhaps to see Sid hul in who is in 18th Place higher up the order as well but then you know said was competitive 10 years ago but um I I think he’s probably well into his 70s yeah great to be had to race still isn’t there is Andy middlehurst so uh another pole position for him and car beautifully preped by classic team Lotus and headed by Clive Chapman of course and Chris come to me in a minute um so John Romano raced in this thing eight nine times down there in uh 17th Place [Music] so yes a minute and 13 seconds still remain I wouldn’t have thought there there’s uh any point in restarting this but maybe they will I don’t know they haven’t actually recovered the asy yet no been a little bit slow with that aren’t they have they now yeah Chris didage is what I was trying to think of Chris Dage yeah yeah and he he’s he’s the team manager he was uh he been with lotus for many years having a very spirited discussion yesterday with some scrutineers who were annoying him and Chris is the number one mechanic for Aon Center we’re going to see a great a great display of Center Machinery at lunchtime we’re looking forward to that and um from from carts right through to his his later Formula One cars but also some of the cars that he in in the junior categories where he went flying up the ranks of course yeah classic team Lotus a whole Fleet of car they keep I mean they’ve got quite a lot of stuff that’s still can be rebuilt have they they’ve got yeah they start have you know they’ve got the um famous jet car uh going and seen it demonstrating at Goodwood and um that was four-wheel drive because we talked about four-wheel drive Ferguson earlier and um yeah they do a terrific job up there at the same head where where originally team Lotus were based in heel course Lotus cars now um owned by the Chinese G Corporation been through various different ownerships well there’s race control and I noticed there’s also a police chief in there which you wouldn’t normally see a lot of races well you’d be surprised you’d be surprised um I can remember commentating at Silverstone and we used to have a police during the British Grand Prix and we used to have a policeman in the box with us is that so how how yes just in case there was some sort of a crisis yes and it needed to be sorted out I mean it a couple crazy run onto the track now and then well exactly yeah so there on on your screen is the results list again you see that gap of 1.5 seconds between first and second going through now through to 24th Place and famous Mr John of B there we we can’t find out what the be is for I mean we know his real name but why is Mr John of I mean he’s John so I say that makes a John so but got the most magnificent collection of of of cars 31 cars uh qualified uh that’s actually two less than uh yesterday so I suspect we may have lost uh for example um a couple of the cars that had problems yesterday like Philip Bonnie I don’t think he took part in number 80 um so some nice uh shots reviewing what just went on and Andy middle there he is with the beautiful Sleek Lotus 25 the car that changed the way racing cars were constructed as we said at the top going to this bed folded aluminum bathtub style chassis from the the SP the tubular frame and before that was a ladder chassis wasn’t it but as said great thing about coming to this RAC meeting you can see the total evolution of the Formula 1 cup over over a period of 40 years so next up have a little change I think little highlights package yeah as we see the cars going back out this was at the start of qualifying I remember the car to look out for was uh Andy middlehurst in number six Mark sha in number seven Joe kisaco and there is number six Andy middlehurst in that Lotus 25 that Andrew is just talking about and uh catching catching traffic which was the problem literally going between the two of them amazing really carrying plenty of speed down into there isn’t he you’d never get that modern Formula One no they’re too wide they would would have bit of space wouldn’t fit so uh [Music] middle Hur setting such a a good time and just showing everybody how it done look how close he was he was up on the curb there close to the barrier kissing the barrier as uh they will be in a couple of weeks time but you just give a slight brush to the barrier uh in terms of a kiss uh it mustn’t be a Smacker cuz if it’s a Smacker you probably end up the pits that’s a technical term is it yeah Bob when when yeah Bob when did you first cover this when did you first come to Monaco 1972 yeah I’ve been to Monaco before that but as a literally I was hitchhiking from Florence back to greno and I came by Monaco I think I might have been a couple of years before you um so uh this is the highlights package still and Joe kosako in this instance trying to thread his way through the bat markers and that was the reason for the stoppage uh and to clear up the track race control said red flag and this is what happened a large amount of oil smoke from the back of that car which was then wheeled away but it took a long time to clear up the oil that had been distributed and a long wait in the pits for the drivers they went back out again and uh resumed the session uh yeah about 15 minutes wasn’t it that that wait if not more I think yeah yeah and then there was this little coming together between Mark Shaw and Julian Ellison and that spell the end of the session and the assag guy uh into the barrier number 35 there and that was the end of the session this is what happened just a little nudge no way was Mark Shaw uh alongside it was more he thought there was a gap and it closed and that was Julian Allison’s right to be honest so uh Ellison out of the car no damage to either driver red flag and the end of the session so uh we will now look forward to series D coming up Grand Prix cars uh 3 ler Grand Prix cars from 66 to 72 coming up shortly for for for [Music] [Music] for for foree for speee [Music] [Music] for for fore spee we’re back here at the Monaco historic 3 l formul 1 Grand Pre cars from 1966 to 1972 and the Beautiful sight of lotus 72 um from classic team Lotus and that’s uh Kabota in the number two car who won this in that car back in well 10 years ago um Bob conon jurus um I think the class of the field here will certainly be uh Michael lions in the 30s he was second last time out um some 14 seconds behind Stuart Hall who won this in 16 and the McLaren m19a but this time the owner of the car is going to drive it and that’s uh the commodity Trader Ro gother and uh Ro will not be as quick as Stewart uh but one of we just saw it there perhaps the most interesting story of this whole race is to see racing here for the first time one of the most successful drivers from Mexico of all time Adrien Fernandez and he has bought a brm and it means something really special to him because course the first one of the first big name Mexican drivers Pedro Rodriguez raced that car I think had a second place in it um raced it in quite a lot of World Championship events um Adrian bought it re Adrian did a demonstration in it once at the Mexican uh Mexico grand prix and like the car so much I got to buy this car and then he got in a bidding war with some Russian guy but um the owner liked the fact that a Mexican was buying a car that a Mexican had raced in Period so he’s he’s got that I mean Adrian terrific career of course in indie car racing then ran his own team won the lmp2 championship for Honda or Acura uh in 2009 American L M series um success at Lam more originally in Indie lights and um racing the the cart series and then the Indie series from 93 to 04 and was second overall in that championship in 2006 for a while man Sergio Perez and uh he doesn’t do so anymore but um was I think without Adrian’s help Sergio Perez might not made Formula 1 actually now there’s a very an intriguing shot tell us about the mirror that’s the central mirror on what is called the Eiffel land it’s actually a March which was rebodied by a company um called Eiffel land who uh to promote their Caravans would you