Remember being there that weekend - watching Tom Pryce through Woodcote on his way to pole was something else. All this rubbish that gets written 'I love Max, I love Lewis' blah blah blah. These were real drivers with everything on the line...........Glad I was there.
Saw this race when I was 16. It was incredibly exciting for many laps and then the storm came and brought on one wreck after another. The lesson I took into my adult life was that speed and wet roads don't go together!
@@altfactor You sure? I'm not the biggest Indycar expert, but i seen them racing in the wet. Nascar yes, they only use slicks and red flags as soon as it starts raining. They also dry the track with jet engines before restarting 😂
1975 ROC (non championship race) at Brands Hatch was exciting too. It snowed, was wet, had a f5000 car in the field, Lella Lombardi a lady driver (17 f1 races), Icks in a JPS Lotus... and Tom Pryce won in the UOP Shadow!
Absolutely. Just the facts from him about everything....because obviously he lived it at the highest level. Love Jackie....glad he's still with us. Also, it was cool seeing Mario and Emerson at that race this past weekend. The few that made it out of 60s-70s racing.
I remember going to see that race in my Triumph Herald. I left home at 5 in the morning to drive the 60 miles to Silverstone and got within about 2 miles of the circuit by 6.15 ish and was still there at 11 o'clock. People were dumping their cars in the road and walking to the circuit.There was a gap in the fence so I got in for free. Then the rotten sods shortened the race because of a bit of rain! I left pretty teed off and eventually got home at about 10 at night, only mollified by the fact I had got in for free.That was really interesting film as I hadn't realised all the drama that was unfolding on the other side of the track. I didn't bother to go and see another British GP until 2008, a little more civilised as I was invited by a member of BRDC.It rained then as well and Lewis won easily.
Pace was a real racer and a man of great value... that's the impression I've gotten of his personality on a VEJA magazine... actually the best enterwiew I've ever read about motor-racing !
@@adrianodosveras - the best interview I ever read about motor racing is Jackie Stewart. There is a film called "Weekend of a Champion" which was made by Roman Polanksi in 1972. In 2013 they made an HD version of the film and stayed in the same suite in Monaco as in 1972. The second part of the film is an excruciatingly honest and painful interview with Jackie Stewart and absolutely fascinating. It became almost a regular thing for his wife Helen to have to go and collect all the things from a hotel room because another friend of theirs had been killed!
@@probablygraham ... great... in Englhish I've read GRAHAM by Betty Hill. J.C. Pace stated tha before arriving at formula-1 he had his respect for some racers he assumed as heroes... but later,into his strugle on Surtees and after on doubtful Brabhams already improved,he saw how important was the role of Top Gear on the category,so: considering such proportions he competed the best he could with what he had in hands and from time to time he managed to beat the men he once considered demigods on Motor-Racing.
Previously, races were stopped only when half of the racers crashed. And now the cars are much safer, but often the management does not even try to start the race (translator)
The new Chicane built the day before by the local School Kids. Plus I love the Pit 'lane' built like my mum's garden path and the area with no barriers where the Crowd is lower than the track behind a small ditch.
The disregard for safety is amazing xD Pit crews working in t-shirts. Marshalls raising a hand to slow cars down while working xD With a helmet on and a normal sweater under it.
I was -32 year old by the time lol but it was so incredible the sound and the racing and the cars were so tiny... Beautiful racing and the beautiful cars especially the mclaren m23 and the ferrari 312t
Very sad. Pryce was an excellent driver, and from what I've read, a friendly soul. He was on course to sign with a top-rank team and to challenge for the drivers' title. Motor racing is a great sport, but punishes mistakes so dearly.
My absolute favorite era of F1 . The designs were boldly different you could tell the cars by their shape not sponsor or number. . The tall air box cars were the best.
