History Of Motor Racing Pt 1

[tedruller]

Amazing footage, Thanks you musrum for the upload.

[blertdrax]

I wonder if a modern F1 car would even make it around a few laps of those circuits, or would the track be too rough?

[fastmotorcycle]

Thank you! Thank you!

[dequack1]

i like how way back then they had to cool down the tires lmao, now days cold tires are bad!

[InternationalDrivers]

Brilliant to keep the History 'visibly alive'!  Thanks

[210950uarg]

musrum 1000 thanks ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[wledswift]

Wow how great that someone took the time to track these old greats down. Thanks for the amazing footage.

[DavidLCarcoba]

Many thanks for the posting!

Worth buy it, although currently out of stock in amazon.co.uk...

[DavidLCarcoba]

Many thanks for the posting!

Worth buy it, although currently out of stock in amazon.co.uk...

[ohiopower]

Great footage. Sounds like the cars have steam engines.

[pdmus]

It seems to be missing 1922-1929, originally "the Golden Years" from the Shell series. does anyone know where to purchase the set - hopefully on dvd?

[pdmus]

Do you have the whole series for sale?

[weekendcuts]

Fantastic. We were shown some parts of it at Mayflower school, Billericay, in the early 1970's. Great to see it again.

[havvacuppa]

Small world!!! I was at Billericay school, just stumbled across this and your comment is at the top...i MUST watch it now!

[1968Grunt68]

Outstanding!!! A rather large thank you is in order to you sir.

[JoshTheBassist]

It's definately over dubbed audio for this video.

[johannes914]

@JoshTheBassist Most films were overdubbed even in the sixties and seventies because sound was recorded on separate machines. Most of the sport reporters who filmed the races had "silent" cameras and were followed by a sound assistant only for the interviews. 100% Synchro sound came later with the video cameras.

[peckerwood57]

Someone else mentioned the audio was dubbed. That's what I wonderied, since talkies weren't aound for another 20 years. It seems like actual audio though.

[sevencube3]

I don't know whether he meant that by 2000 lbs or 1000 kg.

[danthemanpatrick]

I would think 1,000 kg. Just since this is all happening in Europe. I believe the ton defined by 2,000 lbs. is an American thing.

[cben09]

Beautiful shot of the front,,,showing the giant turning bar,,,,not a crank,,,at 3,33 Thats the factory Napier 100 HP 4cyl,,Bore 6.1/2" X Stroke 6" and 5 valves per cylender,,Alloy block and iron sleeves,,3 speed,, F,E,H,Johnson and Joe Knowles restored it in the early 1950s,,There were 3 cars built to this spec,,Larger square radiators were fitted later,,,Gearing was ALMOST 1:1,,,I can still hear the sound,,Ben

[TheAussiNut]

PMSL you must have google'd all that just for 1 comment m8

[Ferrarirules123]

This is great. A lot different from the Grand Prix racing we see today.

[hellsdarkesstrain]

great vid love it

[eredediascari]

a storic video....beautiful

[number1Schumacherfan]

German cars=the best.

[VideoDotGoogleDotCom]

Wonderful - thanks for posting! Although, I would have preferred the makers not adding the fake sound effects...

[seanobrgp]

The Gordon Bennett was the premiere race of that early era, akin to an America's Cup of Motorsport, and the Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. of 1906 was its spiritual successor.

This documentary is the best historical record of motor racing available. Shell has even more archival footage that Mason did not utilize, but the cost of converting it to a modern format and making it available to the public far outweighs the apparent interest, and that is a shame.

[seanobrgp]

While Bill Mason refers to the race as the "1902 Paris Vienna", Selwyn Edge actually won the 1902 Gordon Bennett Trophy. It was run in conjunction with the Paris Vienna and the participants were listed in the results of that trail, but the Gordon Bennett finished in Innsbruck that year.

Edge was well behind and had no hope of catching de Knyff, but close to the finish de Knyff's Panhard broke a driveshaft and Edge was the sole finisher of that first Gordon Bennett.

[AdobePhsyko]

Great Footage....I saved the entire series  Thanx

[adayattheoffice]

How amazing that a) someone actually filmed these events and b) that the filming has survived! Brilliant! Thanks for the posting.

[adiai]

great set of videos......

[CrewofMaltby]

Good videos, but a lot of dubbed audio.

[Ockenfels]

wonderful video ! its hard to finds those old vids ... but .... knows someone videos of that kind in german language ?

[hardmetal777]

I search for it in Portuguese. But ok, let's see what we understand.

=)

Best regards.

[maggadogg]

wonderful, hard to find stuff. Big thanks!

[Caxtolli]

This video is definitively a jewel! Thank you very much for sharing it!!

[daallo1]

THANKS!

[Oldbigchief]

Thanks. More thanks than I can express myself. Thanks a truckload for sharing all these jewels.

[knakworst12]

creat vid is there a simular History Of Motor Racing video that goes from 1950-1980???

[OBJones28]

@knakworst12 nope, but enjoy the history of motor racing by watch any racing event from those times that you listed. lol

[ThrottleStuckOpen]

Absolutely brilliant - thank you so much!

[bucurelpacura]

got my popcorn gonna watch all 15+ parts

[marcel964]

Thankx, this is great fun to watch!

[DukeofDice]

This is superb! Thank you!

[fdeutschs]

Great footage.

Many people forget or don't even know about those years in Motor Racing.

Thanks for publish them.

[greyheron]

This is actully the "Shell history of Motor Racing" circa 1952. It's brilliantly done as most of the footage is silent and the added sound is so good that you'd hardly know it was added.

[MrMacadoo]

thanks for sharing this. great stuff.

[Sunoco]

theese are AWESOME!

[FrankLeeStrange]

18 litres engines!! If the starter handle kicked back it would take your flaming arm off. Super videos.

[musrum]

I will be posting the last series aand then a collection of footage that will take us from 1950 - 1965 after that someone else will have to take over. I will also be posting a collection of rare Brooklands footage

[ThomasD1962]

Are you going to post all the tapes? At the end of the last tape is some excellent footage of Herman Lang in the Mercedes W125 at the Nurburgring. Wonderful!!

[ThomasD1962]

Great!! I've got all three VHS tapes of the series. BTW they were made by Bill Mason, Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason's father.

[noveleiro]

Man, i didn't kew that! Thanks for the Info and great series!!

[johannes914]

Excellent rare footages ...