Remember being there that weekend - watching Tom Pryce through Woodcote on his way to pole was something else. All this rubbish that gets written 'I love Max, I love Lewis' blah blah blah. These were real drivers with everything on the line...........Glad I was there.
Saw this race when I was 16. It was incredibly exciting for many laps and then the storm came and brought on one wreck after another. The lesson I took into my adult life was that speed and wet roads don't go together!
@@altfactor You sure? I'm not the biggest Indycar expert, but i seen them racing in the wet. Nascar yes, they only use slicks and red flags as soon as it starts raining. They also dry the track with jet engines before restarting 😂
1975 ROC (non championship race) at Brands Hatch was exciting too. It snowed, was wet, had a f5000 car in the field, Lella Lombardi a lady driver (17 f1 races), Icks in a JPS Lotus... and Tom Pryce won in the UOP Shadow!
I remember going to see that race in my Triumph Herald. I left home at 5 in the morning to drive the 60 miles to Silverstone and got within about 2 miles of the circuit by 6.15 ish and was still there at 11 o'clock. People were dumping their cars in the road and walking to the circuit.There was a gap in the fence so I got in for free. Then the rotten sods shortened the race because of a bit of rain! I left pretty teed off and eventually got home at about 10 at night, only mollified by the fact I had got in for free.That was really interesting film as I hadn't realised all the drama that was unfolding on the other side of the track. I didn't bother to go and see another British GP until 2008, a little more civilised as I was invited by a member of BRDC.It rained then as well and Lewis won easily.
Absolutely. Just the facts from him about everything....because obviously he lived it at the highest level. Love Jackie....glad he's still with us. Also, it was cool seeing Mario and Emerson at that race this past weekend. The few that made it out of 60s-70s racing.
My absolute favorite era of F1 . The designs were boldly different you could tell the cars by their shape not sponsor or number. . The tall air box cars were the best.
The new Chicane built the day before by the local School Kids. Plus I love the Pit 'lane' built like my mum's garden path and the area with no barriers where the Crowd is lower than the track behind a small ditch.
That's the camera angle that makes it appear lower than the racetrack and looks like there's a ditch there. That's actually a dirt bank with some sheets of lightweight iron/ metal being used as a barrier while the crowd is positioned above the track to give them a better view while also being a safe enough distance away to not be hit by an out of control car or any debris.
Previously, races were stopped only when half of the racers crashed. And now the cars are much safer, but often the management does not even try to start the race (translator)
Very sad. Pryce was an excellent driver, and from what I've read, a friendly soul. He was on course to sign with a top-rank team and to challenge for the drivers' title. Motor racing is a great sport, but punishes mistakes so dearly.
Pace was a real racer and a man of great value... that's the impression I've gotten of his personality on a VEJA magazine... actually the best enterwiew I've ever read about motor-racing !
@@adrianodosveras - the best interview I ever read about motor racing is Jackie Stewart. There is a film called "Weekend of a Champion" which was made by Roman Polanksi in 1972. In 2013 they made an HD version of the film and stayed in the same suite in Monaco as in 1972. The second part of the film is an excruciatingly honest and painful interview with Jackie Stewart and absolutely fascinating. It became almost a regular thing for his wife Helen to have to go and collect all the things from a hotel room because another friend of theirs had been killed!
@@probablygraham ... great... in Englhish I've read GRAHAM by Betty Hill. J.C. Pace stated tha before arriving at formula-1 he had his respect for some racers he assumed as heroes... but later,into his strugle on Surtees and after on doubtful Brabhams already improved,he saw how important was the role of Top Gear on the category,so: considering such proportions he competed the best he could with what he had in hands and from time to time he managed to beat the men he once considered demigods on Motor-Racing.
The disregard for safety is amazing xD Pit crews working in t-shirts. Marshalls raising a hand to slow cars down while working xD With a helmet on and a normal sweater under it.
