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The two organising bodies
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FOCA, representing the British,

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and the French dominated, FISA,

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have been at loggerheads

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for two years.

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Never has motor racing been
in graver danger of collapse.

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As soon as you don't compete
and don't care

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whether you win or not,

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you're gonna lose.

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That's for sure.

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Show me a good loser
and I'll show you a loser

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'cause some people
are proud of losing.

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(THEME MUSIC)

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We made a point
which is what I wanted to do...

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make a point to the FISA.

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They can say what they wanted to say
and do what they wanted to do,

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in the meantime, they couldn't run

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a Formula One event without us.

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I called a meeting
at the Hotel Crillon

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to tell the world
we would be racing in South Africa

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with skirts knowing full well
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the points wouldn't count
for the world championship.

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We looked very, very powerful
and very strong

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but it was a bit of a brave thing
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'cause half the teams
had a big enough problem

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actually arriving to Paris,
financially.

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And there was one or two
that I was personally financing.

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Jean-Marie was quite sure

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that this would never happen
and we'd never all stick together.

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No-one could have stopped us

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having a race anywhere.

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So, we made the announcement
and we raced in South Africa.

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The Grand Prix racing world
has gathered uneasily

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here at Kyalami in the Transvaal,

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and as a result of that
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no Alfa Romeos and no Renaults.

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Are the FISA cars coming?

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They would dearly like to come

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I know that,

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but I think until such time

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as FISA take an official stand
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I think they can't go out on a limb.

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It's a Grand Prix for sure

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with 19 cars from the Formula One

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Constructor's Association.

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(INAUDIBLE) Piquet leading

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and just look at that spray.

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It must be absolute murder
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Just look at that gap.

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Look at the battle for third.

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It's what is turning out
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South African Grand Prix.

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Piquet's into the pits.

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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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Terrific scrap for second position
nearly losing it.

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And off goes Geoff Lees,
the English driver!

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Alan Jones is into the pits.

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The world champion of 1980

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starts 1981 very poorly indeed.

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And now, into the lead
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the Argentinian driver

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in the (INAUDIBLE) Williams car.

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And it's significant that Reutemann
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since the beginning of the race.

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Until now, he looks set
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on the right tyres.

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Over the line goes Carlos Reutemann.

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It's been a very, very good
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especially for Carlos Reutemann.

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In the end,
the race didn't count for points.

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Not only was Formula One
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it was also the business
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They'd built their brand
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and been successful obviously.

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The last thing they wanted
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In fact, everyone acknowledges
the fact

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without Ferrari
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and Mr Ferrari knew that.

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I always used to say about him

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he would have been a very good

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used car dealer.

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Renault and Ferrari and Alfa decided

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whether the race was gonna happen
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they were gonna be there racing,

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which was not at all good
for Jean-Marie

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because he relied
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Alexandro Buzzi from Philip Morris

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was fed up with all the bickering
and the arguing and whatever

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and said we ought to get
something sorted out.

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So, I think it was Max,
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met in a hotel,

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actually in the basement of a hotel,

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I think it was in the winter

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and it was miserable,
snowing outside

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and I was concerned at also
how we were gonna get out of there

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because of the weather.

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But we just dragged on

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until we got something put together
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And it was our job then
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that we need to sign it.

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It was the right thing to do.

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in fact Mr Ferrari had insisted
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that they had a veto
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that would damage their company.

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And they've never used it.

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Jean-Marie had to sign
the agreement.

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That's how the Concorde Agreement
was born.

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In the end that's the strength
that Philip Morris was.

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We accepted the skirt ban
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The rules were quite clear.

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The cars had to be 6cm
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to avoid the ground effect.

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Colin, the first
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is it legal?

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Well, yes, I wouldn't go

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to the trouble of designing

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and developing a car

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for 21 months and make it,

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if I wasn't absolutely sure

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that it is legal, yes.

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And is there a fixed gap
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or is that going to be
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No.

