F1 Spa-Francorchamps 1970

[samothsamothsamoth]

Eau Rouge was tighter than yet. Today with the old Eau Rouge they can´t drive flat out!

[sanyatyr]

Did anybody knew what the top speed of this cars ?

Where can i get info about top speed in f1 in period from 1950-now?

[international153]

Not to offend you, but the track layout looks like a poop

[sticklift]

1:08 my favorite cigarette!

[T1carus]

rofl i burst out laughting at the way the guy said the last bit

[PeterMayer]

8 miles long. Unreal.

[funkmuller]

fuck new circuits

[7nordic]

Yes the 'new' Spa is good rework of the old cicuit and still incorporates some fo the msot scenic and spectacular parts

John Amundsen

[nomeXroC]

Respect, for Pedro . . .

[Fastbikkel]

What a difference between this eau rouge and the current one.

[chaba32]

@Fastbikkel The curve was made narrower in 1979 when they shortened the circuit and slightly modified La Source and Eau Rouge. In 1981 the Bus Stop was added too. Check out popular vids from '83 or '87. Slight modifications were made to Eau Rouge in 2002 as well. Shame - I liked this one better.

[McLarenMercedes]

Last time they raced on Old Spa. Fortunately the new circuit is one of the few examples in which an old circuit was transformed into something equally good.

Sadly that wasn't the case with Österreichring, Hockenheim and others.

[piobairesicago]

@McLarenMercedes

Yes, I agree that the current Spa is a successful design. The Old Spa got to be a bit of a death trap - see the in car videos motorsports fans take while driving through Burnneville or Masta today, I could not imaging driving 160+mph through there while sitting with very brittle gas tanks surrounding me inside the monocoque, no crash cells, and trees, houses, and onlookers perilously close...and the single band of armco and catch fencing, waiting to decapitate the unlucky.

[thash1127]

wow, eau rouge is very straight today

[sookster54]

Too bad you can't stand that close anymore.

[1983blair]

As pessoas sem proteção alguma na Eau-Rouge... naum havia preocupação alguma com segurança... Meu Deus

[punkerbr]

Best F1 era ever

[Olinser06]

Pedro Rules!

[334286]

I've heard that Pedro Rodriguez was one of the all-time great wet-weather drivers.

[McLarenMercedes]

@334286

Yeah, what he did in the Porsche 917 in 1000km endurance races in pouring rain was the stuff of legends. Guys like Ickx had nothing but total respect for Rodriguez.

[rivlax]

I was at that race. Sat right near where that woman is with the drink on the patio of La Source Hotel. I have a great photo of Pedro on the podium with Chris Amon.

[DJLauth]

This is exciting! Hehe i love 1:07. Total sponsor for Marlboro.

[alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Spa a great circuit - even today in its shorter form!

[PeterMayer]

Look how people were standing right next au rouge! Crazy.

[TunesByTanzil]

hahaha i know!! NO barriers or ANYTHING haha, mad as :D not even rally drivers get that close to public

[BMWizardofOz]

not really no barriers.

If you stop at 0:37 you can clearly see the barriers on the right side of the road, and on the left where the people are standing, there are barriers, too, but they are only going up to their knees.

On many parts of the rest of the track were barriers, too.

[RogerTurk]

old Spa circuit 14 km... Pedro Rodriguez....

Eau Rouge... amazing, beautiful !!!!

[FormulaUnos]

Pedro Rodriguez , the best driver in rain!!!

[sinnae404]

I can't believe those guys standing on the outside of Radillon at 0:37!! It just shows people tend to do stupid things unless there is safety regulations in place!!

[s00zster]

They look like they're up on a bank, I think you can see the top of the crash barrier near their feet.

[rodineisilveira]

This was the last Belgian GP which was held in the old Spa-Francorchamps circuit in 1970.

13 years after (in 1983), Spa-Francorchamps returned to the F-1 calendar, reformed and modernized, as we know the circuit nowadays.

