2007 Fernando Alonso onboard Spa Francorchamps

[SuperTokio95]

0:42 Alonso driving with one hand :-O

[55DJL]

@battleforlife458

Yeah, it still has hold of the charm old F1 circuits had, the flow of the circuit is brilliant yet challenging. One of my favourites too.

[lukewill783]

4 tracks that make f1. Monaco, Silverstone, Monza and Spa

[Gamezzproo]

@lukewill783 there must me nurburgring

[lukewill783]

@Gamezzproo true, but they killed that when they built the new circuit :(

[1009jenz]

I think Fernando Alonso wars 2007 Worldchampion with renault, and i think he wars never in mclaren mercedes

[jabba969]

@1009jenz chevk ur facts, 2007 was the only seson Alonso drove for mclaren, in 2008 he came back to renault. he was world champion in 2005 and 2006 for renault. in 2009 he went to ferrari.

[1009jenz]

1:18 bis 1:24 Eau Rouge

[MassiveStunnah]

Love this track! High speed baby!

[SmokerFace12]

SPA must stay in 2013 and longer!!!!!!!! 

[simobgbgbg]

Hamilton should have been given a drive through penalty for staying in the box for too long! LOL

[careyjh1]

Pure bliss!!! Cockpit Cam... EAU ROUGE... What other track has centrifuge And, Launch Pad all in one?? Second and third great driveable tracks tracks?? Jerez and Hungaroring. ELeetskeet.

[stellisnba]

legendary track!

[banshee5555]

Groovy tires man.

[guillermozart]

BEST CIRCUIT EVER !!!!!

[MrJbfan2010]

Arrgghhhh traction control! ¬.¬ Kill it!

[battleforlife458]

i am fucking proud to be belgian!!!!! best circuit in the world in my opinion!!!!

[MrIceman001]

@battleforlife458 I agree.

[Mantoxus]

Alonso....GTFO my McLaren!

[moret330]

SPA imola and the nurburgring nordschleife are the best tracks in europe!!

[KKZReset11]

@moret330 Lol ok let's just forget about Monaco. Imola over Monaco right? Lol...

[VuDu4000]

@KKZReset11 Many tracks are better than Monaco. Monaco is okay sure, but really the track has played its toll. However, I do believe that Monaco should never be taken out of the calendar as it actually are part of the F1-soul itself, but it doesn't suit the modern F1 cars. I simply do not like city tracks very much, I think they does not offer exciting racing and they should all be taken away, except Monaco, simply because it has been there forever.

[KannonballKiller]

@VuDu4000 I absolutely agree with you on that. However, two other tracks that deserves to stay in my opinion, would be Montreal and Albert park. Both tracks are classed as street circuits but I love them both. They offer high speed corners and great races, not sharp point and go style tracks like Valencia and Abu Dhabi that offer a boring race, made even worse when Abu Dhabi was chosen to be at the end of the season! Awful.

[Art0KillHitman]

In Spa cars need the 8th engine marche lol

[MetaKnightsKirby]

@Art0KillHitman Wouldnt make a difference, the teams would just gear the cars even shorter.

They have been revving them near to the rev ceiling ever ince the V8'2 came in for 2006.

[MsQuiksilver93]

Beim rausbeschleunigen hört man noch die Traktionskontrolle, geiles Geräusch iwie :D

[FookinLiam]

i think this is the last f1 year, now the car sucks as the rules as well. bring back those times!!!

[SiulF1]

V8's had a nice sound back then

[epistte]

@SiulF1 How many people remember the 3.5 liter V10s?

Spa is the king of F1 courses.

[ScheissSo4]

i want the old bus stop back...!!!

[2754iceman]

if you dont like alonso you dont like f1

[BMK500]

and at the entrance of eau rouge, due to the huge g load his testicles will actually be forced back into his body. Like reverse puberty if you will

[SilzuuX]

Love SPA! I have been in there, watching F1! Was it 2009? I can't remember.

