Classic F1 Videos

Here is part 2 of the history of motor racing series, still pre-war, just look at those incredible cars minus any differential controls on the steering wheel or crash helmets!:

1906 - French Grand Prix
1907 - German Grand Prix
1907 - French Grand Prix

This is a great video I found online that includes the following ancient races:

1902 - Paris Vienna
1903 - Irish Gordon Bennet Trophy
1904 - Gordon Bennet Trophy
1906 - French Grand Prix

This is a great full lap of the Masaryk-ring, in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

This track used to be one of those incredible long circuits (like the Nurburgring) that required incredible skills to lap consistently fast.

Saying that, it was just short enough that you could actually memorise the layout which took you through villages and forest areas - this is a truly beautiful circuit with more interesting surroundings than the Nordschleife, in my opinion.

This is a hotlap done in the game, Grand Prix Legends that I found and set in a 60s Ferrari.

Listen to these beautiful F1 engine notes! This recording is taken from the pit wall at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada during prequalifying for the Grand Prix.

Prequalifying is an old F1 institution when too many teams wanted to race and some of them had to prequalify just to participate in qualifying and the race! Of course, the cost of running an F1 team was much cheaper in those days.

This short clip shows a number of cars roaring over the start finish line and braking at the first corner.

In fact, although the engine notes are sweet as the cars pass by the camera, I actually prefer the roaring as the cars downshift under braking. Simply incredible and I have never heard something so amazing.

I found this fantastic GP4 recreations of classic F1 battles.

Those of you who have played GP4 will know that it is possibly the best F1 sim ever. Some may scoff and say that today’s sims such as rFactor are better sims, however in my opinion there is nothing else to match GP4 in terms of the combination of simulation and racecraft.

I’ve never seen any other game match it for the battles you can have - in fact, people are still modding it, 13 years after its release!

I found this excellent video that someone has captured of their classic F1 battle recreations. Honestly, I was astounded by this effort.

Included are:

• Senna and Prost, Suzuka Japan 1989.
• Senna and Mansell, Barcelona Spain 1991.
• Senna and Mansell, Monte Carlo Monaco 1992.

My fellow afficionados, I know you will appreciate these great efforts by the author of this video.