It's amazing how many Italian talents were lost. Ascari, Bandini and Nannini to name the most famous and all of whom had do much more to give

F1 in the 70's was a strange time... Most of the races you never see as the footage was controlled by broadcastor of whatever country the race was in. It's why it can be so difficult to find footage of races during this period. We would have to listen to the races on the radio. Quite often you would have no idea how bad an accident was as unlike now the commentators would be quite reserved. It would often be later on that evening or the next day when you would find out what happened to the driver. It wouldn't be until KZfaq became a thing when you could go back and actually find footage of these accidents that we listened to all those years ago. I can't tell you how strange it was to see how awful many of the accidents truly were...

As a Rhodesian, Rhodesian- Zimbawean and finally a Zimbabwean I learnt a lot about someone I knew nothing about, John Love. Thanks!!

Mind blowing how Bandini’s the only F1 death at Monaco, especially that old layout!

I saw an uncut film of Bandini's crash only a few months ago. Horrible and tragic. I also saw an uncut film of the LeMans disaster, it finally dawned on me that of course there was film of these tragedies, but it had been withheld for decades. Motor racing is a cruel passion. Thank you for your video. RIP Lorenzo Bandini.

The picture of Bandini's body still inside the car is, frankly, nightmare fuel

Thank you for extending your videos' duration from 10 to 15 minutes! Pure joy to listen!

This was the first GP race since that 1966 film was released, so if you got the bug to go to Monaco from the movie, this was the first event you got. Every other part of the film is based on real events including some of the crap melodrama. The finale is a recreation of a few accidents at Avus, where drivers flew over the banking and into the car park.

The 1967 SA GP was my first F1 experience at just 3 years old. I attended every SA GP from then, until the last one. I was present when both Peter Revson & Tom Pryce were killed. The Tom Pryce incident happened right in front of me & I still have vivid memories of it to this day. Thankfully the sport has become much safer since then. I was also at the 1962 SA GP at Westmead, albeit in utero, when Gary Hocking another Rhodes Rhodesian & the origin of my name, was killed.

I've seen video footage of Bandini's accident, and I don't wish to again. The cars in this era were ultra dangerous. The fireball was so huge and intense you couldn't even see where the car was and it happened so fast you couldn't really see what mistake Bandini had made. Lauda's accident was bad, but you could see how much safety had improved compared to a few years previous in terms of the car construction and containing fires. Bandini and Piers Courage's accidents are unreal things to see. You wonder how they ever climbed into those cars.

I'll never forget the ABC Wild World of Sports coverage of the accident from the helicopter. Your description was spot on. It was like a bomb had gone off. This was very insightful. I didn't realize (on a side note) that Clark finished only 6 races in that year but won 4 of them. If only the Lotus wasn't made of paper :). BTW, maybe you could do a video some day on the making of the film Grand Prix. It is still one of my favorites because of the amazing camera work (especially for its time). Thanks as always!

From zimbabwe here nice

Sidenote - I Would love another 100 lap race, idk it would be cool as it's an even number even if it's unrealistic

I was horrified as a 10 year old watching the marshals extricate the badly burned Bandini from the smoldering car whilst the news helicopter hovered closer, fanning the flames explosively. The marshals were carrying him across the track they DROPPED him as flames were still burring on his belly. This and the Roger Williamson crash at Zandvoort were the two most horrifying crashes I ever saw, made even worse by the cowrdice and incompetence of the marshals.

I still think they need a minimum race time for stuff. The modern Monza GP is over before it begins. The Bandini one is almost as sad as Roger Williamson. Not that it matters, but my earliest F1 memory is Gilles dying. Oof. (Racing heroes: Gilles, nobody, Ayrton, and then I just supported a team instead).

Grand Prix Legends is the most terrifying racing sim ever created. Papyrus were absolute geniuses.

Another quality production...

Even as a youngster back in that era, the Cooper-Maseratis looked like dinosaurs when compared to the other F1 makes; especially so with the huge front-end radiator intake opening.

I saw an interview with Chris Amon where he talked about this accident and the effect it had on him, he said essentially he was thrust into the role of Ferrari's number 1 driver and how he was not really able to cope. Is it possible that it had an effect on his entire racing career?

Video of Top quality 👍👏

As always, will researched, produced and enjoyable to watch. I always look forward to the next video.

Aiden, really appreciate your videos and how informative they are. I started watching Formula 1 a couple of years ago with my friends from overseas introducing it to me. Sharing this history is important, and the work you put into each telling reflects how much you value sharing this content. Thank you.

Tip Top video! Great production quality with clear audio, solid script and super visuals. I’d say that you have found your stride Aidan!

