Before Montreal, he had taken back-to-back top-ten finishes in Italy and the US. “My life was in slow motion in that one,” he recalls. The other two, though, were car failures always a worry for a racing driver. "But he was just good, very good and on top of his game as soon as he stepped into a Formula One car.". For Daly and others of that era, the chaos is like an oil-coated and tyre-tracked version of the gunslingers who roamed the Old West. RTÉ is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Then came a move into Formula 3 and while in Austria for a Formula 1 support race he was on pole, alongside (future F1 world champion) Nelson Piquet. Some of these quotes were published in RACER magazine in America in 2005, but they are worth repeating. He scored a total of 15 championship points, and also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races. "Vegas was interesting because it was in the car park of Caesars Palace," says Daly. "My life began to go before me. But this was a time where everything slowed down, the accident happened in complete slow motion and the reason is your brain processes information so rapidly to give you a chance to save yourself if you're in grave danger.". For long periods during the days he would have to focus on a point on the wall to stop the room spinning in his head. "I could see my mother sitting by the fire at home. He clipped the kerb at the chicane, broke the right front suspension, so I got by him. Ahead of the now delayed 2020 season, Daly joined RTÉ Sport from Phoenix to look back on those successful seasons when the cars were altogether different beasts to handle than the streamlined versions of today. Info from Wiki. But that was exactly what two of the Irish drivers from F1's "wild west" years did in the 1970s. "But I was chasing down Keke because I wanted to catch him which I did. I’m there in tears in a very emotional state.”. He won the 1977 British Formula 3 Championship, and competed as a professional racing driver for 17 years participating in 64 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 April 1978. In what turned out to be a chaotic race, he hit the barrier and the impact turned his car around, leading to yet more contact with the barriers. “Otherwise it might have got my head.”. Unfortunately, it was not of the point-scoring variety and rather ended up being the "most used piece of Formula One video ever in the history of Formula One" according to the man himself. Derek Daly. Jacques Laffite Rene Arnoux Didier Pironi Patrick Depailler Alain Prost Jean-Pierre Jarier at Zolder, "It was so clear – what happened and how it happened. Get yourself together.'”. I just stepped out and walked away. However, one of his “three big ones” that the TV cameras missed that year was at the awesome Osterreiching only two weeks before his Zandvoort aerobatics. On his first appearance as a F1 driver in 1978, he led at Silverstone in the non-championship International Trophy. Maybe even going over the limit. 1977 F2 Estoril. Daly was brought to hospital to be checked out and get stitches in his leg. It was a strange year overall with Rosberg winning the championship despite managing just one victory and no driver was able to win more than twice. Bio by Stephen Lathamq A brake disc shattered in Austria, sending him into a field, and towards an unprotected barbed wire fence. At the time, concern was more for Brambilla’s injuries than Peterson’s who was initially reported to have broken legs and light burns, but even so it was traumatic. RTÉ.ie is the website of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Media. I’m telling my team what happened and I just start to cry. The late Gilles Villeneuve racing at Monaco in 1980. Click on the Site to see Derek Daly's career results at that track. We need your consent to load this YouTube content. But what is enthralling about it is how the incident lives on in slow motion within Daly's mind to the point that he can still remember the detail of the gravel floating by below him as his car zips through the air upside down. Glossary. 1978 Formula One Results Click on the Race Number to see the complete results for that race. The most revealing thing in my interview with the Irishman though – and trying to discover the psyche of top-flight racing drivers – was his recollection of Ronnie Peterson’s accident at Monza in 1978 that eventually claimed the Swede’s life. Derek Daly Ltd is an established carpenter and builder based in the heart of County Clare. But for Daly, the 1980 and '82 seasons saw him collect 14 of his 15 career world championship points. "You go around the world and people have Irish flags hanging over fences with 'Daly' written on it and so you realise, yes you want to get a good result but you are actually representing your country which is why so many countries have sponsorship from that country supporting their driver because there is national pride in all of this. He had done so many things in the Shadow and then when he filled in with Ronnie Peterson. However, despite being in Formula 1 he never got accustomed to the ambience (big personalities and characters and its luxurious and lavish lifestyle). “Peterson was very much a hero of mine,” he continued, “and to see what was happening in front of me…. Born in 1953, he grew up with a fascination for cars and after his father took him to watch a race in Dunboyne, from then on he aspired to be a race driver.
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