note also what scary at 2.16 with the alerion hitting near the head of that vehicle. fortunately there was no fire as at that time, a pile up of f1 cars at lap one were actually a fuel bomb.
@el0375 the "aileron" flying was Scheckter's wing, ripped off because, while others were braking hard all around, his teammate Peter Revson kept his accelerator foot hard on it, slicing through a narrow gap and hitting the appendage. I believe the flying part then knocked off James Hunt's airbox before landing.
@leach1527 If I ever take over Silverstone, not only will that girly, sissy Woodcote chicane be destroyed, but I'll have the curve banked. They'll then enter Copse at 220 mph! ! :-D
Jackie Stewart was as good as ever in his last season, and he surely had some good years in him left. The thing was he had promised his wife to stop racing after the 1973 season, and he knew very well that pressing ones luck in those days could result in death or serious injury.
Also he was instrumental in the safety improvements of the day. Before that it was accepted that Grand Prix racing was a dangerous sport and accidents happened. In hindsight it's crazy to think that's ok.
@McLarenMercedes Complete Rubbish. Jackie was physically exhausted from racing F1 and over in America, he felt he wasn't up to it any more and decided to retire, he never told his wife of his decision to retire because he didn't want her to be counting down the races before retirement.
However he retired as the most successful driver in F1 with 27 wins, and indeed had nothing more to prove. His record wasn't broken until 1987 by Alain Prost, who took his 28'th win in Portugal.
I also believe his Tyrrell wasn't as good as the Lotus 72E, driven by two time world champion Emerson Fittipaldi (although he had only 1 title in 1973) and the lightning fast Ronnie Peterson (9 pole positions in 1973 and the most laps led).
Stewart won the '73 title with two races to spare, and made relatively easy work of his highly regarded (in my opinion overrated) team mate Cevert. If not for his gastritis and some mechanical failure he'd probably win the '72 title as well. Mechanical failure robbed him of the '68 title as well
Although I wish Peterson had won the '73 title, I know Peterson was just naturally fast but not a technical driver like Stewart was
Ecclestone asked Stewart to make a comeback in the late 70's
@stevemgb1 On restart Peterson, now wise to Jackie's speed, was more prepared to keep him behind. Jackie tried passing again but gearchange cockup made him spin off and fall way behind. USA's own Peter Revson, on top form in his McLaren-Ford, reeled in the leaders, went ahead, and won. For other great Youtubes of this event: search "stewart peterson small" for Jackie and Ronnie laughing during intermission, and "peter revson interview' for Peter's post-race comments.
@stevemgb1 The winner was the American McLaren driver Peter Revson. Bit of a sad story, Revson's, though he lived the life of a playboy, wealthy beyond dreams with beautiful women around him. The British GP was his first win and he won again at Mosport in Canada later that year. He had the talent to go a long way and by this time he was an elite driver. He died in a Shadow Ford at Kyalami in 1974, just as he was at the peak of his powers.
I still don't understand this accident. Why did Scheckter get broadsided? There was ample time to get the waved yellow flags out and plenty of marshals there to see what had happened to do it. It seems an avoidable incident to me.
Great stuff!!Loved it! What a crash and ensuing pile-up with Jody Schekter and the rest.Great drama. Nice driving by the great Jacky Stewart before that, trying to win on home turf of course.
This isn't an F1 race, it's a demolition derby!! Love the photographers stood at the edge of the track at the start - one wheel-touch and they're all wiped out. Not forgetting all those who stormed the track after the pile-up. Who was in charge of F1 in the early 70s - Charles Manson?
this is fantastic stuff to watch, really exciting. good old racing on a good old track.
it's ridiculous how they changed all the old tracks, which give the best racing to new ones with so much run off area and space that the race loses interest a couple laps in...
You'd be forgiven for assuming that 36 years ago, the cars would have been a lot slower... but they're fucking rockets, man! Listen to the engines! They make the modern whistlers in Formula 1 today sound like souped-up mopeds! That sound is raw!
Loving the comments so far. Only health and safety obsessed arseholes from 2009 would rip apart the standards of Formula 1 from 1973. If it was happening today, then you'd be entitled to complain. But it's not. So just shut up and watch the video. ^_^
Please, in 1973 they already had over 500 hp in the 3,0 litre engines in cars weighing little over 1100 Ib's (500kg), which meant the power to weight ratio still was twice as good as any other supercar made today.
Top speeds over 190mph were clocked in the early 70's.
I know the Auto Union and Mercedes streamliners. Actually that didn't classify as a "real" Grand Prix race back then, since the streamliners weren't allowed to compete in the official races to my knowledge. Besides, the heavier engines meant the tyres had to be changed more often than for the open wheeled cars, one of which actually won the race.
