The Modern F1 Blueprint: The Story of the Lotus 49

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The Lotus 49 is not just one of the best looking cars ever made, it's also one of the most important racing cars ever made. As now, all f1 cars follow the design principals of this car.
It was the first car to use the iconic Ford DFV V8 as well, the most successful F1 engine ever built, and one of my favourites of all time in terms of history, sound and the reason it was built.
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@AidanMillward Год назад

When I said “only time an H16 finished” there should be a “all season” after that. Fml.

@JohnSmithShields Год назад

Shit happens

@AidanMillward Год назад

@@JohnSmithShields yeah, but a bit too often atm.

@neilanleveque8490 Год назад

rip

@mannacler Год назад

Didn't Jackie Stewart get a second place with a BRM H-16 at the 1966 Belgian GP.

@mannacler Год назад

1967.

@NYGiantsDiEhArD Год назад

It looks so neat because it's so simple and direct. The design is strikingly pure and purposeful. It's like a little green stick with wheels.

@goldnutter412 8 месяцев назад

And you steer with your right foot 😋rally on tarmac ! so much fun in a simulator but these men were amazingly brave

@solomahoneboy4090 Год назад

You had me at 00:00

@AndyFromBeaverton Год назад

I grew up with posters of Jody Schecter, Gilles Villeneuve, and Farrah Fawcett on the wall. Gilles's poster finally fell apart, but I still have 95% of Jody's poster.

@alaeriia01 Год назад

Funny. I grew up with poster-sized maps of amusement parks on my wall.

@mikehipperson Год назад

I grew up with pictures of the 66 Le Mans winning GT40 and the 'Widowmaker' 7ltr Cobra because I was a normal bloke!

@AidanMillward Год назад

I had Slash and Joe Bonamassa on mine. 🤣

@valorboreal Год назад

@@AidanMillward All that was missing was Beth Hart.

@mrterp04 Год назад

@@AidanMillward no posters of a certain Brazilian journeyman racer?

@scottdelong1 Год назад

That 100,000 that Ford paid for the Cosworth DFV must've been the best PR bang for the buck in motorsport history. More GP wins than any other engine, raced until '83, and additional wins in Indy Car and WEC. By far the most successful GP engine in history. Such an elegant, clean, and simple design. Pretty to look at and it had a lot to do with the 70s being the classic period it was. Thanks for an excellent video.

@TheWebsterExperience Год назад

Think it also won Le Mans, despite it being an F1 engine, thus not exactly built to last that long

@scottdelong1 Год назад

Yeah, two victories overall (Randeau I think) and four class wins.

@scottdelong1 Год назад

I remember the USGP of 1975. EVERY car on the grid was powered by a DFV save the two Ferraris. Fortunately, when I went back in '78 there was a variety of motors, each with a distinctive sound- still mostly DFVs but also the flat 12s from Ferrari and Alfa, the muffled "woosh" of the Renault V6 turbo, and the best sound of all- the piercing scream of the V12 Matra. It may not have gone that fast but oh my Dog did it sound glorious.

@aslc2547 3 месяца назад

@@TheWebsterExperience Ickx and Bell, Gulf Mirage 1975.

@bloqk16 Год назад

Ah! Something I learned here that was not told of with the print media in 1967, as I was a voracious reader of motorsports back then: Jim Clark had issues adjusting his driving style to the power-curve of the Cosworth DFV at the Dutch Grand Prix in 1967. It had always puzzled me that with Clark's skills, that Graham Hill out-qualified him at the Dutch GP. The reference with Chris Amon's pitiful luck in F1 was spot-on. However, in the past decade I read that when Amon was asked about his luck in F1, his response (many decades after retiring from the sport), was that Amon felt lucky to have survived into old age in good health; as many of his F1 racing peers didn't survive.

@AidanMillward Год назад

Clark had mechanical issues in qualifying which was the reason Graham beat him that day. But by the time the race came round he'd figured out how to drive the car. Way I understand it is Clark could feed the power straight from corner exit to max in one smooth fluid motion and power would come in a somewhat linear way. The torque from the DFV kicked in too hard for that technique to be used as he'd now have to feed it normally then slow that travel down as the torque came in. He was working for the engine rather than the other way round. But he was considering hanging up his helmet anyway at this point.

@solsol1624 Год назад

In addition to what Aidan just said, I believe Jimmy never tested the car before its debut GP as he was a tax exile and had limited number of days allowed in the UK before being libel for tax.

