Another Great F1 Driver to check out is Niki Lauda. , Lauda was seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix while racing at the Nürburgring; during the crash his Ferrari 312T2 burst into flames, nearly killing him after he inhaled hot toxic fumes and suffered severe burns. He recovered sufficiently to race again just six weeks later at the Italian Grand Prix.
I asked him for a coin to call my mother from a telephone booth .. i was 13 or 14 back then.. he did not help me out .. instead a guy that seemed to be homeless helped
The movie RUSH based on his autobiography is fantastic and remarkably honest about both his own character and that of his great rival James Hunt. I recently heard the story of how he nailed Boeing to the wall after one of the jets his airline was using was lost with all passengers because of an engineering failure. Boeing tried to blame the dead pilots so Niki offered to go up in an identical plane and recreate the fault to prove it was unrecoverable causing Boeing to $hit themselves and admit responsibility. He may be an asshole but he's also a man of principles and absolute integrity.
Great stuff, man! I will always stop to watch a Senna Clip. There's a mini british Top Gear documentary about him. It is a must watch material, along with many others, but for now this is my suggestion. Cheers from Brazil! ✌🏽🇧🇷
Hi Ian, also Monaco Quali laps 1988 (in Quali Senna destroyed his teammate 4x F1 Champ Alan Prost by 1,5 sec) and Donningtion Park 1993 also known as „Lap of Gods“ are super exciting to watch. Funfact the McLaren MP 4/6 from 1991 was the last championship winning F1 car with handshifter.
First video is the 1989 Japanese grand prix, yep. Senna overtook Nannini for the lead at the chicane, winning the race. ... only to be disqualified from the race because he cut the same chicane after his collision with Prost.
bit of trivia, Bathurst was where onboard cameras originated, can't recall which TV station it was that invented it, but there's at least 1 vid I've seen talking about it, you might find it an interesting deep dive
You have to check out Gilles Villeneuve. Real badass driver, ha was really rally stylish, like nothing matters if the car can moves he push pedal to the metal.
There's a great divide in opinion about which era's drivers had it better. These cars were stiff, no power steering, manual stick shift...but considerably slower than today's cars. However today's cars being a lo faster require far more physical ability to keep on the road, plus the increased mental strain. They not only have to have reactions twice as fast, but also have tens, if not hundreds more functions and settings to deal with. I think today's drivers have a far higher demand on them.
Hey I know that what I about to say is old but there thing call team superstock racing in New Zealand and it like stockcar racing but just in teams it really cool and I love your videos.
how they got the camera there , it was a pod shaped like a football on a ''pole'' not a pole but a thingy that stuck the camera up and away from the body of the car smaller teams use to get a weight advantage for the quali/race for driving with the camera as it weight a lot and was bad for aero
This is when F1 was great. The driver is what mattered, not the car. Whereas its the car now, who has the best car wins, not necessarily the best driver.
-86 was THE pinnacle year for both formula one and rally. There will never be crazier cars than the -86 cars in either of the sports. But thankfully, the drivers didn't die like flies as they did in the 70s. I think 2-3 drivers passed away during the 80s, while the list goes on and on for the 70s. Jochen Rindt, Francois Cévert, Mark Donahue, Roger Williamson, Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, and so many more. Oh, and there was a series that was crazier than anything else: Can-Am! You got to check some Can-Am stuff out! Early 70s, fan cars, gas turbine cars, the INSANE 1500 hp Porsche 917/30. Apparently, after winning his last race in the 917/30, Mark Donahue said he was glad that he'd never have to race that beast again. Honorable mention: Group 5 Special Production, the late 70s class that produced the Porsche 935, the Zakspeed turbo Capri, the Lancia Beta Montecarlo, and other wild beasts.
