Grand Prix movie Monaco race

[InTecknicolour]

american refuses to pull an "Fernando is faster than you" . WIN.

[bpisports]

Both of these crashes are effing hilarious and WAY overdone...first James Garner going into the drink...ltm...then how the hell did Studdard go from skidding to a stop, back to full/semi-full speed, the up the side of a rockface/mountain (LOFL!) and slams into a barrier...wow, just WAY over the top.

[simontemplar1969]

Impresionante! Mónaco en su esplendor... con una fotografía que hoy nos parece normal pero hace 45 años... era impensada... además la emoción de la transmisión en crudo... sis necesidad de un grupo de Rock para que sea "más emocionante". cuando las cosas se hacen bien... no necesitan adornos musicales... mención aparte para los dobles (stuns) que participan en las escenas... un verdadero documental de la F! de otras épocas, cuando era de verdad...

[Pinin500]

Fantastic



[rocketdude1979]

There is a reason Iron Man 2 picked Monaco and Formula One as a setting, much more exciting than Nascrap (Nascar)!

[McLarenMercedes]

@rocketdude1979

Ovals are ovals are ovals. One can't compare ovals to the glamour of a place like Monaco. The backdrop alone makes it better, and then I haven't even mentioned the racing.

Ovals are "stadium racing", and racing shouldn't be in stadiums. Ask any real driver what his favorite circuits are, and you'll hear places like Spa, Nurburgring, Suzuka or some classic track.

[harataikiphilosopher]

@McLarenMercedes Im a brit n love F1 racing, but i have a lot of respect for NASCAR drivers and cars, its ridiculous to compare the two together, its like comparing 20-20 and Test Cricket, yes the basics are the same but the style of play is different the skill set needed is different. and i think quite a few of your 'real drivers' will also consider the brickyard and daytona along side Spa, Silverstone, Nurburgring etc

[Pinin500]

1950's to late 70's golden era of GP / F1, real gladiators, completely fearless.

F1 today is dull compared to the early years, Ascari, Farina, Nuvolari, Fangio up to

Villeneuve, Lauda, Rindt, makes for addictive viewing...

[crazybluemongoose]

wayyyyyy better than CGI

[F1guy1]

@4:04 SAY IT ,DONT SPRAY IT XD

[Zoomer30]

He could do like Vettle and just wreck him.

[stefanorso]

Does anybody manage to pick out Jo Schlesser in this movie?

He drove a car, but I can't understand which of the whole lot.

[Zoomer30]

Now now no team orders ;)

[Rotard12a]

To the people who say this is boring: I challenge you to record 4 minutes of YOUR life's work and make it MORE ENTERTAINING with no use of music, gags or stupidity.

[lshurr]

@Rotard12a Boring? I guess they weren't watching the same film. It happens, though. Some people seem not to even notice something that you might think can't be overlooked. I remember reading a negative review of Grand Prix that stated that it was about two adulterous relationships. It was as though the reviewer saw a movie with no racing in it, nor any other context for the relationships between the movie's characters.

[carsismeZ06]

As far as I'm concerned, this is the best sounding F1 car I've ever heard.

[lshurr]

@carsismeZ06 Right on. Ever since I first saw this movie, I've always liked the BRM's sound the best

[Zoomer30]

Vettle punts Weber into the drink.....oh wait :)

Funny, the movie is over 40 years old and F1 still has the same drama today (teammates wrecking each other, team favoring one driver over another, cars that break if you even look at them wrong)

You can tell from the haybails this was before Bandinis crash at Monooco.

[JohnnySlotCar]

Superior sequence from an otherwise fairly dreary film :-)

[Barkuti]

A superb classic movie, still thrilling. That was racing!

[007LandShark]

no, NASCAR isent even close, nascars really just a bunch of honky's and moonshine runners going in a circle

[slawek19884]

zapach spalin o poranku ryk silnika opary bendzynay i płacą ci zato co lubisz robić wszyscy chcą to robić nieliczni mogą

[bouYago]

Maravilhaaa de filme *----*

[oldfart4751]

Scott Stoddard was in my opinion loosely based on the legend Jim Clarke, he too was a Scottish farmer from a well to do family.

[ElSambrero]

When I first saw this movie... That crash scared the crap outta me.

[PrairieMischief]

One of the best movies I've seen, especially when it was released in 1966 with the introduction of Cinemascope. When one, if you had the moment in the theatre, to look at the audience, you would see people actually leaning as a Lotus or Ferrari F1 was going through a chicane in the streets of Monaco.

[harryspen]

if i was that team boss i would go bonkers

[YDDES]

"Scott Stoddard" alternates between a real BRM F1-car and a disguised F3-car when we see him behind "Pete Aron". That can be seen as his car has a bigger radiator-opening and the scock-absorbers outside the body before going trough the tunnel (F3). After the tunnel it's an F1. In the crash it's of course F3's again.