Can-Am in the early 70's was very fast too. Porsche 917-30 in 1973 I say no more
What a dickless second paragraph! Is that why Sterling Moss fell out with Jackie Stewart back then 'cos JS was instrumental in getting much needed safety standards into F1? JS knew something had to be done. Career drivers in his time had a 67% chance of being killed! But if the likes of Sterling Moss had had his way, that figure would have been higher and maybe F1 would have been banned as a result. So in your eyes, Moss must have thought Stewart was a "health and safety obsessed arsehole" too.
That doesn't even make sense, "a 67% chance of being killed." o_O
67% of what? 67% of the drivers died during every race, and only 33% made it through alive? Hahaha. And YOU'VE got the audacity to call MY post dickless.
All you do is spoil the sport with mad "health-and-safety" rules. If it was something that they were FORCED into doing, then feel free to water it down and make it "safer." But seeing as they CHOSE to do it, let them take the risks. They all know what the deal is. Shut up. *_*
And it's got nothing to do with being spoilsports. It's about preserving human life, while keeping the sport as exciting as possible. Jacques Villeneuve gets a buzz from crashing, and probably an equal buzz from walking away. I think you'll find Jochen Rindt, Piers Courage, Roger Williamson, Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, Jo Siffert, Wolfgang von Trips, Bob Anderson, Lorenzo Bandini, Francois Cevert, Jo Schlesser & John Taylor all had families who wished the sport had been just that bit safer.
And before you start ripping on the 67% stat again, I saw it on an F1 programme some years back. Probably relates to the years 1950-1970 or thereabouts. Not sure if included the likes of Jim Clark or Bruce McLaren who died away from F1.
Are you on drugs, boss? Search Wikipedia for "List Of F1 Fatal Accidents." There were 15 in the 1950s, 12 in the 1960s, 10 in the 1970s, 4 in the 1980s and 2 in the 1990s.
A total of 43 have died in 59 years. Not even one per year.
So, based on your "1950s to 1970s" shit (we'll go for the 1960s then, to be fair) - 12 died in ten years. Using your "two-out-of-three" rule, there were only 18 drivers in THE WHOLE TEN YEAR PERIOD between 1960 and 1969 (inclusive)?
Are you completely fucking retarded, you dipshit dopey cunt? I see you conveniently included the deaths from the 80s & 90s when it was much safer. The programme I saw was about the Clark era, and as I said I've no idea how they broke the figures down, but it was an official F1 docu, so why make that stuff up? In your own fucked-up, warped bedsit world, you hold some deluded theory that Jackie Stewart had no reason at all to want to make things safer. Keep it coming, shithead, I'm enjoying this.
You know a man's desperate when he starts flinging insults at you by the bucketload. Calm down, chief. You fucking retarded, dipshit dopey cunt shithead with a deluded theory.
Yes, I included all the deaths, but averaged it in the 60s (seeing as you said 50s to 70s). Fine, then, let's go 1951 - 1979. 37 deaths. I suppose there were only 55 drivers total in the 29-year period? I doubt it. More like hundreds. If not thousands.
Don't cry just because I proved your shitty little statistic wrong.
Was. Left Camberwell in 2001, when I was 15. Live in the Midlands now. What's that got to do with anything, anyway? Are we mates now, lol? Or are you trying to hunt me down...?!?! o_O
Possibly, just possibly, you're some prick who goes hunting people down over YouTube comments.
Possibly, well, no, probably - you're just a prick.
If you want the information, why would you tell me "I'm giving away too much?" Why not just keep your trap shut and let me spill?
It's not hard to Google "Camberwell" and come up with "you're close to Brunswick Park." Now you know I'm in the Midlands, I'm surprised you haven't gone, "you're close to Wales, aren't you?"
Where do you DJ? Why do you spend hours posting on the web? Which is your favourite instrument, guitar or drums? Why are you so unpopular? Are you a good DJ? How much do you charge? Why do you like UFC? What's your favourite Arctic Monkeys track? Why are you online Xmas Day? Do you not have a family? A girlfriend?
Get the fuck off my channel, and stop analysing my favourite videos and giving me poxy little questionnaires to fill in, you amateur psychologist/pervert. How, what, where, why, which. Silly, sad bastard.
And why would they make a statistic like that up? All statistics like that are made up, son, lol. Welcome to the real world. "You're 143 times more likely to die on your way to the airport in a car than on the plane itself..." I bet you buy all that shit as well. CharlieChutney has a 98% chance of a posting comeback containing bollocks. There's another statistic you can add to your repertoire of useless facts.
More boxers died between 1951 and 1979. Why don't you go post shit on boxing videos?
Gimme some body roll baby! Fantastic. Love it. I was such an F1 fan in those days that watching the old school stuff like this brings back so many memories.