[eXPerienceyeah]

From 0:44 to 0:51 is my favourite part!

[PolandYT]

i loved mclaren and ferrari 2007 chassis, awesome looking cars good times

[eduardobag]

Hermamm Tilke pay attention what a really great circuit. Your circuits are shit near Spa.

[delta0307]

is it just me or are the side mirrors bending? xD

[EvilCrewMember]

@delta0307 i just noticed that too, after he passed eau rouge. simply the best track in FIA caledar.

[peterdoes]

seeing this kinda footage makes you wonder what kind of clows are running F1 these days. Going to 1.6 4 cylinder turbo engines, and all the other restrictions COMMON people

[stepxunit]

How fast did he go around 1:30 .. looks like 300+ for sure haha.

Also i'm still so much impressed by the speeds these guys go.. omg :D

[jianh1989]

0:38 one handed steering the car flat out about 300kph... he's got big balls

[Semeiron]

that is a hell of a track... and a hell of a driver btw

[welshfan2k9]

spa ftw, best race track ever, so unpredictable

[raileanulucian]

looks better in F1 2010 :)

[jonw82]

You can hear the TC, haven't heard TC in ages. Everyone said when it was removed everything would change.. not really. The drivers are the best in the world, the only difference is you don't hear that grind sound anymore.

[NACbredaNAC]

1:18 - 1:23 for the best left-right-left combination in the racing world!

[ouiotzes1]

the second better track after nurburgring..

[ProStreet950]

I love this track

[imnotftw]

i wish alonson had stayed with mclaren and button had gone to ferrari. alonso is a better driver.

[ribasz]

musica para mis oidos

[DomKi]

1:16

[slampe]

great vid, too bad it remembers me how hard i used to hate hearing that irritating TC noice

[e1gr]

@slampe I'd say that Mercedes engine sound and TC are coming together quite good, not like Ferrari for example.

[mawaruz]

This is how watching a race should be. Watching the drive, hearing that amazing engine noise. Not having it all drowned out by a stupid commentator who just states what you're already seeing on screen with your own eyes.

[F1JPMontoya]

@mawaruz I believe that the counter-argument to this is 'Murray Walker'. :D

[rayneralvarenga]

ESSE CARA PILOTA DEMAIS!! PQP!

[Speedy00]

they should bring back the gravel beside the track... those guys are highly paid, they are professionals.... if i do a mistake at work, my boss just kicks my ass... those guys make mistakes and there's nothing bad happening... they just get back on the track... so bring back the gravel, they brake too late, the race is over.. that's the point...

[TheLukas12364]

@Speedy00

absolutly right!! i hate the new spa for his new La Source and the boring tilke circuits like abu dhabi,valencia and bahrain. but we can do nothing against it!!

[Henkkaaa89]

Well there is not too much imagination used on Spa track, only straight line through the whole race...

[Foxx1981]

The new bus-stop is one of the most retarded chicanes ever

[fandyboy]

warm up lap....

[Naganiet200]

perfect balance !!



[RogelyW]

Grande Alonso!! Gracias J.C. por compartir!!

[nickJod1234]

I don't like Valencia, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain (its gone - yes!) and Barcelona. But I enjoy this. Welcome back KERS and in a couple of years, turbos. Nice lap Fernando.

[NialoF2]

I don't mind Singapore and Abu Dhabi too much, Korea's alright too, but I don't like Bahrain at all, it's just so boring even before they added that extension in 2010

[F1Fan2011]

I wish that Alonso would have stayed at Mclaren, they should have got rid of Hamilton instead, as Alonso is much the better driver.

[MetaKnightsKirby]

@F1Fan2011 Hamilton finished ahead of Alonso in his ROOKIE SEASON, and on top of that didnt throw his dummy out of the pram at the thought of equal terms within the team. So, no.

