It's incredible as a new F1 fan that I can actually recognize this track. It looks very similar to how it looks now, just without all the safety equipment. Awesome footage.
That feeling when you start to recognise tracks and even specific corners while watching a race or a replay, instead of just looking like a generic track is unmatched.
The track isnt quite the same layout, they used to start in what is now the pit lane backwards, make a u-turn onto the modern main straight, and go from there. There was no tunnel yet, and the swimming pool complex was just hay bales. The modern layout as we know it is from the mid 1980s, which a chicane added in 1997 to slow the cars down (the nouville chicane right after the tunnel exit)
To me the most impressive thing is where they give the winning race time of 3 hours and 56 minutes. They talk about the fitness of drivers nowadays, but I'd like to see them drive these cars over that twisty course in those conditions for nearly four hours.
This is my favorite F1 GP Circuit! I love how it hasn't hardly changed since 1929 and is still on the calendar each year! Thanks for the fun video! It's great to see a clip of the very first Grand Prix! :-)
They used to be really hardcore back then, only the rich men racing in these series had a pit crew so some of these guys had a whole tool set on board to try and fix the car with on the side of the road with cars zooming by them at roughly 60 - 100 mph.
RIP William Grover Williams who won that first crazy "round the houses" race 85 years ago. Anti-Nazi war hero and the bravest of the brave as a true Grand Prix legend. Both motor racing and humanity will forever be in debt to him.
Absolutely beautiful, thank you for posting. I must say, it is things like this that sit in my head when they talk about taking it off the calendar. Some things are so unique that they simply can't be replaced. Thank you for this lovely reminder :)
My goodness, it never changes. And there is evidence to prove it. Love the way it's so much tighter too. What a stunning insight. Thank you very much for the upload.
Not quite. The circuit used remained unchanged until 1973. Between 1972 and 1973, the train station and the old tunnel had been demolished and Loew's Hotel built in its place. The modern tunnel is actually a road under the hotel. Other changes include running along the lower road by the seafront which resulted in the old Gasworks Hairpin being replaced by Rascasse. More recent changes involve pit lane entries and exits and also re-profiling a number of corners especially around the swimming pool. The chicane has also been seriously modified a number of times over the years. And the race is now a lot shorter too.
T-Rex, you know nothing of Monaco then ....Did you skyscrappers on this video ? Did you see hundreds of boats and yachts anchored in the bay...Man, nothing is similar !!
@@therealjuralumin3416 You are right a few French and Italian cars, Alfa 158's with Jean-Pierre Wimille, Maserati 4CL, French Talbot's and Porsche design based Cisitalia , the event ACF GP at Lyons in 1947. FIA was founded at the end of 1946 and term Formula 1 was used for the first time defining rules for engine capacities.
It's incredible as a new F1 fan that I can actually recognize this track. It looks very similar to how it looks now, just without all the safety equipment. Awesome footage.
That feeling when you start to recognise tracks and even specific corners while watching a race or a replay, instead of just looking like a generic track is unmatched.
The track is almost the same but the tunnel is much longer now and the architecture bulldozed for towerblocks
The track isnt quite the same layout, they used to start in what is now the pit lane backwards, make a u-turn onto the modern main straight, and go from there. There was no tunnel yet, and the swimming pool complex was just hay bales. The modern layout as we know it is from the mid 1980s, which a chicane added in 1997 to slow the cars down (the nouville chicane right after the tunnel exit)
Don't call that crap a track!
@@l_poci_, yeah. Solving a puzzle by only seeing 3 pieces is something. ^^
incredible. For those who love motor racing, this video is a rare gem.
1920s jazz and fast vintage cars, i love this footage
To me the most impressive thing is where they give the winning race time of 3 hours and 56 minutes. They talk about the fitness of drivers nowadays, but I'd like to see them drive these cars over that twisty course in those conditions for nearly four hours.
They should stage a race just like this one on the 100th anniversary.
Same music, too.
Haha great Idea! Unfortunately they won't because the have no balls! haha
BarryDennen12 it would be in 2029 😂😂😂
Sadly the layout won't be the same as in 1929 as the city around it has evolved over the years
I'm pretty sure they can organize historic race before the main race. But the risk of dying might be too high and no one wants to take that risk.