believe so it was a caravan company in Germany and they bought the 701 and Ralph stoman Dr drove it and it’s got this Central mirror um right in front of the driver hopefully the driver is confident of see seeing around it the Eiffel land is being driven by David Shaw not to be confused with Mark Shaw um and David Shaw has got this Eiffel land uh there’s a few stars as well in this uh session uh some uh interesting drivers uh Tom Harley Jr who’s V well known for uh purveying exotic road cars um from his b base in the Midlands of the UK that a darish is darish well do you call that I thought it was leerer actually I thought well maybe he’s on the border somewhere but um uh katsuaki Kubota the Japanese driver and one AG Adan Nei who about whom quite a lot has been written recently it has to be said that he is in one of the older cars in this particularly when you look at uh the Lotus 72 is out there of katsuaki Kubota the Japanese software uh uh developer uh but Adrian yui is in a Lotus 49 and the difference between those is about 3 years uh and quite a lot of uh development so you can imagine the 72 is going to be a lot quicker in theory than the 49b however much uh the uh expert designer Adrien yui has worked on that car and also lanan as well in Petersfield in Hampshire have worked on the car as well so Adrian has raced this Lotus 49 before yeah and he’s crashed it as well crashed he’s raced at GT40 he’s raced at Lal in in a Ferrari um so some years ago he’s also raised an e type as well he got they got a very quick e type that I think has also been driven by Jens some button at Goodwood well also worth pointing out is Claudia hen her reappearance in a Ferrari 312 from methusalem racing and that’s a 1969 car so again it’s one of the older cars as well so perhaps not too much to be expected roal gerter is out in the McLaren m 19a um a winning car around here but with st Hall and but Michael lions in that family 30 he been raced by his mother previously and we said yesterday didn’t we not many people are racing the car that mother had raced um but I think Michael will be difficult to catch it also sha Lin in there was a bit of a a late entry taking over the Bron bt37 Lobster Claw which is normally raced by his mate Jamie constable and uh worth pointing out sorry just to go back to Adrian you with that Lotus 49b uh Lotus 49b uh won here in 1968 and 69 and then 49c one in 1970 uh the first two in the hands of Graham Hill the second or the third rather in 1970 in yokan rin’s hands yeah yeah so it’s been a win around here yeah now there is a car that you love the the Matra ms1 1220 and uh so Mr JN AB be’s got several matches got sports cars as well and what you love about it Bob we’re just looking at now the engine with the most magnificent spram one of the finest mechanical noises you could ever hear there ctis from the famous ctis arrow is that Mike Mike hailwood helmet because that’s Mike hailwood one of the few people to really make the track transition from motorbike racing to Formula 1 and a a fantastic guy to boot uh M Mike hawood and so his helmet being used there here a car raced by the Argentine Carlos reuan who who died relatively recently uh but sha Lynn just bought the Masters racing series and he’s got a figh he’s got lots of cars particularly Bentley’s got a couple of Bentley de had Bentley’s demonstrated Donington last week had the the first L on Bentley from 2000ish and and the last one um from 2003 he had the one that I remember had the the Ford HP engine in the the test uh car they demonstrated do last weekend looked absolutely great but uh interesting to see what sha does with the new racing front the two main groups that run historic Motor Racing both changed hands in the last few months well you said sha Lyn brought Masters yes surely it’s Frederick fatia who bought no he bought Legend sorry Legends M he bought Legends okay and you’re absolutely right Fred fatan based in France and Dubai uh bought Master absolutely spot on um so sha Lynn is in that bra which was originally down for Jamie conable number nine yeah so uh just moving our cameraman out of the way number one there is Tom Harley Jr who I mentioned earlier on um and that is he hasn’t done a lot of racing Tom Harley Jr so big coming around uh Monaco in a Formula 1 uh 70 1970 March 701 yeah quite something here comes uh the field then Led Out by katsuaki Kabota in the Lotus 72 yeah just a quick I lawence that March a very cold day at Silverstone with the whole March deal with the ti running two cars and obviously the STP there one of those s2p cars here as well March 701 the March group uh Max mosy Robin herd Alan ree who’s still with us and Graham [Music] Koka they were the founders of that company found a lot of success in America for a while so there they go through M that’s the left-hander into Casino square and uh these are considerably quicker this is finally the dfv era if you like yes the Lotus 49 being the first card to get a dfv engine when it first came out in 1967 and these are the the cars with dfvs we’re going to hear a lot of dfvs from now on to the rest through the rest of the day because the engine had TR tremendous longevity didn’t he we got we’ve got this is is Seri D but Seri f and g will be predominantly dfv Eng so d e f and g really yeah so uh four years four four eras yes before the uh turbos really came in in well they started off in 1977 with the Renault turbo so it will be very interesting this is a very nice PR at this p153 designed by Tony Southgate if I remember correctly Adrian Fernandez obviously hasn’t raced for a while he’s 62 years old now he’s very excited to have this car he’s very excited to to be here racing at Monaco and we un expected to see that car but Michael Lions turned to the screen purple as we would expect and uh just let it go for two or three laps and then we we’ll establish some sort of format a notice Adrian new is in a class for the older cars prob there a couple of them so uh and cloudia HK and so be interested to compare Cloud hen and uh Nei yes indeed yeah so uh early time but I’m sure we’re going to go quicker than that from Michael Lions who is uh as you say the son of Frank and Judy yeah construction uh people from Essex yeah I think felstead in Essex is know where they come from but and they they’ve got they must have quite a few DF engines cuz he got several dfb power cars and he got the fabulous ibeck Lamar car that Ian bracie built and they they found it in a barn 2 miles away from where they were Theo had it be years in there they found it in this Barn they’ve restored it um it was able to race uh at Silverstone uh Festival last year Michael R ran away away with that race the rules allowed it to still haven’t got papers at the moment uh somebody’s complaining the brakes have been changed to the ones it ran with originally only for one race and the rest of the time it raced it had different breakes which is what it’s going on now but anyway having a little bit of a a do and Adrian Nei overtaking Mr J and B ah well one car out there which is going to look very very strange in comparison to everybody else’s is number 12 that’s the Ferrari 312 B3 also known as the Spitzer Navy which uh directly translated means snowplow and you’ll see why because of its front uh front treatment we’ll see it in a moment but just watching at the moment the Lotus 49b of uh Adrian Yi there it is with gold leaf colors there’s the spa just passing out of shot uh to our left obviously a red Ferrari but uh it it never actually raced it was tested it was the brainchild of Mao Fieri The brilliantly Talented uh right up until his death he was still working on Ferraris um a brilliantly talented engineer not only of chassis but also of engines I just going to say yeah not many people like that no no and uh yeah so Lions definitely setting the pace but certainly Wrigley Matthew Wrigley in the March 7 21g and it’s been a story with that yellow car we’ll see that in a little while won’t me Bob but uh it was built for a private tier they had two different