Lucky! (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Forged by War - full transcript
1950 Silverstone,
I mean, so magic that race.
It's where Formula 1 started.
The traffic was unbelievable.
120,000 turned up for that race,
including the King and Queen.
It was an airfield
that was used during the war.
The Wellington bombers
used to fly out of there.
Unfortunately,
a lot of the guys never come back.
I went with my father.
We couldn't sleep in a hotel
because they didn't exist.
So we slept in the car.
And now things
are an awful lot different.
The big thing today
is finding the best 5-star hotel.
Nobody worries about how much.
All the teams used to race
in their traditional colours,
England was green,
France was blue.
The most important of all
were the Italians that were red.
Now they're all on the grid.
The mechanics have started
the engines as you can hear.
And they're off! They're away!
Listen to it!
And the Alfas give everyone
a demonstration of acceleration.
Here comes Farina.
He was flagged in,
and Farina has won
the Grand Prix d'Europe.
Alfa Romeo won the race.
In fact they were 1st, 2nd and 3rd
with no Ferraris entered.
I don't know
how my mother ever found out
when I was, really a baby,
that I had eye problems.
And she used to take me
to Norwich on a bicycle...
..to a specialist there,
10 miles away from where we lived.
And they discovered
I had practically no vision
out of my right eye.
It's like having
a photograph out of focus.
I was born in Suffolk,
we decided to move
to Dartford, in London.
And then the war started.
I don't really remember when I sort
of started to think about business.
But probably because I didn't even
know what business was.
But I used to carry out
a couple of paper rounds
before I went to school.
When I got off the train,
just by the side of the station,
was a little bakery.
They used to sell bread obviously
and buns and things like that.
This was when these things
were very difficult to find.
And I'd buy all the buns and cakes
and whatever they had there.
Put 'em in the suitcase which I had
with me all the time to carry these.
Take them to school,
and during the break
and the morning lessons,
I used to sell these,
or do deals of whatever.
Probably used to do deals
to get results of exams
or something like that.
But anyway,
the idea was to sell them.
I was lucky enough
to leave school at 15
and eventually I became
a used car dealer.
A lot of the sharp operators,
we used to buy and sell
at the side of the road.
You dealt with what I call,
'proper people.'
We dealt with cash.
You learned to keep on your toes,
keep your eyes open
and make sure that
you honoured a handshake.
If you said, "Yes it was a deal,"
it was a deal.
I used to race bicycles
and then motorcycles
and then had an upgrade.
I won a few races and got
a couple of records for things.
And I was racing at Goodwood,
and somebody gone
round the outside of me,
which was impossible actually.
It was Stirling Moss.
It's like if you're watching
an artist, if you like, painting.
You can't see how,
when the painting's finished,
that it could ever
come out like that.
The only car apart from the Maserati
driven by Fangio,
that's won any of the World
Championship races is the Vanwall.
I would like to win the World
Championship with a British car.
But this year,
Fangio's unassailable.
Fangio was a racer.
People like that,
I think when you're young,
you don't believe
they're alive.
They're something so special,
that they don't exist.
When I was 20,
he was nearly double my age,
when he started racing.
He wasn't sort of one of these
18-year-old super kids.
He was a guy
that I got much closer to later on.
He was always recognised
to be the number one.
Ferrari and Maserati
had well and truly overtaken
Alfa Romeo
and were the most prominent teams.
And it was 1957
he won his 5th World Championship.
Fangio retired
when he was still ahead.
I met Stuart Lewis-Evans
in his early days.
His dad used to have
a garage not far from where I was,
and we become good friends.
And I used to try and look after
things that he was doing,
not manager but a little bit
of, hopefully, good advice.
Lewis-Evans slides right
through the barrier
on his Cooper 500
but comes to no harm.
So, that was really how I really got
involved so much in Formula 1
and knew all the people that became
very very famous at the same time.
The 50s,
that's when drivers were drivers.
Pity social media
wasn't about those days.
They were all characters.
Good looking guys as well.
They wasn't too interested
in anything else but racing.
It wasn't so important
to win a World Championship.
It was good to win,
but so what if you didn't win,
you won a few races
so that was all that mattered.
'58 was a really competitive year.
We had three Vanwalls with
Stirling, Tony Brooks and Stuart.
And we had Ferrari
with Mike Hawthorn,
which was their lead driver.
Mike and Ferrari,
as far as I was concerned,
were the opposition.
Mike was very special.
You'd have to call him one
of the genuine gentleman racers.
We were at Spa and Stirling
had said to Stuart
how he'd taken the corner
more or less flat,
to put off Stuart
who was a little bit of a challenge.
