History of Motor Racing pt 1 1902 - 1914
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- Bill Mason while working for the Shell Motor Company's film unit assembled an impressive series of documentaries that trace the history of motor racing.
The first film shows the early years as Panhards raced against Mercedes. The German Kaiser showed up at the races.
The French Grand Prix with Lancia, Fiat, Renault and Hotchkiss squaring off.
Talbot races Delage at Brooklands. Accidents abound. George Boillot becomes a star. And Grand Prix racing attract huge crowds.
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"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting," Gilles Villeneuve
To read it it's very interesting.
Richard Petty said this once
“There’s no doubt when people began racing each other in automobiles, it was the day they built the second automobile”
And weather or not that’s true or not it doesn’t matter
Because that statement says so much about humanity
Some people may see cars as just transportation but to us having someone come up and insult your pride and joy is everything to some people
And racing is the only way to settle the argument of who’s better
Weather that be at some illegal street race or at the 24 hours of Le Mans
The same logic applies
We just wanna know who has the best car
Sums up much of human history really. "Mine's better than yours" "The hell it is!"
Another one.
"Weather"
"Weather"
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9:55 and the most french thing I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂
That dude was a legend 😂
2:50 that driver is an absolute unit
Image doing 90mph on (not in) that 1902 car down that dusty road... their massive balls probably gave them some impact protection
Hilarious and very entertaining as well as informative. Those engine noises though, having been added when the compilation was assembled, it’s a pity sound wasn’t around in the early days so that we could hear the genuine sound of these wonderful machines.
Interesting some of the surviving cars from this era can be regularly sen at Goodwood in England. The gigantic Fiat looks suspiciously like the FIAT S76, later also known as FIAT 300 HP Record and nicknamed "The Beast of Turin".
This was a car built in 1910 by the Italian company FIAT specifically to beat the land speed record held in those years by the Blitzen Benz. Its 28,353 cc displacement engine delivered 290 hp. Only two examples were built. One of which has been restored to original specifications and regularly appears at Goodwood, having been driven on public roads to the circuit from the owner’s home. Many elderly motors appear and some race at the Festival of Speed and the Revival, where no vehicles are permitted on the track or in the confines of the circuit made before 1966 when Goodwood initially ceased to host official events. This makes the Revival a very special weekend event, spectators are encouraged to dress in period clothing from the first days of motoring up tom”The Swinging Sixties” WW2 garb being very popular as the airdrome was associated with the wartime RAF. Itstill functions today, early aircraft feature at the revival and on non-event days light aircraft use the base.
Search CZcams for various videos some on the Goodwood channel, one showing one journey included eye popping footage of this fire spitting monster re-fuelling at a petrol station en-route, the staff were somewhat panicked by the noise and flames!
geez man this is some rare footage of racing at the turn of the century
Teeth full of bugs, dirt and gravel, yum. Great old clips, would love to see the remastered version though. TY!!
Amazes me how you can hear "tyre Sqeal" on dirt roads. Good footage thank you for sharing.
Well....you have a heightened sense of hearing....being a wolf and all.
Love this thanks for uploading a part of history 😊
Exceptional footage, thanks mr. Mason and King Rose Archives.
Amazing! just imagine being there seeing one of these cars for the first time 'fly' by haha ^^
When the average person had never seen anything faster than a horse on the road I'm sure these were flying
awesome footage
I agree. And great stories.
They are coming around the corner now.
Yes, it appears they are all on fire, now.
The Frenchmen seem to be attampting to wave a white handkerchief to surrender to the flame.
The Englishmen, in typical fashion, appear to be having tea in the inferno.
Yes a fabulous day for old timey racing, indeed.
*Few years later*
The Tanks are coming around the corner, now.
The French Army had fought from the Congo to SE Asia. The failure of WW2 was in strategy and leadership NOT the French soldiers.
Terrifying, but riveting to watch..thanks for posting this film...
First track race was in 1890's in the Bronx New York at the Morris Park Horse Track, Mercedes was a competitor along with several brass era cars, Speeds as high as 70 mph were recorded. This was the original track of the Belmont Stakes , now the area is all residential as open spaces close to Manhattan were becoming expensive by the 1910's . You can see an image of it by googling "Morris Park horsetrack, first super speedway"
So when red dead redemtion took place racing and cars was allready old news 🤔
I wish someone would do a true documentary on History of American racing
@@paulkauchick6782 Well the #1 Driver was a guy named Chevrolet He was on record saying there was no finer car than a mercedes, Then he made Chevrolet and was mad he could never drive another mercedes in public ever again.
What the hell does that have to do with the history of American racing
@@paulkauchick6782 He started CHEVROLET THE CAR COMPANY.., and he said that statement in THE USA on the Morris Park Track .
thanks, great
great sound effects
These guys raced for the checkered not just the check. Good stuff.
