A friendship on film: when Phil Hill won his second Le Mans, American friend Richard A. Cramer was in the Ferrari pit with his camera

摘要

THEY MET OVER BAR-bells. In 1957 Richard Cramer was a 21 -year-old UCLA athlete who was active in Kappa Sigma and worked out regularly in a gym near his home in Santa Monica, California. So did a trim, compact fellow of 30, a quietly intense man with quick eyes - who turned out to have been in the same fraternity at USC. The frat brothers began "spotting" each other on the weights, guarding against injuries, and Cramer noticed his new friend was concentrating on the arms and wrists. "He wasn't a bodybuilder, bulking up. He was doing tons of reps, going for endurance. So was I, but with him it was all upper body. He said it was for stamina at the wheel of a race car.