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I've never ever, ever thought anything

other than we need Ferrari

as much as Ferrari needs us.

Formula 1 is Ferrari.

(THEME MUSIC)

The $100,000 club

was Patrick's way to destroy me

and what I represented.

So, Max and I went to see Mr Ferrari

and explained everything that was going on

and why it was going on and all the reasons.

Mr Ferrari's attitude was always the same

really and truly.

He liked to feel that he was supporting

what he thought was the legal side of Formula 1 racing,

the federations.

But in the end he said to me was,

"The sport is on top of the table

"but under the table is the business."

I think what dear old Patrick didn't understand was the fact

that even if he'd got 50% of the sponsors.

He certainly would not have had Ferrari.

And that's the one he really needed.

I think this all demonstrated a lot to the CSI

that Formula 1 is Ferrari.

Was, is, always has been.

And he supported us 100%.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

Niki asked me

what the position was about coming to Brabham.

So, we met him, strangely, in Monza and discussed this whole thing.

It was a strange paradox, wasn't it?

That here you were, winning the world title

and at the same time you were falling out with Ferrari.

How did that come about?

I think you only can win races if the team who works together,

works together very well without any aggravation

and the aggravation just got more and more,

so I decided to join Bernie

because I think there's no aggravation.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

I hadn't got the slightest idea

what Parmalat was.

Turned out they were

a dairy company.

Niki said he would introduce me,

which he did.

So, I went to see Mr Calisto Tanzi

who looked after the commercial

sides of everything.

So I said to him, "Tell me some,

"what is your advertising budget?"

So he said...

It...it worked out about $8 million,

whatever it was those days in Lira.

I said, "That seems that it may be enough

"to get the job done."

So, we eventually did a deal.

See how we're going to get down to Italy.

Terrific. And you. Bye.

Peter Gilbert please.

At the time, nobody had been paid $1 million.

No driver had been paid $1 million.

So, we were the first people to...to pay him that.

This is the car you're going to drive next season.

This is the Brabham Alfa Romeo.

Can you tell us how you came to decide

that you wanted to drive this car?

You know, we just had a long discussion

and especially about the money...

(LAUGHTER)

When Mr Ferrari found out he was leaving,

he wasn't too happy.

Wasn't happy with me,

whereas I used to have a super relationship with him,

that sort of fell apart.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

Colin, once again, was doing things that nobody else had thought about.

He'd discovered

the ground effect cars.

The principle involves using the air

that passes underneath this car,

channelling it through the side pods.

Trapping it with these reversible skirts

and passing it out at the back

in a manner in which it beds the car down onto the track,

so improving the traction and the road holding.

The principle is very loosely called 'ground effects'

and the effects on the Lotus 79 are such

that it makes it go faster and faster and faster.

Mario was a very,

very special person.

Got very good ideas and not too shy in explaining what they are.

Unfortunately, you're gonna have to have some (indistinct),

some proof to (indistinct).

I know.

Hello girls.

(CAR ENGINE REVS)

(CARS WHOOSHING)

There's trouble. Lauda has hit the Armco.

Hunt is out of the race.

Patresi hit me up the arse.

Launched me into the air. That was the end of it.

Niki's thing was separate. Jody, I think put Niki off.

Andretti then leading.

Peterson challenging for second and he's through!

Ronnie Peterson is through

and up to an incredible second position.

And it's victory in the Belgian Grand Prix

for Mario Andretti

and up into the lead in the world championship.

A very happy Mario Andretti,

an ecstatically happy Ronnie Peterson

give the traditional champagne shower bath

to the crowd around them as well they might do.

I coulda said don't do that.

You ready? OK.

He's not crying is he?

(LAUGHS)

Colin Chapman.

Singularly? Absolutely.

No question of construction? Purely the man's...

Yes.

He gets the job done when it's necessary.

Why has Colin Chapman

got such a need at this time?