designs uh in 1972 did March and this was one based on the former 2 chassis and raced by a guy called Charming Man called Mike Butler and had a group of four stock broker sponsoring [Music] him so Lions going hergen and oh it’s good to see Gerta out there because hergen and Gerta I think uh whether they had problems yesterday sergus certainly went into the barrier yesterday on drop doy that’s Yan sergon in number seven um but we’re watching Michael Lions who’s setting the fastest time he’s now fastest with a 136.8888855 38.1 and then Mike Wrigley Matthew Wrigley sorry son of Mike Wrigley in third spot 1386 so just half a second there between those two then David Shaw in fourth place in the 141s and uh the rest are below that Adrien Fernandez at the moment in sixth place and Adrian Nei at the moment in 11th place well kaboto knows how to win round here he did that uh was it 8 years ago yeah no 10 years ago 14 20 the 2014 running of this meeting he he was the winner and uh in this same car he he knows it well uh ahead of uh Duncan American Duncan Dayton in a Bravo FY paldi was third in the Lotus 72 here in 1972 he was fifth the previous year and uh they still had the 49 in 197 70 yeah with 49 was quite bulbous and they went to this incredible wedge shape didn’t they with with a 72 they changed the suspension quite quite a lot during the period it had torsion it was ground breaking with torsion bar suspension I’m not sure they always ran that or later they they changed it but uh most effective racing machine looked absolutely fantastic and a lot of people love those uh black and gold JPS color [Music] so Lion’s just gone faster again on that lap is just completed now Kabota second Wrigley jaw and then [Music] serers and uh Adrian Nei in ninth place at the moment Matthew Wrigley last year was his first season so uh he’s driven a Pensky and a lotus land 26r as well he’s tried modern cars but didn’t particularly like it so he’s raced against his dad um I say his first season though no it’s not he was he was very successful in historic form 2 racing he was one of the men to beat in that yeah he’s been racing a while has yeah he has yeah um started in a Formula Ford Merlin yeah and I think he’s been very effective in in cars like that in in in historic fora for as well [Music] so Lions fastest by oh just 9/10 of a second from kateki Kabota there is the Lotus 72 number two on your screens at the moment or was on your screens and uh third spot is Matthew Wrigley just say that the McLaren go through there with the yardly Cosmetics company sponsorship very good sponsor of back in the early’ 70s they started with brm and then um you remember Teddy Mayer at McLaren post a sponsorship which made Lis Stanley incandescent with raged and then marbar came along again McLaren sto the sponsor of Louis Stanley at brm again but they still had a contract with Yardley so they ran two marbor cars and he ran a third car for Mike hailwood in uh also rent here is the snowplow again no snow today sp there it is but if it was it’ do a pretty good job at it as I say it never raced uh but it was developed they just took the development in a completely different direction yeah um but uh what a car it is Franco miners in that number 12 and uh he is a monagas so a local driver he’s raced Diablo Lamborghini Diablo Chevron B16 uh various cars including alancia Peta Monte Caro that’s probably uh the group C car um and even an escort he was sixth in the Ferrari here in 2022 so uh he certainly knows his way around as you would expect from a local driver Franco miners currently in seventh place which is quite respectable number 27 there is the Eiffel land no sign of Claudia heran at all uh or Bruno Ferrari so Nei neither of those two so just 14 cars on circuit and I think hergen must have had a problem yesterday which is a shame that robs us of a very good-looking Ferrari Lions fastest Wrigley in second now he’s gone ahead of Kabota and in third spot Kabota now David Shaw then Yan sergus in fifth place and Adrien Fernandez Sixth and it’s miners Nei in eighth place Mr JN of B in ninth and Tom Harley Jr in 10th place but the spread is about 10 seconds yeah but Regal is pretty close to Lions I was a bit surprised by that 410 yeah there’s that Eiffel land I hope he can see around that mirror yes something that’s meant to help you to see is actually obstructing your yeah they chasing uh being chased by ro [Music] gother there is the 49b that’s uh Adrian Yi then at the moment in eighth place I’m sure he’s enjoying himself I just wonder if uh his driver Max F stappen has done a track walk with him and showed him where to go quick and uh where to be careful cuz Max F Tappen lives here in Monaco that was in any sign of it may not be in town of course uh this weekend you know we look at a Lotus 4 always think of Graham Hill has had such huge success at this track Mr Monaco we called him didn’t we yeah and uh there’s that uh yellow March 721 G and he’s heading for the pits yeah raised hand aent you he’s got a big gap ahead of him so to make up another place is quite difficult it’s about 2.3 seconds between him and uh the uh if not 3.3 seconds him and the car in front some Williams body work in the background they’re not about to put that on the on the mar they not goth has gone a little bit faster now obviously he’s he’s coached by Stuart Hall also Stuart coached his two sons and yeah Ro Al GTA has one son racing in current Formula 3 yes he does and he’s pretty quick isn’t he yeah yeah he’s a younger son he’s a race winner last year at Silverstone and he went to the same school as Lon Norris which is milfield in the UK famous sporty public school yes well when I mentioned that to Lando Norris he said yes I did go yes but not very often I supp carting was he yeah yeah so Michael lions in that 30’s ts9 originally built in edenbridge in Kent um I went looking of the old factory the other day and I found a little Supermarket on it which was a little bit disappointing and they weren’t selling 30s uh they W no no Michael lon’s going quicker now look yeah um 11 minutes still to go along still quite a lot of opportunity and Michael L quick in the second sector as well just Ras cast and uh Noz to go before the pit straight or they call it straight it’s slightly curved around to the right and lions is going to go quicker again 135.7 was the old time 134.0 now puts him two seconds ahead of Matthew Wrigley yeah he’s racing in the team C’s colors in the brook Bond oo colors car like that raced in by driven by Mike hawood actually but this particular car mainly raced in South Africa with John love we mentioned a little earlier in the team Gunston red and gold colors in fact so they put it into a a more recognizable color scheme that tur color scheme we see it in this race sometimes it’s in blue and white sometimes was mainly in red and white but for the brook Bond Oxo sponsorship they changed it to blue and white and I remember going to a race and Brook Bond at the time in TV commercials had some chimpanzees which drank te Believe It or Not would be allowed these days would it and they they brought chimpanzee there and SA in the car but there a few monkeys have driven this before so Lions Wrigley and as Michael’s pulled out a little bit I mean Michaels of course we didn’t say this Bob didy the winning most horrible American expression driver here has won seven times yeah amazing and uh I think one year won three three of these later classes didn’t he had huge success in this we’re going to see him quite a few times now sits quite far out the gu’s tall chat Michael he about 6’2 and um I mean early in his career he was heading in a modern route although the family had lots of historic car did for a Rena and so on pretty well and he raced in the Ferrari GT cars with the AF corser team but uh he was dragged back into the historic World which is a big world these days isn’t it and uh also of course the family did quite a few formula 3,000 uh 5,000 races as well he raced those cars don’t seem to race much at the moment there’s that