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The...the gap as required

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by the regulations is 6cm

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and we fully comply
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So, you feel that you are within

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the 1981 FISA regulations?

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100%, yes.

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The innovative and controversial
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has been excluded by the stewards

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for allegedly infringing
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It was basically, in effect,

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two different chassis

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as usual with Colin
very, very clever.

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Ken Tyrrell was the one
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who actually made a protest.

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There's an air of mystery
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When we first got here
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by the scrutineer

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who was technically qualified
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We went out, then started
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and immediately there were
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from our fellow competitors.

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The protests were considered
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who were non-technical people,

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so, they've just said
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but they haven't said why,
they haven't been specific at all.

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The bottom line is very simple.

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If we allow this to happen,

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we'll all have to do the same

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which would have been a disaster

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because it was an expensive
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With the winter long,
bitter feuding

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between motor racing's
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and the car constructors over,

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it's a race that's wide open

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because of the new no skirts ruling

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plus new cars
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including the new turbo Ferraris.

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Fastest in practice
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Nelson Piquet.

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Four seconds
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in spite of the new
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which is supposed to slow the cars.

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Gordon come up with an idea

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how we could run the car,

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so, when it come into the pits

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it would comply
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Just look at the way
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He's got a very special suspension
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And now, Hector Rebaque from Mexico
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is challenging the man
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in the world championship
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on Reutemann's home ground.

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Well, as I said (INAUDIBLE)
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Rebaque is not a world class driver

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and he's in an infinitely
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which just makes a mockery
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Well, either way,

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Hector Rebaque
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look as though he's almost
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Nelson Piquet is coming through
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the fourth Grand Prix in his short

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world championship career

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to the delight of his pit crew.

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So, there is no doubt at all

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about the fact that the technicians

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have already mastered the rules,

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overcome the ground effects problem

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and the cars are now going

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even quicker than they did

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last year.

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Everybody who is around the track...

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..can see that your car
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..down on the track, OK?

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So, it's moving in fact.
Yes, but they...

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All the cars move on the springs,

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all of them.

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There's no difference.

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The regs are saying that the car

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should be 6cm high
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No, they don't.
No, they don't.

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The regulations say

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all measurements shall be taken
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on a flat metal surface

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with a driver on board
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Clever designers conceived
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when a car leaves the pits

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it's dropped down by means
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performs as near a ground effect
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and seconds before it comes in
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up goes the car and she's legal

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when she comes
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Frank protested the whole system.

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Although he didn't know
how it worked,

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because they tried to do exactly
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in rather a cruder way.

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But, by then it had been approved

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that the regulation
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Ground effect is now back
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The whole season
was a bit of a scrap

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between Brabham and Williams
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and the season finished
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I was trying to get Formula One
in Vegas.

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The conclusion was very simple,

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the only place it could ever be

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was in the car park
at Caesar's Palace.

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So, I met with Billy Weinberger

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who used to run the hotel.

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Billy said to me, "We don't know

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"about Formula One

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"and probably the people
don't even know

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"what Formula One is.

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"Tell you what we're gonna do?

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"We're gonna have a board meeting."

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He took me down into the basement,

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opened a door which normally

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three or four people
would have to sort of open.

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We went inside.

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Billy had said to me, "Don't worry,
it's all...

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"it's completely soundproof."

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So, Billy said, "OK,
we'll vote on this.

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"Good. Unanimous.

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"We'll have the race."

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It's a big risk
for Caesar's Palace to take.

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The man who persuaded them
to take it,

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the man who can persuade anyone
to do anything,

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the Mr Fix of the Grand Prix circus
is Bernie Ecclestone.

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It looks like
a colossal investment.

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How much money is involved?

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Umm, close on $10 million

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at the moment.

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And whose money is that?
All Caesar's Palace money?

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Sure as hell isn't mine.

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There was a lot of G force

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with the way the corners
were put together.

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And after the first day's practice,

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it was obvious that the drivers
were in trouble

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with all the pain in their neck.

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And Carlos got a hold of the masseur
that used to look after the boxers.