Well, I think we all knew this,

but he was the first one to do it

and there's a lot of difference

between knowing and doing.

The Lotus 79 has made our car old-fashioned just like that.

Overnight our car becomes a yesteryear car.

Well, there's no driver in the world

and probably there's no driver who ever has been

who could get in...in a car now, other than the Lotus, and beat it.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Brabham come up with an idea

that if you can suck all the air out from under the car,

it's a much better effect

than actually getting the air to push it down

'cause there would be no resistance.

So, hence the fan car.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

COMMENTATOR: Niki Lauda has got almost a minute lead.

The extraordinary fan car is just walking away with the race.

Colin Chapman protested the car before the start of the race.

He's almost certainly likely to protest it

once the race is over.

It's not legal,

it's not within the rules.

And the other aspect of it I think is the danger part

where, if you follow it very closely or anywhere in the proximity

do you get a tremendous amount of debris

or if it goes over any debris on the track, you get it.

So, now I think it would be a good time to stop this monster

before it just grows bigger.

And Teddy Mayer was standing there complaining to Colin,

and everybody complaining.

But obviously Colin was bright enough to know.

What he said, "Car could climb up the wall

and everyone's gonna have to build these."

Balestre had been told to come from, which he did,

he came to Sweden to make sure that car was disqualified.

(SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

The car was never disqualified.

The race was always a win, but we withdrew the car.

'Cause if not, as Colin had said,

we'd all... Everybody would have to build these.

So, spend a... Everyone would spend a lot of money.

MALE INTERVIEWER: Is it true, Bernie,

that the controversy nearly split

the Formula 1 Constructors' Association?

It's alleged that Colin Chapman and Ken Tyrell...

No, no, no, no.

It'd take more than that to split the association.

Did you resolve it all amicably, did you?

Yes, no problem.

The aerodynamics is something

Ferrari never really and truly bothered with.

Enzo was just interested in engines.

Nothing to do with ground effects or anything like that.

'Cause he always considered

the engine was the most important thing in the car.

(CAR WHOOSHES)

From the beginning,

Ferrari felt that we were sort of

in little garages

with one standard engine and one standard gearbox,

putting a chassis together and building a race car.

Ferrari always called us the 'garistas'

whereas he was a factory.

There was a big difference for him.

And the press sort of cottoned onto this as well

and called Ferrari 'grandees'

'cause they were supposed to be grand.

COMMENTATOR: The most enthusiastic

motor racing crowd of all

could well see Italian-born American,

Mario Andretti, driving in his 79th Grand Prix,

appropriately in a Lotus 79,

achieve his ambition by becoming world champion.

What does the world championship title mean to you?

Everything.

Everything.

For after 13 events,

with only three to go

Andretti can only be beaten by one man,

his teammate Ronnie Peterson.

And that's very unlikely

because Peterson will honour his contract

not to race his team leader, Andretti.

The first row with Mario Andretti

in the black car on the pole, number 5, next to is...

Here we go.

There's car number 12. Villeneuve gets in on the start.

Green light on. They're racing at (indistinct).

Villeneuve, the Ferrari has the lead,

Andretti is second.

Peterson is dropping back in the field

as they head for that...

There's an accident! There's a big crash!

And it looked like a car in the centre of the field!

It could have been a black car! It could have been Ronnie Peterson!

It's a bad one It's a big accident!

These cars are full of fuel.

The beginning of this is there's

a driver looks like James Hunt

is running to the car that's burning there.

He's running to that fire.

The word, Jackie, is it's Peterson.

Peterson in the burning car.

A number of other cars involved in it were picked up off of we can

but that is bad.

It's very bad.

He's still in the...in that car as you can see.

Ah, this is terrible.

They're fighting the fire. They've got very quickly on to it.

There's...there's James Hunt. There's another driver.

Patrick Depailler is in there...

They're getting him out of the car

..and he's out of the car now, thank goodness for that.

They're getting the fire under control.