...those folk casually taking pics on the apex at Copse at the start sum up the era - and the 70s in particular - neatly.
Back then, Silverstone wasn't as challenging as it is now.
Up until 1973 (which is the year this race took place) It had 8 corners where as the Silverstone now has 17 corners. This was the last race that took place on the 2nd Silverstone (the original was almost the same except the pits were where the Farm Straight is.) It was basically a roundabout with a hump at the northernmost part of the track. And it's amazing people are standing less than 2 feet from the edge of the track in this race.
When reviewing footage like this you have to say thank god that nobody got killed (unlike some of the other incidents that year) and that F1 now has so many safety measures in place.
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Stewart showed his greatness on that lap, the way he passed Peterson at Beckett's, the amazing way he took Woodcote. He'd definitely have won by miles without the crash. Revson my arse !
The commentator is Raymond Baxter.He was a fighter pilot in the RAF during the second world war.I think that may be why he wasn't as excitable as Murray Walker , because he had experienced far more dangerous situations than those faced by F1 drivers. Still , you can't beat Murray for sheer entertainment.
The way Stewart took Woodcote in one long glorious drift...fantastic, that's what you call car control. Scheckter was so lucky not to get injured in that pile-up, good job he wasn't facing the traffic when the first car hit him or the outcome could've been very different.
It was a great time... Back then was a 3-2-3-2-3 starting grid... But look to photographers taking pictures on the first corner - and the crowd of people that entered at the track after the crash... Things weren't safe and organized back then.
Tilke for all his sins has never touched Silverstone. The circuit put in a chicane at Woodcote after that crash, then created a further revamp to the Chicane in 1987, the current layout (roughly) was made in 1991 with arevision in 1994, non of it was Tilke
I watched this from just opposite the start/finish line and it was horific! As Stewart came round for the next lap there seemed to be no one ready to warn him of what was ahead, and he was approaching at the same incredible speed as he had at the end of the first lap. It was terrifying.
oh yeah, exception for Kimi and a few others who are passionate. but for the most part they suck. this is amazing footage, F1's glory days, it's wonderful how humble and rustic the circuit is, today's pampered F1 prima donnas think they're fucking royalty and demand horrible, "flashy" but ultimately sterile circuits like Bahrain, Sepang, etc...
i reckon Stewart's start here was as good as Senna's at Donington 1n 1993. Peterson afterwards couldn't believe Jackie's speed at Becketts. Also, wasn't Raymond Baxter a useless commentator.
@ysgol2 no i don't agree ysgol2...raymond baxter in my opinion was very good....his voice graced many a broadcast and if he was not up to the job he would not have got the job.
@bigbreadeaterellis Fair enough, but if you listen to what he says he doesn't know who anyone is, and who's Yody Scheckter ?? He couldn'et even be bothered to check pronunciation !!! Anyway Merry Xmas.
@bigbreadeaterellis Fair enough, but if you listen to what he says he doesn't know who anyone is, and who's Yody Scheckter ?? He couldn'tt even be bothered to check pronunciation !!! Anyway Merry Xmas.
What makes me laugh is that at the first corner after the start, a photographer is virtually standing on the apex of Copse with no regard for his life. it's amazing what people did back then. Pure grass run off, shabby flag waving, people along trackside in the grass. Just madness.
Awesome footage but, Jesus Christ, Stewart is coming out of that last corner full bore with people all over the course - good thing he was able to brake in time or this could've turned into a massacre.
its no miracle. the drivers were better then. they used their skill to avoid crashing. today's drivers aren't as skilful, or committed, or passionate, and they know the very worst thing that can happen to them is a broken leg.
Brilliant video! This was the year I first got interested in motor racing. So dangerous! People standing on the track, only grass for run off, and then solid banking to hit. Absolute heroes all of them.
I fondly remember those days. Jody arrived as instant frontrunner ala Lewis Hamilton BUT he was considered wildly reckless, with tail-out broadslides, not beautifully controlled drifts like Jackie's coming out of Woodcote. Jody later calmed down fulfilled his destiny, becoming World Champion. See his biography at Wikipedia: a very multi-talented guy indeed.
Wow!! - what a great bit of footage!.What the hell were those people thinking! standing right on the track at copse corner?!!.And the man doing the commentary Raymond Baxter! he was a real mans man! - legend or what!!.
The drivers biggist fear back then was a fuel fire!.
I know they were all brave then, drivers and spectators but i suppose they didn't know anything different. I bet in 30 years time people will be looking at the races today and thinking the same thing!
nice to hear BRM
thisusersuck 1 month ago
Was that Roger Williamson spinning off on debut at 2:11?
gnarkillkicksass 4 months ago
@gnarkillkicksass No, that was Jody Scheckter.
