The car may not be as fast as today's cars but watching the onboard itself made it look much faster than today's cars. Also the engine sound.....*chef's kiss*.
@@ABYTE64 When V6 engines were introduced there was a huge performance decrease, inform yourself. It took 20 years for the cars to be able to do similar laptimes (kind of), mostly because of aero reg changes and advancements that allowed the cars to be faster through the corners. Edit I'll even throw you some numbers. The fastest laptime in 2023 around Monza was by Oscar Piastri with 1:25.072. In 2004 the fastest time was by Rubens Barricello with 1:21.046. If you think that current generation F1 is the fastest of all times you are delusional. And it's going to get even slower in 2026 with the new engine regs.
Oh puhleeze... Mansell a genius? Isaac Newton was a genius. Einstein was a genius. Max Planck was a genius. Nigel Mansell drove cars for a living. Edited to Add: Laughing my head off how many Mansell fanbois are triggered by this comment.
They are the elite of all world drivers, they can drive anything with enough time for preparation like those guys had, they were the elite of their time.
Il Leone - The Lion Full send from the ever committed Nigel 'Red 5' Mansell. Didn't half moan like fuck, but he had a huge heart and set of balls to match it 💪
Each driver can only drive the cars they're given. If Mansell was driving in this era you'd be saying he was boring, its just the way the cars have to be driven.
1989 was a classic season turbo engines outlawed so normally asperated engines back. Renault where back. Ferrari bring semi auto gearboxes to go racing. With that wonderful v12 power. Senna and prost still at it hammer and tongs.
I do watch it all day, every day, pure heaven!!! Oh my days!!!!! FERAL!! That's the only word that comes remotely close. Absolutely breathtaking. Maximum to the uploader!! Mad respect!! Done know!! 👍👊😊
@@papatango5085 I don't know who is Pierre Gasly as I have stopped watching F1 in the middle 90s But thanks for replying. I liked Didier Pironi and the fight between René Arnoux x Alain Prost back in the Renault days.
Awesome indeed. The Lion was a truly beast. Ferrari had the edge on Estoril. But even the McLaren being outperformed by Ferrari in Portugal, still with a regular H manual gearbox, Senna managed to pole, being the fastest man in the weekend. I'd love to watch his lap, changing gears and one handed steering, setting the pole against the superiority of the Ferraris in this GP.
Register to F1TV. The access to the archive package is really cheap. Most of the time you have overview/highlights from old races, but there are some full races from this era. It is definitely a more "mature" racing... unlike today's mario kart.
88-92 best era of F1 imo, I remember as a kid the whole family would sit down and watch the F1 together it was great times, Now I don’t even watch it, it seems to get worse and worse every year.
Totally agree. If you've watched the modern F1 for a while, and then get back to some races from the early 90's, you definitely realise that something went wrong with the years. Early 90's onboards are almost terrifying to watch. Shaky cam, lots of rumble in the steering, great, LOUD sound, and drivers who really work the wheel. No DRS either, but honest overtaking. Not everything gets better with the years. Actually, the least things do. Modern F1 is for the ADHD generation, who can't enjoy 20 laps of drivers fighting to stick to the person in front, waiting for a mistake.
@@chakko007 arent you the ADHS here? simply because today is so full of great stuff, that you are only triggeredby shaky cams and violent stuff anyone can see even with a hole in the eye? well, today modern world is not a rough try. it is simply the evolution. prost senna and the engineers all would have done the same IN FACT THEY DID. so tehre is NOTHING different except the result think about it.
@@MrTiti Well, I just told you that I don't consider today's F1 to be full of "great stuff". 😉 "It is simply the evolution" - yeah, right. As if over expensive hybrid motors, which make you 1 or 2 seconds faster on a lap make so much sense. Or synthetic things like DRS, to give the spectator more ACTION, because he's begging for it, because motor racing is so damn boring otherwise. Motorspot hasn't been boring in the erly 90's. It's just that the people want more MOAR these days. Which isn't a very good development. Because, how far can you get, when people always want moar moar MOAR. At some point, you can't give them more. Or, you have to implement synthetic bullshit which doesn't make sense, like they do now. It's no coincidence that some people say that they should go back to the roots.
look at the movement in mansells head my god how could a driver even pick out an apex with his field of vision shaking around like that. motor racing drivers of past eras were true atheletes, they had to be to withstand the g forces!
