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Damn, it's gonna rain.

It can't help but rain with that wind,

look at the cloud.

Damn.

Damn, look at it up there,

black as night.

At 3 o'clock this afternoon,

we'll see the start of the 29th Grand Prix of Monaco.

A unique race through the streets of the town,

over 80 laps of the circuit,

which is just under 2 miles long.

Ranging from the gas works...

Jackie!

Jackie!

Yeah.

Jackie! Jackie!

- Jackie! - Jackie!

- Bonjour, monsieur. - Bonjour.

Could I have a picture for my son?

Sure. Roman, you have the camera.

- Sure. - Oui, oui.

How old?

He's 20 and loves racing cars. He wants to be a racing driver.

- Oh good. - He wants to be a champion like you.

- He has an admiration for you. - Merci.

You are a great champion.

- Thank you. - I thank you.

You'll let him be a racing driver?

Why don't we stand by the car.

If he can be like Jackie, yes.

If he becomes a great champion like you,

he has all permissions.

You know, this is where the race starts from.

Louis Chiron drops the flag.

We're breaking around now for the corner.

It's called Sainte Devote, the corner here.

You're out here around this, not using all the corner,

not using all the road.

You're getting into Sainte Devote,

you're clipping,

close down here again,

feeding it out, very fast section of the course,

right out here,

still in third gear here.

Third gear corner, Sainte Devote.

We're going up the hill,

you've engaged fourth gear about now.

This is in fact your line.

So, you're coming around on this line,

the car is in third gear and you're drifting out this way.

See this rise here, when the car goes over this rise,

you slide all the way down this hill in third gear,

flat in third gear, very fast down here,

underneath the bridge, still in third gear.

Now, the breaking distance from this manhole cover,

there's a manhole cover there. You brake there,

you change into second gear,

if you have light fuel tanks for this corner.

Again, you got to be very careful

you don't touch the curb.

If you touch the curb, you bust a wheel,

or you puncture a tire.

You come down here, you're in second gear,

you straight line this and you come straight in here.

You pass this truck.

You change then into first gear, you're down in here,

on the right hand side, where this rock face,

and then again, you clip over here.

Not too difficult here, but you're in full lock.

You've got your arms crossed over like that.

You come out on that sign there.

You come in and you change into second gear here,

not going right over to the left-hand side of the road.

You're going towards the tunnel.

You engage fourth gear just about now.

Now, you're going into the tunnel.

Bright sunshine or whatever the hell it is.

Then you're into the darkness of the tunnel,

dramatic change of light, you know.

Tremendous noise in here,

even we can hear the difference.

I'll go in the rain.

Should be OK but let's try it.

That's OK.

I tell you what I might need. I might need for Monte Carlo

the steering wheel just a little bit closer.

- All right, yeah. - Yeah.

And around here,

because you're doing this so much.

How about this one?

That's wider there now.

It's not raining now.

When I walked down the hill, it was raining.

Well, I tell you,

there are puddles around the track,

the place is a mess.

I mean, what compound are we on?

30-40.

We don't have anything else?

If you can't, you've got to re-thinkg the whole deal.

At the moment, you're using the first four gears.

Yeah.

So, the fact that this is 1,200 revs higher

- and maybe in the wet, you can accept that? - Yeah.

I don't know

but this is what we've got to find out.

I should think I will be able to accept it?

Well, anyway,

- one lap and in. - Yeah.

The expected weather

for tomorrow morning's early practice

because so far everybody is at least 25 seconds

outside of the lap record

because of the appalling weather.

Normally they don't go out until the rain stops.

Well, what if the rain stops next week?

Well, they'll have to go out.

It's the one scene nobody took into consideration, no?

Except Jackie.

Well, it looks as though there's not much hope

of any improvement

in these filthy weather conditions

and so people are beginning to

go out for practice and face up to it

Not very easy conditions,

so Jackie Stewart can get used to

what is practically a brand new car.

Rebuilt after last weeks accident.

- Tell me, did you... did you win the competition yourself? - I did.

- You filled it in yourself? - Yes, I filled it in

and sent it.

Fantastic.

I think I better get her to fill my competition forms in.

But I've been doing this for years and years.

Well, you see, you've got a full day of racing because

it's Formula 3, two qualifying heats,

then the Formula 1 final qualifying for grid positions,

and then the final Formula 3 race

which is quite an important race.

So, you've got one, two, three, four different times of racing.

And where you are,

you can at least get out of your seat

and go down to the swimming pool and then go into the harbor

and see the yachts and so forth.

So, I figured, if the girls get fed up,

they can always go and have something else.

There's still the presents to give away.

Oh, there's presents.

- I'm trying to attract your attention - Oh, I see.

Because I've got another appointment.

Well.

- Well. Are these small? - Large, medium.

Here we are, large, medium and small.

I've got small, medium and large,

and I don't know how many small, medium

and larges did we have.

This is like, this is a dress rehearsal now.

Have you tried that one?

No.

Oh, this is smaller, Bill.

So, that's pretty right.

It suits you.

Well, these drivers have much better luck

for the weather this morning.

It's very important for these young drivers

hoping to following the footsteps

of men like Jackie Stewart

who started in this way,

to get good practice runs in before their race tomorrow...

Do you think this is the safest place to watch them?

I tell you, if you'd been standing here yesterday,

you'd wet yourself if I had come up here

because this is where I stopped.

- This is where you stopped? - Yeah.

- Right here? - Right there.

I spun off and came around here.

- Look at the cloud. - Yeah.

Never known it like this in Monte Carlo

and you know, the forecast isn't good for the weekend.

You know, they say Saturday is going to be about the same

and maybe even Sunday.

