1999 Tora Takagi Arrows-Hart Suzuka Onboard

[Michaelingolfhansen]

Huge driving error at 0:50...taking way to much curb bringing himself totally out of shape for the hairpin!

[1greenMitsi]

take FF off

[Bobobidodo]

amazing skill

[MilleniumLP]

ALAMILESSIMA???? WTF? What named that?

[vendettavenom]

Ach die guten alten zeiten!!

[DannyBoySmith1993]

OMG, look how much Takagi has had to fight with the steering wheel! Arms must be made of iron!

[WhyGenFM3]

@DannyBoySmith1993 Looks like he's having fun though... :P. I wonder if Vettel/Hamilton could have driven cars like those and still been on top...

[Shevabestfan]

I assume car balance wasn't very good but his jerky driving style is awful. It looks like he's gonna loose it at any moment.

[420Vali]

Impressive drive here. Its almost looks like he is driving a 70 car doing a four wheel drift type thing...except he's in a modern car with much narrower limits of grip and very fast breakaway.

Amazing he can keep this under control- I do wonder if he could have set the car up better though- I mean don't they get a certain amount of time to set up a car to NOT handle this way?

[garethkielty]

this car oversteers so much! hes spending more time counter steering in corners than actually steering lol

[sesselfurzer2000]

3,5 secs behind but awesome skills.. he counter steers around 50 times in one lap... shitty car ^^

[aceman42]

good god, this car is twitching so much...

[MegaMrDamo]

Also I have got a vid of Takagi on this track and in this car and he isn't fighting for control as much, there was a rear suspension problem in qualifying

[MegaMrDamo]

R.I.P Tom Walkinshaw, owner of Arrows, Benetton and Ligier.

[lordlingcp]

thats a car?

[Naganiet200]

I LOVE THIS CAR SO MUCH Like The new VIRGIN LOOL but better

[DuketheDrug]

Really on the edge. The car has massive oversteer and is terrible on the breaks. I'd love to drive it, but Suzuka is not a good place to crash. Credits to Tora here, risking that much with such a bad car. (He obviously overdrives the car a bit and his setup may not be the best considering the limited experience he had in F1, but the driving skills shown in this video are thrilling).

[MegaMrDamo]

This car is an evlolution of the already terrible 1998 Arrows, no wonder a fluke 6th and 7th finish at Round 1 saved their asses from the bottom of the tables, however the paint livery of this car, love it, for some strange reason, and btw it is suprising to think that this car has traction control with it sliding as much as it does

[simoncase]

Wow the Arrows chassis of 2000 looks so much more technologically advanced than this one of only one year before!

[GoAround1]

@simoncase In 2000 the Arrows team got the prize for "most improved team", considering the '99 chassis you know where they were coming from.

[midgrid]

@GoAround1 The 1999 car was essentially the 1998 with some orange paint. The 1998 car handled well but had an underpowered engine, whereas the 1999 car was hurt by the introduction of the fourth groove on the front tyres, and also had the weak engine. The 2000 car was a completely new design with the Supertec (ex-Renault) engine - unfortunately the resultant upturn in form didn't last long. :(

[rich1701]

@simoncase The 99 car was essentially the 1998 chassis and engine

[Hubis2010]

Nice onboard I think this track is a really nice I like it ;-)

[Bmants]

If he could drive this for a whole race that would be greatness, what a crap car.

[lolaroflmao]

god their engine sounds so much better than the V8's of today... i miss the v10's ;(

[ebyard]

This car looks right a right handful. Never seen so much exit oversteer in any car before. Good job for keeping it on the road though. Takagi should have got another drive in a better car, but how many times have drivers come and gone who were expected to do big things and failed, through no fault of their own.

[Aqualyx]

If you compare this to the f1 now you'll notice they steer in earlier.

[kakha1974]

I looked this video many years ago. Great video. Good Japanese driver. Crazy oversteering

[Sports350]

so much oversteer

[GTRF1V8]

this car is crap. never heard short-shifting exiting the esses at suzuka, because he could barely keep it on the road. never seen a car wag the tail at the final chicane like that either.

[FRFM00]

ugh... grooves in 97

[tobats2]

At 1:35 , you hear the guy say "Ross Brown" (Brawn) lol

[tobats2]

tokyo drift

[lommaren]

oh my god, the bad cars 10 years ago were monsters to handle. he needed like two corrections for each corner with that car...