[darkiddd]

@MetaKnightsKirby Alonso didn't throw his dummy out of the pram at the thought of equal terms. He throw his dummy out of the pram when he and all the world was told he would receive equal treatment and he did not. Everyone knows (but not everyone recognizes) Mclaren favoured Hamilton since Indianapolis. So no, Alonso did well. He thought "Okay, you say to everyone we have the same treatment but in fact we don't so you are making me look worse than Hammy. Then I'm gonna fuck you hard" and he did

[MetaKnightsKirby]

@darkiddd Unless you are completely fooled by Alonso's poor excuse for his disatisfaction of Mclarens policy, you would be able to recognise that they did not favour Hamilton at all.

They had equal oportunities, Hamilton did better, and Alonso couldnt handle it. Alonso was very much favoured over everyone when at Renault, and look what happened to Trulli in 2004 when he was beating Alonso...

[VuDu4000]

@MetaKnightsKirby If they truly didnt favour daddys boy Hamilton, why did they let Alonso leave Mclaren early? The way I saw it Alonso didnt have much problem with Hamilton, the problem was Ron Dennis.

[MetaKnightsKirby]

@VuDu4000 Because he wanted to, he made a proper relationship impossible and betrayed the team to the FIA.

[BrotherYounis]

i miss the 2008 cars i could watch them all day please bring them back and the v10 monsters along with the windsreen wipers.

[blondboyharrison]

I hate the sound of traction control!

[xFYCNxHAZZARD]

@blondboyharrison true i don't think traction control should ever be in F1 again!

[lodestar260]

Damn, If I watch those onboard videos of the years 2004-2008 I can feel the G-forces on my neck!

[MrGeorgef1]

in 0:51 this is risky

[Burritoast]

hell ya

top speed

into the chicane.....

sick!

[smokeyou85]

gorgeous track.

[FXXthespeedingbeauty]

Alonso drives like all those invinceble Expert-AI at thos racing games !

[SebastianWCH05]

@FXXthespeedingbeauty

los españoles es que conducimos muy bien... no como otros!

[fokke74]

best f1 circuit

[rafa10223]

If you dont like SPA, you dont like F1

[Warlock2212]

@rafa10223 well, i don't like spa..

i LOVE Spa!!

against abu dhabi bahrain singapore and valencia!!!

[dojOdRiFTeR]

@Warlock2212 ahem brother for me spa, monaco, monzA, NUBURING(THE OLD GREEN HELL), SUZUKA, AND FUJI R THE CLASSIC F1 TRACKS FOR ME AND SHOULD ALWAYS REMAIN

[juul384]

@Warlock2212 all those races tend to be so boring 80% of the time!!!!

[arjennovic]

@Warlock2212 Not against singapore please. It's an epiic track because it's in the dark.

[MusicVideoJudge1]

@Warlock2212 I actually Like Abu Dhabi

[pirivi]

@rafa10223 i don't like traction control :(

[redbull69cl]

@rafa10223 if u dont like spa u dont like any kind of racing at that matter! haha

[TheV12ferrari]

@rafa10223 What if you love the track?

[Bangoustine]

impressive speed... this track is so dangerous

[manomogul]

@Bangoustine Good!!

[jraybay]

@nobusan84 They modified the bust stop chicane so they could have more room in the pit lane and a longer front straight leading up to la source.

[manomogul]

@jraybay Ah!! But. a question. Why didn't they build a bus stop at the bus chicane eh?! Eh?! he he hee, you'll soon find out when the season starts, someones gonna be really fast like before!! hehehe

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

@CUMCLOSERMYDEAR - I know right! Two titles and more wins than Fangio! Oh God, he's such a loser!

[thecomputernerd03ful]

This is Belgium no Spa Francorchamps! And great video!

[jraybay]

@thecomputernerd03ful Spa Francorchamps is in Belgium... and that is the name for the circuit " spa francorchamps "

[infirmier83]

1:18 - 1:22 Best corner ever in F1!

