Talk:Chris Amon

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Input please: if the person is still alive, isn't it more proper to say "is a former F1 driver" instead of "was a F1 driver?" JCCyC 00:06, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

(UnclearWinter 13:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC))
 * Is it really necessary to call him "one of the greatest" never to win a World Championship GP? Surely there's no argument about it? The only other driver to come close was Stefan Bellof, and, well, he was Stefan Bellof.


 * Jean Behra -- this fellow managed to go to the final race of a championship with mathematical chances to be champion. He was one of the big names of the 50's. I think "one of the greatest" is appropriate for Mr. Amon. JCCyC 19:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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BLP status change
Due to the death of this person, the BLP status of this article has changed. "This does not mean that unsourced material that would contravene the Biography of Living Persons rules can be added to this article. Capitalistroadster (talk) 09:25, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Family
Is the father Ngaio Henry Amon, born 1915?Royalcourtier (talk) 18:37, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

One of the poorest quality articles on wikipedia
I consider this article one of the worst on wikipedia. Its unbalanced, dosen't include many of the most basic facts about Amon's career; the judgements of the editor/editors in completly wrong. I happen to know quite a lot about it as I wrote a book draft on Amon in the mid 1980s which Collins in the UK was prepared to publish but failed to find a NZ co publisher. I have not done any work on Amon on wiki during his life for rather obvious reasons, but the article is very poor in my view. Many of the great motor racing writers have written on Amon and opinion is tremendous divided. But there are some facts Amon was more of tester and unqualified engineer than a racing driver let alone a grand prix driving. In those days motor racing was about the duel and passing and Amon couldn't. Also in terms of results he achieved very little and his high practice results rarely resulted in much performance in the race. In terms of luck, it is unlikely he would have achieved more 1/2 win with the Ferrari F1 team in 68/9 because driven at winning pace the 312 would not have lasted to the end in Canada and Spain in 68/9 almost certainly. Belgium in 68 is the only likely victory and possibly the US 1970.


 * Whose opinion would the average punter consider carried more weight: someone who can’t even be arsed to sign their contribution to a Wikipedia talk page, or Mauro Forghieri? Tricky one, that… Mr Larrington (talk) 17:32, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

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