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

All the press was sort of trying to get around the car.

I remember at the time I went to go and see

what had happened

and the police tried to stop me going through.

Sid was already there,

right from the beginning.

And they thought that we...

(STAMMERS) It...It was serious but not serious.

So, I said to Sid, "So, what's happening?"

He said, "Oh, he's gone to hospital, and he'll be alright.

"I'll keep an eye on him anyway. I'll go and see him.

"He'll be out in the morning anyway.

"It's not that... it's not that dramatic."

It's certainly no time

to feel like celebrating.

I just...

It just lost its impact.

There's no question about it for me,

at least for now.

And I just...

It's a useless to say that this is the least...

the...what I really expected to happen.

Sid called me during the night.

Explained to me what had happened.

And...and we found out that Ronnie had died.

And the reason he'd died, I found out afterwards,

was simply that he'd broken his leg basically,

and a bit of bone had broken off and got into the bloodstream

and stopped the blood going to his heart

and that's it.

We lost him.

I don't think anybody realised

how James was really shaken up

after having pulled

Ronnie out of the car.

And after a few more races

he actually stopped.

00:15:09.520 -- 00:15:12.720 Designers like Colin were brilliant enough

to keep coming up with new ideas.

MALE NEWS READER: The Lotus 80 is the car

with which Colin Chapman hopes to regain

the pole position he held

throughout the Grand Prix season.

He's got rid of the nose and tail wings

to give the Lotus an even cleaner line.

There is a tremendous pace of development

going on in cars at the moment,

but it still is so much the job of the driver

to get their car home,

to get home in front of the others

and not to fly off the road.

Colin was a bit distracted.

The Lotus 80 didn't win a single race.

In fact it was probably the only really big disaster

than Colin ever designed.

At the end of '78 Jean-Marie was elected

as he always wanted to be, unopposed.

(SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

So, you don't see Balestre trying to force

controversial measures to you

through in order to demonstrate his power?

I really don't think he will.

I mean, well, we never wanted any power

or any taste of power and, erm,

I don't think anything needs to change

we are just asking him to administer the rules

that are agreed between us.

I don't think he'll try, but anyway,

with nothing to worry about.

First thing he thought about doing

was change the name, make it a bit more important.

The CSI had gone to FISA.

One of our meetings with Mr Ferrari

we'd used the word FICA a few times during the meeting

and Mr Ferrari had said to me,

"You shouldn't use that word.

"It's not a good word to use in Italian."

So, I said, "What do we have to do?"

He said, "Well, surely you could have an O instead of an I."

So I said, "You mean FOCA?" He said, "Yeah."

I said, "OK," and that's what it is. It's FOCA.

We'd gone from FICA to FOCA.

So, we then had the FISA/FOCA war.

(CAR ENGINES REVVING)

What kind of a season

have we got ahead?

It's about to start.

Trouble! Trouble!

And it looks as though Jody Scheckter and John Watson

have touched going round the corner.

The dust swirls away all over the circuit.

The red flag is out.

They are going to stop the race.

(SIREN WAILS)

There is Niki Lauda.

Brought into the pits on that marshal's motorbike,

and he's with Bernie Ecclestone,

the head man of Brabham and the leading light

in the Formula 1 Constructors' Association.

And that's John Watson, out of his McLaren M-28.

A sad occasion for John.

John Watson had an accident and Balestre,

I don't think he bothered to see whose fault it was

or what happened, or anything else

but decided he would disqualify him from the next race.

And not only disqualify him, fine him 3,000 pounds.

I didn't realise that he'd made himself

clerk of the course, director of the race,

the judge, the jury and basically the executioner.

Max and I got together in Brazil,

and we said, "Well, this is completely wrong."

We went into an underground place at the circuit

to talk to Jean-Marie.

I said, "You just can't do this, it's not within the regulations."

So, we explained to him that we were gonna see

that John was gonna be reinstated.

