It's done using AI - the software is now democratised so that anyone with a gaming calibre PC can do it but that said, it is not just a matter of hitting a preset and hoping for the best - it does take quite a lot of finessing to get the best results.
That's Peter Revson in McLaren n.6 losing the tail at Sant Jordi's curve. I was one of the lucky guys to attend every Montjuich f1 GP. I was nine y.o. at that particular one. My home was merely a couple of km away. With butterflies in my stomach, I could hear Saturday's qualifying from my bedroom. Epic footage. Very grateful!
It's AI. You can see in cases where the AI simply cannot "see" enough detail and the result is that the cars loose "texture" and become "blobby" for want of a better term (sort of like a older generation console game) but I don't think AI is going to get much better than this because there are simply limits beyond which it is not possible to interpret what something should look like. that said, the benefits of AI on old footage almost always outweigh the downsides though that depends on whether people want something that looks decent and clear or they are purists (I prefer decent and clear myself). I am currently on a project using Topaz AI to refurbish commercial DVD motorsport footage that was sourced from Betacam and 1 inch tape and the problems are exactly the same - it is relatively easy to get it looking very smooth and very clean but the side effects are what you see in this video here. How bad those side effects are depends a lot on the quality of the source footage used - the better it is to begin with the less of that "old console game" look you end up with.
It's not until seeing these cars in motion in such vivid detail that I've realised how stunning they were. I've been following Formula 1 for about 30 years now but the 70s was before I was born - but here we see some of the legends of the era like Stewart, Lauda, Peterson and more. The cars have so much character with such unique, experimental and cutting edge designs. The engines sound utterly ferocious too. This footage is truly breathtaking, thanks for sharing!
Seconded on the variety of shapes, and similarly the sounds. The years from 1966-86 saw 3.0L for naturally aspirated engines and 1.5L for forced induction engines, and beyond that you could go in whatever direction you wanted. V8, V12, flat 12, whatever you could make work. There's so much more color to the grid this way, each car so much more easily distinguishable from the others. Even the deaf could take a pretty good guess. Modern F1 gets dragged for a lot of things, much of it unfairly. But it doesn't get dragged _enough_ for how pointlessly restrictive the rules are.
Thanks for this - it is incredible, looks like it was shot yesterday… A reminder of when F1 was much more interesting and a sport, and not a closed shop franchise whose aim is to make those involved rich. The only sad part of this era was that it was so much less safe - a good half of those in the film are no longer with us. Even so which of us would not go to the much more interesting spectacle in those more carefree days - it is so sad that our children don’t experience the optimism that the World is getting better that we had then, F1 represents this in microcosm.
I completely agree! Those cars look like very fast cars. Current F1, even current Touring cars, look like very fast slot cars. Not to mention the bunch of engineers advicing and caressing the driver during "races". 🙄🤮
There's a kind of "early prototype" vibe from these cars, if that makes sense. You can see just how similar these cars are to modern cars while still looking very experimental (because that's what 1970s F1 was like). It's like listening to a song from that era and realising how much it influenced the artists of today while still sounding fresh and new and experimental. There's also a brutal kind of beauty to the cars. The designers knew what aerodynamics was but didn't fully understand it so it's like they tried to use brute force to make the cars aerodynamic while the engines look and sound like barely contained balls of flame-spitting fury hence why they are so exposed.
Fantastic footage...! '73 was another tragedy filled year in F1. Roger Williamson and Francios Cevert are two drivers who were killed racing these high powered billycarts. Next to nil safety equipment on hand at the circuits, and the governing body pretending that all was well in their sport. Some big names lost their lives in this particularly dangerous decade.
Makes me imagine an alternate timeline where we had modern camera technology in the 70s. All the crazy footage we could look back on. Proper onboard cameras, drivers-eye cameras, drone shots etc.
Great job! I think this is the same circuit where Rindt and Hill's high wings collapsed. 1969? That's when there was very little time to test and very few resources like wind tunnels. Again, great job on the video!
