Hi, I'm so proud of you, I wish I could do what you do for GP4. I'm always around but never log in, never wrote. Huge racing cars fun, from Brazil, 61yo, while I still remember
- I was there in Interlagos the first race in 1972, went with my cousin, I was 13yo and travelled through S Paulo state by train alone with my father permission, without the tickets. We got there by 6 am, the gates were closed, people were smashing each other to by theirs, the last time my feet touched the ground was about 5 meters from the window of the ticket-office, we bouth it and then had to wait hours under the strongest sun. The firemen had to pass with the trucks and pour us with water, as if we were on fire. I had all collection of that and previous year of 4 Rodas and Auto Esporte, very well done magazines about racing & cars. I have been a driver since I was 6 (slot cars), then the powerful Beetle of my father at 9yo and a great passion for the sport. I am a very good driver but never raced and on the streets, specially at my age, some years now, I just try to do the right thing and drive for everyone. I have several combinations of tracks and mods, play with the keyboard and there's always something I can't do, or my machine doesn't go well with the game, but yes, I have had SO MUCH FUN WITH IT! LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE! TKS!
After that I've camped in Interlagos (1974, the duel between Emerson and Peterson), in the kart track and a third time I came to watch Pace's victory in 75? So sad Pace had the accident, it was near my city...
He was a hell of a pilot and would have undoubtedly been world champion at least once, I guess. I can't remember which year I "talked" to James Hunt when the boxes were opened to us. Hunt was the only one not looking inside. He came to the entrance of the boxes, he was more interested in us the Brazilian people than we in him. So I a little kid stoped in front of him with my friends and asked: what place did you get? Man, I was the hero of the day
- And he, to my glory, didn't know it, so he asked a very extravagant person that was back there in the boxes: Lord Hesketh
= He said: Ninth! - so, he was listening too. And Hunt looked at me and said: Ninth! = Thank you! I think it was in 1975, can't remember. The next year, Hunt was the F1 Champion...
Well, I cant' make a car or a track and I am so sad because of that, but I can do some of the entertainment work. See you!
real name Horacio.