@AidanMillward Год назад

@@solsol1624 back when the highest tax bracket took 90% of your wages or something like that. It’s why Jackie went to Switzerland

@bloqk16 Год назад

@@solsol1624 (in a tone of amazement) Ah! Thanks for you input about that! As it is another piece of info, you supplied, that the print/TV media never spoke of back in the 1960s. I feel very fortunate to have lived long enough to hear/read about various tidbits in motorsports that the news media of those past eras never (or under) reported about.

@ougal84 Год назад

@@solsol1624 I believe he couldn’t enter the UK at all during 1967, save for an agreement made with the HMRC about the British GP. Sadly, he was due back on 8th April 1968 to go home to Scotland for the first time since. Jackie Stewart had left the UK too and there was a diplomatic row about allowing him into the country for Jim’s funeral.

@martso9288 Год назад

The Lotus type 49. I remember seeing one of these for the 1st time when I was knee high. The undisputed classic vintage race car. Powered by a lightweight three-litre V8. Bit of a gamble, when you consider the other teams were running with V12’s and higher. The brutish delivery of its 415 brake horsepower, was felt like a real kick in the back at around 6500 rpm. The car went onto win dozens of victories, including the famous One-Two of Jim Clark and Graham Hill, at the ‘67 US Grand Prix.

@davidhall2327 Год назад

At the end of 65. BRM had a really sweet 1.5 ltr V8. Why they did'nt just turn that into 3 ltr V8 is a question I have always wondered about. Instead they flattened the V8 and stuck one on top of another. It took 2 seasons before running properly and by then an obvious waste of time.

@davidhall2327 Год назад

The power delivery was sorted out early in 68. The biggest fault was getting the oil from the cams back to the sump and the gear train vibration in the drive to the cams. Not enough is made about the genius solution of the quill drive that Duckworth devised.

@Redgolf2 Год назад

I had wallpaper in the early 70’s with all the F1 cars of the time, it’s still there under other layers!

@wabba67 Год назад

Thanks, you keep producing good content. While often I know most of these things, there are always a few nuggets of information that I've not known before or you explain them differently to how my mind interprets things, so always a fun watch :)

@DocProdusser Год назад

Couldn't have said it better and now there are even pictures and stuff and so. Laidback Nerdism at it's finest

@markko17 Год назад

The thing I remember about the 1966 USGP is Jochen Rindt finishing second. He just sat back waiting for Clark's H16 to show its true colors. And for its one and only time it didn't. Would be three years before Rindt would finally get that first win at the 1969 USGP, in a Lotus 49.

@mirrorblue100 Год назад

Yes - Rindt was a thinking man's driver.

@Durbanite2010 Год назад

Don't forget that the Lotus 49C won the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix with Jochen Rindt driving, not bad for a then 4 season-old and upgraded design. The 49 won at least one race in all 4 of the seasons it competed, which is a stunning achievement. Cars like the MP4/4 were only in use for 1 season, so it's a bit harsh to use that as an example against the 49 in my opinion.

@donaldfedosiuk1638 Год назад

I got to see the Type 49 up close and personal (well, from the other side of a catchfence) at the USGP in October of '67. If memory serves, Clark drove much of the race with a rear suspension issue or a gearbox problem (or maybe both). But "Clark being Clark," he got the win. In the States at that time, there was virtually no coverage of F1 to speak of; I relied on weeks-old issues of ,The Autocar and Autosport, available -- sometimes -- at a news stand in a downtown subway station for racing news from Europe. So it came as a great shock, six months or so later, to stumble across a short paragraph at the very back of the sports section of the Boston Globe and find he'd been killed at Hockenheim. To my much-younger F1-obssessed self, it was something very like a death in the family. Sadly the first of far too many. Thank you for a fine piece of video.

@ajwasp3642 Год назад

I had only got my F1 reports from Rob Walker, in Road & Track magazine, albeit, a month later.

@SirGingerOfKnight Год назад

don't say it don't say it don't say it don't say it ...COSSEH

@darth_autie_117 Год назад

COZZEH

@Dirtzoo Год назад

I get to comment on this great channel that I like now. I got to sit in the Indy car version of this car when I was like 5 years old, we lived one block away from the Indy 500 we my mom was a race widow my dad died in a sprint the car .He had bought a house right next to Indy 500 cuz his dream was to win the Indy 500 but sadly he died before he could do that. I think my mom work for brabham as a secretary or something and the whole team stayed at our house for the race week of for May most of the month of May and the backup car was in our garage under a tarp. I snuck into the garage and under the tarp and sat in that Green lotus I'll never forget it I think it was only five years old it's awesome

@y_fam_goeglyd Год назад

A blooming beauty that car was. It's a pity that today's safety standards (which shouldn't ever be lessened) and downforce requirements won't allow for such a design.