TheRacer120 3 months ago
The drivers then had bigger balls than today.....
symustafa1996 6 months ago
note also what scary at 2.16 with the alerion hitting near the head of that vehicle. fortunately there was no fire as at that time, a pile up of f1 cars at lap one were actually a fuel bomb.
el0375 7 months ago
@el0375 the "aileron" flying was Scheckter's wing, ripped off because, while others were braking hard all around, his teammate Peter Revson kept his accelerator foot hard on it, slicing through a narrow gap and hitting the appendage. I believe the flying part then knocked off James Hunt's airbox before landing.
unwindout 6 months ago
Such a different era of racing. Drivers really had to be brave back then. Marshals too for that matter.
Rosvolainen 8 months ago
I remember the incident well.
Good to see the old Silverstone before it got hacked about in the name of progress.
leach1527 8 months ago
@leach1527 If I ever take over Silverstone, not only will that girly, sissy Woodcote chicane be destroyed, but I'll have the curve banked. They'll then enter Copse at 220 mph! ! :-D
unwindout 6 months ago
I think this guy commentated well. Better than James Allen, for sure
BobAndGeorgia02 9 months ago
How did this massive pile up ( fortunately ) make only one minor injury is still a mistery 28 years on...
dumiel 11 months ago
gdh1981
can you do some dvd copies of these for me?
bigbreadeaterellis 1 year ago
the good old formula one days, amazing different body styles... not so many politics... and many open teams...
240SSONLY 1 year ago
Jackie Stewart was as good as ever in his last season, and he surely had some good years in him left. The thing was he had promised his wife to stop racing after the 1973 season, and he knew very well that pressing ones luck in those days could result in death or serious injury.
Also he was instrumental in the safety improvements of the day. Before that it was accepted that Grand Prix racing was a dangerous sport and accidents happened. In hindsight it's crazy to think that's ok.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
@McLarenMercedes Complete Rubbish. Jackie was physically exhausted from racing F1 and over in America, he felt he wasn't up to it any more and decided to retire, he never told his wife of his decision to retire because he didn't want her to be counting down the races before retirement.
kgr00 10 months ago
@kgr00
Part of it maybe. The not telling his wife part.
However he retired as the most successful driver in F1 with 27 wins, and indeed had nothing more to prove. His record wasn't broken until 1987 by Alain Prost, who took his 28'th win in Portugal.
I also believe his Tyrrell wasn't as good as the Lotus 72E, driven by two time world champion Emerson Fittipaldi (although he had only 1 title in 1973) and the lightning fast Ronnie Peterson (9 pole positions in 1973 and the most laps led).
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
@kgr00
Stewart won the '73 title with two races to spare, and made relatively easy work of his highly regarded (in my opinion overrated) team mate Cevert. If not for his gastritis and some mechanical failure he'd probably win the '72 title as well. Mechanical failure robbed him of the '68 title as well
Although I wish Peterson had won the '73 title, I know Peterson was just naturally fast but not a technical driver like Stewart was
Ecclestone asked Stewart to make a comeback in the late 70's
McLarenMercedes 10 months ago
Jackie Stewart has been by far the fastest, safest and most professional driver in the whole history of motor racing.
stefanorso 1 year ago 3
who won the race?? was it jackie stewart?
stevemgb1 1 year ago
@stevemgb1 On restart Peterson, now wise to Jackie's speed, was more prepared to keep him behind. Jackie tried passing again but gearchange cockup made him spin off and fall way behind. USA's own Peter Revson, on top form in his McLaren-Ford, reeled in the leaders, went ahead, and won. For other great Youtubes of this event: search "stewart peterson small" for Jackie and Ronnie laughing during intermission, and "peter revson interview' for Peter's post-race comments.
unwindout 1 year ago
@stevemgb1 The winner was the American McLaren driver Peter Revson. Bit of a sad story, Revson's, though he lived the life of a playboy, wealthy beyond dreams with beautiful women around him. The British GP was his first win and he won again at Mosport in Canada later that year. He had the talent to go a long way and by this time he was an elite driver. He died in a Shadow Ford at Kyalami in 1974, just as he was at the peak of his powers.
Camerameister 1 year ago
Scheckter took out the entire Surtees team... John must not have been happy! O_O
hmdwgf 1 year ago
Still a good commentator, he also notices details during the race.
Fastbikkel 1 year ago
@Fastbikkel he commentated many years afterwards, it's ESPN Classic..Raymond Baxter commentated live in the 60s
blackls99 1 year ago
I still don't understand this accident. Why did Scheckter get broadsided? There was ample time to get the waved yellow flags out and plenty of marshals there to see what had happened to do it. It seems an avoidable incident to me.
RickMoonbeam 1 year ago
Great stuff!!Loved it! What a crash and ensuing pile-up with Jody Schekter and the rest.Great drama. Nice driving by the great Jacky Stewart before that, trying to win on home turf of course.