Maybe I am getting old, but F1 car from now do not give that excitement with onboard camera.... These car were beast, tracks were fantastic, bumpy and dusty , the driver were not whining on the radio but just fighting and racing !!!
Revolutionary semi-auto gearbox. Guaranteed 0,5s faster per lap by itself. Ferrari went great in Portugal. Still, Senna managed to pole, being the fastest man in the weekend.
Solo la Ferrari poteva non vincere il mondiale l'anno dopo con il vantaggio del cambio automatico ormai rodato. All'epoca dicevano che la differenza era poca con il manuale, secondo me non sapevano neanche loro il vantaggio che dava.
Mansell was brilliant a real beast of a driver, for anyone slagging him off try driving one of those machines & see if you could even get half as close to what he did 🤔
Love estoril. It’s interesting that he made a double apex out of T3. On the F1 2013 game on Xbox you just take it conventionally and blip the throttle while hugging the kerb for most of the turn.
Yes. The 1989 Ferrari was the first F1 car to run the paddle shift system. Ferrari were the only team using it until Williams developed there own paddle shift system in 1991, McLaren introduced there's a few races in 1992 & the rest through 1993/94/95. 1996 was the first year where the full grid were using paddle shifters (Once the Forti team withdrew).
They did. It was horribly unreliable as you'd expect with new technology. Mansell actually won the first race of the season with it despite the fact that he had so little faith he'd finish the race, never mind win it, that he booked an early flight back home.
Unfortunately I've never been able to get overseas yet to see an F1 race. When my father took me to his hometown of Indianapolis for the 93 indy 500 I got to see Nigel the great devour the brickyard to pieces.
You look at the input the drivers today put in and they are so much more easier to drive. You had to wrestle these things around. Physically far more demanding imho.
@@lucasbailey8878 a little but not that much more. That is only one aspect. The physical overall demand of driving the older generation cars were far higher. You only have to look at the drivers when they have finished a race they have hardly broken sweat. Please don’t mention fitness levels, people like Senna were as fit as any driver now and had to be physically stronger. No power steering.
Great engine sound and simply but beautiful steering with few bottoms, in old style. But I should to say that Nigell drive was a bit strange, not accurate like Alain or Ayrton...
So there are also videos of his teammate Gerhard Berger in this exact race. Interesting to compare driving styles - Mansell short shifts, avoiding rev limiter, seems to yank the car a lot more but also seems to take more risks. Great stuff!
Absolutely amazing!! In my opinion the best Era ever in F1. Could you imagine wrestling Such a high-tech race car and pulling 4 to 5Gs at time’s, Consistently 2 to 3Gs for what, 50 to 70 race Laps. I wonder if today’s F1 drivers could drive these cars like this back then.
Iconic car because it was where paddle shifting was born
you know that paddle shifting was not born in '89 but Ferrari already tested it with Gilles at Fiorano in 1979?
@@danigonzalez4299 Seriously, if they pioneered it then Gilles would have dominated even more
@@danigonzalez4299 really?
@@dakkan5433 yes, check it
@@juancete0107 yeah indeed. You can google that
The car may not be as fast as today's cars but watching the onboard itself made it look much faster than today's cars. Also the engine sound.....*chef's kiss*.
Oh yes. And we would all piss our pants...:-)
It took almost 20 years for the v6 cars to catch up to these cars.
@@andresilvasophisma😂😂😂😂
well said my friend
@@ABYTE64 When V6 engines were introduced there was a huge performance decrease, inform yourself.
It took 20 years for the cars to be able to do similar laptimes (kind of), mostly because of aero reg changes and advancements that allowed the cars to be faster through the corners.
