1972 British GP - Brands Hatch - Full Race

[Eric Mc]

Found this. Sorry about the "foreign" commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhYyNi3Doa0

[S0 What]

There's some good races on YT, at least till they get taken down
F1 grid has a few, F1 champ, Racing Channel Zone, FullFormula1 Races, Sp Channel has newer ones as well but as i say tey tend to get taken down every now and then

Dailymotion seems to let it slide more but there's less on there (and i cant get DM on a now TV box
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20j9ky_f1-1996-g...

[Eric Mc]

As far as I know, CVC only have rights on races from 1981 on.

[Dr Z]

Good race! I really wish I had detailed race lap times for individual drivers from this era. The differences among drivers look readily 'visible' than these days, and is fascinating for a relatively recent F1 fan like me. Alas, my archive only starts from the 1996 season.

[Eric Mc]

I love watching how the cars are much more "alive" than modern cars. You can see them dipping and squatting under braking and acceleration, and rising and falling on their suspension due to bumps and dips in the track surface - and of course they slide and twitch far more.

How the marshalls dealt with Henri Pescarolo's car stuck in the middle of the track was a bit scary.

[coppice]

My first full GP- ie practice (no 'qually' then , thank you ) and race. Especially remember Revson's M19 getting very sideways in Clearways and being corrected in a heartbea,sun glinting on the sublime black and gold Lotus 72 and the spine tingling howl of the Ickx and Merzario Ferrari 312s. Listening to Ickx change down was sheer poetry - he was a heel and toe-r of Olympic standards. No paddle shift bks .

Happy days- all done on a student grant too- bus to London, bus to Brands, sleep in a field, eat burger, smoke JPS and about a fiver to get in. In those days you could wander where you wanted in the paddock too and I remember literally bumping in to John Surtees in deep conversation with Graham Hill. F1 wasn't full of hysterical fan boys then - so no big deal , no selfies and similar crap, you all felt part of the same show .