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I went to see this person.

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After a financial discussion,

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they decided to favour Nelson.

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I don't know
whether I ever told Carlos.

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Good evening.

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A special addition of the programme

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to give you the last Grand Prix

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of the season live from Las Vegas.

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Now, this is the race

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that will decide the 1981

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World Drivers' Championship

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and it's the closest title race
for years.

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(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

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(CHEERFUL MUSIC)

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Nelson was quite confident.

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Nelson Piquet who's struggled
a little bit in practice,

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went to get a massage
at the Caesar's Palace hotel,

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and the guy did him such a mischief

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that Piquet's neck was alright,

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but he had bruises
all the way down his back

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and was in quite considerable
discomfort yesterday.

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In fact, he had to go to his doctor
for treatment

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to recover from his massage.

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Carlos was on pole position
in his usual sort of mood,

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thinking of all the good reasons
why he shouldn't win the race

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or couldn't win it.

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And away they go.

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It's Alan Jones taking the lead,

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Villeneuve in second position

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taking all that he can

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out of the turbocharged
Ferrari power.

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Well, the question now is where are
the world championship contenders?

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Carlos Reutemann adopting the maxim
of Marshal Petain,

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the imaginary line
they shall not pass.

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And they, in his case
is Nelson Piquet.

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And Piquet, I think he's done it,
Piquet's got it.

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Piquet's made it to Rosewood,

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and that now puts Piquet
in a winning position

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for the world championship.

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So, is Reutemann in trouble
with his car?

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Or is he just a bit shell shocked?

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Carlos did a Carlos.

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Reutemann has this tendency

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when things aren't absolutely
right for him

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to go into a decline and give up.

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There is the world champion,

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actually becoming world champion

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of 1981.

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The end of an exciting
and well worth it

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Caesar's Palace Grand Prix

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and everything
that Bernie Ecclestone

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has put into motor racing.

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And there is Bernie Ecclestone
with Max Mosley

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who has worked so hard
with Ecclestone

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on Formula One racing.

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Let's go to the pits now
and Mark Thatcher.

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Here we are, Nelson Piquet

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is suffering
from total heat exhaustion.

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He's still in the car,

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he's been sick on his...

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in his overalls and everything.

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He hasn't got enough strength yet

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to get out of the car.

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He's now been given water.

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Almost spoon-fed

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but he's gonna be in the car
for some time.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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I declare officially Nelson Piquet

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world champion of 1981.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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We'd won the world championship.

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That was really the end for Carlos.

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He stopped racing after that.

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00:20:42.240 -- 00:20:46.680
Ron used to be very meticulous,
very methodical.

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Knew where he wanted to go

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and knew more or less
the way to get there.

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(SOFT MUSIC)

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In Teddy's case,

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I think he was looking to find

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a way to win.

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And I think he looked at Ron

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and thought,

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"This is the guy
I'm sure that can help us."

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00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,920
So, that relationship started
I think in that way.

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If I was to have a race team now,

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the only person I'd want
on board with me

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would be Ron.

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(ENGINE REVS)

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I retired two years ago
to start my own airline,

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00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,160
the airline works,
everything is alright,

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00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,280
so, I felt that my heart

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00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,480
is still beating very hard
for motor racing.

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00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:51,720
When Niki decided

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to come back into Formula One

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00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:57,680
it was John Hogan
that actually sorted it out.

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00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,880
John was a bit concerned,
"Would it ever work?"

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00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,880
So, he spoke to James Hunt.

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00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,360
He said, "James,
Niki wants to come back.

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00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:08,720
Do you think he can make it?"

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00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,560
And James told him, "Well,
it's just like riding a bike."

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(ENGINE REVS)

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(SOFT MUSIC)

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Just the top one, yes?

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00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:41,720
Each page, no?

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Every page.

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Marlboro more or less
offered a million dollars.

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00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,160
Thank you very much.
Thank you.

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00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,720
James we've been reading
the stories in the newspapers

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that you've been offered

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2.5 million pounds by Brabham

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to come back to the sport?

