They slipped in scenes from the movie "Rush" and you never noticed. That's how good the movie is and it is really about just how much the two leads captured, in both look and feel, the essence of James and Nikki.
Fangio? Moss? Surtees? Rindt? Though Clark for his pure driving godliness and Stewart for both his driving, his surviving and the work he did to make so many others survive too.
If you guys have chills seeing the footage of Senna fatal crash... I can barely describe what i feel. I was watching the race on TV, i saw the crash live. And see my childhood hero dying when i was only 8 years old. I was unable to watch the rest of 94 season, also only saw the results of the races in 95. Took almost 2 years to me to, to get courage to sit in front of a tv and get back to watch the races.
People were mad about Schumacher in 94, because he had hit the wall and ruined his own race the corner before he had contact with Hill, and it was argued that Schumacher already knew his car was toast, and knew that wrecking Hill was the only way he could win. Schumacher of course denied knowing his car was done already, and that it was the contact with Hill that ended his race, not the contact with the wall.
Turns out, when your barriers consist of some Haybales and a picket fence, a 150mph crash headed towards the crowd can turn rather nasty. The footage of that crash at Le Mans is horrific, the car goes cartwheeling through the Grand stand crowd.
At Le Mans in ‘55, the car chassis spun At ridiculous speed down the side of the start finish straight and people were decapitated and chopped in half, the footage is so violent and fast, anyone in the way had no chance.
Nope it was the engine that flew into the crowd decapitating spectators, Iv seen pictures of the aftermath. So sad. And no safety at all for spectators back then.
If you haven't, you two HAVE to watch the Formula 1 movie called RUSH, which was in the video at the 12:14 mark. Its not entirely accurate to Niki Lauda and James Hunt rivalry but it is a damn good watch.
The pre-F1 era ("Grand Prix racing") contains some very wild cars aswell. Like when the only rule were 1500cc engine displacement, and they superchaged these m-fs to oblivion. 1500cc with 600hp in the late 1940s from the BRM engine. Naturally it's harder to have a relation to these races since there aren't as much moving footage available.
As someone else mentioned, you should watch Grand Prix: The Killer Years, by the BBC. It covers how safety procedures were brought into the sport, but showing how horrific racing was prior to that. It blew my mind the first time I saw it.
Been fascinated by F1 & watched it for 40 years now. Never miss a race (even the bad ones) also have around 1500 F1 model cars. Well done guys for reviewing & reacting to this👍
Being British, I'm proud to say there's been TWELVE British F1 champions over the years. The next closest is three champions from several other countries. 🇬🇧🏁🇬🇧
Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill (2), Jim Clark (2), Jon Surtees, Jackie Stewart (3), James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (7), Jenson Button. I make that 10 champions with 20 titles between them. Good point though. Brazil, Finland and Germany next up. Not so many French or Italian champions considering their countries' contribution to motorsport.
Every new generation (so far) has given us at least 1 British champion. I say "new" because the pre-war veterans didn't give us a British champion, and "so far" because because Lando turns 24 next week and George is only 25
I’m tellin yall, y’all gotta react to literally anything early 2000s F1. Just the sound of those V10s makes any video about them an audio experience no matter what it’s about
81 drivers in 1950 but not all in every race, don't forget the Indy 500 was also part of the F1 Championship back then, so those drivers will also be included too and drivers sometimes only entered 1 race, their home race or the race with the most prize money.
There is an excellent but heart breaking documentary about the 1955 Le Mans disaster, even interviewing survivors who were in the Grandstand on the day, and you can see in their responses how badly it affected them for the rest of their lives. There are before and after films of the scene that show the amount of carnage.
Thanks again lads If you are thinking of doing film reviews" Rush" isn't too shabby as a start, the James Hunt Niki Lauda dramatization. of for documentaries "Senna" is brilliant
I remember that Ferrari was sponsored by malboro, and team Jordan (I forget the company name) was always sponsored by Benson & Hedges. Heck I think nearly every F1 Team when I was growing up in the 90's had a cigarette sponsor....
The best thing about this is the fact they they use the correct music for F1 - the greatest guitar riff of all time from Fleetwood Mac's The Chain. Watch "This is Formula 1 - F1 intro (BBC remastered)" and yep - That was the sound of Formula One 🏎😁
I really recommend you watch Le Mans 55 - A deadly competition, it's an animated 15/20 movie about the crash and shows how things where back then. Between the drivers, the merc team themselves... It's really REALLY good(also recommend subtitles as there is a bit of French you might not understand) !!!