I was -32 year old by the time lol but it was so incredible the sound and the racing and the cars were so tiny... Beautiful racing and the beautiful cars especially the mclaren m23 and the ferrari 312t
If you look at starts in the past, 60's and 70's especially, hardly anyone stood still before the flag was dropped, and drivers in the front looked at the legs of the dude with the flag, because when they flexed their knees it meant they was about to drop the flag, and this sometimes confused the drivers. Crazy days.
at the time it was banned but hard to enforce and so it was inconsistently applied - things started to change after the big lap 1 accident at monza in 1978 caused by several cars at the front beginning to move early and several at the back which hadn't had the chance to stop at all before the flag dropped - but it wasn't until about 1982 that it was really clamped down on.
Thank God they decided to stop using the catch fences. Yes - they stopped the cars, but drivers also ended up neatly wrapped up in a fence and unable to get out. What would have happened in a fire doesn't bear thinking about. The other thing which was dangerous was that hitting the fences pulled the fence posts out of the ground and you were quite likely to have your head knocked off!
Well, this Christmas, I watched a recent documentary, an eye opener for me, Jackie being open with his massive reading and writing challenges. I read his book, Performance Driving. How he managed to write this, given his extreme dyslexia, I will never know. That book made me a better driver. Get hold of a copy and read it.
@@jrp312 Yes, you're right his 14th👉🎯 and he ended up VICE champion from 1976 on the brazilian car wasn't enough for his talent and we were lucky to see him again on top @ INDY CARS IN USA including his dramatic Indy 500 in 1989. FYI now EMMO is running for SENATE IN ITALY !
Thankyou for another piece of the great jigsaw of a phantastic era ... did you, b.t.w., find out who really controles the universe .. and could you please upload a copy of the guide . 🌷:)
There is more excitement in this race than in a whole season of F1 these days, it was too dangerous back then though - all the cars spinning off into each other with people on the circuit....😮
This was the era I got interested in F1 as a 9 year old. Looks like whacky races compared to today. Cars bouncing around with those massive rear wheels.
I did follow this 1975 season as a kid, but I am not sure how much this posting has been edited from the original live transmission. What struck me is how bad the transmission was, how confusing it was. The camera didn't follow cars about to pass each other, and the editors focused on a back marker in the pits while there was intense fighting for the lead, then it cuts back to a changed field, and no one knows how the action developed. F1 is much more boring now, that's for sure, but the TV folks compensate with much better transmission.
it's a shame that people in brasil don't know hym that well, even with interlagos named after him. He was a brilliant driver, probably gona be world champion!
in those days if i recall correctly the red flag could only be displayed on the start finish line, and the marshall posts displayed crossed yellow and yellow/red flags to show the race was being stopped.
I was there ! In fact it was the last GP I ever attended. We camped in a field the night before and on the way home my mates old Jag 2.4 dropped a valve and wrecked the engine on the M18. I never saw any of the crashes. They all went past us on one lap.....and never reappeared again. We knew something had happened, but it wasn't that wet where we were.
I remember watching this GP on tv 1975 and they didn't mention about this marshall. I have seen these crashes several times along the years but just now, Jan 2020, watching this video, I see this marshall being helped. Glad to know that he survived.
James Hunt was great subtly correcting Murray Walker’s ‘Murrayisms’ and over-exuberance’s, while reading situations (and Senna’s mind often) before key moments. I like Jackie but he’s a little high strung.
Brambilla showed his skill in the wet....results should have been given at the red flag. Brambilla demonstrated what he could do in the rain later that year in Austria with a dominating win.
it s not possible to ask to a pilot to be to 100% all time on track, because he must managing differents paremeters that do relation with his car and their track
15:42 one of the new safety precautions at Silverstone, great now if a car comes off the track doing 160mph we now have chicken wire as well as a grass bank.
They ended up getting rid of catch fencing as it proved too dangerous (shocking, I know). Look up Mark Donohue, you'll hear Murray Walker mention him in commentary in this race.
![[HQ] F1 1979 Race of Champions "Highlights" (Brands Hatch) Lauda, Villeneuve [REMASTER AUDIO/VIDEO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NMa8werSmdQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Just love the high air intakes to the natural aspirated engines from this era.
