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trackdemon said:
Handful from last years Revival, rest of them here:
https://www.facebook.com/sjhallphotography/posts/1...
https://www.facebook.com/sjhallphotography/posts/1...
ChemicalChaos said:
This video puts it on context far more clearly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBHzz5NmgG0
(skip to 1:07)
I had real trouble convincing myself it wasnt the run down from the tunnel to the chicane at first! What threw me was the fact that the cars have to enter left and leave right in that shot, and with the current left-right-right-left chicane that is only possible going into it, not out.
I've managed to dig up an older map that shows the chicane used to be just a left-right:
Current:
It also seems that Tabac in the 1970 video is uphill, and the bend is slightly tighter. Therefore, and I'm happy to be proved wrong on this, I think they are using a different bit of road. The 2 possibilities are either - different road, or several hundred feet of the road between the chicane and Tabac has since been raised by 15 feet - rather unlikely.
By looking at Monaco on Google earth, it would appear that the road along the harbour there has a main road, and another bit of parallel road that dips down and runs level with the yacht moorings all the way along until Tabac. In the original form of left-right, the chicane would deposit you on the low road where you dip down, then come back up to rejoin the level at the corner. In the current form, the extra right-left of the chicane brings you back onto the main road that runs level - in the photograph this will be along the top of the wall on the left of the frame.
Sherlock, out
A bit of both Sherlock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBHzz5NmgG0
(skip to 1:07)
I had real trouble convincing myself it wasnt the run down from the tunnel to the chicane at first! What threw me was the fact that the cars have to enter left and leave right in that shot, and with the current left-right-right-left chicane that is only possible going into it, not out.
I've managed to dig up an older map that shows the chicane used to be just a left-right:
Current:
It also seems that Tabac in the 1970 video is uphill, and the bend is slightly tighter. Therefore, and I'm happy to be proved wrong on this, I think they are using a different bit of road. The 2 possibilities are either - different road, or several hundred feet of the road between the chicane and Tabac has since been raised by 15 feet - rather unlikely.
By looking at Monaco on Google earth, it would appear that the road along the harbour there has a main road, and another bit of parallel road that dips down and runs level with the yacht moorings all the way along until Tabac. In the original form of left-right, the chicane would deposit you on the low road where you dip down, then come back up to rejoin the level at the corner. In the current form, the extra right-left of the chicane brings you back onto the main road that runs level - in the photograph this will be along the top of the wall on the left of the frame.
Sherlock, out
Edited by ChemicalChaos on Saturday 10th May 02:40
Edited by ChemicalChaos on Saturday 10th May 02:49
The area they use now is a newer area extending the harbour etc, and is flatter.
If you think to these days, the exit to the tunnel now dips severely, whereas before it was a long grade.
Watch this video and you'll see the circuit as it was in the mid-60's, the chicane a left-right flick.
(And quite terrifying from inside the car! Those guys were supermen.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C80Y-JbA1tU
(And quite terrifying from inside the car! Those guys were supermen.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C80Y-JbA1tU
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