I really enjoy watching cars without wings or barely any. The suspensions working over the humps is nice to see also. Cars now days don't have nearly the attraction to me that these cars had.
Wasn't it interesting that the commentator described the track as tight and twisting. Yet today, they are still racing on it despite the fact that the cars are MUCH faster and MUCH wider. When will the FIA realize that, while history is good, driver safety is more important. If Monaco wants to keep the race, then the track needs MAJOR upgrades to fit the cars. As it is is just dangerous.
I looked at the thumbnail and instantly recognized Graham Hill by his helmet. Back in the 80's and 90's you recognized drivers bu their helmet design. So when did this change? Today, drivers seem to have a new helmet design for every race. How are we supposed to know who is who anymore?
It changed when drivers started hiring professional artists to design and paint their helmets. Then, like the cars in some series, they started doing one-off designs for big races. Before you knew it, helmets became the busy, messy, sponsor-covered things they are today.
Graham Hill is just perfect! He is the prototype English gentlemen superhero race car driver😎. That mustache, that chin, that hair and that smile....PERFECT.
People say progress is good,computers and paddle shifter,combined with,what the millinels call drivers ,have turned this type of racing to just nothingvworth wasting ur time watching
It was actually called the black wave of Yugoslav film. Much to choose ftom, but my favourite is "who is singing over there", directed by Slobodan Sijan.
Monaco is a joke race these days; whoever leads lap 1 wins. No passing anymore...there's really no way to fix that unless you give them 200 HP cars. Lower power puts the premium on driving on a track like this.
The startert starts off in the middle of the track and is almost run over, streetlights beside the track without any guard rails, people on the sidewalks near the racing cars, racing cars that have broken left almost in the middle of the track, was safety an optional?
Many thanks for putting this up. F1 looked as relaxing(read amateur), as Club racing back then....and those wing mounts in pressed sheet steel, look like something you`d find in a local hardware shop. Had anyone calculated the loading put through those things at speed/during acceleration & braking? Graham Hill with his mustache, Jackie Stewart with his Tartan-brown Royal lipstick....
It puzzles me why F1 engineers back then thought the wings should be positioned so high up. I mean, the downforce, whether the wing is level with the car or positioned one meter higher is the same, but with much smaller risk of collapse. How could they imagine those thin aluminum bars would hold up against the tremendous wind forces at speed? The sport was already plenty dangerous without adding up those pieces of structural insanity.
I love the drivers chatting from about 6.12 on - huge sportscar rivals Siffert and Rodriguez, both killed in 1971, McLaren and Courage, both killed in June 1970, and even Stewart and Surtees who I don't think got on at all, mainly because of Surtees's jealousy and ridiculous attitude to safety.
Wings. Advertisers loved them. Teams made more money from that than racing. The cars became ever uglier. Logos replaced shape as the dominant art form. Feh.