And I said, "Tell Stirling,
I did actually take it flat."
And Stirling said,
"No, you couldn't do that."
But Stuart actually had done it.
Another Vanwall win
as Brookes goes by.
Hawthorn comes down
in a storming spectacular finish.
Lewis-Evans coasts over the line
to finish third
but to join the swiftly
growing breakers yard
with broken front suspension.
Cause we won the last race,
people are saying,
well, Ferrari will win this one,
but it's a completely
different type of circuit.
I think it's a very open race
quite honestly.
I think that Mike's driving
and going very fast now.
In the war, people actually died,
and I think they sort of took racing
as one of those things
that you could get killed.
People always thought,
"Can't be me. could be somebody else,
"but it
won't be me for sure."
Going to Casablanca,
we knew for sure after that race,
England was going
to have a World Champion.
Whether it was going to be
Stirling or Mike Hawthorn.
Stirling had to win
and get the fastest lap
to win the championship.
Stuart was quick enough
to win that race,
but he was there
to back up Stirling.
The car sort of rolled over
and caught fire
and Stuart got out of the car
and started to run away
from, obviously, the accident.
And if he hadn't had run away
and had rolled over
or somebody'd have been there
and grabbed hold of him,
he would have probably
been alright but, didn't happen.
He was so, so badly burned.
He was in really bad shape.
By the time they'd got him back
to East Grinstead
where there was a hospital
that looked after all the pilots
during the war...
..it was all a bit too late.
This is a difficult question,
Mike, but what does it mean,
what can it mean, to have won
the World Championship?
Well, obviously...
It's the ambition I think
of every racing driver
to win it.
I've achieved my ambition now
in that field
and of course there is quite
a lot of financial advantage
which does come in useful.
It was a bad day for me
cause I was very close with Stuart,
and he died the day
after my 28th birthday.
I went back to running my business,
not thinking I was ever going
to get involved any longer.
The 60's in London,
it was a swinging city for sure.
I didn't swing at all.
I was trying to do any deals
I could to make a few dollars.
I had other business
which was a proper car showroom.
Complete plate glass windows
and doors in front
so people could see in.
But it was always
completely immaculate,
and I kept it that way.
Whether it...
Terribly terribly fussy,
probably a bit from my old mum,
I used to make sure the cars
were lined up nicely and looked nice.
My dad would greet and meet
people that come in
and he was very patient,
which is a lot more patient
than I used to be.
So he was a valuable asset.
I mixed with a lot
of show-business people.
Twiggy, Adam Faith, and Sandie Shaw.
They were all good customers
in the end.
I'd, um, bought a car from someone
and then found out it was financed,
so the guy didn't own the car.
So I stopped the cheque
and the guy duly appeared
to explain to me
how he'd like the cheque cleared,
and produced a gun
from under his sweater to show me.
And I explained to him
I didn't know what he was going
to do with it, you know,
it certainly wasn't a pain
to come to some agreement
about something and,
"if you shoot me,
"the cheque won't be cleared.
Let's have a chat."
So we went to the office
and discussed things
and obviously
we sorted it out.
I paid him...cleared off the finance
or said I was going to
and paid him the difference.
And then he become a very good
customer from then on in.
John Cooper used to run
the Cooper car company.
We become good friends.
This is where we build
our racing cars
and there are literally
hundreds of component parts
that go to building
a racing car.
John was just a long way ahead
of a lot of other people.
He was the first guy, in Formula 1,
to put an engine in the back end
of the car rather than the front,
and it worked.
The people with big engines
and engines in the front of the car
suddenly realised
if you want to win, you'd better
put the engine in the back.
Ferrari didn't think it was
the right thing to do
but eventually actually
did that their-self.
John asked me to go to Mexico
with him for the race.
That was a super place
in those days.
And then Jochen had arrived.
And I told him,
"I've just had a massage."
"Why don't you do the same?"
"Yes," he said, "OK."
And I took him down,
introduced him to the lady
that ran this
and left him there.
And I said to Jochen,
"So, it was all good?
"Everything good?"
He said, "Yeah," he said,
"yeah, yeah, yeah, it was...
"The girl said
I was a naughty boy, that's all."
I never went into any details.
When Jochen
was driving in Formula 2,
he always managed
to win against anyone.
Jochen was really really quick.
It's very very easy to run
really fast without trying too hard.
If you keep on the perfect line
and you don't slide too much,
you can go very very fast
without looking fast
and without having
a great physical effort.
He used to be racing the cars
and I used to try
and do some business for us.
And I used to say to him,
"Don't forget you've got to collect
"the start money
before the race."
