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Post by René on Nov 5, 2023 11:21:23 GMT
Fantastic video, Carl. How those photographers try to find a good spot at the start... unprotected! Very different times.
Here's another wonderful time travel video, the 1969 Italian Grand Prix in full color. It's actually not the race itself but all the preparations around the circuit and in the paddock. It's in Italian but there's hardly any word spoken. Very atmospheric and a lot of great close ups of cars and drivers.
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Post by Carl on Nov 6, 2023 19:47:40 GMT
Fantastic video, Carl. How those photographers try to find a good spot at the start... unprotected! Very different times. Here's another wonderful time travel video, the 1969 Italian Grand Prix in full color. It's actually not the race itself but all the preparations around the circuit and in the paddock. It's in Italian but there's hardly any word spoken. Very atmospheric and a lot of great close ups of cars and drivers. Great atmosphere! Helen Stewart was so beautiful and probably still is... It's grim to see drivers who didn't return in the following few years... |
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Post by René on Nov 6, 2023 20:05:41 GMT
Fantastic video, Carl. How those photographers try to find a good spot at the start... unprotected! Very different times. Here's another wonderful time travel video, the 1969 Italian Grand Prix in full color. It's actually not the race itself but all the preparations around the circuit and in the paddock. It's in Italian but there's hardly any word spoken. Very atmospheric and a lot of great close ups of cars and drivers. Great atmosphere! Helen Stewart was so beautiful and probably still is... It's grim to see drivers who didn't return in the following few years... I am sure she still is but unfortunately she’s very ill. Life is never fair. |
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Post by chrisb on Nov 7, 2023 8:38:33 GMT
there was the one of the most poignant and emotional scenes at Goodwood a couple of years ago when Jackie and his two sons drove the 3 Tyrells and then stopped and Helen was helped out, sadly in her wheelchair and given a lovely bouquet of flowers, drove most folks to tears , including me...
All those tragedies, all those folks who lost their lives, so many of them needlessly,
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Post by mikael on Nov 12, 2023 14:45:17 GMT
Here's another wonderful time travel video, the 1969 Italian Grand Prix in full color. It's actually not the race itself but all the preparations around the circuit and in the paddock. It's in Italian but there's hardly any word spoken. Very atmospheric and a lot of great close ups of cars and drivers.
A great time-travel indeed!
Clearly, the Monza paddock was among the better ones of the era around 1970. Pure luxury, actually, in comparison with the conditions at many other places. Just consider the conditions the Lotus mechanics had to work under by the French Grand Prix (Clermont Ferrand) in 1970. (And of course it was the same for everyone else). And this is when the weather is nice. Just imagine how it would be, then, if (or when) the rain was pouring down!
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Post by mikael on Nov 26, 2023 16:15:21 GMT
A great little movie about the very early days of the Formula One World Championship. By Shell.
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Post by Carl on Nov 27, 2023 4:59:43 GMT
A great little movie about the very early days of the Formula One World Championship. By Shell.
Mikael, Thanks! Shell seemed always to have high production standards and this is one of their best. It made me wish I was old enough at the time and spending summers in Europe. Cheers, Carl |
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Post by René on Dec 17, 2023 20:45:43 GMT
Montoya on form; great pole lap at Spa 2005. How small and nimble the car looks compared to contemporary cars… and that sound….  |
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Post by René on Dec 25, 2023 11:42:36 GMT
A classic for Xmas, Hunt vs Lauda 1976.  BBC Documentary. |
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Post by Carl on Dec 25, 2023 22:00:15 GMT
A classic for Xmas, Hunt vs Lauda 1976. BBC Documentary. With all that was available to me, 1976 was a magical year in motorsport. One of the finest natural terrain road courses, Riverside International Raceway, was crowded with great events. I was able to see Hunt and Lauda at Long Beach in April and Gilles Villeneuve in Formula Atlantic on the excellent road course at Ontario Motor Speedway in May. It was later that year at Trois-Rivières that he so impressed James Hunt. I know now that this concentration of excellence is rare. Damn shame...
Lauda leaps onto Linden Avenue  Villeneuve dominating Ontario Formula Atlantic 
On pole at Trois-Rivières  |
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Post by mikael on Dec 26, 2023 11:32:09 GMT
A classic for Xmas, Hunt vs Lauda 1976.
Still a very dangerous period in motorsport. But the simplicity of the cars was wonderful! Of course, that was about to change very soon after, with the first turbo-car (Renault RS01) as well as the first ground-effect car (Lotus 78) appearing already the following year ...
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Post by René on Feb 4, 2024 19:10:48 GMT
Long Beach 1976  |
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Post by Carl on Feb 4, 2024 22:40:39 GMT
Long Beach 1976 This was a very cool arrangement. Spectators could look right down with the same perspective enjoyed by the photographer.
Three years and one month before, I had seen David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in the same arena, an awesome concert.
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Post by René on Feb 5, 2024 18:08:40 GMT
This was a very cool arrangement. Spectators could look right down with the same perspective enjoyed by the photographer.
Three years and one month before, I had seen David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in the same arena, an awesome concert. That is very cool Carl!    |
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Post by Carl on Feb 5, 2024 18:48:24 GMT
René, It's the fantastic bass line that first drew my attention... and that of bass guitarists. I was stocking shelves on the graveyard shift at a grocery store closed for the night when I first heard Bowie. It was common to have music over the public address system (a microphone secured with a heavy rubber band to the"on" position). I didn't know who it was, but that song and "Suffragette City" were so cool and original, that I kept listening for the name.
That concert not only had great music, but also theatre, with Bowie suddenly appearing in character on a dark stage, glaring at the audience momentarily before launching into "Hang on to Yourself"
Cheers, Carl
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BBC Documentary.