Nothing but the greatest respect for Senna, may he rest in peace🙏... On the other hand..., new legends like Max Verstappen have arisen since Senna and so in every era there will be a world class hero F1 race driver with a superior racing team mastering the fine arts of it all : having the fastest car, having the best aerodynamics, having the best pit crew, having the best strategic decisions with tire strategy and the best team in the factory making the F1 car parts and of course having the best driver of them all and maybe at least as important; having luck in how the race develops like with Yellow flags, safety car situations and maybe even Red flags... So yes a driver does have influence in winning a race but there is so much more to it then just the driver...Remember: if you want to finish first, you first will have to finish, and even that can be a challenge, ask USA F1 driver Logan Sargent...
@@henningpieterjordan7416 ja klar der schlimmste Unfall in der Geschichte der Formel 1 ich weiß das. Aber auch das er in einer Runde auf der Nordschleife mit einem nur 120PS starken Lotus die komplette Weltelite mit ihren zum Teil bis zu 365PS starken Fahrzeugen bei Näße um1min20sec abgehängt hat oder er in einem Jahr 1965 F1 Weltmeister wurde dazu noch F2 Champion in Frankreich und England dazu noch Meister der Tascam Serie in Autralien, die Indy500 gewonnen hat(hat dafür den Monaco GP ausgelassen) und weil da noch nicht genug war ist er noch erfolgreich Tourenwagen(Lotus Cortina) gefahren. Ingesammt 63 Rennen in einem Jahr.
The thing I really love about footage like this I'd you can hear him driving it in the corners. You can hear him playing with the throttle and you can hear it when the car loses some grip. And it's Senna.
For the first part of that first lap, he's just chilling. He's not using the full track on corner entry. He's not trying to get on throttle too early. Just waiting. Then at the hairpin after the kink after Degner 1 & 2, he's just swallows up the gap under braking. Exits the corner 0.200 seconds behind him. Then buys his time again. Then through spoon curve, he's just reeling him in on the back straight. Lifts through 130R, and just swallows up the rest of the gap into the chicane and thanks the other driver for not taking him out. He wasn't just driving around like a maniac with his hair on fire. He was calculated AF. Cool video. Senna GOAT
For me I think rally car driving is the crazest motor sport, It way scary even though the chassis and rollcages are great these days I still get nervous when watching them
For me Suzuka is just the best race track of the world. It combines every key cornors you can think about and it is so much challangeing fun to drive on it.
The best race track in the world, is without doubt the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. You can ask any racing driver on the planet who has ever driven there. Nordschleife is the biggest challenge for drivers and cars. There is nothing comparable! Nordschleife clearly in first place. After that Spa-Francorchamps, Suzuka and others...
I visited the Paragon facility of McLaren a couple of years ago......Seeing and touching those cars will live with me forever....Especially the MP4/4.....
I understand the need to make the engines more economical, fuel efficient and environmentally friendly, but there is something raw about those old V12 engines that we have lost with all this modern technology. That's also a big thing that we will lose in cars with all these EVs: the wonderful sounds of all the different combustion engines. I will miss that.
Traction control among many other driver aids.. It's why he struggled greatly in '94 in the Williams when it was the first year where all driver assistances were banned. Round he went, and often.
@@jmirsp4z Well,in most of Australia now F1 is not available on free-to-air so I no longer give a rats about the current crop of "cars".Same goes for Moto GP. Granted you still have to have talent to punt one effectively but they're so bloody clinical. Let's face it,they've all become electronically controlled economy runs without anywhere near enough cut,parry,thrust & a dozen roses to the widow.......Have you watched Formula E ? Sadly,that is how it will be in the not-too-distant future. No bloody thank you.
