The Absolute INSANITY of Formula 1 in the 70s
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- Step back into the wild era of 1970s Formula 1, where racing was as dangerous as it was exhilarating. This video explores a decade of minimal safety and maximum speed, featuring insights from former drivers and rare footage. Discover how F1’s bravest competitors faced risks on the track, pushing the limits of both man and machine.
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RIP 🙏🏼❤
Martin Brain (1970)
Piers Courage (1970)
Jochen Rindt (1970)
Jo Siffert (1971)
Roger Williamson (1973)
François Cevert (1973)
Peter Revson (1974)
Helmut Koinigg (1974)
Mark Donohue (1975)
Tom Pryce (1977)
Jansen van Vuuren (1977)
Brian McGuire (1977)
Ronnie Peterson (1978)
Very respectful ❤
May them be remebered and loved.
At least they died doing what they liked, unlike most of us.
Rip senna. The goat.
@@moonliteX Maybe you could pay at least a little respect to all the drivers that died in the 70's and spare your Senna fanboy bullshit for the appropriate occasion.
@@johnjack1355 Well said. fanboydom is a modern phenomena.
Us Traditional F1 fans appreciate every field from front to back.👍
This is not football.
Only real ones know that the thumbnail is from a group b pic
Edit: thanks for 54 likes!!
Edit2: 66? Thank you guys this is the most I’ve gotten ever
Yeah it's a complete lie, should be any sort of rally car, not a road course.
Everybody knows that is Portugal 'Fafe' nothing to do with F1 , they should have shown the genuine Nordschliefe jump which was actually in F1, in 60's and 70's.
@@alimantado373 Yeah this is pissing me off. What a loser this channel is!
Clickbait bullshit
@@alimantado373 is that where the people would lay down in the road just over the crest of the hill to get a picture?
I know that you plucked the factoid about George Follmer being the oldest F1 rookie, but it's NOT like the man had been driving touring cars. He had competed in SCCA racing for the better part of a decade before his F1 debut, had driven the USAC Championship car series from 1967-71 (including 3 Indy 500s) winning once, and had spent 1972 driving Can-Am for Roger Penske winning that series (winning 5 of the 8 races he entered). For those not familiar with Can-Am - it was a closed-wheel/open cockpit series with fewer restrictions than F1 at that point in time; the Porsche 917/10 driven by Follmer had 850 hp in race trim (more in qualifying trim) so for him to come to F1 in 1973 wasn't like someone who barely drove got to jump in the car; it was a "lateral move" to go to a car with less horsepower but open wheel bodywork.
These kids don't care about fact, just feelings. George Follmer was one of the most experienced and versatile drivers ever. He would literally take any drive in any series that excited him. And he won, A LOT.
Today, it's been 30 years since Ayrton Senna da Silva perished at Imola. I still miss him and will never forget watching the live broadcast when he hit the wall. It's one of those images that you never get out of your head.
Well done synopsis. Btw, you want to watch the haunting documentary of the 1973 season "One by One" (1974) aka "The Quick and the Dead" (re-released 1978), its truly a gut wrenching experience and difficult to watch with out tearing up.
If they were to race those 1970s cars in bad rain then that's it 💀
They did race in the rain. There were a few drivers that really stood on the gas when it got wet. Your comment is nonsensical.
I remember Niki Lauda's crash that was the first F1 race for me as a kid about 5 or 6. Been a F1 fan from that day.
Sorry to those who have already seen the video, but I had to reupload it due to issues with the previous one.
Still gonna watch for the algorithm
What issues
For every lethal accident there are plenty of near-misses. The usage of carbon fiber in the 1980s made the cars safer, but the reason nothing too serious happened in the late-1980s and early-1990s was chance. Imola 1994 was a real wake-up call. Still, even in the more modern times some accidents could easily have ended far worse. Just think of Liuzzi almost decapitating Schumacher in Abu Dhabi 2010 or the start of the 2012 Belgium Grand Prix. We now find it crazy the cars had no cockpit protection back then, but it would take Bianchi's life before the halo was introduced. Without halo we would very likely have lost a few more drivers.
