: Hi Heuer Lovers, we nearly all forgot the death day from our famous
: Heuer representativ and Race hero JO SiFFERT ! he died on the
: 24.Oct. 1971 now over 37 years ago.... his watches are even so
: famous as he was at those days!!

: Last week i was in Switzerland and i got from a other collecter
: a gift, a jo Siffert autograph card !! please have a look at the
: pics, on the front it is signed by siffert " for the
: friends of Heuer " and but what is more interessting and i
: think ultra ultra rare ; the card was printed for the BRANDS
: HATCH - RACE OF CHAMPIONS !! so his death race !!!

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: Jo Siffert won the 1971 Austrian Grand Prix, but then was
: killed in the non-Championship World Championship Victory Race
: at Brands Hatch, the scene of his first and greatest victory in
: 1968. The suspension of his BRM had been damaged in a lap 1
: incident with Ronnie Peterson, and broke later.[citation needed]
: The BRM crashed and Siffert could not get out of the burning
: car.
: This accident led to a rapid overhaul of safety, both in-car and on
: circuit. In the subsequent Royal Automobile Club (the UK
: organising and regulatory representative of the FIA at the time)
: investigation it was discovered that the crash itself caused
: non-fatal injuries but Siffert had been killed by oxygen
: starvation and smoke inhalation. None of the trackside fire
: extinguishers worked, and it was found impossible to reach the
: car and extract Siffert. On-board fire extinguishers (using
: BCF—bromochlorodifluoromethane, an aircraft product) became
: mandatory and piped air for the drivers, direct into their
: helmet. Thus, perhaps one of the sad epitaphs of Seppi, was the
: focus on vehicle and driver safety in Formula One and lesser
: formulae and far better fire retardant driving overalls.

: His funeral in Switzerland was attended by 50,000 people, and a
: Gulf-Porsche 917 of Team John Wyer accompanied the hearse.
:

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: GERMAN ; Der Unfall [Bearbeiten]Beim nicht zur F1-WM
: zählenden World Championship Race (zu Ehren des schon
: feststehenden WM-Siegers) am 24. Oktober 1971 in Brands Hatch,
: Sifferts 41. Autorennen in diesem Jahr, hatte er in der
: Startphase eine zunächst harmlose Kollision mit Ronnie Peterson
: und setzte das Rennen fort. In der 15. Runde kam es zum
: tödlichen Unfall, als bei hoher Geschwindigkeit, ausgelöst
: durch die Startkollision mit Ronnie Peterson, eine
: Radaufhängung brach. Sein Wagen begann zu brennen, er konnte
: sich nicht mehr retten. Er starb an Sauerstoffmangel und
: Rauchvergiftung, da er den Rauch des brennenden Fahrzeugs
: einatmete.
: Bei seiner Beerdigung säumten rund 50 000 Menschen die Straßen
: Freiburgs − es war eine der größten Trauerfeiern, die es je
: in der Schweiz gab. Postum wurde Joseph Siffert 1971 zum
: Schweizer Sportler des Jahres gewählt. Im Juni 1984 wurde zu
: seinem Andenken der Jo-Siffert-Brunnen („Fontaine Jo
: Siffert“) eingeweiht, ein Geschenk seines Freundes Jean
: Tinguely an die Stadt Freiburg.

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: In memory of a great driver, Jasper