XPost: rec.autos.sport.f1
On 2019-01-07 8:18 a.m., a425couple wrote:
Here is your sign!
An understandingly forgotten F1 driver - Hubert Hahne
Hubert Hahne (born 28 March 1935) is a former racing driver from Germany.
He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, two
of those at the wheel of Formula Two cars, and one non-Championship
Formula One race.
Hahne purchased a March 701 which he entered in the 1970 German GP.
After he failed to qualify for the race he took legal action claiming
March had sold him a sub-standard car. March responded by putting Ronnie Peterson in the car at Silverstone who lapped 2 seconds quicker than he
had in his own car. Hahne returned home and announced his retirement.
At least he gave it a try!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Hahne
I read this a while ago:
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https://www.oldstox.com/images/Sugar_Ray.pdf>
I know it sounds like it's off-topic, but it really isn't:
'The next lap Stirling came by in 1:46. And the lap after
that, 1:45. Then he came in. In four laps he’d gone four
seconds a lap faster than Chuck’s best time. And in a car
that he not only didn’t know but one that he'd never even
sat in before!
So in a period of just five minutes Chuck Daigh had
found out that he wasn’t as good a driver as there was and
if he ever did have any visions of being world champion,
they must have evaporated in the pits at Monaco. Chuck
didn’t bury his helmet that very afternoon; in fact, he got
tw o m ore seconds off his own time before qualifying was
over the next day. But I do know that Chuck never won
another race after that and it wasn’t too long before he sort
of drifted out of sports cars.'
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