John Frankenheimer's 1966 masterpiece of racing remains a touchstone in both its artistry and execution. Follow the film's incredible journey in this updated article by Nick Zegarac.
James Cameron is a renowned Canadian film director known for directing the two highest-grossing films of all time, Avatar and Titanic. Terminator: Salvation, one of Cameron's biggest hits in the thriller genre, is set in 2018 where humanity is battling machines known as Terminators. The film follows John Connor and Marcus Wright who must work together to save Kyle Reese and other humans captured by the machines. Critics responded negatively, feeling the film lacked a compelling story to match its impressive special effects, and that it featured much less of the violence and tension seen in earlier Terminator films.
The document contains multiple choice questions about various topics including sports, movies, music, and history. It asks the reader to identify things like who scored the first goal in the 2006 World Cup final, who directed the movie Avatar, what was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, and which song won an Oscar. The questions are formatted with multiple choice answers but no identified correct answers are provided.
The Camaro Z/28 was introduced by Chevrolet in 1967 as a high-performance option package to compete in the Trans Am racing series and beat Ford's popular Mustang on the track. It included racing stripes, handling suspension, tires, and a 302 cubic inch small block V8 engine. Driven by Mark Donohue, the Z/28 helped Roger Penske's team achieve many victories over Mustang. While Mustang outsold Camaro over many years, both cars created passionate fan bases and lasting memories for car enthusiasts.
This document analyzes how the film "Rush" constructs themes of masculinity, Formula One racing, and fame through rhetorical devices. It examines how shots of the main character James Hunt with women portray him as masculine and a "player", while a shot of him smashing a mirror suggests racing has broken him as a man. Fast editing makes frames of Hunt racing and with women feel like they are "flickering" together to mirror the speed of racing. Shots of fire and stormy weather symbolize the danger of racing. The document also analyzes how champagne spraying and crowds cheering portray Hunt as a celebrity of high status and fame.
20 toughest video game characters of all time www.gamebasin.comGameBasin.com
This document provides a list of the 20 toughest video game characters of all time. It summarizes each character's backstory and abilities that demonstrate their toughness. Some of the toughest characters include Marcus Fenix from Gears of War, known for his bulky physique and ability to cleave enemies in half with a chainsaw bayonet; Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV, a war veteran who has survived traumatic experiences; and Isaac Clarke from Dead Space, who faces terrifying aliens while experiencing visions of his dead girlfriend. The document discusses each character's feats of survival, combat skills, and ability to overcome adversity that earn them a place on this list of the toughest video game characters.
This document lists automotive component suppliers for the Tata Nano vehicle. It includes companies like Bosch, Continental AG, Delphi, Denso, FAG, Ficosa, Freudenberg, Johnson Controls, Mahle, Saint-Gobain, TRW, Ceekay Daikin/Valeo, and Vibracoustic; and describes the components they supply like the gasoline injection system, starter, alternator, brake system, fuel supply system, instrument cluster, windshield wiper system, rear-wheel bearing, rear-view mirrors, engine sealing, seating, camshafts, and engine mounts.
Chevy Camaro. A Small, Vicious Animal that Eats Mustangs Ship Cars Now
"All through the summer of 1965 virtually every aspect of the vehicle’s design and development, from preliminary design sketches to clay models, was photographed and carefully documented.
" http://www.shipcarsnow.com
Film industry case study - Ex Machina and Suicide SquadIsabelle Humm
This document provides a detailed summary and comparison of the 2016 film Suicide Squad and the 2015 film Ex Machina. It outlines key details about the films' genres, directors, casts, production processes, marketing strategies, release dates, and critic reviews. Both films are superhero/sci-fi films based on existing properties, but Ex Machina had a smaller budget of $15 million compared to Suicide Squad's $175 million budget.
James Cameron is a renowned Canadian film director known for directing the two highest-grossing films of all time, Avatar and Titanic. Terminator: Salvation, one of Cameron's biggest hits in the thriller genre, is set in 2018 where humanity is battling machines known as Terminators. The film follows John Connor and Marcus Wright who must work together to save Kyle Reese and other humans captured by the machines. Critics responded negatively, feeling the film lacked a compelling story to match its impressive special effects, and that it featured much less of the violence and tension seen in earlier Terminator films.
The document contains multiple choice questions about various topics including sports, movies, music, and history. It asks the reader to identify things like who scored the first goal in the 2006 World Cup final, who directed the movie Avatar, what was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, and which song won an Oscar. The questions are formatted with multiple choice answers but no identified correct answers are provided.
The Camaro Z/28 was introduced by Chevrolet in 1967 as a high-performance option package to compete in the Trans Am racing series and beat Ford's popular Mustang on the track. It included racing stripes, handling suspension, tires, and a 302 cubic inch small block V8 engine. Driven by Mark Donohue, the Z/28 helped Roger Penske's team achieve many victories over Mustang. While Mustang outsold Camaro over many years, both cars created passionate fan bases and lasting memories for car enthusiasts.
This document analyzes how the film "Rush" constructs themes of masculinity, Formula One racing, and fame through rhetorical devices. It examines how shots of the main character James Hunt with women portray him as masculine and a "player", while a shot of him smashing a mirror suggests racing has broken him as a man. Fast editing makes frames of Hunt racing and with women feel like they are "flickering" together to mirror the speed of racing. Shots of fire and stormy weather symbolize the danger of racing. The document also analyzes how champagne spraying and crowds cheering portray Hunt as a celebrity of high status and fame.
20 toughest video game characters of all time www.gamebasin.comGameBasin.com
This document provides a list of the 20 toughest video game characters of all time. It summarizes each character's backstory and abilities that demonstrate their toughness. Some of the toughest characters include Marcus Fenix from Gears of War, known for his bulky physique and ability to cleave enemies in half with a chainsaw bayonet; Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV, a war veteran who has survived traumatic experiences; and Isaac Clarke from Dead Space, who faces terrifying aliens while experiencing visions of his dead girlfriend. The document discusses each character's feats of survival, combat skills, and ability to overcome adversity that earn them a place on this list of the toughest video game characters.
This document lists automotive component suppliers for the Tata Nano vehicle. It includes companies like Bosch, Continental AG, Delphi, Denso, FAG, Ficosa, Freudenberg, Johnson Controls, Mahle, Saint-Gobain, TRW, Ceekay Daikin/Valeo, and Vibracoustic; and describes the components they supply like the gasoline injection system, starter, alternator, brake system, fuel supply system, instrument cluster, windshield wiper system, rear-wheel bearing, rear-view mirrors, engine sealing, seating, camshafts, and engine mounts.
Chevy Camaro. A Small, Vicious Animal that Eats Mustangs Ship Cars Now
"All through the summer of 1965 virtually every aspect of the vehicle’s design and development, from preliminary design sketches to clay models, was photographed and carefully documented.
" http://www.shipcarsnow.com
Film industry case study - Ex Machina and Suicide SquadIsabelle Humm
This document provides a detailed summary and comparison of the 2016 film Suicide Squad and the 2015 film Ex Machina. It outlines key details about the films' genres, directors, casts, production processes, marketing strategies, release dates, and critic reviews. Both films are superhero/sci-fi films based on existing properties, but Ex Machina had a smaller budget of $15 million compared to Suicide Squad's $175 million budget.
3) The Hollywood Art 1930 1939 Part TwoNick Zegarac
The document provides a year-by-year retrospective of the 1930s film decade. Some key events summarized:
- 1930s films provided Hollywood escapism as America recovered from the stock market crash. New talents emerged like Jean Harlow and John Wayne.
- 1931 saw the rise of gangster films like Little Caesar. Studios refined sound recording techniques. Greta Garbo's Anna Christie was a success.
- 1932 was a banner year for films. Grand Hotel starring Crawford, Barrymore, and Garbo was a masterpiece. King Kong became a classic.
The crew preview racing across america www.gamebasin.comGameBasin.com
The Crew is an open-world racing game set in a virtual recreation of the United States that is over 5,000 square kilometers in size. Players explore the entire country in cars that can be customized with different performance specs and upgrades. The game aims to revolutionize driving games through its seamless social and multiplayer features across the massive open world.
The document describes a mission during World War 2 where US soldiers have to save Private Ryan after his brothers were killed in action. It provides backstory on the characters involved - Captain Miller is the hero leading the mission, the Nazis are the villains, and other US soldiers help them along the way. The goal is to find Private Ryan in France and send him home safely.
The document provides information about several animated films and television shows featuring sharks:
- Help! I'm a Fish is a 2000 Danish animated film about a teen who turns into a fish. It featured songs by Danish girl groups.
- SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated series about the title character and his friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. It has been hugely successful.
- Street Sharks was a 1994-1995 American-Canadian animated series about crime-fighting human-shark hybrids that was created to promote a toy line.
