Villeneuve vs Arnoux - 1979 French GP (David Hobbs comments)

[Kyle1851]

Ken Squier did always have pronunciation problems.

[AutoRockinRacing94]

How many races did CBS cover F1 other than the ones from 2005-2006 and maybe a bit earlier in the 2000s? But at 0:47 - Ken by the way he said it "final lap of this game."

[swagger93]

@AutoRockinRacing94 Racing is a game--the object is to win.

[AutoRockinRacing94]

@swagger93 I know but I they usually use game as in Football, Baseball, Basketball, etc.

[BloodMagex]

@swagger93 It's not a game. It's a state of mind.

watch?v=MB_8jhuAQt0

[swagger93]

@BloodMagex By that measure, all games are a state of mind and we might as well not specify any competition by terming it a game.

[tommykl]

funny, i never heard of a driver called villenouve...

[dojOdRiFTeR]

gilles villenue quite argueably the most ovreated driver period 56 mins don;t mean shit unless u win the championship

[AutoRockinRacing94]

@dojOdRiFTeR That's what they said about Jacques one time on SPEED if I could go back or it might have been underated.

[babystinky]

@dojOdRiFTeR

what>? gilles didn't even have a twin turbo in the race. he was incredible, fearless and had some bad luck and died young. the most raw skills in a driver ever, period

[ForeverAyrtonSenna]

David Hobbs is my Grand Father, he's the reason I like F1!

[SoyaMax]

Villeneuve is the best !!! :)

[tonyfan00]

WOW!

[WorldChallenge]

They were still calling them Ren-alts in the seventies?

[Dropspine]

i would have love to been there in the office of the OLD MAN ENZO FERRARI days after the race watching the footage just to see his face and what he might of thought or felt.

[xxxxflumpxxxx]

david hobbs rocks my world.

[ImEastonianBitch]

Hell Yea

[EJ25RUN]

crazy to say but he did a better job on this than Murray Walker

[Cynon44]

David Hobbs and Ken Squier could call any form of racing -- be it NASCAR, IndyCars, Formula 1, CanAm, and know what they're talking about with just the right energy level.

[niikodas]

david hobbs and ken squier could call packing groceries

into paper sacks at the jiffy mart and make it sound exciting

[Juihi]

They commentated the race better than Murry, was disappointed at how unenthusiastic Murry's commentary was for this battle

[Ziltoid667]

I agree. Murray was a little lackluster on this one.

[d0ubl3sh0t]

i watched this battle in a film called ferrari

[higgy04]

I remember seeing this on CBS Sports Spectacular when Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 'Fanfare For The Common Man' was the theme. Hard to believe CBS SENT Ken Squier and David Hobbs to France to call the race. I think the big reason for that was because Mario Andretti was the defending champion. These days Bob Varsha and David Hobbs are probably watching a monitor calling the F1 races on SPEED.

BTW, this race occurred a few months after the famous fight at the end of the Daytona 500.

[fishflake1209]

Squier and Hobbs were the commentary men for CBS's NASCAR coverage in the 1980s, so I'd imagine that CBS was the broadcaster. Wide World of Sports was on ABC, and Jackie Stewart was their in-house racing personality.

[MrDBCooperstein]

This is the broadcast I remember watching in 1979. Was it on the Wide World Of Sports in America?

[O5fan]

Sounds much like Ken Squier.

[Wizerud]

Could be wrong but it sounds like Paul Page.

[Danielredstone]

And it's missing the pass by Gilles on the previous lap which the other vids have

[Jambalaya06]

Didn't Murray comment this race too? How does this add up?

[JCCyC]

I believe this is the US broadcast. Accent sounds American.

[stickdeathbr]

This is British accent, my dear friend.

[sennahj]

No this is American, Murray comment the race aswell. But ,ofcourse, that was on British television.

[stickdeathbr]

To narrator is American the Comentarist is British. That's what I meant.

[Camtoo]

the accent is obviously american.. my dear friend

[NASCARfan22k]

The American guy calling the race is Ken Squier, David Hobbs can be heard from time to time during the video.

[ohiopower]

Man Ken Squier. I thought that I recognized that voice from somewhere.

[cerberus1981]

This was the American broadcast of the race on the CBS network. The American voice is that of longtime broadcaster Ken Squier, accompanied by David Hobbs as the driver analyst.