I LOVE the long camera sweeps. I like that better than all this cutting and zoomed in cameras of today.
It's sad to hear all of the names of men who are now gone.
These were the glory days of Formula One!
So good to hear murray walker 😊
Rip legend
Remember being there that weekend - watching Tom Pryce through Woodcote on his way to pole was something else. All this rubbish that gets written 'I love Max, I love Lewis' blah blah blah. These were real drivers with everything on the line...........Glad I was there.
Exactly. They weren’t prissy, entitled and uppity boys- they were real men and real racers.
21:35 head-on with Hunt's front wing...lucky no injury! Halo anyone?
Saw this race when I was 16. It was incredibly exciting for many laps and then the storm came and brought on one wreck after another. The lesson I took into my adult life was that speed and wet roads don't go together!
Indycar and NASCAR stop races as soon as it starts raining.
@@altfactor You sure? I'm not the biggest Indycar expert, but i seen them racing in the wet.
Nascar yes, they only use slicks and red flags as soon as it starts raining. They also dry the track with jet engines before restarting 😂
Evidently you learned that lesson but F1 did not.
It was causing problems not now for f1
Emmo has been a friend for years. It's great to see him racing in F1.
This was also apparently the first World Championship race to be started with lights rather than the flag.
this race had it all: fast, spectacular, rain, accidents, probably the best race of 1975.
1975 ROC (non championship race) at Brands Hatch was exciting too. It snowed, was wet, had a f5000 car in the field, Lella Lombardi a lady driver (17 f1 races), Icks in a JPS Lotus... and Tom Pryce won in the UOP Shadow!
The first F1 race I´ve ever seen. I had 11 years ond and since them I didn´t stop watching the GPs.
So good to hear murray walker Rip legend. Vi ao vivo na Tv! Belos tempos, grandes corridas!.
This is good! It would be a great race to see the whole thing from start to finish.RIP Tom Price.
Pryce
Vi ao vivo na Tv! Belos tempos, grandes corridas!👍🙂
Pace ia com certeza ser futuro campeao... uma pena...
I am soooo happy I found your channel! I love seeing all these old races, they're hard to find these days.
WOW, thanks for the upload! WOnderful to watch these beautiful cars.
I love how the grass is on parts of the edge of Hangar Straight, nevermind look at the speed of the cars in the pits
16:00 *These were the days BBC showed the full race with no adverts and all included in your modestly priced TV Licence*
In 1975 they only showed the odd race. I believe it was in 1978 that they televised all the races
Amazing......and literally deadly.
I remember going to see that race in my Triumph Herald. I left home at 5 in the morning to drive the 60 miles to Silverstone and got within about 2 miles of the circuit by 6.15 ish and was still there at 11 o'clock. People were dumping their cars in the road and walking to the circuit.There was a gap in the fence so I got in for free. Then the rotten sods shortened the race because of a bit of rain! I left pretty teed off and eventually got home at about 10 at night, only mollified by the fact I had got in for free.That was really interesting film as I hadn't realised all the drama that was unfolding on the other side of the track. I didn't bother to go and see another British GP until 2008, a little more civilised as I was invited by a member of BRDC.It rained then as well and Lewis won easily.
Maybe now u understand why they cut the race short
Jackie Stewart, in my book, is the greatest F1 commentator I've ever heard!
Absolutely. Just the facts from him about everything....because obviously he lived it at the highest level. Love Jackie....glad he's still with us. Also, it was cool seeing Mario and Emerson at that race this past weekend. The few that made it out of 60s-70s racing.
Boring yapping twat that can talk about the colour of dust, yap yap yapping Scottie dog...ugh.
With Murray Walker too
What a beautiful collection of cars at the end. Brilliant commentary by Jackie Stewart
' they've got seat belts and everything else!'
My absolute favorite era of F1 . The designs were boldly different you could tell the cars by their shape not sponsor or number. . The tall air box cars were the best.