Mike helmet Mike helmet helmet now there’s katsuaki Kabota in the l72 currently third fastest is it going to go ahead of Matthew Wrigley who’s in the pits at the moment well I think it’s a possibility yeah that’s a quick first sector time it’s actually quicker than Michael Lions went last time yeah eight uh eight minutes remaining in this session this is going to be an improvement from uh kaban he’s been with classic team and he slows right up he slows just before Noz at the end of the lap so it’s not going to be faster lap he’s been with classic team Lotus for a long time even though actually he’s raced other cars I always thought he was he’d stay with lotus but he’s actually raced other cars as well seen him in a March I think prob one car in the past yeah andell in 2017 McLaren Lotus obviously Lotus um even Lotus Alan as well yeah so this is Siri D before lunch we got to we still got Siri e to come yeah and then we we got uh I think another three sessions this afternoon and of course the C parade we’re looking forward to that so Michael Lions still 134.0 kataki Kota did not complete that uh lap at speed so that wasn’t an improvement it’s still Lions Wrigley Koto sergus Fernandez and Shaw in sixth place and lions held up there by the brm the Yardley brm Shaw then Franco miners in seventh Tom Harley Junior in eighth place Adrien Yi now in ninth and Mr jonov in 10th Place ahead of G mati uh Lynn and Becca that’s the 14 that have [Music] practiced I’m not sure if that 11 car that Claudia H was going to drive actually came in the end um now we haven’t we haven’t be just really hear separate we have the the screaming matching the V12 of Mr J be could maybe pick that that up on our picture we might just pick up the the sound of it that’s a number 16 car is it the uh composits magnet can you be a composite magnet that’s supp you can anyway Michael Lions depends how you spell it really yeah [Music] yes here he comes this is not going to be an improvement from Michael Lions uh 134.0 is his best so far in this session that was a 145 so obviously not an improvement just under 6 minutes still to go no improvements for any anyone really uh ne’s uh been out there for quite some time he’s done 11 laps so far yeah he’ll be having the time of his life yeah and I suspect Bob might speculated saying this is great do I really need to have the uh dramas of joining a new racing team yeah and start designing for the new but of course a man like you is so driven isn’t he I watch watch your view he’s a very competitive guy I remember here having a an extraordinary conversation after a qualifying session where Red Bull had slightly messed up things T boots in there um and uh the red brother slightly messed up things and I said oh they you know they that didn’t do that quite right he absolutely exploded as though it was my fault I absolutely said they didn’t made a complete mess of it absolutely went bananas and because nor is sort of quiet no key guy isn’t he yeah I’ve treated him with kid gloves ever since damn just then now Michael Li are very close to the barrier a kiss as long as it’s didn’t it was no K brush no kiss it was an air kiss and uh a yeah and lions really ringing the neck of this this [Music] CS Lions not an improvement Matthew Wrigley set his fastest time in the first sector on this lap let’s see how he gets on in the second sector quite a long second sector all the way uh to just before the RAS cast so only two corners in the final sector quite a lot of people tune these cos with dfvs um Jeff richon being the best known but to actually uh the Lions family used a company called highspeed Hy speed yeah the Lions now gone G got on a quick one yeah yeah and uh with three and a half minutes to go yeah this is his uh final push just to make absolutely sure I I’ve got the best part two seconds on the field has Michael Lions seven times a win around here Wrigley possibly com improving we’ll see 136.34 n he does improve and Kabota goes quicker again however and but he still one and a half seconds behind Lions so it’s Lions Kabota Wrigley in improvements from both Kabota and Wrigley but Lions is also on schedule to improve on this lap so is Yan seron in fif fourth place Adrian Fernandez is fifth well done to him David Shaw in sixth then Franco miners Adrian Nei has gone ahead of Tom Harley Jr so he’s improved and Mr jnab B completes the top 10 yeah I think Adrien fernandz done an excellent job in that ex Pedro Rodriguez brm course the next model is the 160 and that one here of course with Jean Pierre Bel in the rain yeah that was my first visit here oh was it oh I was reporting that race and uh I was doing Formula 3 oh right yes I think I first came here to do Formula 3 just a little bit in front of you David Shaw improves his time I think possibly yes I think he’s gone ahead of yan sergon so Shaw up to Fourth uh that’s David Shaw rather than Mark Shaw yeah the Gap at the top now is one and half seconds Lions has on Kabota both having won this category before yellow flags start flying and what’s why should that be at no that’s the final corner I think somebody had uh maybe somebody pulled and then got going again yeah Harold Becka was fairly slow through there so he might might have been him sergus improves and is back up into fourth place back ahead of David Shaw been fifth he had the Eiffel land March David sha did that’s not his today is it yes it is yeah so he’s had that for a while yeah that car one stage went back to being a normal march and then they I think they rebuilt the famous body workor with the central mirror and uh there’s yeah so with 53 seconds to go they definitely won’t restart it there’s the Royal box up there where they go up to receive the prize and that was a bit of bit of body work that’s why we’ve had the red flag so they’ve stopped the session because of the Deb on circuit yeah what did it come off it’s black it’s black yes could it be off a Lotus 72 that’s a tobac I think think that’s a possibility yes it was yeah absolutely correct yeah so yes off the lad to 72 and he’s derange the the rear wing as well katsuaki Kabota second fastest but with a damaged car I’m sure the classic team Lotus boys under Christin should get that sorted pretty quickly they back CL the uh the brain strust there is deciding what to do so Michael lions fastest in that session from kataki Kabota second Matthew Wrigley in third place Yan sergus fourth David Shaw Fifth and Adrien Fernandez in sixth place then Franco Miner seventh Adrien Nei in eighth place Tom Harley Junior ninth and then uh Mr JN of B in 10th Place Nicola mati from Monaco in 11th place his uh neighbor roal Gerta in 12th Place sha Lynn in 13th Place and Harold Becka completes the 14 for whom we have times so uh that’s the way the qualifying session for uh series D ends the uh Formula 1 cars from 66 to 72 lot of changes weren’t there over that period of time yeah um uh both you know mechanically and the body work particularly and the aerodynamics of the cars so anyway coming up will be we’ll be moving onwards I always think of kaboto as a pretty safe Pair of Hands So I’m sort of surprised at that little uh Excursion but let’s hope there’s no not too much not too much damage done to the car [Music] so just seeing some of the shots of these drivers there’s Michael Lions that’s the man who’s fast is then in the session and he’s in the next session as well is Michael uh into the McLaren M26 in which he’s one here as well [Music] so here it is the highlights for the series D Grand Prix cars from 66 to 72 3 l cars and uh perfect setting for uh Monaco this weekend absolutely perfect exactly the way we all think of it there it is katak Kabota the man who starts the session and actually ends the session as well of course uh in the Lotus 72 R stoin uh the Eiffel land which David Shaw drives cars come out of the pits and head out to the Circuit indeed they do this magical location here on the Mediterranean and uh winding their way past the casino and then down the hill and past the famous Tip Top Bar the sun glistening