Love this era of racing when men where real men and cars where total animals
Cars in this period were so slow and easy to drive. Much more boring than later on
@@canismajoris6733 You clearly have no idea what your talking about
@@canismajoris6733 They were slower, yes but no less dangerous. When the French GP was at Dieppe 8 people over the 3 races held there were killed. At Amiens 5 people were killed. The cars had wooden wheels and wooden chassis (at least up until around 1907 or so) public road tracks were anywhere between 40 and 100 miles long, the roads were made of dirt and gravel, and to just simply operate the cars was stupidly complex- the controls on some of those cars were so badly laid out that you needed 3 arms, one leg and a degree in mechanical engineering just to drive them.
I wish someday that I could slap my wife like they did back then. But the bitch is way bigger the me.
@@canismajoris6733 you're coming exudes ignorance they were slower yes but more dangerous and probably even harder to drive just for one example the chemistry for rubber was so inconsistent that the tires were incredibly poor quality compared to later times and that alone made it difficult for road holding the fact that the roads themselves weren't as well made made it more difficult and the fact that this was over a hundred years ago when they had rudimentary suspension steering components chassis etc made it more difficult and dangerous and there were many more things as well
Woow good work
Awesome video, great old stuff and super additions of sounds, well done, but as mentioned by others, wish there was sound back then.
Great to see the French 'taking on wine' at 2:53! BRAVO 🏆
I love the cars back then,they were real cars😊
The sound effects!!!
If these drivers were still alive today, I want to listen to their thoughts about today motor racing...
Well i can imagine that some of them lived until the 50s or even 60s, so if we search a lot on the internet we may find some interviews ecc... but i think that it would be really difficult to find something on these guys
@@pianortd4800 if any of them did 3 races.didnt crash.then retired and lived normaly they easily could have lived to 100.seems possible to me.
@@zacharyadams3422 yeah it's possible, but are we able to find someone that even accepted to be interviewed or something like that?
Great vid guys, thank you🤠👍
I noticed that the titles and credits are in Italian. If you have the Italian audio track, would you mind sharing that too? Thanks
interesting time, when they made 700 cubic inch motors...very interesting
Is this documentary on the public domain? Is it possible to use clips of it?
LIFE SOESNT MATTER JOHN WE NEED TO WIN
This would be great if the sound was synced... also they could have researched the sounds of the original engines... many antique vehicles were recorded on vinyl in the 50's and early 60's
The first question asked about the first car...
How fast does it go?
It's wild to see the marques such as Michelin, Dunlop, Fiat, already in play more than 100 years ago.
Everything is logic. A lot of the actual biggest car company was simple racer with there own car.
and Pirelli my brand
@@phoenix0282 Tell us about your car (history, brand,...)
@@johnmajor32 i just like the brand sorry i have nothing interesting to say about it
8:08 i dont know who the foley artist is,.. but that is a london taxi slowed down a bit in audition.
Many of those engines had pistons more liters than a modern v8. Note to creator tires don't squeal on dirt roads. Funny reminded me of the old Hawaii 50 when they squealed tires while throwing sand on the beach.
Super documentaire! Dommage que le son soit décalé..
Bloody hell most of the accidents are the things just tipping over.
The Beast of Turin had a 28.2 liter four cylinder engine. 28 liters!!!!! 😱
cool car
An 18 litre engine is mentioned (18,000 cc) around 1905 I think; that's 1,098 cubic inches!
Isn't it?
"No replacement for displacement". :-)
Yes. Before engine balancing was understood massive torque carried the day. Running at diesel like rpm's.
1902. race. Were they steamers or internal combustion?
Id imagine internal combustion even by that stage
Drivers had to be strong. They didn't have power steering back then.
they didnt have 500kg of aero at 220mph pushing down on the steering rack then either ;) but yeh stones. 2 drivers killed in practice but still the race goes on 16:00 !!
Ever heard of geometry?
what year was the passenger dropped?
The second person was a mechanic if I remember correctly.
Way off topic. But only thing i could think of is the safety of the designs. Knowing the only way we ever improved our safety ... was thru terrible accidents. Weve come a long way.
21:34 The way they were thrown out of the car. None of thse pesky seat belts back then.
Micheline tries have been around forever!
And dunlop to!
@@davidknight114 don't forget Pirelli
How these men fought death and watch them drive in 1910's
in the 1950's later on with f1 man I wish I was in that car
Shame the sound is not synchronised
Is the narrator Patrick MacNee of The Avengers?
So... they had the engines before the they had tanks and warplanes? This is not what I was taught.
1 ton weight limit
2:27 it looks like hey are riding horse
In front of who everyone participated in the races then when there was no safety, helmets, reliability of cars, it remains only for him to take off his hat.
Cars sill work in a the same way almost as the did back then but things are changing now with electric vehicles
2002
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with their 18 litre engines...
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG FORMULA 1.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG GRAND PRIX.
very little about the actual cars
Ah, the riding corpse. The US learned that lesson in the 20s then reinstituted the two-man cars with the '30s poverty spec.
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🏁🏁🏁amazing what he did🏎️🏎️🏎️
1:44 💗🔥💃💝
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kimi raikkonen's first race:
No safety or pulution junk on these rides!
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG GRAND PRIX .