Patrick Depailler at Montreal in Tyrrell 008

[FlyingBoxHead]

Real racing was 40 years ago huh?Twats.

[Khandricar]

Car control at its best. We'll always remember you Patrick. RIP.

[Avcneto]

I'm brazilian. I mean: Telemetria=Telemetry. My 10 top drivers in my opinion: Ayrton Senna (the best of all time), Juan M. Fangio, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, G. Villeneuve, Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansel, Alain Prost, Ronnie Peterson and Nelson Piquet.

[Avcneto]

Today, the F-1 is just a video game, where the drivers don't have work some to drive the cars. The computers do it for them. Telemetria, control traction, ABS brakes, gear box automatic, "butterflies" in wheel, etc...In 2010, Lewis Hamilton directed the Mclaren from Ayrton Senna (1988) at Silverstone. He said: "I can't believe how he (Senna) driving this car just with one of hands at Monaco, making the pole position 1,5s ahead Prost." Yeah, today no exist drivers like before (1950 until 1994).

[sennaswilliams]

@Avcneto ABS brakes in a F1 car?? Yes, of course. And a Harman Kardon stereo system too.. XD

[MrNitto46]

one of the greatest on board camera.just amazing

[TifosiAlonso]

Great onboard, thanks for uploading. Patrick was a very brave and talented driver. One of my all time favorites.

[MusicVideoJudge1]

Balls the size of milk jugs...

[L420licious]

I'd like to see Vettel drift an F1 car like that.. its not even possible with today's computers and electronics

[nickeroo]

1 dislike by someone too pissed to focus on the like button!?

[maurizio864]

1:52 min incredible drift !!!

[27titanik]

@maurizio864

look at 4:02 ..

[barelybang]

As Dick Johnson would say "He's got about as much grip as a dog on lino". Doesn't waste no time giving it some curry on his out lap! AWESOME!

[nickeroo]

Amazing. Look how he has to fight that car all the way around even on the straight the wheels are spinning up. Very few men in the world can tame a beast like that, and Depailler makes it look easy!

[evofreak1304]

why don't they just use these cars if they wanna spend less money lol , would be a lote more exciting.

[lordlingcp]

guys... im in love...

[atledreier]

They even go out on the wet! They'd have closed that track in 2010. It's like they are driving on an ocean! :-D

[niels007007]

One dislike, who on earth can not either laugh / cry / get sexualy aroused / suffer a stroke, or all of these things at the same time when seeing Depailler sideways back in the days where F1 cars where so awesome!:D

[RemcoHitman]

@niels007007: all of the above here :)

[dvagos46]

this is formula not today playstation

[supratt2jzgte]

This is really one of the best videos on youtube.

[madam94]

4.06 ooh i love it, 5 seconds of powersliding!

[man710r]

If you put modern drivers in these cars you would soon find that a different bunch of guys would be faster than others - smooth intelligent drivers like Button wouldn't do as well as hot-heads like Alonso etc. At least until the hot-heads die in a a huge fireball - these cars were not safe. What F1 needs is cars that are as safe as they are now but as raw as they were in the 70's and 80's.

[juansdf1]

@man710r I totally agree, can you imagine kubica for example driving with an R30 with a turbo Renault engine of more tahn 1500 HP?

[gturner38]

@man710r The whole idea of hotheads beating the smooth intelligent drivers sounds great until you realize that Stewart won three championships and Gilles VIlleneuve won 6 races. Even if we only count Jackie's first 67 races to keep the number of starts equal, he more than doubled GV's wins. If the cars handled like they did in the 70s and 80s, we could be looking at Button as this generation's Prost.

[man710r]

@gturner38 You have a good point there. Jackie in fairness was an amazing driver AND a genius and combined the two to not only survive, but also win. Gilles had possibly more brawn and maybe less tactical finesse than Stewart. It is also worth noting GV's worse retirement record (28 out of 67) and that the Ferraris he drove during his time were by no means the easiest cars to drive in the field.

[MegaBallai]

He's a real racer, with VERY NICE REFLEXS

[vallejokid1968]

There were maybe two times when he was hard on the throttle and he wasn't getting massive wheel spin. I wish I could have seen these guys race.

