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Get to Brands for the Masters in August and watch the top Historic F1 cars out at Westfield or Dingle Dell there's no shortage of 100% commitment! Last year Martin Stretton in his Tyrrell 012 was on the absolute limit in qualifying I was at Dingle Dell and it was breathtaking. if you get all the top guys out at once; Stretton, Lyons, Padmore, Thornton etc you're in for a treat.
Thundersports said:
Get to Brands for the Masters in August and watch the top Historic F1 cars out at Westfield or Dingle Dell there's no shortage of 100% commitment! Last year Martin Stretton in his Tyrrell 012 was on the absolute limit in qualifying I was at Dingle Dell and it was breathtaking. if you get all the top guys out at once; Stretton, Lyons, Padmore, Thornton etc you're in for a treat.
How many '90's F1 cars race in that series, and how many V-10 or V-12 cars are there?
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Basically it is full of DFV engined cars, not much variety in terms of noise, bit plenty in terms of looks.
Once you have seen it once, you have pretty much seen it, but now and then something interesting comes out like a BRM or Matra Ligier.
driving standards are hugely varied, from top drivers to rich old men plodding, but I guess you have to expect that.
Basically it is full of DFV engined cars, not much variety in terms of noise, bit plenty in terms of looks.
Once you have seen it once, you have pretty much seen it, but now and then something interesting comes out like a BRM or Matra Ligier.
driving standards are hugely varied, from top drivers to rich old men plodding, but I guess you have to expect that.
Thundersports said:
Get to Brands for the Masters in August and watch the top Historic F1 cars out at Westfield or Dingle Dell there's no shortage of 100% commitment! Last year Martin Stretton in his Tyrrell 012 was on the absolute limit in qualifying I was at Dingle Dell and it was breathtaking. if you get all the top guys out at once; Stretton, Lyons, Padmore, Thornton etc you're in for a treat.
One day during the nineties I was marshaling at Brands, down on the back straight behind the pits. There was an historic F1 event, and we became aware of a kerfuffle going on on the hill rising up towards Druids hairpin. Sure enough the red flags came out, and after a while we saw one of the cars coming back on two separate flat bed trucks, taking the back door into the pits just opposite us. I think it may have been a Wolf, or something of that era. Later on one of the trackside photographers made his way past our post, so we cheerily asked if he had got the accident, and he said he had managed some shots of it, thanks. And then he added, "it's not often you see a DFV coming down the road on its own ... "
Roofless Toothless said:
One day during the nineties I was marshaling at Brands, down on the back straight behind the pits. There was an historic F1 event, and we became aware of a kerfuffle going on on the hill rising up towards Druids hairpin. Sure enough the red flags came out, and after a while we saw one of the cars coming back on two separate flat bed trucks, taking the back door into the pits just opposite us. I think it may have been a Wolf, or something of that era.
Later on one of the trackside photographers made his way past our post, so we cheerily asked if he had got the accident, and he said he had managed some shots of it, thanks. And then he added, "it's not often you see a DFV coming down the road on its own ... "
That was a Spirit that hit the inside barrier after losing it on the exit of Paddock.Later on one of the trackside photographers made his way past our post, so we cheerily asked if he had got the accident, and he said he had managed some shots of it, thanks. And then he added, "it's not often you see a DFV coming down the road on its own ... "
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Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
Reworked colour 1964 British GP Pathe coverage!
Enjoy!
Deesee said:
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Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
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Love the chronometric tacho.Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
Reworked colour 1964 British GP Pathe coverage!
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Didn't realise the Lotus 25 had an offest steering wheel, I thought that was the 49.
Deesee said:
Classic Car Curation (@CCCuration) Tweeted:
Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
Reworked colour 1964 British GP Pathe coverage!
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I’ve been looking at some of these reworked older clips and whilst they look sharper and smoother than before, the colours seem too garish to me.Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
Reworked colour 1964 British GP Pathe coverage!
Enjoy!
Eric Mc said:
Deesee said:
Classic Car Curation (@CCCuration) Tweeted:
Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
Reworked colour 1964 British GP Pathe coverage!
Enjoy!
I’ve been looking at some of these reworked older clips and whilst they look sharper and smoother than before, the colours seem too garish to me.Incredible reworked colour 60fps 1964 footage of the F1 British GP onboard Jim Clark's Lotus 25. https://t.co/CQcaGVLsfA
Reworked colour 1964 British GP Pathe coverage!
Enjoy!
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Bit of a thread resurrection to post this:
You often see F1 cars from the V10 era being pedalled gently as part of a historic event or PR activity - but not often at an F1 event with one of the best drivers of the era giving it close to full beans.
According to Twitter, his fastest lap was only a few seconds off of last years pole position time.
It seems to be running without the period "grooved slicks", which must help unlock some lap time. If given some time to set the car up properly, and permission to drive it absolutely flat-out, I wonder how quick it would actually be compared to this years cars? One thing, in my opinion at least, it sounds and looks a whole lot quicker.
You often see F1 cars from the V10 era being pedalled gently as part of a historic event or PR activity - but not often at an F1 event with one of the best drivers of the era giving it close to full beans.
According to Twitter, his fastest lap was only a few seconds off of last years pole position time.
It seems to be running without the period "grooved slicks", which must help unlock some lap time. If given some time to set the car up properly, and permission to drive it absolutely flat-out, I wonder how quick it would actually be compared to this years cars? One thing, in my opinion at least, it sounds and looks a whole lot quicker.
generationx said:
It sounded absolutely epic, ((deep sigh for the past))
Reading an interview, and apparently he lapped in the 1 minute 39s today, equivalent to Lewis Hamilton's fastest lap during the race last year.That's progress then - a 15 year old car with just a few laps of running, on presumably less than optimal settings - is as quick as the fastest car
in race trim last year
I'm not an expert in these things - but I imagine a testing programme to optimise the car to today's tyres, and to tune the settings for the circuit, and it would be quicker still.People have said that the racing was no more exciting back then - and perhaps they're right. But as an overall package of entertainment?
Edited by stevesuk on Saturday 12th December 19:16
generationx said:
It sounded absolutely epic, ((deep sigh for the past))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hol6eel1uMEstevesuk said:
Reading an interview, and apparently he lapped in the 1 minute 39s today, equivalent to Lewis Hamilton's fastest lap during the race last year.
That's progress then - a 15 year old car with just a few laps of running, on presumably less than optimal settings - is as quick as the fastest car
in race trim last year I'm not an expert in these things - but I imagine a testing programme to optimise the car to today's tyres, and to tune the settings for the circuit, and it would be quicker still.
People have said that the racing was no more exciting back then - and perhaps they're right. But as an overall package of entertainment?
The cars are built to a Formula, hence the name of the series, Formula 1. If the engineers were left to it the cars would be much faster.That's progress then - a 15 year old car with just a few laps of running, on presumably less than optimal settings - is as quick as the fastest car
in race trim last year
I'm not an expert in these things - but I imagine a testing programme to optimise the car to today's tyres, and to tune the settings for the circuit, and it would be quicker still.People have said that the racing was no more exciting back then - and perhaps they're right. But as an overall package of entertainment?
Edited by stevesuk on Saturday 12th December 19:16
This is why comparing cars from different era's needs to understand the rules applied at the time are what sets the pace potential.
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