After the race,
having had a key to our house,
he would come and wake me up
and we'd actually
go into the kitchen,
and he'd say, "I collected
the money. Here it is."
And then we played Gin Rummy.
We were like brothers.
When Jochen found Nina,
she was a gorgeous,
gorgeous, gorgeous girl...
..and they decided
they ought to get married.
I was invited along with Tuana,
the girl I was with at the time,
on the honeymoon.
Which I suppose is a bit unusual.
I think basically it's because
Jochen and I could play Gin Rummy.
Right, can we do...
If we can do these two first,
the two quarters, half an inch.
And we can adjust
the throttle one half.
So I can get right down here,
out the way.
Jim Clark was quick
in whatever he drove.
And could turn it on
whenever he had to.
Well, I really got into
motor-racing accidentally almost.
I had always had an interest
in cars and in speed
and in motor-racing but never did
I ever in my wildest dreams
expect ever to become
a professional racing driver.
As a driver I think Jim Clark,
I think he's good.
But he's a very good
sheep farmer too.
One of the reasons I think
he's good is that umm...
..he keeps winning,
which I find a bit irritating.
Colin was a genius.
Probably the best we've seen.
He understood, early days,
about power and weight.
This is the first time
we've been able to coordinate
the build of an engine
and a chassis together
and design each one
to suit the other
and with a sort of weight
and simplicity and power,
I think we're gonna have
a fabulous motor car.
Yeah, that's fitting well.
Beautiful. Yep.
That's the job. Lovely.
We've built the engine onto the car
as you can see,
and now, we've built the rest
of the suspension
on the back of the engine
because the engine itself
is forming part
of the structure of the car
and of course
it holds it all together.
He would look
at all the rules and regulations
and see how he could make
the car the lightest car.
The lighter
you can make the car,
the more power it's got,
the more chances you've got
of being successful.
We stretch everything
to the limit on our race cars,
we find out just what a part will do
and how much it will stand
and then we then know
what sort of safety limit
we can incorporate
in our production cars.
Colin probably was the one
that really got the real value
of what it was to brand
a Formula 1 car,
very early on before anybody else.
People at that time
were still putting stickers
on their car with names.
And Colin
went one massive step farther.
So it was really
a movable cigarette package.
Which managed to upset, obviously,
the government people at the time.
I think Colin also was lucky
to have Jim Clark as the driver.
I mean, they acted
like father and son.
So the two of them,
it just was one
of those magic moments, in life.
Colin thought the world of Jim
for sure and vice versa.
They trusted in each other.
Colin was obsessed with making sure
his cars were lighter.
But all of his cars
were a little bit fragile.
Graham, isn't the depressing thing
about Jim Clark's death
not only that he was one
of the greatest drivers
but also one of the safest?
Yes, it's ironic.
Of course, we're not sure quite
what happened
but it looks...
The indications are that
it might not have...
not have been his fault.
Which is, you know, is a tragedy
whichever way you look at it.
Everyone realises
there is danger in motor-racing.
There is this element of chance.
It is something we all have
to live with and face up to.
It is... a sport which the drivers
do voluntary at their own volition.
They realise the risk they take.
Really, it's not up to us to...
try to change that.
People want to climb mountains;
people want to sail around the world
single-handed and so on.
This is just part
of human endeavour.
Some people wish to do these things.
They want to push things
to the limit.
Nobody would ever believe this sort
of thing would happen to Jimmy.
We gather here in Mexico City
at the end
of a very eventful season.
Jim Clark who, before he died,
established himself
as the greatest Grand Prix driver
of all time
with a record of 25 victories.
It's been an eventful season
in other ways too,
there's been the
great controversy
about advertising on the cars.
John Cooper, Grand Prix racing
is getting more expensive
all the time,
what's the future for
the small constructor like yourself?
Well, I think we're in a very very
serious position at the moment
and I think we've got
to look to people outside
the motor industry for support,
such as cigarette companies
or liquor companies
or something like that.
The money's got
to come from somewhere
and I think it will
have to come outside,
come from out, outside
the motor industry.
Isn't there a case for making
the minimum weight heavier
so that the cars are more solid?
None whatsoever
because the suspension,
however heavy a car is,
the suspension has always got
to be the lightest part of it
because this is what gives
the car its road holding.
Colin needed a top driver in 1969.
And he wanted Jochen.
And Jochen wanted to drive there
cause Jochen wanted
to win the World Championship.
I explained to Jochen,
"You've got a much better chance
"of winning the championship
in a Lotus,
"but you've also got a good chance
of getting hurt, so think about it."
Looking at racing cars,
they seem to me that they look
less and less like cars to me
and more and more like planes with
these sort of aerofoil arrangements
at the back here
and again at the front.