Drizzleshizzle772 2 years ago
lineing up three wide on the grid.never happen today
hissingsidney 2 years ago
Good, no-bullshit (relatively) times.
ceeam 2 years ago
This isn't an F1 race, it's a demolition derby!! Love the photographers stood at the edge of the track at the start - one wheel-touch and they're all wiped out. Not forgetting all those who stormed the track after the pile-up. Who was in charge of F1 in the early 70s - Charles Manson?
charliechutney 2 years ago
Pile ups were normal in the 70s till the mid-late 80s.
Some were notorious pile up tracks.
darkoneforce2 2 years ago
this is fantastic stuff to watch, really exciting. good old racing on a good old track.
it's ridiculous how they changed all the old tracks, which give the best racing to new ones with so much run off area and space that the race loses interest a couple laps in...
creatyve 2 years ago
3:12 the guys standing in the leaking fuel
T1carus 2 years ago
It is one of the reasons they changed the Woodcote corner.
alphabetaxenonzzzcat 2 years ago
You'd be forgiven for assuming that 36 years ago, the cars would have been a lot slower... but they're fucking rockets, man! Listen to the engines! They make the modern whistlers in Formula 1 today sound like souped-up mopeds! That sound is raw!
Loving the comments so far. Only health and safety obsessed arseholes from 2009 would rip apart the standards of Formula 1 from 1973. If it was happening today, then you'd be entitled to complain. But it's not. So just shut up and watch the video. ^_^
Camberwell86 2 years ago
Please, in 1973 they already had over 500 hp in the 3,0 litre engines in cars weighing little over 1100 Ib's (500kg), which meant the power to weight ratio still was twice as good as any other supercar made today.
Top speeds over 190mph were clocked in the early 70's.
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 2 years ago
Type AVUS 1937 to see pinnacle of Grand Prix speed.
darkoneforce2 2 years ago
I know the Auto Union and Mercedes streamliners. Actually that didn't classify as a "real" Grand Prix race back then, since the streamliners weren't allowed to compete in the official races to my knowledge. Besides, the heavier engines meant the tyres had to be changed more often than for the open wheeled cars, one of which actually won the race.
Can-Am in the early 70's was very fast too. Porsche 917-30 in 1973 I say no more
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 2 years ago
What a dickless second paragraph! Is that why Sterling Moss fell out with Jackie Stewart back then 'cos JS was instrumental in getting much needed safety standards into F1? JS knew something had to be done. Career drivers in his time had a 67% chance of being killed! But if the likes of Sterling Moss had had his way, that figure would have been higher and maybe F1 would have been banned as a result. So in your eyes, Moss must have thought Stewart was a "health and safety obsessed arsehole" too.
charliechutney 2 years ago
That doesn't even make sense, "a 67% chance of being killed." o_O
67% of what? 67% of the drivers died during every race, and only 33% made it through alive? Hahaha. And YOU'VE got the audacity to call MY post dickless.
All you do is spoil the sport with mad "health-and-safety" rules. If it was something that they were FORCED into doing, then feel free to water it down and make it "safer." But seeing as they CHOSE to do it, let them take the risks. They all know what the deal is. Shut up. *_*
Camberwell86 2 years ago
It wasn't safe for spectators either.
Nor were sponsors and/or governments willing to tolerate a high body count anymore.
Plenty of politicians were willing to follow Switzerland's example and ban motorsport, or at least the prototype classes.
And can't have a sport without money or approval.
darkoneforce2 2 years ago
Jesus Christ, I'll translate in easy-to-understand words...
In Jackie Stewart's time, an F1 driver, whose career lasted at least 5yrs, had a two-in-three (67%) chance of being killed behind the wheel.
There! That's why the "health & safety obsessed arsehole" Jackie Stewart decided enough was enough.
charliechutney 2 years ago
And it's got nothing to do with being spoilsports. It's about preserving human life, while keeping the sport as exciting as possible. Jacques Villeneuve gets a buzz from crashing, and probably an equal buzz from walking away. I think you'll find Jochen Rindt, Piers Courage, Roger Williamson, Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, Jo Siffert, Wolfgang von Trips, Bob Anderson, Lorenzo Bandini, Francois Cevert, Jo Schlesser & John Taylor all had families who wished the sport had been just that bit safer.
charliechutney 2 years ago
And before you start ripping on the 67% stat again, I saw it on an F1 programme some years back. Probably relates to the years 1950-1970 or thereabouts. Not sure if included the likes of Jim Clark or Bruce McLaren who died away from F1.
charliechutney 2 years ago
Are you on drugs, boss? Search Wikipedia for "List Of F1 Fatal Accidents." There were 15 in the 1950s, 12 in the 1960s, 10 in the 1970s, 4 in the 1980s and 2 in the 1990s.