@benfennell6842 Год назад

Competitions are always ruined when the money comes. Shame really.

@BastardX13 Год назад

An absolutely gorgeous 400hp death machine by any measure. A pleaaure to behold or hear. The fuel is neatly stored alongside the brave and daring young driver. Those men were of a different kind.

@AeroGuy07 Год назад

The Lotus 49 on display at the Henry Ford museum is a thing of beauty. A true work of art.

@Neilios1000 Год назад

Brabham did actually drive that Lotus with the H16 in a support race for an Adelaide GP back in the day. He said, in typical Black Jack fashion, "It was a piece of shit back then, and it is a piece of shit today."

@alexgannon4139 Год назад

This channel is honestly my favourite channel on RU-vid, love seeing a notification come up telling me you've uploaded

@ElliottNest39 Год назад

I have been wondering about the H16 engine for more than 50 years. Thank you for this story, much appreciated.

@jamieoconnor1916 Год назад

Fantastic work as always adian thanks respect 🙏

@mrw1783 Год назад

This was a great story, thank you for telling it. I'd like to see more of these please, especially Lotus, I'm enjoying finding out how ground breaking they were and how they've influenced the modern era of F1.

@ninjaswordtothehead Год назад

I had a poster of the SR-71, the '88 Countach, and a McDonnell-Douglas diagram of a cruise missile my dad's friend gave me from his work. I liked girls too, but their pictures were under the bed.

@Gnrnrvids Год назад

Fantastic edition of story time Aidan.

@mirrorblue100 Год назад

I think a better candidate for the blueprint for everything that came after it is the Lotus 72. The 49 was the culmination of the lightweight rear engine front radiator monocoque designs that began in 1960 or '61. The 72 was for its time radically different and a true paradigm for the future configurations. Can you imagine Jim Clark in a Lotus 72?

@chrismoule7242 Год назад

Oh yes, I can imagine that easily. He would probably have died in it, like Rindt did.

@BigCar2 Год назад

Fascinating. Thanks Aidan!

@Djarra Год назад

One thing Clark’s fastest lap in Kyalami from 1968 wasn’t beaten till the turbo era, when altitude didn’t affect the engines as much.

@_bstr_ct1832 Год назад

Really good upload timing, just when people are looking to see if the F1 practice highlights are up yet 👍

@AidanMillward Год назад

More to do with it taking forever to edit tbh

@ianwynne764 Год назад

Hello Aidan: I am old enough to remember when the 49's were racing. I think the JPS Lotus 72 is the most beautiful F1 ever made. Keep up the good work.

@minibus9 Год назад

awesome video

@paulhorton5612 Год назад

You have good taste - the most beautifully proportioned F1 car ever

@smokingspitfire1197 Год назад

Colin Chapman getting out of the twin engined version of my aeroplane (a Twin Comanche) was not something I expected to see today, especially not on Aidans channel!

@srdshredder Год назад

Ooo, new sound for the intro.

@AidanMillward Год назад

Only for this one. There's bound to be someone crying I didn't put any sounds of the engine in so there it is.

@roydrink Год назад

The Jazz intro is one of the best I’ve heard…

@amaccama3267 Год назад

I'm with you on this.

@nomar5spaulding Год назад

I didn't know the Napier Sabre was an H engine, and honestly I wouldn't have expected to learn that on this channel. Cool fact of the day. 👍

@shoominati23 Год назад

I reckon, personally - that the Matra MS 10 / MS 80 was the best looking F1 of that era , and Jackie Stewart said himself that the MS80 was the 'Most Planted Formula 1 can he ever had driven'

@GBURGE55 Год назад

True, I remember him saying that, but he never drove the lotus 49 , which was certainly better than the ms10. The ms80 was a far newer design but the lotus still gave it a run for it's money in '69.

@Suprahampton Год назад

Enzo did say that about aero, but let us not forget he also said "the horse pulls the cart, it doesn't push", in regards to F1 cars going rear engined....and, well in terms of engine location it's safe to say he was wrong

@marklittle8805 Год назад

It is shocking Enzo did as well as he did ....he was never one for really grasping you can't rest on your laurels

@1dcbly Год назад

JPS Lotus 79. Black and gold still looks great.

