Silverstone Testing 1990

[andykitson]

@reading70 No it was the June tyre test. Usually run over 3 days about 2 weeks before the British GP.

[2zorro3]

Whatever systems teams were checking that day......the differences in the rear wing from team to team quite marked..Honda's power always allowed McLaren to put on a barn door

[Ferrari312pb]

Crikey, twenty years ago - only seems like yesterday.

[bpford2k9]

this is incredible footage it is brilliant 5 stars

[tony2kownz]

oh my god, I bow down

this is my dream footage!!! thank you!!

[locost29]

Great vid, amazing to compare this with the 88 video you have. The reduction in downshifts is staggering!!

[cragmac1000]

0:18 sec. - 0:20 sec first time watching the video and said "that's a ferrari V-12" whose the man?

THIS GUY!

[Jyllenberg]

Rare footage again, andykitson. Thanks!

The Club corner was insane in those times!

[TimmyRacer]

Was at this one too, got into the pits day 1 as there was no security on bridge

[FerrarifanV12]

So many different sounds, from V8/V10 and V12. Damn..i miss those times. Hopefully the F1 will once go back to these engines. The engines nowadays just sound so boring.

[cragmac1000]

....and so is the racing because of electronic driver aids!

[paulshutts]

fantastic vid mate, thanks

[1RNF]

Thanks for the vid - best time in F1 no doubt.

[xansk8]

I think that this time (1985-1991) is the F1 at his top level, no one era unite so great drivers and cars like that.

We have the beautiful Mclarens Benettons and the amazing sounds of Ferrari v12.

We have drivers like Mansell, Prost, Senna, Piquet, Berger, Nannini, Alesi, and many others.

This is the time when men were men!

[digoclocks]

you're absolutly wright. I raced myself until '83 and i followed all the gp's. These days i don't even watch the tevee. It's boring. The ideal f1 car: carbonfiber chassis and protection for the driver like they do now. A 900bhp egine. Slick tyres and no electronics at all. F1 Teams will be affordable again and we will see some rich people start there own team. Result will be a field of 24 - 30 cars and some real spectacular races where sometimes a driver will lose his live in a crash.

[TheMazaro]

@xansk8 For me the gold era of F1 is bettwen 1981-1993. We had the Brabham cars, one of the most beautyful cars of F1, and besides this drivers that you say, we had Lauda, Reutteman, Villeneuve, Jones, Rosberg, Schumacher (after 1992)... After 1993, Prost left F1, and Senna die, the only one that remains was Schumi...

[mcqueenthee]

Superb footage Mate, nice one!

1990 was such a good F1 year..

[superjan101079]

wow simply great footage. so close to the master!

[StevenJamesJ]

Great footage - why the engine blips before shutting off the engine when they come in?

[Cushy321]

Let's just say, if you have to ask, you'll never know.

To put it another way it "because it sounds F***ING AWESOME". 

...or to put it another way because Nigel's ego requires 100% attention from everyone within a two mile radius at all times! lol But we love him for it.

[stuka310]

Priceless slice of history

[westhamfan123]

Fantastic clip. Amazing. Kind of breaks my heart a little tho, what an era! Fantastic piece of Senna too. Is there any way to get back to 1990? ha I wish.

[corybungo]

Great stuff!

I love the sound of that V12 Ferrari.

[666String]

I was at this test also! What memories. Fantastic footage mate.

[magicformulaf1]

Brilliant footage! I would have loved to have seen Senna test/race in person!

[andykitson]

John Watson was not driving, he was F1 commentator on Eurosport around this time, with Allard Kalff. So he was there in his media role. He did not test the Jordan until January 1991.

[TheBigRedEvil]

Watson was testing the new Jordan, before they were racing. He was there test driver that year.

[nuskaha]

great footage, i was there too on cops corner, so good to look back and see the greats in action. great video

[rhysenna]

top footage of 1 of my favorite seasons. lost 3 great drivers after this, nannini, donnelly and senna. cheers

[rhysenna]

nice 1 for putting this on. fantastic footage of 1 of my favorite seasons. good footage of senna. cheers

[gp4nut]

I love the engine notes but even more the ugly sounding downshifts into copse.

What is John Watson doing there btw?

Some nice footage of Senna I have never seen before.

[cfoster81]

The transmissions were not as refined through the 80's into the early 90's, maybe until 1991 or '92, as they are today as most of the F1 teams back then were using the 6-speed "H" pattern gearbox with the exception of Ferrari, who had the first paddle shift which they could use a 7-speed while the other teams still had the hand shifters.

[SSR2k6]

Wow, this is some great footage! The fact that Senna and the Ferraris were there makes it even better. How did you manage to get on the pitwall?