Edit
I'll even throw you some numbers.
The fastest laptime in 2023 around Monza was by Oscar Piastri with 1:25.072.
In 2004 the fastest time was by Rubens Barricello with 1:21.046.
If you think that current generation F1 is the fastest of all times you are delusional. And it's going to get even slower in 2026 with the new engine regs.
The lion at work. Simply epic.
Italians have always been in love with Nigel.
Thank you, Leone.
The golden era of F1... Senna, Mansell, Piquet, Prost, Lauda, Schumi
Next year we Will have Lewis, Alonso,Kimi , Sebastian and Max , Charles,Lando, George !!
@@alessiorapino6749 cmon bro
@@alessiorapino6749 who are they?
@@richardbradbury9105 F1 drivers for 2021 season
@@alessiorapino6749 cool
One of the most talented drivers to ever pilot an F1. Mansel was pure genius.
senna number 1
@@adamirfan6986 senna dead bro
@@Budisgud69 so what?....
Oh puhleeze... Mansell a genius? Isaac Newton was a genius. Einstein was a genius. Max Planck was a genius. Nigel Mansell drove cars for a living.
Edited to Add: Laughing my head off how many Mansell fanbois are triggered by this comment.
@@ivanjulian2532 tesla was genius einstein was overrated...
Comparing the steering movements and hands to nowadays cars - this cars must have been beasts. True tamers who could drive in the F1 those days.
Power steering is most of the difference. Go watch am F2 lap at monaco from recently
They are the elite of all world drivers, they can drive anything with enough time for preparation like those guys had, they were the elite of their time.
Just imagine how painful your arms and shoulders would be the days after a race this is a true workout
A nod to the sequential gearbox Let’s not forget, The Mustache did add an unknown performance advantage as well.
Miss this era when f1 cars would go by and give u a sense of excitement
And when the drivers didn’t turn up to races wearing a tea cosy on their head and a dress instead of normal clothes.
BRING BACK V12
Il Leone - The Lion
Full send from the ever committed Nigel 'Red 5' Mansell. Didn't half moan like fuck, but he had a huge heart and set of balls to match it 💪
He was a drama queen. Seeing him "collapse" on Hockenheim was cringe AF.
I could watch this on a loop for 10 mins, and have more joy than watching Hamilton for a whole season
damn
Each driver can only drive the cars they're given. If Mansell was driving in this era you'd be saying he was boring, its just the way the cars have to be driven.
The modern cars are boring, but if you have not appreciated Hamilton's driving you've missed out.
@@paulguitar100 Yep, Singapore 2018 pole lap.
1989 was a classic season turbo engines outlawed so normally asperated engines back. Renault where back. Ferrari bring semi auto gearboxes to go racing. With that wonderful v12 power. Senna and prost still at it hammer and tongs.
Wow..Talk about commitment..The Lion Heart
Could watch this all day.
I do watch it all day, every day, pure heaven!!! Oh my days!!!!! FERAL!! That's the only word that comes remotely close. Absolutely breathtaking. Maximum to the uploader!! Mad respect!! Done know!! 👍👊😊
there's an onboard of Berger's complete Portuguese GP on RUclips. Not a whole day, but a lot longer than this.
Oh yesssss
You could actually. Here's the full 1989 Portuguese GP Onboard with Berger - ruclips.net/video/72ITS_rYisw/видео.html
There was no one better in a ferrari than mansell he took that car to the edge of its proformance and beyond dude was a fucking master of his craft 🙌
They way our Nige digs that front end in....absolutely love it.
I m french and he s my favorite driver
I'm Australian, he looks like a petrol head to me, like he's out there just for a bit of fun. And the bit between his teeth.
well done :D
@JC Zebi why not Alain Prost? Jacques Laffite? Jean Pierre Jarier? Jabouille? René Arnoux???