The '75 cars are the best imo. Just so unique
The new Chicane built the day before by the local School Kids. Plus I love the Pit 'lane' built like my mum's garden path and the area with no barriers where the Crowd is lower than the track behind a small ditch.
That's the camera angle that makes it appear lower than the racetrack and looks like there's a ditch there. That's actually a dirt bank with some sheets of lightweight iron/ metal being used as a barrier while the crowd is positioned above the track to give them a better view while also being a safe enough distance away to not be hit by an out of control car or any debris.
Previously, races were stopped only when half of the racers crashed. And now the cars are much safer, but often the management does not even try to start the race (translator)
Última vitória do Fittipaldi na F1. Campeão 72/74 🏆🏆e vice-campeão 73/75
I need some paracetamol and a sleep after a Jackie Stewart commentary,
Poor Tom Pyrce.
One of the greatest losses in F1 history....and I'm English!
Very sad. Pryce was an excellent driver, and from what I've read, a friendly soul. He was on course to sign with a top-rank team and to challenge for the drivers' title. Motor racing is a great sport, but punishes mistakes so dearly.
@@donroberts2126 James Hunt was pretty good too, and Im Welsh
@@polcommwatcher wasn't even his own mistake
Pace was one of the most talented drivers of his time. No doubt a future champion. Too bad his life cut short by a plane crash.
And Tony Brise died in Graham Hill's plane crash.
@@probablygraham and 5 other men from the EMBASSY-HILL TEAM ... TOO SAD !!!!!!
Pace was a real racer and a man of great value... that's the impression I've gotten of his personality on a VEJA magazine... actually the best enterwiew I've ever read about motor-racing !
@@adrianodosveras - the best interview I ever read about motor racing is Jackie Stewart. There is a film called "Weekend of a Champion" which was made by Roman Polanksi in 1972. In 2013 they made an HD version of the film and stayed in the same suite in Monaco as in 1972. The second part of the film is an excruciatingly honest and painful interview with Jackie Stewart and absolutely fascinating. It became almost a regular thing for his wife Helen to have to go and collect all the things from a hotel room because another friend of theirs had been killed!
@@probablygraham ... great... in Englhish I've read GRAHAM by Betty Hill. J.C. Pace stated tha before arriving at formula-1 he had his respect for some racers he assumed as heroes... but later,into his strugle on Surtees and after on doubtful Brabhams already improved,he saw how important was the role of Top Gear on the category,so: considering such proportions he competed the best he could with what he had in hands and from time to time he managed to beat the men he once considered demigods on Motor-Racing.
Pryce and Pace both died within days of each other in March, 1977. Pryce could have been a World Champion.
The disregard for safety is amazing xD Pit crews working in t-shirts. Marshalls raising a hand to slow cars down while working xD With a helmet on and a normal sweater under it.
Ya it was just a slaughter house back then. It's a wonder we even found the courage to go outside.
At 22 minutes a truck is driving across the track to the pile up of aquaplaning cars while another one drives by.
Safety rules what for?
Sir Jackie looking like a damn rockstar!!
Wow amazing quality! So weird when everything from 76 - 85 looks so fuzzy :')
It's all the cocaine.
It was filmed by the BBC who used better quality cameras
This video is pristine
With their massive rear wheels and those tall air boxes the cars of this period looked brutal.
I was -32 year old by the time lol but it was so incredible the sound and the racing and the cars were so tiny... Beautiful racing and the beautiful cars especially the mclaren m23 and the ferrari 312t
I was 9 at this time. A golden age of motor racing memories for me.
Watched from Woodcote...proper racing
I love this track layout
How stikingly beautiful McLaren M 23 of Fittipaldi.
I always liked the fact that the drivers don't have radios back then
It would be another 25 years before Jenson Button owned a television.
And possibly another 21 years befor Jenson gets his genetics tinkered with from the vaccine
Good old Murray - at one point telling us that Tom Pryce was in second AND third place 😁
You know you're DAMNED good when you can pull that off...😆
Wish we could get entire seasons to watch over again,would be awesome
that is called the brunswick films - highlights of every race from 1970 to 1980 - probably on ebay or something.
