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<blockquote data-quote="Incubus" data-source="post: 63970" data-attributes="member: 306">I wasn't at Silverstone this week-end, but I was amused to come across Alonso's little mishap before yesterday's race.Scheduled to perform a demonstration lap around Silverstone at the wheel of Froilan Gonzalez's winning 375 V12 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Ferrari's first win, he clearly enjoyed himself so much he went for another lap and even started pushing it a bit, complete with power-slides... and in the processed missed the start of the drivers' parade. Initially running after the open-topped bus he eventually rejoined his colleagues after hitching a lift from the medical car.(nice footage, wish the commentators could just shut up and let us enjoy the beautif sound of that roaring V12 though)[media=youtube]sQMfoF890I8[/media]Anyway it got me thinking. I know such a thing will never happen, but it's a fanciful thought: rather than the occasional demonstration lap modern GP drivers have sometimes indulged in in the past, wouldn't it be absolutely great to stage an actual demonstration race (say, ten laps or so) between the likes of mssr Alonso, Hamilton, Webber et al at the wheel of Grand Prix from the early days of the F1 championship?Imagine the spectacle: Hamilton trying to outbrake Vettel's Maserari 250F at La Source at the wheel of a 1955 Silver Arrow??I don't know what you guys think, but I'd give a lot to see that... oh yes. Fantastic spectacle that would be.Well we are allowed to dream aren't we?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Incubus, post: 63970, member: 306"] I wasn't at Silverstone this week-end, but I was amused to come across Alonso's little mishap before yesterday's race. Scheduled to perform a demonstration lap around Silverstone at the wheel of Froilan Gonzalez's winning 375 V12 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Ferrari's first win, he clearly enjoyed himself so much he went for another lap and even started pushing it a bit, complete with power-slides... and in the processed missed the start of the drivers' parade. Initially running after the open-topped bus he eventually rejoined his colleagues after hitching a lift from the medical car. (nice footage, wish the commentators could just shut up and let us enjoy the beautif sound of that roaring V12 though) [media=youtube]sQMfoF890I8[/media] Anyway it got me thinking. I know such a thing will never happen, but it's a fanciful thought: rather than the occasional demonstration lap modern GP drivers have sometimes indulged in in the past, wouldn't it be absolutely great to stage an actual demonstration race (say, ten laps or so) between the likes of mssr Alonso, Hamilton, Webber [I]et al [/I]at the wheel of Grand Prix from the early days of the F1 championship? Imagine the spectacle: Hamilton trying to outbrake Vettel's Maserari 250F at La Source at the wheel of a 1955 Silver Arrow?? I don't know what you guys think, but I'd give a lot to see that... oh yes. Fantastic spectacle that would be. Well we are allowed to dream aren't we? [/QUOTE]

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