In May 1902, the first races in Great Britain took place on the seafront in Bexhill on Sea. The races had been the brainchild of the Eighth Earl De La Warr, and with the assistance of the Automobile Club, later known as the RAC, the races took place at speed, back and forth from the top of Galley Hill to the Sackville Hotel. Over 200 vehicles from all over the continent took part and brought thousands of people to Bexhill to watch vehicles reaching speeds, the like of which they had never seen before on British soil.
Guys you need to check out the 1955 Mille Miglia 1000 mile race run over public and also mountainous roads in Italy. The race was won by Mercedes-Benz factory driver Stirling Moss with the aid of his navigator Denis Jenkinson. They completed the 992-mile distance in 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds - an astonishing average speed of 99 mph over such rough and twisty roads - this was the 1950s!
The fatalities at Le Mans in 1955 were one driver and eighty three spectators. Also I recommend watching”LE MANS 1955-Deadly competition-Animated short film by Q Baillieux-HD(full movie)”by Univers Court
Great comments about the different generations cars heralding in new new leading teams and drivers. Perhaps IndyCar with their 14 year old engine/chassis combination might one day take the hint.
Just stumbled upon your channel, been watching the F1 reactions and couldn’t find you reacting to grosjean’s crash anywhere. If you haven’t, would love to see it
I've got some photo's somewhere from when we went to Brands Hatch back in the days of turbocharged and ground effect cars, 80's way before F1 was all over the airwaves, TV and radio etc. This was when Jones, Reutermann, Pironi, Laffitte, Fittipaldi, Piquet, Prost etc were in their prime. We were doing a pit walk during the practice sessions over the days prior to the actual race and were taking photos and I got one of Prost's Mclaren car, and he didn't have his name on it, but instead they'd put a nickname for him on it. It was "tadpole" (he was 5ft 5" tall) Useless info maybe, but it's one my brothers, friends, and myself still laugh at whenever it's mentioned.
Grand Prix: The killer years. Watch it.. you won't be disappointed This video starts by saying most accidents resulted in death.. I hope that was just his meme nature cos thats just plain untrue. Though deaths were unfortunately far too common. You'd be surprised how fast these cars got even in the early days. Especially with the more speed orientated tracks. Le Mans and the like were much faster back in the 50's.
There is nothing more wholesome than watching people learning about something they don't know about and being excited. Always nice to see. I do wish the documentary focused on had a lot more about the earlier years, though. Pretty unfortunate that almost the entirety of the first 2 decades of F1 is little more than a footnote here, and not a single mention of Jim Clark... Who is still the greatest driver in F1 history imo. If you want to learn more about that period of F1, check out the documentary "Grand Prix: The Killer Years." Fantastic overview of the first 30ish years of F1, and a much deeper dive into what the sport really is. But, also... "The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix to this day remains the most devastating weekend in Formula 1 history." The 1961 Italian Grand Prix would like a word...
It should be noted that the 83 (or 82 or 84) number of casualties in Le Mans of 1955 is a number most sources agree on. We don't really know the exact number of dead, because the fire made exact counting impossible. Only those who were accounted for, so those who had someone who was looking for them and knew they've been at the race are counted. Due to the era it's more than possible some spectators simply had nobody looking for them... For example a son, brother or uncle who went away to made their own living and you just never heard back from them.
Mercedes returned to motorsport in 1989 and competed mainly in sports car and endurance racing before returning to F1 as an engine supplier in 1993. They then brought out the Brawn team (formerly Honda) in 2010 and brought Michael Schumacher back from retirement to help build the team from 2010 to 2012 before he retired for good. In 2013 they signed Hamilton and from 2014 to 2020 were the team to beat.
@@dzzope for the last time. The team was BRAWN GP in 2009 and they used Mercedes engines. Then in 2010 Mercedes brought the team. They struck a deal with Ross Brawn to buy him out while still allowing him to run the team as the rebadged Merc outfit in 2010. I can't dumb it down for you any more so I'm just assuming you're being intentionally difficult.
@@jacobmassey3897 for the last time you have a typo in your op that i was correcting. You said mercedes brought out brawn not bought out. Also you could take that stick out of your ass when someone says the same thing as you.
