Daily Express F3 Trophy Final - Crystal Palace October 1970 

I was gonna say "Who's here from Past Gas?"

Cheers!

I didn't;t catch that the first time. It was Hunt attacking Morgan.

Did you ever see james hunt race in formula ford? What else do you remember about him?

Maybe you should watch F2 and F3. It’s often very close.

An Other was my godfather David Morgan 🤣

Francie Howerd did a song; 'His name is James Hunt, They call him The Shunt, He likes nothing better than a nice glass of milk....'

I actually have a working Video 2000 recorder standing right next to me. I have used it to digitalized my families old tapes. If you are also interested in motorracing of the 1980's: I have uploaded a few of the video's that appeared to be rare for me.

@Andrew Fraser. There's a book project about Gerry Birrell being written. You may want to get in touch with the author, Darren Banks.

Nice story, Hunt was a good bloke.

Yes, now we have tarmaced run off area 100' wide and the spectators are so far back they need a telescope to see what little action there is

I grew up just by South Norwood Lake. From about 1968 when I was thirteen until it closed in 1972 I would be at the track for car and bike races. My parents lived there for another thirty years and when I visited, we often strolled in the park but for me, walking the old, almost unrecognisable, circuit was always a real pleasure.

I missed it until I saw the comments. The announcer totally missed it.

Back in my days bullshit. Talking about spectators and safety, i bring Le Mans 1955. Yeah good ol dayz.

Hi Wilhelm - we used to hear it from South Norwood.

Nobody did. It hadn't been invented yet.

same!

He was know for that. Always kept his helmet on when fighting though.

Hahaha, good on him

yeh right at the end. oops. same reason chapman didn't get a knighthood you know! he punched a policeman of a foreign crown..

@@mrrolandlawrence The Netherlands I believe.

I was there just when they came together, Hunt's car broke apart!

..... not if his driving in this clip is anything to go by.

@@gregtaylor6146 Dave Morgan was a Hard Charging Gentleman!

And in the film it was Niki Lauda who he collided with.

@@jacobmassey3897 - ..... and not at Crystal Palace either.

Apparently racing around a park at 100 mph was considered too dangerous back then... looks pretty safe to me

There were concerns about rising speeds. The track was very tight and narrow. Mind you, the same could be said of the Monaco GP circuit and that still persists. Also, the track wasn't a great money spinner for the GLC. Only around 5 or 6 meetings a year were allowed due to environmental issues e.g. houses very close to the track up around The Glade section of the circuit. Finally though, athletics was gaining in popularity and the GLC decided to put their eggs in that basket and authorise the building of a second grandstand in the athletics stadium which was situated adjacent to the track. This couldn't be done without it spilling over on to the back straight of the circuit, so that was that as far as motor racing was concerned in Crystal Palace Park. The last meeting was in September 1972.

I think the slogan at the time was 'Sport For All'. Just not for motor racing fans...

30k a year

Cost is relative. So is Gini Coefficient.

That was a really dirty move by the driver who shoved Hunt off.

No, first the shove, then the right hook when Trimmer's on the floor. Good ol' James. Shame there isn't an interview.. "Well the bladdy wally rammed me up the arse old chap!".

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