No, they said Sunday would be good weather.

Yeah, but, you know, if you haven't got the car sorted out,

you've got a car sorted out and a damp track,

it's a totally different machine.

Yeah, I know.

You see, that guy got the wrong line altogether.

Totally wrong. He's coming up too far to the right.

And he is braking too early.

And changing gears too early.

Watch the quick ones;

they don't change down until they go past

that zebra crossing there.

So therefore, braking is very important.

If the balance of the brakes,

you know, if that's not right,

it really screws you up.

That's to say, the balance from the front to the rear.

You're going to have the front wheels braking

just beginning to lock,

to stop before the rear wheels do that

- because these are the only ones you can see. - Yeah.

You know, if the rear wheel is locked,

well then, of course, as soon as you get into the corner

you immediately start sliding around.

Whereas, when the front brakes do that,

at least you can see the puffs of smoke coming off them.

- Under the wheels? - Yeah.

Nearly right.

He's quick.

He's just waking up.

I think they're all pissed.

Now the Formula 1 cars are coming out

ready for their second practice session

and thank goodness, for the very nearly dry track.

This will give everybody a chance of getting in some time.

Stewart really reviling in these half-damp drying out conditions

and his mastery is really showing.

He is consistently the fastest now.

Of course, everybody's target

is last year's lap record set by...

Jackie Stewart keeps up the effort,

1 minute 23.2 seconds.

He's really got the new car sorted out now

and is absolutely incredible, to think he never sat in it

until yesterday when it rained all day.

Having equalled the lap record in this morning's practice,

Jackie Stewart is in pole position so far

with one more session to come tomorrow afternoon.

And pole position is very important here.

It's not easy to pass around Monte Carlo through the streets

and if you can get in front of the car...

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Um...

The corner after the way down after the Hotel de Paris,

- the Mirabeau? - Yes.

Second or first?

Second.

It's very low.

I know...

but I'm not sure, you know first gear is...

First gear is wrong because it wants to get to the limit.

Yes, yes.

And in first gear, it's not good.

Maybe, we can use a shorter second.

A shorter second would be good

if we have one because it would also be good for the waterfront.

For the?

The one going on before the tunnel.

Yeah, because in second it's too slow too.

You said first around the hairpin,

first, first on the left to the hairpin?

- And then, second? - First.

First for the left, the right one,

under the...

Everybody's listening.

Helmut.

All my secrets, Helmut.

Come over here.

Third, yes.

I'm doing this, are you're doing it second?

I think so. I'm not sure.

Third.

Uh, second.

Again, it feels a little heavy.

In Monte Carlo, it's more important not to be nervous.

- You have to be very smooth. - Very smooth and very quiet.

We'll find out.

And you want to be in a position where

not only is it good to go fast at the beginning,

but if somebody makes a charge at the end of the race,

you got to be able to go.

Because if somebody catches you in the closing laps,

and you're geared for full tanks or half tanks,

you're screwed.

Happy birthday Dear Louis,

happy birthday to you.

- Remember, we all came here. - Yeah.

That was for his 70th birthday and that was in 69.

Bloody awful.

Never, never seen it like this.

- I just want dry. - What time is the practice?

- Three o'clock? - Three o'clock.

So... Terrible.

Do you want three cups?

I see. So, OK.

You prefer that I take three coffees and one tea

for two people.

- Yeah. - OK.

I haven't been...

I haven't been sleeping well for about...

I don't know, two and a half weeks.

Hmm-hmm.

Well, you know, I sleep, but I'm waking up too early

and I don't really feel as if I've, you know, slept.

You don't sleep deep enough.

No, I have... I haven't been sleeping deeply at all.

So, it hasn't been too good. But, you know, I'm...

Maybe you said you shunted your cars incident?

No, no, but before that. I thought about that.

You did?

It was before that.

That was a great job, I must say.

I saw it later on the television.

It really went straight under the camera.

I know.

I choose my places well.

I think you did it with purpose.

If you're gonna crash, do it with publicity in mind.

I tell you what, the cameraman really stayed on it,

you know, because I mean, literally, I was...

- I saw you right under... - You know, from here to the door

from the camera,

you know, when it stopped.

I mean, shunts like that are plenty.

- Oh yeah. - Uh-huh.

And then just walk out of that car?

Well, you know, now a days, I think the cars,

really, these seat belts I wear are fantastic,

you know, because it's... it's... belt,

two belts here, two right here and two through the crotch,

and the one's through the crotch, fantastic.

- Because you don't... - Slide forward.

You don't slide forward.

You don't, what they call, submarine and that's the key.

I can tell you one thing,

I have no intentions of becoming a racing driver.

No. Well, I think it's well advised,

having traveled with you, Roman,

I think you're deciding the right way.

- You think so, huh? - Yup.

You're driving, as a racing driver,

you're a very good film director.

Yes.

This guy Chiron, when did he win the race?

He was a bell-boy

and apparently he finally got a chance to drive the car

and he became a racing driver.

- He's the flagman, isn't he? - He starts the race.

How the hell he's never been killed, I'll never know.

- Yeah. - They took him off...

They took him off the job for two years

because it was such a disaster.

Because he kept, you know,

he would go in the middle of the track

and he keeps going like this,

you know, "No, no, no," and he's got the flag like this

and you know before he drops it because he's such in an age now,

you know, he's 72,

that you see his knees go before he drops the flag.

You know, because he can't bring the flag down

just with his arms.

So, he's up on his tiptoes

and his knees bend and everybody leave,

you know, because... they know he's committed

he's gonna come down.

They took him off the job last year which was a pity

- because he was, that's coffee. - Do you want some?

