F1H2O is the 'Flagship' World Championship of single-seater inshore circuit racing.
Established in 1985 it is one of the longest running and most successful and professionally managed series in world powerboat racing attracting 20 of the world's leading drivers and 10 teams from 15 countries.
Wonderful as it all is the complete absence of safety is terrifying, no wonder so many drivers got killed, very , the most worrying aspect is the spectators they are in mortal danger!.
Fascinating, especially when you remember that this area was bitterly fought over only 10-11 years earlier.. It's amazing how pretty the countryside is - or was.
i would like to ask if we could make new design at the back of the boat cover, i'm thinking if we could make some design like DRS as we see at the Formula 1. imagine it sir. hahaa
You can actually drive this circuit as a gamer on Project Cars 2 on steam. Its insanely fast, hardly any barriers, houses at Masta straight, Eau Rouge is much slower and narrower.
I think by then passions had cooled somewhat. But, certainly some people were still scarred and in pain for the loss of loved ones. That region had seen war in the Franco-Prussian War, WWI and WWII
What a fantastic look at Formula One racing in the year I was born. This beautiful film puts the most human touch I’ve ever seen on world championship racing. I’ve watched it three times over the years and may again sometime.
Beautiful, in my schooldays as a car mad young sprog born on the bitter end of the post war era in a still bomb damaged London, films like this were only occasionally glimpsed on very rare outings to the cinema. They were as an adjunct to the main programme, a bit like the 5 minute summary of the FA Cup Final or Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, Wimbledon Tennis etc. In the 1950s TV was embryonic and consisted just one black and white channel: The BBC. It was much later, in the 60s and 70s that these motor racing films made by the major petroleum companies began to be shown as fascinating clips from a seemingly distant past on the TV screens in the UK. Their old fashioned style of presentation becomes ever more appealing the longer that time advances. Englebert Tyres, we’d never heard of them over here!
I was 11 years old at this point, and was one year from seeing my first road race in California, and becoming a Life long fan of Formula one, and racing sports cars. I would be at the Nuremberg race in 1967, while in the US Army. Im now almost 79, and after this note I will watch the practice at the Hugerian GP, on July 23rd, 2023....
I'm a little late to the party, but what a brilliant film!! A perfect snap shot of a more beautiful, simple life. Life is better lived with danger...... makes the living sweeter😊.
It's interesting that these cars would start to slow down over the course of the race because of rubber and oil. Where as cars from at least the 70's onwards would always continue to get faster throughout the race with some of the final laps having the most ideal grip.
I loove watching these 50s races.What unconcious lack of safety there was.Dogs running loose,people sitting at card table a few feet off the track,no seat belts.No wonder not many survived that era.But those unbelievable cars!OMG,what an era!
For all Fiat /Lancia twin cam / Ferrari long block fans: please note the suave Aurilio Lampredi calming his nerves by lighting up at 18:53. He's wearing a Ferrari pin in his lapel, although I thought he was, at this time, with Maserati. (??)
Yup, he's still with Ferrari at the time. Ferrari's Formula One cars at the time, like the 555 Supersqualos in the race, run on Lampredi's four cylinder engine...
Patrons allowed to sit outside the roadside Cafe while cars speeding at 175 mph whistle pass? How far safety has come! At least they have haybales to protect them😅😅😅😅😅
Its surprising: the Eau Rouge seems not have been seen as a big deal back then, its only mentioned once or twice. While today its no doubt the most iconic turns at Spa, and one of the legendary turns world wide. Its really crazy to watch those guys drive on normal country roads, with trees and all kinds of stuff right at the sides - and they didn't even have seat belts.
It is because you, along with, what, 80-90% of people into motor racing, had been mentioning the wrong corner all along... Eau Rouge is that tiny left hand kink at the bottom of the hill. It is named after a small creek there. The uphill right hander with the left hander at the top of the hill, the one you're referring to, is named the Raidillon.