1) Around 80,000 fans packed Doak-Campbell Stadium last year to see Florida State host Oklahoma in one of the most electric environments, with the "F-L-O-R-I-D-A-S-T-A-T-E" chant being deafening.
2) Sammy Watkins returned from suspension for Clemson and is looking to have a big game against Florida State to potentially put himself back in the Heisman conversation.
3) Collin Klein of Kansas State also has a chance to get back in the Heisman race if he leads his team to an upset victory over Oklahoma while running the ball more than his average of 15 carries.
Blade Runner 2049 was a box office bomb, grossing $249.6 million worldwide against a budget that required $400 million to break even. It opened to $81.7 million globally, below expectations of $100 million, with particularly weak performances in China and other international markets. While the original Blade Runner explored questions of what it means to be human, reviews note Blade Runner 2049 struggles to communicate its examination of existential themes to audiences through cinema.
Action movies are a very popular genre behind science fiction films at the box office. While action movies appeal to wide audiences, they often contain violence and weapons that limit them to older audiences. Action movies have also reflected society by increasingly portraying women in brave and self-sufficient roles. Some key conventions of action movies include weaponry, violence, heroes and villains, vehicles, destruction, and chase scenes told through a fast-paced narrative.
The document summarizes the history and categories of cars used in video games. It discusses how cars have evolved from realistic to futuristic representations and have been adapted for different genres, like racing simulators, action games, and children's games. Key genres discussed include racing simulators like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport, action games like Grand Theft Auto and Carmageddon, and children's games like Mario Kart and Pocoyo Racing. The document traces the evolution of car games from the 1970s to modern games in the 2000s-2010s that featured major graphical improvements and different car customization options.
1) The document criticizes Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" as more of a political infomercial and opportunity for Gore to revisit his loss in the 2000 presidential election than an actual documentary about climate change.
2) It questions Gore's credibility and agenda, pointing out his past support of tobacco farmers and donations from tobacco companies. It also notes inconsistencies in Gore's portrayal of his own actions and stance on various issues.
3) The document argues the film fails to provide a real solution to climate change and global warming, instead just urging people to reduce consumption and drive hybrid vehicles, without substantive proposals. It promotes nuclear energy as the only viable solution.
This issue features: Dave Thomas Road Trips to Summer Events: CSCS, Eurokracy, Truck & Tuner EXPO; Turning 50 in Palookaville; Maxim Lemoine’s LS-Powered Drift Truck; ONDR at St. Thomas Raceway; Greatest Canadian race boat show; Breakfast with the Mississauga Classic Car Club and the Reluctant Passenger shares the keys of Knowledge.
Performance Improvements Aug/Sept Sale Flyer - 16 Pages
Big Summer Savings! New products from Rimtector, Driven Carb Defender & Coolant System Protector, LED Light Bars, LED Tailgate Spoiler, Jaz Catch Cans, TrackMat, and ReadyLift.
Save 50% off three models of Grant Steering Wheels, and TKO Gauges. Sale pricing on AutoGage, B&M, Cruiser, DEI, Driven Oil, Edelbrock, E-Force Superchargers, FAST, Flowmaster, Flex-A-Lite, Holley Fuel Pumps, K&N Air Filters, MSD, Painless Wiring, PIAA, Pertronix, Royal Purple Synthetic Oil, SO-CAL Speed Shop, Spectre Performance, Tuff Stuff, TKO Performance, and more! This one is good until the end of September.
The motorsport genre is a relatively new genre enabled by improvements in camera and film technology. While often considered a sub-genre of action films, motorsport films capture the adrenaline and excitement of racing. The genre started gaining popularity in the 1960s with films like Grand Prix and Winning, inspired by advances in automotive technology and accessibility that allowed audiences to relate to the stories. Common features of motorsport films include protagonists overcoming obstacles through perseverance and rivalries set during street or professional racing.
Cars in popular culture and how they are represented in mass media in the 21s...Tigs0102
Cars have long been represented in popular media like films, music videos, and video games. They are chosen for settings to represent characters and advance plots. Early graphics used cars to look powerful or cool but also promoted car companies. As graphics advanced through history in media and technology, car representation similarly evolved from basic to highly detailed. Cars increasingly influence audiences and consumers due to their popular media portrayals.
Cars in popular culture and how they are represented in mass media in the 21s...Tigs0102
Cars have been prominently featured in mass media such as films, music videos, and video games over the past several decades. As graphics technology advanced, the depictions of cars also became more sophisticated and realistic. Early examples include the Aston Martin in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger and the Ford Mustang in the 1970 music video "Queen of the Highway". Popular films and games like The Fast and the Furious series, Transformers, Gran Turismo, and Need for Speed helped promote specific car brands. Nowadays, cars continue to play a major role in how characters and themes are represented across different media.
Ken Miles was a British racing driver and engineer who had great success in the US. He played a key role in developing the Shelby Cobra and helped Ford win races. In 1966 he was leading the 24 Hours of Le Mans but was ordered to slow down for a publicity photo. That year he died testing a Ford prototype at Riverside Raceway when the car flipped at high speed and caught fire.
Fans of car races, lovers of speed, adrenaline seekers! This information will give you the desired delight! The time getting KY Speedway tickets for NASCAR racing series has finally come!
The quiz document provides details for a motorsports quiz being held by SAE in association with the Quiz Club. It outlines the qualifying rules for the 19 question written qualifying round, noting that 6 teams will qualify for the finals. Bernie Ecclestone is listed as the Quizmaster. The document then provides the 19 qualifying questions covering various topics related to Formula One racing history and details.
The document discusses various facts related to Formula 1 racing history, including:
1) The circuit that previously held the record for most consecutive races at a venue, which had its streak broken.
2) How film crews were given limited permission to film at this circuit in 2009 after the local authorities and F1 head intervened.
3) Additional details on circuits, races, drivers and rules throughout F1 history.
For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it k.docxAKHIL969626
For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.
By Mark Dowie | September/October 1977 Issue
One evening in the mid-1960s, Arjay Miller was driving home from his office in Dearborn, Michigan [1], in the four-door Lincoln
Continental that went with his job as president of the Ford Motor Company [2]. On a crowded highway, another car struck his from the
rear. The Continental spun around and burst into flames. Because he was wearing a shoulder-strap seat belt, Miller was unharmed by the
crash, and because his doors didn't jam he escaped the gasoline-drenched, flaming wreck. But the accident made a vivid impression on
him. Several months later, on July 15, 1965, he recounted it to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that was hearing testimony on auto safety
legislation. "I still have burning in my mind the image of that gas tank on fire," Miller said. He went on to express an almost passionate
interest in controlling fuel-fed fires in cars that crash or roll over. He spoke with excitement about the fabric gas tank Ford was testing at
that very moment. "If it proves out," he promised the senators, it will be a feature you will see in our standard cars."
Almost seven years after Miller's testimony, a woman, whom for legal reasons we will call Sandra Gillespie, pulled onto a Minneapolis
highway in her new Ford Pinto. Riding with her was a young boy, whom we'll call Robbie Carlton. As she entered a merge lane, Sandra
Gillespie's car stalled. Another car rear-ended hers at an impact speed of 28 miles per hour. The Pinto's gas tank ruptured. Vapors from it
mixed quickly with the air in the passenger compartment. A spark ignited the mixture and the car exploded in a ball of fire. Sandra died
in agony a few hours later in an emergency hospital. Her passenger, 13-year-old Robbie Carlton, is still alive; he has just come home
from another futile operation aimed at grafting a new ear and nose from skin on the few unscarred portions of his badly burned body.
(This accident is real; the details are from police reports.)
Why did Sandra Gillespie's Ford Pinto catch fire so easily, seven years after Ford's Arjay Miller made his apparently sincere
pronouncements—the same seven years that brought more safety improvements to cars than any other period in automotive history? An
extensive investigation by Mother Jones over the past six months has found these answers:
Fighting strong competition from Volkswagen [3] for the lucrative small-car market, the Ford Motor Company rushed the Pinto
into production in much less than the usual time.
Ford engineers discovered in pre-production crash tests that rear-end collisions would rupture the Pinto's fuel system extremely
easily.
Because assembly-line machinery was already tooled when engineers found this defect, top Ford officials decided to manufacture
the car anyway—exploding gas tank and all—even though Ford owned the patent on a much s ...
Concept cars are vehicles made to showcase new designs and technologies that may or may not be mass produced. They are often unveiled at auto shows to gauge public reaction. General Motors designer Harley Earl is credited with inventing the concept car in the late 1930s. Concept cars rarely make it to production unchanged, as they need to be modified for practicality, safety, and costs reasons before full production. Some concept cars use exotic materials and designs like gullwing doors that would be impractical for mass production.
