Posted 1 week ago
Raylan: What do you make of a man who divorces a woman, then gets her pregnant, then wonders if maybe they should move in together?
Boyd: You’re talking to a man who’s sleeping with his dead brothers widow and murderess. I think you’ve picked the wrong sinner. (x)
Good point
Posted 3 weeks ago
Le Mans, 1966.
Ken Miles/Hulme driving the Ford GT, in which they won… except they didn’t.
It’s a long story, but basically Miles/Hulme have fought an epic battle with Amon/Mclaren for the lead in this Le Mans series. The Ford GT proved to be greater and they won the event only by a few dozen meters.
However, someone remembered to read the Le Mans rules to such an extent that they’ve found out that the winner car is the one which has travelled a longer distance — from its very starting point. Since Amon & McLaren had started further back on the grid, they were later considered the winners of the 1966 Le Mans.
Ken Miles has never forgiven Ford or Carrol Shelby for this mistake, since they were the ones who ordered them to slow down near the finish to close the gap.
Posted 1 month ago
“At the first bend, I had the clear sensation that Tazio had taken it badly and that we would end up in the ditch; I felt myself stiffen as I waited for the crunch. Instead, we found ourselves on the next straight with the car in a perfect position. I looked at him, his rugged face was calm, just as it always was, and certainly not the face of someone who had just escaped a hair-raising spin. I had the same sensation at the second bend. By the fourth or fifth bend I began to understand; in the meantime, I had noticed that through the entire bend Tazio did not lift his foot from the accelerator, and that, in fact, it was flat on the floor. As bend followed bend, I discovered his secret. Nuvolari entered the bend somewhat earlier than my driver’s instinct would have told me to. But he went into the bend in an unusual way: with one movement he aimed the nose of the car at the inside edge, just where the curve itself started. His foot was flat down, and he had obviously changed down to the right gear before going through this fearsome rigmarole. In this way he put the car into a four-wheel drift, making the most of the thrust of the centrifugal force and keeping it on the road with the traction of the driving wheels. Throughout the bend the car shaved the inside edge, and when the bend turned into the straight the car was in the normal position for accelerating down it, with no need for any corrections.”
Enzo Ferrari