381
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:00,920
Now, is that a genuine offer?

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00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,120
Has that offer actually been made?

383
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,000
Yes, that was a genuine offer

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to come back and drive for them
for next year.

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00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,000
So, what are you gonna do about it?

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00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,960
Well, reluctantly
I've decided to turn it down

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for the same reasons really that...
that I retired in the first place.

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00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,360
It was one of self-preservation.

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00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,280
Teddy's departure from McLaren

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was under a bit of a cloud.

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People like Philip Morris

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were very involved
there at the time,

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so, it became easier for Ron
to take the team over.

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Here at Kyalami

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it is a hotbed of rumour
and controversy,

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00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,360
because as of now we do not know
whether there is going to be a race.

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31 Grand Prix drivers
assembled in South Africa

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for the start
of the 1982 racing season

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00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,120
have refused to take their cars
onto the Kyalami circuit.

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00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,360
All the top drivers
due to take part have said

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00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,760
they won't compete
if they are forced

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to sign a new super licence.

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00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,480
They say it's unfair.

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00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,920
They were contracted
to be with teams

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00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,560
and paid to do a job.

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00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:25,640
And they thought

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00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,600
if they didn't like the team
too much

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00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,760
they'd leave.

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00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,320
During the two last month
we announced to the driver

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the new rule
of the whole championship

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and they receive in December

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00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,080
all the information
for the new licence you see.

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And they don't protest,
absolutely not.

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00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,520
And they sign
all the licence formula

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for the championship
and they say nothing.

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The vast majority
of the drivers signed

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but then that was in December

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when they were all sitting at home
by themselves,

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miles from any other driver,
whereas FISA and FOCA

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get together all the time.

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Drivers really believed and thought

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00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,040
they should be
completely in control,

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00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,880
and now they had to comply
with certain conditions,

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00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,960
which they were terribly
unhappy about.

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00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,080
Nelson was our driver.

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He was one of the leaders
of the strike.

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00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,600
And he sort of got up
and had a speech.

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And he stood on the piano,
pulled down his trousers

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00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,040
and said, "Bernie can come
and kiss my arse

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00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,120
if he wants me to drive."

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00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,040
And it got back to me
what he'd said.

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00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:42,120
Which is alright,
I mean, it was what he...

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00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,040
he was trying to give a message.

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00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,440
(LAUGHS)

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00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:46,960
What did you tell your two drivers,

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00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,200
world champion Nelson Piquet
and Ricardo Patrese?

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00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,280
Well, they've got a contract

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00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,440
to say that
they'll drive in this event,

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00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,280
and if they don't
they'll be in breach of contract

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00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:57,760
and that'll be
the end of their contract

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00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,680
as far as I'm concerned.

442
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,600
This means
that you would in fact fire them?

443
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,120
If they're not here
within a reasonable time

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00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,080
to practice these two cars
for this Grand Prix

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00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,880
they won't be driving
for Brabham anymore.

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00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,440
The idea sort of made
people understand

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00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,640
that perhaps
they wasn't quite as strong

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00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:16,840
as they thought they were.

449
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,800
When people start threatening,
you got to do something about it.

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00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,040
They have done things

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00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:36,880
that the drivers haven't had
a chance to fight about.

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00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,520
The drivers are feeling
browbeaten again,

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00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,000
and I have to say that I think
they are being browbeaten.

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Alain Prost
approaches the finishing line

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00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,360
on his last lap at some 200mph

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00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,560
and completes it to win
the South African Grand Prix.

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00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,480
Rene Arnoux will be third,

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00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,280
so, it will be first and third
for the two Renaults

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and a famous victory
for the French team.

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00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,960
We've seen some superb racing.

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00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,240
Let us fervently hope

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00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,400
that this is the end
of the politics.

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00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:33,720
Alain Prost was,
and I still to this day believe,

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probably the best driver.

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He drove the car on his own
without any help,

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00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:40,600
people called him the 'Professor'.