Channel 4 in the UK produced an excellent documentary "The grand prix car 1945-1965" that is worth watching. Two episodes are on youtube but the 3rd is missing for whatever reason. The documentary has John Watson( modern F1 driver ) driving various old F1 cars of their time together with the associated history. Rest assured these were extremely powerful and fast cars but clearly death-traps by current standards. Drivers of today can't easily be compared to drivers of that era as the crashes they've had in their modern careers would likely be either life changing or fatal back in those racing days. There is something more interesting and exciting about cars of those days where it was more open to those with smaller budgets and "backstreet garage" style. Todays budgets are eye-watering. Edit: part 3 of the above series seems to exist under jmx tv archive on youtube, there may be others too but at least its out there( it covers mostly british cars 1959 onward ), a very good series long before celebrity love island, big brother etc........ we even made good tv at one time long ago in the uk 🤣
A very good F1 driver was the Scot called Jackie Stewart, who with other drivers had a strike against just how dangerousF1 had become. Todays cars are much much safer with shell built cockpits and hoops in front of the driver for protect in crashes and roll overs. Drivers wear an asbestos like material all over suit as protection against fire. Looking at the old style F1 cars which were very close to the ground and very flimsy in driver protection, makes realise just how brave the guys were who drove them. The video didn't mention probably one of the best F1 drivers of all time-Jim Clark(a Scot). He won The 1965 Indianapolis at his 3rd attempt, won 27 f1 Races and the world F1 tile twice with Lotus.
When a new formula is introduced what normally happens is that the dominant teams are still winning and investing the bulk of their engineering in the current season while other teams will invest more heavily in the engineering of the new formula making the currently dominant playing catch up when the new formula is implemented. That is why a change in formulas (eras) usually shakes things up. What also happens is that any innovation that one team has is quickly implemented into the other teams as fast as possible (in some cases this can take a lot of redesign of the chassis to implement) so eventually these things are nullified (things like Mercedes pre-chamber ignition in the cylinder head and their split turbo design). It can take several races for some secrets to be leaked but eventually, everyone figures out what everyone else is doing. One of the crazy innovations was the F-duct that McLaren introduced. Formula One had a rule that basically said you could not have any moving parts in the aerodynamic design of the car. So what Mclaren did is that they came up with a design that allowed them to run an air intake from the front of the car passing air over the rear wing on straightaways to spoil the downforce/drag that the wing generated meaning they could get higher top speeds. How did they do this? They physically ran the duct along the inside of the cockpit beside the driver and cut out a portion of the duct so that under normal conditions the air would not make it to the back wing and the car would have good downforce in corners where it was needed. However, on a straight away, the driver could physically use the back of his hand to cover the opening in the duct redirecting the airflow to the back wing and reducing drag. The car itself had no moving parts, it was the driver's physical body that changed the airflow characteristics. It didn't take long before people noticed the McLaren drivers covered the duct on straightaways with TV cameras that were placed on the car and soon the other teams implemented a version of the F-duct as well. Some used the driver's hand, and other designs utilized the driver's knee or leg. Eventually, the FIA decided it was too dangerous to have drivers operating the cars when they were at their highest speed with one hand and banned the F-duct. A bit later the FIA introduced the Drag Reduction System which allows drivers who are less than a second behind the car in front of them the advantage of being able to open the top flap on their back wing which reduces drag and increases top speed. The moment the brake peddle is pressed the DRS system is shut off and the wing goes back to normal geometry.
Boys you should really look up Jim Clarke He raced in and won championships in every type of racing cars you can think of , Rallying, Saloon Cars , Formula 1 , Indy 500 he won the lot
Although it has nothing to do with motorsports, you should watch "History of the entire world I guess" video, which inspired the style of this one. It's possibly one of the greatest videos on TH-cam, in my humble opinion.
You should do a review of “hitting the apex” if you havnt already,its narrated by Brad Pit,it follows 6 of the greatest motogp riders of all time that all raced each other. It shows highs lows & unfortunately tragedy 😞 if you love motorsport at its highest level its well worth the watch. These riders are crazy
But only if you watch the first 2 films before that. All 3 films follow Rossi and pick up where the other left off. Faster, fastest, hitting the apex. The first 2 are narrated by ewan mcgreggor.