@@jmirsp4zMaybe faster but boring. Most of todays races are electronically controlled economy runs. The earlier cars often put fear on the drivers' faces. I'm sure you've seen the film of Sennas' career & subsequent death. One driver meeting shows the true feelings of some of the greatest drivers on the planet. The last race that killed Senna is just heartwrenching when you see the leadup to it. Yes,todays cars & drivers are faster,but the engineering differences are stark. To see Fangio & Moss race in T-shirts & pith helmets is another insane era. There is a photo of Moss in the middle of the crash that ended his career.....he is upside-down in mid-air,reaching for his battery kill-switch. If that were many other drivers they'd only be thinking "This is gunna hurt".
sounds crazy even through a mic… but seeing/hearing that engine for the first time in person is absolutely mind blowing. you hear it approach, and then you can literally feel the vibration in the ground
There is a video of Senna driving a manual Acura NSX-R, on this same track, with a camera on his feet to see his work down there: my man is full sending it while wearing FREAKING LOAFERS. This guy was definitly built different.
Hi man, really appreciate your hard work. Have a look for the Pre ‘65 trials. Motorbike hill climbing in Scotland with bikes made BEFORE 1965. Think BSA, Triumph, Indian massive bikes!!! Happy viewing. 😂
By the way, since you also like Rally sports, have you already checked out the legendary Rivalry between the Mistubishi Lancer and the Subaru Impreza in Rally? It stems from a time where I wasn't much into Rally sports, mid 1990's to early 2000's and these two cars with competent drivers would outperform each other again and again and again throughout that time period. As I said, back then all I watched was Formula 1, but that rivalry was so legendary that even I heard about it back then. And of course back then it was sooooo amazing to be able to drive them both in "Gran Turismo 4", an experience I never forget. Just wish I would have seen that legendary rivalry live in Rally Sports back then.
Ian, the current cars are longer and heavier than the late 1980s/early 1990s, but narrower. The current car is 2,000mm wide, the cars back then were 2,150mm wide. The 1989-1991 cars had about 700-750hp. The current cars have ~1,000hp. The 1988 MP4/4 had ~670hp for qualifying and ~620hp for the race.
It's like your "football" and our Rugby (in US plenty of protection !!! In EU just real guys!) I don't even talk about the Aussies with their Footy which is even more violent! Glory to you Aussies!!!
5 or 6 speed manual, no traction control so you can see him (and all the other drivers) correcting slides out of every other corner. Incredible driving talent from all of them
God I loved that era! Like, it’s the same as with the liveries, the “Cigarette Era” where you’d have Marlboro, Lucky Strike, John Players Special etc as sponsors was by far the best era of liveries in my opinion! When they banned cigarette sponsorship, for the right reasons of course, the liveries got less interesting for some reason
To be fair, today's F1s are pushing 1000hp out of a 1.6 litre motor. That said no present-day F1 can compare with the drama, spectacle noise of the V10/12 era.❤
Real drivers drive manual „stick“ in US speak. This is why IMO Senna and Schumacher were the greatest. Put them both in a modern car.. they would out drive anyone in the last decade of f1
Have a look at the career of Michael Schumacher (sr) - he was phenomenal as well. He didn't become 7x world champion for nothing. Some of his racing - especially in the rain - left everybody speechless.
jackie stewart teaching one of the top gear crew to drive faster is a great clip if anyone can find it. i think it was james may who was learning to go faster
I wish you would check out some motocross and learn some about that. Check out jeffrey herlings coming to the USA to race Herlings being a World championship rider Born in the netherlands Racing the best riders in the US Check out some video's on how tough motorcross really is. When it comes to fitness
Prost is probably the most under appreciated driver in F1 history. He beat every single one of his teammates in points, and most of his teammates were champions at some point. He was actually never beaten by a teammate (Senna took the title one year, but if you add all the points they both had during their 2 seasons together in McLaren, Prost has more) All the other champions were at some point beaten by their teammates, but not Prost. His driving was boring though so the public didn't even notice him
Now that's an f1 sound. I loved f1 up to hybrid v6 era. Then I didn't anymore. When will the fia learn, fans want noise and a car that's a handful for the driver. I fear the best times are behind us.
I remember Schumacher racing through the curve to finish line and while getting out of the curve the car turned 360 degrees at about 140 or 150 miles and he hit throttle and accelerated up to 190 miles again I forgot the year and the circuit it was on Ferrari hilarious how he mastered the car…
You can hear him digging at the accelerator out of the apex' searching for the traction sweet spot. Drivers today, break, turn in, back on the accelerator, the electronics sort the rest out.
