SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS weird corner names EXPLAINED

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Күн бұрын

Le Raidillon de l'Eau Rouge. Les Combes et Blanchimont.
What do all these names mean?!?! And which one is which? Let's take a little tour around Spa-Francorchamps and find out.
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00:00 Welcome to Spa-Francorchamps
01:21 1 - La Source
01:39 2 - Eau Rouge
02:01 3/4 - Raidillon
02:20 Kemmel
02:47 5/6 - Les Combes
03:14 7 - Malmedy
04:19 8 - Bruxelles/Rivage
04:29 9 - Jacky Ickx/Speakers/No Name
05:04 10/11 - Pouhon/Double Gauche
05:29 12/13 - Fagnes/Pif Paf
06:55 14/15 - Stavelot/Campus/Paul Frere
07:48 16/17 - Blanchimont
08:07 18/19 - The Chicane

Пікірлер: 40

@MattackReturns Жыл бұрын

Pif paf is a french expression to significate the quick "right/left" gesture to do with the steering wheel ! It's an onomatopoeic term

@abel6846 Жыл бұрын

As for Bus stop, I was told that the circuit tapped into a subsidy from the Wallon government to improve public transport. They wanted to upgrade the chicane, and found that they could get a grant if they would put a bus stop there. The gov’t however forgot to add to the prerequisites that there should be a bus running there. Some people claim that there was an actual bus stop next to the track for a couple of years, but I can’t confirm that.

@basvs3906 Жыл бұрын

That does sound really Belgian to me!

@Fungamer4570 Жыл бұрын

You put way more effort into your videos than half of the f1 channels that just make up drama Criminally underrated great video

@vetteltuna1716 Жыл бұрын

This series is rlly interesting, would be cool to see one for Monza aswell!

@kart3347 11 ай бұрын

Yeah but the only problem is that there are only like 2 turns and one of them literally means big turn lol

@broodjebamibal Жыл бұрын

That's more than 25 Yuki Tsunoda's... Okay that one got me.

@leoparzival1762 Жыл бұрын

It wasnt that horrifying, but I'll have to say I didnt expect yuki tsunoda used to measure things. Pretty creative I have to say.

@KevBoy3D Жыл бұрын

All I know about Kemmel straight is that on the old circuit this part was more squiggely and the modern track has it “straightened out”. That explains part of the name

@dimitriblondeel832 Жыл бұрын

There’s a hill called “Kemmel” in the West-Flanders province of Belgium, named after the Celtic war god Camulos. Just speculating it may have something to do with the Kemmel straight.

@Nocturnes1984 3 күн бұрын

Kemmelberg aka Mount Kemmel is also the only logic I see in the name…it also has a very steep hill with a long straight street once down or up…. Not sure though

@danbrv94 Жыл бұрын

Man your production is insane!!! Always such a fan of these. Love the energy

@Dexmente 10 күн бұрын

What a great moment to revisit this >D

@crimsondynamics5542 9 ай бұрын

"...more than 25 Yuki Tsunodas..." had me literally laugh out loud - and it's 1:30am and I'm by myself.

@shiftfocus1 4 күн бұрын

I think Paul Frere’s greatest driving accomplishment was winning the 1960 24 Heures du Mans, driving with fellow Belgian Olivier Gendebien.

@MirreVeerman 6 ай бұрын

Busstop chicane was actually named after a real busstop. There was not enough money to upgrade the track and the government only could invest in public transport so they physically made a busstop for extra money :)

@corpsecoder_nw6746 Ай бұрын

Apparently, according to Martin Brundle, No Name/Speakers/Jacky Ickx was also called Liege, after a nearby town.

@THEULTIMATETOASTY Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great content! Keep it up! Can't wait for you to get the recognition you deserve

@ugurcanguneyayhan Жыл бұрын

I'm utterly shocked at how underrated this channel is! Amazing content with great production. Keep up the good work!

@Chornster1 Жыл бұрын

Keep up the great content!🫵😀👍

@eduardoassuncao8746 Жыл бұрын

Great work

@A3rox 11 ай бұрын

There are quite a few mistakes but nothing dramatic, I still enjoyed the video. Good work! Stavelot 2 / Paul Frère is also communly called "Le Raccordement" because it's the junction with the old track. (left side at the exit of the corner), it's also communly called "le karting" because it's next to the gokart track. I have never heared the last chicane being called "la nouvelle chicane", dunno where you found that one lol. And yes it's "la nouvelle chicane" and not "le nouveau chicane". Bloody french, I know.

@Poisonjam7 3 ай бұрын

I really like this series. I would love it if you did my (and lots of drivers’) favorite track, Suzuka!

@jeroenpanis3456 Жыл бұрын

Paul Frère was also a well regarded autosport journalist. You can see him even in several old Michel Vaillant albums.

@jmwfk Жыл бұрын

Its called: Kwik, kwek en kwak in dutch... Its from donald ducks franchise!

@MrVsGarage Жыл бұрын

I can never tell if anything from the Netherlands is a joke or a serious coment...

@d.unknown787 Жыл бұрын

Mate slight correction Kemmel is nothing in Dutch, What you ment is Kameel. Although after some research Kemmel is a place in Belgium.

@MonkStarling Жыл бұрын

Man I'd love for you to measure other track lengths or height differences with the size of a local or current driver 😂

@lionelkow6421 Жыл бұрын

should have said the joke "thats radillion actually

@otakuno5764 Жыл бұрын

Make one about Monza

@struankingdom8440 Жыл бұрын

In my head I like to think pouhon is named as such because any normal person going round it that fast would poo themselves

@Cal33133 Жыл бұрын

1:07 for a surprise

@moiradeschuytter2976 Жыл бұрын

Kemmel is a little town in Flanders actually but I would have on idea why the straight would be named after it

@moiradeschuytter2976 Жыл бұрын

I also wanted to say I absolutely love these type of videos! and yes you definitely butchered the french names

@mikegnk4994 3 ай бұрын

Apparently, Kemmelberg is a hill formation (located 1km from the village Kemmel) , where one of the most ferocious battles of the first world war took place. Spa was built shortly after the war ended, so it kinda makes sense that they named the Kemmel curves (as they were back then) after a famous battleground? Maybe it has to do with the fact that Kemmelberg is a hill, so the name implies elevation? A website called overtsteer448 mentioned Kemmelberg, as in the hill, rather than Kennel the village as an inspiration for the name and it makes a bit more sense.