[marauding16]

the reason why older cars look alot more out of control is because they were- today's F1 cars operate fully and tidily at the top- whereas older had a LOT of room for manoever- they were built with alot of play, not to the mechanised speciality of today. agreed F1 should be much less about safety and more about the fastest way to get around a track, but we will never get back to the awesome displays that we saw even only 15-20 years ago

[bichut]

this is insane but the fact is that any modern f1 driver could do the same thing. Dont be stupid by saying they cant. at this level of racing, there are very little differences in driving skills.

[rvd431]

what the name of this show i remember seeing it before

[CAPTinsano77]

Lap of the gods

[JRRacing85]

THAT is real driving by a REAL racer. By watching this - you can see all the problems with F1 today. Safe tracks, safe vehicles and robotised cars.

[Boblina]

Yeah, god forbid they have a better chance of surviving a crash. You're trying to tell me that improved safety is a problem? Please. Yes, these cars were harder to drive, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't take skill or nerve to drive a modern F1 car.

[PJ2436]

@JRRacing85 well, the ydon't want the drivers to die, now do they?

if F1 never got safe, it would've gotten a cease and desist order decades ago.

[jeanclaude780]

@JRRacing85 Ok so you would like to see pilots die on a track...

Of course that was fantastic and pilots were brave but now, i m happy to see that the last pilot who died in F1 was in 1994.

Well fantastic laps by Depailler ^^ RIP

[Violetcrime]

@JRRacing85 I don't know if Ayrton Senna would have agreed with that or not... given his push for race safety immediately before he died, it is not hard to see why it was taken to the extreme. I bet he'd agree about the computerized cars, but course safety I'm pretty sure he'd adamantly disagree.

Every decade had seen at least four F1 fatalities (2 in the 90's) until Senna died in '94; not a singe death since. While it takes a certain edge away from the sport, I wouldn't count it against F1.

[cerbaiolo]

Beati coloro che hanno vissuto quell'epoca,la VERA formula 1.

[tano27gilles]

Semplicemente fantastico.

Vorrei ringraziare tutti coloro che hanno aggiunto elettronica, traction control e tutte le diavolerie elettroniche...questo spettacolo non lo vedremo più!

[Folgard]

Quanto hai ragione!!! Che rabbia che fa!

[franneck1989]

amazing!

[vrema]

This is real racing. Now they all sounds like sewing machines and it looks like a videogame when you watch onboard camera. RIP Patrick D and Ronnie P. Real racedrivers

[stuartthe]

This shows fantastic car control in tretchurous conditions

[iamthestigsixsixsix]

Amazing driving. Simply amazing. I would love to see how modern-day drivers cope with these kind of conditions in a bare car, for lack of better words. If they had no driver aids or anything in the Fuji GP 2 years ago, I bet they would not have coped the way Patrick did. I mean, he's STILL going flat out while he's aqua-plaining and sliding all over the place. He would put a D1 drifter to shame!

[Tacococunomuro]

Great Old Montréal!!

[lorydc90]

è il mio idolo

[guillermo968]

right on 1.58 or so hes sliding and steps on it again, hes awesome no one owuld drive in f1 like that these days

[brusnabullet]

great stuff .. the boyz of today would never put it up the these men.. real racing ...no driver aids ... just skill

[IceManNavigator]

simpler times no technology aids crap, just a driver a steering wheel and an engine deciding who was best

[hyperwhizzkid]

This is just amazing! A real brave driver, in a proper car, on a fabulous track. Oh thanks Bernie Ecclestone for wrecking all that was great about F1 just to make you billions.

[Tactical300]

Man, this video NEVER gets old. Notice something new and impressive every time.

Check out the 2:34 mark; as he exits the hairpin, he gets wheelspin as usual, but he's so comfortable in the car that he has the mental capacity to look to the side or into his mirror while sliding out of the turn.

RIP Patrick; Your driving skills will never be forgotten.

[NewYankee01]

4.46 im suprised that didnt catch him out the most

[NewYankee01]

just shows you the braveness of this is a person comments "he's showboating"!