Let's face it, Ian. If you don't respect the machine, the machine won't respect you. That is why footage like this scares any mere mortal. Ayrton Senna had a major advantage over everyone else in the pack, he was left handed. While every pilot lost tens of seconds shifting gears, he didn't. Also, he was the best at driving in wet tracks, due to his time driving karts. When everyone went to the box because of rain, he was always on the track to refine his technique. Forever in my heart as the best pilot.
It was the 1988! Grand Prix of Japan and the Driver was Nigel Mansell in his Williams Judd V8 which was not competitive to the McLaren Honda from Ayrton . One year later Riccardo Patrese drove the Williams Renault V10 and that would have been another talk.. Nigel changed to Ferrari in 1989.
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Another Great F1 Driver to check out is Niki Lauda. , Lauda was seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix while racing at the Nürburgring; during the crash his Ferrari 312T2 burst into flames, nearly killing him after he inhaled hot toxic fumes and suffered severe burns. He recovered sufficiently to race again just six weeks later at the Italian Grand Prix.
He was good.. i met him once .. he was an a****le 😊
@@wolfgangpeter2995 That he was. 😂
@@wolfgangpeter2995he admitted he was a few years ago when he saw old videos of himself, he said he regretted acting like that
I asked him for a coin to call my mother from a telephone booth .. i was 13 or 14 back then.. he did not help me out .. instead a guy that seemed to be homeless helped
The movie RUSH based on his autobiography is fantastic and remarkably honest about both his own character and that of his great rival James Hunt. I recently heard the story of how he nailed Boeing to the wall after one of the jets his airline was using was lost with all passengers because of an engineering failure. Boeing tried to blame the dead pilots so Niki offered to go up in an identical plane and recreate the fault to prove it was unrecoverable causing Boeing to $hit themselves and admit responsibility. He may be an asshole but he's also a man of principles and absolute integrity.
Great stuff, man! I will always stop to watch a Senna Clip.
There's a mini british Top Gear documentary about him. It is a must watch material, along with many others, but for now this is my suggestion.
Cheers from Brazil! ✌🏽🇧🇷
Amazing driver. Plus a manual gearbox unlike today's cars. True racing
Impressionné par ta passion mon frère. Je t'envoie mes salutations de la Suisse 🇨🇭
Hi Ian, also Monaco Quali laps 1988 (in Quali Senna destroyed his teammate 4x F1 Champ Alan Prost by 1,5 sec) and Donningtion Park 1993 also known as „Lap of Gods“ are super exciting to watch. Funfact the McLaren MP 4/6 from 1991 was the last championship winning F1 car with handshifter.
Donnington 1993 was an insane first lap, in a massively underpowered McLaren Ford.
You NEED to react to Top Gears mini documentary/tribute to Senna!
Seconded.
If a Senna fan you need to watch 1993 european GP at Donnington Park UK. First lap is something else but the whole race worth a watch
F1 got insane in the past as well when the underground was actually an inverted wing to suck it to the ground and with more than 1000 bhp.
The ground effect cars weren't 1000+ hp though, nearly all of them used the Cosworth DFV.
That commentator scared the shit out of me too!(surroundsystem)😅✌
Man I have tears in my eyes, thanks, need it😅
Amazing again ❤
Senna at Donnington Park 1993, in an underpowered McLaren Ford was amazing to witness.
First video is the 1989 Japanese grand prix, yep.
Senna overtook Nannini for the lead at the chicane, winning the race.
... only to be disqualified from the race because he cut the same chicane after his collision with Prost.
And letting go of the streeringwheel to shift gears.