Open wheel cars COULD do without cockpit protection like the halo as long as issues with safety are approached metgodically, like they were after Senna died... There are lots of car, tracks and stewarding changes that can be made without compromising... The halo is just a half assed solution so the FIA look like they're doing something... And now there are even dumber ideas like wheel covers to reduce spray on wet races and more dumb ideas can follow in the future
More than 3 have died since the 1970s if you include Maria De Vilotta and Jules Bianchi. They both died later as a result of injuries sustained in an F1 car.
Jules bianchi was born in 89 and died 2015 so he's not on the list o 70s
That's why he said "since the 1970s" @@LastMangoSlice
You gave him some credit, but I don't think you gave Jackie Stewart the credit he deserves.
And no one mentions Louis Stanley’s contribution to safety; mobile med centre, research into better extinguishers and started marshal training
I doubt he is aware of full story to give sir Jackie credit he deserves, it needs much much deeper getting into the subject
many drivers of the 70s were amateurs, many started racing at 18, there wasn't the same technical preparation as those of today.
a driver today arrives in F1 with at least 15 years of experience.
Ayrton Senna 1st of May, 1994. Imola.
70's F1 was so crazy because the decade was very crazy too, with a lot of sex, drugs and rock super bands and everybody believed he was a superman. However many f1 drivers fought to turn more safe the 70's f1 already at that time, and the street tracks were forbidden and safer tracks such Paul Ricard were built. Nowadays the tendency is to forget the improvements of the 70's and to come back to the dangerous street tracks such Albert Park.
Great video but the Jochen Rindt tragedy wasn't just "the car breaking into pieces" a lot of drivers back then was afraid of being trapped in their cars in case a fire breaks out so Rindt only wore 5 out of the 6 harnesses on his belts (the strap from the torso down) to get out of the car easily but when he had his fatal crash at Monza in 1970 during the crash he slid forward and down in his seat and because he didn't wear the bottom strap on his harness his neck got slit by the harness buckle and he became the only driver in all of motorsports to this day to win a championship posthumously so fear of being burned alive did that, plus he didn't like driving Colin Chapman's newer Lotus too.
they dismounted aero then too, and car wasn't ever designed to drive without it, good point
Back when death by crash had a yearly expectancy at least 1 driver per year.
Those old time racers of all types were a different breed. It seems many had a death wish.
Why is it blurry? Is that on purpose?
Remember that there was a time when there was NO wall between the track and the pits. A time when there was no actual pit lane, but just a widening of the track.
50's Monaco was crazy.
@@alimantado373 Same distance as other tracks until the 70's, so, races that lasted for nearly 4 hours. Gear shift stick. Pilots having blisters in their hand from all the gear changes. No down force. Hay balls between the cars and the marina.
Yes, it was a nightmare of a race.
That’s called rally
@@biotyf4665 Back then, it was called F1 racing. Well... Just racing to be honest. The pits where the same for F1, F2, F3 and all other races.
It really is pretty amazing that SO FEW drivers died in the 70s. RIP. True gladiators, all!
Formula One has simply gone insane. Not regarding safety - they have made tremendous strides forward in that, thank goodness. But, the endless, mad rush toward speed at all costs...coupled with reliance on technology to fix everything...is just crazy. Formula One was about the greatest driver(s) in the world. Now, it is about technology uber alles...as if tech is something to be worshipped. Bloody twaddle.
This is why my favorite era in F1 was the early 60's, during the 1.5 litre Formula. Then, it was really about DRIVING- being smooth and precise - because one didn't have much brute force upon which to rely. Granted, the cars were NOT safe. But, at least it was about FINESSE. Now, it's only about brute force, combined with space program-like reliance on "blessed" technology.
Real drivers: Stewart, Chevert, Hulme, Follmer, Olliver, Revson, DONAHUE, and so many more.....the drivers today might as well be holding a slot car controller in the stands. The cars are abominations.
I actually liked the current F1 ,it's more safe and has a high tech
Completely agree with you. Imagine puting this young drivers today to the old ways. I wonder how many of them are true racing souls. They would change diapers in pit stop lane :)
The insanity was even worse in the 50s and 60s before aluminium or fibreglass body panels/shells they sometimes used to use magnesium body panels!