A total of 43 have died in 59 years. Not even one per year.
So, based on your "1950s to 1970s" shit (we'll go for the 1960s then, to be fair) - 12 died in ten years. Using your "two-out-of-three" rule, there were only 18 drivers in THE WHOLE TEN YEAR PERIOD between 1960 and 1969 (inclusive)?
Do me a favour. Shut up. *_*
Camberwell86 2 years ago
I know accident blackspots on roads in England that take more than 43 lives over a 59-year period.
Camberwell86 2 years ago
Are you completely fucking retarded, you dipshit dopey cunt? I see you conveniently included the deaths from the 80s & 90s when it was much safer. The programme I saw was about the Clark era, and as I said I've no idea how they broke the figures down, but it was an official F1 docu, so why make that stuff up? In your own fucked-up, warped bedsit world, you hold some deluded theory that Jackie Stewart had no reason at all to want to make things safer. Keep it coming, shithead, I'm enjoying this.
charliechutney 2 years ago
You know a man's desperate when he starts flinging insults at you by the bucketload. Calm down, chief. You fucking retarded, dipshit dopey cunt shithead with a deluded theory.
Yes, I included all the deaths, but averaged it in the 60s (seeing as you said 50s to 70s). Fine, then, let's go 1951 - 1979. 37 deaths. I suppose there were only 55 drivers total in the 29-year period? I doubt it. More like hundreds. If not thousands.
Don't cry just because I proved your shitty little statistic wrong.
Camberwell86 2 years ago
Keep biting, fella, keep biting. Just give me enough time...
charliechutney 2 years ago
Enough time for what? To find another statistic? ROFLROFLOLOLOLOL :D :D :D
I'll wait. Dunnae worry about that, son. I haven't got work for another few hours. I'm here ^_^
Camberwell86 2 years ago
You're close to Brunswick Park, arent you?
charliechutney 2 years ago
Was. Left Camberwell in 2001, when I was 15. Live in the Midlands now. What's that got to do with anything, anyway? Are we mates now, lol? Or are you trying to hunt me down...?!?! o_O
Camberwell86 2 years ago
You're giving away too much information about yourself. You've no idea who I am.
charliechutney 2 years ago
Possibly, just possibly, you're some prick who goes hunting people down over YouTube comments.
Possibly, well, no, probably - you're just a prick.
If you want the information, why would you tell me "I'm giving away too much?" Why not just keep your trap shut and let me spill?
It's not hard to Google "Camberwell" and come up with "you're close to Brunswick Park." Now you know I'm in the Midlands, I'm surprised you haven't gone, "you're close to Wales, aren't you?"
See you soon! x x x
Camberwell86 2 years ago
Why did you leave Camberwell at 15?
Were you were playing the big guy on the internet when you were 13?
Why did you leave Camberwell at 15?
charliechutney 2 years ago
*yawn*
Hahaha :D
*yawn*
Camberwell86 2 years ago
Where do you DJ? Why do you spend hours posting on the web? Which is your favourite instrument, guitar or drums? Why are you so unpopular? Are you a good DJ? How much do you charge? Why do you like UFC? What's your favourite Arctic Monkeys track? Why are you online Xmas Day? Do you not have a family? A girlfriend?
Answer every single one of those questions!
charliechutney 2 years ago
Get the fuck off my channel, and stop analysing my favourite videos and giving me poxy little questionnaires to fill in, you amateur psychologist/pervert. How, what, where, why, which. Silly, sad bastard.
Camberwell86 2 years ago
And why would they make a statistic like that up? All statistics like that are made up, son, lol. Welcome to the real world. "You're 143 times more likely to die on your way to the airport in a car than on the plane itself..." I bet you buy all that shit as well. CharlieChutney has a 98% chance of a posting comeback containing bollocks. There's another statistic you can add to your repertoire of useless facts.
More boxers died between 1951 and 1979. Why don't you go post shit on boxing videos?
Camberwell86 2 years ago
stupid start line up... formula for crash
davorsertic 2 years ago
I can't believe how they waved the flags so late. That could have been a bigger tragedy for JYS and Ronnie and everyone else.
Dietpepsivanilla 2 years ago
Gimme some body roll baby! Fantastic. Love it. I was such an F1 fan in those days that watching the old school stuff like this brings back so many memories.
...those folk casually taking pics on the apex at Copse at the start sum up the era - and the 70s in particular - neatly.
Stealthbong 2 years ago
" 2 mclarens at pole" alot has changed since then
connell256 2 years ago
thank god scheckter wasn't killed. but he had many accidents in his F1 career.
hmdwgf 2 years ago
Back then, Silverstone wasn't as challenging as it is now.
