The British F1 drivers whose careers were cut short #219

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss the British Formula 1 drivers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s who had their careers, and often their lives, cut short. But which of them really was destined for F1 greatness? This is at times a morose episode, but so too is it filled with tales of extraordinary courage and bravery, of iron will and boundless determination.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:07.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel in the chair opposite me in our studio and this week Andrew
0:16.4	this is this is sort of heartland stuff for you isn't it?
0:19.6	Well I hope so.
0:20.7	This is a topic right up your street. Well I think I think I hope it's interesting.
0:26.3	No this is this is the point I was going to make this is a topic right up your street. We're talking
0:29.7	about 1950s, 60s and 70s British F1 drivers who looked like they might have quite special careers in many cases.
0:38.8	But in every single instance their career was cut short by being killed in a race or
0:45.3	injured to such an extent that they couldn't race again.
0:47.6	Yeah and I guess I guess the reason I wanted it I mean yeah it's I'm always a bit sort of nervous when we sort of you know when it appears to be
0:56.8	You know the reason for doing a podcast is because we can talk about a lot of people who had horrible deaths. It's not really the reason for it. The reason is that whenever one of these
1:06.3	events happened, what tends to happen or when these lives are reflected upon, someone
1:10.4	always pops up and where it goes, sort of future world champion.
1:13.0	And I guess that's completely understandable, but obviously we will never know.
1:19.0	But one of the sadnesses are who's very interested in the sport and all errors of the sport is so many of these people never got the credit for it.
1:32.0	I mean one example is you know which literally just
1:34.1	occurred to me as I'm sitting here because it's not Formula One is Ken Miles you know the
1:39.8	star of the Lemore 66 or Ford versus Ferrari film depending on which country you saw it in
1:46.0	Ken Miles had always been a bit of a hero of mine and until that film came out
1:50.0	nobody knew who he was.
1:51.0	I didn't know.
1:52.0	No, nobody did. Because very sadly, you know, he died before he
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