If you look at starts in the past, 60's and 70's especially, hardly anyone stood still before the flag was dropped, and drivers in the front looked at the legs of the dude with the flag, because when they flexed their knees it meant they was about to drop the flag, and this sometimes confused the drivers. Crazy days.
at the time it was banned but hard to enforce and so it was inconsistently applied - things started to change after the big lap 1 accident at monza in 1978 caused by several cars at the front beginning to move early and several at the back which hadn't had the chance to stop at all before the flag dropped - but it wasn't until about 1982 that it was really clamped down on.
Well, this Christmas, I watched a recent documentary, an eye opener for me, Jackie being open with his massive reading and writing challenges. I read his book, Performance Driving. How he managed to write this, given his extreme dyslexia, I will never know. That book made me a better driver. Get hold of a copy and read it.
Thank God they decided to stop using the catch fences. Yes - they stopped the cars, but drivers also ended up neatly wrapped up in a fence and unable to get out. What would have happened in a fire doesn't bear thinking about. The other thing which was dangerous was that hitting the fences pulled the fence posts out of the ground and you were quite likely to have your head knocked off!
There is more excitement in this race than in a whole season of F1 these days, it was too dangerous back then though - all the cars spinning off into each other with people on the circuit....😮
Thankyou for another piece of the great jigsaw of a phantastic era ... did you, b.t.w., find out who really controles the universe .. and could you please upload a copy of the guide . 🌷:)
@@jrp312 Yes, you're right his 14th👉🎯 and he ended up VICE champion from 1976 on the brazilian car wasn't enough for his talent and we were lucky to see him again on top @ INDY CARS IN USA including his dramatic Indy 500 in 1989. FYI now EMMO is running for SENATE IN ITALY !
it's a shame that people in brasil don't know hym that well, even with interlagos named after him. He was a brilliant driver, probably gona be world champion!
This was the era I got interested in F1 as a 9 year old. Looks like whacky races compared to today. Cars bouncing around with those massive rear wheels.
I did follow this 1975 season as a kid, but I am not sure how much this posting has been edited from the original live transmission. What struck me is how bad the transmission was, how confusing it was. The camera didn't follow cars about to pass each other, and the editors focused on a back marker in the pits while there was intense fighting for the lead, then it cuts back to a changed field, and no one knows how the action developed. F1 is much more boring now, that's for sure, but the TV folks compensate with much better transmission.
in those days if i recall correctly the red flag could only be displayed on the start finish line, and the marshall posts displayed crossed yellow and yellow/red flags to show the race was being stopped.
I was there ! In fact it was the last GP I ever attended. We camped in a field the night before and on the way home my mates old Jag 2.4 dropped a valve and wrecked the engine on the M18. I never saw any of the crashes. They all went past us on one lap.....and never reappeared again. We knew something had happened, but it wasn't that wet where we were.
James Hunt was great subtly correcting Murray Walker’s ‘Murrayisms’ and over-exuberance’s, while reading situations (and Senna’s mind often) before key moments. I like Jackie but he’s a little high strung.
Brambilla showed his skill in the wet....results should have been given at the red flag. Brambilla demonstrated what he could do in the rain later that year in Austria with a dominating win.
it s not possible to ask to a pilot to be to 100% all time on track, because he must managing differents paremeters that do relation with his car and their track
I remember watching this GP on tv 1975 and they didn't mention about this marshall. I have seen these crashes several times along the years but just now, Jan 2020, watching this video, I see this marshall being helped. Glad to know that he survived.
15:42 one of the new safety precautions at Silverstone, great now if a car comes off the track doing 160mph we now have chicken wire as well as a grass bank.
They ended up getting rid of catch fencing as it proved too dangerous (shocking, I know). Look up Mark Donohue, you'll hear Murray Walker mention him in commentary in this race.
Great commentators! "Visibility is very important for racing car drivers" "Of course they have safety belts and everything" - and thank God for chainlink fencing.
Maybe it was a good thing that so many cras crashed into the fencing. Afterwards people started to ask what would have happened if there had been a fire, because some of the drivers were neatly wrapped up in the fence. Also, as you can see a few times in the clip, the fence posts were pulled out of the ground on impact, and it was pure luck that none of the drivers got smashed on the head. Needless to say, the banned the catch fencing.