01:28 "Pace got a wonderful start!" Yeah, because he was moving before the green light, Jackie...
ajcardiff1 back then that was allowed
This was completely normal back in this years.
If you look at starts in the past, 60's and 70's especially, hardly anyone stood still before the flag was dropped, and drivers in the front looked at the legs of the dude with the flag, because when they flexed their knees it meant they was about to drop the flag, and this sometimes confused the drivers. Crazy days.
at the time it was banned but hard to enforce and so it was inconsistently applied - things started to change after the big lap 1 accident at monza in 1978 caused by several cars at the front beginning to move early and several at the back which hadn't had the chance to stop at all before the flag dropped - but it wasn't until about 1982 that it was really clamped down on.
That was a well judged and driven race by Emerson Fittipaldi
James Tan ... yes, amazing driver 1st Brazilian WC. I was a fan since ‘72. Also a Tom Pryce fan .
The United Oil Products Shadow is a cool looking car!
Thank God they decided to stop using the catch fences. Yes - they stopped the cars, but drivers also ended up neatly wrapped up in a fence and unable to get out. What would have happened in a fire doesn't bear thinking about. The other thing which was dangerous was that hitting the fences pulled the fence posts out of the ground and you were quite likely to have your head knocked off!
I like those Shadow car design by Tony Southgate they have 1 Matra simca V12 awesome sounds
i ve just seen one live in a car festival, it's absolutely gorgeous !
The Matra V12s sounded amazing
Well, this Christmas, I watched a recent documentary, an eye opener for me, Jackie being open with his massive reading and writing challenges. I read his book, Performance Driving. How he managed to write this, given his extreme dyslexia, I will never know. That book made me a better driver. Get hold of a copy and read it.
Thanks for the upload mate 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yesterday I turned 44 ( 47 now in 2022)... I'll always remember the fact Emerson won that race for Brazil w/o even knowing it...
His last win
@@jrp312 Yes, you're right his 14th👉🎯 and he ended up VICE champion from 1976 on the brazilian car wasn't enough for his talent and we were lucky to see him again on top @ INDY CARS IN USA including his dramatic Indy 500 in 1989.
FYI now EMMO is running for SENATE IN ITALY !
how old are you now in 2023?
Thankyou for another piece of the great jigsaw of a phantastic era ... did you, b.t.w., find out who really controles the universe .. and could you please upload a copy of the guide . 🌷:)
Gordon Murray master piece BT 44
There is more excitement in this race than in a whole season of F1 these days, it was too dangerous back then though - all the cars spinning off into each other with people on the circuit....😮
What great racing. Despite the real danger (back then) these drivers really went all out. What a great track too
I know that it's almost 45 years on now, but so many of those drivers are now gone by one means or another.
Great quality wow 😮
This was the era I got interested in F1 as a 9 year old. Looks like whacky races compared to today. Cars bouncing around with those massive rear wheels.
😁 lol very true. With Dick Dastardly as Chief Executive of Formula 1.
I did follow this 1975 season as a kid, but I am not sure how much this posting has been edited from the original live transmission. What struck me is how bad the transmission was, how confusing it was. The camera didn't follow cars about to pass each other, and the editors focused on a back marker in the pits while there was intense fighting for the lead, then it cuts back to a changed field, and no one knows how the action developed. F1 is much more boring now, that's for sure, but the TV folks compensate with much better transmission.
I can't believe it is Silverstone circuit 49 years ago... I only recognize woodcote, magotts&becketts the hangar straight and stowe and thats all 😅
Looking this videos we know how much we lose with Pace death. He was a great driver.
and Tom Pryce too. He had been quick since he first race. Oh what could have been..
it's a shame that people in brasil don't know hym that well, even with interlagos named after him. He was a brilliant driver, probably gona be world champion!
There is a Bemoreira Ducal (Brazilian retail store) ad!
When the newest safety feature in the game was the chain link fence :)
The track should still have this configuration.
8:36 the ill-fated Graham Hill team in action.
So sad. RIP Tony Brise, Graham Hill et al (6).