on the Harbor the Yachts there and uh here’s our commentator from France and looks if he’s going to interview Patrick Dempsey [Music] it was really exciting to be able to drive with him uh he was taking me around the course and explaining the break zones the line uh his history here the setup what he liked in the setup of his car uh it was just extraordinary moment [Music] these uping abouten films to be out [Music] track try each one will handle differently so it would be nice to be able to get a chance to test all of them you and lar as a team driver you finished second as a driver um how did you um manage to establish all this career in the Motorsports with the passion in support of Porsche and of course with tagura uh it really started with my wife giving me uh a three-day competition certificate to go to skip Barber and then I went to the Panos racing school and then finished that and then moved up into different series and eventually uh worked my way to lall so it took many years I got a chance to Race Around the World in the W in uh Daytona Sebring all of those great events uh so it was just extraordinary and um in the paddock the camaraderie and the fellowship I’m honored to be a part of and uh it was a great experience to be at Lon to be able to stand on the podium that was a dream come true I can imagine and finally what is the most difficult being an actor team manager or a driver I think all of it is different in different disciplines uh I think the most enjoyable is the driver being the driver the team owner you don’t have as much control and you’re always hustling to get money of course yeah well um we PID tribute here in Monaco to eron ca one of the greatest in in history in Formula 1 one of the legend of course in in Formula 1 um 30 years after his death what doors eron means for you oh I think you look at his uh the limited amount of races that he did how many polls that he has one of the greatest drivers of all time his passion uh just the just the killer instinct when it came to to racing he wanted to win so desperately but completely different personality off the track um very special and I think the way he approached it mentally the way he approached it uh with the training and conditioning it changed how everyone approaches racing and his lasting Legacy it’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since we’ve lost him but what a great way to remember him this weekend thanks a lot thanks a lot for your time Patrick and [Music] start [Music] f [Music] [Music] for forign spe for so next up Siri e this is for just a 4year period from 1973 to 1976 and we can expect Bob conon jurs an absolute Battle Royal in this because over the recent years Michael Lions who is just seen being fast in the previous session and Stuart Hall have gone wheel tohe and then more recently Marco verer the three times winner L more he’s been in the mix as well in uh Lotus so we can expect a very good battle now last year well last time he ran this 22 Stuart Hall won by just one and a half seconds after a Titanic struggle uh but Lions had won this category in 2012 2014 2018 and 20121 so I expect that we’ll have Hall verer and lions but I also think that Nick padmore who’s had huge success in the Masters uh Formula 1 Series in various cars uh the man from Ham three times a masters F1 Champion he is going to be right up there in it as well and now for the first time we’re seeing cars from the Chrome organization in Germany there’s a collector of cars who operates under the the Chrome name and uh this should be a cracker as they say we’re just waiting for the car to come out for this session but uh this is something that it’s in the past um we even saw Alex caffy make a comeback to racing the Italian Drive in IGN he won it in in 16 which is a bit of a surprise but normally as it was in in 18 we’ll have lions and Hall and verer all doing battle yes it’s going to be interesting to see there’s tremendous number of uh drivers and cars in this class there some interesting different people as well um so interesting to see Jean de deatra for example yes to see uh uh also James Davidson in number 22 uh Steve Brooks is out there in 27 Matthew Wrigley again Stuart Hall as well so quite a few drivers uh we may have seen them before but we’re seeing them again in different cars some of them were some very interesting Back stories and Steve Brooks particularly one of those uh an adventur I think you’d call Steve Brooks confusing there’s three different racing drivers called Steve Brooks uh and this is the BR British one the better best owner there another french guy that races under the assumed name of Steve Brooks and then there’s a guy that races in New Zealand is also Steve Brook so um this is definitely the British chap raced recently in the Master Series uh in uh L more persio is very successfully winning races a man who’s flown from pole to pole in a helicopter I think Bob knows has been involved in a team which uh Flew Around the World in a in a Spitfire and and a real Adventure but and also a very good driver too so that’s Steve Brooks we’ve got the other new See For the First Time Mark Davis from Belgian uh well-known dealer of racing cars as the Machinery from just his 4-year period heads out onto the pit lane and then up onto the hall Tac that is the Monaco Grand Prix circuit so um Stuart Hall we mentioned him earlier but uh now we’re seeing him out on track another hug successful around this track 39y old from jonesford his dad Pete uh was IC sponsor the Andy Rouse cars also involved with Team lotus in his latter days and uh I first remember St way back when he was 16 racing a t car and he was a joint winner of the championship I remember at that that first year and went on to be the uh Lamar GTE uh am Champion with Aston Martin with ro gother back in 2013 say looks after a lot of Ro Go’s cars and he still takes part in modern racing it was this year it was in very nice new Ferrari at the Dubai 24 hours uh sadly it broke but uh I’m sure they’ll get that it out and back in 07 he finished fourth overall in Lamar with Martin schz team to together how uh barza and uh got a fine career behind him but round here there’s few people quicker than than um Stuart Hall so we got Stuart Hall we got Michael lions and then we got obviously we got the man from Dortmund uh Marco verer him Motor Racing his Marco Verda went through a period at La mall where he was on the podium six years in a row as an Audi Factory driver of course the final three years I think he went third second third and then three victories so uh he he loves it involved in in quite controversy here a couple three or four years ago when uh he was battling with Janna Lacy making a comeback in a Ferrari and Marco some said Marco verer Mr gear oh sorry lazy Mr gear some say that verer deliberately tapped him uh but verer was actually demoted to third place after that incident so he was a bit AG grieved by that because he is sure that Elis and Mr gear the team R the car Sur he didn’t so there we are and sort of burst onto the sports car scene way back in 1995 when he went to Daytona Bob as a spectator and finished up driving the winning car and then of course he his his successes Lam more um 05 06 07 and uh he’s a super nice guy he he owns he he got close to Formula One uh in period I talked to Ken TI and he had a test with with minardi but of course they wanted money and so that didn’t happen and uh that Marco I mean he started his Motor Racing careers a teenag he built his own former a Ford car with the help of his father’s mechanic the the family in the automotive trade and uh you know he’s he’s understated Marco but uh you know he’s had a lot of success also won the American Lam more series for for AI and most of his success at Lamar was driving with emanuelo who we’ve seen racing around here in the past so we’ll be underway in a moment looking down that love the top of that building was it’s got the ACM badge built into the roof it’s terrific isn’t it yeah that’s a sort of cocktail area up there as well