Torque N Trivia - Automobile Quiz Prelims | QM Parshav Jain | Quark Quizfest ...BITS Goa Quiz Club
Under the Elixir panel, The BITS Goa Quiz Club in collaboration with SAE BITS Goa, bring to you
Torque N Trivia
Torque N Trivia (TNT) is all things automobile, from history to workings and everything else. The quiz is hosted by Parshav Jain
Theme: Automotives
Date: 26th March
Venue: LT1
Time: 2PM
Team sizes should be 1-3 members. Competition is open to all with on spot registration available as well.
Gear up coz exciting prizes are at stake!!
The Drive to Survive series on Netflix has seen a huge increase in F1 viewership recently, so I made this presentation as a quick run through of the history of F1. It doesn't cover everything, but it does a good job of catching as many of the main points that are good to learn as possible.
3) The Hollywood Art 1930 1939 Part TwoNick Zegarac
The document provides a year-by-year retrospective of the 1930s film decade. Some key events summarized:
- 1930s films provided Hollywood escapism as America recovered from the stock market crash. New talents emerged like Jean Harlow and John Wayne.
- 1931 saw the rise of gangster films like Little Caesar. Studios refined sound recording techniques. Greta Garbo's Anna Christie was a success.
- 1932 was a banner year for films. Grand Hotel starring Crawford, Barrymore, and Garbo was a masterpiece. King Kong became a classic.
The crew preview racing across america www.gamebasin.comGameBasin.com
The Crew is an open-world racing game set in a virtual recreation of the United States that is over 5,000 square kilometers in size. Players explore the entire country in cars that can be customized with different performance specs and upgrades. The game aims to revolutionize driving games through its seamless social and multiplayer features across the massive open world.
The document describes a mission during World War 2 where US soldiers have to save Private Ryan after his brothers were killed in action. It provides backstory on the characters involved - Captain Miller is the hero leading the mission, the Nazis are the villains, and other US soldiers help them along the way. The goal is to find Private Ryan in France and send him home safely.
The document provides information about several animated films and television shows featuring sharks:
- Help! I'm a Fish is a 2000 Danish animated film about a teen who turns into a fish. It featured songs by Danish girl groups.
- SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated series about the title character and his friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. It has been hugely successful.
- Street Sharks was a 1994-1995 American-Canadian animated series about crime-fighting human-shark hybrids that was created to promote a toy line.
1) Around 80,000 fans packed Doak-Campbell Stadium last year to see Florida State host Oklahoma in one of the most electric environments, with the "F-L-O-R-I-D-A-S-T-A-T-E" chant being deafening.
2) Sammy Watkins returned from suspension for Clemson and is looking to have a big game against Florida State to potentially put himself back in the Heisman conversation.
3) Collin Klein of Kansas State also has a chance to get back in the Heisman race if he leads his team to an upset victory over Oklahoma while running the ball more than his average of 15 carries.
Blade Runner 2049 was a box office bomb, grossing $249.6 million worldwide against a budget that required $400 million to break even. It opened to $81.7 million globally, below expectations of $100 million, with particularly weak performances in China and other international markets. While the original Blade Runner explored questions of what it means to be human, reviews note Blade Runner 2049 struggles to communicate its examination of existential themes to audiences through cinema.
Action movies are a very popular genre behind science fiction films at the box office. While action movies appeal to wide audiences, they often contain violence and weapons that limit them to older audiences. Action movies have also reflected society by increasingly portraying women in brave and self-sufficient roles. Some key conventions of action movies include weaponry, violence, heroes and villains, vehicles, destruction, and chase scenes told through a fast-paced narrative.
The document summarizes the history and categories of cars used in video games. It discusses how cars have evolved from realistic to futuristic representations and have been adapted for different genres, like racing simulators, action games, and children's games. Key genres discussed include racing simulators like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport, action games like Grand Theft Auto and Carmageddon, and children's games like Mario Kart and Pocoyo Racing. The document traces the evolution of car games from the 1970s to modern games in the 2000s-2010s that featured major graphical improvements and different car customization options.
1) The document criticizes Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" as more of a political infomercial and opportunity for Gore to revisit his loss in the 2000 presidential election than an actual documentary about climate change.
2) It questions Gore's credibility and agenda, pointing out his past support of tobacco farmers and donations from tobacco companies. It also notes inconsistencies in Gore's portrayal of his own actions and stance on various issues.
3) The document argues the film fails to provide a real solution to climate change and global warming, instead just urging people to reduce consumption and drive hybrid vehicles, without substantive proposals. It promotes nuclear energy as the only viable solution.
This issue features: Dave Thomas Road Trips to Summer Events: CSCS, Eurokracy, Truck & Tuner EXPO; Turning 50 in Palookaville; Maxim Lemoine’s LS-Powered Drift Truck; ONDR at St. Thomas Raceway; Greatest Canadian race boat show; Breakfast with the Mississauga Classic Car Club and the Reluctant Passenger shares the keys of Knowledge.
Performance Improvements Aug/Sept Sale Flyer - 16 Pages
Big Summer Savings! New products from Rimtector, Driven Carb Defender & Coolant System Protector, LED Light Bars, LED Tailgate Spoiler, Jaz Catch Cans, TrackMat, and ReadyLift.
Save 50% off three models of Grant Steering Wheels, and TKO Gauges. Sale pricing on AutoGage, B&M, Cruiser, DEI, Driven Oil, Edelbrock, E-Force Superchargers, FAST, Flowmaster, Flex-A-Lite, Holley Fuel Pumps, K&N Air Filters, MSD, Painless Wiring, PIAA, Pertronix, Royal Purple Synthetic Oil, SO-CAL Speed Shop, Spectre Performance, Tuff Stuff, TKO Performance, and more! This one is good until the end of September.
The motorsport genre is a relatively new genre enabled by improvements in camera and film technology. While often considered a sub-genre of action films, motorsport films capture the adrenaline and excitement of racing. The genre started gaining popularity in the 1960s with films like Grand Prix and Winning, inspired by advances in automotive technology and accessibility that allowed audiences to relate to the stories. Common features of motorsport films include protagonists overcoming obstacles through perseverance and rivalries set during street or professional racing.
Cars in popular culture and how they are represented in mass media in the 21s...Tigs0102
Cars have long been represented in popular media like films, music videos, and video games. They are chosen for settings to represent characters and advance plots. Early graphics used cars to look powerful or cool but also promoted car companies. As graphics advanced through history in media and technology, car representation similarly evolved from basic to highly detailed. Cars increasingly influence audiences and consumers due to their popular media portrayals.
Cars in popular culture and how they are represented in mass media in the 21s...Tigs0102
Cars have been prominently featured in mass media such as films, music videos, and video games over the past several decades. As graphics technology advanced, the depictions of cars also became more sophisticated and realistic. Early examples include the Aston Martin in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger and the Ford Mustang in the 1970 music video "Queen of the Highway". Popular films and games like The Fast and the Furious series, Transformers, Gran Turismo, and Need for Speed helped promote specific car brands. Nowadays, cars continue to play a major role in how characters and themes are represented across different media.
Ken Miles was a British racing driver and engineer who had great success in the US. He played a key role in developing the Shelby Cobra and helped Ford win races. In 1966 he was leading the 24 Hours of Le Mans but was ordered to slow down for a publicity photo. That year he died testing a Ford prototype at Riverside Raceway when the car flipped at high speed and caught fire.
Fans of car races, lovers of speed, adrenaline seekers! This information will give you the desired delight! The time getting KY Speedway tickets for NASCAR racing series has finally come!
The quiz document provides details for a motorsports quiz being held by SAE in association with the Quiz Club. It outlines the qualifying rules for the 19 question written qualifying round, noting that 6 teams will qualify for the finals. Bernie Ecclestone is listed as the Quizmaster. The document then provides the 19 qualifying questions covering various topics related to Formula One racing history and details.
The document discusses various facts related to Formula 1 racing history, including:
1) The circuit that previously held the record for most consecutive races at a venue, which had its streak broken.
2) How film crews were given limited permission to film at this circuit in 2009 after the local authorities and F1 head intervened.
3) Additional details on circuits, races, drivers and rules throughout F1 history.
For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it k.docxAKHIL969626
For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.
By Mark Dowie | September/October 1977 Issue
One evening in the mid-1960s, Arjay Miller was driving home from his office in Dearborn, Michigan [1], in the four-door Lincoln
Continental that went with his job as president of the Ford Motor Company [2]. On a crowded highway, another car struck his from the
rear. The Continental spun around and burst into flames. Because he was wearing a shoulder-strap seat belt, Miller was unharmed by the
crash, and because his doors didn't jam he escaped the gasoline-drenched, flaming wreck. But the accident made a vivid impression on
him. Several months later, on July 15, 1965, he recounted it to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that was hearing testimony on auto safety
legislation. "I still have burning in my mind the image of that gas tank on fire," Miller said. He went on to express an almost passionate
interest in controlling fuel-fed fires in cars that crash or roll over. He spoke with excitement about the fabric gas tank Ford was testing at
that very moment. "If it proves out," he promised the senators, it will be a feature you will see in our standard cars."
