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Very nice yes, but being driven tamely around a kart track on wets , Believe me , standing at the side of the track at Brands Hatch , going up the hill towards Druids , and watching a Mansell or a Senna on full qualifying boost was almost a religious experience . I am hopeless at links but there is some great footage of that weekend on youtube = I think it's called Formula 1 test day Brands Hatch 1986 .
coppice said:
Very nice yes, but being driven tamely around a kart track on wets , Believe me , standing at the side of the track at Brands Hatch , going up the hill towards Druids , and watching a Mansell or a Senna on full qualifying boost was almost a religious experience . I am hopeless at links but there is some great footage of that weekend on youtube = I think it's called Formula 1 test day Brands Hatch 1986 .
....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfXkMAQKoAE
One of my first F1 experiences... happy days....
Discussion on the McLaren MP4/4 with former McLaren employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUVaZLvGFGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUVaZLvGFGA
entropy said:
Discussion on the McLaren MP4/4 with former McLaren employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUVaZLvGFGA
Gordon Murray designed it though, he may have mentioned it a few times? And the fan car, that was his too, 'no help from no one else'. (Copyright pub landlord 2000). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUVaZLvGFGA
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king glorious . Thank you .
Reminds me of being at Silverstone in the same era - I was standing at Bridge (WHAT a place to watch a Grand Prix car in full flight ) and it was obvious that Dad and Lad (about 11 ) had never seen F1 cars live before . Their faces were a picture as the cars , very clearly audible , left the pits 400yards or so away and that demonic shriek got closer and closer - and when they appeared they looked equally ecstatic and terrified , as well as incapable of coherent speech. Never forgot that little vignette , and I bet they haven't either ...
It is not anything like it is on TV.....
king glorious . Thank you . Reminds me of being at Silverstone in the same era - I was standing at Bridge (WHAT a place to watch a Grand Prix car in full flight ) and it was obvious that Dad and Lad (about 11 ) had never seen F1 cars live before . Their faces were a picture as the cars , very clearly audible , left the pits 400yards or so away and that demonic shriek got closer and closer - and when they appeared they looked equally ecstatic and terrified , as well as incapable of coherent speech. Never forgot that little vignette , and I bet they haven't either ...
It is not anything like it is on TV.....
I think the last time I went to Silverstone for anything to do with F1 using my own money was either 94 or 95.
One of the last years of the V12's anyway.
And we were treated to them going out alone together for a couple of laps of untimed practice. Was a glorious noise, but then again most of the cars were back then.
You would have to pay me to go there now and watch the modern cars sadly.
One of the last years of the V12's anyway.
And we were treated to them going out alone together for a couple of laps of untimed practice. Was a glorious noise, but then again most of the cars were back then.
You would have to pay me to go there now and watch the modern cars sadly.
A bit of W08 action..
Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
Deesee said:
A bit of W08 action..
Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
How did they make them sound so awful?Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
paulguitar said:
Deesee said:
A bit of W08 action..
Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
How did they make them sound so awful?Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
Deesee said:
paulguitar said:
Deesee said:
A bit of W08 action..
Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
How did they make them sound so awful?Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
Just really brings it home hearing an F1 hybrid at Goodwood, where we are so used to hearing stuff that gets the senses fired up.
paulguitar said:
Deesee said:
paulguitar said:
Deesee said:
A bit of W08 action..
Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
How did they make them sound so awful?Not quite past, but past....
https://twitter.com/MercedesAMGF1/status/114714551...
Just really brings it home hearing an F1 hybrid at Goodwood, where we are so used to hearing stuff that gets the senses fired up.
they do sound better in the wild, not quite v10/12, but better..Nice bit of lawn mowing though
coppice said:
Reminds me of being at Silverstone in the same era - I was standing at Bridge (WHAT a place to watch a Grand Prix car in full flight ) and it was obvious that Dad and Lad (about 11 ) had never seen F1 cars live before . Their faces were a picture as the cars , very clearly audible , left the pits 400yards or so away and that demonic shriek got closer and closer - and when they appeared they looked equally ecstatic and terrified , as well as incapable of coherent speech. Never forgot that little vignette , and I bet they haven't either ...
The ‘demonic shriek’, a great description! It used to actually raise the hair on the back of my neck as F1 Free Practice started!Bridge was awesome wasn’t it?! On the early 90s track configuration, just before the vehicle bridge, adjacent to the pedestrian tunnel exit/entry you could get right up to the fence, with F1 cars blasting past you at 160mph at about 10ft away. They’d then turn-in under the bridge and launch through the corner at a seemingly impossible speed, ‘aero’ doing its very effective work. Nearly everyone in this area for the first time were
. One of the times the basic, visceral nature of F1 becomes apparent, I’m so pleased I got to experience it during the mental V12 and (especially) V10 eras.Last visit to Silverstone was to the Classic 3 years ago. Parked in the Morgan area next to Wellington straight. The variation in sounds was huge. The loudest were from the F1 shreikers. Awesome and unforgettable. Access to the garages was open so you could be standing next to the cars while the mechanics worked on them. Occasional starting of them was a bit of a jolt. My mate even helped a me hanic fit awheel onto Jim Clarke’s car.
Going back again this year and booked in for a parade lap in the Morgan. Not as good as my track-day there in an Exige but good for some video footage.
I will have earplugs this time!
Going back again this year and booked in for a parade lap in the Morgan. Not as good as my track-day there in an Exige but good for some video footage.
I will have earplugs this time!
Not F1 , but worth mentioning - and forgive me if I have done so before. There have been some great names in motor sport - favourites include Manfred Hero and Amphicar (yup , a driver's pseudonym ) but the best by far was Dick Trickle. He raced - you guessed, right ? - in NASCAR and was a man who liked a smoke . He had a hole drilled in his helmet to enable him to spark up a Marlboro (or was he a Lucky Strike or Winston kinda guy ?) during those tedious yellow flag periods .
It was Rudyard Kipling who wrote ' a woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a Smoke ' and who could disagree ? Sammy Davis. one time editor of Autocar and Bentley Boy reported to his pit crew at Le Mans in the Twenties that he was very distressed that , at full speed down the Mulsanne , his pipe was flaring uncontrollably.
It was Rudyard Kipling who wrote ' a woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a Smoke ' and who could disagree ? Sammy Davis. one time editor of Autocar and Bentley Boy reported to his pit crew at Le Mans in the Twenties that he was very distressed that , at full speed down the Mulsanne , his pipe was flaring uncontrollably.
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