Nurburgring 67-76

[yannick3694]

and today it´s too dangerous ?? thats a gag, isn´t it ?!

[DavidLCarcoba]

Flugplatz is jus amazing!

By the way do you knnow which section shows the video in 0:19 onwards? (the cars took off twice aswell!)

[deltaframes]

2.08. Great music.

[MrBoboeug]

racing the 24-hours of nurburgring was realy hard!!!!!!!

[0Morlock0]

fantastic video!

thats racing man

[DrBIeed]

Obviously the fear of driving something like that, especially to the early 70's standards, don't even scare me quite as much as the idea that it would take for fucking ever for an ambulance to make its way around parts of that huge ass track.

[silvanski]

0:14 Jumps!!! Don't try that with a 2010 almost unsprung F1 car

[Dogman36]

holy fuck did the guy at the end burn to death!?

[MegaLiopleurodon]

@Dogman36 - No, that's Niki Lauda. He was severely injured and burnt and almost died, but he recovered quickly and came back to race about 2 months later, but he lost the championship to James Hunt.

[Dogman36]

@MegaLiopleurodon whew that's cool. the first time i saw this (as in my earlier comment) i was surprised is all.

ps:: 1:25 amen.

[MegaLiopIeurodon]

@Dogman36 Did you know I'm stupid fag?

[MegaLiopIeurodon]

Why did my daddy touch me THERE??? WHY WHY WHY!!!!!

[SIayerfan84]

@MegaLiopleurodon STFU you stupid peice of shit. close your damn account before I have it shut!!!!!!! LMAO @U dumbfuck

[MegaLiopleurodon]

@SIayerfan84 - Look closely! There's a fake-Megaliopleurodon around. He is a sad troll who made his page look like mine. He's stalking me for months now and writes insulting comments everywhere. I've noticed that you have some trouble with him and wrote 2 harsh comments on his page, so you should know the difference.

[silvanski]

@Dogman36

That's Niki Lauda. He got badly burned but survived and returned to racing later in the season

[Zoomer30]

The people that made that track cleraly did not race that track, they would have torched the place.

[muppet6789]

@Zoomer30 nah, youve gotta think back then safety was no concern it was just about making good tracks

[randombeliefs]

Huge respect to Jackie Stewart just for being alive.

and why didn't they 'Knight' John Surtees yet ?????????????

[Bantam486]

After you´ve seen a few races at the Nordschleife and than look to modern F1 you´ll think Schumacher is a pussy. ;)

[055697]

if sir jackie was scared then i would shit my pants!

[Molo9000]

"The faster you drive round the Ring the less you know and maybe that's the best thing to do"

lol

Back then these guys needed a sense of humour.

In those ten F1 season from '67-'76 ten (10!) drivers crashed to death during race weekends and two drivers died during testing.

They'd ban F1 if it was still that dangerous today.

[Mastur1337Cheef]

Balls Of Steel.

[superkindonmymind]

giant enormous balls..

[Waitingforriki]

The G force is so great you can't take your foot off the throttle & onto the brakes...WOW! Gives you some idea of just what it takes to drive a F1 car in anger..Grand Prix racing..the most physically demanding activity a man can do outside of fighting a war..Those drivers are B.A.D..r.e.s.p.e.c.t..

[blackwatersc]

superb driving... still

[Waitingforriki]

I love that Ferrari 312T2..the 1976 car..it's so beautiful..

[blackwatersc]

superb driving... still

[pratikparija]

Who's car was that again in the end? It was someone famous I know that!

[dominobeast]

it was niki lauda.

[XSpdXdmnX85X]

WOW that last part was horrible

[bluemastersmoker]

When men had balls of steel

[mysticusa]

@bluemastersmoker balls of steel my balls! this is balls made of carbon fiber liquid alloy mixed with unobtanium from pandora!

[TTFAFF]

If the F1 cars were jumping like take today, someone would get screwed. hehe

[ntt688]

Now, this is a track!

[NateDawg80126]

Not to take anything away from current F1 drivers, but to be the fastest back then, you were putting yourself on the very edge of grip, today there is so much suction and downforce created by the cars that being on the edge means you are close to driving off the side of the track, not that you are about to lose control of your vehicle. It is really amazing that more men were not killed in the early days of the sport.

[hutuguru81]

thats true, but today the g forces generated by that downforce are incredible requiring extreme fitness levels, and reaction times of todays f1 drivers need to be as sharp as a fighter pilots. so they were brave men back then with balls the size of watermelons but today they are superhuman, elite level athletes.

[NateDawg80126]

Very true.

[SwanKong11]

you do not think it took elite athletics to drive a car at those speeds with those mechanics back then?

[hutuguru81]

toughness and strength, not athleticism. james hunt drank and smoked, you could do that back then, but todays machines are so extreme that they MUST be super fit to simply be able to drive for more than 10 laps, let alone be fast.

its funny, in 30 yrs time there wont be rich old guys racing todays cars as "historic" as there is 2day with 70's cars there just to quick!!! thats how far racing technology has come

[SwanKong11]

Well you are right in the fact that today's drivers are better athletes; however if you took today's drivers and put them in those cars, they simply would not drive them as well as the drivers of yesteryear. Also, if you think professional drivers today do not drink and smoke, I think you are wrong too. Professional "athletes" all party, lol.

[hutuguru81]

lol thats true, word in the pitlane is micheal schumacer acts like an annoying little kid when he gets drunk, throwing food at ppl and pouring water down ppl's shirts!

[Waitingforriki]

Out goes the sensible Schumi when he's had a few..lol..I find that rather refreshing about him actually..

[demothefuckin89]

Questi si che erano piloti con le palle quadrate

[peanutfarmerUSA]

I understand, I was born in 1990.

[jazz4rock]

HELL, that was good times of rockin' and wheelin'! Wish I had a time machine to get

back there... As Lauda finished the era of

traditional Nurburgring I was aged 6. I can

just darkly remember his crash way back then.

What would I do for an vintage race of 70's-F1

cars on the Nordschleife!!!

[slavepageant]

the last part was really HORRIFYING.....hell i'd been like bumping through every corners in the nurburgring in gran turismo 4 and like my car only spins but never explodes....

[DC322]

The Nurburgring was the most challenging circuit in F1 which Sir Jackie Stewart dubbed "The Green Hell" Niki Lauda's fiery accident ends F1 racing at the Northern Loop but still races on the modern F1 circuit.

[schufosi]

That was when F1 was F1!

[NameUsedAlready]

This form of road racing is still practiced in Ireland on regular public roads, albeit with motorbikes, and is completely legal. Its amazing you can literally sit within inches of the the track, last year a bike was recorded doing 202.8mph!..check out irish road racing videos on you tube, theres bound to be some, and if u fancy your chances entry fees are cheap enough!

[craplike123]

does anyone know whose comment it is when the video shows the onboard footage?

its hard to believe how close and unsecured the ppl could get to the track these days.. its a damn ride on a razorblade

[wippermann]

Sir Jackie Stewart (WC 1969,71 & 73 + 4 times winner of the Nürburgring)

[DerEinzige21]

I almost didn't recognize him, from this vid he sounds like a little girl.

[motormouth1974]

he sounds like Jimmy Kranky in this vid pmsl!

[wipeout2098]

Sir Jackie's high-pitched voice maybe shows just how much the Nurburgring frightens drivers. :D

[Lundamyrstrollet]

great to see that old footage of the ring

[jgorenc]

Ahhh... Nostalgia :)

[craplike123]

the music sucks that hard man