Hair looks cool man! Better than the cap. Since you brought it up recently.
bit of trivia, Bathurst was where onboard cameras originated, can't recall which TV station it was that invented it, but there's at least 1 vid I've seen talking about it, you might find it an interesting deep dive
You have to check out Gilles Villeneuve. Real badass driver, ha was really rally stylish, like nothing matters if the car can moves he push pedal to the metal.
amazing thing about it is that they had to physically gear shift those cars, unlike nowadays dual clutch tramsmission paddle shifts.
There's a great divide in opinion about which era's drivers had it better. These cars were stiff, no power steering, manual stick shift...but considerably slower than today's cars.
However today's cars being a lo faster require far more physical ability to keep on the road, plus the increased mental strain. They not only have to have reactions twice as fast, but also have tens, if not hundreds more functions and settings to deal with.
I think today's drivers have a far higher demand on them.
you should see senna monaco! Also u need to see onboard of indy car/f1 tracks over railroad tracks, thats a bump!
The shakings must kill your shoulders and neck !!!
Badass gladiators, that was F1
Watch Gilles Villeneuve if you love mad racers !
Hey I know that what I about to say is old but there thing call team superstock racing in New Zealand and it like stockcar racing but just in teams it really cool and I love your videos.
he used to pump the throttle in corners strange technic ti drive u can hear it
how they got the camera there , it was a pod shaped like a football on a ''pole'' not a pole but a thingy that stuck the camera up and away from the body of the car
smaller teams use to get a weight advantage for the quali/race for driving with the camera as it weight a lot and was bad for aero
This is when F1 was great. The driver is what mattered, not the car. Whereas its the car now, who has the best car wins, not necessarily the best driver.
Have a look at Verstappen in Brazil 2016, awesome drive there in the rain. Even the fans there compared him to Senna that day.
Please do some more sim driving videos.
F1 WAS insane, now its boring .
Keeping it simple. Ayrton Senna is the greatest driver that has ever lived.
Im Brazilian, im 42 and i saw ALL of that as a kid....It was amazing...Senna becomes a lengend here....
Senna's Adelaide Qualify lap on the black Lotus is probably the best 2m video to see Senna craziness
Look at sennas Monaco round...!!!!
Senna on monaco is masterpiece
That car sounds violent!
yeh youd know if one of these was gonna run you down unlike those ev's
Ooooh yessss, the Idol of my childhood....Take a look at the footage, how he rescues Erik Comas life on track. Amazing guy.
-86 was THE pinnacle year for both formula one and rally. There will never be crazier cars than the -86 cars in either of the sports.
But thankfully, the drivers didn't die like flies as they did in the 70s. I think 2-3 drivers passed away during the 80s, while the list goes on and on for the 70s. Jochen Rindt, Francois Cévert, Mark Donahue, Roger Williamson, Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, and so many more.
Oh, and there was a series that was crazier than anything else: Can-Am! You got to check some Can-Am stuff out! Early 70s, fan cars, gas turbine cars, the INSANE 1500 hp Porsche 917/30. Apparently, after winning his last race in the 917/30, Mark Donahue said he was glad that he'd never have to race that beast again.
Honorable mention: Group 5 Special Production, the late 70s class that produced the Porsche 935, the Zakspeed turbo Capri, the Lancia Beta Montecarlo, and other wild beasts.
You should check out ‘Patrick Depailler 1978 onboard Montreal wet lap’ 👌🤯
Nothing but the greatest respect for Senna, may he rest in peace🙏... On the other hand..., new legends like Max Verstappen have arisen since Senna and so in every era there will be a world class hero F1 race driver with a superior racing team mastering the fine arts of it all : having the fastest car, having the best aerodynamics, having the best pit crew, having the best strategic decisions with tire strategy and the best team in the factory making the F1 car parts and of course having the best driver of them all and maybe at least as important; having luck in how the race develops like with Yellow flags, safety car situations and maybe even Red flags... So yes a driver does have influence in winning a race but there is so much more to it then just the driver...Remember: if you want to finish first, you first will have to finish, and even that can be a challenge, ask USA F1 driver Logan Sargent...