[indigoblue555]

Pedro Rodriguez was a brave and fast driver, both with BRM F1 as with the great sport Porsche 917 in orange blue livery raced by Gulf/Wyer team.

He lost his life joining a minor event as he was offered to drive a privately raced 512

ferrari.His passion for driving led him to accept.

RIP.

[BMWizardofOz]

I am always curious why everyone is calling the race just "a minor event" in Pedro´s descriptions etc.

Yes the Interserie in Germany generaly wasn´t a really major series even if quite big, but the Norisring races in the city of Nuernberg are always something special.

e.g. works Porsches sometimes only entered for this race, like 88 when they were only driving in Le Mans and the Norisring non championship race.

And there were often guest appearences by current F1 drivers like Lauda, Stuck...

[indigoblue555]

to BMWizardofOz - minor if referring to major events as F1 wct and sport prototype wct of course.

Not a disrespectful rating overall:all top drivers did join lower class races by then.

I recall some of them on tourism Group 2

or on Gt cars as well.

[BMWizardofOz]

I didn´t mean to attack you or something, but it was just that most of the times the racing series they raced in (Interserie), as is the team (which was Herbert Mueller´s), or sometimes not even the track is mentioned, even on pages about Pedro where they have more than 500 characters. And I wondered why.

e.g. at sites with informations about Jim Clark, it´s rarely called "a minor formula series" or something like that.

[wippermann]

The average pole position (Jackie Stewart) speed on the old Spa (14km / 8.7 miles) in 1970 was 244kph / 151mph. This is still the higest average pole speed in the F1 history of the Spa-Francorchamps (2007 race with the modern layout 7 km circuit was "only" 237kph :)

[92NB]

wtf kph? mph= Miles per hour, but what is kph? You mean kmh?

[wippermann]

kilometer per hour...."kph" I think it is the same as "kmh" (But I had to look it up when I saw this reply then :)

[92NB]

Yea, ok, I live in finland so we use kmh here, and we use to say kmh not kph, but its ok. (:

[wippermann]

In Norway we use just "km" or "km/t" ....But when lookming it up, I've found out that "kph" is a more "American-english" term it seems ("TV-english" you know :)

[marijn2112]

@92NB it's just the same! some people say kph, others say kmh

[ikke3wie3anders3]

@92NB DUMBASS!!!!!!

kph = Kilometers Per Hour

kmh = KiloMeters ( per ) Hour

loser

[bamboootscha]

@wippermann in 2009 in the 2nd Qualifying part Jarno Trulli set an 1:44:5. This means an average of about 240. Still a lower average than set in 1970 but its getting closer ;)

But in 2010 the average was even lower.

[bowelrupture]

@wippermann

The fastest single lap atm is 161,297 mph / 259.528 km/h. (Monza 2002: Juan Pablo Montoya.)

[McLarenMercedes]

@wippermann

Is there any point comparing the average speed of old and new Spa?? Old Spa had a long straight, and long sweeping corners, so they could keep 200km/h+ in most parts of them too.

[ToivonenDeltaS4]

amazing vid mate, thanks for posting. i drove around the old spa in august when i was there for a GT race, cant believe they raced there. the lap record there is 160mph AVERAGE speed. unbelieveable.

[topski100]

another fantastic clip, fever!

[McLarenMercedes]

Last year on the old long Spa. Sure,todays Spa is still the best circuit there is but the old Spa was a killer. Unfortunately that last was also literally true for some unfortunate drivers.

[whiterice138]

Look at the cameramen on Eau Rouge standing inches from the cars with no barrier's in between...yikes

[bruznic]

yes i saw that too

crazy man

[5v4al]

I sure wouldn't be standing there, but as they appear to be standing above the guard wall.

[isusje]

hehe

[GDH1981]

I honestly think Pedro would have been a world champion if he'd lived.

[guillermo968]

not only him, his brother Ricardo could have done it too, two of the best mexican racers, i wish i had lived when they used to live and race

[BIgCojonesMan]

Pedro Rodriguez the BEST

Viva Mexico