@@gaucho5073 because Nigel is funny, prost is good but no feelings, I like pierre gasly actually
@@papatango5085 I don't know who is Pierre Gasly as I have stopped watching F1 in the middle 90s
But thanks for replying.
I liked Didier Pironi and the fight between René Arnoux x Alain Prost back in the Renault days.
One of the greatest ever.
Il Leone around Estoril with the sound of twelve cylinders in the back of the fearsome Ferrari 640
Awesome lap and just as thrilling as on board with Senna!
cut from same cloth.
Awesome indeed. The Lion was a truly beast. Ferrari had the edge on Estoril. But even the McLaren being outperformed by Ferrari in Portugal, still with a regular H manual gearbox, Senna managed to pole, being the fastest man in the weekend. I'd love to watch his lap, changing gears and one handed steering, setting the pole against the superiority of the Ferraris in this GP.
@@anonymoustrusty483 Senna such. Master of the Pole !
@@richardbradbury9105 Let's just stick with Rainmaster, that new title might be confusing
@@anonymoustrusty483 I was in Estoril that weekend, and partculary in the race Mansell was the man to beat. Nobody was on is race pace.
Awesome driving, awesome quality footage and...what a track!
Some seriously quick corners at Estoril with not run off and a big metal armco inches from the track. You had to be brave in those days!
I bet those 3 dislikes were clicked by people who confuse left and right
Il Leone!
still faster than 2020 Ferrari
Looks and sounds much better too!
That Ferrari was a tractor in that time to.
Ferrari is the best F1 team of all times 🤷♂️
@@viniciuss7792 that ferrari was a 3x gp winner tf u talkin about?
@@danibossftw7812 Yes, yes. 3 victorys and 19 retirements and 2 disqualifications. Nice results.
Would like a time machine for Christmas. F1 sucks now!
I started from this year watching f1 and i have to say that i m scared watching these camera cars compared with the taxi drivers of today
Register to F1TV. The access to the archive package is really cheap. Most of the time you have overview/highlights from old races, but there are some full races from this era. It is definitely a more "mature" racing... unlike today's mario kart.
88-92 best era of F1 imo, I remember as a kid the whole family would sit down and watch the F1 together it was great times, Now I don’t even watch it, it seems to get worse and worse every year.
you cant keep up
There have been a few good seasons recently but some more competition for Mercedes would be appreciated
Totally agree. If you've watched the modern F1 for a while, and then get back to some races from the early 90's, you definitely realise that something went wrong with the years. Early 90's onboards are almost terrifying to watch. Shaky cam, lots of rumble in the steering, great, LOUD sound, and drivers who really work the wheel. No DRS either, but honest overtaking. Not everything gets better with the years. Actually, the least things do. Modern F1 is for the ADHD generation, who can't enjoy 20 laps of drivers fighting to stick to the person in front, waiting for a mistake.
@@chakko007 arent you the ADHS here?
simply because today is so full of great stuff, that you are only triggeredby shaky cams and violent stuff anyone can see even with a hole in the eye?
well, today modern world is not a rough try. it is simply the evolution.
prost senna
and the engineers
all would have done the same
IN FACT THEY DID.
so tehre is NOTHING different except the result
think about it.
@@MrTiti Well, I just told you that I don't consider today's F1 to be full of "great stuff". 😉
"It is simply the evolution" - yeah, right. As if over expensive hybrid motors, which make you 1 or 2 seconds faster on a lap make so much sense. Or synthetic things like DRS, to give the spectator more ACTION, because he's begging for it, because motor racing is so damn boring otherwise.
Motorspot hasn't been boring in the erly 90's. It's just that the people want more MOAR these days. Which isn't a very good development. Because, how far can you get, when people always want moar moar MOAR. At some point, you can't give them more. Or, you have to implement synthetic bullshit which doesn't make sense, like they do now.
It's no coincidence that some people say that they should go back to the roots.
This is F1, V12 wailing, driver battling the power, fantastic, not the diluted pussy stuff we have now.
Dude.. they go like 20-25% faster today. The cornering speed of a modern F1 is outrageous.