Almost seven years after Miller's testimony, a woman, whom for legal reasons we will call Sandra Gillespie, pulled onto a Minneapolis
highway in her new Ford Pinto. Riding with her was a young boy, whom we'll call Robbie Carlton. As she entered a merge lane, Sandra
Gillespie's car stalled. Another car rear-ended hers at an impact speed of 28 miles per hour. The Pinto's gas tank ruptured. Vapors from it
mixed quickly with the air in the passenger compartment. A spark ignited the mixture and the car exploded in a ball of fire. Sandra died
in agony a few hours later in an emergency hospital. Her passenger, 13-year-old Robbie Carlton, is still alive; he has just come home
from another futile operation aimed at grafting a new ear and nose from skin on the few unscarred portions of his badly burned body.
(This accident is real; the details are from police reports.)
Why did Sandra Gillespie's Ford Pinto catch fire so easily, seven years after Ford's Arjay Miller made his apparently sincere
pronouncements—the same seven years that brought more safety improvements to cars than any other period in automotive history? An
extensive investigation by Mother Jones over the past six months has found these answers:
Fighting strong competition from Volkswagen [3] for the lucrative small-car market, the Ford Motor Company rushed the Pinto
into production in much less than the usual time.
Ford engineers discovered in pre-production crash tests that rear-end collisions would rupture the Pinto's fuel system extremely
easily.
Because assembly-line machinery was already tooled when engineers found this defect, top Ford officials decided to manufacture
the car anyway—exploding gas tank and all—even though Ford owned the patent on a much s ...
Concept cars are vehicles made to showcase new designs and technologies that may or may not be mass produced. They are often unveiled at auto shows to gauge public reaction. General Motors designer Harley Earl is credited with inventing the concept car in the late 1930s. Concept cars rarely make it to production unchanged, as they need to be modified for practicality, safety, and costs reasons before full production. Some concept cars use exotic materials and designs like gullwing doors that would be impractical for mass production.
Torque N Trivia - Automobile Quiz Prelims | QM Parshav Jain | Quark Quizfest ...BITS Goa Quiz Club
Under the Elixir panel, The BITS Goa Quiz Club in collaboration with SAE BITS Goa, bring to you
Torque N Trivia
Torque N Trivia (TNT) is all things automobile, from history to workings and everything else. The quiz is hosted by Parshav Jain
Theme: Automotives
Date: 26th March
Venue: LT1
Time: 2PM
Team sizes should be 1-3 members. Competition is open to all with on spot registration available as well.
Gear up coz exciting prizes are at stake!!
The Drive to Survive series on Netflix has seen a huge increase in F1 viewership recently, so I made this presentation as a quick run through of the history of F1. It doesn't cover everything, but it does a good job of catching as many of the main points that are good to learn as possible.
The document recounts an unusual experience the author had at the A1-Ring in Austria where he believes he was stalked by an alien spacecraft. It then discusses how Formula One has progressed tremendously from its early days to now being at the forefront of technological innovation, with many advances directly applied to road cars. While traditional circuits remain popular, modern tracks need to accommodate year-round events, though some feel they lack character. The future of Formula One is uncertain as electric motorsport grows and manufacturers/sponsors may turn to support that field as it drives battery technology advancement.
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THE HOLLYWOOD ART - GRAND PRIX (1966)
1.
2. “I feel that my job is to create an
atmosphere where creative people
can do their best work. In other
words, I have to create an
atmosphere where these people feel
safe, where they feel respected, and
where they feel that they can
contribute.” – John Frankenheimer
In 1966, director John Frankenheimer debuted one of the most exhilarating and immersive 70mm movies in modern
screen history. In many ways, the film Grand Prix proved a groundbreaking experience. To be certain, films about racing
and its unsung heroes were nothing new; Hollywood’s love affair with speed well ensconced in a string of minor and
largely forgettable programmers. Even Hollywood’s ‘king’ - Clark Gable – exploited the allure of Formula-1 racing while
simultaneously wooing Barbara Stanwyck in the potboiler, To Please a Lady (1950). Yet, if race cars appeared at all on
3. the big screen, they were usually as backdrop – a stylish and gleaming prop,
photographed against rear projection with little regard for accuracy or, in fact,
to capture the realities and the harrowing experiences of the actual moment
on film. Frankenheimer was looking to do something different with Grand Prix;
to create an immersive ‘you are there’ racing experience that would put the
audience in the driver’s seat, so close in fact, they could almost feel the rush of
wind at their back as effectively as he could make them hear the ear-shattering
roar of the engines flooding in on all sides of the theater in stereophonic
sound.
At the time Grand Prix was set to go before the Cinerama cameras it was being
touted in the trade papers as one of MGM’s road show ‘landmark’ movies. By
the mid-1960s, MGM – the studio that had once boasted ‘more stars than
there are in heaven’- had succumbed to a relentless cost-cutting brought on by
an ever-revolving line of executives who came and went almost as quickly as
their name plates could be removed from the front office doors.
Profits from studio-produced films had dwindled to less than half of what they
had been a decade earlier. As a result, by 1966 each film MGM green-lit
assumed a daunting responsibility; the future of the studio entirely dependent
on the success and/or failure of one or two epic scale/big budget projects
thrown into the hopper per annum.
With Grand Prix John Frankenheimer and MGM effectively moved Formula-1
racing out of its relative obscurity as a niche sport for racing enthusiasts, seen
only in fuzzy black and white newspaper clippings, into an extreme and
viscerally nail-biting motion picture. Both a fiscal and critical success, Grand
Prix earned MGM millions, temporarily staving off the inevitable demise that
would become the studio’s last act finale a few short years later; Hollywood’s
premiere studio the victim of a very hostile corporate takeover.
Determined, as he was, to capture the experience of the actual 1966 Grand
Prix race on film, Frankenheimer was given unprecedented access to the racing
circuit, inserting fictional characters into a compelling back story that, for many
a racing enthusiasts since, has served as a vintage snap shot and time capsule
marking the moment when Formula One (F-1) racing left its ‘independent’
roots behind and became a worldwide commercial phenomenon.
(Top left): John Frankenheimer, camel-hair coat foreground, poses with an assortment of real-life racers and
film cast. Brian Bedford, who plays doomed British driver, Scott Stoddard is to Frankenheimer’s right, with
Yves Montand, cast as French racer, Jean-Pierre Sarti: blue racing suit behind him. In background, left is
James Garner, arguably Grand Prix’s ‘star’ – as American, Pete Aron, and Antonio Sabato (blue suit and
bomber jacket) as Nino Barlini, representing Italy. (Middle): Frankenheimer’s intensity on the set is plainly
visible. Shooting in and around the actual race presented certain challenges; particularly in time constraints.
As the real Grand Prix would not be delayed on account of the movie, Frankenheimer often had one chance
only to get his camera setups right. (Middle): Co-star Eva Marie Saint, cast as fashion magazine writer, Louise
Frederickson, with James Garner and (bottom) with Yves Montand, who plays her married lover in the film.
4. Grand Prix motor racing originally began in France in 1894. Quickly, it escalated in its appeal from a
simple competition into an extreme test of physical endurance for both driver and car. Innovations in
automotive design ever-increased the stamina of both throughout the early part of the 20th century,
and by 1920 spectators had already seen records of 100mph readily challenged and broken.
Despite these advances, Formula One racing circa the early 1960s had very much retained an elusive
quality as belonging to a moneyed and inbred sect for true thrill seekers. Driving vehicles that, by
today’s standards were perilously unsafe, with very little control over brakes and grip – and, at speeds
topping over 150mph - F-1 drivers were amongst the most daredevil and respected sportsmen, at least
within their chosen profession. This gregarious brotherhood of wild, risk-taking personalities gave rise to
its own mythological characters under a sustained camaraderie - all flashy expertise being tested,
matched and outperformed on the race track.
