I was there - at Leeukop. Braai'ed next to the track. Took ground level photos in a gulley a few metres from the track. Walked around the track the night before the race drinking beer with friends. Walked along the cars on the dummy grid on race day taking pictures and wishing drivers well. So many wonderful memories. This was F1 for me. Today? ...They took F1 away from us, I think.

R.i.P. Jochen Rindt (World Champion 1970), Piers Courage, Bruce McLaren (1970), Jo Siffert, Pedro Rodriguez (1971), Rolf Stommelen (1983).

This is a remarkably well filmed and edited film for a motorsport event of that era. The narration was done well, too, with being informational on the entire field of drivers/cars. (Edited update) I noticed at the closing credits this was a BBC-TV production, which explains the quality of this production.

This was the last year that F1 cars looked like what F1 cars should look like. The essence of F1 was captured in it's most pure form. Note the number of engine types and layouts; V-8, V-12, flat-12, Cosworth, Simca, BRM, Ferrari. Aero was still in it's early stages, and should have remained there. They are cars, not aircraft. The Lotus 72 (though not yet ready for the South African round) used aero in it's monocoque wedge-shape and shifting radiators to the side, breaking new ground. Ingenuity in theory and implementation, in both engines and chassis. The year was well contested by a variety of entrants with close competition for victories by several drivers and teams. Luck played a part in some races, as did mechanical reliability and driver talent. All in all, a wonderful, if tragic year. Modern F1 is just an artificial gimmick-ridden farce. Bernie, as well as the FIA, will now have seriously tarnished their historical records in the sport which will serve as an incriminating indictment of their idiotic and myopic treatment of what was once the world's preeminent motor sport. To say that it still is, is merely accepting a much lower standard ( a contemptible imitation) than what it once truly was!

Most beautiful F1 cars ever!!!!

My mum loved Jack Brabham and dad liked Jochen Rindt. I'd not heard him speak until recently, very fluent and charming.

Barry Gill did a great job covering F1 in that era. thanks for uploading!

I remember watching the bank holiday Monday Formula 2 race where a lot of the Formula 1 drivers used to compete, and Graham Hill was driving using an amazing throttle sound in the corners, going on and off the accelerator pedal, much like Ayrton Senna did many years later. When he was asked about it, Graham said that it was unfortunately down to the fact that it was too painful for him to keep his foot down because his legs still weren't properly healed.

4:43 The sound of that Matra... wow...

I was amazed at the number of drivers presented in the beginning who died racing. Then, the scenes of marshals sweeping the course while the race went on normally, and we realize why so many people died in those days.

Great to see Graham speaking - it always is - here before his comeback race. If you look at Graham's face before his 1969 crash and here, you can see, I think, that the injuries he had aged him very much. Understandably of course.

cars looked great but a very dangerous era for these brave people!

A lot of these drivers didn't make it to the end of the 1970 or 1971 seasons .

Poor Chris Amon, he should of stayed with Ferrari for at least one more year.

Cool race report. Love the intro, music & ending as well. Interesting times.

Hill was cooler than James Bond.

old drivers those days ....and the cars absolutely great

Amazing video.

Note the mechanics working on the cars without shirts in the hot South African sun.

the cars look mean... sound mean... well, a thousand times more exiting than modern F1

It's sobering to hear Rindt enthuse about the new Lotus 72 which would kill him befor ethe year was out and also make him world champion.

What a track. Got completely neutered

all the sudden I really want a sprite

The top of "APARTHEID" 1970.

Brabham's last victory!

I love Brabham BT 33...My favourite car

looks like Ron Dennis ..at 15.55

Black Jack's last GP win. . .

Will say "no fewer than" no fewer than three times...and then the driver retires for good, due to a priceless ignition coil...Gillible 😜

Jo'burg Kyalami

Frank Williams eh?

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Racing the way it should be.Cars not rolling billboards yet. Camera angles at ground level so you can see the speed... all ruined bu "safety" and rules nonsense...

Would Lewis Hamilton even have been allowed in pits for this race, or even the track. All I saw were white face spectators.