Silverstone Testing 1990
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I think that this time (1985-1991) is the F1 at his top level, no one era unite so great drivers and cars like that.
We have the beautiful Mclarens Benettons and the amazing sounds of Ferrari v12.
We have drivers like Mansell, Prost, Senna, Piquet, Berger, Nannini, Alesi, and many others.
This is the time when men were men!
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So many different sounds, from V8/V10 and V12. Damn..i miss those times. Hopefully the F1 will once go back to these engines. The engines nowadays just sound so boring.
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@reading70 No it was the June tyre test. Usually run over 3 days about 2 weeks before the British GP.
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Whatever systems teams were checking that day......the differences in the rear wing from team to team quite marked..Honda's power always allowed McLaren to put on a barn door
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Crikey, twenty years ago - only seems like yesterday.
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@xansk8 For me the gold era of F1 is bettwen 1981-1993. We had the Brabham cars, one of the most beautyful cars of F1, and besides this drivers that you say, we had Lauda, Reutteman, Villeneuve, Jones, Rosberg, Schumacher (after 1992)... After 1993, Prost left F1, and Senna die, the only one that remains was Schumi...
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this is incredible footage it is brilliant 5 stars
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oh my god, I bow down
this is my dream footage!!! thank you!!
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Great vid, amazing to compare this with the 88 video you have. The reduction in downshifts is staggering!!
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The transmissions were not as refined through the 80's into the early 90's, maybe until 1991 or '92, as they are today as most of the F1 teams back then were using the 6-speed "H" pattern gearbox with the exception of Ferrari, who had the first paddle shift which they could use a 7-speed while the other teams still had the hand shifters.
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....and so is the racing because of electronic driver aids!
John Watson was not driving, he was F1 commentator on Eurosport around this time, with Allard Kalff. So he was there in his media role. He did not test the Jordan until January 1991.
andykitson 3 years ago