I’ve hosted a cocktail party up at the top of that uh building and uh it was it was redeveloped the Monaco did a big the ACM did a big Redevelopment a few years ago when they built the new garages as well and actually right opposite is is a new development as well so it’s a continued uh work uh of in progress if you like so uh coming up Series E Formula 1 Grand Prix cars from of 3 lers from 73 to 76 and you might call it the Stuart fitt paldi louder era if you like yeah they named the race after louder each race is named after a driver who was key to that period this is the Nikki louder race um so let’s see what happens so uh I suppose the sleeper in this is the Australian driver Davidson uh because he’s had quite a lot of success in indie car racing but also more recently I saw him win a fantastic RAC in a Canam car at goodw the end of last year was one of the best races I’ve seen for a long time so he could he be could be in the mix as well some interesting Shadows there quite interesting Shadows that have three different models in fact yes um the dm1 3 and five banino actually was involved I think in an accident yesterday so whether we’re going to see him it was quite badly damaged that one that we saw of his uh if you remember going up the hill yes did knock a wheel off it well they all looked a bit squiffy actually by the time they finished uh and Royal Gerta was involved in that as well so we’ll have to just keep an eye and see if we’re going to see those guys but uh 25 minutes of qualifying coming up very shortly and uh I don’t think we’ve seeing Gerta or biankini in the pit so I don’t think we’re going to see them out there um we’ll keep an eye on that but sadly I think they are non-starters after that accident yesterday green flag qualifying underway interesting the um Claren M26 that Michael Lions is driving I remember it wasn’t a particularly good car as you said yesterday the McLaren M23 was so good but uh it was quite difficult for an M26 to be actually better yeah it was raced by James Hunt in period yeah um but I generally the drivers didn’t like it as much I but in Michael lions’ hand is a pretty effective Beast around here I can tell you that um we’ve got Lucas huca Hala who is the second youngest son of Martin haloa mentioned him earlier on so uh he’s out in the mclarin M23 Marco verer as you say lotus 76 for the chome cars team Royal Gerta if we see him we’ll be in a tial 07 Chris lock from the USA in a Lotus 77 think more in a similar car from chrome cars again and then Mr JN of b in a Ferrari 312t now that uh does not figure on the list that we’ve got here so uh I’m not certain we’re going to see that so the CH yeah the chomecast organization is a guy called Kai nicolon who comes from uh lorf in Germany and he’s got this big collection of cars he got a separate team running it and interesting they do their own DFE engines yeah it’s interesting to hear that that they do their own dfes because it’s quite a specialist thing uh there are Specialists both in Europe which we mentioned earlier on uh but also in the USA as well to look after the Masters series that they have over there yeah I I forgotten the number how many DF engines were were built in period for a lot is the answer and as we said yesterday without the dfv what would there be yeah I mean just looking through this every car in this race got DF in hasn’t it I think that is the case if the Ferrari isn’t here yeah well there’s two Ferraris are they running though I’m not certain 11 11 and 12 bani is here yeah he is here yeah yeah that’s right he was a bit of a late entry wasn’t he yeah been hearing a oh already oh and the front wheel is off that yeah well and truly can’t see from this oh the 12 Ferrari barani involved in it [Music] maybe so I think this is uh full course yellow if not a red flag I think it’ll be a red flag to remove that car unless there’s a crane near by um just trying to can we see a I believe it’s it’s a 37 and a 37 no that’s just completed a la oh is it it had stopped on our our moving screen so it started again number 20 it’s it’s at the Williams fw5 I think it is yes yeah course yellow and that is uh well somebody who impressed us yesterday utaka Kore TBA a Japanese driver who we didn’t hadn’t actually seen before uh and he had impressed us but sadly not so impressive this time yeah when when we Googled him in Japan he raced in a formula 4 Series which is sort of young kids feeder series and then we we Googled him a bit more he found he was 60 years old but sadly he’s kned the wheel off that and I I would think this will bring out uh uh I would think maybe the red flag they they’re going to have to lift that well there is a crane fairly close because so many people go off at that uh particular point no I suppose just why we’re seeing the Williams fw5 interesting period in Frank Williams uh career as the crane comes down well spotted Bob um Frank so it the first iteration of his his formula one team to uh the Canadian uh oil magnet Walter wolf and he didn’t working for Walter wolf very much and but this was the last basic car in the first part of Williams career and then of course they then moved Patrick head joined here when they started Frank started again and then they had a March for the first season with Patrick no and then they built the brilliant Williams fw6 and even more brilliant fw7 and we’ll see all those uh racing uh this afternoon but uh strange you know Frank wal wolf also had a sideline and he he used the brand for for after shave and he they did really well with in some countries Walter wolf After Shave complete with a gold W logo on is still sold extraordinary so a crane is being brought in I think yeah if possible there is there’s the glue as it’s called in France and it looks as though it should be able to get close well it’s lifted the front up oh there we go yeah this is going to dangle yeah I think oops well they got it nicely balanced look and uh up it goes so uh that’s well done well done guys some people coming out of the house there to claim Salvage right and uh so that wolf what a shame cuz uh he had actually done quite well but uh what you said about Japanese formula 4 I commentated or I announced it the other day at the Japanese Grand Prix which was what three four five weeks ago and uh indeed um there were a number of youngsters but some some guys who weren’t so young as well who were old enough to be probably their grandfathers uh who were also also taking part why not it’s a it’s a cheap cheap formula why not sometimes like for years in in America the Star Master Series like had a senior category for older BL so I thought it’s an excellent idea um but that particular C has been uh craned away there was actually raced by Jackie X in the latter part of his career who we may see here he’s very often here certainly be here in a couple of weeks time we’ll also be talking about Jackie probably during the very briefly I promise during the uh Center parade as well because he had a significant role green flag they are racing again green flag and lions really on it wasn’t he coming out of the corner [Music] there yeah so we haven’t really got a proper time on the board yet [Music] no now who have we seen we haven’t seen gon we haven’t seen bini those are the only two we haven’t seen at the moment and bani had that spin but he is on circuit he’s the only one in the uh class yeah of course he would be the only one cuz the class one with all the with all the blue color on our screens here is for dfv cars and of course viani is in a Ferrari which means he is in a different class so the surprise here really is James Davidson from Australia grandson of a famous Australian driver called Lex DAV Davidson who raced in in Formula 1 and uh third generation racing driver and race was raced mainly in the states I was thought he was really going places and but he sort of bul down in uh indie car racing did James but uh more recently got himself into historic racing his a he a terrific competitor so he could be the surprise package racing a car owned by