Brian Moore meets Niki Lauda
Brian Moore meets Niki Lauda
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10126 Torino

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4,875 posts

100 months

Tuesday 19th May 2020
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Whilst everyone else has been arguing over "F1 cancelled this year ? " , I watched a 1979 documentary

titled above ,

Brian Moore , mostly known as a football commentator , follows Niki around at home in Salzburg , at the British Grand Prix

at Silverstone , whilst Niki has a torrid time in the Parmalat Brabham Alfa Romeo , retired after 13 laps with no brakes .

There was a short section when NL unretired for 1982 and also mentioned his 2019 passing.

Well worth watching for the period race footage if nothing else , including BMW Procar .

ITV4 ,might be on the I player thing.


RSTurboPaul

12,711 posts

279 months

Tuesday 19th May 2020
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10126 Torino said:
Whilst everyone else has been arguing over "F1 cancelled this year ? " , I watched a 1979 documentary

titled above ,

Brian Moore , mostly known as a football commentator , follows Niki around at home in Salzburg , at the British Grand Prix

at Silverstone , whilst Niki has a torrid time in the Parmalat Brabham Alfa Romeo , retired after 13 laps with no brakes .

There was a short section when NL unretired for 1982 and also mentioned his 2019 passing.

Well worth watching for the period race footage if nothing else , including BMW Procar .

ITV4 ,might be on the I player thing.
I spotted it while scrolling through for something to watch - I thought it was really good, I admire his no-BS attitude to life and everything that came with the job.

renmure

4,786 posts

245 months

Tuesday 19th May 2020
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I also really enjoyed it and thought he came across really well.

BigBen

12,110 posts

251 months

Wednesday 20th May 2020
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Only caught the second half but as others have said an enjoyable watch.

paulguitar

33,320 posts

134 months

Thursday 21st May 2020
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Thanks for posting about this, I really enjoyed it and very vaguely remember watching it first time around in 1979.

What an excellent interviewer Brian Moore was and how TV has declined since then!

entropy

6,171 posts

224 months

Thursday 28th May 2020
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paulguitar said:
Thanks for posting about this, I really enjoyed it and very vaguely remember watching it first time around in 1979.

What an excellent interviewer Brian Moore was and how TV has declined since then!
Really worth watching IMO. It's interesting how you can sense Lauda's waning enthusiasm contrasted to being in the cockpit of an aeroplane, the sense of relief at having retired and then the joy comes back again at McLaren - money, seemingly, wasn't the only motivation.

Agreed about Brian Moore. Football commentary has drastically declined since his passing and Barry Davies no longer commentating elite football.

paua

7,718 posts

164 months

Friday 29th May 2020
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Can anybody post a link, please?

paulguitar

33,320 posts

134 months

Friday 29th May 2020
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paua said:
Can anybody post a link, please?
https://www.itv.com/hub/brian-moore-meets-niki-lauda/1a8475a0001

paua

7,718 posts

164 months

Friday 29th May 2020
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paulguitar said:
Many thanks Paul. I'm in NZ, filled in the form, made up a post code. "Film not available"
Cheers anyway. beer

RSTurboPaul

12,711 posts

279 months

Saturday 30th May 2020
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paua said:
paulguitar said:
Many thanks Paul. I'm in NZ, filled in the form, made up a post code. "Film not available"
Cheers anyway. beer
If your IP address is coming up as outside the UK it might not let you watch it (because of copyright and all that).

If you can use a proxy that shows it a UK IP address, it could work smile