Up until 1973 (which is the year this race took place) It had 8 corners where as the Silverstone now has 17 corners. This was the last race that took place on the 2nd Silverstone (the original was almost the same except the pits were where the Farm Straight is.) It was basically a roundabout with a hump at the northernmost part of the track. And it's amazing people are standing less than 2 feet from the edge of the track in this race.
hmdwgf 2 years ago
Jody was lucky he didn't get t-boned and killed right there.
F1 was crazy dangerous then but way more exciting than today.
SabuPtolemy 2 years ago
When reviewing footage like this you have to say thank god that nobody got killed (unlike some of the other incidents that year) and that F1 now has so many safety measures in place.
chrishopkins77 2 years ago 7
Jackie flying, brilliant footage. Love the powerslides.
I believe this was Roger Williamson's final race before the tragedy.
Waterfall64 2 years ago 2
This was his first race, he only participated in two grand prixs.
watchika 2 years ago
and outqualified Graham Hill in this race...
ihateferraris 2 years ago
His ONLY race before the tragedy
Kieronoldham 2 years ago
I came to F1 in the 80s. This is the first time I have ever seen footage of cars coming around the real Woodcote. Fantastic stuff - thanks.
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Waitingforriki 3 years ago
Stewart showed his greatness on that lap, the way he passed Peterson at Beckett's, the amazing way he took Woodcote. He'd definitely have won by miles without the crash. Revson my arse !
ysgol3 3 years ago
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^ The McLaren made the better tire choice and those cars had better tire degradation.
In the end it would have been the same.
darkoneforce2 3 years ago
lol'd when I compared this commentator to Murray Walker in the crash at 2:15.
In the vid: "Schekter has been hit... A multiple shunt at the end of the first lap...*a bit boringly, amirite?*"
What Murray's reaction would be: "OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS HORRIBLE OH NO *dramatic shouting for the WIN!*"
LosAztecas 3 years ago 2
The commentator is Raymond Baxter.He was a fighter pilot in the RAF during the second world war.I think that may be why he wasn't as excitable as Murray Walker , because he had experienced far more dangerous situations than those faced by F1 drivers. Still , you can't beat Murray for sheer entertainment.
nutterhunter 3 years ago 7
Interesting! Thanks for letting me know.
LosAztecas 3 years ago
murray and mr jackie stewart simply rocks !!! hug from brasil
rdtli 3 years ago
Standard 1973 marshalling
THEkendarkness 3 years ago
The way Stewart took Woodcote in one long glorious drift...fantastic, that's what you call car control. Scheckter was so lucky not to get injured in that pile-up, good job he wasn't facing the traffic when the first car hit him or the outcome could've been very different.
motorsportnutter4eva 3 years ago 2
Fantastic lap from Stewart!
boelin 3 years ago
"oh look theres a bunch of people on the track, well lets slow down then" :)
Kamk4ze 3 years ago
wooow, what a video, awesome, wooooooooooooow!
tatinos 3 years ago
Hmmm. Max M would probably be first in the queue for a Turkish prison.
ohheckforgotusername 3 years ago 2
"well Tilke and Bernie E and Max M. should still all be sent to a Turkish Prison."
Amen to that
roswell1965 3 years ago 2
Amen to that...
roswell1965 3 years ago
It was a great time... Back then was a 3-2-3-2-3 starting grid... But look to photographers taking pictures on the first corner - and the crowd of people that entered at the track after the crash... Things weren't safe and organized back then.
ruixalves 3 years ago 2
Beautiful stuff, I remember that David purley had record stop in the crash. In 60 cm from 300 to 0 km/h. It was 186.46 G's.
erwinruys 3 years ago
To erwinruys: Purley's bad crash was 4 years later, but it was indeed at Silverstone.
JonnyP71 3 years ago
ähh were I in those car I can make a bigger crash!!!!
EugenioBalasa 3 years ago
Never understood why there are 3 cars on pole...
Formula1Zone93 3 years ago
And Emerson Fitpaldi!!
b25364 3 years ago
What a starting line up: Ronnie Peterson, Jackie Stewerd, Denny Hulme, Pete Revson, Jacky Ickx, Francois Cevert &c. It's not like that nowadays!
b25364 3 years ago
Tilke for all his sins has never touched Silverstone. The circuit put in a chicane at Woodcote after that crash, then created a further revamp to the Chicane in 1987, the current layout (roughly) was made in 1991 with arevision in 1994, non of it was Tilke
LB1973 4 years ago
I watched this from just opposite the start/finish line and it was horific! As Stewart came round for the next lap there seemed to be no one ready to warn him of what was ahead, and he was approaching at the same incredible speed as he had at the end of the first lap. It was terrifying.
weaville 4 years ago
The spirit of old romantic days is just overwhelming! Great video
boyzorro 4 years ago
Did you see the lead Stewart had after 1 lap?
schopfheim91 4 years ago
Great stuff!
schopfheim91 4 years ago
"they've only got a yellow out it should be a red" LMAO what fools..
dessie111111 4 years ago
I guess somebody thought red didn't go well with his shirt... lol
RussellsParadox 4 years ago
This is indeed a verry dangerous situation...
