Marko Hanželic
Far before Austin happened in 1984 to his larger neighbor Dallas, the city where he was shot in 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy and where 21 years later fans witnessed one of the most controversial Formula 1 championship races ever.
In the case of Dallas it was a street track prepared at a fairgrounds around the stadium Cotton Bowl, where an unforgettable World Cup quarter-final match took place ten years after the Formula 1 race. Netherlands in Brazil, which was eventually won 3 to 2 by the South Americans and a good two weeks later after a missed penalty Roberto Baggio also lifted the trophy for the best in the world.
Na street racetracks asphalt is never in as good a condition as on racetracks, av Dallas it was all even below the level at the time, as they are racers, among them he was the loudest Keke rosberg, labeled asphalt as the worst in the world at all. The fact that they are part also added its own Fair Park, where the race took place, were resurfaced, as a result of which, as soon as the racers set off on the track, asphalt patches began to stick to the tires and the already bumpy base became even more impassable.
Decomposing asphalt combined with unbearable heat (v Dallas that first week of July was more than 40 degrees Celsius), moved the situation on the racetrack far if the regular level, but the show had to continue, even when Piercarlo Ghinzani (Osella) fainted during a stop in the pits and was only brought to him with a bucket of water poured on him. Jacques laffite appeared in the pits on Saturday morning right in pajamas.
Under normal conditions Keke rosberg with his Williams-Hondo I probably wouldn’t have cut the very top, as the car was hard to steer, a Honda "Turbak" but too untamed for a serious candidacy for first place. The Finn started from the eighth position, but soon found himself among the leaders. in the 35th lap he whizzed past Nigel Mansell and despite falling in the meantime for Alain Prost, eventually crossed the finish line first. The northerner shouldn't do very well in hell Dallas, but he had water cooled cap, which allowed him to keep a (literally) cool head.
Nigel Mansell, who started from pole position, is after overtaking him Rosberg, crawled the safety wall, which most likely led to the failure of the gearbox, which golden-black Lotus stopped a few meters in front of the finish line. The Briton jumped out of the cockpit and tried to push the car over the finish line, but fainted after a few meters due to dehydration and fatigue. In the end, only eight of the 26 racers finished the race, fourteen of whom ended up in concrete safety fences.
He told a very special story about crashing into a wall Ayrton Senna, who finished in the wall in the 47th round. After the collision, the Brazilian is to his then boss To Pat Symonds hurried to explain straight away the incredible claim that he did not hit the wall himself, but that he had to move, which caused him to Senna hit. He was so annoying that he was Symonds went and checked his incredible claim: “I went to see the place where he collided and saw that he was right. Before that, someone crashed into the other end of the concrete wall, causing it to pop out a few millimeters at that end. Senna was driving so precisely that those few millimeters were enough for an accident. ”
Trke Free, Senne, Piquet, Laude and made the best use of the others René Arnoux (Ferrari), who had to start from the start due to an engine failure and drove the race of his life in frustration, as he was only 22 seconds behind the winner in the end in second place Rosberg.
