Again this is a part of my F1 history. I worked on Ivan's car at Leyton House. The fuel pressure was the reason his car slowed at the end of the race. The oil pump did NOT fall off ! The car would have stopped there & then if that happened.. Also the floor had been re-designed by Adrian before France . & the wind tunnel belonged to Southampton Uni. The Leyton house tunnel was very small but actually gave the correct numbers. Adrian believed the Southampton tunnel was correct when he should have used the numbers from the Comtec tunnel.
Nicely pointed out, i thought 'oil pump fell off' was a very odd description, not what I remembered happening and almost certain to cause immediate retirement.
as a young YTS trainee , i spent many hours in 88 & 89 making the vehicle graphics for leyton house and march racing then posting them off to various exotic places throughout the season, it was always a thrill to see my handywork on the telly on race days.. great video!
@@Fastbikkelcheers mate, my boss was an amatuer driver so he was pretty chuft too , especially getting sent signed photos from the top drivers etc, great days !
I think the same way. At the start of this video when the Leyton house car was shown, the models of Newey design era I guess, immediately the first thought that came to me is this how an open wheel race car should look. They're much smaller than today's behemoths and so sleek and slick without dozens of little flaps or air guides and channels to manipulate where the air goes completely screwing with the way it affects the following car to where you couldn't follow closely and have great close battles for years. At least the new formula design has addressed some of this and the close racing is much improved. Anyway those were the best years of racing I believe since the car designers hadn't messed with the good thing until later
You make great content! Can't believe you haven't much, much more views and subscribers! May I suggest a video on the rise and fall of the Stewart team, culminating in their sole win by Johnny Herbert in the crazy European GP '99? Or on the Ligier team with Olivier Panis win in the equally crazy Monaco GP of '96?
Thank you! Ligier and Stewart are both really interesting topics - Stewart has certainly come up a few times in some past videos. Consider them on my shortlist.
Genuinely this and is so underated because this kind of detail and length and effort to bring the context and documentary type and so much care love it
BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE WORKING AT LEYTON HOUSE . ALSO ROBIN HERD USE TOO RALLY METRO 6R4 IN LETON HOUSE COLOURS . KNOWING ADRIAN AND ROBIN IS SUCH AN HONOUR.
March/Leyton House had fantastic races in 1988 with Ivan Capelli. The day Ayrton Senna won his first WC at Suzuka 1988 Ivan Capelli was fighting Alain Prost for the lead and Capelli even took the lead of that race for a moment. Unfortunatelly he had to retired from the race because of an electrical failure just three laps after that.
I can’t understand how you’ve only 10k subs mate. That’s a lot when you think about us all sitting in a room listening to you, but amazing to me how under rated your channel is in the internet world of things. Your docs are top notch, with awesome visuals, phenomenally well researched stories and great commentary. Should seriously have hundreds of thousands of subs. Keep up the great work.
I've been binging all of your content. Amazing content, awesome editing and pace, and I really love your choices of subject matter on your videos. I'm a big motorsports fan, in a house of motorsports fans, and I was unaware of some of the drivers/stories you retell, and definitely of much of the details. Keep it up!
Great storytelling with brilliant amount of footage to go with it! Love it! Quick question: I've never heard anyone say the name Chris Amon like you did (like Amón) - is that the correct way to say his last name?
Thank you! Regarding Chris Amon and the pronounciation - I’ve almost certainly got it wrong! There is an infamous trend on this channel of me, unintentionally, pronouncing things wrong.
@@TheMobileChicane Thanks for the reply, I didn't know, I'm very new to your channel, haha. But keep up doing these, I'm a F1 history buff and get tired of all the content thrown at me from today's F1, so this is definitely a welcoming break from all that
6:07 That is definitely a picture of the Penske PC-7 chassis and not the March 82C Bob ran the following year to this picture. The PC7 was the PC6 (1979 Indy winner) with revised sidepods to become a retrofitted ground effects car.
