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ELUSIVEJIM said:
Superb track as you say. Will never forget this crash. Muddy hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZaOoG7_18
Pity they are using the "after the event" commentary by Simon Taylor rather than a "real time" commentary. Another camera angle of the crash shows a woman legging it back to the crowd - clutching her handbag.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZaOoG7_18
Eric Mc said:
Pity they are using the "after the event" commentary by Simon Taylor rather than a "real time" commentary. Another camera angle of the crash shows a woman legging it back to the crowd - clutching her handbag.
It's the marshalls standing beside the car without a care in the World with the race still at full speed.Brilliant. Well unless it goes wrong.
Deesee said:
Stunning. The cars look amazing.The one thing I always love is to see an ex F1 driver beside or sitting in their old car. Just look at their eyes light up. Pure joy.
Racing is a drug. Many will never have that pure drug again after finishing their careers.
Thank you for sharing mate
ELUSIVEJIM said:
Deesee said:
Stunning. The cars look amazing.The one thing I always love is to see an ex F1 driver beside or sitting in their old car. Just look at their eyes light up. Pure joy.
Racing is a drug. Many will never have that pure drug again after finishing their careers.
Thank you for sharing mate
Cool vid and thought this place best for it
Deesee said:
Personally loved the Berger section, and also seeing Nico R and Seb V grin from ear to ear as they went past....
Cool vid and thought this place best for it
You can see many of the current grid and teams watching the action looking delighted.Cool vid and thought this place best for it
Special moments for new and old.
The '80s was a special time. Crazy F1 Turbo cars and other forms of Motorsport were nuts as well.
Group B rallying was another favourite. Everything was in excess back then.
I remember the Audi S1 Evo 2 Group B car having 550 to 600 bhp. A Ferrari Testarossa which was a supercar back in the same period had 390 bhp.
Imagine that today
V12 F1 In Car lap of the Old Silverstone
IMO Silverstone was so much better when it was in this layout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-tDO_LdUGs
IMO Silverstone was so much better when it was in this layout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-tDO_LdUGs
....and a whole lot better still in its earlier iteration , when Woodcote was a 150mph hold your breath slide in 3 litre F1 cars . But I am showing my age - the circuit the V12 Lamborghini is howling around was still so much nicer than now , and I do admit to missing the spectacle of Bridge (which , obviously , postdated the video but is now another memory ). .
ELUSIVEJIM said:
Eric Mc said:
That track really stood out - blindingly quick and flowing with plenty of elevation changes.
Superb track as you say. Will never forget this crash. Muddy hellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZaOoG7_18
sgtBerbatov said:
It's sad that in all of the years he was in F1, and all the crashes he had, he walked away from every single one. But it was a motorbike accident in retirement that killed him.
I'd completely forgotten about that. It is such a common thing for retired racing drivers to die in post racing career road or flying accidents.coppice said:
Hawthorn , Hailwood, Regazzoni , Farina et al - a long list, sadly
So many when you think about it. Didier Pironi was another. Just read up on him again and this was quite interesting. We all know about Villeneuve al his falling out but he was then leading the Championship by 39 points before his very bad accident. His death is noted at the bottom.
Note he died before his twins were born. Note the names his partner gave.
Accident
When Pironi tried passing Derek Daly's Williams, the Ferrari 126C2 smashed into the back of Alain Prost's invisible Renault: a violent accident which bore some similarity to that suffered by Villeneuve. Pironi survived, but multiple fractures to both of his legs meant he never raced again in Formula 1. In the immediate aftermath of the accident, he said he felt no pain. "It was just like my accidents before, when I had no injuries. All I could think about was the car, that the spare one didn't work as well as this one, and that I would have to use it (the spare) for the race. Then I saw my legs and I thought maybe I wouldn't be doing this race, after all. In the helicopter, they began to hurt very seriously. But if I was to have this accident, it was lucky for me that it was in Germany and not in a more primitive place.
Death
In 1986, after he was able to walk with both legs unaided, it looked as if Pironi would make a comeback when he tested for the French AGS team at Circuit Paul Ricard and subsequently, the Ligier JS27 at Dijon-Prenois. He proved that he was still fast enough to be competitive, but coming back to F1 was not truly practical due to the extent of his injuries. A return to F1 was further complicated by his insurance payout based on the premise of sustaining career-ending injuries; Pironi would be required to pay the money back to his insurer had he returned to the sport.[15]
Pironi decided to turn to offshore powerboat racing instead. On 23 August 1987, Pironi was killed in an accident in the Needles Trophy Race near the Isle of Wight, that also took the life of his two crew members: journalist Bernard Giroux and his old friend Jean-Claude Guénard. Their boat, "Colibri 4," rode over a rough wave caused by an oil tanker, causing the boat to flip over.[16]
After Pironi's death, his girlfriend Catherine Goux gave birth to twins. In honour of Pironi and Gilles Villeneuve, she named them Didier and Gilles. In 2014, one of the twins, Gilles Pironi, joined Mercedes AMG Petronas as an engineer.
Martin Brundle reunited with championship-winning Jaguar XJR-12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn3LlzVLPGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn3LlzVLPGs
Gilles Villeneuve, Racing Icon | 2019 Canadian Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx7A-jtJv2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx7A-jtJv2o
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