The cars came arround the corner and must have all breakes fully on to stop on time.
Ruupie1982 4 years ago
One of the most famous crashes in the history of F1...what great footage...and it is good to hear the late Raymond Baxter as well.
smp32 4 years ago 2
oh yeah, exception for Kimi and a few others who are passionate. but for the most part they suck. this is amazing footage, F1's glory days, it's wonderful how humble and rustic the circuit is, today's pampered F1 prima donnas think they're fucking royalty and demand horrible, "flashy" but ultimately sterile circuits like Bahrain, Sepang, etc...
BlackpeopleLOL 4 years ago 3
couldn't have said it better!
M3addicted 4 years ago
i reckon Stewart's start here was as good as Senna's at Donington 1n 1993. Peterson afterwards couldn't believe Jackie's speed at Becketts. Also, wasn't Raymond Baxter a useless commentator.
ysgol2 4 years ago
Yeah it was a really good start. Stewart was renowned for going flat out on the first lap to get a good lead.
GDH1981 4 years ago
@ysgol2 no i don't agree ysgol2...raymond baxter in my opinion was very good....his voice graced many a broadcast and if he was not up to the job he would not have got the job.
bigbreadeaterellis 1 year ago
@bigbreadeaterellis Fair enough, but if you listen to what he says he doesn't know who anyone is, and who's Yody Scheckter ?? He couldn'et even be bothered to check pronunciation !!! Anyway Merry Xmas.
ysgol3 1 year ago
@ysgol3 fair comment and best wishes to you and yours.
kind regards
bigbread
bigbreadeaterellis 1 year ago
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@bigbreadeaterellis Fair enough, but if you listen to what he says he doesn't know who anyone is, and who's Yody Scheckter ?? He couldn'tt even be bothered to check pronunciation !!! Anyway Merry Xmas.
ysgol3 1 year ago
What makes me laugh is that at the first corner after the start, a photographer is virtually standing on the apex of Copse with no regard for his life. it's amazing what people did back then. Pure grass run off, shabby flag waving, people along trackside in the grass. Just madness.
GazzaAyrton 4 years ago
Awesome footage but, Jesus Christ, Stewart is coming out of that last corner full bore with people all over the course - good thing he was able to brake in time or this could've turned into a massacre.
SabuPtolemy 4 years ago
Looking racing like this its miracle there was no deaths in every race!
And it looks like McLarens was the first to not use front radiator and started to build the modern-type F1 cars.
MargusKiistheCritic 4 years ago
its no miracle. the drivers were better then. they used their skill to avoid crashing. today's drivers aren't as skilful, or committed, or passionate, and they know the very worst thing that can happen to them is a broken leg.
BlackpeopleLOL 4 years ago
Fantastic video mate, great quality. Thanks for sharing.
LordThadius 4 years ago
Brilliant video! This was the year I first got interested in motor racing. So dangerous! People standing on the track, only grass for run off, and then solid banking to hit. Absolute heroes all of them.
reynard89 4 years ago
jody schecter, what a south african legend!!
coolking93 4 years ago
Not that much of a legend if you can't spell his name..
darkestdevon 4 years ago
I fondly remember those days. Jody arrived as instant frontrunner ala Lewis Hamilton BUT he was considered wildly reckless, with tail-out broadslides, not beautifully controlled drifts like Jackie's coming out of Woodcote. Jody later calmed down fulfilled his destiny, becoming World Champion. See his biography at Wikipedia: a very multi-talented guy indeed.
unwindout 4 years ago
Wow!! - what a great bit of footage!.What the hell were those people thinking! standing right on the track at copse corner?!!.And the man doing the commentary Raymond Baxter! he was a real mans man! - legend or what!!.
The drivers biggist fear back then was a fuel fire!.
saunallezellite 4 years ago
I know they were all brave then, drivers and spectators but i suppose they didn't know anything different. I bet in 30 years time people will be looking at the races today and thinking the same thing!
GDH1981 4 years ago
yes i agree
raymond baxter was one of THE BEST
alongside robert robinson, alan whicker etc
those guys were at the top of their game.
bigbreadeaterellis 4 years ago
I've got the original 74, 75, 77 and 78 British GP's. I'll put them on as soon as i get time. I've also got 76 Japan.
GDH1981 4 years ago
Yes!!! Thanks, got anymore with live english commentary.
icouldkilltodie 4 years ago
nice video, thank you.
xiigo 4 years ago