127: Die obercoole Strecke mit dem Sprunghügel macht ja mal richtig Laune... Für die damalige Zeit top abgesichert mit doppelten Leitplanken... 1:36: Hammergeil, diese schnelle Kurve... 1:47: Sogar die Damenwelt ist hellauf begeistert...
It was fascinating to hear from someone in a video the other day how today's F1 cars are faster than their 70s counterparts, but F1 cars in the 70s were absolutely the fasting things on wheels, nobody could match their performance. Such a cool concept
I visited your BEAUTIFUL city just two weeks ago, and also visited Montjuich. I kept thinking they could absolutely do the race there today with the current safety standards/advancements. I think if they can do Baku, they could do this. But I suppose 1975 left too much of an imprint (understandably).
I was one of the lucky guys to watch all Montjuic F1, those guys were real pilots, with gold hands, just need to see how difficult it was to go straight with those cars
![1973 F1 Monaco GP [60fps HD] Cevert leading the first lap / Onboard - Nanni Galli (Iso-Marlboro)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/La1OdhO7Xpw/mqdefault.jpg)
the quality of this footage... this is insanse! Thank you so much
It's done using AI - the software is now democratised so that anyone with a gaming calibre PC can do it but that said, it is not just a matter of hitting a preset and hoping for the best - it does take quite a lot of finessing to get the best results.
That's Peter Revson in McLaren n.6 losing the tail at Sant Jordi's curve. I was one of the lucky guys to attend every Montjuich f1 GP. I was nine y.o. at that particular one. My home was merely a couple of km away. With butterflies in my stomach, I could hear Saturday's qualifying from my bedroom. Epic footage. Very grateful!
Quelle chance vous avez eu !
You witnessed real racing.
Lucky 🍀
You must have watch many many many races at the park... was an fantastic place but too dangerous at the end.
Over fifty years old material - and the image quality is like it was filmed last summer!
Awesome set!👏🏻👍🏻
Yes AI upscaling/enchancement obviously. You can see some flippy problems due to the AI quite not getting it right.
It's AI. You can see in cases where the AI simply cannot "see" enough detail and the result is that the cars loose "texture" and become "blobby" for want of a better term (sort of like a older generation console game) but I don't think AI is going to get much better than this because there are simply limits beyond which it is not possible to interpret what something should look like. that said, the benefits of AI on old footage almost always outweigh the downsides though that depends on whether people want something that looks decent and clear or they are purists (I prefer decent and clear myself).
I am currently on a project using Topaz AI to refurbish commercial DVD motorsport footage that was sourced from Betacam and 1 inch tape and the problems are exactly the same - it is relatively easy to get it looking very smooth and very clean but the side effects are what you see in this video here. How bad those side effects are depends a lot on the quality of the source footage used - the better it is to begin with the less of that "old console game" look you end up with.
These videos are GEMS
My jaw dropped to the floor on the clarity here… thank you so much for the upload!
Montjuic Park was insane. It was like Monaco but crazier.
It looked like Monaco meets the Nordschleife to me.
Fagio said Montjuich was the little Nurburgring. He was right.
Thank you for this fantastic video. It's really amazing how it looks.
It would be fantastic to be able to keep all the GP in this condition.
It's not until seeing these cars in motion in such vivid detail that I've realised how stunning they were. I've been following Formula 1 for about 30 years now but the 70s was before I was born - but here we see some of the legends of the era like Stewart, Lauda, Peterson and more. The cars have so much character with such unique, experimental and cutting edge designs. The engines sound utterly ferocious too. This footage is truly breathtaking, thanks for sharing!
Seconded on the variety of shapes, and similarly the sounds. The years from 1966-86 saw 3.0L for naturally aspirated engines and 1.5L for forced induction engines, and beyond that you could go in whatever direction you wanted. V8, V12, flat 12, whatever you could make work. There's so much more color to the grid this way, each car so much more easily distinguishable from the others. Even the deaf could take a pretty good guess.