Yeah. I mean, he's part of Monte Carlo.

Somebody else started the race and it didn't quite the same.

So, he, um... I think the Prince put him back on and,

you know, maybe, he's gonna get run over this time, but...

Between the Tabacconist and the Gazometre hairpin

I'll probably between times,

I'll do three things in that section.

I will rest my neck against the head rest

because the neck muscles get terribly sore in Monte Carlo

because, in Monte Carlo,

you're starting and stopping all the time.

You know, you're... you know, you're going back and forward

and the corners are so abrupt

that your 'G' load on your neck.

Your neck muscles get terribly sore because,

you see, the way you lie in a car,

you know, to get down like this and drive like that.

So, look at the strain up there. You're driving like that.

- You touch the... - No, no.

You're not touching the headrest until,

you know, you need to rest,

and then, you just rest your head back

and maybe give it a little flex.

Do that and deep breathe at the same time.

You know, you really give yourself a chance

to breathe properly.

Between the waterfront and the tunnel,

I'll probably look at the oil pressure,

the water temperature.

And when you're not doing that, you don't do that every lap.

When you're not doing that, you must try to remember...

I'll look at the profiles of the tires in the mirrors,

have a look at the mirrors

because if you strain your head a little bit to the side,

you can see how flat the tire is.

Now, if you got a puncture or anything,

the tire begins to go into slight concave,

so therefore you look in the mirror...

You know, if you feel the car not responding properly,

the first thing I do is look at each tire,

all four tires, to see if there's any sign of a concave

on the tire

because these tires only,

they're only pressured to 16 pounds.

A racing car is like a very, very finely balanced sort of,

you know, knife edge.

You've got to keep it up right all the time.

If it gets over this way,

you know, you got to be able to recognize

that it's moving in any direction at all.

I remember one year in Monte Carlo,

I had a rubber goggle band on my helmet,

you know, I was wearing goggles in these days,

and it kept getting stuck a little bit, just a little bit

so that my head couldn't freely go like that.

You know, when I went around corners

and occasionally, this thing would stick.

You know, and the whole car changed,

the whole characteristic of the car changed.

It was like, uh, a different car.

I thought the thing had become, you know, a bastard.

You know, it just... you know, I was going around the corner,

and all of a sudden, my head would stick like that

and the car would go around.

I wasn't being able to move with the car.

Look, Monte Carlo should be driven smoothly and quietly.

In the Formula 3 race, you'll see a group of young guys

who have never driven in a close confines of a city,

you know, not a city, a town.

Around road courses. You know

they have been used to airfields and wide-open spaces

where if you go over the white line

that marks the edge of the track,

it means sweet Fanny Adam.

Here, you do it and you hit a 6-inch curb,

you know, and you break your wheel

or you'd bend your suspension.

You know, they feel a claustrophobic effect

in their driving and they don't drive very well.

You know... and then, you see the young guy who's going to make it

and he comes in and he's clean and he's not rushed.

When I watch you practicing, you look the slowest, you know?

- I'm happy. - Yeah.

- I'm happy. - That's exactly...

I'm happy it looks like that.

Let's say this is the corner, right?

Now, which way do you want me to go?

Go this way, Roman.

All right.

From this moment, you start...

- Coming in. - Coming in, right?

- Using the shortest possible line. - That's right.

You clip on apex

and right here, you start accelerating, right?

Instead of coming in here and getting the power on here,

you get the power on here.

You start to take the load off the car.

Instead of braking harshly here, you brake a little quietly,

nice and gentle, just touch them,

you know, make them feel.

You know, don't... jab the brakes because if you jab the brakes,

the suspension goes down,

the whole car changes its character.

Be nice to it. Touch the brakes,

allow the car to stay as level as possible.

Mm.

And when you take your foot off the brake,

don't do that.

Feed the brakes out

because that way, the car comes up gently

to its proper ride height.

You know, to... to the way it best is suited

for its road holding.

And when that happens,

then, you allow then to go into the corner

with power on way back here.

And again, the power doesn't go on like that.

The power goes on smoothly.

And this is where you see the guys going round with

opposite lock on, with their wheels spinning

and the whole scene looking like, uh,

a disaster in the making.

- You know, every corner is an adventure. - Yeah.

Now, from Monte Carlo or even any other racetrack,

that's not the answer.

So, when you get the power on here,

feed it in nicely.

As you go around the corner be more progressive,

bring in the power stronger and stronger,

but again, don't go way out here.

Don't get here

because again, you've got the gutter

and then you've got the curb.

And you only need to clip the curb

and you'd broken the wheel or you punctured the tire.

There isn't a corner in Monte Carlo that is taken

any different than that.

And if you do these sorts of things,

you're doing it with gentleness,

you're being kind to your motor car.

It's being kind to you.

You're great friends. You're married.

You're having a fantastic affair.

You know, everything is united.

You're not arguing with anyone.

You know, when you change gear, the gear...

There's no rush to change gear.

You're usually a little gear higher than anybody else.

So, therefore, the car is more docile.

It's not as highly strung

because if you have the car in second gear

instead of third gear,

you only have maybe a thousand revs to work with

because before you must change gear.

If you have it way down the rev range,

you've got plenty of time and you let it run up

and then you change gear.

That's the opposite of what they were doing...

It's the... It's the... I'm not sure.

I am not sure if the very best drivers

all the way through the life of racing

have not basically done the same thing.

I don't think too many of them have explained it

the way they want to explain it.

But I'm sure if you spoke to Fangio,

he would tell you that the smoothest and the quietest way,

the slowest way, around Monte Carlo is the fastest way.

Oh, shit.

I just cut myself.

Well, tell him to get off the telephone,

I've cut myself.