[fullmontymechanic]

This is why they were heroes and todays drivers aren't. Too many aids. Fingers crossed that the changes this year give us back the cream of the crop. Flatout in standing water on slicks. You lad!

[leone7227]

Can you say "opposite lock"?

Great stuff!

[jregley]

Shame he was killed in a racing accident. This is great footage. Wet weather experts like Depailler, Senna, Alesi (my favorite driver- had fastest wet qualifying time in the wet in Spain in 1992 in that attrocious Ferrari F92A!), etc. amazed me.

Hopefully we get some more troublesome conditions for F1. Make them drive like real drivers and not relying on Traction Control.

I carted a few times in the wet and even at those much lower speeds it was insane. Depailler at these speeds is a master.

[kfs025]

patrick was one of my favourite drivers.

[PZesco]

How to drive a car in wet conditions!!! Nice video!

[kfs025]

brave driver wasnt he?

[mickeynismocat]

It's called Balls my friend! Big Brass ones!

[deggis4]

Depailler in this video: "yeah, it is little slippery"

Coulthard in 2008: "Oh, no they'll be taking away my TC" *tears*

[mickeynismocat]

Makes you wonder where F1 is going these days??? These where the real drivers! And the real cars!!

[roswell1965]

Holy Mother Of God... I'm crapping my pants watching this!

[NathanF11989]

Fantastic driving by Patrick. This is what I love to see. For me, the '70s, '80s and '90s will always be Formula 1's finest decades.

[davegws]

Well, this year should be more like this if we get we weather in F1, NO TC! :D

[davegws]

I meant wet weather no we weather. :P

[brrodes]

What have you got against T's?!

[GazBoffin]

At 4:10, when he is rounding a bend, look at how much countersteer he has to employ to keep the car under controll, three words...pure....driving.....sk­ill.

[enzo102]

love the sound of the engine running !!! great driving !!!

[6ensible]

BRUTAL !

[mattcrash69]

now thats driving

[sharonna76]

outstanding, back to the good old days.

[ferrariicemankimi]

couldn't have been done better

[FDXr]

Real F1

[imbok]

I wonder how well today's drivers would drive an old Tyrrell 008 in wet conditions like that?

[stefangpl]

Just Patrick!

[skyy72]

YES! back to the tims when Race was dangerous & Sex was safe!

..thanX 4 sharing!

[abarth59]

Patrick Depailler was one of the great French F1 drivers from the 1970's. Quite small in stature but absolutely fearless in F1 car. He never really had an opportunity that suited his immense talent.

Critically injured in a hang gliding accident late in his career, he faught his way through rehab and back into an F1 car.

He was killed at Hockenheim in 1980 at the wheel of an Alfa-Romeo after suspension failure pitched him into the Armco barriers at one of the fastest turns on the course.

[darylz07]

@tactical

DUDE THIS IS F1; only 30 years ago. Great video

bellxl where du you get this sort of movies? They're great!

[Tactical300]

Yeah, definitely an awesome video. Sad thing is that you don't see that kind of driving in F1. Its pretty extraordinary how well he controls the throttle with the steering wheel.

[willyloops]

wet,and no traction control like today madels.

This is real driving,too dangerous for us.

[ferrariicemankimi]

i can imagine kimi and lewis driving that without traction control.. their style depends on a set up with the least traction control possible

[willyloops]

I can imagine them in a F1 like that F1 era too,but crashing.

[ferrariicemankimi]

you never know..

[willyloops]

Come on,look at that car,and compare it with a actual one.

Kimi and Lewis,they,in the only thinking about drive a car without a carbon fiber protection "jail",without actual aerodinamics and all electrical systems to get the car in the road,manual shifting,in wet conditions,,come on,,Kimi and Lewis only with think about that,was going runnin crying to their mamas.

[Autan4]

Eheheh

[mickeynismocat]

I think you would be surprised, They have driven plenty of cars without aids too you realise!!???? I can only imagine you driving it lol!!

[legacyturbo]

The car control displayed there is amazing. I wish modern F1 was as interesting as it was then. Thanks for sharing this video.

[Autan4]

Finally I can see it complete. Thank you so much

[westsidelinde]

Great video!