Modern F1 gets dragged for a lot of things, much of it unfairly. But it doesn't get dragged _enough_ for how pointlessly restrictive the rules are.
Insane footage 👍
Looks like it was taken yesterday! Incredible 👏🏻
Thanks for this - it is incredible, looks like it was shot yesterday… A reminder of when F1 was much more interesting and a sport, and not a closed shop franchise whose aim is to make those involved rich. The only sad part of this era was that it was so much less safe - a good half of those in the film are no longer with us. Even so which of us would not go to the much more interesting spectacle in those more carefree days - it is so sad that our children don’t experience the optimism that the World is getting better that we had then, F1 represents this in microcosm.
Amazing picture quality. Almost feels like the present.
This is absolutely amazing-thanks for pulling this together!
What amazing, high-quality footage from over half a century ago! Thank you for sharing this.
Amazing job on the upscaling! You are doing a fantastic service preserving this historical record. Thank you!
The video quality is really good!
Clàssic Circuit de Montjuïc.
Que maravilla.
Old times was beautiful.
Thanks for the video. Big Up Sir!
Awesome!
Fantastic footage!! Awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
This is really cool, time capsule-like footage. (At first I was reluctant to click because I thought it might be that gamer stuff lol)
It's awesome to watch the suspension as they go over the bumps, such a contrast to how planted the cars are today.
Welome back friend! Happy New Year and thaniks for sharing :)
Absolutely fabulous work! 👍
Incredible quality.
The quality is so amazing it feels like a time travel into the past!!!
They were actually jumping on this track!
What magnificent machines. This was peak F1
Superbes images ! Un régal !
There's something about how the cars drift and move from this era that make modern F1 look so bland.
I completely agree!
Those cars look like very fast cars.
Current F1, even current Touring cars, look like very fast slot cars.
Not to mention the bunch of engineers advicing and caressing the driver during "races". 🙄🤮
It's cause they're way shorter and small, modern f1 cars are nearly as long as a bus. They're so stable, older cars danced around on the edge
There's a kind of "early prototype" vibe from these cars, if that makes sense. You can see just how similar these cars are to modern cars while still looking very experimental (because that's what 1970s F1 was like). It's like listening to a song from that era and realising how much it influenced the artists of today while still sounding fresh and new and experimental.
There's also a brutal kind of beauty to the cars. The designers knew what aerodynamics was but didn't fully understand it so it's like they tried to use brute force to make the cars aerodynamic while the engines look and sound like barely contained balls of flame-spitting fury hence why they are so exposed.
work of suspension ans all.
These cars definitely has soul.
To think that there was a street circuit next to the estadi olimpic that Barca currently plays at, it's amazing!
Thanks 👍 for the video!! NIKI LAUDA the best!!
Che spettacolo! 😘👌🏻
Grazie mille per aver pubblicato questo fantastico video.🙏🏻
Bravissimo!!💯💣👏🏻👏🏻🍾🥂
The way the cars jump over the hill is amazing, love it!
Fantastic footage...!
'73 was another tragedy filled year in F1.
Roger Williamson and Francios Cevert are two drivers who were killed racing these high powered billycarts.
Next to nil safety equipment on hand at the circuits, and the governing body pretending that all was well in their sport.
Some big names lost their lives in this particularly dangerous decade.
Roger Williamson in Kyalami South Africa and F. Cevert at Watkins Glen. My Dad was there
wow, this footage is AMAZING!
Sensacional
What an absolutely awesome video!
This is truly amazing, great work!
Makes me imagine an alternate timeline where we had modern camera technology in the 70s. All the crazy footage we could look back on. Proper onboard cameras, drivers-eye cameras, drone shots etc.
The restoration is incredible.
画質が素晴らしいですね✨
当時のスペインGPは市街地コースだったのかな？
とっても面白いコースですごくいいですね✨
At first, i thaught this is Monaco in reverse..