Also those older cars with those skinny hard treaded tyres still reached top speeds on the straights were much the same as the 70s cars, but by the 70s the big sticky tyres, wings and very low centre of gravity meant that in the 70s the lap records kept dropping as they could travel faster around the curves than in the 50s and 60s. The disc brakes used in the 70s are so much better than the drum brakes, and the lower weight of the cars meant that stopping distances were so much shorter, especially in the wet, so they were able to hold those top speeds for longer.
Much of the safety of modern F1 is down to the tireless work of Jackie Stewart who the deaths of 57 drivers in the period he was racing, and he was insulted and attacked at the time for that work.
An F1 car jumping at a rally stage in Fafe, Portugal, during the 80's, is not the best way present the video. Too bad we are way seeing too much of these clickbait thumbs.
It's really unnecessary. I am sure it's done just to rile people up
Thought I was going insane until I saw you say it's a repost lol still going to watch
Hahaha love your support mate ❤️
No formula 1 fan wants drivers to die on a regular basis, racing... You're sitting around watching the race with your friends or family and all of a sudden see a death. Nobody wants that
RIP everyone who died in F1!
The FIA and eccelson didn't care
Jackie Stewart had to campaign for years for basic improvement like doctor and medical facilities
Mankind always learns the hard way...
"The cars are too big, the cars are too heavy, the rules destroy the sport"
No, it ensures the driver has a chance of survival in case of mayhem.
whilst also wrecking the show, Every action has a consequence my good man.
@@user-yk4gd1fl4z this ain't a football ⚽
Back in the day when this was not a boring spectators sport.
love the thumbnail. brilliant
I'm not sure where you sourced the visual at 3:13 (list of drivers killed in F1) but a HUGE omission was Ayrton Senna.
single greatest thumbnail ever...almost made me spit out my drink lmao
Too bad it's a complete lie.
@@JackBootThugPigs i mean if you want to look at it like that sure, but those of us who have a sense of humor get a good laugh out of it.
Not Roger Williams but Roger Williamson.
Just add it to the list of grievous inaccuracies in this video.
Why that thumbnail man
Your here. just like me😄
Also, Le Mans 1955. Not the same series but a great example of performance far exceeding safety standards. You know what I'd love to see? A race series on special tracks with extreme barriers to protect spectators with cars that have no limits to performance or technology with remote controls operated by what is essentially a sim rig. Aside from cost, the only concern I have would be interference with (deliberate or not) and even deliberate interception of signals which could cause loss of control and present a means for cheating.
But we all know that anywhere's near a track, disaster is potentially only a second away. I remember watching Allan McNish tearing through the field in a Audi, crashing, and one of the wheels flying high into the air and coming down over in the spectator's area not five feet from a woman, that could have killed her on impact. I'm sorry, but I cannot remember which year. However it definitely was after 2010.
thank you so much for blurring senna's crash
i love your content😁
Appreciate the support mate ❤️
Were there any F1 drivers who came from illegal street racing, moonshine running, or the hot rod scene as a whole?
No, that’s NASCAR drivers
NASCAR once allowed drivers to do engine repairs on the track while the race went on around them
If you really want to highlight the dangers of the former F1 years, don’t Blur them. We viewers are no minors.
Tell this to CZcams.
It's a Reupload!
CZcams regulation
"nice" clickbait thumbnail , F1 car doing an iconic rally jump.
I like the Group B thumbnail lmao
Fafe Portugal.
In the 50's only 300HP, but the weight of the car: 500kg
That most horrific death you mentioned was of Roger Williamson, not Roger Williams.
Finally... I missed your voice man😂😂
Hahahah I missed you too mate 😉
And yet George Folmer is considered one of the Fastest Can Am drivers period. That was at a time when Can Am was definitely faster than F1.
It's a good thing that Forghieri was designing Ferraris rather than Enzo, if the quote about aero is accurate. Ferrari actually fitted the first free standing rear wing in F1 at the 1968 Dutch GP.
I believe it was Roger Williamson.
Bangladeshi roads in 2024 are still less safe than those F1 in the 70s. They way those bus drivers overtake, the lack of seatbelt, airbags etc in cars plus putting bullbars for disabling crumple zones all add up to a very unsafe traveling experience. Writing with an injured thumb. There are other more serious injuries but the finger is touching the keypad so yeah. I hope to see a safer system worldwide.