I never get tired of this era. You don't know what you got,,, till it's gone.
'86/87/88 were pretty bad, it wasn't until the Ferrari N/A engines came back in '89 that things improved. The 1.5L turbo's sounded horrible.
now THAT is an engine
rip-snorting, on the edge of detention V12 glory
The sense of speed is crazy in this onboard. They need to do something similar today with the camera.
They already do put the camera in such positions these days. It just that, the tv quality is so good these days that the onboards look safe.
A Jimi hendrix solo driven by Nigel Mansell. Heavenly.
What a car! It was beautiful. Looks like you needed some muscle of your own to drive it.
look at the movement in mansells head my god how could a driver even pick out an apex with his field of vision shaking around like that. motor racing drivers of past eras were true atheletes, they had to be to withstand the g forces!
Your eyes compensate A LOT so you wouldn't experience it as shaky IRL.
Maybe I am getting old, but F1 car from now do not give that excitement with onboard camera....
These car were beast, tracks were fantastic, bumpy and dusty , the driver were not whining on the radio but just fighting and racing !!!
Well.. some of them whined like bitches to the marshals after the race.
Come se non ci fosse un domani...
semplicemente Nigel Mansell
Al minut 1.00 la ripresa subito.......
Suono del V12 memorabile è sempre adrenalitico
Such beautiful and violent race cars with incredibly ferocious engines🤩🤗
The V and Flat-12s were the high point of Post-War Grands Prix engines. Once they and the 10s went, F1 lost all interest to me.
I'm not very knowledgeable about auto racing, but it's my impression that this driver is terrifically aggressive. Am I correct?
Revolutionary semi-auto gearbox. Guaranteed 0,5s faster per lap by itself. Ferrari went great in Portugal. Still, Senna managed to pole, being the fastest man in the weekend.
They were horribly unreliable. Ferrari lost a lot of races between 89-91 because of them. Reliability has never been a Ferrari virtue.
this is F1 not what we have today
When f1 was truly f1
British F1 drivers kick ass...Salem Massachusetts.
good exhaust！
Very fast track
You know modern F1 is crap when the drivers would prefer to drive these era of cars.
Solo la Ferrari poteva non vincere il mondiale l'anno dopo con il vantaggio del cambio automatico ormai rodato. All'epoca dicevano che la differenza era poca con il manuale, secondo me non sapevano neanche loro il vantaggio che dava.
Mansell was brilliant a real beast of a driver, for anyone slagging him off try driving one of those machines & see if you could even get half as close to what he did 🤔
I miss F1 when the cockpit was that open. At this point they might as well do what IndyCar does and just put windshields on them.
Nigel: Where's the crash structure
Engineer: You see your feet
Nigel: Yes
Engineer: That's it
first f1 car with semi auto transmission
Amazing! Padleshift is born to The F1 car.
No, it wasn't, it had been tested and used before.
Il aurait pû être champion du monde en 87 et 89
1:16 they don't even have fantastic corners like that anymore in F1 too DANGEROUS!
V12 Sound!!!❤
Super piloto
Love estoril. It’s interesting that he made a double apex out of T3. On the F1 2013 game on Xbox you just take it conventionally and blip the throttle while hugging the kerb for most of the turn.
That's an arcade game, dude
@@azynkron And?
@@martoto77 the tracks are not even accurate. You had to take a double apex on that corner to be fast. Search any other driver, everyone did that
Amazing!
Did they have paddle shifting in -89?
Yes. The 1989 Ferrari was the first F1 car to run the paddle shift system.
Ferrari were the only team using it until Williams developed there own paddle shift system in 1991, McLaren introduced there's a few races in 1992 & the rest through 1993/94/95. 1996 was the first year where the full grid were using paddle shifters (Once the Forti team withdrew).
They did. It was horribly unreliable as you'd expect with new technology. Mansell actually won the first race of the season with it despite the fact that he had so little faith he'd finish the race, never mind win it, that he booked an early flight back home.
