RE: Matra V12 at Monza: Time For Tea?

RE: Matra V12 at Monza: Time For Tea?

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crostonian

2,427 posts

171 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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If only I could rewind the clock 35 years, always loved the sound of the Matra V12, not seen that clip before. If only F1 was like that today, no interest in it any more, for me it was always about the cars with the driver's second, nowadays all the cars are the bloody same, Boring with a capital B!

Drive Blind

5,076 posts

176 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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wow - check the line of trees at Ascari

makes you realise how dangerous it was. Todays drivers complaining that the run off isnt a nice smooth tarmac carpark. In those days you met a tree trunk.

sideways man

1,307 posts

136 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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smiles22 said:
I believe that the matra 650 uses the same engine http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4
I love the way the noise just builds and builds, when the matra bursts from between the trees, it gets even louder! Its hard to believe something so small can produce so much volume!!

k-ink

9,070 posts

178 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Dave Hedgehog said:
it is lovely but i prefer the 95 v12 ferrari sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SoZiTxdQyw
Wonderful cloud9

allegerita

253 posts

196 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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TWPC said:
Gosh...
I'm aware of its reputation for noise but that's the first time I've actually heard it.
No, you only heard a video replay. I actually heard it.

And I heard the Matra V12 together with the Ferrari V12 when the rest was driving turbo's. In Zolder (yes, in 1982) you could hear them do a round of the track in the race.

Housey

2,076 posts

226 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I get the Ferrari V12/BRM V16 thing, I get they are fantastic. But the Matra is simply the sweetest of them all to my ears and if heard in the distance, quite the most haunting. I will leave this here and apologise for the utter garbage quality, but THIS is a haunting and epic sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4


Housey

2,076 posts

226 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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..which I just spotted somebody else posted!


Housey

2,076 posts

226 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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allegerita said:
And I heard the Matra V12 together with the Ferrari V12 when the rest was driving turbo's. In Zolder (yes, in 1982) you could hear them do a round of the track in the race.
Ferrari were running turbo in 1982, the year Gilles died there....



daytona365

1,773 posts

163 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Here's another some might like http://youtu.be/DFUMnV_zml8

boxerTen

501 posts

203 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Drive Blind said:
wow - check the line of trees at Ascari

makes you realise how dangerous it was. Todays drivers complaining that the run off isnt a nice smooth tarmac carpark. In those days you met a tree trunk.
+1 !!!

macky17

2,210 posts

188 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Housey said:
I get the Ferrari V12/BRM V16 thing, I get they are fantastic. But the Matra is simply the sweetest of them all to my ears and if heard in the distance, quite the most haunting. I will leave this here and apologise for the utter garbage quality, but THIS is a haunting and epic sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4
Holy st!

truck71

2,328 posts

171 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Housey said:
I get the Ferrari V12/BRM V16 thing, I get they are fantastic. But the Matra is simply the sweetest of them all to my ears and if heard in the distance, quite the most haunting. I will leave this here and apologise for the utter garbage quality, but THIS is a haunting and epic sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4
Christ alive, that is spine tingling. Where is it?

Kaiser_Wull

149 posts

179 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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truck71 said:
Housey said:
I get the Ferrari V12/BRM V16 thing, I get they are fantastic. But the Matra is simply the sweetest of them all to my ears and if heard in the distance, quite the most haunting. I will leave this here and apologise for the utter garbage quality, but THIS is a haunting and epic sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4
Christ alive, that is spine tingling. Where is it?
It was filmed at the CERAM test track at Mortefontaine, France in September, 1997. Matra owned the test track and had arranged a meeting for owners of Matra road cars.

There was a Concours D'Elegance and the winners of each of the six categories got to sit beside Henri Pescarolo for laps of the banked test track in the Matra 650 Tour De France. Old Henri wasn't hanging about. He was hitting 160 mph+ with a passenger on board and went a bit faster than that when he went out for a few solo laps.

I was there that day. The sound of the 650 was staggering - even more dramatic than the recording.

PowerslideSWE

1,116 posts

137 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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smiles22 said:
I believe that the matra 650 uses the same engine http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4
Was just gonna post that. Ansolutely fantastic soundtrack from that thing, makes me tingle all over.

PowerslideSWE

1,116 posts

137 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Housey said:
I get the Ferrari V12/BRM V16 thing, I get they are fantastic. But the Matra is simply the sweetest of them all to my ears and if heard in the distance, quite the most haunting. I will leave this here and apologise for the utter garbage quality, but THIS is a haunting and epic sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4
Has to be silly loud that thing concidering how loud it is not even in viewing distance. My favorite sounding engine of all time, excluding the BRM.

Harji

2,196 posts

160 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Mike Rob said:
Or the famous clip of Lafitte in the F40: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YPabCzxMXM
When I was younger I always thought of the drivers as some sort of super heroes, I always thought drivers from the 70's/80's early 90's are far superior to the current crop, there was so much more involved in the driving and set up and when you see them in the clip above just heel and toeing at full chat (almost casually)I think I am right.

soad

32,829 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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soad

32,829 posts

175 months

CSLmarson

209 posts

194 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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WOW

MonkeySpanker

319 posts

136 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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It does seem to be getting overtaken a lot......