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00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,120
He made sure he looked after

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00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,080
his tyres and gearbox
and all the things

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00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,920
that people have engineers
doing for them today,

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00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,120
Alain did on his own.

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00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,480
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,080
(ENGINE REVS)

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00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,120
People think that Alain Prost
was gonna win quite easy

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00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,800
after what had happened
in South Africa.

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00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,000
And there is Piquet

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00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,880
coming up to challenge Prost,
and is he going through?

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00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,960
He is!

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00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,560
The Brabhams are up
into third and fourth place.

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00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:35,840
Yeah, Prost slowed there.

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00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,880
Both Brabhams seem
to be going extremely well.

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00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,280
Piquet is having a real go
to get past Arnoux,

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00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,240
his car is obviously handling
a lot better.

483
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,280
And there he goes
through into second position

484
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,200
there he goes Nelson Piquet.

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00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,880
Piquet challenging Villeneuve.

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00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,240
And Piquet now, he's going to try
and go around the outside,

487
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,800
and Villeneuve's off.

488
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,360
Villeneuve's off, he's lost it.

489
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,600
He put his wheels on the grass.
He's off.

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00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,680
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

491
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,920
Patrese slumped over the wheel.

492
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,120
I've never seen a driver
slump over the wheel

493
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,360
quite like that before.

494
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,880
There's Nelson Piquet,
you see how tired he is.

495
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,080
He has his head on the side
of the cockpit there

496
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,480
and just fallen over,
can no longer hold it up.

497
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,040
Piquet is on the last lap now.

498
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,360
He's got a ten second lead
if he can just stay conscious.

499
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,040
And Nelson Piquet
wins the Brazilian Grand Prix!

500
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,080
Nelson had suffered
with the G Forces,

501
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,480
and he was in pretty
bad shape.

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00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,560
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,560
Because they didn't win,

504
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,160
Brazil put a big question mark
on the turbo cars.

505
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,000
So, they decided
what they would protest about

506
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,720
was our water-cooled brakes.

507
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,560
The British teams
designed a brake cooling system

508
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,640
which involved filling this tank
here with water.

509
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,880
It was sort of that much.

510
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,880
And when the cars started a race,
the tank was obviously full.

511
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,600
But the turbo teams say
once the race got underway,

512
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,200
the water was quickly used up

513
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,080
as we can see
by pushing this switch.

514
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,840
And suddenly the cars
were some 45 to 100 pounds lighter

515
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,520
and under the minimum weight limit.

516
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,200
Max Mosley,
let me put the point to you first

517
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,280
that this quite simply
is a fair cop.

518
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,760
You've been breaking the rules
and you've been caught out for it.

519
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:01,880
No, absolutely not.

520
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,240
You see, the rules
are very, very clear

521
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,640
that the car must be weighed

522
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,400
with its normal quantity
of lubricants and coolants.

523
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,320
And the water in the tank
is a coolant.

524
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,600
We complied completely
with the regulations.

525
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,880
And the name of the game is winning.

526
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,720
Second place isn't of much interest.

527
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,760
People will exploit
every advantage they can,

528
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,840
unfair or otherwise,

529
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,040
as long as it does not directly
contravene the rules,

530
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,120
break the rules.

531
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,920
It probably was a bit naughty to do,

532
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,080
which it was.

533
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,360
Jean-Marie understood
exactly what was going on,

534
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,960
but the federation
was very, very, very powerful.

535
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,720
And somebody at the top of Renault

536
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,920
didn't want Jean-Marie
supporting us.

537
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,840
So, Brabham and Williams
got disqualified

538
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,440
and we lost the points
for that race.

539
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,240
A much depleted field

540
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:56,640
will contest this weekend's

541
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,040
San Marino Grand Prix

542
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,160
after the latest row

543
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,120
has split this troubled sport.

544
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,360
Most of the British
teams have pulled out

545
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,840
after the decision to disqualify
the Brabham and Williams teams

546
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,440
from the recent
Brazilian Grand Prix

547
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,400
which they finished first
and second.