It was the Cooper Car Company’s evolution in racer design – brought on by the relocation of F-1 engines
behind the driver instead of in front – that began the new era in auto racing. Within a few short years,
rear engine design had become the accepted standard and, by the mid-60s, the 1 ½ liter engine had
given way to a deluxe 3 liter model, adding to the complexity of each racer’s engineering. In this pre-
commercial dawn of F-1 celebrity, cars were primarily built by individuals – not car companies; Ferrari
being the one exception to this rule. F-1 racer, Jack Brabham, as example, built the car that won him the
1966 Grand Prix, the year the fictional Pete Aaron (James Garner) took home the trophy in the film.
The men who designed these vehicles were interested in only one criteria of performance: speed. It was
a recipe for disaster. In excess of 180mph, and on race courses that had not been designed with such
velocities in mind – let alone properly maintained between races – F-1 drivers of this ‘golden period’
owed much more to the risk takers of the early 1920s than the Jeff Gordon’s of today. In less than
capable hands, no aspiring wunderkind could hope to compete. As a seasoned veteran one could
ostensibly aspire to finish the race alive and unharmed.
If to the outside world racing seemed like a display of the most foolhardy, then it also cultivated a
distinct roster of rugged personalities behind the wheel; total originals like Dan Gurney, Graham Hill,
Jackie Stewart, Phil Hill and Bob Bonduran: enigmatic emcees of the sport – shiny superstars fueled by a
love affair with their cars and the overwhelming machismo to stand above the rest. Their level of
commitment far outweighed the dangerous aspects. They were comrades of road, cavalier in their
attitudes about death, but imbued with a titanic joy to push the limit to its absolute extreme.
5. Although love of craft may have resulted in F-1 cars of this vintage
bearing a more esthetically pleasing outward appearance this
photogenic quality came at a great expense to life and limb. The lack of
uniform fabrication of these vehicles on a mass scale – with all the
prescreening and crash-testing that occurs today during the design
stages - yielded to a virtual litany of guaranteed mechanical failures
during every racing season. Some were minor disappointments. Many,
however, proved near fatal. One of F-1’s most celebrated champions,
Sir Stirling Moss broke both his back and legs when the wheel of his
Lotus came off at 150mph. Moss survived the ordeal and continued to
race, eventually racking up 525 competitions, all of them without the
benefit of a seatbelt. The reason for this latter omission seemed
prudent at the time; a wipeout almost always involved the car catching
fire; hence a driver needed to escape his vehicle quickly – if, in fact, he
could do so at all.
Today, this lack of general safety seems utterly appalling. Yet, in the
climate of competition, and, without the luxury of professional
sponsorship, this absence of common sense is almost forgivable. In
point of fact, safety had never been an issue in Formula-1. The
cramped nature of each car’s skeletal metal cocoon, separating its
human element from flashes of speeding pavement only inches below,
trapped the driver in an aluminum skin encompassed by highly
flammable reserves of fuel. Roll bars – designed to protect the driver in
the very real event of a wipe out – were often lower than the driver’s
own head.
With such disregard for driver safety and the increasingly severe and
unpredictable state of racing conditions, F-1 racing practically
guaranteed a few men would die each season. Those odds
exponentially grew for each driver with each year he entered the
competition and remained accident free. Veterans of the sport had
little more than five years behind them. Titans could proudly boast
surviving ten years with life-threatening injuries as their badges of
courage and honor. Reporters assigned to cover these races often
focused more intensely on the casualties rather than the survivors – or
perhaps even the winners, for that matter. After all, a ‘good’ disaster
sold lots of copy.
6. At the start of Grand Prix – the movie, director John
Frankenheimer could have so easily chosen to open his
fictional story with various shots of his actors preparing for
the race. He did not. Instead, Frankenheimer used legitimate
shots of the crowds and the actual F-1 drivers, mechanics and
pit crew, capturing the frenzied backstory unfolding moments
before the 1966 Monte Carlo length of the journey. At once,
both the genius and the mystery behind Frankenheimer’s
storytelling prowess is established. We are pressed to
question; is this a movie? Or is this reality?
Indeed, much of Frankenheimer’s early career had been spent
attempting to bottle the illusiveness of verisimilitude; having
reality and fiction run their parallel course. As remarkable as it
may seem; Grand Prix was only Frankenheimer’s eighth
movie; by far his most technically ambitious, after nearly a
decade of solid work put forth on television, directing
episodes for such serials as Danger (1954-55), Playhouse 90
(1956-60) and The Sunday Showcase (1959-60). Television’s
breakneck speed gave Frankenheimer the ability to think on
the fly and to act quickly under adverse conditions – assets
indeed when attempting helm a mammoth spectacle like
Grand Prix. In the interim, Frankenheimer had also
experiences some major success in Hollywood: The
Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days In May (1964) and
Seconds (1966) among his outstanding repertoire. Overall, he
was a congenial sort, but he knew what he wanted and could
frequently lose his patience when he felt he was not getting
everything from an actor or particular crew member that he
needed to make his ideas work. This delicate balance
between benevolent collaborator and tyrannical despot set
precedence while on location for Grand Prix. Everyone knew
they had better come ready to perform. But they were well
rewarded when they did.
7. (Previous page: Frankenheimer strikes an imperious pose on the set of The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Working with such seasoned pros as Frank Sinatra, Laurence
Harvey and Janet Leigh, Frankenheimer would later describe making the movie thus, “If you cast it correctly there’s a lot of leeway. You can make your mistakes with other
aspects but pull it off with the right cast…and we had the right cast. On the other hand, I’ve found that the more ‘experts’ you have on a movie the less control a director
has.” In retrospect, Frankenheimer was being kind. Sinatra in particular insisted on doing things his own way. “You couldn’t tell Frank anything,” Frankenheimer once
admitted, “Believe me…I tried.” (Middle): Couching James Garner on how to handle himself in the F-1 racer. Garner had his misgivings about doing his own driving –
understandable, given he was going to be in a race with a lot of pros and not only have to drive the car with a weighty camera strapped to its body, but also act in the scene
too. (Bottom): directing an intense Karl Malden as Harvey Shoemaker in The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). (Above left): Frankenheimer, age seven, proudly dressed like a
fireman and driving his toy fire engine in his backyard in Queens. (Middle): Frankenheimer, in the driver’s seat again, this time with a bottle in his hand and a pair of college
buddies at his side, pose for this humorous photo at Coney Island in 1949. (Right): overseeing the camera setup on a sequence from Seven Days In May (1964). “I look at
actors very closely,” Frankenheimer explained, “It’s no accident when the actors excel.”
Frankenheimer broke new ground on Grand Prix. The movie not only introduced audiences to the spectacle of F-1
racing, but it did so in a tremendous splash of sights and sounds captured in the grandiloquence of 70mm Cinerama;
a thunderous hi-fidelity gauge of motion picture presentation that arguably has never been equaled. It is important
to note that by 1966 the cumbersome 3-camera setup of early Cinerama had given way to a newer less problematic
single-strip wide gauge precursor to modern day Panavision. While some Cinerama purists have poo-pooped this
alteration as not having the same equilibrium-altering effect as the earlier process, when projected on its massive
curved screen inside a darkened theater, Grand Prix proved every inch the exhilarating ‘you are there’ movie-going
experience, capable of placing the audience in the driver’s seat.
Born on February 19, 1930, John Frankenheimer had initially toyed with the prospect of becoming a professional
tennis player. Although his interest in the movies would eventually surpass this early pursuit, another real love of
Frankenheimer’s, particularly as a young man was racing. “I learned early on that I lacked the genuine skill required to
become a pro,” Frankenheimer would later muse, “So my passion for racing became my hobby and movie-making my
career.” Maybe so, but Frankenheimer found a way to combine the two in Grand Prix; his fascination, nee love of the
automobile clearly represented in every frame of the finished movie. During WWII, Frankenheimer honed his talents
as part of the Motion Picture Squadron for the Air Force – a tenure that directly launched his career in television in
1953 – directing episodes for ‘You Are There’ on CBS, under the guidance of Sidney Lumet. Frankenheimer’s first
movie, The Young Stranger (1957) was a hateful experience.
“I became a director at twenty-four…” he would later muse, “…which is probably pretty good (except that) everybody
thought I was an inexperienced kid who didn’t know what the hell I was doing. The only way I could get it done was to
just say (in a commanding tone) ‘Do it!’…and I’ve never stopped that.”
Frankenheimer concentrated doing solid work within his comfort zone on television, accruing 152 episodes to his
name. Then in 1961 Frankenheimer once again took a chance on helming a movie – this time, The Young Savages.
The experience proved rewarding with Frankenheimer acknowledged for his subtly in expressing complex
philosophical ideas in an uncomplicated and highly entertaining way. His biggest successes prior to Grand Prix were a
pair of political thrillers; 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate, regrettably yanked by Frank Sinatra after the
assassination of President Kennedy, primarily because of its similarly themed plot to murder a political official, and,
1964’s Seven Days in May. Having already proved he could do witty and sophisticated – Frankenheimer next decided
it was time to try for something ‘grittier’ – more viscerally alive. After all, there was no subtly to Formula-1 racing.
8.
