Congratulations on safely running 200+ mph in a streetcar. With nothing along the runway to judge your speed, the sensation of speed isn't as-intense as say, racing on a street circuit. It gives you an appreciation for people who race at someplace like the Isle of Man, or Monaco.
I am sure you have heard of the movie "Grand Prix," starring James Garner, about the 1960's Formula 1 circuit? It followed the story of the Honda F1 team, euphemistically-referred-to as (wait for it...) "Yamura!" We'll, at-least the first syllable is correct for us!
It was filmed around the world during the F1 season in about 1965, and the movie used "fly-eye" multiple split-screen technology, like looking at the same scene, on a Cinerama (wide-screen format, 70 mm & filmed using Panavision lenses), but with many multiples of the same scene. They also used fewer multiple-but-different images, like during the racing scenes, for the starts of the races. Truly-cool, you could watch all the stars at the same time, as the starter got ready to flag-off the state of the race.
John Frankenheimer was the director, and I have to say, it's one of my all-time favorite movies. You may be familiar with another of his works, one of the best Cold War movies ever-made,
The Manchurian Candidate. Not the one made with Denzel Washington, the one made with Frank Sinatra!
Back to the Grand Prix movie. As I said, they filmed it around the F 1 circuit, including the US Grand Prix, held during those years in Watkins Glen NY. Well, I was a kid who loved cars, my older brothers drove Jaguars and Triumphs (sports cars) and my Dad used to take me every fall to the USGP in Watkins Glen NY. so, I was there when the movie producers were filming the F1 race in-anticipation of using the footage in the movie. Unfortunately, they couldn't secure the rights to the race for use in the movie, so unlike the other races that year the production crew was "on the circuit," (F1 was often referred to as, "The Circus") the only footage they were able to use was a scene where Garner is shown with the trophy from the race, sitting on a desk. A big letdown for me, as I was there for the filming! The film crew had a couple of different vehicles they ran during practice to attain film footage, one was a Ford Shelby Mustang, and the other one was...a Ford GT 40, with the front clamshell nose removed, a platform mounted above the front chassis/suspension, and a huge Cinerama camera mounted to the platform! I'm sure it was 'exciting' driving that rig on the racecourse at the same time as the F1 cars, and with essentially all your vision to the opposite side of the track obscured by the huge, boxy Cinerama camera! I had heard that the camera was worth more than the Ford GT40!
So, the racers of the day were guys that you older fellows may have heard-of, as-in Jim Clark, Graham Hill, John Surtees (still the only rider/driver to win Grand Prix driver's/rider's championships in GP on two wheels and four!), Dan Gurney, Jack Brabham, Mike Spence, Jochen Rindt, Jo Bonnier, Lorenzo Bandini, Ronnie Bucknum, Bruce Mclaren, and others. They were all in the film, in cameos, for drivers' meetings before the races, and in other scenes.
Also starring were the cars, and the Ford GT 40 was chasing those F1 cars around the course, nipping at their heels, and filming everything. So, the Ford GT 40 really made the exciting race scenes possible, and the result is still appreciated by racing fans 47 years later.
Me? I was not-quite driving age, but I took lots of F1 pictures at the USGP at Watkins Glen, and some of them have the Ford GT 40 "mule" with the Cinerama camera on it, chasing the world's finest auto racers, many of-whom would be dead in a few years.
If you look carefully in the back of the scene where James Garner makes his way to the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy to plead for his job, the actor playing Enzo Ferrari, Adolfo Celi, (later a James Bond Villan in
Tunderball), who bears a striking resemblance to Enzo Ferrari, is standing in-front of a long line of Ferrari competition vehicles, including F1 cars, and interestingly, P3's, the Ford GT 40's main competition "back in the day."
http://rickmcginnis.blogspot.com/2012/08/grand-prix-1966.html
unk:. I'm more of a zero to 100 guy myself, but I think there are only a rare few, that ever even get close to 200 mph.
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