00:00Grazie a tutti.
00:30modifiche.
00:31Aparte da un 20 second time alliance
00:33in control,
00:34il problema di mantenere
00:36regularità
00:36against questo
00:37very tight schedule
00:38era penalizzato
00:40in marks per second
00:41late or early.
00:46A severe test
00:47in ideal motoring weather.
00:50In the conditions
00:51that prevailed,
00:52the prospect
00:53gave even the most
00:54hardened Monte Carlo
00:55drivers furiously
00:56to think.
01:12The road to Gap
01:14is not an easy one.
01:15And even here,
01:17before the special section
01:18started,
01:19many competitors
01:20found themselves
01:21with little time to spare.
01:22And in fact,
01:23penalty points
01:24piled up
01:25before the intended
01:26testing time
01:27was reached.
01:40The Swedish lady champion
01:42Greta Molander
01:43was this year
01:44driving with a strong
01:45DKW entry,
01:47while Jimmy Ray
01:48and Johnny Warwick,
01:49both RAC rally winners,
01:51were teamed together
01:51with a standard 10
01:53and the pilot.
02:03Sì, sì.
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09:48on certain sections, were downright dangerous.
09:52The test was virtually a continuation
09:54of the five special sections
09:56which led to Monte Carlo.
09:58High average speeds varied
10:00according to the category of the entrant
10:02and secret controls operated
10:04to ensure that the target average speed
10:06was maintained throughout the run.
10:09But a constant speed
10:10in countries such as this
10:12involves a frantic variation of effort
10:14and even so, the opportunities
10:16to take it relatively easy
10:18were few and far between.
10:26Again, the swiftness of the standard tens
10:28made a great impression
10:30on both observers and fellow competitors alike.
10:58The latter half of the circuit
11:00after the 4,000 foot climb
11:02to La Colmiane
11:03brought mist to add to the driver's cares.
11:07But previous Monte Carlo victors
11:08Becquard and Gazzanides
11:10amongst the first cars away
11:12had got well out front by Castillon
11:14and were now free of the problem
11:16of passing slower cars.
11:30Behind them, competitors
11:32frequently bunched up between controls
11:34and there was a fair amount of Dyson.
12:03And there was a fair amount of Dyson.
12:10Madame Pochon, France's hope for the Coupe de Damme, had been off the road.
12:15But the standard drivers again found their mounts a handy size for this type of motor.
12:20Particularly when it came to tying the bootlaces, as the Frenchman calls his hairpits.
12:43As usual, those sporting drivers, the Dutch, were well represented on all types of car.
12:49There goes Flinterman, and here's the veteran of many international events, Langerstraat.
12:55This time with Adina Panner.
13:01Tommy Wisdom's been doing the Monty, almost since the days when newspapers were written on stone.
13:10And Mike Cooper collected his inevitable award later, in the Concord.
13:18Peter Harper going hard.
13:29Very much at home in this setting, we find Sidney Allard.
13:33And Nancy Mitchell.
13:35Roll up folks, it's the last of the passes.
13:38The Col d'Abrace.
13:48And at the end of those 200 miles, fortunes had changed, and the principal awards of 1955 had in fact
13:56been won, though still one test remained.
14:19Sheela Van Damme knew she was sitting pretty for the ladies' prize, but five laps of the two-mile Grand
14:25Prix circuit at Monaco have upset many an apple cart in the past.
14:28And even an apple cart could prove a handful on a surface as slippery as this, and a course which
14:34is all tight corners and assorted gradients, and includes the famous tunnel and the chicane on the harbour wall.
14:41Here's Walwark approaching the casino with no time to play.
14:47The downhill hairpins by the station.
14:50The British Railways, please note.
14:59And so, down to the sea, it slips.
15:06And he's not fishing, except for motorcars.
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