Using a little bit of strong-arm tactics

about what would happen if he didn't change his mind.

We made Jean-Marie write out exactly

how he was going to reinstate him.

In the end, what he'd written was in fact

permission to cancel all the things he'd said

'cause the fine was thrown out and John raced.

Today's Monaco Grand Prix

is the last race in the first half of a 1979 Grand Prix calendar.

And in glorious sunshine there are two Ferraris

on the front row of the grid.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

And look at that!

Didier Pironi climbing up on the back of Lauda's Brabham.

Just one lap to go.

It'll be Scheckter's eighth career Grand Prix win,

his second victory at Monaco.

It'll give him a clear lead

in the world championship drivers point standings.

Here is the straight horsepower by the Ferrari.

It's gonna be a Scheckter victory!

At the beginning I was taking it

very, very easy,

maybe a little bit too easy

'cause I knew that

we seemed to have it

but I knew that we shouldn't push it too much.

Jody was typical South African.

They don't get pushed around too easy.

Jody thought about his driving.

The two days of practice have been sensational.

The new twin turbo Renault's

have shattered the opposition by lapping fastest

nearly 7 seconds inside the record.

Everyone knows today what a turbo is

but in those days, it was a brand new

and it was what Renault brought into F1.

With the eyes of all France on them,

there the front rank, Jabouille, Renault,

Arnoux, Renault.

And away they go.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

And Jabouille is challenging.

Jabouille comes out of the slipstream

of Gilles Villeneuve, and he's taking the lead.

Jean-Pierre Jabouille is in the lead,

and so now a French driver in a French car

with a French engine on French tyres is leading the French Grand Prix.

Rene Arnoux is challenging for second,

and he takes second place as they go

into the right hander on the left at Sablier.

Arnoux, this incredible young man

with so comparatively little Formula 1 experience

is having the effrontery to pull away from Villeneuve

in the previously virtually all-conquering flat 12 Ferrari.

Incredible!

Villeneuve stood on everything,

locked up his tyres, got the line

and he's back into second position

on the last lap but one

and the French crowd aren't very happy about that

and who can blame them?

And Arnoux's on the inside

as they go round Villeroy.

He's got second position, he's through.

They bang wheels.

He's off, he's off.

And he's back again.

And now Villeneuve's in second position.

And Villeneuve nearly loses the front

as they go up to Parabolique on the 80th and last lap.

And he's back.

Villeneuve is second in the Ferrari.

Jean-Pierre Jabouille has won in the Renault.

And Villeneuve is second,

Arnoux is third.

As Niki Lauda walks in to his sixth retirement of 1979.

(SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

It was satisfying for Renault

as it had taken them a couple years to get their turbo working properly.

00:24:01.360 -- 00:24:03.240 A tense, taut atmosphere

after the thrilling French Grand Prix

where the turbocharged Renaults humbled the Ferraris

and it promises to be electrifying, for in practice,

a brand-new Lotus-like Saudia Williams

has slashed an incredible 7 seconds off the record.

Patrick Head was a good engineer

and designed a very, very good car.

How fast would you be going at the fastest part of the track?

170 plus I should think.

That sounds almost too fast.

I'm beginning to think that myself.

And perhaps a little bit more important to the team,

they'd found a good sponsor.

A Saudi sponsor.

So, this was obviously, very, very, very good for Frank.

Frank Williams, on practice form

you seem to have the ultimate in ground effect cars.

They have very much more cornering force

but they're just as quick down the straight.

It's one of those things we all dream about,

something for nothing.

So, how do you reckon you're going to go against

the Ferraris and the Renaults,

presumably the cars to beat on form at the moment?

We could beat them.

We've got our best chance so far

up against the two most powerful teams currently racing

in Grand Prix competition.

Joining me today,

two former world champions and winners of the British GP,

Jackie Stewart and James Hunt.

James, first of all

the obvious question,

the incredible speeds

that we're seeing here in qualifying

and practice, this must impress even you.