The good old sound
No abs...no stabilizing electronic...handshifted with clutch...real beasts driven by real man...❤😊...Senna best ever...!!!!
not realy there are so many extrem good Driver in the History, take Sennas Idol for example Jim Clark
"Real men", ok boomer
@@mariojakel5544 Clark died way too early it was a big rip. It would've been a marvel to see what he could've done with a longer career
@@mariojakel5544 Wolfgang Alexander Reichsgraf berghe von Trips ...!!!!
@@henningpieterjordan7416 ja klar der schlimmste Unfall in der Geschichte der Formel 1 ich weiß das.
Aber auch das er in einer Runde auf der Nordschleife mit einem nur 120PS starken Lotus die komplette Weltelite mit ihren zum Teil bis zu 365PS starken Fahrzeugen bei Näße um1min20sec abgehängt hat
oder er in einem Jahr 1965 F1 Weltmeister wurde dazu noch F2 Champion in Frankreich und England dazu noch Meister der Tascam Serie in Autralien, die Indy500 gewonnen hat(hat dafür den Monaco GP ausgelassen) und weil da noch nicht genug war ist er noch erfolgreich Tourenwagen(Lotus Cortina) gefahren.
Ingesammt 63 Rennen in einem Jahr.
The thing I really love about footage like this I'd you can hear him driving it in the corners. You can hear him playing with the throttle and you can hear it when the car loses some grip.
And it's Senna.
For the first part of that first lap, he's just chilling. He's not using the full track on corner entry. He's not trying to get on throttle too early. Just waiting. Then at the hairpin after the kink after Degner 1 & 2, he's just swallows up the gap under braking. Exits the corner 0.200 seconds behind him. Then buys his time again. Then through spoon curve, he's just reeling him in on the back straight. Lifts through 130R, and just swallows up the rest of the gap into the chicane and thanks the other driver for not taking him out. He wasn't just driving around like a maniac with his hair on fire. He was calculated AF. Cool video. Senna GOAT
For me I think rally car driving is the crazest motor sport, It way scary even though the chassis and rollcages are great these days I still get nervous when watching them
For me Suzuka is just the best race track of the world. It combines every key cornors you can think about and it is so much challangeing fun to drive on it.
That is Nordschleife.not Suzuka.
@@RST-R-MODS True but not for F1 anymore.
The best race track in the world, is without doubt the Nürburgring-Nordschleife.
You can ask any racing driver on the planet who has ever driven there.
Nordschleife is the biggest challenge for drivers and cars.
There is nothing comparable!
Nordschleife clearly in first place.
After that Spa-Francorchamps, Suzuka and others...
Is this Cletus McFarland’s brother?
I visited the Paragon facility of McLaren a couple of years ago......Seeing and touching those cars will live with me forever....Especially the MP4/4.....
I understand the need to make the engines more economical, fuel efficient and environmentally friendly, but there is something raw about those old V12 engines that we have lost with all this modern technology. That's also a big thing that we will lose in cars with all these EVs: the wonderful sounds of all the different combustion engines. I will miss that.
How wonderful to see & hear a REAL race car.....fully manual,no electronics......testicals in a trailer behind !
Traction control among many other driver aids.. It's why he struggled greatly in '94 in the Williams when it was the first year where all driver assistances were banned. Round he went, and often.
well the non-real ones are faster
@@jmirsp4z Well,in most of Australia now F1 is not available on free-to-air so I no longer give a rats about the current crop of "cars".Same goes for Moto GP. Granted you still have to have talent to punt one effectively but they're so bloody clinical. Let's face it,they've all become electronically controlled economy runs without anywhere near enough cut,parry,thrust & a dozen roses to the widow.......Have you watched Formula E ? Sadly,that is how it will be in the not-too-distant future. No bloody thank you.