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Ivan Capelli is an underrated driver. With Newey as the designer, MLH produced many gorgeous cars. I loved their teal livery too. Wasn’t that Phoenix race the one where Alesi put in an absolutely amazing race as a rookie or maybe 2nd year driver for Tyrell?
The Phoenix race was the first race for Alesi's first full season as he'd joined Tyrrell midway through '89. Some outrageous racing against Senna from such a new driver! Really marked out Jean as a star for the future.
I watched this race last year, and had forgotten how eventful and enjoyable it was to watch. It’s really unfortunate that Ivan didn’t get the Ferrari ride he deserved.
I remember the Leyton House era and it was wonderful unfortunately it didn't last long and the two drivers really didn't reach those heights again. But it was very exciting at the time.
This is amazing story, quite similar to Arrows from 1997 Hungarian GP. The only difference is the fact that they managed to stand on a podium several times before that unfortunate last lap. Riccardo Patrese scored their first one, finishing 2nd behind Niki Lauda's Brabham on a 1978 Swedish GP. By the way, it would be interesting to watch a Penske or Hesketh story of a similar one-time-wonder success (John Watson, 1976 Austrian GP or James Hunt, 1975 Dutch GP).
So thankful to have found this indeed, your coverage and stories are so thorough with the right amount of humour to make you chuckle 🤣 Please keep up the great work!
❤ watching F1 w/no pit lane speed limit or maybe something ridiculously fast by that point. These were also the days when basically everyone besides Williams + McLaren always had a 65% chance of DNF & so many 💔s.
This did lead to Aryton Senna doing the fastest lap at Donington Park at the European GP in 1993. The pit lane entrance was before the last turn shortening the track but he did not stop to change tyres and continued down the pit lane at full speed. The race had changeable conditions with cars swapping between wet weather tyres and dry weather tyres regularly.
Great race this was! I always liked Paul Ricard it was maybe my favourite circuit along with Brands hatch. It's a shame it gets so much hate now despite being almost the same layout. By absolute coincidence I live in Aubagne about 10km from the circuit. Not a surprise to see a car by Adrian Newey performing miracles!
Awesome videos, been on a binge! 1 thing , not being a twat. Akagi... the G pronounced as Gi "git" not Ji :P Subbed. the Leyton House racing team was a massive thing here in Japan. Akagi had his fingers in a lot of motorsport pies.
I've loved F1 since I started following it in the early '80's. So glad your channel showed up in my recommendations. Can't believe you have so few subscribers tbh! Some very good documentaries, with great old footage. I usually avoid RU-vid F1 videos as they are usually drivel, but I've watched a few of yours now and they are great! Also enjoy your sense of humour. Cheers!
@@TheMobileChicane nah, he left because he was assured upon signing that he would be a part of any team discussions and decisions. The relationship was fractured after Williams were charged with manslaughter charges in the wake of Senna's death at Imola too. Patrick Head & Frank Williams broke this agreement and also refused to make him a share-holder of the team and then the what totally ended the relationship was when they opted to release Damon Hill post-1996, as Newey had felt Hill was key to the development of the team and car. They actually put him on gardening leave prior to joining McLaren, so he wasn't able to influence the design of the MP4-12 (Neil Oatley designed it) while Newey worked on the MP4-13 for '98, which didn't end up doing too bad! Also this video was fantastic, your description of France 1990 was really interesting to listen to. I'd love a video on the Onyx team from 1989-90 if you were looking for any more ideas, Stefan Johansson got 3rd at Portugal '89, though their eccentric owner killed the team off.
@@cribbe6547 I do vaguely remember reading an article about Onyx before and how their owner was one of the more colourful types we've seen in the paddock - I'll have to go back and find it. But rest assured, an Onyx video is going on my list!
@@TheMobileChicane Yeah, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem. You know he's a real character just reading the headline of his wikipedia article. 'he was a Belgian stock market guru, economist, econometrician, convicted fraudster, author, philosopher, public figure, politician, and member of the Belgian and Flemish Parliaments. Some life alright! I've watched many of your videos since the algorithm blessed me yesterday, I do hope to see your channel grow, fantastic content my friend