Yeah, that's why I got out quick.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

Alan Jones, in the Saudia Williams,

is leading from his teammate Clay Regazzoni.

And that is trouble for Alan Jones!

Clay Regazzoni, number 28,

is the new leader of the 33rd British Grand Prix.

And he has won the British GP!

The first race ever

for the Saudia Williams team

and Frank Williams will be

beside himself with joy.

Frank Williams, this must be the happiest day

of your motoracing life.

MALE INTERVIEWER: Frank, we've watched you struggling,

if I may say so, in moderation since 1969.

You said, "I won't stop until I've won a world champion race,"

and then the world championship.

You must feel you're a bit close to that today.

Yes, but I mean, my competitors like Ferrari and Lotus

have won 70 Grand Prix and that's an awful lot more races

we've got to win yet.

We've got to try and beat them, yes.

Well, give our congratulations.

Frank Williams, the man who's kept trying for Britain.

Many congratulations.

Thank you, Frank.

I don't think being beaten by a Ford engine car

made Mr Ferrari very happy.

Williams pushed Ferrari

very, very hard at the end of that season.

(CARS WHOOSHING)

If Jody Scheckter can win this race,

he has to be the 1979 world champion

because Gilles Villeneuve will hold the second position

to team orders.

Ferrari reliability has been 100%

and they achieved a fantastic achievement.

What a magnificent day for the gigantic Italian crowd.

Jody Scheckter, world champion of 1979

as he wins the Italian GP.

Villeneuve second and in third place in the Saudia-Williams,

Clay Regazzoni.

Turbos produce a lot of power and Ferrari,

after seeing what Renault had done, they thought,

"Maybe this is the way to go for the future for Formula 1

"and in particular, them."

And he's still the best driver in the world.

He's the most complete race driver there is

because a lot of these guys drive with some emotion.

He drives completely with his head.

Thinks this race out, thinks the situation out.

He'll only go quick when the conditions are right.

Yeah, when I came to Montreal,

I had an incredible $2 million contract

for the following year with Brabham

and everything was so fantastic that, you know,

my heart must have beaten up

when I went to the track Friday morning to practice.

But I did...

I dunno, three or four laps and I felt, I,

"What the hell are you doing here?"

I had such a bad feeling it just came

and hit me hard to say, you know, "Do something else.

"Why racing?"

And I just stopped, went up to Mr Ecclestone,

and said, "I want to speak to you."

He said, "I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna retire."

I said, "When are you thinking of retiring?"

He said, "At the end of the year."

"Ah," I said, "so you're retiring from Brabham

"or Formula 1 or what?"

"No, no, no, no, nothing wrong with Brabham.

"I'm retiring from Formula 1."

I said, "Well, you're going to retire now."

He said, "What do you mean I'm going to retire now?"

I said, "Right, (STAMMERS) at this moment,"

I said, "We have to hurry up"

I said, "because we're going to be starting qualifying soon."

Niki said, "Well, what am I going to do?"

I said, "Well, I have no idea what you're gonna do."

I said, "But retire when you can walk away."

Niki jumped in his car

and then went back to the hotel, changed...

And went to California and bought an aeroplane.

And that's when Niki started his airline.

(AIRPLANE WHOOSHES)

'74 in Brasilia,

Nelson Piquet wanted to have a look at Formula 1,

and Herbie said, "Well, if you want to come to the circuit,

"come and clean the cars."

So, he was happy to do that.

And then we found that he hadn't got a pass.

So, I said, "Stick him into the boot."

And we took him into the circuit without a pass.

It was Nelson's way of getting into Formula 1 in the beginning.

He lived with the team basically.

Got on super well with everybody that ran the team.

As Nelson sort of more or less was living at the factory

he was very, very technical.

Being very technical,

Nelson got very, very helpful to Gordan Murray

and they become good friends.