9. (Above left): F-1 professional race car driver Phil Hill gives Yves Montand some last minute advice in preparation for the climactic race in which Montand’s Jean-Pierre Sarti
meets with an untimely fate. Montand proved a quick study in his ability to drive like a pro. It couldn’t have been easy. The early racing cars were fairly primitive in their gear
shifts and steering control. (Middle): James Garner and Japan’s Izo Yamura – in brown coat – inspect the engineering that will give Pete Aaron his edge. In the movie, Aaron
is an outcast after a deliberate attempt to pass fellow racer Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford) results in Stoddard’s near fatal crash. Branded a pariah and relegated to the press
corp. Aaron has his day on the track again, this time for a wealthy Japanese manufacturer looking to enter the competition. (Right): James Garner’s movie career had taken
off after appearing in William Wyler’s The Children’s Hour (1961) opposite Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. A string of notable movies followed, including The Great
Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and 36 Hours (1965). Despite the fact that Steve McQueen had been Frankenheimer’s first choice for the role of Pete
Aaron, Garner proved an inspired second choice. Garner looks like a rugged stock car racer. Moreover, by the time he had completed his training with professional Bob
Bondurant, Garner was given a glowing recommendation. Bondurant even speculated that in a real race he might beat out several prominent contenders.
Actor Steve McQueen had always been Frankenheimer’s first choice for the part of American driver, Pete Aaron. Initially,
McQueen had expressed a genuine interest in making Grand Prix. This was a definite plus since McQueen had already
established himself as one of the most iconic stars of the decade. Unfortunately for Frankenheimer, he sent his assistant
Eddie Lewis in his stead to negotiate and iron out the contractual details. Reportedly, McQueen took an instant dislike to
Lewis, or perhaps was simply appalled that Frankenheimer had not come himself; thereafter dropping out of the project. It
was a bitter pill for Frankenheimer to swallow. But once McQueen had dug in his heels there was virtually nothing to be done
about it. His refusal stood; the part of Pete Aaron going to James Garner instead. Ironically, when Grand Prix proved to be
one of the biggest hits of the year McQueen begrudgingly began to look for a movie with like-minded appeal; settling on Le
Mans (1971): an inferior rip-off of Grand Prix.
Garner always felt he had been foisted onto Frankenheimer’s good graces by MGM who, after several solid efforts for them
probably felt confident in his clout to carry the box office. Although director and star eventually fell into a syncopated rhythm
of working together, Garner would later muse that Frankenheimer ran roughshod over most of the cast, including him. “He
was a tough son of bitch,” Garner once declared, “Bossy and exacting. But we came to an understanding. It was either that or
get the hell out of his way. I did a little of both and it all worked out – although I don’t know, given the chance, that I’d do it
again.”
In service to Frankenheimer’s quest for authenticity, the rest of Grand Prix’s roster was rounded out by an international cast;
including French matinee idol Yves Montand (as introspective driver and lady’s man Jean-Pierre Sarti), Japan’s Toshiro Mifune
(as automotive designer Izo Yamura), England’s Brian Bedford (the ill-fated Scott Stoddard), Italy’s Antonio Sabato (ego
driven, Nino Barlini) and Eva Marie Saint (fashion writer, Louise Frederickson). The one cheat in Grand Prix – in other words,
the only aspect of its production that was not in keeping with Frankenheimer’s pursuit of exact recreation - stemmed from
his decision to use Formula-3 cars outfitted to look like Formula-1 racers; a choice made more for consideration of where and
how to mount the weighty Cinerama cameras rather than for mere artistic license. In the film, these replacement vehicles are
indiscernible in either appearance or performance to their F-1 counterparts, so the cheat – though necessary, is nevertheless
forgivable.
Meanwhile, principle cast – except for Garner - were remanded to the care of Jim Russell’s racing school for an intense three
week training session on how to drive the hairpin turns and twists of each course in the circuit. Frankenheimer absolutely
10. (Above top): this fascinating image taken of Garner peering from behind Frankenheimer’s careworn stare with a piercing one of his own seems, at least in retrospect, to
typify their working relationship. Each respected the other’s opinion, although infrequently neither was particularly pleased with the other. (Top right): Pete Aaron’s
penultimate victory in the movie is a rather curious epitaph, Garner walking the track long after the crowds have gone home, left to imagine the roar of the engines and
without anywhere else to go, except in training for next year’s race. (Bottom left): a bearded Prince Rainier, luminous Princess Grace Kelly and their son, Prince Albert makes
an impromptu pit stop to schmooze with James Garner during the Monte Carlo shoot. A fracas between the Grimaldi and Onassis households briefly held up production, but
Rainier was particularly cordial to cast and crew, perhaps as a favor to his wife who still retained a fascination for movies and film-makers after her own retirement from the
fray of Hollywood. Kelly’s story is, like all fairytales, one of both magic and tragedy. In retrospect, her surrender of stardom to aspire to the throne paved the way for a
terrible accident, ironically not far from where Grand Prix’s exhilarating racing sequences were filmed and, in fact, where Kelly had driven a silvery sports car with Cary Grant
for 1955’s To Catch A Thief. (Bottom right): Frankenheimer attempts to give Antonio Sabato a bit of advice about staying the course as co-star Francois Hardy looks on. In
the movie, Sabato is a self-appointed hot-shot with a giant-sized ego. In reality he was much easier to get along with. Hardy plays his disposable love interest.
refused to use doubles during these races. He was eventually ‘convinced’ to accept Russell’s recommendation that actor Brian
Bedford was hopelessly out of his element. He simply could not learn to shift gears. As the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo alone
requires no less than 250 gear shifts, Bedford’s failure to grasp the esthetics proved an insurmountable obstacle. As a result,
professional racer Phil Hill doubled for Bedford’s driving, wearing dark goggles and a face mask to conceal his identity.
As for James Garner; he was assigned F-1 champion Bob Bondurant as his driving instructor. The two spent a month racing
various professional cars at Willow Springs, at the end of which Bondurant gave a glowing review of his student’s capabilities:
“If he is in a real race he would have been able to beat several drivers. In Formula-1 that’s saying a lot!”
As cast continued to hone their racing craft, Frankenheimer was enduring a bit of negative press at Monte Carlo. The
director’s penchant for doing things his own way (some would suggest ‘the hard way’), coupled with a certain dispensation
for the niceties and his own quest for total perfection, circulated a rumor that Frankenheimer could be counted on to be
utterly rude towards cast and crew. In an interview conducted at the time, Frankenheimer publicly apologized if his
11. (Above): From the vast and expansive to the most miniscule detail, Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix captures the essence of F-1 racing as no movie before or since. Saul Bass’
exquisite use of split screen and layering of images, from crowd shots to close ups on pistons and stopwatches, evokes a pure adrenaline rush from the audience; the need
for speed met with some truly exquisite visuals lensed by cinematographer Lionel Lindon.
gregariousness had lent itself to such interpretation. But behind the scenes, he continued to craft his production according
his own likes and with the same clear-eyed sense of determination that had been misinterpreted as ‘rude.’
In retrospect, this snap assessment of Frankenheimer’s general demeanor seems quite unfair. After all, Frankenheimer was
an artist, and artists are regularly allotted a certain margin for temperament. Yet, even prior to stirring the buzz about his
reputation for being difficult, Frankenheimer quickly discovered a genuine and growing animosity amongst the professional
drivers. “Everybody was skeptical about another movie being made about racing,” Frankenheimer confided many years later,
“As a matter of fact, Ferrari wanted nothing to do with it.”
The rebuke from the automotive designer and manufacturer is significant – since without Ferrari’s participation, Grand Prix
lacked the necessary air of authenticity indigenous to F-1 racing that Frankenheimer so desperately needed to include in his
film. But Frankenheimer was also encountering skepticism from professional racers who had already decided for themselves
that Hollywood was horning in and cheapen the sport. The one Formula-1 racer on Frankenheimer’s side was Carroll Shelby,
who proved to be the lynch pin in securing drivers Dan Gurney and Phil Hill to a two year exclusivity contract. Eventually, pro
drivers Graham Hill and Bruce McLaren joined the cast, adding even more authenticity to the production.
Still, the grumbling continued. After all, allowing Frankenheimer’s crew to shoot key sequences along the circuit just hours
before the actual race meant less time for the real mechanics and drivers to test the course prior to the real thing. The Monte
Carlo shoot was further complicated by a minor internal feud between the two ‘owners’ of this coastal principality; with both
the Onasis and the Grimaldi families quietly refusing the director access to portions of the streets necessary to shoot the race
on the same day. For the most part, Frankenheimer kept his cool throughout these gripes and groans, although at one point,
the film’s star, James Garner had unkind words of his own to pass along to one of Monte’s shop keeps.