548
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,200
Now, we've got
Bernie Ecclestone with us,

549
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,480
who of course is the Brabham chief
and also President of the FOCA

550
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:15,560
and the man who's leading

551
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,240
this walkout of the FOCA teams.

552
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,440
If you continue this boycott,

553
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,680
you could in fact wreck
the entire Formula One season.

554
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:22,760
It looks like it unfortunately.

555
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,560
I mean, it's not my intention.

556
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,120
I mean, we haven't started anything.

557
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,880
Instead of a full grid of 26 cars,

558
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,880
there are only 14

559
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,800
because the bitter
political wrangling

560
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,280
which has dominated
Grand Prix racing this year,

561
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,800
has continued here.

562
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,520
The mainly British
Formula One constructor's teams

563
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,880
have almost all withdrawn
from the race.

564
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,240
Very often
with these simple disputes

565
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,880
reality steps in,

566
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,400
and the stark reality

567
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,240
was the teams needed
to be at the race

568
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,520
because they needed the money.

569
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:27,920
Our business was racing...

570
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,360
so, we thought the best thing
we can do

571
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,800
is to make sure our cars

572
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,560
complied with the regulation
for the weight of the cars,

573
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,440
so, we added the weight and raced.

574
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,320
Mr Ferrari wouldn't fall
passionately in love with drivers

575
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,600
knowing full well
that they could lose them,

576
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,800
but with Gilles he treated him
a little bit more like a son.

577
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,720
Gilles was quick for sure.

578
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,320
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

579
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,400
(SOMBRE MUSIC)

580
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,280
After we lost Gilles,
it hurt Mr Ferrari a lot.

581
00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,560
There was even talk about,
at that time,

582
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,800
that maybe they would stop racing,

583
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,440
which was quite an unusual thing

584
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,400
to even think about
that Ferrari could stop racing.

585
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,200
(SOMBRE MUSIC)

586
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,680
(LOUD THUD)

587
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,600
Didier Pironi
went off in his Ferrari

588
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,560
at over 160mph
leaving him with badly broken legs.

589
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,120
Something needed to be done.

590
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,640
The cars were getting too fast.

591
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,240
(KNOCK ON TABLE)

592
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,960
Jean-Marie decided
to get rid of the whole thing

593
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,640
with ground effects.

594
00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:44,120
So, he decided the cars should have
a completely flat bottom

595
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,440
so it would have no effect.

596
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,600
The future was turbocharged.

597
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:50,250
00:36:50.440 -- 00:36:53.400
Colin Chapman,
the man who made Lotus cars famous

598
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,360
around the world, has died.

599
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,720
He was 54.

600
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,800
The police were called
to his home in Norfolk

601
00:36:58,880 --> 00:36:59,960
early this morning,

602
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,680
but they say
there were no suspicious

603
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,120
circumstances surrounding his death.

604
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,400
A spokesman for Lotus
says he died of a heart attack.

605
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,400
We'd been at a meeting in Paris,

606
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,040
and he was fighting fit.

607
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,360
People who saw Chapman
as recently as last week

608
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:13,880
say he didn't seem worried,

609
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,960
but he must have been
under pressure.

610
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,240
Lotus had been searching
for new bankers,

611
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,000
Profits have been hit hard
by recession

612
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,320
and questions were being asked

613
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,240
about a connection
with DeLorean cars

614
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,320
in Northern Ireland

615
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,360
and payments made by them to Lotus.

616
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,360
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

617
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,680
Everything a bit of a mystery.

618
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,560
That was the...the strange thing.

619
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,680
He was a big loss for Formula One...

620
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,680
and also the loss
of a very good friend as well.

621
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,720
We didn't see the famous Chapman cap

622
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,120
go up in the air today, I think.

623
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,720
Well, you weren't looking,
I...I... It went up.

624
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,880
He was one of the founder
FOCA people,

625
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,920
right at the very beginning.

626
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,080
And now he was gone.