There was excitement in F1 then.
not a single mention of boring lap or sector times
Still is now! F1 was a good sport and still is today
I was there. Utter pandemonium.
in those days if i recall correctly the red flag could only be displayed on the start finish line, and the marshall posts displayed crossed yellow and yellow/red flags to show the race was being stopped.
Those high air boxes... so sexy
I was there ! In fact it was the last GP I ever attended. We camped in a field the night before and on the way home my mates old Jag 2.4 dropped a valve and wrecked the engine on the M18. I never saw any of the crashes. They all went past us on one lap.....and never reappeared again. We knew something had happened, but it wasn't that wet where we were.
Reminds me of those AFX slot cars. :)
I had an AFX track and cars in probably 75, I remember it had the high airbox cars on the box. So cool, wish I still had it!!!
10:55 ... DAMN !!! ... thought Tom was going to catch it, shame. He was a master in the wet, just not that day. Should have been his day.
I miss Murray Walkers commentary the things he used to come out with cracked me up. Great video much better than watching the modern shit.
Raise a glass to him, Tom. He's just turned 97!
UOOOOP SHADOW!
My Scalextric set had a black and a white UOP Shadow. Good little rugged model
They never mention the Marshall who got hit by the crashing cars - look at 22:18
I remember watching this GP on tv 1975 and they didn't mention about this marshall. I have seen these crashes several times along the years but just now, Jan 2020, watching this video, I see this marshall being helped. Glad to know that he survived.
Cameras moved away quickly and they changed the subject
the marshal did not die but i don't know how badly injured he was.
RIP Murray Walker
I likes the comment of the 12 second pit stop , compared to the 3 seconds or less by today’s standards 😎
Carlos Pace !!!
Jackie Stewart is the best announcer/analyst ever!!!!
Martin brundle is extremely good too!
not bad for a dilexia sufferer.
James Hunt was great subtly correcting Murray Walker’s ‘Murrayisms’ and over-exuberance’s, while reading situations (and Senna’s mind often) before key moments. I like Jackie but he’s a little high strung.
A time when racings was between people, not technology :( Pure racings, like in kart
Brambilla showed his skill in the wet....results should have been given at the red flag. Brambilla demonstrated what he could do in the rain later that year in Austria with a dominating win.
Agree! He was a real rainmaster, together with Clark, Stewart, Villeneuve, Senna and so on.
🏁 Quel chaos !!! 🏁
what's going at 22:19 ? A marshall getting pulled out of the wreckage?
grande Emerson ....
it s not possible to ask to a pilot to be to 100% all time on track, because he must managing differents paremeters that do relation with his car and their track
Thanks
15:42 one of the new safety precautions at Silverstone, great now if a car comes off the track doing 160mph we now have chicken wire as well as a grass bank.
They ended up getting rid of catch fencing as it proved too dangerous (shocking, I know). Look up Mark Donohue, you'll hear Murray Walker mention him in commentary in this race.
Jackie Stewart looks like he should've been in AC/DC.
Marshall under a crashed car at 22:18. Hope he was ok
he didn't die but was cleared injured.
Murray Walker sounds like he is rooting for his future love James Hunt, James Hunt....
How could a talented pilot like José Carlos Pace have died in 1977 in a bizarre air crash? A lost talent.
Similar story with Tony Brise. He was a passenger in Graham Hill's plane when they crashed 4 months afterwards.
15:30 Hans Stuck is stuck
My first idea of a race car is this... Tiny weels front huuuuuge ones back and plastic toy cars!
RIP NIKI LAUDA
21:40!!! Terrifying mess!
Os bonitinhos de hoje não teriam coragem de enfrentar aF1 dessa época!!?
This was my first race in Britain, and it was Mark Donohue’s last . . .
Looking at this you can easily understand : then even the last driver in a last row was very much better than Hamilton and all the kids of now .
100%!!!!!!!
it's 4G antenna on the top of these cars?
Compared to the cars of today, these cars look like go karts.
i still can not listen to J. Stewart. Sorry, nice video