There is a Monaco Grand Prix Historique two weeks before the real race every second year where old cars go on the same circuit. Really nice.
This is my favorite F1 GP Circuit! I love how it hasn't hardly changed since 1929 and is still on the calendar each year! Thanks for the fun video! It's great to see a clip of the very first Grand Prix! :-)
it used to be a good circuit, but with the cars nowadays its a trash track.
@@daveatwoodsr2044 kinda depend
just like what WTF1 yt channal like to say... "Monaco GP is like Vegemite, you either like it or hate it".
It used to be cool but now its trash.
1929 Monaco Grand Prix
Race Results:
1: 🇬🇧 "W Williams"
2: 🇷🇴 George Burianu
3: 🇩🇪 Rudolf Caracciola
4: 🇫🇷 "Georges Philippe"
5: 🇫🇷 René Dreyfus
6: 🇫🇷 Philippe Étancelin
7: 🇨🇭 Mario Lepori
8: 🇫🇷 Michel Doré
9: 🇫🇷 Louis Rigal
DNF: 🇫🇷 Raoul de Rovin: Accident
DNF: 🇮🇹 Goffredo Zehender: Mechanical
DNF: 🇫🇷 Christian Dauvergne: Mechanical
DNF: 🇮🇹 Guglielmo Sandri: Mechanical
DNF: 🇫🇷 Albert Perrot: Wheel detached
DNF: 🇮🇹 Diego de Sterlich: Mechanical
DNF: 🇫🇷 Marcel Lehoux: Transmission
Fastest Lap: 🇬🇧 "W Williams": 2:15.0
And not one person on their mobile phone just everyone present enjoying the moment.
William Charles Frederick grover Williams, GP winner,SOE agent and hero.Absolute legend.
They used to be really hardcore back then, only the rich men racing in these series had a pit crew so some of these guys had a whole tool set on board to try and fix the car with on the side of the road with cars zooming by them at roughly 60 - 100 mph.
RIP William Grover Williams who won that first crazy "round the houses" race 85 years ago. Anti-Nazi war hero and the bravest of the brave as a true Grand Prix legend. Both motor racing and humanity will forever be in debt to him.
Absolutely beautiful, thank you for posting. I must say, it is things like this that sit in my head when they talk about taking it off the calendar. Some things are so unique that they simply can't be replaced. Thank you for this lovely reminder :)
Great historic footage! Thanks for the upload.
My goodness, it never changes. And there is evidence to prove it. Love the way it's so much tighter too. What a stunning insight. Thank you very much for the upload.
4 people watching this video was expecting full HD quality
11 now
12 now
@@fabianrocha9924 none now
There is a statue of Grover Williams in Monaco, but ironically it is removed during racing as it's in the middle of St. Devote.
Isn't great that this is now preserved for ever
I did a school history project for my leaving exams on the life of William Grover Williams back in 2011 fascinating life he led may he R.I.P
I have cigarette case he received after winning this Gp.
Fantastic doc!
What a pity there's no footage of mirabo an old station arpin!
Amazing. Drivers does 100 mph and people walking to work on the pavement.
What a speed on a very poor road surface,really brilliant !
0:08 its lights out and here we go!
away*
Mr. Williams, a first class chap!
Death was literally around every turn crazy man
If someone hit a pole or a tree, his head and lungs would be torn off.
everything in Monaco looked the same as it does today
T-Rex9000 I know that
Not quite. The circuit used remained unchanged until 1973. Between 1972 and 1973, the train station and the old tunnel had been demolished and Loew's Hotel built in its place. The modern tunnel is actually a road under the hotel.
Other changes include running along the lower road by the seafront which resulted in the old Gasworks Hairpin being replaced by Rascasse.
More recent changes involve pit lane entries and exits and also re-profiling a number of corners especially around the swimming pool. The chicane has also been seriously modified a number of times over the years.
And the race is now a lot shorter too.
EricIrl i know that i meant all the buildings in the background
T-Rex, you know nothing of Monaco then ....Did you skyscrappers on this video ? Did you see hundreds of boats and yachts anchored in the bay...Man, nothing is similar !!
Those engines still faster than Honda in 2017
There wasnt Aloneso making things difficult crying and improving car worst direction.
