This, actually, was the 1982 C2 version of the car. The '81 had that wing on top of it's nose. Together with the '82 Renault RE30B and the Brabham BT50 the most beautiful cars of Formula 1. No doubt.
Brabham BT52 was a real advance in terms of going from a bulkier car with ground effect tunnels to a more streamlined design. The 1982 Bt50 was a real nice curvier car. I think the best looking Ferrari is the 1990 car (model 641). The Lotus 79 also deserves consideration. Purposeful ground effects design but still with some real style.
This is Ferrari 126C2.. raced in the 1982 Formula One season.."The 126C series cars won 10 races, took 10 pole positions and scored 260.5 points".and won the 1982 Constructor Championship! this is my favorite Ferrari F1 ever!!
Thanx for uploading that video! I think that beauty must be the 126C/061, because it´s the only one of the eleven C2 that were built being in driveable condition today. Four of them were destroyed ( 055 and 056 in two crashes during testing, 058 in Zolder and 060 at Hockenheim). Our car here, 061 was driven by Tambay in four Grandprix, making his first victory at Hockenheim and afterwards by Andretti in two Grandprix in 1982. Villeneuve didn´t drive that car.
chunder27 Definitely all 1982. Don't know which chassis this is but it's from late in the season, post Zolder. This one has the pull-rod front suspension, compared with the earlier lever action front end which had big fairings to cover the pivot points. While it has Villeneuve's number, he never raced this model but may have tested it.
Mooie video Hans! Je zou zeggen dat dit de late versie van de 126C2 uit '82 is , maar onderhuids is het de '81 CK, dus een beetje een bij elkaar geraapte auto, desalniettemin echt een prachtige wagen!
sorry but this is definitely a C2 ... post Zolder, Gilles never racesd this car with this front suspension (he did test it in Fiorano, pre Zolder) - the carbon like reinforcements were added after Zolder and even after Hockenheim as far as I know - but the chassis is in no way CK or C(1) .. ... BUT ... thank you equally much for posting thse wonderful videos!!! thank you for that - I saw these race live in Zandvoort (I was in Zolder too but Ferrari withdrew Pironi after Gilles death in practice)
This is chassis #61. Gilles droved the #55, #57 and #58, the later was the one he was driving when he had his terrible crash in Zolder. He maybe sat in it but never drove it.
A question: Why do all the Turbo era F1 cars have such a low exhaust note? You can even tell 80's V6 powered F1 cars from any others because of that special sound. Could it be from the exhaust being wider?
Two reasons. One, it's simply because they operate at a lower RPM. These motors don't need to rev anywhere near as high as their NA counterparts to generate their power because of the turbos. Two, the turbos themselves alter the exhaust note since they're directly in the exhaust stream. Hope that helps!
This is a 126C2 but for sure it's not Villeneuve's car. The evidence is the front suspension: 126 CK of 1981 and 126 C2 (of fhe first part of the season) had a superior balance suspension; in the second part of the season (after Gilles dead) was substituted with a pull road (the same of the video). Gilles never drove this version. Also the painting is strange: it seems the painting of first winter test after 1982 season.
EHI GUMBAL!!! This is NOT the 1981 Ferrari 126CK. This is the 1982 car, the 126 C2, the first turbocharged car and turbo engine to win the World Championship, had not been Villeneuve killed at Zolder early in the season and Pironi seriously injuried (at the point he had to quit racing) at Hockenheim, 5 races to season end. Thanks for sharing though...
Geen probleem Hans, misschien kleine tip, misschien zou is het voor je views nog beter zijn om in je titelnaam 'CK' voor C2 te veranderen, Gilles is in de 126C2 verongelukt in '82, daar
This is NOT a GV car . Gilles drove #059 at Imola , and perished in #058 at Zolder . The car shown here a different spec with a newer type of pullrod suspension . Gilles never drove this car .
In this special case, the driver is René Arnoux. You may remember him as being one of Gilles Villeneuve's fiercest competitors stemming from the 1979 Grand Prix in France. His son - Jacques Villeneuve, has driven the car his father beat René Arnoux in France with - a 1979 Ferrari 312 T4. He is the only person who has been allowed to drive this car. Every now and then, Jacques takes his father's car around a specific track, most noteably around circuits in Belgium, where his father was killed during qualifying in 1982. He has also brought the car out for laps around the Montreal Grand Prix circuit. In this particular video, as another youtuber pointed out, it is not a 1979 Ferrari 312 T4, but a 1982 Ferrari F1 126C2. It was most probably used as it is a model from the same year Gilles passed away. René Arnoux would never drive Gilles' actual old 1979 Ferrari 312 T4, only his son Jacques has had the privilege. Both cars are permanantly stored at the museum in Ferrari Headquarters, Maranello, Italy.
This is a 126c2B 1983 season (first part), never drived by Villeneuve. It's clear because aerodinamic and front suspenctions are different from 126c2. It's a car drived by Tambay or Arnoux! Decals on the car are a fake.
+The Matt Project Official If I see the 126c2B it looks quite different from this one (1983 GP's, first half). This one still seems to have skirts for example, smaller rear wing etc. so my guess is it's a 126C2 from late 1982...
It is the 1982 car but Villeneuve never raced this spec. The front suspension was changed after his death. Also the wings were never black on the C2. They were polished metal. The 1983 C3 had much shorter sidepods and winglets on the outside of the rear wing. The airbox was also up behind the drivers head insead of near the rear of the engine cover. The car I would really like to see is the original 126c that was used by Gilles during the 1980 Monza practice sessions. It looked like a heavily modified T5 with the new Turgo engine, It was never raced and I think only one was ever built so it would be one of the rarest modern day Ferraris out there if it even still exists.
Now I' ve understood why Villeneuve lost in various episode the rear wing, it literally fixed with spit! look how it shake, unbelievable that have received the omologation for race! but in that years passion and courage were stronger than business!
...and NO WAY this is a CK under C2 bonnet. This clearly has pull-rod front suspensions and 126CK instead never had them. Pull-rod suspensions were first introduced on a Ferrari F1 (Brabham chief-engineer Gordon Murray invention) only around half 1982 season, so Villeneuve never had the chance to drive such car. Plus CK and C2 were completely different cars: CK was the last italian fully-projected chassis, C2 was the first Harvey Postlethwaite project for Ferrari.
You are saying some right things but with some confusion: 126CK was 1981 Ferrari car with a very big (and high) fuel tank (and in this video it is small) but it's true that pull road was introduced by Ferrari in the half part of 1982 on C2. Gilles drove 126C2 but only with the top balancer suspension. During 1981 winter Ferrari tested a 126 CK with lateral tunnel similar to new 126 C2 but chassis was that of CK ... with the giant fuel tank. So: this is a 126 C2 ... never used by Gilles. (and it's very stupid the false name on the car ... )