Brad hoit who is now supporting him but when he when he raced at goodward uh I told you this terrific race in this uh Canam car that was a height car and again he was put into the car at the last moment with no testing so we could have a three or four people really at the front of this but eighth place Doug marcket Loves tis been a huge supporter of this meeting for years um made money in the office uh sort of desks and things like that I believe certainly uh office equipment anyway and Doug a huge Enthusiast pad more fastest in the 130 High 132s um Lion second in the mid 133s verer in third spot high 133s and then big gap to Lucas haoa in fourth place and all those three cars coming out the Chrome stable there might got to be a bit of inter inter team rivalry there between those three um I think ver is driven for of longer than anyone else I talking to Nick yesterday abut loves Racing for this team not the first time we’ve seen uh that chrome cars one two three no absolutely so anyway on a quick lap now is uh Nick padmore and in the Lotus 77 [Music] [Music] padmore with quite a lot of racing lions with a lot of racing verot it’s really quite a lot just to jump out of one car get in another isn’t it and and different performance different grip different all sorts of things different Arrow levels different feel to the car it must not be easy just jumping from one to another so we’re talking about a category here when when the design of the sted to work particularly at Lotus on full down force with the high Aro cars and uh but this was just before this and the 77 of the car that the Great Gun neelson of course died to cancer um swed he raced this particular car that padmore is in had a couple of podiums in that in Spain and Austria and uh I think Mario Andrey also uh used this car to win in Japan in 76 when hunus won the World Championship and Nikki pulled off we saw it all dramatized in the rush field but this is a famous car but still Hall has now gone quicker and uh well only by17 of a second but well done to Stuart Hall because he’s uh to actually uh stay there will be difficult he’s in the McClaren M23 yeah there’s the uh team Lotus car Marco Vera and behind it is Nick padmore trying to thread his way past one of the pensis there’s about two or three pensis uh two in this race um of Stanley fton and Matthew Wrigley and the the the Stewart Hall car was uh raced by the charismatic American Peter revson from the Revlon cosmetic F really proud to have known him and uh he had a lot of success in that particular car we always think of revson and Revlon and yet revson did he race a a yardly br brm was yardly part of Revlon no it wasn’t I think he did but there you are and of course he killed at kyami in a testing accident um that car was driven by lots of famous people lots of world champions but Denny Holm raced it Emerson P poy raced it and uh also yoka mass and even David Hobbs at the end of that season uh David Hobbs who book I ghosted and uh still a fine read to give it a little plug Little hobbo David is still doing well recently sold his big Milwaukee Honda dealership so so just to go back to the track action that’s Stuart Hall leading and behind him in the background is Je Den deletraz the Swiss driver whose son also races and has been in Formula 2 for many years but has uh moved over to sports cars this year and I think you said he won last weekend no no he won the Sebring 12 hours Sebring 12 hours in April Lou deatra yeah the son yeah and so we got the hall padmore verer and7 a second between the three and then Michael lions and then Davidson and then haloa delr there in ninth place and I don’t see anybody further down is likely to move up and Steve Brooks the adventurer we mentioned in seventh place that’s pretty good for Steve but Hall just going a little bit quicker yes he could well be getting quicker as I said the margin was. 1727 of a second uh between Hall and padmore it’s that’s likely to open up this time Halls fast his time at 132.0 and he completes this lap with a 130 I’m waiting 132.0 it stays in fact he lost time in the final sector so it was not an improvement saw him held up actually traffic yeah yeah but that uh that middle sector the fastest middle sector is seen all morning yeah 46.6 seconds a couple of people C coming into the pits verer is in the pits Davidson is in the pits but will make a few slight adjustments Stuart Stewart still stuck behind that number 15 uh arrows at the moment or Shadow SI Tony Syer Tony Syer has been Racing for best part of 40 years I think so Swiss very successful Lola t70s in historic racing Tony’s got a a big body shop in Switzerland and also race prep business well it’s interesting that Stuart Hall is really upsetting the apple cart or at least the Chrome car’s apple cart at the moment leading padmore verer and lions that’s right in a in a a go well a r go prepared car yeah rof go we’re not certain what it’s I mean r go roal Gerta but what the f is in the middle middle I’m not certain unless his middle name is something starting with f of course it might work we must ask you about that based in Hampshire yeah and in fact roal Gerta he was he is in the the oil and gas industry and uh he started his collection really with golf sponsored cars he just wanted gol sponsor just Lov he does had a a silver collection as well mainly road cars luscious road cars I think he might have disposed of that but he’s always looking for for golf cars and uh basically the uh the the company were commodity dealers but they dealt mainly in oil as you say I I think he’s he’s out of that now very busy around here though isn’t it Bob look at look at this well yeah you know a driver will try and get out of the way but just sometimes can’t and that Embassy Lola or the hill I not certain if it was a Lola no that was sure that wasn’t James Davis yeah they started with lless didn’t they have moved on to to uh two embassies sure buil their own cars yeah it could have been Steve Brooks I suppose but I’d be surprised otherwise it’s James Davidson in the hill well he was originally entered in in a hill but he got they changed from 21 to 22 didn’t he yeah he is in Hill yeah he’s in Bradley Ho’s yeah Hill gh1 for Graham Hill and Hall still partly on the pressure you know he knows that he’s getting a lot of uh get a lot of opposition from the three cars from the Chrome group getting towards the sharp end of the session with 7 and a half minutes to go Hall does not improve on that lap but he’s not very far off it 8/10 of a second after off an improvement green flag which probably means there’s a red somewhere or not a red or yellow of somebody who’s gone up the Escape Road at Sand devot I suspect I like that yardly color scheme I don’t know about you it was always worked very effectively there a chat called Dennis Matthews if you remember was a uh Martin cartright was a help promote it do you remember Martin yeah yeah ah here’s the hes slowing down the that’s James Hagen that’s James Hagen and uh that’s it early es of of course and so Lions quick on this lap uh in the first sector so we’ll have to keep an eye on the second sector lions at the moment in fourth place um James Davidson next behind him not very far away it’s actually quite close until you get down to Mike Matthew Wrigley in seventh and Steven Brooks in eighth place and there’s a bit of a gap there of uh Point well 1.7 seconds 2.7 seconds there uh the gap between the two so a bit of a hole Lions personal best in the first and second sectors sliding it out of Noz and completes the lap and an improvement yes an improvement in terms of time but stays where he is in terms of position yeah so a strong lap for Michael Lions but he’s still surprisingly not in the top three but then this is so competitive at the top end isn’t it very much so in this in this race yeah I’m I’m looking forward to this tomorrow all these races of course will be uh live streamed uh tomorrow all eight of them Hall still fastest 5 minutes and 20 seconds to go there’s verer with his purpley crash helmet man