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Can't wait to see you tackle this race in your '66 season.

Oh hello, fancy finding you here! :)

I saw the thumbnail and immediately thought of you😅

I see Richie Axelson watches Jamie Wanglebork

Thats nice!

Thats really cool, wow

Cool. The first auto race I went to was also at Mosport, although about 35-40 years later.

Cool

@@lemans1774 no one cares

Underrated point

It's easy to look at it with a revisionist sense of condescension not realising they came from an era where death was an accepted part of culture. Like you say, I bet a lot of F1 pilots where more than happy to die racing a car round a circuit after the atrocities of war. Mind you, I am glad it's safer now.

Here in the US it was “great, the cops aren’t chasing my moonshine filled car no more” instead

Exactly, men were adrenalin junkies. After years of war it is very hard to adapt back to quiet life.

@@danielherring6946 I find it somewhat funny that this is precisely how American stock car racing got started.

never was safe lmfao

It more dangerous than the original

Sudscheleife is also scary, narrow and bumpy as fuck.

A lot didn't either. Even many of the absolute madlads that drove old F1 cars noped the fuck out of this one, I don't think old Spa ever saw the whole grid participate in the race. It really was that dangerous, along with the Nürburgring they were on another level. Although they did drive another 5 years on the 'Ring after the drivers started boycotting this in '69 and '70, so Spa was even worse.

@@TheGrinch_ sure it is, mate🥴

Not to mention the fact it was acceptable among the racing community that 3-5 drivers would die on average each year. Insanity when you think about it.

@@bajacore I remember Jackie Stewart saying that one night him and his wife sat down after attending a funeral (Might have been Rindt's?) and counting 53 friends they had lost through racing. It really was a brutal era

Same with flying, sailing and going to space today...

@@GreenBlueWalkthrough it’s not even comparable. Flying is the safest form of transportation by distance travelled, The last fatal incident related to spaceflight was Columbia’s disintegration in 2003. I don’t know anything about sailing. Pretty much nothing today is as dangerous as what these guys were doing.

I think Vettel has said before that the new drivers today get away with moves he wouldn’t have dreamed of attempting when he was a rookie. I guess because the senior drivers in the 2000s wouldn’t have been tolerated either when they were rookies if they’d been reckless - which recurs going backwards down the line of drivers.

Only living world champion from the 60s too. Then it's Emerson Fittipaldi. Still have the odd driver from that era alive, but I can't think of many who were full fledged drivers, and not ones who only raced a handful. That era was brutal. We look back at it with romance, but it really wasn't. Drivers were constantly killed in horrible ways like burning to death (easily one of the worst ways to die) and decapitation.

The spanner clearly did the trick.

nope. he dead

@@mrwick7961 Jackie Stewart is very much alive my guy.

And Mario Andretti

Impressive, how in the world did you get to be driven around Spa by Jacky Ickx?

Yeah it's like the James May Cheese Meme

Know which video its actually from?

Kinda kiss hearing him scream “OH THEY’VE HAD A BIG ONE”

@@Focks_A the one where he hit a rock

@@Focks_A Beam Ng scenario livestream

That's hilarious! Although I'm sure his balls were even bigger!

They then proceeded to put his fuel soaked overalls back on him, causing extra burns to his skin.

the third nun must’ve been quite a liberal one. :)

I Seem to always forget that this guy is a really good sim driver

Actually in those cars you need to counter the oversteer many time even at clear conditions.Just a rwd metal can with a powerfull engine.

It's like a rally but even more dangerous

The latter is what some also thought with grosjean

Thank christ it's far more the former & (almost, Grosjean says hello) never the latter

@@jeffreytenthije The Grosjean crash was so close... All sorts of things went wrong to cause it but also so much luck for him to have been able to get clear of the fire. I barely remember it but I was around, very young, in the late 60s, early 70's and I still have an ingrained reaction to crashes with fire. I was watching the 1976 Nurburgring Race. First sign of fire, Racetrack or Pitlane and the old fear is back. And this is despite the fact that in those days we usually only watched highlights on the BBC so we were spared the actuality - but the message got through. It's why I get angry when Sky put so many crashes in their montage of 'highlights of previous races here' in the run up to GP's. There was a time when people would openly state that they 'watched F1 for the crashes', I had hoped that attitude had passed so to see what appears to be 'bait' for people with that attitude - well words fail me. Motorsport is inherently unsafe, however Grosjeans crash, and before that, Bianchi's, is a reminder that we should never, ever, be complacent about that.