Good stuff. I appreciate that you do this.

I have been racing in a Grand Prix legends league for almost 15 years. Every time we race at Monaco we have at least one Bandini style crash. Without the flames and the injuries of course.

Excellent video. I didn't know about the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe connection. The Monaco documentary I mentioned in the last video covered most of what you said about the crash, but I don't remember them mentioning the helicopter. You'd have thought that the pilot would have twigged that he'd be fanning the flames. Literally. That was a dreadful day.

Can you please make a video about Michele alboreto’s championship campaign in 1985?

Great vids as always. I have a book that was a companion to a BBC series on motor sport history. I forget exactly what the book and series is called though. What I do remember is a group photo of F1 drivers right in the era you are talking about in this vid. It's called 'the class of 67(?)' It makes for some grim reading. It lists the names of the drivers present, and how and when a goodly chunk of them died. Now to be fair some died of causes outside F1, McLaren for instance, and Hill, so it does seem to suggest these guys were all risk takers as part of their makeup. But still, the rate they were dying at was very grim.

John love also escape a very nasty crash. John Love had his biggest accident in a Southern African race with the Surtees TS9, when he was nearly decapitated at the next race at Kyalami. He crashed into the Armco barriers at Clubhouse corner when the car’s throttle pedal got stuck on a floor pan bolt. John tells the story, “ With the throttle wide open, I froze on the brakes, locked the front up and of course the car wouldn’t turn. It slid between two layers of Armco. When the action stopped, I had the Armco barriers pushing my head to the left. The car was nearly destroyed, but I was fine.”

Would love to see a video on the Austrian curse! Rindt, ratzenberger, lauda, Berger crash at imola Love the channel and content 🫶🏻

It’s kind of interesting how some of the most well known motorsports around the world that don’t normally run multiclass style of racing have had a type of multiclass racing or allowed other cars not within the rule book to race with a major series for field fillers. F1 allowing F2 cars to race together at certain races. NASCAR allowing the Grand Touring Series, a series much like the current Xfinity Series but with Trans Am cars or GT cars, ran with the Grand National Series (Cup Series) at the very first Talladega race in 1969 after a driver boycott and walkout left only 3 drivers to race and then again in 1971 at small paying short tracks where they were used as field fillers, and then the Cup drivers had a massive issue with it. As well as NASCAR having Multiclass racing in the 50s with Grand National and the Convertible Series running together and in the 90s with the Busch North Series running with the Busch Series. And IndyCar during the first split between USAC and Cart where the 1981 USAC Pocono race they allowed Silver Crown Sprint Cars to race alongside the USAC IndyCars. Imagine those same series doing something similar today to increase field sizes.

And to think, Ascari isn’t the only driver to end up in the harbor. In 1965, Aussie Paul Hawkins duplicated Ascari’s aquatic escapade and emerged unhurt after his own unscheduled immersion in the harbor. He was driving a Lotus.

Greta video, respectful and informative

can you do a bit on francois cevert at the glen

Ignazio Giunti's fatal collision with Jean-Pierre Beltoise could be interesting case to future episode

Three kiwis in the same race and they were in the top 5 . Never knew that.

I had that Grand Prix Legends game. Trouble is the Packard Bell PC with its intel celeron processor I had at the time wasn't powerful enough to run it so I'd play it (Using my keyboard and mouse) until the game inevitably crashed. Also, I have The Encyclopedia Of Formula1 that I got as a Christmas present in 1996. Damon Hill, world champion that year, is on the cover. The section on the 1967 world championship has a black and white photo of Bandini's crash at Monaco.

I've used that season as thought experiment for years. What is the least you could spend on a modern street car that could win a 1967 F1 race completely stock other than open rules on tires?

Nope, you did it again. I didn't know about the 'copter.

Actually, winning the Championship with 2 race wins was fairly common in those days. Hawthorne won 1 race in 1958. Brabham won 2 in 1959 as did Phil Hill in 1961, and Surtees in 1964. Finally, Rosberg won a single race in 1982, a season as terrible for accidents as the ones in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Nice Marshall Head. What model is it?

Lets get no downforce racing back to the main stage. big motors, big tyres, and big balls.

Any chance of doing a video on the anchor that was the BRM H16 engine?

@3.37 Ferrari's 3.0 V12 wasn't producing anywhere near 350 bhp in 1966. Ferrari's lead driver John Surtees often stated that his 312 in '66 probably only had around 250/260 bhp. Ferrari were famous for exaggerating their bhp output in the '50's & 60's.

