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High End, Investment Grade, Museum Quality
High Detail, 1:18 Scale PrecisionMetal Body Model Art
Approx. Nine (9) Inches Long
...Long out of production...
with Original Factory Box....
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1960'S SHORT HISTORY OF F1: WHY HIGH WINGS WERE BANNED?
Racecar driver, Jochen Rindt had already stated his dislike for the high wings and had begun a campaign to try to get them banned.In the Spanish Grand Prix of that year, Rindtwas about to prove his point in just the way he was trying to avoid.
Graham Hill was on lap 9 of the race and had justcrested the rise after the pits when his Lotus became airborne, resulting in a huge negative load on his already fragile rear wing.
HIS WING FOLDED UPWARDS AND THEN FAILED DRAMATICALLY AND THE CAR CRASHED HEAVILY INTO THE BARRIERS. HE WAS ABLE TO EMERGE FROM THE WRECKAGE UNSCATHED.
Eleven laps later, while leading the race, Hill’s teammate Jochen Rindt was to suffer an identical failure in exactly the same place.
He then proceeded to collide with Hill’s car which had been abandoned by the side of the track, which flipped his own car resulting in it landing upside down.
His car was rolled over by the marshals and he was pulled unconscious from his car by Hill (who was watching the race by the side of the track where he had crashed) and was fortunate to have only sustained a broken nose and some minor cuts and bruises (and I’m sure also had a significant concussion which I suspect wasn’t taken seriously by team managers or even doctors at the time).
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