"couldn't stop the dollar from luring Formula 1 away to a car park in Las Vegas" literally what's happening right now with F1. So many great tracks in the world to race at, yet for some reason we are gonna have a race in Las Vegas at 10pm next year.
drove this track in GT7 recently and after watching this video i learned that the track has barely changed anything beside some tarmac runoff areas and flatter curbs. it’s great to see tracks like this maintain their layout.
Granted it's not as dramatic as the evolution of Silverstone, but compaing the modern layout to the one in this video at 0:09, they've added the bus stop chicane and the deleted the chicane in the esses (which was added in 75 after Cevert and stuck around until ~83 or so). Other than that, I guess it's p. much the same.
Didier was just five points away from winning the 1982 World Championship and he missed the last five races after his horrific crash in Germany, that Championship was his…
I'm pretty sure that they can, but not as good as these guys, check out the video where lewis and nico rosberg drove fangio's mercedes, lewis struggled to shift gears in the proper way, meanwhile nico, as a vintage cars lover, was actually using the right technique
@@pianortd4800 Yes but how many laps did he get to do in it. Also, I’d be pretty sure even the contemporary drivers would have found it difficult the only real way to find out would be to compare lap times and that simply can’t happen.
The landscape is gorgeous, but I'm afraid the investment to retrofit this raceway to current requirements will be huge... beyond any affordable limits. It's a pitty.
No hotels within reasonable distance. Word has it that Bernie used to commute from Chicago to IMS back in the day 'cause Indy didn't have a nice enough hotel. The pits and media center are hopeless, would require a bulldozer to fix. The fencing dictating the crowd control would have to be redone. That's just a warmup.
Huge respect for these drivers. They weren't just working very hard to keep the car on the track, and be fast, but a mistake or an accident could have easily cost their lives. Completely completely different mindset to drive, and make decisions while racing. They didn't need instagram, or youtube livestreams to be famous or popular. They earned their respect on the track. Today's F1 can be faster, more modern, more Gs, yet these guys in the old days, just had that extra.
the drivers today do not need instagram or youtube streams to be famous. the sponsors want it. and that keeps em racing. so there's no need to have a sly dig at anyone to make your point.
Wow, killer footage. I'd forgotten about the chicane up the esses... Also, it's wonderful to see the circuit pre bus-stop chicane... fantastic overtaking possibilities... Ideally, implement ample run off and construction/safety barriers etc, I'd love to see the bus stop removed. I remember J.D. McDuffie's wreck like it was yesterday, same with Senna at Imola... yet these chicanes have a tendency to fundamentally change any circuit's passing characteristics... get rid of them and implement adequate run off safety. After all, as Hemingway stated; Bull Fighting, Motor Racing, and Mountaineering, ... everything else is a game.
To go that fast in cars with crap tires and old suspension and frames, they were GODS, compared to todays pampered drivers with light yrs advance tech.
There was a very good biography of Pironi by David Sedgwick that came out a couple of years ago. I highly recommend you read it, if you haven't already. Pironi was a very interesting person (on and off track).
Anyone who thinks F1 should go back to Watkins Glen is sadly kidding themselves. Yes, Watkins Glen is a fabulous track- one of the best in the world- but Watkins Glen hasn’t changed all that much since F1 was last there in 1980 and the area around it is no less developed now than it was back then. And the most serious problem: it’s literally in the middle of nowhere. It’s 2 1/2 hours from Buffalo and 5 hours from New York and Philadelphia. F1 has changed a whole lot since 1980 and there just isn’t the infrastructure in place to host an F1 GP- and even if there was, it wouldn’t make economic sense to build additional hotels (of which there are far and few between around there) there, it being such an isolated location. And the worst part would be if the Glen were somehow to host F1 again, the track’s layout would likely be butchered in the name of safety, and no one who calls themselves racing fans would ever stand for that. So it’s for the better that F1 doesn’t go there. I went to the most recent IndyCar race there and that was spectacular to see those cars average 147 mph there. Another circuit in the US that suffers from the same problems as the Glen is Sebring. Way too isolated, severe lack of infrastructure, and it’s a seriously bumpy track.
I agree. If Zandvoort (given how tight it is) returned to the F1 calendar, I don't see why the Glen cannot. Of course, it should replace one of the current US tracks since they have so many
Give senna lauda etc 1 month in new cars in their prime not one current driver would not be lapped in a full race, i would bet my house on it. I have seen racers for 50 yrs, let the real greats get one month in seat, they would make todays drivers look like rookies. Most would crash out in 5 laps trying to keep them in sight.
@@paulhall170 2022 should make some difference. The change in suspension rules and the lower profile front tyres will make the cars more dependent od their suspension and they should dance around a bit more.
These men were "Gladiators" . Niki Lauda was right , "Today Formula One is too safe" . Don't want to see any one hurt , but drivers now take an attitude that back in the day = death .
Was awesome before all the guardrails went up right alongside the track. The back straight was especially great to watch with a clear view. I understand the safety needs but damn. it was great to watch the cars there before.
Because back then they're focused on the innovation and how these drivers would finish the race with their car that are made from art, computer electronics back in the day drivers are literally working inside of the cockpit.
@@Fergy00000 it’s pretty sick, driving there at night is wild, looks great feels very different than a lot Of the other tracks in the game. reminds me of Zaandvort
Pois é mais deixando esse fato de lado MÁXIMO RESPEITO POR ESSES PILOTOS ANTIGOS é nítida a dificuldade de guiar essas máquinas na aquela época realmente vê o esforço dos pilotos. Já hoje...
There is no abs, traction control, stability management, or any other kind of electronic assists today. Telemetry is for the engineers to tune the car it's just data gathering. Knowing the intake air temperature and tire pressure changes doesn't help the driver right then. There's tighter racing today due to the saftey drivers just go for it 100% because they know if they crash they are going to live. Which is why Hamilton and Verstappen got so absolutely crazy. In the old days they either wouldn't race like that or they would both be dead. Mind you there are zero gaps in the powerband in these cars nowadays due to the electric motors making instant torque and they are pushing over 1000hp making them probably about as twitchy as they ever have been short of when they ran grooved slicks back in like 2004
@@n111254789 the wheelbases are longer though, I think from memory, either Martin Brundle or Jeremy Clarkson said that they're like Limousines these days! It would be lovely to go back to those short nimble rockets we had back in 2003-2008... But please, no grooves. If you have the time watch back a 2008 Monaco qualifying session. The cars are positively skimming across the surface of the roads. Totally different formula of racing!
@@aarongreen121 Oh I watch ton's of the old videos I like pretty much all era's beside the beginning of the hybrid era that was awful. 08 was a fantastic season and in qualifying trim they were awesome. They for sure have gotten much longer but slightly narrower than some points in the past. But yeah they are about 800mm longer than in 90's. They are roughly 5 meters long now which is very long. A large reason for that is simply speed their average speed has increased drastically and with that you need stability so rotational inertia is a big factor and aerodynamics since the cars are restricted to 2000mm wide now and only 1600mm on the floor if you want more surface area for ground effect and over the body airflow it has to be an increase in length. They focus less on street circuits so having a car that short provides really no benefit these modern cars are much more nimble at high speeds than the old cars simply because they can turn much harder without ending up facing backwards. So both are very nimble just at different ranges of speed. Neither could do what the other can. I'm just thankful active suspension, traction control, and abs didn't stick around as long as they are fully driving it and the cars continue to get faster I'm happy.
Like a fkn nagging Budgie, famous for holding a fkn piece of wire and getting it wrong, loved it when James Hunt use to batter him about on the commentary.