[ary7864]

0:05 shake that ass mclaren

[Einchvesteinberlin]

@nobusan84 He was unlucky to not have been champion in 2007, and rather lucky to be wc in 2008....Vettel had so much bad luck early on in 2010 he was a deserving wc....Fernando did a good job too

[Einchvesteinberlin]

@nobusan84 So 'people like hamilton' wouldn't find it quite as easy to cut the corner? If you're not a Hamilton hater, Im guessing its because it had a really dangerous pit entry.

[Einchvesteinberlin]

@nobusan84 Likewise....The FIA literally handed the championship to him & Ferrari on a plate, (penalising schumacher for a perfectly legitimate move on alonso, and not penalising Alonso when there was an OBVIOUS breach of the rules) and they still ended up losing it! Fernando deserved no better than 4th place in the championship.....

[Einchvesteinberlin]

Crazy aggression!

[boroeko]

Looks like a super fun course to race on. Very fast, I love turns where they have it floored the entire time.

[vitorfjunqueira]

Fernando, SON OF A BITCH!

[forwardboi112]

if he was with red bull he would have been 2010 f1 world champion

[jwmm4eva]

Thank God this filth drove a McLaren only for 1 year...good riddance.

[calvinnn1]

hahah yeh celebrating his chapionship being handed to vettel

[bazcoloradomio]

alonso shit

[OnlineMediathek]

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[Ghostca]

Gotta love watching the top element of the front wing deflection in braking zones!

[natxog1975]

los dos mejores comentarios son , unoen castellano y otro en ingles. thanks all good video good people and good feeling!!!!

[adventum]

Eu Rouge flat out is pure adrenaline

[ConnorO86]

Not saying I could handle it, but TCS should never been allowed into F1 - These cars were just brake turn accelerate, brake turn accelerate! Forever making that awfull grinding noise - Ayrton Senna (GRHS) would have been sick in one of these V10 beats without all the driver assits!

[magknight]

@ConnorO86 Yeah.. It's been so much better seeing them drive without TC

[ErosaScuderia]

This guy is quick.

[numbtesticle]

one of the hardest circuits if not the hardest and of the most skilled driver:)

[MattMK45]

I hate the noise the traction control makes when it nannys the throttle!!! Glad they've dropped it now.

[Garis87]

perfect handling doesn't mean you won't oversteer or understeer...!

[Forza32009]

Spa!

[fateola]

Love the little bit of oversteer going into the apex around 2:16

[shanksp]

mclaren just builds simply beautiful looking cars, by far the best car in 07

[jraybay]

@shanksp Mclaren havent had the best cars for the past 4/5 years like people think. They just have great drivers and a great motors. they struggle with a downforce for along time now but I dont care though as long as they are winning : D

[pfcstu2010]

My first grand prix Spa this month........can not wucking fait !!!!!!!

[aieljose]

lol compared to Kimi's lap this looks average....

[Hamiltonfan2]

best circuit ever

[Bombus91]

@Hamiltonfan2

i totally agree

[pollasmolledo]

love the track

[FRFM00]

I loved Alonso at McLaren. I thought of it as the purest form of F1. Loved his helmet design too. It was a whole new Alonso. Too bad about Lewis being so natural though. A class pair for 2007

[durorh]

Too low fps.

[bandman232]

Alonso should have stayed with Mclaren

[perunicictovic]

@bandman232 alonso and hamilton can´t be together in the same team or at least, they can´t be together with a team manager like Ron Dennis.Mclaren was so unfair with Fernando for me.

[LRShooooya0607]

@perunicictovic true

[Insanaty]

@perunicictovic

no fernando was unfair to the team.

he was a hypocrit, he talked shit 'bout the team.

he would be the biggest star, but the media saw the rookie with incredible speed. fernando wins, nobody cares, hamilton 2 or 3 place the world and media talked #bout that! not fernando, and that was the point. fernando is a fucking ego, and talked lies and shit bout mclaren and the result was, the team fucked up fernando. the right choice. team = team, not team = fernando

[perunicictovic]

@Insanaty ok.it´s your opinion and I´m respectful with it. for me the real thing was: Mclaren should have win the championship (alonso or hamilton, I don´t care) and what hapened was that raikonnen did it. why??. VERY CLEAR: there must be a team leader. if two drivers from the same team fight and make shit then other team will fuck you. So simple my friend.