He likes blood, it's part of his movies.

Roman!

It seems like that, let me see that, what?

Well, look what you've done now.

- Did you cut yourself already? - Yeah.

Well, it's great for your movie.

- You love blood in your movies. - Oh, come on...

Well, this is a serious cut.

Good job, I got my doctor with me.

I am here just to try

to give him the medical attention he needs

until he is in a definite hospital for his treatment.

As you know, there have been several accidents

and a few of Jackie's friends died the last year,

three of them as a matter of fact,

and sometimes...

Well, he thinks that if

he has somebody to look after him directly,

he could... this could be of a certain benefit to him.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm here now.

Yes, okay now... I'll come down now.

No,

you won't get down now because the circuit is closed

and the Formula 3 race is just going to start.

- Helen. - Yes.

What could I eat just now that wouldn't be very...

Chicken sandwich.

No, I don't want a sandwich.

Maybe, some soup, consommé?

No, I'll be alright.

Here's that race starting.

No, their just starting their engines up.

How long will they do that for?

How many laps is the race?

Fifteen.

Fifteen laps, Is that all?

That car, it was so funny,

it came up there skidding all over the place,

Somebody Cully, McCully... an Australian

Has he lost a wheel?

Lost a wheel and came up,

and it was, yeah but it was still there.

What about this thing?

I've got a hole in my sock.

Yeah.

A bit big around here.

That's the Formula 3 race starting now.

Maybe I can take that sticky stuff off now.

You might make it bleed again?

Christ, I tell you what, they have canaries over there.

Now, we've got to be sure that we're down there in time

to get into that car.

That's all that concerns me.

No, but I want to get down for the, you know, one lap job.

Yes, yes.

- Oh, so you're doing it before practice? - Yeah.

I saw a report in one of the newspapers last week,

about Jackie's life with me,

and on the bottom it was five of our closest friends

who have been killed,

and I suddenly realized that these five people

are the closest people we've ever come to in racing

and there's nobody left in racing

as far as we're concerned.

All of our friends are out of motor racing.

I think Jochen's death has the greatest effect on me

because of our families being intimate,

our children play together.

Nina is my best friends and still is.

She came here this time because of me.

The way he feels has a great effect to me.

This morning he woke up and he said,

"I don't want to be disturbed."

So then I get nervous because

I'm doing things not sort of naturally,

and I'm trying not to disturb him.

Then, you hear the people outside shouting

and you look out the window.

You see the masses of people, you get the atmosphere.

All of a sudden, my stomach goes round in circles

and continue that way until the race is finished.

Last year, you were less nervous before the race.

I don't know... Yeah, that's right.

You were quite relaxed last year.

As I said it again, Jackie is the one that affects me.

He is nervous this morning. I can feel it.

And it's raining again, oh dear, oh dear.

We're all going to find out what Formula 3 event,

and now it's pouring again.

This means, that yesterday's times

will almost certainly be the one's

that count as the grid places...

Now, this weather of course, as I said earlier,

has produced a very serious situation,

from a qualifying point of view.

Particularly, I think,

particularly sad for Mario Andretti,

he was stuck up in the car all day

and he hasn't got any more time in.

On a wet track I can't see much chance of him being able to

improve substantially.

It's very slippery indeed.

I think this very attractive and fast

and effective new surface

along the back of the fence, along the harbor wall

is probably very dicey on these sort of conditions,

well the Formula 3's were all over the place.

So, we'll see what happens

but it's going to be very difficult

for anybody to get up into the middle 20's

which is where you've got to be

if you want to be sure of a place

after the conditions like this...

You've got to go out in that one first.

Yeah, OK.

In that case, I want to leave these tires on.

Just one lap and come in.

New engine,

- then, you've got new pads. - Yeah.

Bed your pads,

- you haven't got to fade them - No.

- And you're on full tanks also. - Oh shit.

Alright.

- OK? - Yeah.

Has it... Has it been found that these are quicker?

It is thought that they would be.

It hasn't been established,

but Beltoise did his time with these tires.

What's his time?

43-4.

What?

43-4.

Quicker than mine.

Stewart getting further and further ahead.

Stewart more and more in time.

Francois Cevert number 12

Jackie Stewart's young French teammate

and a very promising number 2 on the Tyrrell team.

He's been trying out some new twin disc rakes at practice here

and it looks as though he's got them well cooked.

Maybe they don't have to go back to the normal brakes this time.

The twin disc are very are very experimental at this stage,

but Cevert did qualify yesterday on the dry track

and these wet conditions... stop the grip by any one now.

So we should have both Tyrrells in the race tomorrow afternoon.

I was having trouble with my... with my hand,

blisters in my hand and, uh,

we thought by changing the shape to this, in fact

would eliminate the blisters, but if we go in that way,

you're changing gear like that normally but,

you know, up and down like that.

When in fact you have to go from fourth to fifth,

- you do it like that. - Like this, yeah.

You know.

So, you just change around, whatever way you want it.

I mean it's, there's... there's enough room.

There's a little bubble goes over here in the body

so it can look after that.

Eh?

Do you want to hear about it?

I get a blister there and I get... I get blisters here.

- This is... - No, no, there, there, there.

Now, you obviously...

You obviously hold it is different from me, don't you?

I think I probably do.

Well, I must say it's the first time, Jackie,

very impressed I was.

Very quick.

Yeah, but what about today?

What about today?

I was driving my ass off and I couldn't do any better

- than 33.3, yeah. - Point 3.

- Yeah, do you find that... - I couldn't drive any faster.

Do you find that extraordinary?

No, but I mean, two and a half seconds is a long way.