[TAHITI1967]

how much fuel could they hold, i read somewhere some had 3 tanks ,one on each side plus one in the front.

[SUPERBLAH28]

I wish f1 was as exciting these days as it was in the 60s. There is too much safety and dullness, when a driver makes a mistake at all these new tracks they just go onto a runoff area and keep going.

[rscunha13]

There´s no sense of safety!

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People crossing the track!

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Car stopping at track and pit crew working on it during the race!!!

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Crazy times! :D

[ab1cdefghijklmnop]

and the audience stands more or less on the track as well :D

[youmerda007]

isso é F1, maravilhoso .

[zulubvp]

Lindo ! Viva a F1 !

[babiiblueboi]

it sound bad ass when they go thru tha tunnel back then,it sound better now days tho

[emifisa]

e vai con il punta tacco nel tornante.

Comunque pensare che nella chicane un'anno dopo il film Bandini perderà la vita. W Bandini

[SynysterToken]

does anyone have this full movie on youtube?

[lshurr]

Ah, come'on! The movie runs nearly three hours. You can buy a used DVD at Amazon for just under $10 or a used VHS version for... 43 cents! Several years ago, I bought a used VHS for about $10 and then a new DVD for $20 a year later4 as soon as it came out. It's totally worth it.

This one might even be worth viewing in HD when the Blu-Ray version comes out.

[Spooly]

this is a great movie!

[JimmyPage68]

love the way they turn the wheel. that's jus art

[OneSingleBreath]

Dangerous as hell; imagine what will happen to your arms and hands if you crash. NEVER grab the wheel from the inside. Even moving with your hand over the peak (12 o clock position) isn´t the best way to steer.

[mkreisel]

Bandidi died a year later than the movie.

[mattman919191]

jochen rindt who is in the film and who one the championship the year after this film was released he died during the season and still won it and he is the onli driver to do that

[robinoi]

it is quite a unique feat, yes

[menino91]

does anyone know why is he calling him "bloody lier"?

[lshurr]

The bloody liar line is by "Jeff Jordan," the team owner. He blames "Pete Aron" for the accident and thinks that Aron's earlier complaint about the gearshift was a lie to cover for poor driving as well as his dismal win/loss record as mentioned earlier by the English track announcer, but not included in this clip.

[009090]

Well doesn't matter...  The guy was telling the truth... if I was being called a liar after a crash I would punch him and make sure he was in the hospital.

[lshurr]

No, he wasn't lying. Jordan was jerk. But he's partially responsible for the accident because he disregarded the track safety official's passing flag. He didn't signal Stoddard to pass until his shifter jammed and his brakes locked up causing him to hit Stoddard's car. Still, competitiveness and accidents are a way of life in racing and none of the other drivers blamed him. Even Pat Stoddard was mad at her husband for racing rather than at Aron with whom she has an affair in the story.

[miroslavsmith]

this film is awesome, so accurate

[edestci]

I always think,that the crash in the film,was the real accident of Bandini,but not,Bandini died in a "Chicane",after the tunell,and in a red Ferrari number 18,burned,in 1967.He was a great driver in his time,and pass to history

[brucejouanny]

Is Jackie Stewart in No.12 car?

[edestci]

Sure!In grand Prix of 1966 Stewart drives an green BRM and the marks of this helmet have the Scottish marks.

[raulv04]

Well, actually Stewart does not appear on the film, even though his helmet is displayed prominently. His name does not figure on the credits for drivers. Jack Brabham, Jo Sieffert, Jo Schlesser, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt, among others, drove those cars. Stewart was not among them

[DC322]

Don't forget Gruney.

[raulv04]

Absolutely right.

[DC322]

Whoops, Dan Gurney wasn't in the film driving. It was Phil Hill.

[lshurr]

No, that's "Scott Stoddard" in the movie, played by Brian Bedford, though not in most of the driving scenes because he was virtually unable to drive the Formula 3 cars used in the staged driving scenes -- he had trouble shifting gears. His helmet with the Scots plaid design was based on Stewart's helmet, though. Stewart was at Monaco that year, but did not participate in the film.  He crashed and didn't finish. He didn't like the helicopter filming the crash which wasn't used in the movie.

[littmann03]

Ishurr - with regard to Stewart at Monaco I think you have your wires a litle crossed. Jackie Stewart actually won the Monaco GP in 1966 ahead of Bandini in the 2.4 V6Ferrari which John Surtees had wanted to drive but been refused permission to race by team manager Dragoni. Stewart in fact crashed heavily at Spa and was trapped in the car which was leaking petrol. His narrow esape from serious injury prompted his drive to improve motor sport safety. This may be the crash you are thinking of.

[lshurr]

You are undoubtedly correct. I may have imperfectly recalled what I'm pretty sure I read in Car & Driver when I was in high school, maybe 1974. In any case, he said he had crashed and was trapped in a car leaking petrol and he was annoyed that Frankenheimer's helicopter was hovering overhead, presumably filming the incident. Either I misremembered which race or C&D gave the wrong one.