2023 Honda engine says hi. 🤣
@@xyfufxtxxyf3690 Engine feels good, much faster than before! 😅
Nice footage cool song
Actually crazy how little the track has changed
Amazing 🤩
"One of the cars has a spare wheel on the back. What's the point of that?" downforce lol
They had a riding mechanic onboard. A flat would be changed out on the course!
St. Devote, beau rivage, the tunnel, the old chicane, tabac all still recognisable.
I like the tramline in the circuit. It should be rebuild today.... :D
90 YEARS AGOOOO!!!!!!!
One of Fernando Alonso’s best races
No heroics into Saint Devote please
In this car, the chicane out of the tunnel makes perfect sense.
So great!
Wonderful times!!
I like to see the modern formula 1 driving along a tramway line... :D
There are some circuits where Formula E does.
AMAZING
Almost a century later, this anachronism is still on the calendar
And nowadays they complain when they smell a tiny bit of petrol in the air.
🚗 Thank You;
Even in the old times Monaco was hard to overtake.
Back in the days when they had Grid Girls. 💔
To think... Almost 100 years ago now
Awesome
Racing on razor blades?? That's skill right there.
Monaco itself looks way nicer back then. But the circuit looks scary in this video, like very dangerous.
Where the hell is Logan Sargeant? 🦅
Ah yes the Race that was won by the hero William Grover-Williams!
Still faster than Willams!
Wasn't always the case, won't always be the case.
People just walking by, thinking, he’s gonna get a ticket!
New Equestria girls short looks really good.
Yup, I remember seeing you there
No iconic Swimming Pool back then.
The road almost looks the same. Wow
The Monaco Grand Prix it was since 93 years ago and first time F1 race is since 72 years ago.
except for a chicane right after the tunnel, they added that in the 90's i think
The chicane has always been there (it's in the clip) but it was made worse in the 1990s.
I wonder what the handle was at the casinos?
Now he is fast !
I'm the 100,000 viewer! :D
why does it look wider
No heroics into Sainte-Devote please
hopefully we haven't had the last ever Monaco GP in 2022 😢
How many of those cars would beat Williams today?? Lol
in 1985 they altered the chicane
Thank you internets
track lay out is pretty much the same but everything else round it had changed
Good lord, what is that surface?
The worst change to Monaco was getting rid of the hairpin. The double apex monstrosity we have now even removes a much needed overtaking opportunity.
Well the problem is the cars are too big for the track, no matter where they are
@@glenchapman3899 Pre war Mercedes and Auto unions were even bigger!
yes
what safety barriers
91 years ago.
The dust!
Now: Tunnel
Then: Dimly-lit Tunnel
Then: a much shorter tunnel.
Would've loved to see the pier packed full, to bad we didn't have e boats back then. HA
No heroics into sainte devote please
It may have been in the regs John, or simply tradition.
Someone get Murray Walker to commentate on this!
BarryDennen12 I don't think he was born yet
Murray was born in 1923. So he could have commentated this as a 6 year old.
Oh my goodness!
One of the cars has a spare wheel on the back. What's the point of that?
It's in case they get puncture....
They didn't fancy the Tunnel much in those days, did they?
Awww...............
Helmets lol a hat will do me
ferrari f1000 is still finding out how to get to the pace of those cars....
Mostly the same course today.
except for the chicane
And no swimming pool section, which is what ruins modern Monaco in my mind.
shouldve sent Formula2 around to clean the dust off the track.
Still faster than Karthikeyan!
the formula one start in 1929 ?
+luiz guilherme moreira sales
1950 onward, these were the days of old Grand Prix racing bit different than after the war
@@DragoKraka Technically "Formula 1" started in 1946, but it didn't become a world championship until 1950
@@therealjuralumin3416 You are right a few French and Italian cars, Alfa 158's with Jean-Pierre Wimille, Maserati 4CL, French Talbot's and Porsche design based Cisitalia , the event ACF GP at Lyons in 1947. FIA was founded at the end of 1946 and term Formula 1 was used for the first time defining rules for engine capacities.
oi linda família muito bonita
Well, you can't change one city's infrastructure unless you bombard it really hard. ;)
Berdebu brow
No halo, very unsafe
But he won Fourth in silverstone lol..
can someone colorize it? xD
I got to say... those cars and that city looks awesome in 1929,but... THE MUSIC! How can anyone listen that?
James g
That's below the belt! lulz