Yeah, well that's a little bit shorter than I am

- behind you in the dry anyway. - Well there you go.

But I reckon that was, you know, a bloody good time.

I don't know where I'm going to see that time from

but you can rest assured I shall be trying.

But it shan't interest you too much

- as I'm so far back. - No, I wouldn't be

Oh, listen to that.

The problem is Roger when I... when I'm all,

you know, I've got in my mind

a certain attitude towards the car.

And it's just a lot better.

This car when you go round,

when you go around the Casino,

the car goes round,

you get it round and all of a sudden

two-thirds the way around,

the thing seems to lean over on itself and fall over,

you know, it feels as if you're just getting up on your tiptoes

and then the damn thing, you know,

so mebody pushes you from behind

and you fall over because it's a mechanical happening.

You know, it builds up and it builds up

and it's not in the bump rubbers

because, you know, there's not that much cornering force.

But obviously it wasn't flowing.

The same thing when Reine Wisell was behind me

in that last few laps.

I was driving as hard as I could.

I couldn't shake him off at all.

He was catching me.

Did he do the fastest lap?

- No, no. Stommelen I think. - Stommelen?

I think so.

What did he do?

I'm not sure. I think it's about 30 point something.

I'm not sure about that.

Well, I was driving my ass off was he in... was he in...

What sort of tires was he using?

Oh, well then, we're really in...

We're really in the shit, aren't we?

If it rains tomorrow we got to go...

We've just got to take a big gamble

because the way we are just now, we're in no shape to compete.

Anyway.

Perhaps the most disappointing

is Mario Andretti, he had trouble...

Damn, it's going to rain.

I can't help but rain with that wind,

look at the cloud.

Damn.

Damn, look at it up there, black as night.

At three o'clock this afternoon,

we'll see the start of the 29th Grand Prix of Monaco.

A unique race through the streets

of the town of Monte Carlo.

This afternoon's over-cast skies

may well be causing anxiety to a number of people,

in particular the world champion...

I think at Monte Carlo this year

I wanted to win more than I've ever wanted to win a race

because of so many things going on around me.

I really desperately wanted to win it.

It was... I want it to be my race because I put so much into it,

so much preparation into it.

I suppose I was more and more and more intense in than I...

I would normally be.

There's a whole lot of people watching me at Monte Carlo

hoping like hell I'd break down

because their guy, they're willing him on.

And they think, hell, I hope Stewart has trouble.

Maybe they don't want to see me crash.

And if they do want to see me having an incident,

I don't really think they want to see anyone die because of it.

I think they want to see... they want to see danger.

They want to see violence in the way

that every time a race car goes off the road

it's a tremendously destructive thing.

I mean, it has such volume of violence

that it would be difficult to interpret in any other way.

Of course, the big problem today

for drivers and team managers

is what to do about tires.

It's a gamble as to what's going to happen today.

It's overcast and cloudy.

Now, we're obviously having a bad year in Monte Carlo

this year for weather

and anybody who makes the wrong decision about tires

is going to be in trouble.

If they go for the slick, quick, dry-weather tires

and it rains during the race, they'll have to stop.

Anybody who opts perhaps if not for the very wet weather tires

for the intermediates might get by...

But I was more concerned about the weather in Monte Carlo

than I suppose I've been all year.

You know, I have done my practice in the dry

and had got pole position.

In the rain, we weren't competitive,

the car just wouldn't perform,

whereas in the dry we had an advantage.

In Monte Carlo, this year was different somehow,

I had, I don't know, I was very tired,

I was very uptight and I couldn't unwind.

I was much more alive to what was going on around me

than I would be normally.

Normally, I'd just forget everybody else,

I wouldn't want to talk to them.

I wouldn't want to discuss anything with them.

Hi.

If it rains we have a big problem, you know,

Even a little bit of rain.

Huh?

If it doesn't rain...

He says, if it rains, it rains for all.

I know.

I know.

That's the trouble.

I'd like it to rain for the others.

- Jackie. - Sorry, I didn't get onto the boat, but...

Look, after the race...

- Jackie. - Yeah, If I can.

Hello. Thank you.

Jackie, after the race the bunnies are all coming aboard,

- If you like it... - OK. If I can I will.

OK, thank you.

I try to eliminate the feeling of occasion normally

but in Monte Carlo, I couldn't do it

- then I forgot a simple thing - Where's my helmet bag?

Like putting on a second layer of thermal underwear.

Now, because of the walk down, I didn't want to dress fully,

so therefore I kept one of my undershirts off

because I wear double layers.

You know, I forgot to put it on and that's like...

It's like a man forgetting his gun if he's going to shot.

You just don't do it and it's something that I did.

Now, I was halfway along to my race car

when I remember that I had only one set of underwear on,

you know, vest on.

And I had to go back and do it and that annoyed me.

That upset me.

That upset my balance, my preparation

because I'm sort of plugged into a countdown.

Personal countdown prior to the race,

an emotional countdown and that irritated me

and there was a photographer.

I gotta get the Goodyear logo though.

Yeah I know, well for Christ sake,

what do you want me to do, give you a studio?

Literally, he wanted me to pose, you know,

it's not my scene.

That's not what I'm there to do and that irritates me.

That wouldn't normally irritate me.

The drivers are all being presented to the

Serene Highnesses Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco,

being presented by the top of the course Louis Chiron

on the starting grid.

Louis Chiron, of course at the ripe old age of 72,

very excited to be starting the race again this year.

He had given up doing it,

but this is the 40th year anniversary

of his victory in this race in 1931.

So it's being celebrated by allowing Louis Chiron

to start the race once again as clerk of the course.

So with Jackie Stewart in pole position

and leading the world championship by 15 points

to Mario Andretti's 9.

