This man drove a "out of this world" 8:04 min. pole lap on the Ring for the 1967 German GP: Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. By far the Greatest Driver Ever - No doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... ! This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps... In 1965 he had the most succesful year of any driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
almost no safety barriers at all and solid earth walls less than a foot from the track at some points...yikes. don't screw up or you'll go straight into a stone wall at 150km/h!
That's a Formula Vee (the camera car) on track with Hahne's F2 entry. Maybe I should dust off my old Zink C4 and enter it in the 1968 German Grand Prix.
it's a hard course even in video game racing...can't imagine how tough that must have been to do IRL in the 60s when there was basically zero margin for error.
51 Driver deaths on this track before the last Gran Prix race was held in 1976, the race in which Niki Lauda was so badly burned in a horrendous crash. After that, the track was completely redesigned to make it much shorter and safer.
To be correct: The Start-Ziel Schleife was demolished to create a new and safer circuit: The GP-Strecke. And this track can be connected to the Nordschleife to create the Gesamtstrecke (Full CIrcuit). The Nordschleife only got updates and upgrades that existed of new tarmac, more armco and FIA fences at spectator points.
They did race GP bikes (now MotoGP) here a number of times; the last time being 1980. The 1970 GP- where a rider was killed was the last motorcycle race on this version of the Nordschleife before it was modernized.
Is it this track that was to dangerous and drivers refused to race and went on strike if changes wasnt made to the track and safety after mike hawthorn burnt to death?..
You might be thinking of Roger Williamson but that wasn't this track. He died in a fiery crash at Zandvoort in 1973. He survived the initial crash but was trapped in the fire and perished after a slow response from track officials and emergency services. This led to increased safety demands from drivers that did eventually impact the Nurburgring. The FIA and Drivers began seriously questioning the Nurburgring / Nordschleife track by the 70's and it was decided it would be dropped for the 1977 session due to logistics and safety concerns. In the last race in '76, reigning champion Niki Lauda attempted to lead a boycott due to poor safety arrangements, but the drivers voted for the race to go on and Lauda famously crashed in poor conditions. He was trapped in his burning car before fellow drivers helped rescue him. He suffered serious burns to his face, lung damage, and given a slim chance of survival. But Lauda fought hard and only missed two races before returning. He died in 2019, partly as a result of the lingering damage to his lungs, and F1 races have never been back on the Nordschleife. (Mike Hawthorn retired from racing following the 1958 season and died three months later in a car crash on public roads in England. His teammate Peter Collins died at this track that season after losing control and being thrown from the car.)
The GPDA managed to boycot the Spa Francorchamps track in 1969 and the Nürburgring in 1970, when they went to Hockenheim. They demanded safety measures. The Nürburgring acted after the boycot and the track got a major overhaul in 1970/1971. Corners were eased, bumps and drops removed like at Brünnchen and Schwalbenschwanz. Armco added around the track. Also the GPDA would check every 3 years if new changes were needed. So after the first three years 1971-73, they demanded new changes: The Döttinger Höhe had to be reprofiled, 8m became 12m wide and the viaducts became tunnels. Also the entry of the Südschleife changed a lot. After the next three years, 1974-76, the GPDA decided not to return to the Nordschleife in 1977. This decision was made before the actual 1976 German GP. So Lauda's crash was no factor in the decision to leave the Nürburgring after 1976.
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The real green hell before any barriers or safety measures at all, the drivers of this era must have had balls of steel.
Most 50's and 60's racetracks were just normal roads connected together without barriers
Gotta love how they're using joyful music when this track be dangerous af
Now it's dangerous, back then it was basically just a road with no barrier
It was more dangerous then than now ya goof@@A-dood
@@A-dood in this footage it's downright deadly.
@@A-doodThat, that’s still dangerous?
looks fun to me
That was a truly green hell because of those forest and tall trees!
Yes, europeans destroyed their forests and now they worry about climate change.
The bumps, the twist, the elevation, truly hell
Yea - Funny how nowadays it seems more overgrown again, having been laid a lot more bare during the 1971 renovations!
This is magic, thank you for this video, absolutely amazing!
0:44 "there's the lone rebel tree, HELLO REBEL TREE!" Jimmy Broadbent
What you mean?
@@tiziano316 watch him doing sim laps around this track, and you'll see
I think Rebel Tree comes a little later down the straight. He probably a lil sapling.
Rebel Tree is much much further down the road.
@@jeffrielly I still don't understand
That's some real skill 👌👏
This man drove a "out of this world" 8:04 min. pole lap on the Ring for the 1967 German GP: Racing God JIM CLARK - Unmatched Maestro. By far the Greatest Driver Ever - No doubt. He is and was "The Best of the Best" (Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart and countless others about Clark). No other driver in history until today was so superior as Clark - No other driver as so much "Grand Slam" - Pole/Win/Fastest Lap/Leading every lap of the race - like him. And all that from just 72 starts... !
This man is the Olymp of driving - the Michelangelo of racing - a dynamic art at the highest level. So smooth, so precise, so fast....simply out of this world. One, who won in Spa by 5 minutes (!) in monsoon rain with only one hand at the wheel (!) because of gearbox trouble...One, who takes back a complete lap (!) in Monza and back into the lead... One, who took pole on the original 22,8 km Nürburgring track by 9 (!) seconds and more....One who won Indy by 2 whole (!) laps...
