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Post by mikael on May 10, 2019 7:30:42 GMT
This is a very cool short of Patrick Depailler during practice in 1978. When waved onto the track, he immediately comes onto the Linden Avenue downhill just past the first turn and at 1:20, he's onto the Pine Avenue uphill. Thank you for the link, Carl. Very interesting and impressive to watch. Apparently real challenge - to say the least - to drive fast on well-worn, bumpy, dusty, slippery asphalt like that. (And it makes one feel that the present demand for absolutely plane and smooth state-of-the-art surfacing of G.P. circuits perhaps has gone overboard.) M. |
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Post by charleselan on May 10, 2019 14:26:17 GMT
There were some very good onboard films done during the 1978 season, not in the races of course as in those days the cameras were positively huge; goodness how we have moved on in technology since then, incremental doesn't come into it! That film you have linked Carl is superb, just wonderful to see Patrick at work on the real and original Long Beach track. If anyone has any doubts as to what is missing in current times this is what we should watch, where one is in little doubt as to the skills of those drivers. Another great onboard from the same season shows a young Didier Pironi in the other Tyrrell 008 at Watkins Glen which is well worth looking out. Attached a great shot of Patrick at Monaco on the way to that unexpected race win in his Tyrrell 008.  |
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Post by René on May 10, 2019 15:47:19 GMT
For the real die-hards  here's an onboard audio recording of Gilles testing the 126 C2 at Fiorano. Someone put a small tape recorder in Gilles's suit. Unfortunately there are no onboard videos of Gilles in action but this is still very nice. You can hear him talk (at 3.30) and also Forghieri and some technicians. |
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Post by chrisb on May 11, 2019 5:38:48 GMT
that is just superb Carl, a real car, with a proper driver, a fantastic circuit and an amzing sound,gosh how i miss those cars
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Post by chrisb on May 11, 2019 5:39:35 GMT
Rene, oh wow, really special, really just awesome, many thanks my friend
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Post by René on Aug 23, 2019 14:03:22 GMT
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Post by René on Aug 23, 2019 14:20:05 GMT
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Post by mikael on Aug 23, 2019 14:38:21 GMT
Ref. Villeneuve in Ferraris 1977-82: The 1981 car looks real scary, seen through "modern glasses", with the driver positioned so far out front. The '82 car looks slightly better in that respect. |
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Post by René on Aug 23, 2019 14:55:46 GMT
Ref. Villeneuve in Ferraris 1977-82: The 1981 car looks real scary, seen through "modern glasses", with the driver positioned so far out front. The '82 car looks slightly better in that respect. You're absolutely right Mikael. The driver's position was so far forward it was ridiculous and very dangerous. It looked cool though and I can imagine for the driver it almost felt like racing a kart but safety was zero. In this picture of the slot car I made recently you can see very well how far forward the driver was sitting. I made this little car quite accurate to scale so this gives a correct impression.  |
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Post by charleselan on Aug 23, 2019 15:17:06 GMT
Is it just me, but the similarity in the picture of Gilles and young M. Leclerc gets even more profound, maybe it is the expressions they portray more than anything. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 22:43:03 GMT
Ref. Villeneuve in Ferraris 1977-82: The 1981 car looks real scary, seen through "modern glasses", with the driver positioned so far out front. The '82 car looks slightly better in that respect. You're absolutely right Mikael. The driver's position was so far forward it was ridiculous and very dangerous. It looked cool though and I can imagine for the driver it almost felt like racing a kart but safety was zero. In this picture of the slot car I made recently you can see very well how far forward the driver was sitting. I made this little car quite accurate to scale so this gives a correct impression.
I love your model of this car Rene
I am making progress on mine, its running much more smoothly now. I'll let you know more when it gets closer
Also ... i've done an RE30 and RE30B and a 126C2 in the same manner. As those get ready i'll show those too
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Post by René on Sept 13, 2019 18:50:23 GMT
Car presentation at Fiorano 1980.  British Grand Prix 1980.  |
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Post by chrisb on Sept 13, 2019 20:52:25 GMT
I was there! those Ligier's were mighty and the red cars were decidedly not -you know when you look at the grid it looks brilliant and the race was exciting. Then you remember when you always look back with a sense of sadness, as you realise pouvre Patrick was killed 3 weeks later in yet another needless fatality - but the above is a great photo - I am guessing Paddock bend
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 22:39:50 GMT
I wish i had been, but i had been at Brands a year earlier to see him win. It was another 4 years before i was finally at a Grand Prix.
The kerb looks like the inside of Druids?
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Post by René on Sept 20, 2019 15:15:16 GMT
Two more photos from my archive.
Zolder 1980, the pit building was very low back then so you were really close to the action. Those were the days...    |
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here's an onboard audio recording of Gilles testing the 126 C2 at Fiorano. Someone put a small tape recorder in Gilles's suit. Unfortunately there are no onboard videos of Gilles in action but this is still very nice. You can hear him talk (at 3.30) and also Forghieri and some technicians.