[martynhenrystyles]

rear end stepping out through the old 130r. fuck me tht must be trerrifying every lap. and to think, u cover around 300 laps in a weekend :/

[weallfollowmanutd]

nakedfrog - Are you on planet earth? You can only go into corners only needing one one turn on the steering wheel, if the car is good enough to allow it. There's a light years difference between this Arrows and a 2009 Brawn.

[mycrizz]

It was so hard to keep the A20 on track, Takagi did a good job on this lap

[nakedfrog]

this guys steerring is shite, compared to button or hamilton who do it in one move

[Ianux7]

oh yes, this car seems drifting xD

[Traceracer972]

Drift car?

[damiannerd]

if i were to create a game or a film i would be looking for the composer of this song

[damiannerd]

they were going to be hart engines in 99 but changed to supertec engines

[maxtoken123]

in fact they were Hart engines in 99. Arrows changed for Supertec in 2000. In 1999, three teams used Supertec engines (BAR, Williams and Benetton)

[JanBidi]

omg what a crappy car^^

[schoodof]

0:51 no wing :(

but good driver!

[Konnnaa]

Actully, he slipped to grass

[freshman927]

This is the most oversteer anyone is ever going to see in one lap lol.. good job takagi to keep it in the track

[scefen]

Damn that car must be a bitch to drive. He hardly ever kept the steering wheel straight!

[Cercatore]

Great driving, indeed.

[stagpeak]

it is amazing that he could hold the car on the track in the last chicane. he went from one slide to another.

[ashacrasha]

At least the colours were pretty...:S

[skynet091287]

Just like today... Brawn leads both the drivers and constructors championships, but the cars? Boring colours!

Yet in the other end of the leaderboard is Force India, great looking cars, but no real results...

[craigSimons00]

Watch his front left wheel carefully at 1:45...he goes onto the grass slightly, Lol!

[craigSimons00]

OMFG, this car is evil. Takagi did well just to keep it on the road there!

[englandwc06]

He was really struggling with the car there and the speed was pritty poor. Cant help feel some sympathy for the driver there.

[StevenJamesJ]

Have to wonder whether he was able to communicate with the team sufficiently well to get the correct setup... or not.

[combatking20]

That car isn't in the racetrack. In all my years of watching racing, i have never seen a car handle that bad.

[tearsbeers]

Looks like He's driving on Ice

[PYLrulz1984]

I dont believe a car can handle any worse than that.

Wow O_O

[agr0twat]

yea, looks a handful alright!

[MASSA6]

scary all the way round..evil handling Arrows

[VarieF1Hero]

that arrows has got great colours , but it´s a shitty car. Takagi´s time in that arrows was 1.41.

1988 cars are faster than this car O.O

[bozeman1856]

lots of oversteering

[zelmaso]

loved the colours on that arrows :)

[zimmer86]

in the end of the day u can only do soo much in a crap car. i always hear ppl saying schumacher would of won in a minardi! wrong! maybe top 10 but woulnt of won. ps im a schumacher fan

[tugatomsk]

Quite right, not even senna or fangio could do it. It's just not possible, it's too much of a bad car.

The only thing they could try would be to help developing it, but it's still hard...

[Lolzilol123]

@tugatomsk Haha, Fangio wouldn't be able to do anything even in the McLaren or Ferrari of '99. Compared to F1 drivers of the 90's, he was an old, overweight man.

[nunslittletoy]

@Lolzilol123 yeh but when he was around a driver didn't need to be superfit putting the emphasis on a driver's talent. And Fangio did survive an era where death was a regular occurence in Grand Prix racing...

[Lolzilol123]

@nunslittletoy I don't think there was more emphasis on driver talent just because the cars were slower and were sliding more - it's just another way of driving. I just don't like people saying stuff like "not even Fangio" or some other driver - they were from another era, they were chosed based on other criteria, they would probably be slower than the drivers chosen for the car-type.

[nunslittletoy]

@Lolzilol123 well it stands to reason that if the cars are less physical to drive then the emphasis is put more on their talent than their fitness... But I do agree, it's impossible to compare drivers and from different eras and many people fall into that trap. All I was really getting at I guess was that Fangio was the master of his time - having won half the races he entered and 5 World Championships but when he was around it wasn't necessary to be super fit like drivers of today.