Now, presumably this is to keep
the thing on the ground, is it?
The wings that we have on the car,
front and rear,
do work like an inverted
aeroplane wing
whereas the wing
on an aeroplane lifts it up,
and ours keep it on the ground.
Which means of course we get more
grip and can corner quicker.
The whole thing strikes me as,
if I may interrupt...
Yes you may!
..terribly dangerous.
Who would you say is your main,
your main rivals next year?
My new teammate I think is going
to be a bit of a threat.
But that's Colin Chapman's worry
as well as mine.
Jackie managed to keep up
with the fashion.
He was a little bit different
to most of the guys.
He could have been
one of the Beatles.
Jackie got in the car without
having driven a single seater
of any sort before,
and in five laps,
he'd gone quicker
than Bruce McLaren had been.
And I think from then on,
we knew that Jackie had arrived.
Jackie had a super relationship
with Ken Tyrrell.
They trusted each other completely
and they should.
Cause Ken produced a good car
for Jackie
and Jackie
did the job in the car.
It really wasn't a case of Colin
not knowing what to do.
It was sometimes he would
sort of go to the limit
and then maybe
a little bit over.
00:33:12.480 -- 00:33:14.880
If you have a wish free...
That you would stop racing.
Colin and Jochen
were staying in the same hotel
with rooms
next door to each other.
And they had a discussion
about the car
and Jochen was a bit upset,
and so Colin called me
and said, "Tell him, this."
And I'd say this to...
I'd call Jochen and tell him.
And he'd say, "Well you can...
you can tell him this as well."
So I'd have to go back
to Colin again
and this went on for quite a time.
They wouldn't talk to each other.
October reminds me very much of when
we used to race at Watkins Glen.
All the leaves change
a different colour,
and it looks if you're in
a completely different world.
The first of everything
is special and you remember it.
I was not only pleased
that was his first win,
but I was pleased
that he'd beat Jackie
because it was always between
the two of them who was the best.
Into the hairpin, there they go,
and Brabham's gone straight on
and Rindt.
Jochen Rindt, for Lotus,
wins the Monaco GP.
I was following him
into the last left,
and it just overcooked the last
braking for the last corner,
and he went straight, and I went
around the corner and I won it.
I can't believe it myself.
1970 was one of those magic years
really, for everyone.
Things just didn't go wrong.
It was just a good year.
Unbelievable.
Rindt wins the race from Brabham
on the last corner,
exactly as he did
in Monte-Carlo.
One minute to go.
One minute, engines starting,
ready to move forward
onto the final grid.
Jochen Rindt at the top.
Is it simply a matter
of making a lot of money
and then getting out
of the business?
Well, it surely helps
to make a lot of money,
and in my case, I was quite
well off anyway, before I started.
I mean, I'm better off
now through racing
but it wasn't money
why I started racing.
Could I ask what you might earn now
as one of the top drivers
in the world?
Enough.
I'd actually been staying
with Jochen and Nina
in their house in Switzerland.
We'd met an Austrian sponsor,
which was all a little bit hectic
trying to extract
the right amount of money from him.
In the end he agreed
and we drove together to Monza.
Those wives were completely
different to the wives today.
They used to look
after the timekeeping.
So they were all part
of a Formula 1 team.
They wasn't there
for a holiday or enjoyment.
They were there working.
An essential part of it.
During that practice session,
we were waiting for Jochen
to come round
and then somebody said to me
that he'd had an accident.
So I rushed down to exactly
where the accident happened.
And I collected his helmet
and walked back to the pits
to find out what was going
to happen to Jochen
and where they were...
where they were going to take him
and how bad he was or whatever.
And I found out
that he'd been put in
Volkswagen Kombi sort of thing.
What people I suppose want
to describe as an ambulance.
There's nothing anyone could do.
When they got him to the hospital,
it was too late.
And he was dead then.
People blamed the fact
that it was a Lotus.
You always think
it's not going to happen to me.
People want to win and want
to get in the best machinery.
In the name of the father,
and of the son,
and of the holy ghost.
Dear friends, dear family,
once the sad news of Monza
had arrived at our consciousness,
we realised
how the family Rindt,
Mrs. Rindt and her little daughter,
were thrown
into a most terrible fate.
Apparently,
I was at Jochen's funeral,
though I don't quite
remember it.
To die doing something
that you love to do,
is to die happy.
Regardless what happens
in the remaining Grand Prixs
this year,
to all of us,
Jochen is the world champion.
Jochen was the world champion
in the end of the season.
Better he wasn't world champion,
he would have been still with us.
Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Although Jochen's death
was a big big loss to me,
it wasn't going to finish
me in Formula 1.
I mean, so magic that race.
It's where Formula 1 started.
The traffic was unbelievable.
120,000 turned up for that race,
including the King and Queen.
It was an airfield
that was used during the war.
The Wellington bombers
used to fly out of there.
Unfortunately,
a lot of the guys never come back.
I went with my father.
We couldn't sleep in a hotel
because they didn't exist.
So we slept in the car.
And now things
are an awful lot different.
The big thing today
is finding the best 5-star hotel.
Nobody worries about how much.
All the teams used to race
in their traditional colours,
England was green,
France was blue.
The most important of all
were the Italians that were red.
Now they're all on the grid.
The mechanics have started
the engines as you can hear.
And they're off! They're away!
Listen to it!
And the Alfas give everyone
a demonstration of acceleration.
Here comes Farina.
He was flagged in,
and Farina has won
the Grand Prix d'Europe.
Alfa Romeo won the race.
In fact they were 1st, 2nd and 3rd
with no Ferraris entered.
I don't know
how my mother ever found out
when I was, really a baby,
that I had eye problems.
And she used to take me
to Norwich on a bicycle...
..to a specialist there,
10 miles away from where we lived.
And they discovered
I had practically no vision
out of my right eye.
It's like having
a photograph out of focus.
I was born in Suffolk,
we decided to move
to Dartford, in London.
And then the war started.
I don't really remember when I sort
of started to think about business.
But probably because I didn't even
know what business was.
But I used to carry out
a couple of paper rounds
before I went to school.
When I got off the train,
just by the side of the station,
was a little bakery.
They used to sell bread obviously
and buns and things like that.
This was when these things
were very difficult to find.
And I'd buy all the buns and cakes
and whatever they had there.
Put 'em in the suitcase which I had
with me all the time to carry these.
Take them to school,
and during the break
and the morning lessons,
I used to sell these,
or do deals of whatever.
Probably used to do deals
to get results of exams
or something like that.
But anyway,
the idea was to sell them.
I was lucky enough
to leave school at 15
and eventually I became
a used car dealer.
A lot of the sharp operators,
we used to buy and sell
at the side of the road.
You dealt with what I call,
'proper people.'
We dealt with cash.
You learned to keep on your toes,
keep your eyes open
and make sure that
you honoured a handshake.
If you said, "Yes it was a deal,"
it was a deal.
I used to race bicycles
and then motorcycles
and then had an upgrade.
I won a few races and got
a couple of records for things.
And I was racing at Goodwood,
and somebody gone
round the outside of me,
which was impossible actually.
It was Stirling Moss.
It's like if you're watching
an artist, if you like, painting.
You can't see how,
when the painting's finished,
that it could ever
come out like that.
The only car apart from the Maserati
driven by Fangio,
that's won any of the World
Championship races is the Vanwall.
I would like to win the World
Championship with a British car.
But this year,
Fangio's unassailable.
Fangio was a racer.
People like that,
I think when you're young,
you don't believe
they're alive.
They're something so special,
that they don't exist.
When I was 20,
he was nearly double my age,
when he started racing.
He wasn't sort of one of these
18-year-old super kids.
He was a guy
that I got much closer to later on.
He was always recognised
to be the number one.
Ferrari and Maserati
had well and truly overtaken
Alfa Romeo
and were the most prominent teams.
And it was 1957
he won his 5th World Championship.
Fangio retired
when he was still ahead.
I met Stuart Lewis-Evans
in his early days.
His dad used to have
a garage not far from where I was,
and we become good friends.
And I used to try and look after
things that he was doing,
not manager but a little bit
of, hopefully, good advice.
Lewis-Evans slides right
through the barrier
on his Cooper 500
but comes to no harm.
So, that was really how I really got
involved so much in Formula 1
and knew all the people that became
very very famous at the same time.
The 50s,
that's when drivers were drivers.
Pity social media
wasn't about those days.
They were all characters.
Good looking guys as well.
They wasn't too interested
in anything else but racing.
It wasn't so important
to win a World Championship.
It was good to win,
but so what if you didn't win,
you won a few races
so that was all that mattered.
'58 was a really competitive year.
We had three Vanwalls with
Stirling, Tony Brooks and Stuart.
And we had Ferrari
with Mike Hawthorn,
which was their lead driver.
Mike and Ferrari,
as far as I was concerned,
were the opposition.
Mike was very special.
You'd have to call him one
of the genuine gentleman racers.
We were at Spa and Stirling
had said to Stuart
how he'd taken the corner
more or less flat,
to put off Stuart
who was a little bit of a challenge.
