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@Airflow and @John thank you both for the additional information. Very interesting stuff.Is the Peterson film available in English language and / or subtitled?
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@Airflow and @John thank you both for the additional information. Very interesting stuff.Almost all interviews are in English (Emmo, Watson, JYS etc). The documentary itself is in Swedish. Not sure who retails it though.
It is on RFM as a download, listed in Swedish but with subs
Aha. So it turns out, the story is BS, after all. And yet, nobody has followed my lead to look into period sources, it's still all accounts from memory, which as usually mix smatterings of knowledge with perceived wisdom. Examples? The 100 bottles of bubbly always went to the fastest man on the first day of practice, not to the pole man. And: Peterson did indeed record his fastest time on race rubber, not qualifiers, since he found out that the qualifiers went off before the completion of one fast lap. Andretti stayed on the qualies, and lost out - thats basically the story of the 1978 British GP qualifying. Read period sources, preferably in the specialist magazines, not the tabloids, and you will find out why this particular story doesn't fly, instead of the nonsense that some people write years afterwards.John wrote: ↑5 years agoFor those here who don't speak this glorious language, I'll translate what's written in the upper right corner:Airflow wrote: ↑5 years ago Here is a source from the book Superswede by Johnny Tipler. Sadly in swedish but the names and qoutes is there. Chapman wanted Andretti to be the fastest lotus in all the sessions. Ronnie had 20 gallons during qualification while Andretti had 5. However, at Brands, Ronnies manager forced Chapman to give Ronnie qualifying tyres and low fuel, Thats how the pole happened. Quoted by Eddie Dennis and Ghugie Zanon
Thanks Kals for the article, I really enjoyed it.
Following that stunt, he demanded light fuel and qualifying tires as well, which he recieved. He then used this setup for the rest of the qualifying session. He also had a personal contract with Count Zanon, who payed him some money for each pole.At Brands, Mario had 16 sets of qualifying tires while Ronnie only had worn race tires from the previous GP. When he was sent out with a full tank of fuel, he qualified a full second faster than his teammate.
The poleman at Brands recieved 100 bottles of champagne as a prize, most of which Chapman hogged.
@Airflow can you upload a new version without the camera flash on the right hand side?
- So he had fueled up runs
- He was a second faster than Andretti on one of those runs
- It seems that his final pole lap however was a light fuel run, with sticky rubber.