@AidanMillward Год назад

Unless it’s Wolverhampton Wanderers in which case it can fuck off.

@tbone121974 Год назад

Great video as always Aiden. I'd like to know more about the F1 six wheelers. I believe it was Tyrell and Williams that developed them.

@davidhall2327 Год назад

March also produced one. It is a hill climb car now. Most builders were studying the concept though.

@MARGATEorcMAULER Год назад

Really is a beautiful machine,only marginally less so after the ads.

@alecerdmann8505 Год назад

A story on the Marmon Wasp, the first Indy 500 winner that is the "Lucy" of a single-seat, open wheel race cars (Including IndyCar, F1 and the dirt track Sprint Cars in the US with the huge wing on top), would be really interesting!

@Clit_Yeastwood Год назад

Isn’t the Marmon Wasp also the first race car to feature an “interior mounted” rear view mirror?? I swear I read that in a book as a kid about 15 - 20 years ago.

@alecerdmann8505 Год назад

@@Clit_Yeastwood It was the first race car with a rear-view mirror. It was also the first single-seater and since there was no ride-along mechanic to tell the driver what was going on around them, Ray Harroun mounted the mirror to the car. There were a handful of non-racing cars that had rearview mirror of one sort or another in the few years before that.

@Clit_Yeastwood Год назад

@@alecerdmann8505 god I love obscure car trivia

@Mrmayhembsc Год назад

Whoop here for the BRM Mentions haha !!!

@scottmiller1531 Год назад

The similarities between the Lotus and the Eagle are understandable. The Eagle was designed by Len Terry, who had designed several previous Loti before leaving to work for the newly formed AAR.

@javonaziz5323 Год назад

Woahh I subscribed for the jazz at the start 😂

@AidanMillward Год назад

It’ll be back for the next one. Just wanted to get some DFV in.

@MichaelRoma91 Год назад

Love the lotus 49. It’s such a beautiful race car and it set the standards for what we see on the f1 grid today.

@LeoWuerde Год назад

The Lotus 49 was similar with JIM CLARK - By far the greatest driver ever - no doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio and Senna about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... ! This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps...For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just four examples of his mesmeric unique genius...

@joewegen8928 Год назад

I have an old picture of the Lotus 72 from the Photographer in munich. Just awsome, have not seen ut on google or anywhere else

@weslittlereptilefamily3418 Год назад

Loving these regular uploads, mate. I watch so much british content, particularly formula 1 content, I'm starting to use british terms. I'm american

@Mcsterl Год назад

Climax didn't design a 3litre engine because they had become so tied up in the 1500cc v16 they were working on. Some in the company felt the route was to turbocharge that engine for the 3litre era, but after the jaguar takeover, many of the senior leaders were approaching retirement, and didn't want to do another racing engine campaign.

@geordiemik72 Год назад

The damage that caused Hill's retirement at Zandvoort was a couple of broken teeth on one of the camshaft drive gears. A notorious weak spot in the early days of the DFV. When Clark's engine was stripped it also showed damage to the same part.

@tadroid3858 Год назад

I gotta tell ya', nearly every video I watch of yours, there will be a point when you say something completely dead pan, and it registers a couple of seconds late, so I miss the next few minutes reflexively laughing. It's hell being slow, but thanks for the laugh.

@WhispersOfWind Год назад

You are quite a scholar, Sir.

@SamuelSantos_ Год назад

Liking the new intro background noise

@AidanMillward Год назад

It’s the DFV for one night only.

@gordonwallin2368 Год назад

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

@edwardburek1717 Год назад

I can't help but feel that when BRM effectively gave Lotus that H16, their engineers must have been pissing themselves laughing when they heard the news. Of course, with the DFV V8 MEGAWEAPON, Lotus and the 49 had the last laugh.

@jimiverson3085 Год назад

FWIW, the 49 won 5 races in 1968. In addition to the races Clark and Hill won, Jo Siffert won at Brands Hatch in Rob Walker's Lotus 49. I believe that was the last race win for a fully private F1 entrant. In terms of dominance, the 49 was caught in 1968 by the cars McLaren and Matra produced, then Matra went one better in 1969. The 49s configuration was apparently one other constructors got the measure of fairly quickly. By comparison, the first real doppelganger for the 72 was the McLaren M23, which first ran in 1973.

@cdjhyoung Год назад

Pre-War Gran Prix racing had the famous Auto Unions that were 16 cylinder engines.