And I said, "Tell Stirling,
I did actually take it flat."
And Stirling said,
"No, you couldn't do that."
But Stuart actually had done it.
Another Vanwall win
as Brookes goes by.
Hawthorn comes down
in a storming spectacular finish.
Lewis-Evans coasts over the line
to finish third
but to join the swiftly
growing breakers yard
with broken front suspension.
Cause we won the last race,
people are saying,
well, Ferrari will win this one,
but it's a completely
different type of circuit.
I think it's a very open race
quite honestly.
I think that Mike's driving
and going very fast now.
In the war, people actually died,
and I think they sort of took racing
as one of those things
that you could get killed.
People always thought,
"Can't be me. could be somebody else,
"but it
won't be me for sure."
Going to Casablanca,
we knew for sure after that race,
England was going
to have a World Champion.
Whether it was going to be
Stirling or Mike Hawthorn.
Stirling had to win
and get the fastest lap
to win the championship.
Stuart was quick enough
to win that race,
but he was there
to back up Stirling.
The car sort of rolled over
and caught fire
and Stuart got out of the car
and started to run away
from, obviously, the accident.
And if he hadn't had run away
and had rolled over
or somebody'd have been there
and grabbed hold of him,
he would have probably
been alright but, didn't happen.
He was so, so badly burned.
He was in really bad shape.
By the time they'd got him back
to East Grinstead
where there was a hospital
that looked after all the pilots
during the war...
..it was all a bit too late.
This is a difficult question,
Mike, but what does it mean,
what can it mean, to have won
the World Championship?
Well, obviously...
It's the ambition I think
of every racing driver
to win it.
I've achieved my ambition now
in that field
and of course there is quite
a lot of financial advantage
which does come in useful.
It was a bad day for me
cause I was very close with Stuart,
and he died the day
after my 28th birthday.
I went back to running my business,
not thinking I was ever going
to get involved any longer.
The 60's in London,
it was a swinging city for sure.
I didn't swing at all.
I was trying to do any deals
I could to make a few dollars.
I had other business
which was a proper car showroom.
Complete plate glass windows
and doors in front
so people could see in.
But it was always
completely immaculate,
and I kept it that way.
Whether it...
Terribly terribly fussy,
probably a bit from my old mum,
I used to make sure the cars
were lined up nicely and looked nice.
My dad would greet and meet
people that come in
and he was very patient,
which is a lot more patient
than I used to be.
So he was a valuable asset.
I mixed with a lot
of show-business people.
Twiggy, Adam Faith, and Sandie Shaw.
They were all good customers
in the end.
I'd, um, bought a car from someone
and then found out it was financed,
so the guy didn't own the car.
So I stopped the cheque
and the guy duly appeared
to explain to me
how he'd like the cheque cleared,
and produced a gun
from under his sweater to show me.
And I explained to him
I didn't know what he was going
to do with it, you know,
it certainly wasn't a pain
to come to some agreement
about something and,
"if you shoot me,
"the cheque won't be cleared.
Let's have a chat."
So we went to the office
and discussed things
and obviously
we sorted it out.
I paid him...cleared off the finance
or said I was going to
and paid him the difference.
And then he become a very good
customer from then on in.
John Cooper used to run
the Cooper car company.
We become good friends.
This is where we build
our racing cars
and there are literally
hundreds of component parts
that go to building
a racing car.
John was just a long way ahead
of a lot of other people.
He was the first guy, in Formula 1,
to put an engine in the back end
of the car rather than the front,
and it worked.
The people with big engines
and engines in the front of the car
suddenly realised
if you want to win, you'd better
put the engine in the back.
Ferrari didn't think it was
the right thing to do
but eventually actually
did that their-self.
John asked me to go to Mexico
with him for the race.
That was a super place
in those days.
And then Jochen had arrived.
And I told him,
"I've just had a massage."
"Why don't you do the same?"
"Yes," he said, "OK."
And I took him down,
introduced him to the lady
that ran this
and left him there.
And I said to Jochen,
"So, it was all good?
"Everything good?"
He said, "Yeah," he said,
"yeah, yeah, yeah, it was...
"The girl said
I was a naughty boy, that's all."
I never went into any details.
When Jochen
was driving in Formula 2,
he always managed
to win against anyone.
Jochen was really really quick.
It's very very easy to run
really fast without trying too hard.
If you keep on the perfect line
and you don't slide too much,
you can go very very fast
without looking fast
and without having
a great physical effort.
He used to be racing the cars
and I used to try
and do some business for us.
And I used to say to him,
"Don't forget you've got to collect
"the start money
before the race."
