Ascari Musso Castellotti Portago Collins F1

Ascari, Musso, Castellotti, Collins and Hawthorn all died in their cars. Hawthorn left the racing scene soon after he clinched the world title in 1958. The lost in 1957 of his best friend Peter Collins on the Nurburgring was a terrible blow. Mike ended the 1958 season, but the fun was out for him. A few weeks after his retirement, Mike died in his Jaguar on the Guildford Bypass in January 1959...

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• Ascari
• Musso
• Castellotti
• Collins
• Hawthorn
• Ferrari

[Flaminiasupersport]

I read somewhere that Peter Collins had a certain animosity against Tony Brooks because Tony was offered a seat in the Aston team thanks to Peter. Tony did so well in such a short time, without the years of practice that Peter had, that this created a rivalry towards Brooks. Maybe this could be the reason why Peter overcooked it at the Nurburgring racing against Tony Brooks...

[fabiocast]

Castellotti is my father grand father! I live in Brazil now and we have 30 castellotti here... the rest of the family livs in Italy

Nice Video thanks

[Flaminiasupersport]

Did he had children then? I never heard of Eugenio's descendance? He had an affair with Delia Scala at the moment of his death.

[spitfireJEJ]

Ferrari drivers to a man and all (with the obvious exception of Hawthorn) died at the wheel of one of Enzo's cars. Featuring Castellotti's needless tragedy and alluding to Ferrari's non-committal reaction to it. Collins had been married to the lovely Louise King for only a few months. Hawthorn is shown supporting her - with only four months left to live himself. A very moving video indeed.

[Flaminiasupersport]

Thanks for the nice comment!

[barnaba1964]

complimenti un bel video tributo...

[jacbrest]

collins s est tue en 1958 au nurburgring musso gp de france 1958 stuart lewis evan gp du maroc 1958......... RIP

[electricdreams3000]

They all died far too young and specially my uncle...Peter Collins

[girlishfun]

man is never more alive than when close to death. brave drivers risk everything out of passion for motorsport to share this moment with all of us.

[pood57]

There was just too much tragedy in Grand Prix racing in the fifties.

[ThomasD1962]

Well done!!!

The lady driver would be Maria-Teresa Di Filippis.

[Hannuff]

Powerful and great video.

Very well done - thank you.

[spitfireJEJ]

Round about 1.59 where De Portago first appears, who is the lady driver in the background?

[matthewfaustin]

ya the dumb ass was street racing

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