EAU ROUGE was only the 2nd scariest corner at the old SPA circuit 

LOL

And the drivers...

I wouldn't even say it's "balls". It's just a complete lack of safety culture. It's a very common things, among the common people. There's not even thoughts in that direction. Look at rallying in the 80's, and the fans in Portugal, for example. Absolutely nuts.

Just like Group B where the spectators, drivers, and codrivers all have titanium balls

@@chakko007 They know it’s dangerous, they just don’t mind.

Yep, Hill and McLaren even had speaking roles...

I really want to watch it one of these days, what streaming service is it on?

@@AmokCanuck Amazon Prime, I guess. Can apparently also be seen via RU-vid. I have the DVD 😁

Fangio was in that party scene as well as Bruce Mclaren, as I recall.

And then to think there was Pescara and Targa Florio… levels to the game back then.

I recently saw a video on youtube that showed all the fatalities on the old track, i believe balnchimont took the most souls over the years

@@Dalesi "If there's a circuit you must fear, that's Spa Francorchamps" Chris Amon "Spa Francorchamps is a circuit for men" Niki Lauda Best regards from Venezuela 🇻🇪 ¡Forza Ferrari! 🏎️

@@Caroni100 i see a fellow venezuelan here, best regards for you too

Les Combes had the biggest crashes. It was as if drivers had forgotten that the corner was there, after the fast sweeps from Raidillon. During the 24h races drivers seemed to just follow their headlights, rather than looking to see where the corner went. Massimo Larini went straight on flat out and was launched about 15m into the air. He wasn't the first to do so, but almost the last.

Jim Clark loathed the place

And let's not forget the bumps, pools for aquaplaning and the cross ply tyres. The track is already much smoother than it was in the 1990s.

Part of the track is still stavelot is it not?

@@ciaranmcguinness8900 On the new track "Stavelot" is not in the same location as the old "Stavelot"... (which is 2 km away, closer to the village).

I believe they had to do a decent amount of braking on entry and it wasn't taken any faster than in 3rd gear.

@@ciaranmcguinness8900 yes there's still a corner named Stavelot on today's track, that's where the downhill ends and before they reach the flatout section that leads into Blanchimot.

Im working on something along those lines, thats all i can say 😉

@@Dalesi can’t wait to see it

Same goes for the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans; if you didn't know any better, you'd wonder what the fuss is about. Racing speeds make all the difference!

Honda hatchback: *under steer is my number one priority!*

You mean into a field with barb wire fences that will cut your head off? ;-)

Modern F1 drivers: "Theres 3m of unsecured concrete in this track! This is outrageously dangerous and the FIA need to do something about this!" 60s F1 drivers: "Yeah my teammate has just been decapitated in the last race, I'll still keep going on"

@@R9naldo or be a motorcyclist - Isle of Man is no different today and you have no crash cell only two wheels - but you do have good medical services and helicopters in communication

At the same time, one of the best positions to watch the race, for free.

Lol had the best seat in the house though!

@@m-h1269 Untill there is a ferrari in your living room

@@guenthersteiner9252 Well, atleast you get to see all the detail up close.

@@guenthersteiner9252 I’d love to have a Ferrari in my living room, what do you mean? But without a hole in my wall ofcourse

No confusion, it was part of the introduction, a tease before the actual corner itself 😉

Shadow Realm was actually Aunt Molly's kitchen.

You are not being a baby

It’s part of the evolution of the sport, F1 has gone a long way when it comes to safety but even today is still a very dangerous sport

F1 originally was made up of former fighter pilots from WW2. All they knew were danger. It was of the time.

@@bowlock9901 Most drivers who drove in F1 in 1950 were racing drivers before the war too. With the same death rates. I checked the Wikipedia page for several of them and I didn't find a single one who had ever driven a fighter.

The drivers knew the danger but the fame and fortune were too good to pass up. All forms of racing were dangerous then. It's a bit of a blessing that the cars were much slower though. Imagine going at the speeds of today's cars with virtually no safety devices and brakes that barely slowed the car down. You'd have one death per race.

early prototype for sausage kurbs

Im always jealous of people who had GPL, in all these years ive never played it

@@Dalesi It was hard man... You would push and push and push, finally get a clean lap and find you're still way off the pace. Took a LOT of time and effort to get competitive at that one. Great game though.

@@Dalesi Then play it for yourself GPLaps made an installer video, you don't even need the game - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z0Mib_q57ss.html

As an old GPLer, was obsessed with it for a few years, but I always hated Spa. Even though it's a sim you can see that the track was quite satanic in design. I've probably aced Masta twice in a million attempts. Died a lot there.

This track is also in project cars 2

Latifi clears Mid Clark

Hey look, everyone knows about Jim Clark already. If you wanted to mention anything further about his tenure here , you should have mentioned that he hated this circuit and yet won on it four consecutive years. Not to mention he was brilliantly fast during the start of the 1962 race. He had Gilles Villeneuve speed when he launched off the grid that day.

That Jimmy hated Spa is already known too, so what ??? Believe me, he was always - even - faster than Gilles, but combinded with unmatched smoothness and precision...by the way: I admire Gilles too@@maxmulsanne7054

How did they ever get to hear whatever he yelled at them? How did the drivers even notice him more than a fraction of a second as they passed Masta at insane speeds? That legend is most likely urban hearsay which became a myth.

there is absolutely no way😂😂 i refuse to believe this was real until i see interviews about it. comedy gold

I believe it. I had an uncle like that once. Only he would step out on the street berating people with racial slurs. Good ol' Californian that he was.