@The_BenboBaggins Год назад

I think the 49 is motorsport purity!

@testopatia106 Год назад

Hi Aidan..can you help me about my attempt to be top of the PS4 F1 2022 Leaderboard or very close to it... i have been asked to consider the T-gt11 wheel base with sf1000 wheel and LCM pedals. and since i live in NZ we can't get Fanatec here. Thank you in advance.

@sergioleone3583 Год назад

I agree that along with the Eagle, the 49 is one of THE most beautiful GP cars ever. And I also tend to think of the 49 first ahead of the Eagle in that respect, though the Eagle is a great looking car as well.

@MatthewJohnCrittenden Год назад

Twitter seems to be improving, might even join ;)

@vintageman91 Год назад

Its the first car that pops up my mind when i think about 60s f1. The H16 was a cool and odd idea but not practical obviously.

@scottiemarquis2809 Год назад

Woah woah woah, where'd the piano music go lol

@jonathanohagan1349 Год назад

lol dry weetabix... made my day

@billgulker6187 Год назад

FYI, Ferrari’s aero quote was applied to Le Mans cars and not F1 cars

@Clit_Yeastwood Год назад

Have you ever covered the E46 BMW M3 GTR by chance?? Such a legendary car of mine and so many others childhood with a godly noise in the real world and it’s iconic game adaptation from 2005 respectively. Would be cool to potentially learn more about it given how many times your story time series has taught me more about stories I thought I knew everything about. 😊

@jamestulk4169 Год назад

My impression was that BRM basically glued two of their 1.5 litre formula V8’s together to produce an H16. In other words, a cost savings measure. (Gotta remember that F1 was a LOT less well funded back in the 70’s)

@arthurbretas2003 Год назад

I'd like a video like this on the Lotus 72 and the McLaren M23

@MrTrick. Год назад

A V8 powered Climax? Crikey.

@SirGingerOfKnight Год назад

huehuehuehuehue

@AidanMillward Год назад

The V8 dildo. One of Clarkson’s experiments that never made it to air.

@ChrisHopkinsBass Год назад

The only car poster I ever had was the FW-14B

@danesorensen1775 Год назад

The Lotus 43 also had the engine as a stressed member, but it was by necessity rather than design - the H16 was just too big to fit a frame around it.

@AWelshEnglishman Год назад

Where's the Jazz at the beginning?? Actually why Jazz?? Always wondered.

@mgrzx3367 Год назад

You're right the 49 was a beautiful car. But the Lotus 25 was the car of my dreams and Jim Clark my Mothers secret love. At age 3 or 4 I was playing with a Lotus 25, like a good little idiot. Miss needing toys. Thank you for everything I learn from you, that I already knew. 😅

@crystalracing4794 Год назад

I'd argue the Lotus 72 was closer to the modern blueprint of a F1 car. The radiators were split into two and placed beside the driver, forming what are known as sidepods

@crystalracing4794 Год назад

Great video regardless

@jimiverson3085 Год назад

Lotus effectively put out a series of "blueprint" cars from 1962 to 1978. The Lotus 25 was the first monocoque F1 car. Then the 43/49 using the engine as a stressed member (yes, the 43 had that feature). The Lotus 72 set the modern layout with radiators and fuel tank amidships, improving weight distribution and leaving the nose free for aerodynamics. Finally, the 78/79 were the first F1 cars to use ground effects aerodynamics. Regarding 1966, I wonder if Lotus would have been better off trying to persuade Cosworth to build a 2 liter version of the Formula 2 FVA engine (something Cosworth later did for sports cars). The Climax V8 was never a reliable engine - about the only driver who could nurse one through a race was Clark - and by 1966 manufacturer support was 0. The FVA would have been competitive on power and might have allowed Clark to gain some points at Spa and the Nurburgring, and possibly even steal a win at Zandvoort, where he was leading when the water pump failed and still finished 3rd.

@AidanMillward Год назад

They probably just took what they could get

@daveblock4061 Год назад

Simplify, then add lightness.

@MrSniperfox29 Год назад

Weren't BRM still using H16 engines in 1967?

@AidanMillward Год назад

Yeah, should have said “that season”

@enjoymusic6365 Год назад

Porsche 962 is by far my favourite racing car

@boxy2k8 Год назад

Jaguar XJR9 for me. Group C represent

@JohnSmithShields Год назад

Williams FW14B for me

@sanjursan Год назад

How many of the Lotus 49 were produced, how many still exist, and where are they?