Great Video as always
Appreciate it mate ❤️
Races back in the day were way better , if a bad accident happened they would barely put a yellow flag and kept racing , nowadays is awful, the smallest fender bender and they put a 2 hour red flag , I liked the old days much better
Yes, and I can see you in the Coliseum with your thumb down. Stay in your old days please as the world has left you way, way behind.
Of course did you not see 52 men died
25 drivers start every season in formula 1, and each year 2 us die.
-Niki Lauda
A lot of things are correct for a short video, but the deeper you go, the more often you are wrong and you quote random facts to the previously stated thesis.
Johen Rindt's example, this car was designed with aero in mind, and for the monza they removed the spoilers to have less aerodynamic drag, the car was mega unstable because it was not how it was conceptualized, e.g. his teammate did not want to drive this configuration - you are right that safety was not something they were worried about, but why did the accident happen? Here the sequence of events and logic already contradict
BTW lighter cars today may be safer than what we have, before 2010 they weighed less than 600 kg.
The impact force and subsequent effects are due to kinetic energy and momentum, mass here does not help, just the opposite
Anyone know whats going at 2:32 I know that this isn't the 77 tragedy, but still this is very scary
If Lance Stroll had driven in the 1970s, he wouldn’t have driven long.
You spent far too little time discussing the contributions of Jackie Stewart for fighting for the lives of the drivers of Formula One. He organized driver boycotts at some circuits to force removal of demonstrative safety issues. He did that in Can Am having a large tree removed from the run off area of a turn by getting the drivers to boycott the Sunday race. The tree was removed and was the site of a major two car accident that would have more than likely killed the two drivers if the race had been held with that tree in place. He was also instrumental in the development and forced adoption of safety helmets and fire suits. The race organization, owners and builders had zero interest in the safety of the drivers. They nearly considered them disposable. Stewart fought hard to change that. We all have a favorite driver. John Young 'Jackie' Steward is mine.
Psvita is also easy to mod.
I was a big fan. Then I didn't watch for about 20 years because of the fatalities.
Imagine Lance Stroll racing in the 70s
He would be dead long time ago
Modern Formula 1 is still plagued with the gravest of hazards: Lance Stroll.
Enzo Ferrari such a savage. Love the guy
And just imagine; he alone, with one decision to walk out of a meeting, caused an entire generation of American racing fans to hate Ferrari for a very long time. We watched the 1960's LeMans races hoping that Ford would win it all, all because Enzo refused to just sell his company and everything he loved. It would have worked out so well, if Henry the deuce would just have let him run the racing divisions, and both companies merged technologies would have been so incredibly dominant in virtually every racing class. As a teen motorhead, at the time I loved watching first Ford, then Porsche literally driving Ferrari away from LeMans for 50 years. But then felt sad, not having those beautiful machines out there competing. Just think: 50 years of Porsche and Ferrari battling at the top of the sports car classes, how much we missed out on.
Well the cottage industry became an engineering discipline.. ❤ you can’t build or run a team from your residential garage anymore.
If it weren’t for the FIAs regulations on driver safety we would’ve probably lost Fernando Alonso in 2016 as well
I laughed so hard here lol 3:21
Then you must be a really sick person.
As a long time racing fan, the pit speed limit still seems odd to me. It's obviously important for safety, but it's also a lot less exciting.
They made the limit because there's an accident before
@@AJ-dx6bn Many accidents in fact. It still made the race more exciting, but I understand the safety aspect.
Ferrari's statement was not ridicolous at all. At the times when there were no regulations who cared about aerodynamic? A powerful engines could have compansated any extra drag very well.
At the beginning he talks about only having 300 horsepower but when you have hard rubber tires that are only 5 and 1/2 in wide at the best it's like having a thousand horsepower you don't understand there was no traction control no ABS brakes were drum and they locked up frequently under heat I would take any driver from back then against any driver now in a new car and I would give him the advantage ☝️
The only time it was a mans game. The cars they drive now are huge and built like tanks.
Was the Indy safer?
man, thank you for removing the footage of the 1977 south Africa accident
I watched the full recording in what was probably 360p quality because yes.
