{"id":490491,"date":"2009-02-01T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=48308"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:06:41","slug":"fast-exposure-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fast-exposure-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport Moment &#8211; 1968 French Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Tragic French Grand Prix<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Where: <\/strong>Rouen-les Essarts, France<strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 7, 1968<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan using an air-cooled V-8. Jo Schlesser, a 40-year old French driver of modest reputation, was called in when John Surtees decided to stay with his older V12 Honda RA 301. On the third lap, as the field swept downhill through the series of high speed bends after the start\/finish straight, Schlesser&#8217;s car went off on a right hander climbed the bank on the outside, flipped over back down onto the track and exploded. The full fuel tanks and a largely magnesium chassis did not help, nor did the firemen&#8217;s use of water which made the inferno even worse. Poor Schlesser never had a chance. This was indeed a tragic year: In addition to Schlesser, Mike Spence was killed in practice at Indy and the great Jim Clark lost his life at Hockenheim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-765383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902-100x64.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902-770x489.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902-293x186.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Photo courtesy of: <\/strong>THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION<\/li>\n<li><strong>Address: <\/strong>PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tel: <\/strong>(203) 461-9804<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fax: <\/strong>(203) 968-2970<\/li>\n<li><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@klemcoll.com\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">info@klemcoll.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web site: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klemcoll.com\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">www.klemcoll.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog:<\/strong> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/klemcoll.wordpress.com\/\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">klemcoll.wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tragic French Grand Prix Where: Rouen-les Essarts, France\u00a0\/\u00a0Date: July 7, 1968 The French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan using an air-cooled V-8. Jo Schlesser, a 40-year old French driver of modest reputation, was called in when John Surtees decided to stay with his older V12 Honda RA 301. On the third lap, as the field swept downhill through the series of high speed bends after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":765383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[718,261,12314,8907],"tags":[11657,12141,11349,657,22003,13683,548,17167],"class_list":["post-490491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-honda","category-motorsport-racing","category-fast-exposure","category-pictures-videos","tag-grand-prix","tag-french-grand-prix","tag-gp-history","tag-honda","tag-honda-featured","tag-fast-exposure","tag-motorsport","tag-motorsport-moments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Motorsport Moment - 1968 French Grand Prix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fast Exposure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fast-exposure-40\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Motorsport Moment - 1968 French Grand Prix\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fast Exposure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fast-exposure-40\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steve.natale1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-02-01T11:00:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-27T03:06:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/FE200902.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"686\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Natale\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/fast-exposure-40\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/fast-exposure-40\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Steve Natale\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/237befa83e8e5937247db55880b8cc49\"},\"headline\":\"Motorsport Moment &#8211; 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