627
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)

628
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,480
Prost and Piquet
absolutely side by side,

629
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,000
but Prost has the line
for the (INAUDIBLE)

630
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,440
if he can get onto the brakes last.

631
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:54,520
And he does.

632
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,040
Alain Prost, quiet, determined,

633
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,360
very ambitious, is almost home.

634
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,480
Today, Alain Prost looked to me

635
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,080
a little bit like a world champion.

636
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:13,080
Alain Prost coming through
to win his fourth Grand Prix

637
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,960
and very likely
becoming the first ever

638
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,600
French world champion
in Formula One Grand Prix racing.

639
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:32,240
(SOFT MUSIC)

640
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,960
We were accused of cheating
and using illegal fuel.

641
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,320
And this was a lot of trouble
caused by Renault.

642
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,120
Jean-Marie Balestre supported us
against Renault

643
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,160
which was strange.

644
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:03,960
He never sided with them
and said we'd done the wrong thing.

645
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,080
And we didn't cheat
and our fuel wasn't illegal.

646
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,600
In the lead is Nelson Piquet.

647
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,240
Nelson Piquet has just lapped Prost,

648
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,560
which is going to blow the
world championship

649
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,280
absolutely wide open.

650
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,680
And there is Nelson Piquet
crossing the line

651
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,520
to win his second Grand Prix
of the year.

652
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,760
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)

653
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,840
Now, this is the most
important pit stop of 1983,

654
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:04,960
it's a slow pit stop.

655
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,720
And out gets Prost!

656
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:07,800
Sensation!

657
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,520
Alain Prost,
the world champion designate

658
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,800
when this race began
gets out of his Renault

659
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,920
and retires
from the South African Grand Prix.

660
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:31,360
And here comes Piquet over the line
goes the world champion of 1983,

661
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,480
Nelson Piquet
pounding the steering wheel

662
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,680
of his Brabham BMW.

663
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,440
I was behind the wall.

664
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,520
I said if...if he has problem
with his car

665
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:42,800
I am world champion,

666
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,840
but in my mind
I would not like to...

667
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,320
he has problem,
because I think he was...

668
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,080
he was the best this year
with his car.

669
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,280
I really want to win
this championship for me.

670
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,760
And last year or in 1981,
maybe I said, I wanna win for the...

671
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,280
for the team, for the mechanics,
for everything,

672
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,680
but now I really wanna win
for myself.

673
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,400
The other man
is the team manager at Brabham.

674
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:06,480
Is you gotta work directly

675
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,040
under someone
like Bernie Ecclestone,

676
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,640
is that very difficult?

677
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,880
Reply what you want
into the TV camera.

678
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,320
Good morning Mr (INAUDIBLE)

679
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,800
You got to work
for one of the hardest

680
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,080
bosses in the whole business,
haven't you?

681
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,720
Yeah,
he's very public-minded.

682
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,440
He tries
to do a lot for TV,

683
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,840
sponsorship maybe forgets
a bit about the cars

684
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,600
and mechanical side of it,

685
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,480
but he...he seems to worry more
about the showmanship of it all.

686
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,360
He's a dealer, wheeler-dealer.

687
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:37,880
He's like a...

688
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,640
like a Howard Hughes
of motor racing.

689
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:42,360
You know, where everything's
gotta be immaculate

690
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,240
and he's like, just...just goes
over the top sometimes.

691
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,840
Brabham were the first team

692
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,720
to win the world championship
with a turbo car.

693
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,080
I think sometimes in life

694
00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:00,600
things happen
that everything goes well.

695
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,640
We'd won
a couple of world championships

696
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:03,920
within three years.

697
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:06,160
Without any doubt

698
00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:09,600
I think Nelson was considered
to be the best driver.

699
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,440
We never had any big, big problems
with anything else,

700
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,440
so, it was a happy time.

701
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,560
After all this success,

702
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,720
no-one would have ever believed
that we're never gonna do it again,

703
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,360
in fact after four years.

704
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,400
Brabham was no longer mine.

705
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,120
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