After the race,
having had a key to our house,
he would come and wake me up
and we'd actually
go into the kitchen,
and he'd say, "I collected
the money. Here it is."
And then we played Gin Rummy.
We were like brothers.
When Jochen found Nina,
she was a gorgeous,
gorgeous, gorgeous girl...
..and they decided
they ought to get married.
I was invited along with Tuana,
the girl I was with at the time,
on the honeymoon.
Which I suppose is a bit unusual.
I think basically it's because
Jochen and I could play Gin Rummy.
Right, can we do...
If we can do these two first,
the two quarters, half an inch.
And we can adjust
the throttle one half.
So I can get right down here,
out the way.
Jim Clark was quick
in whatever he drove.
And could turn it on
whenever he had to.
Well, I really got into
motor-racing accidentally almost.
I had always had an interest
in cars and in speed
and in motor-racing but never did
I ever in my wildest dreams
expect ever to become
a professional racing driver.
As a driver I think Jim Clark,
I think he's good.
But he's a very good
sheep farmer too.
One of the reasons I think
he's good is that umm...
..he keeps winning,
which I find a bit irritating.
Colin was a genius.
Probably the best we've seen.
He understood, early days,
about power and weight.
This is the first time
we've been able to coordinate
the build of an engine
and a chassis together
and design each one
to suit the other
and with a sort of weight
and simplicity and power,
I think we're gonna have
a fabulous motor car.
Yeah, that's fitting well.
Beautiful. Yep.
That's the job. Lovely.
We've built the engine onto the car
as you can see,
and now, we've built the rest
of the suspension
on the back of the engine
because the engine itself
is forming part
of the structure of the car
and of course
it holds it all together.
He would look
at all the rules and regulations
and see how he could make
the car the lightest car.
The lighter
you can make the car,
the more power it's got,
the more chances you've got
of being successful.
We stretch everything
to the limit on our race cars,
we find out just what a part will do
and how much it will stand
and then we then know
what sort of safety limit
we can incorporate
in our production cars.
Colin probably was the one
that really got the real value
of what it was to brand
a Formula 1 car,
very early on before anybody else.
People at that time
were still putting stickers
on their car with names.
And Colin
went one massive step farther.
So it was really
a movable cigarette package.
Which managed to upset, obviously,
the government people at the time.
I think Colin also was lucky
to have Jim Clark as the driver.
I mean, they acted
like father and son.
So the two of them,
it just was one
of those magic moments, in life.
Colin thought the world of Jim
for sure and vice versa.
They trusted in each other.
Colin was obsessed with making sure
his cars were lighter.
But all of his cars
were a little bit fragile.
Graham, isn't the depressing thing
about Jim Clark's death
not only that he was one
of the greatest drivers
but also one of the safest?
Yes, it's ironic.
Of course, we're not sure quite
what happened
but it looks...
The indications are that
it might not have...
not have been his fault.
Which is, you know, is a tragedy
whichever way you look at it.
Everyone realises
there is danger in motor-racing.
There is this element of chance.
It is something we all have
to live with and face up to.
It is... a sport which the drivers
do voluntary at their own volition.
They realise the risk they take.
Really, it's not up to us to...
try to change that.
People want to climb mountains;
people want to sail around the world
single-handed and so on.
This is just part
of human endeavour.
Some people wish to do these things.
They want to push things
to the limit.
Nobody would ever believe this sort
of thing would happen to Jimmy.
We gather here in Mexico City
at the end
of a very eventful season.
Jim Clark who, before he died,
established himself
as the greatest Grand Prix driver
of all time
with a record of 25 victories.
It's been an eventful season
in other ways too,
there's been the
great controversy
about advertising on the cars.
John Cooper, Grand Prix racing
is getting more expensive
all the time,
what's the future for
the small constructor like yourself?
Well, I think we're in a very very
serious position at the moment
and I think we've got
to look to people outside
the motor industry for support,
such as cigarette companies
or liquor companies
or something like that.
The money's got
to come from somewhere
and I think it will
have to come outside,
come from out, outside
the motor industry.
Isn't there a case for making
the minimum weight heavier
so that the cars are more solid?
None whatsoever
because the suspension,
however heavy a car is,
the suspension has always got
to be the lightest part of it
because this is what gives
the car its road holding.
Colin needed a top driver in 1969.
And he wanted Jochen.
And Jochen wanted to drive there
cause Jochen wanted
to win the World Championship.
I explained to Jochen,
"You've got a much better chance
"of winning the championship
in a Lotus,
"but you've also got a good chance
of getting hurt, so think about it."
Looking at racing cars,
they seem to me that they look
less and less like cars to me
and more and more like planes with
these sort of aerofoil arrangements
at the back here
and again at the front.