[kalandracas42]

Alonso nunca a llevado ese casco.

[Apoic123]

v-i8 is so under powerd.

[heyamnesia]

why intermediate?

[david181993]

@heyamnesia They aren't inters. They were the prime tyre for 2007.

Slick tyres only came back in 2009.

[MrJbfan2010]

@brucecheewai im just an eagle-eyed viewer who i spassionate about formula 1 and can spot many things that people cannot see.

[Regret696]

This car was great. 2009 car sucked. and the 2010 car is still very fast, but the qualifying times are let downs.

[triplehhhmytimewwf]

@Regret696 Let downs???You know that Sebastien Vettal broke a lap record this year,right?

[Regret696]

You know that i ment the mclaren right? which has nothing to do with vettel.

[triplehhhmytimewwf]

@Regret696 Oh,ok

[Forzascuderiaf1]

@triplehhhmytimewwf it only counts in the race no lap records will be broken this year

[triplehhhmytimewwf]

@Forzascuderiaf1 Oh ok,I didn't remember that part.Now that you say that I remember also,the fact that in 2005 at Bahraín,the fastest lap during the weekend was on the second 29 if I'm not wrong,and the lap record is still something like 1.30.252.

It sucks that you can only break lap records during the race,the whole weekend should count.

[michiel1551]

We Belgians certainly know how to build a racing track:)

[ImFasterThanTheStig]

@michiel1551

Please, teach Hermann Tilke how to build racing tracks.

[uk2k1010]

@michiel1551 and waffles

[Burritoast]

@michiel1551

do you how to do anything else???

[xobrentox]

I love how they max out the revs so much on this track.

[allesinmetaal]

rode it a few times on my hayabusa: scary as hell!!! but i'd do it any time i can, this by far THE most challenging track in the universe...but it is astonshing watchin a F1 car...this is unreal FAST!!!

[1hollywoodlover2]

No The most challenging is Nurburgring, Nordschleife.

[asciende]

SPA the best track ever.

[manomogul]

@asciende Fernando Alonso, what a fantastic driver he is, a worthy talented, amazing world champion!!!

[GTRF1V8]

this track is stunning.

[absintobias]

@Joshman692, tcs helps but does not do the job. i wish you could just understand how hard it is to simply keep the brakes at right temp. or dealing with sidewind before you state that.

[MetaKnightsKirby]

My favourite sounding car after the V10's.

[traydamus]

@MetaKnightsKirby

Renault's V8 sounds good, too.

[MrBoskobuha]

omg what a drive,he is the best

toma nando toma

[ruben171892]

una vuelta perfecta :D

[f1ahistory]

fernado is a very good driver i think he could be champion of 2010 but he better could stay whit mclaren in 2008

[Fastbikkel]

I agree, i think he shouldn't have complained and just go for it. He was doing fine as far as i could see :)

[FatPizza56]

perfect handling, no understeer or oversteer

[Joshman692]

@FatPizza56:

there was traction control then tho..

[houyt69]

traction control does not eliminte understeer, it only helps with power oversteer. this mclaren is very finely balenced around here.

[Joshman692]

@houyt69

true true, it was finely balanced there. didn't win tho :P

traction control helped A LOT with getting out of the corners. thst wt im sayin, if there was no traction control in tht car he would've got a bit of opposite lock.

[MrJbfan2010]

@FatPizza56 there is a little bit of oversteer on the entrance to the fagnes chicane at 2:12

[tduenzo]

@FatPizza56

Don't say that, at about 2:43 he had oversteer because he had to counter steer the car the back end would not get out of him.