Mario Andretti not having qualified

at all to start the race,

Stewart is in fact in a very strong position

at the beginning of this event.

When I climb into the racing car.

It's like a guy being given an injection.

You know, all the pain and everything disappears.

You've been given an anesthetic

and you lose all relation to grief, to pain,

to emotion outside of what you want to do

or what you want to get out of that racing car.

And ever so often the anesthetic wears off and there you see

the cold, hard, horrible world that you're involved in.

You know, you see things that you don't want to see,

so you really quickly want to have another shot

to get back into the comfort and the warmth of your own escape.

Beautiful start by Stewart,

making sure of a lead in the early stages is what he wanted

because it's not easy to pass on this circuit.

Up in the town with Steward still leading.

And here they come out of the tunnel into the chicane,

through the chicane and into the back of it for the first time,

coming into our sight, towards the end of the first lap

and it's Stewart.

Stewart leading with Siffert second and Ickx for Ferrari.

Here's the end of the first lap,

up into..again Stewart pulling away.

And a great fight going on for fourth place between Rodriguez,

Peterson and Hulme.

And here they come out of the Chicane for the second time

coming into the back of Stewart still in front

being chased...

And there's something gone wrong.

Hill has gone off.

Hill seems to have hit the wall on the inside

and then bounced across to the other side.

There's a lot of smoke and jumping up and down,

but there's no fire, he's not on fire.

Hill is out, Graham Hill out safely.

Everybody getting really excited

but I'm afraid the car is really badly damaged,

Graham Hill has won this race five times before,

that's the end of this race for Graham Hill

with a badly bent Brabham.

But the driver is alright.

Stewart still pulling away,

pulling away from the battle for second place

between Cevert and Ickx.

Five laps gone and Stewart is now three seconds ahead.

Jackie Stewart who won this race in 1966

and the world championship in 1969.

Now nicely in the lead in 1971,

in the race and the championship.

And Cevert in the pits already only after six laps.

It looks like a damage wheel;

he must have hit a curb somewhere

which is always a hazard here at Monaco.

Stewart getting further and further ahead.

Stewart getting more and more in front.

Thirteen laps and Ronnie Peterson is in fourth place.

Peterson is past Rodriguez. Rodriguez having...

Twenty laps gone and in the lead number 11, Jackie Stewart.

Eight seconds ahead of 14, Jo Siffert.

Third number 4, Jacky Ickx.

Number 5, Regazzoni in trouble again with the Ferrari

and it looks like the old Monaco bogey

of touching another car or a barrier.

Two tires gone this time on the one side.

Twenty-nine laps, Stewart still in the lead

and Ronnie Peterson in second place.

He must have passed Siffert and Ickx both on the same lap.

Thirty laps gone

Stewart now 17 seconds ahead of Peterson

and then Siffert, Ickx and Hulme.

Now, as the race goes on it must be getting

more and more tense in the Tyrrell pit.

They don't want any pressure during the closing laps.

Last year, Brabham found out

that it can go all wrong right at the end.

Jochen Rindt passed him, in fact,

on the last corner of the last lap of the race

and Tyrrell doesn't want anything like that happen

to Jackie Stewart.

Seventy-three laps, 7 left to go.

And it's clouding over more and more

and if it rains now everybody will be in bother.

This could give Peterson a chance, you never know

and he has in fact gained a couple of seconds.

Five laps to go and it's beginning to drizzle.

The weather has gone wrong at last

and this is very tricky for everybody on worn, dry tires.

Stewart hanging on and easing up a little bit,

trying to make sure of his second win here in five years.

Even now this rain could change the whole race.

Peterson is still gaining...

And the tension in the Tyrrell pit

at this stage must be frantic

for Ken Tyrrell, Helen Stewart and everybody else.

With so much hanging on this race

and Jackie having led for so long,

this rain must be really frightening.

Here he comes, the checkered flag ready

and Jackie wins the Monaco Grand Prix for Ken Tyrrell.

This puts him well ahead in the world championship;

Ronnie Peterson has driven a magnificent race

into second place with Jacky Ickx third,

Dennis Hulme fourth.

Jesus champagne, oh it nips.

It's cold?

No, I've got a blister.

Let me see it. Let me see.

So, that's your blister.

Bravo! Bravo!

I never worked out why you wanted to do this movie

in the first place, I mean...

Well, in those times I was a great enthusiast

of motor racing.

I love motor racing.

You took me to see your testing, whatever you were testing,

I don't remember, tires, new engine.

And I wanted to do a movie about a friend.

How do look at yourself when you see this film?

- Well... - I see myself silly, you know.

Me, I look at myself and I think,

oh God, he needs a haircut.

And the sideburns...

Ah, the sideburns, everybody was wearing sideburns.

Yeah, but the long... it seemed that the longer the sideburn,

the faster you went

because Emerson Fittipaldi used to say,

"If Jackie has got the longer sideburns

I'm going to have longer sideburns."

They seemed so silly and funny, but everybody was wearing them

and they looked really good

and they were the symbol of the period, those sideburns.

I mean, like, when you look at that film

only some old cockers like us now, don't wear them.

Yeah, I guess so.

Maybe we can't.

But it was a trendy time.

- It was a trendy time. - Very trendy time.

But you know, I always remember you as safety champion

and a lot of those things happened

and were installed thanks to you,

you were always fighting for the red light

on the back of the car, in the rain.

In the rain, yeah.

- You were fighting for the barriers. - Yeah.

I can't remember the number of things

that you were really fighting for.

Well, when we were racing in that period,

if I had raced for a five-year window,

let's say from '68 to '73,

there was only a one out of three

that I was going survive,

two out of three I was going to be killed.