In 1965 he had the most succesful year of any driver in the history of the sport: He won the F1 World Championship, the Tasman Series with F1 cars, the Indy 500, the British and French F2 Championship, the British Touring car Championship, totally over 50 (!) victories in one season !!!! For eternity and by lightyears unmatched in the sport. That`s just some examples of his mesmeric unique genius...
almost no safety barriers at all and solid earth walls less than a foot from the track at some points...yikes. don't screw up or you'll go straight into a stone wall at 150km/h!
Man, I got GPL flashbacks watching that... :-)
I came here to learn the track for Gpl still a great game to play with mods
The soundtrack they used makes it looks like an episode of Wacky Races or SpeedRacer
and sounds like Batman 60's tv series too😀😀😀
That's a Formula Vee (the camera car) on track with Hahne's F2 entry. Maybe I should dust off my old Zink C4 and enter it in the 1968 German Grand Prix.
Way better with all this wonderful threes ^^
I'd love a full lap onboard of that track, but this was very cool.
My precious ttrack... hours and hours fighting against my ghost on gran turismo
What the hell?? That's ONE lap? How could the drivers remember all the twists, turns and bumps?
it's a hard course even in video game racing...can't imagine how tough that must have been to do IRL in the 60s when there was basically zero margin for error.
They managed, after all, the Isle of Man TT is almost three times longer, and the riders have it memorized.
You need to drive it in your imagination, always and always, every corner. Took me nearly a year to learn every section.
Not too hard after a few laps tbh
@@hi_c.v7289 YEAH WORLD CHAMP 🤡
One mistake and its death.
51 Driver deaths on this track before the last Gran Prix race was held in 1976, the race in which Niki Lauda was so badly burned in a horrendous crash. After that, the track was completely redesigned to make it much shorter and safer.
To be correct: The Start-Ziel Schleife was demolished to create a new and safer circuit: The GP-Strecke. And this track can be connected to the Nordschleife to create the Gesamtstrecke (Full CIrcuit). The Nordschleife only got updates and upgrades that existed of new tarmac, more armco and FIA fences at spectator points.
So much more atmosphere...
Incredible
That's terrifying
That Formula Vee car onboard....!!
The camera car is a Formula VW.
I thought I recognized that good old beam axle! FVee for the win!
14 mile lap, I believe.
Yep
14.189 miles or 22.835 km
Imagine that track on a motorcycle. I reckon you don't have to show your balls in any other way
They did race GP bikes (now MotoGP) here a number of times; the last time being 1980. The 1970 GP- where a rider was killed was the last motorcycle race on this version of the Nordschleife before it was modernized.
“It’s hairy alright!” Yeah no shit it is!
Those cars with those skinny ass wheels, how couls the drivers have such skills
The most dangerous motherfucker of a racing circuit and that music in background :D Pozdro666
Those front tyres won't give the car enough grip
well as it turns out they apparently did give the car enough front end grip lol
This with a newer hatch back would be the most fun ever
That's not race pace, is it?
yes, it is. Look how skinny the tires are!
Hola heikki
Wacky Races
Insanity
these are not 1967 season f1 cars. they are some minor formula or 1962/65
Formula Vee (VW engines) is the camera car, the car in front is an F2 car I think
@@hmdwgf 1967 not 1987..i ve corrected the previous message
@@hmdwgf Yes, the Formula Vee car follows Hubert Hahne's Formula 2 entry. In 1967, the grid was a combined Formula 1 and Formula 2 field.
Is it this track that was to dangerous and drivers refused to race and went on strike if changes wasnt made to the track and safety after mike hawthorn burnt to death?..
You might be thinking of Roger Williamson but that wasn't this track. He died in a fiery crash at Zandvoort in 1973. He survived the initial crash but was trapped in the fire and perished after a slow response from track officials and emergency services. This led to increased safety demands from drivers that did eventually impact the Nurburgring. The FIA and Drivers began seriously questioning the Nurburgring / Nordschleife track by the 70's and it was decided it would be dropped for the 1977 session due to logistics and safety concerns.
In the last race in '76, reigning champion Niki Lauda attempted to lead a boycott due to poor safety arrangements, but the drivers voted for the race to go on and Lauda famously crashed in poor conditions. He was trapped in his burning car before fellow drivers helped rescue him. He suffered serious burns to his face, lung damage, and given a slim chance of survival. But Lauda fought hard and only missed two races before returning. He died in 2019, partly as a result of the lingering damage to his lungs, and F1 races have never been back on the Nordschleife.
(Mike Hawthorn retired from racing following the 1958 season and died three months later in a car crash on public roads in England. His teammate Peter Collins died at this track that season after losing control and being thrown from the car.)
It was Peter Collins, Hawthorn’s best friend who died here. But they eventually boycotted the Nurburgring some years later.
The GPDA managed to boycot the Spa Francorchamps track in 1969 and the Nürburgring in 1970, when they went to Hockenheim. They demanded safety measures. The Nürburgring acted after the boycot and the track got a major overhaul in 1970/1971. Corners were eased, bumps and drops removed like at Brünnchen and Schwalbenschwanz. Armco added around the track. Also the GPDA would check every 3 years if new changes were needed. So after the first three years 1971-73, they demanded new changes: The Döttinger Höhe had to be reprofiled, 8m became 12m wide and the viaducts became tunnels. Also the entry of the Südschleife changed a lot. After the next three years, 1974-76, the GPDA decided not to return to the Nordschleife in 1977. This decision was made before the actual 1976 German GP. So Lauda's crash was no factor in the decision to leave the Nürburgring after 1976.