Ferrari F1 126 C2 ex Gilles Villeneuve - EPIC Flames & Accelerations! 

Definitely. The 1982 cars are still the most complete looking and neatest. They were as dangerous as Russian Roulette but they looked just about perfect.

@@thethirdman225 If you look properly at the archives (videos and testimonies, mostly the one from Pironi on recovery) both of Villeneuves and Pironi accidents were motorsport ones. Nothing to do with the car. Except maybe that once the air got under them at 300 km/hour they went flying basicaly like most of the F1 cars. On September 1982 Villeneuve was totally pissed off that Pironi took the victory on the Grand Prix before and he was pissed during the time session, on his last lap he was asked to go back to the pit and he kept pushing thru his pit lap...i like Villeneuve, he was racing when i was a young but 256 km/h during a pit lap is not justified :)

Réginald Leduc The cause and effect of those crashes can be considered independently. The triggers may have been racing incidents but what happened after that was aerodynamic. The problem with flying cars persists to this day, though they are slightly more resistant now. This 1980s aluminium chassis cars were lethal when things went wrong. There are computer models out there of Villeneuve’s Zolder crash that go part of the way to explaining what happened but the aerodynamic principles are not well understood by most racing enthusiasts.

TheThirdMan I agree. Bur it's a race incident. Villeneuve went on the right as did Jochen Mass, wanting to let the interior to the Ferrari supposing, considering its speed, that Villeneuve was on a time lap. Villeneuve didn't even try to break, staying on his line. Mass should have stayed on his own. And Villeneuve should have considerably reduced his own speed way before since he just got the order to go back to the pit lane for tyres parametry. The day before Villeneuve complained about «slow» racers. Senna complained about the left he died into...i call that pressentiment.

Réginald Leduc I know exactly what happened. I was heavily invested in it at the time, being a near-fanatical Villeneuve/Ferrari fan. Unusually for a Villeneuve fan, I liked Pironi too. I even have his autograph. But cars should not fly. Not ever. In 1982 they did not have the structural strength or integrity they have today and they usually just crumpled, mostly around the driver’s legs, which protruded well past the line of the front axle. The aerodynamics of the car did not take any of these possibilities into account either. They were fantastic to look at and fantastic to watch but they were extremely dangerous. So of course the car was a factor, irrespective of who braked where and who was going too fast.

Nah

I mean now cars looks futuristic and

Im getting used to v6 sound

Ah this comment again. Move on will ya?

Antti Ahola oh ffs.

Correct, that is NOT a Villeneuve car.

Not one of Villeneuve's cars. That is true but it did race with carbon front wings. Not sure about the rear. There were seven 126C2s built. There is only one original and it was put up for auction last year. This is it: petrolicious.com/articles/one-of-ferraris-and-f1s-most-important-cars-is-heading-to-auction-in-abu-dhabi-with-rm-sothebys-the-1982-126c2

Gilles campione del mondo 79 e 82...in cielo, in paradiso dove i traditori non potrano mai mettere il piede.💯🇨🇦💗

The black front wing first appeared in Hockenheim driven to victory by Patrick Tambay and the rear wing is still aluminum silver till the end of the 1982 season. So basically the rear wing on this video perhaps remake.

historic cars aren't used at its max...please, next time inform about motor racing before you write

@@jcoast1 LOL! Aww, that's ok mate, you had no way of knowing that I've been watching motorsport since 1986.., too funny! I guess you don't watch historic racing then ? You should check it out. They drive much slower cars than this 126 much faster than this "driver" Anyway, thanks for your concern

Not with that driver.

Noone is gonna say that about V6 Hybrid engines

@@Dimpet-xw9gg i would if v8s came back, not if v10s and v12s came back

Indeed, it's almost disrispectful to that car

ccanaves it is disrespectful

I'd like to see you try and drive a multimillion 80s F1 car fast. Imagine if some shit happened at speed and that amazing car was wrecked?

Only people with are the complete day with the hands on the balls can make such a stupid comments. You should driving!

Me too.

It wasn't unique. Harvey Postlethwaite had used it on his previous design, the Fittipaldi F8C. If you look closely, there is a strong resemblance in both construction and aerodynamics. What was different was that it used a new material; aluminium/honeycomb sandwich which was bonded together along a central seam. I think that's what you mean by no rivets. It was said to be about 25 kg lighter than the old 126C spaceframe it replaced, as well as being much stiffer.

@@thethirdman225 thanks for the info.

Exactly, this is the 1982 C2 with the updated front suspension. This front suspension was first seen on the spare car at the Detroit GP. Pironi was the only driver then...

They used black front wings in 1982.

@@thethirdman225 Nope, Ferrari introduced the carbon fiber wings by the middle of 1983. Even in the first part of that year they used aluminium wings

@@mikea7515 in 1981 there is the 126 ck (or cx with comprex but there is for test). The 126 c2 (in the video) is for the 1982

It's probably neither. It's certainly not one of Villeneuve's cars He died before the pullrod front end was developed. Without knowing the chassis number, it's impossible to say what this car's heritage is. Here is the only authentic 126C2 remaining (Chassis 061): petrolicious.com/articles/one-of-ferraris-and-f1s-most-important-cars-is-heading-to-auction-in-abu-dhabi-with-rm-sothebys-the-1982-126c2

the first ferrari wich used black wings was the 1983´s 126 C3, drove by Patrick Tambay and Rene Arnoux. This Ferrari is an 1982´s 126 C2, but a later version with diferent front suspension, and the black wings are not the originals

Uwe Meissner Modena motorsport

Ps Color red is awesome

Carbon fibre - more than any other factor - has been responsible for the dramatic reduction in death and serious injury in motorsport. In 1982 we lost two drivers dead and one maimed, never to race again. So if you actually want to kill motorsport, then by all means, get rid of carbon fibre. It's a sad irony that 12 months after Villeneuve died, most cars had carbon chassis and had it been possible to build such a thing for Ferrari in 1982, he might have survived and Pironi's career might not have been cut short.

They have to use production engines, which should keep costs down.

This guy probably never learned that ! The Ferrari Classic F1 department sells old F1's to wealthy customers and give them assist at the track to run the cars....They need very deep pockets ! But these owners rarely have race driving knowledge, they are just fulfilling a dream running the cars on a racetrack ! Forget going near the limit...

Dear god... That car has a crash box. With such long linkages, it would be near impossible to drive without heel-toeing.

@@michellevesque2130 Stop making generalisations.

@@thethirdman225 I said rarely, not never...A few know what they're doing....

@@michellevesque2130 Nevertheless, you are making somewhat prejudicial comments. Unfairly, I think. We don't know who this guy is or why he's driving this car.

Uwe Meissner Modena-motorsport

That's not a "spoiler", it's a wing.

Why ? he's slow

Esatto , Gilles questa non l'ha mai guidata . Pironi invece quando ha avuto l'incidente aveva questa versione .