Pironi son of a pitch

@@aperitivoitaliano Gilles Villeneuve fan by any chance?

Pironi. 1982's real world champion.

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@@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 oh hey there FIA

the vegas layout is a fire doe, like a monza pedal to the metal stuff

@@kuckoo9036 yes miami layout is a disaster.

Dog the race hasn’t even happened yet, these purist f1 gatekeepers are so boring man don’t even give new places a chance

Americans

@@hunterdanton3752 my dude they are removing spa from the calendar

Mindset is the same, you don't think about killing yourself.

Not to mention a higher probability of fire in the event of a bad crash. These cars were mobile Molotov cocktails.

the drivers today do not need instagram or youtube streams to be famous. the sponsors want it. and that keeps em racing. so there's no need to have a sly dig at anyone to make your point.

@@james2578 Kimi, sponsors want you on live streams....Bwoah, i don't care, leave me alone

You're rigth...

The landscape is gorgeous, but I'm afraid the investment to retrofit this raceway to current requirements will be huge... beyond any affordable limits. It's a pitty.

@@maurocoimbra9624 I think replacing the barriers would be a huge investment as well and it probably another reason they will never come back.

No hotels within reasonable distance. Word has it that Bernie used to commute from Chicago to IMS back in the day 'cause Indy didn't have a nice enough hotel. The pits and media center are hopeless, would require a bulldozer to fix. The fencing dictating the crowd control would have to be redone. That's just a warmup.

Would be a micky mouse track with zero overtakes.

No sense ruining a perfectly good race track for modern F1.

I agree. If Zandvoort (given how tight it is) returned to the F1 calendar, I don't see why the Glen cannot. Of course, it should replace one of the current US tracks since they have so many

@@matchu9995 the glen doesn’t have the facilities to hold a f1 race it doesn’t even have a paddock building

@@thatonenigeriansformula If only F1 invested in reviving the glen instead of destroying the LV strip..

I love old Interlagos!

tilke was sheet. old was( almost) always better

There was a very good biography of Pironi by David Sedgwick that came out a couple of years ago. I highly recommend you read it, if you haven't already. Pironi was a very interesting person (on and off track).

i think the chicane in the esses qere there because of cevert´s fatal crash ...am i right?

@@rdtli The chicane was added from 1975 onwards, after both Cevert and Koinigg's fatal accidents.

I was lucky enough to meet two of them. I have Piron's autograph and a photograph with Murray. Never me Patrick.

Added after every crash ,only lasted few years before esses up hill were restored

Ruined the course

Would cost millions to make it up to new standards , especially the pit Lane with garages and run offs and it would lose money like COTA

charles anzalone There are enough interested parties/investors that would be very happy to do it. Money isn’t the issue

@@SN-nh6pq NASCAR owns Watkins Glen. They are cheapskates. They aren't going to bring the circuit up to standards.

You got that right !!!! Driven there many times myself in the Porsche! ! So many great cars / drivers !!🍺🍺🍺🍺😄😄😎😎

Do not forget bike racing there. Awesome.

too right

Huh? F1TV lets you choose all the on boards you want.

I drove the full track, including the boot, first in SCCA Formula Continental and then in F-Mazda. Its a fun track and very fast.

@@epistte pretty cool, howd you get a seat in fc and formula mazda?

Granted it's not as dramatic as the evolution of Silverstone, but compaing the modern layout to the one in this video at 0:09, they've added the bus stop chicane and the deleted the chicane in the esses (which was added in 75 after Cevert and stuck around until ~83 or so). Other than that, I guess it's p. much the same.

The track is coming to ACC also. Very exciting. Can't wait to try it.

@@Fergy00000 it’s pretty sick, driving there at night is wild, looks great feels very different than a lot Of the other tracks in the game. reminds me of Zaandvort

F1 needs to return to real drivers and real cars, that's what it REALLY needs to do.....

@@paulhall170 2022 should make some difference. The change in suspension rules and the lower profile front tyres will make the cars more dependent od their suspension and they should dance around a bit more.

Never happen until they take electronics and telemetry out and make racers do the racing.

