Thank you, I lived about a mile away from all this excitement but being only nine I think my Dad thought it potentially too loud or too dangerous to take me up there. Glad this record in colour! exists.
I was probably in my garden in Lewisham listening to this! In 1973 I started racing bicycles around there! I am now in Australia, so nice to think back.
I was there at North Tower. I lived in West Dulwich at the time. I love the fact that I saw the likes of Stewart, Rindt, Hill, Beltoise, Fittipaldi, Hunt, Cevert racing around my little local circuit.
Same here, cmot. The saloon cars were fantastic too because Palace wasn't a very fast circuit so the Camaros and Mustangs were fighting door to door with the Escorts. Frank Gardner, John Fitzpatrick, Dick Dastardly (oops - I mean Dave Brodie haha) were always exciting to watch.
I Great circuit in south london, I used to get the bus there from eltham SE9, view races at north tower crescent.....a circuit with only old train track wooden sleeper walls painted white, and zero run offs
@Broadclystboy I'm wondering how close to my crash you were that day. I've heard that I was speaking to those around me not too long after I was extracted from the car, but I can't remember anything until about a half-hour later when I was sitting in the ambulance back in the paddock. I'd be grateful for any memories you have of my little incident. That race was actually not only the low point of my F3 "career" but also the high point, as it was the only race I ever led! :) Chris O'Brien
By the early 1970s, pretty much all home movie Video 8 film was colour. The BBC is a TV channel, not a film company and their coverage of events at Crystal Palace would have been using their outside broadcast TV cameras (i.e. video technology, not film technology). In 1971, British TV was still transitioning from black and white TV cameras to colour TV cameras. Most of their work was indeed transmitted and recorded (on video tape) in colour but occasionally, they might still use black and white TV cameras. Or, more likely, the broadcast genuinely was shown in colour but that only black and white recordings have survived.
That was great fun seeing those who would be famous later, such as The Brode, Whizzo, Dave Walker, Jody, & James *unt. If my memory serves me rightly, James *unt punched Dave Walker at this circuit a year before!
@chrisobr Chris - I was about 25 metres before the actual turn into North Tower - I think the back end was starting to go as you went past! I've got a photo of the actual impact with your hands off the steering wheel. If you can get me your email address I can forward it Not happy memories for you but the Crystal Palace was a fantastic spectator circuit - all you guys (and gals) who raced there must have had spheres of steel!
Thank you, I lived about a mile away from all this excitement but being only nine I think my Dad thought it potentially too loud or too dangerous to take me up there. Glad this record in colour! exists.
I was there..I kept that program for ages.
I raced Motorcycles there in '72, bloody dangerous circuit
I was probably in my garden in Lewisham listening to this! In 1973 I started racing bicycles around there!
I am now in Australia, so nice to think back.
I was there at North Tower. I lived in West Dulwich at the time. I love the fact that I saw the likes of Stewart, Rindt, Hill, Beltoise, Fittipaldi, Hunt, Cevert racing around my little local circuit.
Same here, cmot. The saloon cars were fantastic too because Palace wasn't a very fast circuit so the Camaros and Mustangs were fighting door to door with the Escorts. Frank Gardner, John Fitzpatrick, Dick Dastardly (oops - I mean Dave Brodie haha) were always exciting to watch.
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Great circuit in south london, I used to get the bus there from eltham SE9, view races at north tower crescent.....a circuit with only old train track wooden sleeper walls painted white, and zero run offs
@Broadclystboy I'm wondering how close to my crash you were that day. I've heard that I was speaking to those around me not too long after I was extracted from the car, but I can't remember anything until about a half-hour later when I was sitting in the ambulance back in the paddock. I'd be grateful for any memories you have of my little incident. That race was actually not only the low point of my F3 "career" but also the high point, as it was the only race I ever led! :)
Chris O'Brien
Fantastic memories from nearly 40 years ago - and I was there at North Tower Bend to see the action!
Looking forward to Part 2, thanks for posting
I lived on the Kingswood Estate from 1963 - 1975 and remember the "sounds" so well
I used to here these cars in the late 60s in Beckenham which is a mile away
Terrific!
As for Brendan McInernay, I remember a commentator at Brands Hatch making a joke about there being three of them in the car.
The British tracks are good to have fun driving.
Amazing how you managed to film it in colour and the BBC couldn't xD
By the early 1970s, pretty much all home movie Video 8 film was colour. The BBC is a TV channel, not a film company and their coverage of events at Crystal Palace would have been using their outside broadcast TV cameras (i.e. video technology, not film technology). In 1971, British TV was still transitioning from black and white TV cameras to colour TV cameras. Most of their work was indeed transmitted and recorded (on video tape) in colour but occasionally, they might still use black and white TV cameras. Or, more likely, the broadcast genuinely was shown in colour but that only black and white recordings have survived.
That was great fun seeing those who would be famous later, such as The Brode, Whizzo, Dave Walker, Jody, & James *unt. If my memory serves me rightly, James *unt punched Dave Walker at this circuit a year before!
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@Broadclystboy Thanks for your reply. I'll send you a personal message and we can go from there.
Chris
@chrisobr Chris - I was about 25 metres before the actual turn into North Tower - I think the back end was starting to go as you went past! I've got a photo of the actual impact with your hands off the steering wheel. If you can get me your email address I can forward it
Not happy memories for you but the Crystal Palace was a fantastic spectator circuit - all you guys (and gals) who raced there must have had spheres of steel!