Now, presumably this is to keep
the thing on the ground, is it?
The wings that we have on the car,
front and rear,
do work like an inverted
aeroplane wing
whereas the wing
on an aeroplane lifts it up,
and ours keep it on the ground.
Which means of course we get more
grip and can corner quicker.
The whole thing strikes me as,
if I may interrupt...
Yes you may!
..terribly dangerous.
Who would you say is your main,
your main rivals next year?
My new teammate I think is going
to be a bit of a threat.
But that's Colin Chapman's worry
as well as mine.
Jackie managed to keep up
with the fashion.
He was a little bit different
to most of the guys.
He could have been
one of the Beatles.
Jackie got in the car without
having driven a single seater
of any sort before,
and in five laps,
he'd gone quicker
than Bruce McLaren had been.
And I think from then on,
we knew that Jackie had arrived.
Jackie had a super relationship
with Ken Tyrrell.
They trusted each other completely
and they should.
Cause Ken produced a good car
for Jackie
and Jackie
did the job in the car.
It really wasn't a case of Colin
not knowing what to do.
It was sometimes he would
sort of go to the limit
and then maybe
a little bit over.
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If you have a wish free...
That you would stop racing.
Colin and Jochen
were staying in the same hotel
with rooms
next door to each other.
And they had a discussion
about the car
and Jochen was a bit upset,
and so Colin called me
and said, "Tell him, this."
And I'd say this to...
I'd call Jochen and tell him.
And he'd say, "Well you can...
you can tell him this as well."
So I'd have to go back
to Colin again
and this went on for quite a time.
They wouldn't talk to each other.
October reminds me very much of when
we used to race at Watkins Glen.
All the leaves change
a different colour,
and it looks if you're in
a completely different world.
The first of everything
is special and you remember it.
I was not only pleased
that was his first win,
but I was pleased
that he'd beat Jackie
because it was always between
the two of them who was the best.
Into the hairpin, there they go,
and Brabham's gone straight on
and Rindt.
Jochen Rindt, for Lotus,
wins the Monaco GP.
I was following him
into the last left,
and it just overcooked the last
braking for the last corner,
and he went straight, and I went
around the corner and I won it.
I can't believe it myself.
1970 was one of those magic years
really, for everyone.
Things just didn't go wrong.
It was just a good year.
Unbelievable.
Rindt wins the race from Brabham
on the last corner,
exactly as he did
in Monte-Carlo.
One minute to go.
One minute, engines starting,
ready to move forward
onto the final grid.
Jochen Rindt at the top.
Is it simply a matter
of making a lot of money
and then getting out
of the business?
Well, it surely helps
to make a lot of money,
and in my case, I was quite
well off anyway, before I started.
I mean, I'm better off
now through racing
but it wasn't money
why I started racing.
Could I ask what you might earn now
as one of the top drivers
in the world?
Enough.
I'd actually been staying
with Jochen and Nina
in their house in Switzerland.
We'd met an Austrian sponsor,
which was all a little bit hectic
trying to extract
the right amount of money from him.
In the end he agreed
and we drove together to Monza.
Those wives were completely
different to the wives today.
They used to look
after the timekeeping.
So they were all part
of a Formula 1 team.
They wasn't there
for a holiday or enjoyment.
They were there working.
An essential part of it.
During that practice session,
we were waiting for Jochen
to come round
and then somebody said to me
that he'd had an accident.
So I rushed down to exactly
where the accident happened.
And I collected his helmet
and walked back to the pits
to find out what was going
to happen to Jochen
and where they were...
where they were going to take him
and how bad he was or whatever.
And I found out
that he'd been put in
Volkswagen Kombi sort of thing.
What people I suppose want
to describe as an ambulance.
There's nothing anyone could do.
When they got him to the hospital,
it was too late.
And he was dead then.
People blamed the fact
that it was a Lotus.
You always think
it's not going to happen to me.
People want to win and want
to get in the best machinery.
In the name of the father,
and of the son,
and of the holy ghost.
Dear friends, dear family,
once the sad news of Monza
had arrived at our consciousness,
we realised
how the family Rindt,
Mrs. Rindt and her little daughter,
were thrown
into a most terrible fate.
Apparently,
I was at Jochen's funeral,
though I don't quite
remember it.
To die doing something
that you love to do,
is to die happy.
Regardless what happens
in the remaining Grand Prixs
this year,
to all of us,
Jochen is the world champion.
Jochen was the world champion
in the end of the season.
Better he wasn't world champion,
he would have been still with us.
Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Although Jochen's death
was a big big loss to me,
it wasn't going to finish
me in Formula 1.