[robinoi]

Stewart commented later that the fuel used at the time was aviation kerosene which is corrosive and he said it was like a bath of acid.

James Garner meanwhile proved adept enough at racing to take it up himself on a semi-professional basis.

[lshurr]

You're talking about high-octane avgas, which is gasoline rather than kerosene. The latter isn't volatile enough for spark ignition engines. It is indeed very nasty stuff, containing volatile alkylates and, for the 130 octane version, up to 4 grams of tetraethyl lead per gallon, amping up toxicity even more.

Garner was the best driver of the star cast and Frankenheimer sent him to the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving.

[robinoi]

I am informed! :)

[delbard1]

@lshurr how many actors could actully drive? I know Paul Newman did drive races on less than "Top rank" races.

[lshurr]

@delbard1 All of the male star cast went to driving school. James Garner did well. Yves Montand drove well enough for filming purposes but became too afraid to drive fast after crashing. Antonio Sabato was called "OK," but Brian Bedford was described as "hopeless" -- virtually unable even to shift gears. That's why "Scott Stoddard" wore a scarf covering his lower face, i.e, so you couldn't tell him from the stand-in who did most of his driving.

[lshurr]

@delbard1 Frankenheimer also hired a lot of racing drivers. Two, Phil Hill and Graham Hill, had credited parts. Phil Hill also drove the Ford GT-40 used as a high-speed camera platform for some of those fabulous racing shots. Jack Brabham, Lorenzo Bandini, Bob Bondurant and Bruce McClaren had uncredited roles. Other drivers were hired as extras. You should get the DVD so you can see the lengthy, interesting "Making of Grand Prix" video included therein.

[paulomor]

I know it's just a movie, but it's hard to know that in the 60's such accidents and casualities were so often. F1 may be boring today, but at least we don't have to think of who's gonna die next race.

[F1god04]

Very true. The racing may seem, "boring" but its a hell of a lot better watching men retire alive then dead.

[seroyer2]

@F1god04 Racing is only Boring if you don't understand it. I think Football is boring because I don't really understand it. 

[RubensKimi]

Please, which is the Name of this fim, thank you

[glyn1812]

Grand Prix

made in 1966

[RubensKimi]

Merci ;-)

[RubensKimi]

Génial, l'évolution du circuit de cette époque à nos jour est impréssionnate, c'est pilotes avait beaucoup de courage.

Très beau montage, merci de nous le faire partager.

[ss4gg092]

I'm sorry, I meant they would do it for the driver shifting scenes in monaco. Still cool as hell though!

[ss4gg092]

I love this movie, someone needs to get the whole Monaco race, when the drivers are preparing for the race. Thats a really cool scene. Also, its crazy that Gurney or/and Phil Hill would do the gear shifting of Monaco down a frontstretch of an american speedway, for the sound aspect in some cases. Its wild they could remember the exact count and everything.

[binorwin]

If you get into the car,

"You will almost certainly die"

People now cannot understand what F1 Meant in the late 1960's

[ferschwanstain]

I repited 3 times 'cause I wanna.

GOOD VIDEO!!!!!

[ferschwanstain]

FATAL! Like MONZA and SPA in this movie. GREAT!!! If this happened really this would be the MOST TRAGIC SEASON almost all races are FATAL!!!

[brianmollineau]

good to see the pedals. using heel and toe to get perfectly matched downshifts.

[BlueFox284]

holy shit @ 5 min. that car rode the cliff wall. . .

[DoubleAgentBrasco]

This is the greatest motorsports movie of all time. Who ever wants to argue with that is in love with either Steve McQueen or Tom Cruise.

I do have to wonder why the wreck wasn't included. It's a spoiler I guess.

[DoubleAgentBrasco]

Sorry, commented on wrong video. See "Grand Prix, The Movie - Monaco Race"

Grand Prix is still the greatest motorsports movie.

[stealthy2]

Tom Cruise is a punk compared to McQueen... always will be too.

[DoubleAgentBrasco]

And don't forget Nascar blows hard compared to Le Mans.

[stealthy2]

Ahhh.... point well-taken and right you are. NASCAR isn't even close to being in the same galaxy as F1.

[McLarenMercedes]

True,even Nascar drivers themselves have began to complain the pace car is brought out for no other reason to pack the field of cars essentially creating artificial racing,where the winner usually wins due to good luck.

[AlonsoLegend]

The cameras in this film are just amazing and the noise!!!

[megadriver1]

I think there are a copy maked with Silvester Stalone, nothing like the old one..

Sorry for my english

[aure232]

copy? It is not possible compare those two things, both are about motosport yes ;)

[GeorgeRizov]

Without a doubt, Grand Prix is the greatest car racing movie ever made!