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FEATURE<br />
A young and blond Barry Sheene in front of father Frank<br />
at Montjuic (photo by Gregorio Garcia)<br />
We were fractions of a second away and<br />
I was using a new tyre – just two laps –<br />
when I came off on the St Jordi corner. I<br />
went into the haybales and broke the top<br />
of my spine. I broke my arm and it left<br />
me in a terrible state. It was the last time<br />
I raced.”<br />
Formula <strong>On</strong>e visited Montjuic four times.<br />
The cars circulated the 2.3 mile anticlockwise<br />
layout split between the long,<br />
winding and fast climb that feeds onto<br />
the rapid ‘straight’ – now the approach<br />
to the Olympic Stadium constructed in<br />
1927 – and the twisty drop back down to<br />
where the Magic fountains are located.<br />
The Grands Prix were famous for Jackie<br />
Stewart’s wins in 1969 and ’71, and Graham<br />
Hill and Jochen Rindt’s overblown<br />
‘wing’ failure on the Lotus 49 in 1969.<br />
Infamy arrived with Rolf Stommelen’s<br />
crash in 1975 that killed two spectators,<br />
a fireman and a photographer on the first<br />
corner. F1 would never circulate the Catalan<br />
streets again.<br />
“There comes a point where if someone<br />
gets killed or badly injured then<br />
you cannot justify it any more and there<br />
are very few places in the world that do<br />
that i.e. the Isle of Man, which is selfgoverning,<br />
Macau and Ireland – but there
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