There is no abs, traction control, stability management, or any other kind of electronic assists today. Telemetry is for the engineers to tune the car it's just data gathering. Knowing the intake air temperature and tire pressure changes doesn't help the driver right then. There's tighter racing today due to the saftey drivers just go for it 100% because they know if they crash they are going to live. Which is why Hamilton and Verstappen got so absolutely crazy. In the old days they either wouldn't race like that or they would both be dead. Mind you there are zero gaps in the powerband in these cars nowadays due to the electric motors making instant torque and they are pushing over 1000hp making them probably about as twitchy as they ever have been short of when they ran grooved slicks back in like 2004

@@n111254789 the wheelbases are longer though, I think from memory, either Martin Brundle or Jeremy Clarkson said that they're like Limousines these days! It would be lovely to go back to those short nimble rockets we had back in 2003-2008... But please, no grooves. If you have the time watch back a 2008 Monaco qualifying session. The cars are positively skimming across the surface of the roads. Totally different formula of racing!

@@aarongreen121 Oh I watch ton's of the old videos I like pretty much all era's beside the beginning of the hybrid era that was awful. 08 was a fantastic season and in qualifying trim they were awesome. They for sure have gotten much longer but slightly narrower than some points in the past. But yeah they are about 800mm longer than in 90's. They are roughly 5 meters long now which is very long. A large reason for that is simply speed their average speed has increased drastically and with that you need stability so rotational inertia is a big factor and aerodynamics since the cars are restricted to 2000mm wide now and only 1600mm on the floor if you want more surface area for ground effect and over the body airflow it has to be an increase in length. They focus less on street circuits so having a car that short provides really no benefit these modern cars are much more nimble at high speeds than the old cars simply because they can turn much harder without ending up facing backwards. So both are very nimble just at different ranges of speed. Neither could do what the other can. I'm just thankful active suspension, traction control, and abs didn't stick around as long as they are fully driving it and the cars continue to get faster I'm happy.

Don't be so daft. Of course they can.

I'm pretty sure that they can, but not as good as these guys, check out the video where lewis and nico rosberg drove fangio's mercedes, lewis struggled to shift gears in the proper way, meanwhile nico, as a vintage cars lover, was actually using the right technique

@@pianortd4800 How many times did you say he drove it?

@@thethirdman225 they drove those cars on the nurburgring nordscheilfe back in 2013 if i'm not wrong

@@pianortd4800 Yes but how many laps did he get to do in it. Also, I’d be pretty sure even the contemporary drivers would have found it difficult the only real way to find out would be to compare lap times and that simply can’t happen.

Yeah... also the camerawork was more visceral and made everything look faster haha

Looked and handled like big gokarts, super era for the sport.

Because back then they're focused on the innovation and how these drivers would finish the race with their car that are made from art, computer electronics back in the day drivers are literally working inside of the cockpit.

@@danz356 go karts is right. Zero protection. Like they are riding on top of the car instead of protected by it. Look how lose and unprotected he is.

Isso memo cara falo tudo

Cara nao existe um seim o outro sao lenda eses caras

Really? If one saw a side-by-side of a modern F1 car turning a hot-lap at the Glen compared to this video, it'd be day-and-night.

Pois é mais deixando esse fato de lado MÁXIMO RESPEITO POR ESSES PILOTOS ANTIGOS é nítida a dificuldade de guiar essas máquinas na aquela época realmente vê o esforço dos pilotos. Já hoje...

Yeah, just look what they did to Hockenheim to keep it on the calendar. I loved the races there until they crippled the track.

Ferrari were leaning towards Gillies in 79?

The chicane was installed after Cevert's fatal accident in 1973. It probably prevented a lot of others.

So did i, i recorded it on VHS & now it's gone

I'm going to try and up load the complete video. Or a least break it down into laps like this one.

He said Depailler (who was driving the car in front of Pironi).

Pironi drove for Tyrrell from 78 to 79. My guess is 79.

Lies!

@@ComputerWhiz_ I agree with him, he was chatty and exaggerated, but he deserves all respect

Like a fkn nagging Budgie, famous for holding a fkn piece of wire and getting it wrong, loved it when James Hunt use to batter him about on the commentary.