This was the version of Monaco replicated in Grand Prix Legends and by modders over the years as well as in the 1966 film Grand Prix. Which would not get made today, but the story of how that film got made is awesome though EDIT: Found the Ferrari book I was looking for, it has Enzo's reaction as roughly, No. Not Bandini when he saw the crash, and the photo of the crash IIRC was widely reprinted as well. The crash scarred Enzo as well, the book I got states it was a reason why there were fewer Italian drivers in Ferrari over the years but I'm not sure how much truth there is to that?

In the US, I recall highlights of this race was telecasted on ABC-TV "Wide World of Sports" on the following Saturday. I can still vividly recall the film footage of the crash, especially seeing the workers extracting Bandini from his Ferrari, laying him down on the pavement, then they focused on the fire with extinguishers; then a secondary fire erupted, which put Bandini into flames, but it took the workers several seconds before realizing Bandini was on fire, then the flames were extinguished. I recall when viewing this on TV that family members were yelling at the TV for the carelessness of the workers putting their attention on the fire instead of on Bandini. The technology didn't exist back then to blur the film imagine of what appeared to be a lifeless Bandini laying on the pavement, catching fire after being extracted from his car.

Paul Hawkins also crashed into the water at Monaco in 1966, I think.

In the video of the crash it looks like they skipped the part of the impact. Is it like that or did it really just happen this fast?

If you haven't already, do Mexico 1964. If you have reply to this comment with a link to it

2:45 Point of order, the US was also working on a supersonic jetliner with the Boeing 2707 winning the contract over the Lockheed L-2000, the the 2707 was actually slated to hold over double the passengers of the Concorde. Ultimately of course it never flew especially after it lost federal funding in 1971, but it was absolutely in development alongside the others.

I could be mistaking this for another story, but I think Bandini's wife was also pregnant during the race weekend and suffered a miscarriage at the same hospital Bandini died in.

Lockheed engineers having finished a piece of the C5-A cargo plane, would start designing race cars. I bet those of Douglas, Boeing, etc did the same.

Poor Bandini, there are no nice ways to go but that way has to be one of the worst - I can't imagine a more horrible way to die. On a more positive note, Well There's Your Problem have episodes on Rhodesia and supersonic airliners (Concorde, Concordeski and the planned American equivalents), both of which are well worth checking out. Which brings me to the real issue - that photo of Concorde credited as "Aiden Millward". Did you really get to see the lady of the skies flying that low? Holy shit!

What was the track length of 67s Monaco?

There is video of Bandini's crash. You don't want to watch it.

Why did they stop doing 100 lap races

Bandini is one of those accidents involving fire (with Schlechter and Williamson) that I shut my eyes at instantly. On a separate note... I have caught myself calling Charles Leclerc "Chris Amon"...

And yet Stewart never boycotted Monaco...

Ferrari lost both drivers in like 2 races.

Did they not have Nomex then? I’m pretty sure that my father, a pilot in Vietnam, wore Nomex bits in his flight kit at that time.

Keke has less 1982

The English we’re losing their grip on f1? The British weren’t though as Clark and Stewart were there

During 1960's only short range heat-seeking air to air missiles were fire and forget (and not really reliable), medium range radar guide air to air missiles were "semi-active" i.e. the fighter's radar must maintain lock on the target, even it able to done, the reliability was even worse, especially at humid sky over Vietnam.

Calling Tu-144 a copy of the Concord is the same as calling one F1 car a copy of another, sheer stupidity.

Do not ever put a 1980s Formula 1 1.5 liter turbo engine in the 1960s 1.5 liter atmo racecar... Unless you want many people to have pairs of dirty underwear.

Senhor não engane o público!!! Falou falou e nada de vídeos sobre o tema...KKKKKKKKKKK Ridículo

I really do like your channel but please talk a bit slower. Watching your videos and trying to keep up with your narratives is a bit of work mate.

You talk of the sanitised nature of F1 in your lifetime vs. your dads but to put it into perspective, if safety standards hadn't changed: Verstappen = Dead (Silverstone 2021) Perez = Probably dead, definitely crippled (Monaco 2011) Leclerc = Dead (Monza 2020) Sainz = Probably crippled (Russia 2015) Hamilton = Dead (Monza 2021) Russel = Alive Gasly = Alive Ocon = Alive Norris = Dead (Spa 2021) Piastri = Alive Bottas = Dead (Austria 2019) Zhou = Dead (Silverstone 2022) Alonso = Dead (Australia 2016) Stroll = Dead (Mugello 2020) Magnussen = Dead (Spa 2016) Hulkenberg = Crippled (Australia 2010) Tsunoda = Alive DeVries = Alive Albon = Alive Sargeant = Alive (*Assuming early 70s safety standards - no tecpro barriers, no HANS, no HALO and no driver safety cell)