The incident began innocently enough with a negotiation between Frankenheimer and a small band of locals whose area
businesses lined the narrow and winding streets. The production unit manger had paid compensation to all of them to stay
indoors and keep their doors closed while Frankenheimer restaged portions of the race for the benefit of close ups and in-car
shots. However, upon further consideration, a few of the owners banded together, feeling that more remuneration was in
order.
12. (Above): Grand Prix’s back story attempts to reveal some fundamental truths about the sport itself. Above, promoter Jeff Jordon (Jack Watson) spurs on Scott Stoddard as
he rounds the first bend in his qualifying meet. But Jordon is a pariah; a manager who saw Scott’s brother die on the course a year ago and has since goaded Scott – who
comes from a wealthy family - into assuming the racing mantel in order to maintain his own cushy lifestyle. But Scott suffers from anxiety and bouts of depression over his
brother’s loss. Hence, when co-driver Pete Aaron cuts him off during the race, Scott loses control and sustains horrific injuries in a terrible crash. Everyone blames Pete, but
in Grand Prix’s penultimate moment – Pete’s victory at the final race - Pete hoists Scott (sufficiently recovered from his physical injuries, though arguably never to be fully
cured of his inner demons) by his side, sharing his laurel and trophy with Stoddard who has come in second. More than anything else, Grand Prix is a movie about valor,
honor, integrity and sportsmanship; of men achieving greatness through the spirit of competition and recognizing the importance of their comrades, both living and fallen,
who have made this sweet moment of victory possible.
Meanwhile, Garner – who had been dunked in the Mediterranean and loaded onto a boat for a key sequence, was quietly
developing a chill in the corner. After thirty minutes of stalemate between Frankenheimer and the shop keepers, Garner
ordered his boat back to shore, whereupon he made it quite clear in no uncertain terms that unless the proprietors cleared
the premises immediately he was prepared to start tossing each and every one of them into the Mediterranean for an
impromptu swim.
As the actual Grand Prix got underway, Frankenheimer found yet another form of opposition brewing from the local officials
in Monte Carlo. His cameraman, John Stevens had been outfitted on a rig inside an Alouette-3 helicopter for aerial
photography. But the pursuit of cars around the difficult terrain and winding streets necessitated the copter swooping down
on crowds at very severe and dangerous angles. Publicly, Frankenheimer instructed the pilot and Stevens to remain more
removed from the action – then, in private commanded them to come as close as possible to the spectacle: the result, some
of the most breathtaking aerial racing footage ever captured on film.
To stage the initial horrific accident that cripples fictional character Scott Stoddard, Frankenheimer and special effects man,
Milton Rice came up with the inspired notion of removing the engine from one of the cars, creating a mock up with a dummy
on board, then firing the car from a hydrogen canon. The final effect proved startlingly real. However, there is a postscript of
irony pertaining to this event but removed from the actual film. During the planning stages for this catastrophic wreck,
Frankenheimer had walked the Monte Carlo course with F-1 driver, Lorenzo Bandini to make inquiries as to where on the
actual course such an accident would be most likely to occur.
Bandini prophetically directed Frankenheimer’s attention to ‘the Dog Leg’; a perilous twisting stretch of road that would
claim his life two years later under an almost identical set of circumstances as depicted in the film. Immediately following
wrap up on the Monte Carlo location Frankenheimer rushed to complete what would ultimately become his ‘minor miracle.’
Frenetically cutting together the first thirty minutes of the film, including all of its racing footage, the director telephoned
13. (Top left): Louise comforts Sarti in a courtyard after a fashionable victory party given in his honor. The fashion maven has instantly become a groupie of the racing circuit
after getting involved with the dashing – married – Frenchman, though she is as yet unaware of what it means to love a man who is destined to die. (Top right): After being
stripped of his ride, Pete Aaron makes a pit stop at Ferrari in the hopes of securing a new sponsor. Agostini Manetta (Adolfo Celi) is sympathetic to Aaron’s plight but offers
him a job on the press corp. instead of a position as a driver. Pete takes his lumps, but is quickly picked up by Japanese auto manufacturer, Izo Yamura (Toshirô Mifune).
(Middle left): one of many contributions made by Saul Bass, whose stylized fragmentation of the action sequences transformed mere racing footage into a sumptuous
parade of almost balletic images; creating a dance out of stock car racing. His stylistic approach was almost immediately snatched up by commercial artist Andy Warhol and
then Haskell Wexler who used it almost identically when lensing the romance between Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in 1968’s Thomas Crown Affair. (Middle right):
Jessica Walters as Pat Stoddard strikes a particularly accusatory glance. Perhaps once a groupie herself, she has since come to despise the racing circuit, primarily for what
it’s done to her husband and their marriage. Even in consoling herself with presumably various lovers, Pat is still unable to rid herself of her love for Scott, and, her
overriding contempt and pity for any man who thinks he can conquer the circuit unharmed – a sobering truth that Louise will ultimately have to discover for herself. (Bottom
left): the absolute genius of Grand Prix is how many unique ways Frankenheimer and cinematographer Lionel Lindon discovered to shoot a series of car races. Herein we see
the careworn look of immanent death on Sarti’s face mere seconds before the moment of impact and death occurs. (Bottom right): Pete Aaron’s final look about the
deserted track. Does it suggest displeasure, sorrow or more of the same to follow? Grand Prix’s ending suggests more than the obvious; that F-1 racing is a young man’s
sport. It also hints, if only from the peripheries, that perhaps it’s time for Pete to retire. What comes next? We’ll never know. Grand Prix concludes on a deliberately
ambiguous note of introspection and contemplation; something of a tradition in 1960s movies, but poignantly given its due in these final moments.
Ferrari with an invitation to a private screening. Although the word on high was at first as cold as the initial reception, Ferrari
eventually relented to the request after Frankenheimer, a projectionist, and, all the necessary equipment were flown out to
Ferrari’s estate. Any apprehensions Frankenheimer may have had going into the screening were immediately quashed after
the house lights came up.
Not only was Ferrari overwhelmingly impressed with the footage and Frankenheimer’s direction, but the wily automotive
pioneer immediately provided the film crew with complete access to his facilities and the right to use the Ferrari name in the
rest of his movie. Grand Prix now had the official seal of authenticity and approval that Frankenheimer had hoped for. It
would be the last bit of positive news for the rest of the film shoot.
14. (Above): Grand Prix was an arduous shoot to say the least and the toll it took on Frankenheimer frequently showed. MGM was constantly pressuring to shorten the shoot by
cutting off the purse strings, leaving Frankenheimer deflated. As much as he had championed to make the picture at the start he was just as relieved to have its production
behind him. Frankenheimer had invested so much of himself in the movie that the resultant spectacle was clearly the vision of one artist. The purity of that vision is evident in
every frame. Years later, Grand Prix continues to hold up under the most microscopic of artistic scrutiny. Whether the movie is beloved or discounted as good storytelling, no
one can deny the unique place it occupies in American cinema; the seemingly irreconcilable realms of art and sports brought together in one hell of a thrill ride.
“It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the
commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is
presented to you as an assignment to direct.” - John Frankenheimer
The beauty, or perhaps the curse, inherent in the Grand Prix circuit is that no two courses are alike. During the mid-60s,
when the film Grand Prix was being prepared, the course at Spa in Belgium was considered amongst the most dangerous
– not the least for its unpredictable weather conditions. True to form, Spa had another surprise in store for
Frankenheimer’s cast and crew.
With cameraman John Stevens mounted inside his helicopter perch, the staged race necessary for capturing close ups of
the stars driving their vehicles in excess of 150mph began in earnest. However, midway through the shoot cast and crew
suddenly found themselves at the mercy of an unexpected torrential rain. The intensity of the storm proved such a
concern that at one point Phil Hill’s camera car accidentally passed Dan Gurney’s racer. In a moment’s notice, other
racers began to pile up along various points of the embankment.
F-1 racer cum stunt man, Jackie Stewart lost control of his vehicle, breaking his shoulder in a wreck along the route. Bob
Bondurant missed a turn and became trapped beneath his car when it flipped upside down. Most of those who remained
in the race did not make it past the third lap. Upon viewing these wrecks, spectacularly captured by Stevens in the
helicopter, Frankenheimer was suddenly faced with an esthetic dilemma. In editing the footage together, the rain storm
seemed preempted by no dramatic signifier. It simply appeared out of nowhere. Quickly, Frankenheimer improvised a
close up shot of his own hand holding a starter’s watch – dropping a few beads of water from above and off camera.
Later, in post-production, Frankenheimer and sound editor Gordon Daniels would add audio of a thunder clasp to signify
the beginning of the storm.
