Are you a nostalgic set motorsport fan and circuit lover? Then this is the channel for you! Here you find videos of the motor racing circuits of the past, and sometimes of the present too. I upload new videos on Friday.
My name is Herman Liesemeijer, I live in the Netherlands in a town called Heerenveen. My fascination for lost race tracks started after a visit to the abandoned circuit of Nivelles-Baulers in Belgium in 1998. In 2003 I founded the MSM Group "Circuits of the past", which became a real website in 2008. This website is dedicated to the lost racing circuits. Through the years I visited many old race tracks.
Since 2014 I'm focusing on making videos. In 2018 I bought a drone to make spectacular aerial footage and I started with live vlogs.
I hope you enjoy my videos and subscribe to my channel.
Sorry to hear about it, but still a nice story to get to tell, having gotten the Ascona's spoiler broken at Tarzan corner. It's the type of anecdote that fits the channel, somehow.
It's part of the game hahaha. It was during a rain shower in the second lap after the start. So it was the first time we enter the Tarzan Corner at full speed. A few corners before I made a mistake, which I wanted to compensate by taking some risk with braking for the Tarzan Corner. I still had the braking point in mind from the last time it rained. But this time the track was so slippery that I couldn't slow down enough and drove into the gravel trap. Funnily enough, I even see Formula 1 drivers making this mistake. First a small mistake that they want to compensate for, which results in a bigger mistake.
@@Circuitsofthepast Yes, I was going to say, far from the last time someone took a too big risk braking for Tarzan corner 😂 I bet we'll see the same again this year.
As I recall, Dietrich Mateschitz wanted to restore the circuit to it's former glory, but was facing opposition from local authorities & environmentalists. With his passing, I don't know if Red Bull themselves will still push on with what could be a fantastic memorial to him.
I think the old layout is lost forever now. By the way, Mateschitz didn't want an exact copy of the old Österreichring. You can see the proposal in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NStIXNn3SK0.html
Lol yea just because the track was there before everybody else who don't care about racing and don't want noise pollution can go f themselves Such a dumb, simplistic perspective. Try some empathy man, place yourself in the mind of another for a change.
a part of the old Start/Finish straight and a section between Turn 1 and 2. That's what you see in the video. They just leave the original layout at that point.
Jackie Stewart raced against François Cevert in a Formula 2 race at Reims in 1969, which Cevert won. Cevert’s performance made a strong impression on Stewart, leading to Cevert being signed by the Tyrrell team the following year.
No worries, there wil come several editet video's of this revival weekend too. Firs a vlog style video with myself. Later also with voiceover by the one and only Simon Smith.
Thanks mate. It's always sad to see old race tracks disappear and though Nivelles wasn't a great track ( though better than most modern F1 circuits) at least the site is now populated by buildings where people can work instead of golf courses where the bosses bat little balls about thinking they're fxxking sportsmen ........ Cadours next please 😄
You're welcome. Yes, Nivelles was not popular in it's time, because it was a replacement for old Spa-Francorchamps and it's time far ahead about safety. As you said, it was better than most modern F1 tracks of today. The section called Big Loop was great. Good one about the golf courses :)
Very nice and thank you for putting this together. Rouen is my choice. I’m so old I recall when F1 still raced there. However, the other track does seem quite interesting.
Rouen by a long long way. Been there loads of times and feel the ghosts each time (whereas these days you can't actually get into the grounds of Montlhery). Proper track, only perhaps equalled by the old Spa. Six Freres is the 3rd corner not the whole section incidentally and was renamed Virage Des Roches when the chicane was built there in 1974 after Gerry Birrell's accident the previous year. If you visit, make sure you clamber through the trees and find the tarmac still there of the Gresil Curve by-passed after 1971 which is hidden after the motorway bridge that goes over the circuit.
Thanks for the aditional information. I allways thought Six Freres was the name of the whole section. I have the information from an article in a magazine I read long ago.
Rouen has always had a certain appeal to me. I remember being fascinated when reading about Six Freres and the 'chicken's lift' story (remember the period and thus speed of these machines when it was named). The abridged version is my favourite layout; especially in Project Cars 2; driving the undulations with the sun coming through the trees is bliss.
When you mention about people moving close to a racing track and complaining about the noise, I really want to make a series of videos screaming of rage at the camera and ask(demand) them all to move out or never live close a racing track if you don't like the beautiful roar of racing cars ;)