[McLarenMercedes]

@nunslittletoy

True, but the races were also longer. In the 50's they usually took 3,5 hours if not more. Safety was non-existant, and there were no drinks until they drove into the pits. The incredibly hot Argentine GP of 1955 was so roasting hot for the drivers in the cars, that many of them retired before they fainted from heat stroke. Fangio pretended he was sitting in ice, in order to cope with the heat.

Exploring the limits of the car back in the 50's was lethal.

[nunslittletoy]

@Lolzilol123 furthermore, it would be unfair to put Fangio from the 50's into a car of the late 90s. I guess it was stupid for anyone to even mention Fangio in the first place really lol.

[craigSimons00]

Oh finally, about bleeding time. A Schumacher fan who actually has a brain and uses his common sense. Thank the lord!

[craigSimons00]

I'm saying this because many Schumacher fans say Schumacher could have won in anything, but that just isn't true. Every driver needs a good car to win. It doesn't need to be the best car, but it needs to be good.

[bkent95]

that car was just absolute SHIT!!! Tora was good but got the shaft on good cars. Sort of reminds me of Jos Verstappen or Christjan Albers

[frogmeista]

i feared for his life wen he went thru Degner 1, looked like the car was gonna go straight on :O

i really like Tora, he was a good talent in an awful car

[SPECTRE9200]

hard to believe he's a Super GT champion

[JacquesVilleneuve101]

yeah, you are absolutely right because that arrows is and always was so slow.

[damiannerd]

that car looks like its on butterstone tyres not bridgestone, Takagi must have a handling legend after the end of the season.

[damiannerd]

I know its sad but for f1 99 on the ps1 i most always drive his arrows. I love thr FA19 but handling makes him look like Colin Mcrae or Tommy Lakinnen

[vingerhoetsk]

this was takagi's last f1 race

[jraybay]

jesuss is like tokyo drift with a piece of shit. very much oversteer :\ .

[flipeg50]

holy crap, i've only seen countersteering like this in rally cars or in drifting cars... poor guy

[paronomasiaster]

It's like he's driving a fucking rally car for fuck's sake. Poor guy.

[BigBagBen]

the car looked horrible to drive

[Cerenityy]

Didnt they use Asiatech 99-01?

[ricsi0531]

no, only 01

98-99 own engine

00 Supertec

01 Asiatech

02 Cosworth/Ford

[GoAround1]

Correct ricsi0531! The "Arrows" badged engines used in 98 and 99 were actually designed and built by Brian Hart. TWR bought these designs and the rights for use of the engine. Funny detail is that this Hart V10 is still based on the engine Jordan used in 1993.

[Morthelion]

@GoAround1 The 98 and 99 engine was NOT based on the 93. They designed a new V10 in Walkinshaws name.

[shazmeister2005]

thats right cuz i remember in 99 ferrari and arrows were the only team that used their own engines. in 2000 arrows was actually quite a good car (especially in the hands of de la rosa) dont think they scored much points but they were often quite quick

[Troggle84]

I remember Takagi nearly scoring a point in Melbourne back in 1999. He eventually finished 7th, 2 seconds behind teammate De la Rosa, who scored a point in his F1 debut. Takagi's effort was hurt by a spin late in the race, if I remember correctly.

[SpaceNinja88]

01 Asiatech = Peugeot 1999 or 2000, if I remember correctly, but you're right.

[LukeStanton91]

Takagi is just one of those drivers who had some quite good talent but awful cars.

[101NYMetsFan]

@LukeStanton91 Good Talent!? Dude, look at his hands on the wheel. He's too agreesive on the wheel! Did we at least one corner in this video that he was smooth with the wheel?

[Grundig83]

der Wagen war zwar schwach, dafür aber schön!

[ap78crg]

now we know what the f1 would be like with out tc in 08

[mvfF1Fanatic]

By that time they were, and Takagi wasn't anything special either. But given the right circuit and driver (Hungary, Damon Hill) they could be amazing...

[vansoth]

He does a pretty good job of controlling that beast of a car! I'd say if he was given a decent racing car, then he might have done much better.

[TakumiFujiwara80]

@mvfF1Fanatic

You forgot the most important thing : the right tyres. Hill have the Bridgestone that perform very well on the warm hell of hungary..

[mvfF1Fanatic]

The car is so nervous. Sliding and bouncing everywhere! Took some guts to drive that thing I'm sure.

[btccfan2002]

So much oversteer - wow.

[5P33D3V1L]

yeah i noticed that too,

that car must of been a dog to drive.