Usually i'm not traumatized by these kinds of stuff, i can take someone get hit by a car on screen without having any issues afterwards, but i must admit that was gruesome when i first watched it. Got stuck in my head for a couple good hours. However, that was fully on the marshall. You can't run across a track with cars going flat out and expect not to get hit. Idk what was he thinking.
@@rickrolled7930 exactly what happened to me, and yeah, it was his fault
Is that Gordon Murray at the drawing board 4.41
Yes.
I know you needed a text for your video, but the 50s were equally horrible, and in the 50s there were many crashes that took out large numbers of spectators.
chapman lotus wasn't a safe car, ask jim clark
I'm all for driver safety; and many of the rules that were implemented to make F1 safer are welcome. On the other hand, they need to ease up with the damned safety car and virtual safety car nonsense.
In most cases, they can SAFELY resort to local yellow flags, while the car is cleared from the circuit; and if there's debris, they can wave extended yellow flags before the section where the local yellow is shown, which the track is swept with the appropriate machinery. It could be done in a matter of minutes. The problem is whether they have the will to do it.
That’s when it was real racing. Today is too safe, it’s boring. Bring back manual gear changes with a clutch pedal. No traction control either. F-1 sux since Lauda, and Stewart have retired
Safety one of the few great things about modern motorsports. But, there are some trade offs that have to be made.
The cars will probably never be small again. Also, they look a bit too innocent. Which leads to next:
F1 has a too innocent of an image around it. Idk if this is 100% because of the safety, but i just can't look at f1 like something fierce and raw, when the internet is full of driver memes. Again, not all of this is because of safety, modern internet culture plays its part, but you can't make memes about 70s drivers either other than how big their balls were.
And last, imo fia exagerates sometimes. Yes, having stuff like the safety cell and halo are musts at this point, but you can't red flag races becuase there's water on the track. It should only be red flagged when you can't see 10 feet down the road and can't put half the power down in 7th gear, not when there's spray on the track.
why did you take slap’s insanity of group b rally video and make it about F1 in the 70s, same with the thumbnail. You just replaced the 037 with a f1 car
Horrifying
very nicely created.
Thank you! Cheers ❤️
the thumbnail is just a pic from a group b rally with an f1 car photoshopped on it
I don’t really get the point. There were more fatalities in the 50’s and 60’s
Love the thumbnail… 🏎️
Thanks mate ❤️
I disagree that f1 is for entertaiment. For us who dont race yes, but for drivers and teams its a way of life. Its always sad seeing people die, and they do every day in most bizzare ways. But when you on the track, you know you might die that day if you try too hard. You think f1 is now better than before, more exiciting and nerv wrecking? In 10 years this safety regulation will turn racing into cruising which is pathetic.
Thanks for blurring the most terrible moments. Even so, it was hard to bear.
There is something wrong with your video settings. Every time you mention a crash the picture goes fuzzy. Also, thank goodness there are innumerable clips (both high and low quality) on the internet of the South African accident involving the fire/flag marshals and Tom Pryce, because your video stopped suddenly while you were trying to explain what happened.
Most dangerous era 70s ten drivers killed cars faster circiut dangerous
1000 hp go carts
8:40 at least say his name correctly 😠
Very generic… and some statements ridiculous… many drivers raced all kinds of classes every week making them more experienced race wise than many drivers today… all in all the story line drives down the point though !
Today's professional drivers begin competitive activity at 5 years of age. Fernando Alonso at 4 years of age, the youngest in history I think.
It is quite silly to do a documentary and blur the pictures.
Do you know anything about CZcams’s upload guidelines? You can’t put a video of someone dying on this website dude. Why would you even want to see that unblurred?
u beensoo domesticated 😂😅
"...the tracks (in the fifties) were mostly abandoned airfields...."
Only a few seconds in and you've already demonstrated your complete ignorance of anything regarding the sport's history beyond whatever you've skimmed on Wikipedia in the last week. While England, due to the ban on road racing within its borders, had to resort to abandoned aerodromes for its racing fix, racing on the continent was largely done on public roads or the scant few permanent tracks that existed with similar characteristics: the old 14km Spa-Francorchamps, Reims, Rouen, Bremgarten, Pescara, the fucking NORDSCHLEIFE! All of these venues with the exception of the last example had fallen by the wayside by the time the seventies came around due to the extreme dangers they posed, because - as you've failed to communicate in this video - the safety debate goes back a lot further than the 1970s. Look up the 1903 Paris-Madrid race or the 1955 Le Mans disaster to give just two examples.
