Harbour stories

The Monaco Formula One Grand Prix was held on 30 May 1965. The 100-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill from pole position, Lorenzo Bandini finished second for the Scuderia Ferrari and Hill’s teammate Jackie Stewart came in third.

Lorenzo Bandini (picture above), who qualified fourth, on his way to a fine second place, at the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix, where sadly, two years later, he will suffer a fatal accident at the port’s chicane.

Jim Clark, Dan Gurney and Mike Spence did not participate in this race, since Team Lotus raced in the 1965 Indy 500, famously won by Clark. This is the second and (hopefully) last time a driver has crashed into the harbour, with Paul Hawkins in a privately-entered Lotus-Climax, falling in on lap 79. He was soaked but luckily unharmed.

Picture below, a newspaper’s headline: “Australian Paul Hawkins has a minor off-track excursion at the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix.”