@@GetOverHereMK which race was that?
@@TJTMediah The 1989 Brazilian GP.
Ho la pelle d oca.....che pilota
The era when an F1car still sound like one!
Awesome. The tracks were so bumpy back then. No power steering and it's no wonder that the drivers were shattered at the end of races.
V12=porno sound 💥
Unfortunately I've never been able to get overseas yet to see an F1 race. When my father took me to his hometown of Indianapolis for the 93 indy 500 I got to see Nigel the great devour the brickyard to pieces.
I'm getting tearful just listening to that sound.The cars had a heart and soul, much like the drivers of that era...
This is racing.
What a car
V12 ❤❤❤💎🎵🎶 sinfônico!
Estoril an iconic circuit, this car and racing driver were one of my favourite racing drivers
Intimidating
You look at the input the drivers today put in and they are so much more easier to drive. You had to wrestle these things around. Physically far more demanding imho.
Nope, today´s cars are much more demanding to their drivers
@@FranciscoFJM you need to qualify that. I don’t see it.
@@con8v11 Today's cars have much much more Gforces which puts more strain on the drivers
@@lucasbailey8878 a little but not that much more. That is only one aspect. The physical overall demand of driving the older generation cars were far higher. You only have to look at the drivers when they have finished a race they have hardly broken sweat. Please don’t mention fitness levels, people like Senna were as fit as any driver now and had to be physically stronger. No power steering.
@Justin Y The Robber Not true
Veri piloti...adesso è tutto in mano all'elettronica, sembrano videogame, per non parlare poi del sound....
Un videogame sembra piu' realistico dell' attuale F1, manca solo che mettono l' autopilota
No DRS, no batteries, low circuit, the real V12 and V10 sound and horrible tires! This is the real F1!
A real racing machine! Not a fruit bowl, but a simple momo steering wheel!!! This was the real thing!😎😎👍👍💪💪
these cars would turn your brain into mashed potatoes...was a tought exercise back then just to finish the grand prix....
Great engine sound and simply but beautiful steering with few bottoms, in old style. But I should to say that Nigell drive was a bit strange, not accurate like Alain or Ayrton...
When Mansell was a driver, this sport deserved to be called Formula 1.
Now is... Formula what?
So there are also videos of his teammate Gerhard Berger in this exact race. Interesting to compare driving styles - Mansell short shifts, avoiding rev limiter, seems to yank the car a lot more but also seems to take more risks. Great stuff!
Yes. He was a risk taker. Very brave guy!
He could have won three driver's championships if he'd stopped being such a sook.
v12😍
Il leone- Nigel Mansel
I’m just here waiting for another legendary Brit to drive a Ferrari. 44.
A demanding circuit.. either hated or loved. I could never get the hang of it, in the early F1 computer games
Mansells upshifts are so cool to watch. Boss
Infinatly more entertaining to watch and listen too than boring greenie inspired vacume cleaners now!
Balls to the wall track...its Hungary on steroids
minimal if any driver aids. no dozen switches on the steering wheel. man and machine. pure
we take for granted nowdays with camera stabilization how these drivers actually get smashed in the car
The Lion
The tifosi loves passionate drivers and the lion showed plenty in his driving.
And do we not love them "paddle shifters"? Yessiree!
Man he brave he threw those cars around look how he takes that first corner
These cars were clearly more difficult to drive.
Absolutely amazing!! In my opinion the best Era ever in F1. Could you imagine wrestling Such a high-tech race car and pulling 4 to 5Gs at time’s, Consistently 2 to 3Gs for what, 50 to 70 race Laps. I wonder if today’s F1 drivers could drive these cars like this back then.
Nigel literally collapsed after some races he gave it everything every time & he was so thrilling to watch
F1 pinnacle….80s and 90s. Best ever
When engines sounded like engines not whispering mice!
Intense!!
these onboard shots are awesome, look at their heads bounce - must be so scary!
Nigel Mansell Fast .
Mansell, enough said !