@@jmirsp4zMaybe faster but boring. Most of todays races are electronically controlled economy runs. The earlier cars often put fear on the drivers' faces. I'm sure you've seen the film of Sennas' career & subsequent death. One driver meeting shows the true feelings of some of the greatest drivers on the planet. The last race that killed Senna is just heartwrenching when you see the leadup to it. Yes,todays cars & drivers are faster,but the engineering differences are stark. To see Fangio & Moss race in T-shirts & pith helmets is another insane era. There is a photo of Moss in the middle of the crash that ended his career.....he is upside-down in mid-air,reaching for his battery kill-switch. If that were many other drivers they'd only be thinking "This is gunna hurt".
@@noahsnowdon cretin
Suzuka is such an incredible track!
sounds crazy even through a mic… but seeing/hearing that engine for the first time in person is absolutely mind blowing. you hear it approach, and then you can literally feel the vibration in the ground
RIP Ayrton Senna 1960-1994
Not to mention, right-handed gear changes! With a lot of one-handed turning 🏁🫡🏁
That wss really hard working at this time!
Senna the LEGEND.
When Formula 1 was still formula 1!!!!
Have you thought/considered looking up if you have a rally school nearby? I know rally racing has picked up steam over the past years.
I can listen to that sound all day long and at the end I can fall asleep while listening in bed
Goosebumps in the first 2 seconds, that haunting engine note.
There is a video of Senna driving a manual Acura NSX-R, on this same track, with a camera on his feet to see his work down there: my man is full sending it while wearing FREAKING LOAFERS. This guy was definitly built different.
Hi man, really appreciate your hard work. Have a look for the Pre ‘65 trials. Motorbike hill climbing in Scotland with bikes made BEFORE 1965. Think BSA, Triumph, Indian massive bikes!!! Happy viewing. 😂
Hearing those violent f1 engines live,was the most brutal i have ever heard.
By the way, since you also like Rally sports, have you already checked out the legendary Rivalry between the Mistubishi Lancer and the Subaru Impreza in Rally?
It stems from a time where I wasn't much into Rally sports, mid 1990's to early 2000's and these two cars with competent drivers would outperform each other again and again and again throughout that time period.
As I said, back then all I watched was Formula 1, but that rivalry was so legendary that even I heard about it back then.
And of course back then it was sooooo amazing to be able to drive them both in "Gran Turismo 4", an experience I never forget.
Just wish I would have seen that legendary rivalry live in Rally Sports back then.
Check out Nigel Mansel. He won F1 world champs and Indy Car. He is one of the all time greats, along with Senna, Louda and others from that era.
Ian, the current cars are longer and heavier than the late 1980s/early 1990s, but narrower.
The current car is 2,000mm wide, the cars back then were 2,150mm wide.
The 1989-1991 cars had about 700-750hp. The current cars have ~1,000hp.
The 1988 MP4/4 had ~670hp for qualifying and ~620hp for the race.
It's like your "football" and our Rugby (in US plenty of protection !!! In EU just real guys!)
I don't even talk about the Aussies with their Footy which is even more violent! Glory to you Aussies!!!
5 or 6 speed manual, no traction control so you can see him (and all the other drivers) correcting slides out of every other corner. Incredible driving talent from all of them
God I loved that era! Like, it’s the same as with the liveries, the “Cigarette Era” where you’d have Marlboro, Lucky Strike, John Players Special etc as sponsors was by far the best era of liveries in my opinion! When they banned cigarette sponsorship, for the right reasons of course, the liveries got less interesting for some reason
To be fair, today's F1s are pushing 1000hp out of a 1.6 litre motor. That said no present-day F1 can compare with the drama, spectacle noise of the V10/12 era.❤
Do Hakkinen vs Schumacher Spa 2000. That was an incredible racing move
1984 Monaco GP in heavy rain, rookie Senna in a Lotus chasing down leader Alain Prost just before the red flag comes out..
Real drivers drive manual „stick“ in US speak. This is why IMO Senna and Schumacher were the greatest. Put them both in a modern car.. they would out drive anyone in the last decade of f1
The cars were manuals...