@the80hdgaming Год назад

The lack of the smooth jazz intro threw me off a bit.... 🤣

@riggerthegeek Год назад

Cossie!

@GregBrownsWorldORacing Год назад

Have we lost the opening tune to a DFV but if we're losing our intro lets go to the Mazda on the Mulsanne. Gave us all a start, I reckon. But I didn't hate it.

@AidanMillward Год назад

Would rather have a successful car as the intro sound tbh. 😏

@GregBrownsWorldORacing Год назад

@@AidanMillward Well...there IS that.

@a_random_jonny6424 Год назад

Didn't a BRM with an H16 win at Snetterton in the British F1 championship at some point?

@robertstone9988 Год назад

Farming tractors have been using the engine structural member of the tractor since the beginning of tractors

@Olivyay Год назад

"because of the Lotus design having become the standard, the FIA had to change the 2014 engine format from an inline 4 to a V6" So do you mean it was technical? I thought that was because of pressure from Ferrari who thought 4 cylinders just weren't enough for an F1 engine. What's the source for the technical reason? After all, there were inline 4s in the 80s, so I don't see how car design would have prevented post-2014 cars to use them again.

@myphone7568 Год назад

I don't know if it is true, but I've always been told H engines are designated as such because they are Horizontally firing, not because of the shape. Just another ICE mystery haha!

@AidanMillward Год назад

They fire horizontally, but because the pistons are at 180 degrees they resemble an H more than the standard Flat of Boxer config does.

@upsidedowndog1256 Год назад

It is no Gurney Weslake in beauty but probably the girl to take home to meet your mother!

@jason78981 Год назад

jackie stewart in tht lotus there

@peterf1 Год назад

The video acknowledges as much, but I've always thought the 49 gets unfair praise. Case in point it was beaten to the Constructor's Championship in 69 by... Matra. Don't get me wrong, and Matras are perhaps equally underrated, but a great car doesn't get beat by an upstart French aerospace firm still figuring out racing cars.

@ruddgrandprix-speedrunraci8515 Год назад

new sound for the intro screams "SEGA Super GT / SCUD Race".

@AidanMillward Год назад

It screams DFV 😎

@Lukeywoodsey Год назад

Not sure about the McLaren Mp4 23, 2008 and 2007 cars had way too many horns, fins, and scoops. The Mp4 24 from 2009 however was beautiful

@codeandroad3020 Год назад

Outside of the modern era V16 Auto Unions won grand prix

@earny_ksimracing4024 Год назад

what happened to that sweet jazz intro..? Oo

@AidanMillward Год назад

Got replaced by a DFV noise for one night only.

@earny_ksimracing4024 Год назад

@@AidanMillward both mixed together (engine noise leading into jazz piano) would be the perfect solution :D

@marklittle8805 Год назад

The fact is as purposeful as the 49 was, the Eagle was the best looking. Of course in the end it was the far more successful. The DFV was in the end was the greatest engine of the era and it was a long era...it changed the sport when everyone could get their mitts on one. Let's face it, it isn't the car that changed F1. The monocoque was invevitable (Spitfires during the war were monocoque so it isn't a shocker someone figured out how to make a car with that technique). The DFV to me was the biggest game changer. Oh on my wall was a Cosworth....a DFX in the Chaparral aka Yellow Submarine. John Barnard never gets full credit for being the guy who did most of the work on that car, not Jim Hall. It was a gorgeous piece of racing car

@Javadamutt Год назад

So what ultimately killed Lotus. I guess there's a mini series there with what killed [insert historic team here]

@AidanMillward Год назад

Chapman dying, pretty much. And if he hadn't died- Chapman going to jail for the DeLorean scam.

@PuncakeLena Год назад

Of course Lancia was the first at something again, and then failed to turn it into success. Didn't know the D50 had the engine as a stressed member

@06racing Год назад

What happened to the smooth jazz?

@eatthisvr6 Год назад

The brm v16 never won a gp?

@TheBigDawgSL Год назад

One of the toughest and most rewarding cars to race on iracing...lotus 49

@dicknodnfs Год назад

Add the Ferrari 640 and 641.

@robertwilloughby8050 Год назад

So what about cars that turned stomachs? Especially if they were otherwise successful. Edit - I had the Esso tiger on my door. Later I had CCR, Family and Fairport Convention posters. (I was a weird child, and probably should have been born in 1953, not 1973!)

@AidanMillward Год назад

I fucking love CCR.