from Dortmund interesting rear wing isn’t it double rear wing cuz of course after a while here they started adding on all sorts of bits of body work to try and get more and more downforce around the circuit yeah and it the cars looked like they come out of Halfords there were so many bits hanging on off here and there but of course Colin Chapman and his team or starting to think about ground effects then yeah when we and later of course we got things like x- WIS yes but so when we get to the our final group this afternoon the G then we see ground effect cars yeah it made a huge difference with the sliding skirts and all that stuff but meanwhile the these are relying on the force of the wings um still a lot of mechanical grip and uh into the top 10 is Gom Romo from France in the nign n75 so uh that’s I think our first nign in the top 10 Ed sign accompany run by a chap called Morris n no with us uh but hugely Enthusiast a racer to start with and in a junior formula race for Colin Chapman at at Team Lotus then started to build fabulous Formula 3 cars in uh 1970 is and then went on a chat called Ricky vanon opal came along and uh wanted a Formula One car built cuz Ricky had been very successful in uh the IGN Formula 3 Cars he funded Morris nun to build the first Formula 1 car which is is still racing now and uh Morris R the cars had various sponsors people like American Chuck Jones friend of mine put some money into the outfit and they built nice cars but this particular event oh bit of a snake there for Michael Lions yeah shows how hard he was trying yeah and um he’s only got one other go at it but uh the IGN did in 16 an IGN not sure if it’s this one won the race here with Alex caffy the uh one of the Italian former Formula 1 driver at the wheel was a bit of a surprise so still Hall still on a mission isn’t he yeah fastest time in the first sector not an improvement in the second sector no way off there way off yeah but he’s actually improved his time at 131.8 so he’s gone a little bit quicker so he’s now 7/10 of a second ahead of Nick padmore in second place Mar CA is uh just under 4/10 slower in third and then Michael lions in fourth place a further three behind James Davidson in fifth Lucas haloa in sixth place good effort from uh the young Austrian driver I I think it’s a great effort by Davidson I’m sure he’s he may have tested he hasn’t raced that car before and uh there he is on a 133.6k successful in period was it no exactly not like in a McLaren M23 which is lotuses so the gr Hill starting his own team started with lus and they built the popular British driver Ian flux I think part of the part of that nide I know he was part of that nign team got a got a very intriguing interesting book out relatively recently Luxy and the uh monagas driver lau frederi lau up into uh into the top 10 now as well just a minute to go Bob I think still Hall’s going to stay on the pole isn’t he madore isn’t having to push as far I can see veron’s just on another lap and Michael Lions yeah all they’ve all got probably get one more lap in and padmore has gone purple in the first sector so padmore is having a big push can he just lick it away away well it’s quite a he’s got to make up 7 a second so that’s quite a bit around here and let’s see what padmore’s uh middle sector time is but of course it always the problem he might get caught up in back markers hope he’s got a clear RAC trck to give it maximum so Nick padmore with all the success and for years he was sort of sort of high hand sort of radical level oh there see the pr the prince has arrived look Theon Sal yeah yeah in uh race control oh look at that 4 th000 of a second Stuart Hall quicker than Nick padmore in the first sector 4,000 of a second that’s it nothing at all James Davidson uh also a personal best in the first sector padmore just finishing in lap now and let’s see what he crosses the line at on the checker flag absolutely on the checker flag not an improvement for padmore he stays in second at the moment yeah that was a 331 from padmore yeah just seeing Prince Albert there he’s quite a sportsman uh very much involved in Bob slay racing and so wasn’t he yeah he was in the Olympics I think I believe he was yeah think James Davidson improved his time but stays in fifth place but he’s very much in touch with those ahead Lions is coming to the pits has not improved uh Vera is on a quick lap so is Stuart Hall Stewart Hall is definitely going to improve and that’s going to be a brilliant effort 131.8 becomes a 131.5 for Stuart Hall so he goes fastest by nearly 9/10 of a second in fact by 9/10 of a second ahead of Nick padmore in 21 there was a terrific battle when when Lions won by point7 second over over uh Hall and uh just looking back Lions won this race when he was driving a a a hes 38 a family car uh he he he won it in 12 and 14 so you know this has been his class I mean he’s won it four times in the past but uh out sha now and not even in the top three but good drive by David I think this is going to be one of our highlight races don’t you Bob it’s going to be terrific love this are my period really for Formula 1 report I reported these races as you did of course and uh Mega cars not too uh not too complicated and yeah for me that M23 is one of the most beautiful racing cars put that next to a current Formula 1 car there’s no choice my and and current Formula One car is about 50% bigger that’s the problem isn’t it I think particularly here but that’s rules isn’t it build the Cs in the rules and the rules say you got to package all this stuff and all the electronics and electric motors and all that quick word about Maro figal from Italy who has got into the top 10 oh well done to him yeah uh Steve Brooks in 10th Place yeah so F mcy in the endide I do wonder if that’s the one that caffy raised here [Music] um it’s um it’s a car that was was uh actually raced by uh nobody remember him but Roloff wondering he failed to qualify the car here and uh sponsored by the Dutch alarm system company HB Bing I think it was called and he vanan Lenn uh also raced the car so another Dutch Dutchman one lar Charming Charming guy still around see him occasionally and nign n174 but uh yeah that was a cracking qualification session so we had a fine morning haven’t we of qualifying starting what 8:15 you know we we been going uh four hours now here [Music] so here are the highlights for Series E Formula 1 Grand Prix cars of 3 lers from 1973 to 1976 and uh there’s the green flag for the start of this qualifying session 25 minutes of qualifying for these Grand Prix cars very much an era of uh of fitty paldi of Stewart uh of louer as well and uh McLaren’s particularly the McLaren M26 there of Michael Lions very much in with the mix and there’s a trio of lotuses snapping at his heels as well um and uh it’s just a matter of who is going to go ahead obviously in clay Pole Position three lotuses driven by Nick padmore marcoa and uh Michael [Music] Lions so uh who was it going to be sorry not not Michael L uh nick padmore uh Marco Vera in the chrome cars lotuses and Stuart Hall in the McLaren was the one who went quickest there the two lotuses padmore and Vera just uh two lotuses rather than three that I mentioned but uh it was number 33 Stuart Hall who really set the play Pace in the uh McLaren and an excellent effort from him in Royal gerta’s uh McLaren and it was he who claimed Pole Position for for for Jo for spe for for e for get for for for for for e for for for for for
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The old school way of driving!
Jeff O'Neill upholding the honor of the entire United States of America in the Maserati 250F! No pressure!!
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I do enjoy seeing these old F1 cars on track. They need a world televised broadcast of the Historic racing series. Europe sure does do it right. Thank you for bringing these cars to us.
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OF COURSE Adrian Newey is racing a Lotus….imagine Newey and Colin Chapman working together…