Formula One [Austria 1982 at Österreichring]: Last 5 Laps

[Kyle1851]

Great battle between two drivers both hungry for their first Grand Prix victory.

[depailler80]

Ciao Elio...25  years since you're gone today

[maurland]

una pagina indimenticabile delle VERA F1 !!!

.....grazie Keke,,,ma soprattutto grazie Elio

[MrDavidfball]

no hairpins no slow bends a real track so slipstreaming can be done leading to overtaking wish we had circuits like this today even ruined silverstone now

[Snaptainment]

Fantastic track elevation. Take note Mr Tilke, you git!

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

Is it me or shouldn't tracks like this be in F1 today? I know it's safer now but i think part of the glamour of F1 is the risk, ie a driver has got the balls to get into a car and drive it at 10/10ths on a track like this with the knowledge that if he makes a mistake he could possibly be involved in a bad crash. Don't get me wrong, i'd hate it if anyone got seriously hurt but F1 shouldnt simply be about skill but about the ability to stare risk in the face and overcome it. Or am i being callous?

[SaintBEEP]

man 1982 should have been Villeneuve and Pironi's year. Now both of them are dead from racing accidents. Real shame.

[amoe1234]

some months ago i was walking around the hella licht chicane with my wife and it felt just awesome to be there. (it's just a five minutes drive from my parents place to the A1/red bull/österreichring)

[Mik01MonghidoroBest]

A fantastic drive by a fantastic driver. Rest in peace, Elio

[TheColinChapman]

I agree, a fantastic track, but defenitely not useable for today's grand prix cars. look at the non-existant run-off-areas. I hope the rebuilt Red-Bull-Ring will be better than the A1-Ring.

[YouthEnergy]

Elio was The Stig.. Just look at the helmet.

[jeffsvilleusa]

oh man, the tracks just ain't what they used to be... it's just... so smooth!

[Canukki33]

Oh man Murray Walker sounds irritating...

[flipsidedogchop]

@Canukki33 stop your bitchin'

[paulosev66]

Absolutely right: one of the very best circuits, ever!!! What a disgrace it's all down to 1 (ONE!!!) stupid architect the responsibility to build any new circuit and change all the existing ones (with the blessing of mr Eccle-corrupt-stone and pals)

[GeneralArmorus]

imagine, if Rosberg won, he wouln't b as famous (winning the Championship only winning 1 race)

[tricesimo]

Today's tracks are an absolute disgrace. Want to know why the racing is boring? Look no further than what they are racing on!

[rohit1594]

Tilke = Shit...

Nice Video, btw....

[bavarianbass]

how could this lotus get infront?? love lotus but they where not really the best team to that point...

[Zobzon69]

1:46 would NEVER happen in the 2000's :'D

[alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

I agree a superb circuit. A sad day when it was bulldozed and turned into the A1 Ring!! Ahh the days of great circuits and proper racing and overtaking in F1!!!!

[TalentScott]

R.I.P. Elio...

[FSM979]

mindenhol négereket látok,oriási nagy hús darabokkal rohangálnak a bevásárló központokban ! :O

[MCBhangramuffin]

Real racing and a real circuit, not the rubbish designed by Herman the German these days. Thanks for posting

[EmersonMeyer33]

Really a superb track!

Thanks for sharing

[LeighJW]

The best circuit I ever visited. I hope it is coming back!

[JCCyC]

Whoa! Do you have links for that? I'd love to see it.

[felixaustriaX]

Hey, they're rebuilding this track until 2010 and in 2011 there will be formula 1 races again on this track!!

[moondog637]

Sanitized no doubt.

[chipattack911]

"In October 2008, the track owner Dietrich Mateschitz has ruled out any chance for the track to host a MotoGP or a Formula One Grand Prix in the future, and it will only be used for DTM races. The rebuilt track will be finished by the end of 2010." -Wikipedia

[dj00lazz]

how fast could they drive on these formula 1´ss

[Stereolabdream]

Great stuff. Not only the action on the track, but James Hunt too...I still miss his commentary...sad early loss.

[Metalmiltia]

Nico's got a lot to live up to. His old man was a great driver!

[pumpkins667]

now this is a Formula 1 race track !!!!!

too bad it got butchered up like other classic fast circuits such as Monza, Silverstone and Spa.

[topski100]

top footage!

[miisu]

Happy Birthday Keke!

[topski100]

colin chapmans last win

[cheapracer]

Ahh I remember where my dislike for Prost started. Nothing to do with his driving, around this time and later when he broke down as this example, he didn't give a shit about others. He could have quite easily rooled the car far off the track earlier instead of leaving it partly on the track - arrogant asshole.

[F1Fan2008Hami]

Great footage!

[motorsportnutter4eva]

If only this track was used for F1 nowadays, a real drivers circuit. Can you imagine how fast that Bosch-kurve would be to a modern F1 car, sadly Hermann Tilke botches up every decent circuit he breathes on, today's drivers are missing out on some real classic circuits.

[5150UK]

Totally agree. This configuration of the track would have been perfectly safe had they simply modified the surroundings to allow huge, FIA-friendly run off areas. Alain Prost even said so.