Have a look at the career of Michael Schumacher (sr) - he was phenomenal as well. He didn't become 7x world champion for nothing. Some of his racing - especially in the rain - left everybody speechless.
jackie stewart teaching one of the top gear crew to drive faster is a great clip if anyone can find it. i think it was james may who was learning to go faster
I wish you would check out some motocross and learn some about that. Check out jeffrey herlings coming to the USA to race
Herlings being a World championship rider
Born in the netherlands
Racing the best riders in the US
Check out some video's on how tough motorcross really is. When it comes to fitness
You need to check the Brazilian gp were it was raining and he suffered a gearbox problem and still managed the win. He was at his best in the wet.
Prost is probably the most under appreciated driver in F1 history.
He beat every single one of his teammates in points, and most of his teammates were champions at some point.
He was actually never beaten by a teammate (Senna took the title one year, but if you add all the points they both had during their 2 seasons together in McLaren, Prost has more)
All the other champions were at some point beaten by their teammates, but not Prost.
His driving was boring though so the public didn't even notice him
Senna, Schumacher, Lauda, Hamilton… I consider these four the best of the best…
Soo nice to see the old f1 cars with a real manual shifter
Now that's an f1 sound. I loved f1 up to hybrid v6 era. Then I didn't anymore. When will the fia learn, fans want noise and a car that's a handful for the driver. I fear the best times are behind us.
Taking 130R in that thing knowing you can't go full throttle is scary
I remember Schumacher racing through the curve to finish line and while getting out of the curve the car turned 360 degrees at about 140 or 150 miles and he hit throttle and accelerated up to 190 miles again I forgot the year and the circuit it was on Ferrari hilarious how he mastered the car…
Hi Ian, you have to watch the fastest filming drone vs F1 car. Its a Red bull video and the view is awesome.
You can hear him digging at the accelerator out of the apex' searching for the traction sweet spot. Drivers today, break, turn in, back on the accelerator, the electronics sort the rest out.
In the 80s and 90 everthing was mechanical, these days everything is Drive by Wire.
I will assume you have watched the movie Senna. If not, what are you waiting for?
I think I commented on here years ago that Sennas onboards are mesmerising (I dont mean anything off by that, just hope you see why)
You should do Jarno Trulli Monaco Pole 2004, the V10 era
hydraulic Chair , VR-Glasses , some Dealer should hook You up
He had to downshift in 130R, which they haven't had to do for many years now.
This is before DRS so every overtake was fully earned
Yep, F1 and WRC are the top on their own categories :asphalt and dirt roads
I think you forgot a lap around the Isle of Mann from your list. ;)
Modern f1 is so boring, this was the best era to watch, glad I remember watching it
Alot of good drivers back then when you had to be a real driver.
Let's face it, Ian. If you don't respect the machine, the machine won't respect you. That is why footage like this scares any mere mortal. Ayrton Senna had a major advantage over everyone else in the pack, he was left handed. While every pilot lost tens of seconds shifting gears, he didn't. Also, he was the best at driving in wet tracks, due to his time driving karts. When everyone went to the box because of rain, he was always on the track to refine his technique. Forever in my heart as the best pilot.
Brutal cars, the drivers these days are cosseted!
Fantastic
its not bumpy ... senna just loved to use the curbs too
And all before sequential gearboxes
And that is an H pattern shifter Maclaren MP 44
Ayrton Senna is the GOAT
Was
@@dylanzrim3635 Who do you consider the GOAT?
1:25 that yellow blue car is a Williams Renault I guess 1989, maybe Nigel Mansell or Nelson Piquet??
It was the 1988! Grand Prix of Japan and the Driver was Nigel Mansell in his Williams Judd V8 which was not competitive to the McLaren Honda from Ayrton . One year later Riccardo Patrese drove the Williams Renault V10 and that would have been another talk..
Nigel changed to Ferrari in 1989.
The greatest F1 driver of all time
May you react to more f1 please?