Great work, great material!
The quality is very clean, good job and great video
AIでの修正でしょうか？
50年以上前の映像とは思えない高画質、素晴らしい
Great job! I think this is the same circuit where Rindt and Hill's high wings collapsed. 1969? That's when there was very little time to test and very few resources like wind tunnels.
Again, great job on the video!
Amazing!
Podia jurar que era um simulador estilo Assetto Corsa, mas é real ! Fantástica filmagem. Excelente trabalho !
70s F1 driving styles are some of my favorite, powersliding through the corners
Love it ❤
Stunning, love it
thanks for sharing
Which AI did you use to restore this footage? It's awesome! ❤
Full HD !!! Super!
Amazing
Fantástico; how do you manage to get such great quality
127: Die obercoole Strecke mit dem Sprunghügel macht ja mal richtig Laune... Für die damalige Zeit top abgesichert mit doppelten Leitplanken...
1:36: Hammergeil, diese schnelle Kurve...
1:47: Sogar die Damenwelt ist hellauf begeistert...
It was fascinating to hear from someone in a video the other day how today's F1 cars are faster than their 70s counterparts, but F1 cars in the 70s were absolutely the fasting things on wheels, nobody could match their performance. Such a cool concept
Montjuic in Barcelona
Thank you 😊
this is incredible ...
The best-looking F1 cars ever ❤
I am from Barcelona and I’ve ridden through these streets many times, I can’t fathom what it was like to drive there at those speeds with those cars
I visited your BEAUTIFUL city just two weeks ago, and also visited Montjuich. I kept thinking they could absolutely do the race there today with the current safety standards/advancements. I think if they can do Baku, they could do this. But I suppose 1975 left too much of an imprint (understandably).
They all look so cool
Cool!!
Ai upscaling did a surprisingly good job there
Não tinha arquibancada! Era um perigo para os espectadores, mas ao mesmo tempo intenso e real!
WOW!!!
F1 today needs more tracks with jumps!!
I thought it was a video game. Amazing footage
This track is so fun to drive in the sim
This circuit is so cool. Back before safety was invented.
I was one of the lucky guys to watch all Montjuic F1, those guys were real pilots, with gold hands, just need to see how difficult it was to go straight with those cars
Montjuic the magic mountain
What a beautiful Kodachrome 16 mm footage!
Should have been called "Armco Park". Super intense! Just take your hand off the wheel to shift, amazing skill set.
I do wish we got to see an entire onboard of this track
I need this game
Video bellissimo!
Wow! Thanks
in 1973 Lauda was at BRM anyway good interesting video even in the quality of the images
God I wish these things had better traction back in the day. Imagine them going 10/10 around every corner no let up on the throttle.
The car at the start of the video is handling terribly. Much respect to the driver. If that was Lauda, I would not want to be the engineer of the car.
True racing
onboard perspective much better than todays pc like games
Amazing circuit, I understand why they had to take it off the calendar, but selfishly I wish it had stuck around longer
bellissimo😮
Incredible to watch. Has this been upscaled or is it courtesy of rare source footage?
The kids need to see this, it's culturally significant
please full oboard lap entire!!!!!! we need it!!!
Those slides at 1:38 were siiiick
They should reopen this beauty of montjuic
A large part of me is in denial, that footage doesn't look 50+ years old. I do, but that's why I'm in denial.
Vrooom vroom have a great race everyone!
Excellent footage...but its always sad seeing Ceverts red white and blue helmet. 0:28
is it hard to upscale a whole race? this should be done by someone...many many thanks..
Duuude, technically this would be higher than 4k
Wow. Never knew the flat f1 is this old
Sequential gears in 73? Cool AI thou.
I don't think he ever shifts during the onboard bit
Barely any barriers and fences to protect people from a crash or crash debris, just going to the event was a life risk, got dam lol
I love Montjuic
Wow, they were brave
Paddle shift in the 70s??