Many thanks to LeighF1 for posting this brilliant footage :)

[s1003232]

@motorsportnutter4eva

That´s the problem, they would go 50 kmh faster through te bosch kurve, making it harder to go side by side unless you make the track wider...

[Nereofrariz21]

Great race and great TV journalist!

[ninomaster]

one the best driver ever... elio de angelis

[jdb47games]

I remember this race well. It was the one in which Nelson Piquet's Brabham finally made it to its scheduled pit stop, but the engine failed immediately after. Many years later I had the privilege of sitting in Elio's winning Lotus while on a visit to the Classic Team Lotus garage.

[scoregoals]

I remember Murray Walker used to apolgise for being Patriotic to the viewers in Australia et al former Colonies but i was too young to appreciate what he was talking about! Could anyone tell me which countries got Murray and James for their commentary back in the days before multi-channel digital TV! I guess it was not so easy back then for every country to have their own commentary?

[iantaylor155]

I love that old circuit. Why do they always change the circuits and not the cars to make them slower...cry

[scoregoals]

your so right, it is tragic that this circuit was butchered. It always seems the people who run the show are blind and deaf!

[macheta]

Ah, at least there were then slick monsters, ground effects and cute cars without 89765456 wings, so we could get real overpasses at track, just as Tambay to Lauda (2:45), instead those silly and boring strategy passes.

Ideal F1: 1982 design, 2006 security.

[scoregoals]

Yes i agree with you, i love the design of the cars from 1982, especially the Ferrari design, it is beautiful and if we could go back in time it would be even more amazing because it was state of the art at that time!

[schopfheim91]

Great circuit, great race.

[pamolame]

grande elio de angelis, campione sfortunato!!

[unimogTAG]

why the cars did not race now in a1 or zwelteg?

[unimogTAG]

THAT IS MURRAY WALKER?

[sjc14031974]

Yes it is

[haynet1962]

Five stars - that's a no-brainer!

[Baiarda]

The modern A1 track is just the parody of the fabolous Zwelteg.

[TommyBellingham]

Great finish, nice video. Elio looks like the Stig from Top Gear with that helmet! :)

[gnubboleso]

le wing cars in questi curvoni fanno venire i brividi. sembra che siano su dei binari, se superi i limiti del grip sbamm vai a muro

[hunt2727]

totally agree!! today we have Spa, Monza, Montecarlo, .. but I miss Clermont Ferrand, Brands Hatch, the old Ring, the old Hockenheim, Watkins Glenn, the old Imola...

And miss Keke, Schummi, Gilles, Piquet, Clark, Nigel, and... Mika!!

[spooky78]

This is real F1..We want to see these kind of circuits..Not Valencia or singapure..Good old days..:(

[Dropspine]

spooky78 have you ever try finding formula one circuits

using google maps ( free down load ) lots of fun

[Rosssmith21]

Do the Brabham's and Lotus's of '82 have no front wing due to ground effect?

[sonicstep]

Correct

[aimanrs2]

Wrong. it is because the front wing have been detached from the car. i know because i'm the person who done it.

[123456elvis74]

Wiadomo, że darowanemu koniowi nie patrzy się w zęby, ale unikatowy kod promocyjny BUTLER naprawdę ma tylko zalety i odkąd za granie na Betfair com otrzymuję regularnie pieniądze - aż do sumy 1000$ - odkryłem nawet talent do pokera i blackjacka.

[ToniRonkonen]

I love this video. No need to say more.

[pooedcunt]

great finish nice video very good:)

[SalamasamalaZ]

Keke - The Champion

[therapytragedy]

that lotus is one of the most beautiful F1 cars ever i think

[Pistolero1983]

agreed!

[IndigoBluezao]

What a finish. Great drivers, great circuits... a magnificent era for F1. RIP Elio.

[Zeroninety]

Great Finish. RIP Elio de Angelis.

[Edustinen]

Damn, it was close :/

[mcqueenthee]

Magnificent stuff! F1 exactly how it should be - great racing on a superb track.

[interlagos9193]

The way F1 should be! Real race cars, big slicks, big wings, NO traction control, NO ABS, NO launch control, H pattern gearbox, THREE pedals (yes, these guys actually had to do all the work!) On a real race track, NO stupid computer designed chicanery here! Thanks for the memories!

[juhdiakathat]

pure fact!

[ReJ40]

Amen to that.

[schopfheim91]

Great finish but Rosberg won the championship. And it is Österreichring. By the way, a great circuit.

[Wizerud]

James Hunt was a good commentator. Pity he died so young.

[LeighF1]

Nope, this is a recording from Channel 9 Australia. Hence you will notice if you watch the entire clip, a very short ad break in between the coverage. Channel 9 did use the BBC feed though and hence the presence of Murray Walker and James Hunt with the slight overdub by Allen Jones

[tiadaid]

This is Australian TV? I thought it's the BBC...

[Vilperi1984]

No, it is österreichring. Check wikipedia.

[LeoAmes]

The track name is Osterreichring, not Ã--sterreichring

[cpande]

I loved how Prost's busted Renault came into the shot as Walker mentioned Lotus' switch to Renault power.

[PseudoLonginus]

That was CLOSE!

[Metallicakicksbutt]

Thanks. Of course I already knew de Angelis was going to win but nevertheless it was exciting. More of these videos please.