@@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 Yet, some people apparently think developments in safety are dumb because much like a climber doesn't wear airbags, "it is pointless to add safety measures to a sport which entire concept is dangerous". *flashbacks to people defending HEMA practitioners using actual weapons and edged blades*

@@NothingXemnas and you know for a fact the ones that want it to go back to a "bathtub full of fuel" would never go near them. I have never, ever, wanted to see someone actually die & I don't get the people who do

Not just the cars but the tracks and the general safety measures. They barely had enough fire extinguishers around the track to get to a burning wreck most of the time.

Your profile picture is cursed

@@batialexis9339 Sharl Leclegs

He's done an automobilista video with classic F1 in vr

You could just put goggles on and stare at a shower head. It would be about the same visuals.

@@craigmann9667 😂😂😂😂😂 so true

@@craigmann9667 huh, must’ve experienced some really shitty headset then, my index looks very very crisp

@@Robin-hi8oq he's making a joke, bud.

Haha I noticed that too. They were totally live streaming up there

How is almost directly after ww2 considered “pre-war”?

@@nogeagor2787 I'm saying things were even more dangerous 30 years prior to '66

Srsly, haha

He's gonna go the distance, probably

He left a comment.😎

@@Sephiroth5200 jimmy found his masta kink lol

well you need to pay more attention to school because its youre

Wholesome Dylan

@@darudek6016 If you're going to be pedantic, at least get it right. It's you're with an apostrophe.

@@darudek6016 maybe he isn’t an English person?

@@darudek6016 irony.

man I always hated that Mission. Its so hard keeping that car in a straight line while trying to keep up with the AI

It partly was. I can’t recall who said it (or whether it was apocryphal), but one former airman who did racing said that of course it wasn’t dangerous, “no-one was shooting at us!”

all cars had no seat belts or crumple zones or safety glass back then, it was the norm. They had a helmet what more do they need? that was safety in the 60's.

@@NoOne-zo6gj sure a lack of safety features in road cars was normal, but they still knew they were driving petrol cans on wheels at ridiculous speeds, with serious injury or death pretty much guaranteed in a crash. So I still think there’s a big gap between risking normal 60s driving & having the balls to race 60s F1 cars.

I think there's an element to that idea, but also an element of it just being the times. Everybody smoked. They didn't wear seatbelts. People didn't go to the gym. Extra gravy, please. To put the exclamation point on it, when I was 6-7 in the early 70s my dad decided to buy an exotic sports car. It came down to a Pantera or a Maserati Mistral, which happened to be the final Maserati road car to use a development of the same inline six that Fangio drove in F1. Probably partly because of that since he was my dad's hero, he got the Mistral mainly because it also had a glass bubble hatch canopy where I could sit under, behind my parents in the front seats, which we did on weekend drives all the time. It was great, what an experience in that gorgeous, super rare car! I still remember the sounds and smells. But I looked back on that a few years ago and I asked my mom, "what the hell were you guys thinking? In any accident I was dead for sure!" She said they just didn't think of things like that. "Not physics?" She shrugged. It was even totally legal...

@@cosmic-tiger It took a lot of balls to drive F1 back in the day or any race car. In the USA, you could buy the exact car on Monday that won the NASCAR race on Sunday. We used to race on the streets with cars like that, no safety gear, it was nuts, but fun. As much as I love F1, there is no replacement for displacement and the big blocks with no safety gear, no abs, and drum brakes are just flat out fun to drive. If I had the opportunity to drive an F1 car or any race car in the 60's I would have done it in a heart beat. I would rather die doing something I love than sitting around and dying of old age. It was a very different time and a heck of a lot of fun too

skidmarks in all sorts of places

It is.

Theres a race like it on project cars 2,in vr its nuts

Really, life in general was a deathtrap back then. I can't believe I'm still alive having grown up when I did.

Don't forget to fill your bathtub with high test racing fuel. Have fun!

@@f1jones544 That sweet sweet toluene!