These are the final 5 laps of the 1982 Austrian Grand Prix held at the Österreichring. The conclusion is very exciting between Elio De Angelis and Keke Rosberg (subsequent champion of the same year). Enjoy (Own Video archive)
Totally agree. This configuration of the track would have been perfectly safe had they simply modified the surroundings to allow huge, FIA-friendly run off areas. Alain Prost even said so. Many thanks to LeighF1 for posting this brilliant footage :)
I agree a superb circuit. A sad day when it was bulldozed and turned into the A1 Ring!! Ahh the days of great circuits and proper racing and overtaking in F1!!!!
totally agree!! today we have Spa, Monza, Montecarlo, .. but I miss Clermont Ferrand, Brands Hatch, the old Ring, the old Hockenheim, Watkins Glenn, the old Imola... And miss Keke, Schummi, Gilles, Piquet, Clark, Nigel, and... Mika!!
I remember this race well. It was the one in which Nelson Piquet's Brabham finally made it to its scheduled pit stop, but the engine failed immediately after. Many years later I had the privilege of sitting in Elio's winning Lotus while on a visit to the Classic Team Lotus garage.
That happened with both Piquet and Patrese’s cars - the BMW engines were notoriously unreliable that season. For some reason they got that problem sorted in 1983, but the same problems occurred 1984-87. I’d be interested to find out why that was.
Nope, this is a recording from Channel 9 Australia. Hence you will notice if you watch the entire clip, a very short ad break in between the coverage. Channel 9 did use the BBC feed though and hence the presence of Murray Walker and James Hunt with the slight overdub by Allen Jones
some months ago i was walking around the hella licht chicane with my wife and it felt just awesome to be there. (it's just a five minutes drive from my parents place to the A1/red bull/österreichring)
I remember Murray Walker used to apolgise for being Patriotic to the viewers in Australia et al former Colonies but i was too young to appreciate what he was talking about! Could anyone tell me which countries got Murray and James for their commentary back in the days before multi-channel digital TV! I guess it was not so easy back then for every country to have their own commentary?
Ah, at least there were then slick monsters, ground effects and cute cars without 89765456 wings, so we could get real overpasses at track, just as Tambay to Lauda (2:45), instead those silly and boring strategy passes. Ideal F1: 1982 design, 2006 security.
@motorsportnutter4eva That´s the problem, they would go 50 kmh faster through te bosch kurve, making it harder to go side by side unless you make the track wider...
no hairpins no slow bends a real track so slipstreaming can be done leading to overtaking wish we had circuits like this today even ruined silverstone now
If only this track was used for F1 nowadays, a real drivers circuit. Can you imagine how fast that Bosch-kurve would be to a modern F1 car, sadly Hermann Tilke botches up every decent circuit he breathes on, today's drivers are missing out on some real classic circuits.
@@mateagoston7113 So they don't need half a mile of run-off area at every fast corner. They wouldn't look slow if they had much less downforce and had to actually drive around the corners. Entertainment and overtaking would rise significantly.
I agree, a fantastic track, but defenitely not useable for today's grand prix cars. look at the non-existant run-off-areas. I hope the rebuilt Red-Bull-Ring will be better than the A1-Ring.
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