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Chapter Three - Formula 2 and 3
Young Jackie Young Stewart was a hotshot long before he became a hotshoe: shattering clay pigeons rather than lap records; squeezing triggers rather than blending brake and throttle. Giving it…
TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, AUGUST 2016
He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won credibility as a director and his studio’s money to create the greatest motor racing movie of all time.
John Frankenheimer was nothing if not ambitious. Conflicted and conflict-inspiring, the New York-born auteur went for broke, refusing to let technology’s inability to keep pace with his imagination stop him from creating his masterpiece. Half a century on from the release of Grand Prix, this celluloid classic is the most fondly remembered film from his bulging back catalogue; one that packed as many hits as misses.