It is laughable to say that racing was somehow safer in the fifties, the decade in which the deadliest accident in the history of the sport took place, where most racing still took place on tree-lined public roads, crash helmets only became mandatory from the 1953 season, drivers still raced in shirts and trousers, the list goes on. Already by the seventies massive strides had taken place, largely due to the campaigning by Jackie Stewart, Jo Bonnier and the rest of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (which, by the way, you have massively undersold). Armco barriers and catch fencing (both imperfect solutions, especially the latter, but they were better than what was there before) were unthinkable before the end of the 1960s and full-face helmets had already started to come into fashion in 1968, again to give just two examples. Yes, there was still a very long way to go in the 1970s, but that decade was by no means F1 at its most dangerous.
And by the way, that's just in the first few seconds. To go through the rest ("Roger Williams", George Follmer driving for a team that didn't exist yet and just the general "what were they thinking?!" tone) would take me all day. Look, I know you've got good viewership figures, but you could at least show a modicum of respect for your audience.
fences and armco were of little use to the driver but were essential to protect the spectators.
Wtf is that thumbnail???
Tha thumbnail is idiotic.
Why do you keep asking stupid questions like why was this allowed to happen and why was that allowed to happen and why did these cars have safety features racing was a sport that everyone knew was dangerous and that if you got in one of those cars you could die at any minute people did it because they loved racing and that's the only reason they needed we didn't have government controls controlling every facet of our lives back then like we do now being told what we can and can't do being told what kind of car we can drive and whether we can have a gasoline-powered car or electric get off the stupidity of making laws against everything that men like to do is mountain climbing safe Is deep sea diving safe None of those things are safe and there's no government laws against them so stop trying to impose your baloney democratic beliefs into the video and just tell the story
Yo
Very hi Speed activity ~ vs ~ Safety = Definition of an Oxymoron.. If You are worried, Just don't do it, simple.
Then you get Tits like Senna deliberately causing Crashes, knowing almost certain to survive.
Ive had many Smokers challenge my opinions, which kills almost 80,000 a year in UK alone & nobody blinks an eye, are their Lives not even worth a mention !
Motor Sport now is just a subsidiary of the global advertising industry, and a fatality is bad for business. That's all,
but they don't really give a hoot if a guy gets the chop.
Men with real balls have long ago moved to other activities, base jumping etc etc so current F1 conductors are just Yes men eunuchs fantasising they will live forever 🙂
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Your video is interesting, however your narration candor talks from 20/20 hindsight. During those years they did not have so easy hindsight to see where safety would go.
Your attitude speaks as if all involved were heartless jerks. Nobody forced the drivers to race. They all knew the risks. They were men and with a warrior mindset. Men today are much weaker of mindset.
Yes, every death and severe injury affected the people in racing including F1. Some were more adamant to improve safety of tracks, cars and drivers gear, Sir Jackie Stewart for sure.
Again your video hi-lights the changes of F1 through the years, yes IMO getting too cautious. But so be it.
My beef with your narration is again your sounding condescending to the men of motorsports back in the day. They did not enjoy seeing drivers killed or injured, but they did what they did knowing what they knew to balance the sport, it's safety and the show.
You have decades of hindsight to be a bit too judgmental and not understanding the era's of racing here.
And yes I saw Senna die live on tv that April day in 94. I understand the concerns. Greg Moore die at Fontana in 99, I saw Dale Earnhardt die at Daytona 500 in 2001, Dan Weldon die racing Indy cars, Jules Bianchi die in 2017 and sadly a few others. Nobody shrugged off any of these and others deaths. The era's here of life was different.🤔
this is just all extremely superficial information. "I don't want to bore the audience with details" - yeah, I figured.
And instead of celebrating these brave heroes, literal madmen risking their lives and others' for their passion, the whole video is "muh safety" wankery, like on r/formula1