The 1980 world championship

is wide open with prospects

of being one of the most

hotly contested seasons ever

in the long history of the Formula 1

world championship.

The last season

with their Alfa powered car,

I can't remember the times

that Niki actually retired.

We decided to change to the Cosworth engine

which we'd had before.

And we were able to develop with inside ourselves

rather than rely on working with the engine all the time.

The PT49 that Gordon designed

was as good a ground effect race car

as you could have built at the time.

And it's Alan Jones leading the two Ligiers...

Turbos produce a lot of power,

problem is they don't always survive.

And Arnoux is in the pits still.

He came into the pits, he's yet to start the race.

It's Alan Jones now with a very comfortable lead.

Jean-Pierre Jabouille's car went into the pits.

Both Renault's then are out of the race.

And that is Jody Scheckter's car!

The engine has blown and that is something

you do not expect to see with Ferrari

who are famous for their reliability.

And that is really a rare thing, two broken Ferraris.

This is Piquet in the Brabham, behind him Carlos Reutemann...

And Reutaman's locked his front wheels

and gone straight on.

Fangio, the chequered flag.

Alan Jones wins

the first Grand Prix of 1980.

Fine drive by Nelson Piquet,

Murray, coming into second place.

Jean-Marie, being Jean-Marie,

set up a technical working group

and probably instructed them,

"How can we make sure that the turbo would be successful?"

It's strange he would think like that,

not just because he was French and Renault are French or something,

but I mean I'm sure that wasn't in his mind.

The technical group said,

"Well, the easy thing to do is ban skirts."

Increase the minimum weight of the car because,

obviously, the turbo's going to be heavier.

This was definitely directed against Cosworth engine teams

that ran those cars and in favour of

cars with a lot more power.

(SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

I believe the French have interfered

with the rules unconstitutionally,

and they've done so for the benefit of their own racing teams

so that they, after 10 years of trying,

might eventually win a world championship.

We would lose about,

I suppose, 70% of the downforce

from our car

if we take the skirts off.

Ferrari wasn't too up together with the aerodynamics either.

So, it suited Jean-Marie the two manufacturers,

which he always supported

'cause he had a lot more power through them

than he would from his English teams.

Jean-Marie explained to the world

and hoped the drivers listened,

that before each race there'd be a driver's briefing

where they would get everything explained

as to what they shouldn't do and what they should do

and how they should drive.

And if they didn't attend the briefing

there'd be a big fine.

And in fact, if there was a third one missed,

they'd be even worse,

they'd lose their chance to actually race in Formula 1.

(ROCK MUSIC)

The drivers were fined

for not doing what they should have done

or what Balestre thought they should have done.

Didn't pay their fine.

So, we thought about this and they asked me,

"What do you think we should do?"

I said, "Well, if you don't pay your fine

"you won't be able to race, so we don't race.

"It's quite simple."

And then the problems started.

Thank you.

People were explaining to us

that Balestre was going to have us all arrested.

Who cares if we spent two or three years in a jail in Spain,

it wasn't that bad the food was good,

everything was fine.

So, we stuck to our position and wouldn't move.

There was a good reason

for why the three manufacturers

had agreed to go with him,

'cause if you think about it

carefully,

that Jean-Marie had just done

quite a nice package for them with the turbo, no skirts

so why should they be against this?

The chat with the then President of the Spanish federation

come out on our side.

(SPEAKING SPANISH LANGUAGE)

Balestre obviously appeared in Spain.

The people from FISA started to want to come into the circuit.

The police wouldn't let them in.

So, really, it was the start of things

that were getting a bit rough.

FOCA have informed that after a night of negotiations,

the Royal Automobile Club of Spain

informed the FISA that the Spanish Grand Prix

is not to run under the auspices of the FISA

and the presence of FISA officials is no longer required in Jarama.

The FOCA fully support the position of the RAC

and will participate in the race.

The Spanish Grand Prix will count

for the official 1980 Formula 1 championship.