15. (Above left top and bottom): scenes from a wreck. The shoot in Belgium was interrupted by a torrential downpour which caused even the skilled stuntmen to lose
control of their racing cars. (Top middle and right): Cameraman John Stevens; whether mounted onto the side of a low-flying helicopter or posing proudly for this
portrait next to an F-3 racer being outfitted with a Panavision lens, Stevens work on Grand Prix represents some of the most exhilarating near-fatal brushes with death
and racing footage ever shot for a major motion picture: spectacular stuff. (Bottom right): no – that isn’t another stunt man, but the film’s star James Garner being
engulfed when a gas line on the racer he was driving accidentally ruptured and ignited. Thinking quickly, Garner pulled his racer off to the side and leapt from his
vehicle, attended to by professional pit crew with extinguishers in hand. Garner sustained only minor burns as a result of this incident. Just how that’s possible is
perhaps a miracle we’ll never be able to understand!
Production advanced to Brands Hatch in England where James Garner found himself the unwitting participant in a stunt
sequence gone wrong. Originally, Garner’s racer had been rigged with butane to catch fire as his car rounded the final
lap. At first, the effect seemed to go off without a hitch. As Garner came into camera view around the last hairpin turn,
the leaking gas suddenly caught fire, blazing a trail behind him. What came next, however, was unexpected.
The sequence called for Garner to propel his racer to the sidelines and quickly disembark so that a waiting crew of men
with fire extinguishers could put out the controlled blaze. However, as the car came to a halt, an unexpected breeze
fanned the flames into a frenzy. A fireball erupted, temporarily engulfing the car with Garner still inside. Frankenheimer
chose to have the footage remain in the film, and although Garner emerged from this stunt relatively unscathed, a
distinct burn mark can be seen on his neck in the close up that concludes the last shot in the film.
As principle photography wrapped, Frankenheimer turned his attention to the daunting task of beginning post
production. Designer Saul Bass was called in to begin the arduous process of editing the raw racing footage into an
eclectic series of visceral montages. Noted for his unusual fast paced editing (perhaps nowhere more eloquently on
display than in the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho 1960), Bass’ impressionistic main title sequences and a
dizzying array of tri-panel action sequences effortlessly translated standard racing footage into pure cinema art. Bass
undertook a monumental risk in creating these intricate tapestries out of the Formula-1 racing footage; no two
sequences are alike in their rhythm, pacing or tempo.
Composer Maurice Jarre, fresh from his collaborative work with director David Lean on Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and
Doctor Zhivago (1965) was hired by Frankenheimer to augment the action with an orchestral score. Jarre’s rousing
‘Grand Prix’ theme – part march/part ballad proved the ideal musical companion. In point of fact, Jarre’s music was
much more prominently showcased during the film’s lengthy overture and entr’acte than anywhere else in the movie –
the one exception being a beautifully staged sequence for the third race in which the multiplied images of cars tearing up
16. (Above top row): three views of a musical maestro at work. Born in Lyon, France in 1924, Maurice Jarre’s compositions have graced more than forty feature films,
winning the Oscar for Best Original Score three times for a hat trick of David Lean classics; 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia, 1965’s Doctor Zhivago and 1984’s A Passage to
India. In between these monumental scores, Jarre tirelessly composed for some very high profile movies, including 1962’s The Longest Day and 1973’s Ash
Wednesday. His last composition for a feature was in 2000. A year later he retired. Although he also composed several symphonic works, Jarre’s most famous
contributions are undeniably in film; his approach to underscoring usually highlighted by a central theme, ably supported by other moderate, complimentary pieces of
music. The main theme is almost always such that it can be interpolated throughout the movie and at various tempos to either evoke a march, a romantic interlude or
even a hint of the mysterious, as in a requiem. Jarre’s racing theme for Grand Prix falls just a hair shy of his better recalled masterworks, but remains a clever musical
thread on which all of the movie’s highs and lows are extracted.
(Bottom row): Saul Bass, whose multiplications of a single image, juxtaposed with split screen wipes to illustrate simultaneous action was later aped by director Brian
De Palma, though arguably with far less intricacy. Bass began his career in advertising, his graphic approach soon finding a permanent home in Hollywood, creating
startling main title sequences for movies as diverse as Carmen Jones (1954, his first feature), 1955’s The Night of the Hunter, 1956’s Around the World in Eighty Days,
1959’s Anatomy of a Murder and Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). But without a doubt the work he contributed to Grand Prix proved his most prolific and extensive.
Frankenheimer entrusted Bass implicitly. Bass was given practically free reign to craft whatever visuals he felt best suited the material, his only instruction – not to
repeat himself for any of the individual races. He never did.
the scenery is transformed by Bass into a slow motion mechanical ballet of automobiles with Jarre’s fairytale-like
rendition of the march playing over the soundtrack.
Meanwhile, sound effects editor, Gordon Daniels was busy combining the various real life sound elements captured from
the actual races. Daniels had placed a sound recorder inside each vehicle prior to the race, documenting the distinct noise
of each engine and subtle nuances of gears shifting, axels grinding and tires screeching. In the final sound mix, the full
girth and intensity of auto-racing came to life as few could have imaged. Certainly, nothing like Grand Prix’s sound design
had ever been experienced in theaters before. With its 100 ft. curved Cinerama screen divided into various portioned
observations by Bass, Grand Prix became a truly immersive movie-going experience. Conscious of the fact that all this
graphic movement caught through the Cinerama lenses might prove too much for some, the roadshow engagement of
Grand Prix came equipped with ‘barf bags’ attached to the back of each seat in the theater to accommodate those faint
of heart and weak of stomach.
17. While many racing purists criticized and even denounced Grand Prix as
sensationalizing the dangers of Formula-1 racing, the truth of the matter is
that Frankenheimer had meticulously researched F-1’s history. The
recreated wrecks in his movie were actually ripped from sports newspaper
clippings, interviews and relayed accounts from real drivers, some of whom
had watched helplessly as their colleagues slipped into that margin of error
and lost their lives as a result.
As though to prove the point, on April 7, 1968, F-1 racing lost one of its
most enigmatic personalities, Jim Clark (left) in a horrific accident –
ironically played out on an inferior F-2 course in Germany. Later attributed
to mechanical error, Clark’s demise sent shockwaves throughout the sport.
Considered an ‘untouchable’ at the pinnacle of his career, Clark’s death
impacted F-1 racing considerably.
Most immediately, it forced engineers to redesign the width and
separation of tires on all its racers. Until Clark’s time, tires were apt to fly
off when pressed into service under extreme mechanical duress. After
Clark’s death, all F-1 racers were required to have their tires bolted to their
suspension.
In the wake of Clark’s loss, another driver, Jackie Stewart emerged as the
unsung crusader for more advanced safety measures. In fact, Stewart
made it his personal manifesto to rid the sport of such unbearable
calamities. Initially, he met with vehement opposition from fellow racers.
Eventually, Stewart was successful getting the Sport’s Commission to
accept more stringent measures for security barriers and seatbelts which
have since become part of the accepted standard in racing safety.
Today, Formula-1 racing is arguably no longer the sport of true daredevils.
While the very real risk of injury still exists, fatalities have been greatly
reduced and are rare. But in the interim, the days of the independent have
given way to the commercial hybrid of corporate sponsorship and the
entrance of mainstream automotive companies gearing up to out-flex each
other’s engineering muscle. The likes of Ferrari have been met with
competition from Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota and Honda; revolutionizing
automotive design; the bygone rickety creations have become
supercharged, high-tech speeding billboards for their own companies.
In reflecting on the film Grand Prix today, only this obvious transformation
of the sport seems to peg Frankenheimer’s movie as a time capsule from
the 1960s. Otherwise, nothing else seems to date the movie. It remains as
compelling and exhilarating as ever. Undeniably, the skillful editing of Saul
18. Bass; diverse performances from the international cast and Maurice
Jarre’s melodious orchestral arrangements immensely contribute to
Grand Prix’s timeless allure.
Yet, at the heart of the movie there is really only name to which
almost all of the credit must remain ascribed, and it is John
Frankenheimer. In his commitment to really getting down to the nuts
and bolts of Formula-1 racing, his unforgiving focus that occasionally
was misconstrued as belligerence rather than perfectionism,
Frankenheimer’s perseverance as a film maker has stamped Grand
Prix with a mark of excellence few movies – racing or otherwise – can
lay claim. In a sea of imitations depicting life behind the wheel,
Frankenheimer’s is the one true testament to that greatness within
the sport, and, as time goes by there is little to suggest another such
celebration will be coming along to better his efforts.
“When I look back…” Frankenheimer mused years after the thunder
and roar both racers and crowds had ceased to echo in his ears, “…I
don’t know how the hell we ever did that film!”
Forty-seven years later, racing enthusiasts and film fans alike remain
eternally grateful to Frankenheimer – that he dared to try.
Gentlemen…start your engines.