A terrible batting average and yet nothing was being done

by the governing body, by the track owners,

by the officials.

It took an enormous amount of pressure

with the drivers coming behind me.

But the fatality rate, Helen and I one night at home

counted 57 people,

enough that there were friends or I raced with,

many of them acquaintances,

but some of our very best friends

at least five of our best friends were killed.

Yeah, I know. I remember those times, yeah.

That changed, you know since that happened Roman,

it's been 17 or 18 years

since a driver was killed in Formula 1.

I mean, what a risk management victory

into comparison to where it was.

I mean, when we become flippant,

we say that in the '60s and the '70s,

motor racing is dangerous and sex was safe.

- Yeah, that's right. - Because the AIDS hadn't arrived.

Each accident was usually ending up with a bonfire,

you hardly see a fire now anytime.

Lorenzo Bandini died here in Monaco,

not far from downstairs out of this window.

And they never got the fire out.

They tried to put the extinguishers on,

Lorenzo never got out of the car.

The fire just enveloped everybody

and there was not enough equipment,

not the right fluid in the fire extinguishers

and not enough people and the driver died.

Today, we don't get fires,

but it's because we've got different fuel tanks,

we've got fuel tanks that take combustion

and don't explode,

don't allow the vapor to get out to ignite.

And now if there is a fire, we've got the best

fire extinguishers in the world to look after it.

And the best medical people to give resuscitation.

Quite a few drivers over these years have died in the car,

but been jumpstarted with anaesthetist

by somebody who specializes

in bringing the heart back to life

and these people are here today,

whereas in the past years they were lost forever.

And the accidents are just as spectacular,

even more spectacular than they were in those times.

Sometimes you see things that just blow your mind.

You think this is a cinema special effect

and the guy gets out of it and walks away from the car.

I mean, that's a great victory too.

And someone like me watching it,

knowing the dynamics of an accident.

When Kubica had his accident in Canada,

I was watching... I was there in Canada.

I was watching it and I was watching it on the screen

as well as on the track and I thought he's dead.

Nobody can survive impacts like that.

The accident seemed to go on for minutes.

He was carried out in a stretcher but he was conscious

and he walked out of the hospital next morning

from such debris surrounding him.

And not too long ago, I mean, just 12, 18 months ago,

Mark Weber had an accident in Valencia.

He hit the back of another car

and he just went right up into the air.

Certainly, certainly five, eight meters in the air

and then came down upside down with him in the car, bang.

And walk out of the...

And the car then righted itself in short that maybe,

maybe a 130 miles an hour,

I thought, "My God, he's got to be dead."

And moved out, took of his seat belts,

got out of the car and walked away.

I know.

Changed times.

They're great, great, great change.

You were talking about all those people that died

in those times.

I mean, the death of Francois who was then racing with you,

shook me tremendously,

in fact, I'd lost completely interest in the sport

because I knew him personally.

We are not friends like us,

- but I would often ski with him, - Yeah, yeah.

- Although he was forbidden to. - Supposedly.

But we did it secretly.

And he was such a young, promising, charming driver.

He was so glamorous. He was so colorful.

He was so exciting.

He was so good-looking,

very... I mean, he was very dangerous with the young ladies.

I mean, there was a lot of damage done

and yet he such a basic man and my role with him was like,

a student and a professor

because I was passing on everything I knew to him

because I saw he had enormous potential.

He had great natural skills.

He was a racing driver that would, in my opinion,

unquestionably have gone on to win the world championship.

And he's one of the drivers who sadly,

violently lost his life.

It would have been my last Grand Prix of my career,

it would have been my 100th Grand Prix in Watkins Glen,

the race he had won the previous year.

And we were able to win it that weekend

because I had already secured the world championship,

the car was great,

and then Saturday he just had the most violent accident.

The debris around the track Roman,

was just impossible to drive through

and all of the drivers stopped

and I was one of the last to arrive.

And we had three cars in the race that year,

Chris Amon, a New Zealander, was driving for Tyrrell

and I saw Chris because he was walking back from Francois,

and I thought, "Are you, OK?"

- I thought it was him. - You thought it was him.

And he says, "No."

and then I knew it was Francois.

So, I get out my car and I go, the barrier's destroyed

and Francois was still in the car but...

I mean, what I saw that day, in a way no man should see.

So, it would have been my last Grand Prix.

We, in respect to Francois, we withdraw.

I thought it would have been crass.

- To drive... - Drive and win another race.

One of my greatest regrets is that I didn't stay longer.

He still had his helmet on.

In those days, you had to go to the driver

because there weren't enough people to look after them.

The medical facilities, the marshaling was not

anything like it should have been.

One of the race tracks, Grand Prix race track,

the chief medical officer was a gynecologist.

I mean, racing drivers were amateur gynecologists,

but to have that specialization as the chief medical officer

that was the bizarreness...

- Of this time. - Of the time.

Today, a modern Grand Prix driver

would not know how to deal

with the type of circumstances

that the drivers of my era had to endure,

and looking after the wives and the girlfriends,

and Helen would have to go and pack the suitcase

of the close friend who's no longer with us.

Even when Jochen died at Monza in 1970,

25 or 30 minutes later, I was back in the car

and you know when the visor goes down

I think the lights go out.

And I did the fastest lap I've ever done at Monza at that time.

And yet, I was in tears before I get into the car

and I was in tears when I got out of the car.

I was so affected by what I had seen

and yet the racing driver, the animal,

a very exceptional person at that time

to accommodate the grief, erase it...

From the time of the race.