That’s not how physics work

They were going very quick through there. Barry Sheene set the lap record there at 137mph in 1977!

Eau rouge doesn’t exist anymore since 1939

I think a lot of war vets were intrigued just to get some of the adrenaline back; someone correct me if I'm wrong though

Can’t imagine what it was like to be a fan of a sport that took so many souls at the same time! Just out of curiosity, when dif you come back?

Quit following after Clark’s death. Still love the endurance racing, though

You poor Canadians. I had to stop choosing favorite drivers after Greg Moores death. That sucked...

The way folks like Greger Huttu took that corner is indeed the stuff of legends.

Awesome when a game manages to give you this amount of challenge and excitement 🙌🏻

@@Dalesi Definitely! The best gift for me was learning the tracks. Then later on the 3rd party tracks showed me so many circuits and races I never knew about! Between Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2 and iRacing I get plenty of track knowledge these days.

Pretty sure most of the old footage is from the old racing film ‘Grand Prix’ which I believe is on Amazon Prime, not sure about other streaming services

Buy the DVD, "Grand Prix" is a wonderful film.

@@Andrew-vx2ls oh..is that the James Garner film? I’ve got that, but this clip seems different!

@@markfreestone9313 Yes, it is.

@@Andrew-vx2ls Yaps agree. The film is masterpiece

Exactly. He said it many times.

Jimmy broadbent made couple videos about the old circuits in VR Racing sim, with the old cars. He was already scared, even though it was still a game...

Id love to see that clip if you can find it again!

@@Dalesi I will try. Two years ago I wrote an article about Jackie based on his autobiography Winning is not enough. In that article, I mentioned something like this: Masta Kink was definitely the most challenging corner in the world. Everybody thinks Eau Rouge ...but Masta Kink is the Corner. I know that it comes from an interview I found on RU-vid back then. EDIT: I found it. It starts around 18:55 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISOEXQG5vOo.html

​@@Dalesinot 100% but I think it was in his Beyond the Grid podcast episode with Tom Clarkson

Welcome and enjoy the ride!

I cleaned it up a bit! Thanks for the tip, I didn’t realise it was so in the way!

@@Dalesi Hey thanks! My comment wasn't a dig at you, I think it's a YT thing. Great video - I didn't know about Masta.

shush

There’s always one. Actually.

Tilke is the worst thing to happen to the sport. Him and safety queens killed it. I'm all for making the cars safer, and the tracks as well with improved run offs, better walls etc., but don't neuter the tracks and kill the old configs.

@@CamelSmokes23 Eau Rouge stays the same, just the runoff get's bigger i think

@@CamelSmokes23 eeh, tilke can make a good track. Look at insambul park for exapmle. But you design for your client, not for yourself

@@foxy126pl6 Exactly. I get tired of this Tilke shit. Its not him that's the problem. Its the FIA and F1 demanding such steril tracks.

@@TheNewTom Eau Rouge and Raidillon is mucb sharper now

Indeed! The text is a bit too distracting, especially as it's right in the middle of the viewing area.

😂

movie: grand prix (1966)

Id love to see you try!

Grand Prix Legends! The best F1 simulator ever made. Grandfather of iRacing BTW

Life in general was more dangerous back then, and there were fewer snowflakes around.

Better pilots, talented grid, even the paid drivers had balls the size of skyscrapers, not driving for snowflakes with a PS joystick, no horrid liveries full of stickers, your barriers were straw bales, the audience was a breath away in your next corner, no radios feeding you track information, you accepted you might have a short life aiming for glory. Now we have mafia, grime and money... the Hamiltons and the Alonsos... Such progress... I left F1 for several years in the mid 00's, feeling this was no longer the sport I loved when I first watched it as a child. Of course, you cannot understand the thrill and love. I do understand safety is needed, and the fact F1 since '94 has had just a few scares (and F2 just a handful losses), plus Grossjean would not have survived back in the time (but then, he also would not have been good enough to race even...) is not lost to me... But those back then, no seatbelts halos or ignifuge suits... those were pilots, champions, men. Many were sadly lost in the middle of their dream... Sirs Sterling Moss and Jackie Stewart, along with John Fitch, were the promoters of higher safety in the tracks, after losing so many colleagues and friends. It made the sport duller at the end of the 70s, and changed the pilots into the unsufferable primadonnas we still see today (many of which were Brazilians, incidentally) Gone were the days of the mavericks and the gentlemen pilots. Every now and then we see one come out, but few and far between. The grid is a brighter, much humorous place now, but I would gladly trade it for those olden times in terms of true comraderie. I only just saw something remotely similar when Grosjean had the accident. That is why I will always prefer F1 back then. Old timers would make these present cars soar. Nonetheless, I respect greatly present day drivers who are able to drive the cars of those golden years to standards.

If you think not being suicidal means having no balls…

who cares what he has to say

@Orange This. The F1 community has turned into an absolute joke in recent years. They're currently no different than the kpop fandom

@@dr2stroke611 You clearly cared enough to comment and cry 🤣

Yes, it absolutely is original. It’s from John Frankenheimer’s 1966 movie, “Grand Prix”. The camera was mounted on an old and uncompetitive McLaren driven by former World Champion Phil Hill.

Grand prix, there will never be a racing film like it. Forget about drive to survive