Because the race is not run under

FISA rules, no FISA licenses are required.

And so, we'll give you another statement on Sunday morning

to clarify everything.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

00:36:28.200 -- 00:36:29.960 (SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Alan Jones up alongside Laffite

and Reutemann alongside Alan Jones.

And Reutemann in the Williams car goes into the lead.

There is Villota in the Williams

and Reutemann comes up along to take him...

Oh, no! That's Laffite!

And into Reutemann! The two leaders out.

Reutemann and Laffite out of the race.

Nelson Piquet, the new race leader.

Pironi closing right up and he goes through and past,

and we have another new race leader.

So, Piquet must have blown his car.

He's out of the race.

There's Bernie Ecclestone, the team boss,

very unhappy because now both his cars are out

and it looks as though Didier Pironi is...

(INTERRUPTS) Pironi's in trouble.

Pironi took a big wobble out the braking there.

He's gone wide.

Yes, there goes the wheel nut come off the wheel.

Pironi trying to get through.

Can he get through the pits?

No, indeed he can't because off comes his right front wheel.

There is Alan Jones,

the fourth leader in this inspiring Spanish Grand Prix.

He's got 9 points in sight, but will those points count?

Well, as far as I'm concerned Murray,

those points will certainly count.

And for those who take the view

that we lost three of the major teams,

the fact of the matter is that their withdrawal

was entirely political.

Over the line goes Alan Jones, to win the Spanish GP.

In the end,

the race didn't count for points.

Frank was really upset.

Threatened to sue the FISA

and have Jean-Marie shot or something.

It was getting a bit dramatic.

The two teams who were very competitive

was Williams and Brabham.

Jones goes ahead of Piquet.

And Alan Jones is leading!

Piquet's really attacking.

He's driving very aggressively.

And straight past Alan Jones goes the Brabham!

Amazing.

That's Piquet! That's Piquet blown up.

That's Nelson Piquet, the race leader,

is out of the race.

Alan Jones now moves into the lead.

Bitter gall and disappointment for Nelson Piquet!

Frank had been doing everything he could and was struggling

and got it together in the end.

Jones has done it! And he is the world champion!

And it was nice to see him succeed.

Jean-Marie always believed

that the FISA should be looking after the commercial side,

which is basically what happens in football.

As soon as the opportunity arose

that enough of our contracts expired,

they were going to meet the promoters and talk to them,

collect probably less money

than they was having to pay anyway

and distribute this

in the way they thought fit

after taking a bit of a cut

for their self.

And it wouldn't have been

a bit of a cut

because the FISA was gradually growing in size

and costing more to run.

So, this was their ambition.

So, a bit of a discussion.

I thought we ought to try and do something,

we can't allow this to happen

'cause what will happen eventually,

the teams w...who were putting on the show

and doing everything will finish with nothing.

So, let's start our own championship.

So, I think Teddy Mayer and Max got together

and started to try and write up these...these rules

and Colin or one or two others, we drafted up the technical rules.

So, this was going to be the World Federation of Motorsport.

Well, it's a very difficult, unpleasant future.

If the row isn't sorted out,

there may be a breakaway group

as has happened in boxing for instance and run...

that group may run its own championship.

I'm just not in the position that I can predict anything

other than a rather difficult and grey future as I look at it now.

(SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

The FISA had a really strong position

'cause here we had the teams

that had to pay to keep their-selves alive.

And they could say,

where's the money going to come from?

Sponsors were saying,

"We're not going to be able to support you

"'cause we don't know what's happening."

(SPEAKING FRENCH LANGUAGE)

FISA really holds a strong position now.

Why?

Mainly because they have the licences,

they have a strong enough weapon

over the circuits and other motor racing, you know.

Because, to start off, any car manufacturer,

if they went against FISA,

would not be able to race their cars in any other formula.

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Out of the 12 teams,

probably more than half were bankrupt.

So, they started trying to think of the future.

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