And then come back to it and see it

and still have to deal with the family, the children

and the wife and the mother and the father

and the brothers and the sisters

who were just in despair.

The sport was so violent in those days.

Nothing compared with today.

Now, I would take the opportunity to ask you,

how did you start all that thing.

We never talk about it, you never told me.

Because I left school at 15 with no education,

I worked in a garage and I became a mechanic.

And as a mechanic I was preparing cars for customers.

And one of them was a well-off customer,

but his family's trust would not allow him to race.

So, he had other people drive his cars,

but I was preparing the car, I was the mechanic.

And as a little reward,

he gave me a chance to drive in a very small event

in Scotland which I finished second in the first race,

he said, you should do the next one,

let's do the next one and I won the next one.

- And that's how it all started. - And it was like a rocket ship,

how life changed completely,

but, you know, your early life,

I think has a lot to do with how you develop.

My early life was such an aggravation,

such pain because of my school problems.

When we did the movie, I did not know I was dyslexic.

I was a disaster at school.

I was a complete failure.

I left school at 15 with no education.

My greatest loss.

I still can't read or write correctly.

I can't do the alphabet. I don't know the alphabet.

I don't know the words of my national anthem.

I was faking any perceived wisdom that I had

when we did that movie.

I was still feeling insecure

because I knew I wasn't as clever as people thought I was.

I knew I could drive racing cars.

I knew I could communicate with people,

but I still couldn't read and I still couldn't spell.

And all these years I thought I was stupid and only...

You never told me that.

I'd be ashamed.

In those days I would have been ashamed.

I couldn't have... you know, Helen didn't know.

I couldn't tell Helen. She did not know.

I faked it.

But when you were young, when you started racing,

did you think I'm going to kill them all?

- No. - No?

I had no idea it was going to turn out to be successful

as I turned out to be.

I mean, just in victories or money or anything you want.

I never thought that I could ever have reached that level

and I never thought that I could keep it at that level.

And I always thought that other people were clever or better

or more skilled than me to do the job.

Yeah, I know.

But you know I just think that all those things

must be really subjective.

I think that the way you feel,

when you talk about driving in general.

You say it has to be smooth, it has to, you know,

break gently, lift the foot gently,

don't fight with the car.

But when I sit next to you and you drive around the track,

you know, in the rain as you drove me,

it all looked...

Where's the smoothness you talked to me about, you know?

Yeah but that's different.

That's when you're right over the limit

and you're trying to bring the car back

from circumstances that you may have hit aquaplaning,

you know, the water was too deep

and the car doesn't cut through the water that goes over it.

When it's no longer in contact with the...

- The surface... - the surface,

you are out of control,

so you've got to bring the car back.

The more I raced, the longer I was in the business,

the more I could exercise that desire.

You know, if you turn the steering wheel in too fast

the car is nervous, you upset the car.

So I learned that I could put very little steering angle in,

in fact, to get round in the corner

because you imagine you've got to do a lot of that,

but in fact you don't.

And when you take the steering angle off,

you can take it off earlier than most people do

because the car has now taken up,

it's set it's position and in fact,

the steering wheel or the steering angle is little to do

with that change of direction.

The dynamics of the car of doing that.

As I developed, found that I was more complete

in being able to interpret before the car reacted

what his next movement was likely to be

and eliminate that sudden rush of activity

that you have to go through at high speed

to bring the car back under control.

So the object was, at my last year of motor racing,

the car very seldom ever get out of control

because it didn't need to be.

It could actually, I could drive slower and go faster.

Yeah, I understand, but this is a very subjective feeling

because you several times told me,

you compared it to the slow motion

when you're driving the car,

but when I sit next to you,

it doesn't feel like slow motion,

but it's rather like a silent movie, you know,

16 frames per second.

It's such a joy that we're able to sit down here now

and look back.

- After all this time. - Forty years.

But isn't it funny to be in the same place,

the same suite?

The same suite, the same view.

They've changed the furniture a little bit.

- Well, this has changed. - Yeah.

- Look at the number... - The yachts are bigger.

They're bigger, there's more of them.

The harbor is bigger.

I mean, they put this out to take cruise ships now

that come in.

See there, the big one out there is Atlantis,

which was the Niarchos yacht, still is the Niarchos yacht,

still there,

and of course the same size,

but then are bigger ones than it now.

This was the Station Hairpin in the old days.

Of course, now this is the Fairmont Hotel

and they've even got a grand stand right up on the roof.

This is exactly the same as it was,

but the curbs are not sharp,

they're smooth now you can go on them,

wherein the old days they were completely sharp.

You know, very dangerous, you would break a wheel.

And finally, after you've come down the hill,

you head for the tunnel.

Much longer than when I was in it.

My day, the tunnel was much shorter.

The lights were hardly any light in here at all.

That's why I had to wear the orange lens

so we could get light.

You're going fast, you're going from third gear to fourth gear

to fifth gear, to sixth gear, to seventh gear through here.

At least 185 miles per hour.

Onto this piece of road which we didn't use before.

The yachts on the left-hand side,

they will be pushed back so that if there is an accident,

a wheel comes off,

there's no risk of it going onto the yachts.

A lot of people are sitting and watching

the race from the yachts.

And maybe a few more pretty girls like this on the day.

- Look at the size of the grandstand. - Yeah, look at that.

Wow.

All the way along here.

Full. Never a seat empty.

This Roman, is where we used to see the pits.

- Here. On this side, yeah. - Yeah.

- Under those trees. - Yeah.

And you and Helen,

was you're talking to her underneath these trees

and the race track had no barrier

between you and the race cars.

- Yeah, you could step down to the race car. - Yeah.

And all the fuel and everything if anything had happened,

it would have been a disaster.