Grand Prix Watkins Glen 1967

[stenovitz]

Nice background music. Who is playing?

[FLSHBK1]

O I miss these days at The Glen! I saw every USGP up to 1966, then left for Nam in 67. RUIZ, this was the old "porkchop' track; 6 turns I used to be familiar with. Last summer I did a Track Day at the 'new' WGI & was totally 'lost' all around the course. I shook hands and took pics of all my heroes here: Hill, Surtees, Ginther, Rodriguez (both), Amon, Stewart, Gurney, Bonnier, McLaren, RIndt, Ireland, Brabham ~ never tried for Clark ~ I hated him for usually beating Hill. I lived for the Glen!

[PYLrulz1984]

Ok, is it me, or do they have the start of the race right before the esses, if the general shape of the track I am thinking of was used (the set up NASCAR uses today)

[PYLrulz1984]

@PYLrulz1984

Never mind, I saw another video in which there was a diagram of how the track looked like around this time, and I guess what threw me off was that the front straight then was much shorter than it is today, and thus didn't have that huge downhill like it has today, but still had the same general shape as the NASCAR layout.

[Rcrby525]

@TheMPSScissors back then the shortcut that stock cars use didn't even f'ing exist, the only reason the buss stop is there is because of Tommy Kendalls near-fatal sports car crash in 1991, and J.D. McDuffie's fatal crash a week later, it's there to slow the cars down going into the carosell or whatever it's called.

[TheMPSScissors]

@Rcrby525

sorry didnt research properly. The first NASCAR race was in 57' at the Glen but a completely different track layout.

[TheMPSScissors]

Respond to this video... 

no they didnt race the boot

[lennyak1]

Thanks for posting!

[mattador2792]

BRING BACK THE UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX!! (and the French Grand Prix too!!)

[xyling]

Interesting editing has Surtees out of the race with a blown engine, and then back in.

[Racerbob260]

I was at this race .. yes, Hill could have passed Clark anytime he wished in the last few laps. Clarks rear suspension was broken and I think it was the right rear wheel that was visibly leaning over to one side. At any rate, the Lotus cars were fast, yet fragile machines.

[stewarthass14]

looks funny without that armco barrier

[loreztaken]

Lol once you start playing GPL you never stop, do you? ... never been on vroc...always in single, trying to get some tenth off... :-)

[iestyn16]

Indeed! Ahh, you should come online ;)

It's great to drive GPL.. But it's just amazing to race others flat out in a close race :D

[loreztaken]

very nice footage! thanks for sharing. Lol i'm "driving" on this track playing Grand Prix Legends (the great pc game) since 1998! I LOVE it.

[Robfoxman]

Hhehe, me to. I got interested in old F1 movies from the 60th just because im an old GPL driver to. :)

So you have played GPL for so long, i "only" played for 3-4 years :) Maybe we even have raced against each other via VROC :)

/Robfox

[skippydmb]

Great video. Thanks for posting it!!

[RecessMonkeys]

This is bittersweet. My Dad was a huge racing fan, especially F1 and CanAm. He always talked about Gurney, McLaren, Hulme, Hill, Clarke etc. I love watching it, just wish he could too.

[midpoint37]

Thanks for the memories. I was there.

Hill gave that race to Clark, he could have passed him any time after the suspension broke.

Before the race the Ford MKIV that Gurney and Foyt had won LeMans with did several parade laps.

An unknown French team entered two F2 cars to gain experience. MATRA

Saturday evening hundreds of people ran the track in their own cars. In both directions.

I saw a very beautiful woman walking her cheetah on a leash.

Had a great time.

[Robfoxman]

Thanks for the comment. Those were the days i heard :)

[beefers1]

what's wrong with nascar? if you think that it's just turning left around ovals, you're dead wrong. i have nothing against F-1, though.

[ReadyToWrestle]

Guh? Why is that? Just wondering... The first pro race at the Glen was held in 58 and it was a NASCAR race...NASCAR was there before any of the series you named off.

[mmymac]

Go speed racer go!

[pbraun]

That's great! F1 should really come back to Watkins Glen!

[smokinscott]

You can imagine the beade and sunglass wearing producer saying "What we need here, is some cool cat jazz vibe groove to acompany the start..ya dig!"

Muppet. Let the motors do the talking.

Lovely vid thanks for posting

;-)

[Robfoxman]

thanks :)

[brianwayne]

I'm going to go ahead and make the statement that racing was much more dangerous back then. For drivers, spectators, crew, and track workers. Good crowd though.

[triangletheory]

very cool

[jack887]

The glory days of racing. And no seat belts! Thanks for posting this, a fond memory for me.

[jack887]

Thanks so much for posting this video! I remember this well, the glory days of racing!

[bobbyray56]

These guys actually had to drive the cars then. No computers, no downforce....

[iestyn16]

Clark! Hill! Gurney! Amon!

[eamonncy]

classic. this was in the days when men were men. while i would watch this any day ahead of what we see now, we should remember that a lot of the changes are a result of safety measures. i believe 4 of the drivers who competed in 1967 died at the wheel, including of course jim clark.

[gnpotter]

great vid once the music stops, racing has changed a lot since then

[shadowsfromthesun]

Wow, the track has changed alot since then !...most notable is the lack of guardrail.

[bluv6]

Nice video. Classic Glen in the great F1 years.