The '55 Le Mans crash/incident/whatever you want to call it a car was going into the pits (the pits weren't like they are now, they basically pulled up at the side of the track, the pits weren't in a pitlane. Look at some old footage and you will see what I mean), Mike Hawthorne was that driver. A car (Macklin) behind him swerved to avoid running into the back of him and collided with another car (Levegh) who was beside them launching him into the air (the picture you can see in the video). The car (Levegh) was going around 125mph (200kph) as it liftoff flying into the packed grandstand where the car split into two and exploded into flames. There are videos of the incident and some do show the graphic incident and the aftermath but if you watch them just remember they do show the dead and dying in them. Levegh was killed outright having been thrown from the car as none of the drivers wore seatbelts in those days. As stated on Wikipedia "Large pieces of debris, including the Mercedes' engine block, radiator, front suspension, and bonnet (hood), were sent flying into the packed spectator area in front of the grandstand. The rear of Levegh's car landed on the berm and exploded into flames.". After the crash they continued racing even while they removed the dead and injured from the track, the reason stated that the organisers didn't want to cause panic and/or to cause a traffic jam of spectators leaving blocking the roads and hindering the emergency vehicles (most people didn't even know what had happened). Mercedes and some of the other teams immediately withdrew out of respect but Jaguar, who Hawthorne was driving for and was leading the race, decided to continue and did win the race. Jaguar and Hawthorne would come under much criticism for their actions that day. Hawthorne would later die in a road accident in 1959 aged just 29 on the A3 Guildford bypass while driving his comprehensively modified 1958 Jaguar 3.4-litre saloon (now known as the 3.4 Mk 1) VDU 881 to London. While the circumstances of the accident are well documented, the precise cause remains unknown. In the aftermath many circuits were closed and racing postponed while drastic safety changes were made on circuits and courses that had not been modified since their introductions.
Mercedes didn't withdraw until several hours after the accident, and they did it to avoid the bad publicity. Germany wasn't popular still with ww2 being only 10 years earlier, and having been involved in that crash didn't want the headlines to be about them. So withdrew. Jaguar being British didn't have to worry about such PR problems so had no reason to withdraw. Besides I'm sure the dead would rather the race continue. Stopping it benefits no one and hurts the sport severely, which given the circumstances was already in trouble given the scale of the crash.
The switching in regulations and eras doesn't impact the drivers all that much. It has mor impact on the car design. Schumacher won in Benneton and a decade later he was in his 5 in a row. Alonso got the next 2 wins, but got very close to a few more in the early 2010's. Max won 2021, the last year of an era, and has now also won 2022 and 2023. Manwhile Hamilton and Alonso are still showing that they are formidable.
If you want a video that puts in perspective how difficult F1 cars are to drive you should look out the top gear episode where Richard Hammond tries driving one
Top Gear isn't the most reliable source of car reviews.. They ham things up too much for the camera. That said, that particular dramitisation does do a good job of communicating how hard they can be to drive.. even if, as said, it's hamm'd up a bit much.
Abu Dhabi 21 is the equivalent of let's use football as an example, blue team having 10 goals and red team having 5 goals, and then out of nowhere saying that red team can bring in fresh players and next goal wins.
The whole season was already controversial with Hamilton punting Verstappen into the wall at Silverstone and just getting a slap on the wrist. If he had done that in the final race he would have been disqualified, but doing it mid season is somehow OK. Without those 25 points he wouldn't even have had a chance in Abu Dhabi for the title.
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight Max isn't innocent either and had the better the majority of the season. The fact is the final race was the decider and the one that mattered, and in the race Lewis was outclassing Max until Masi got bored.
Senna's crash was caused by the skidplate bottoming out due to lower than expected tyre pressures, in turn caused by running too long behind the slow safety car following a previous incident. The sensors on the steering column were reading torque specs right up to impact, so no, not a "mechanical failure". His column was modified to be slightly longer for him, but investigations found the steering to be operational up to impact. Senna's crash is the reason F1 cars have both a wooden bargeboard (to stop teams running as low again and risking bottoming out) and wheel tethers to stop wheels entering the cockpit in crashes
F1 drivers had a high fatality rate in the early years. Of the Top 5 racers in the first season (1950) 4 of them were to die in their vehicle, though champion Farina died in a car crash on the way to watch the 1966 French Grand Prix, rather than as part of competitive racing or testing. Only Fangio from the original top 5 died of natural causes. An interesting aspect of the early years of F1 was that the Indy 500 counted as a Grand Prix for the championship, despite the fact that none of the normal F1 racers competed in it. This meant that the 6th and 7th placed racers in the inaugural season were Americans Parson and Holland who finished 1st and 2nd in the Indy 500 and didn't compete in any other race. Perhaps explaining how both went on to live long lives and die of natural causes.
As a Brit, I love football, have to, but F1 is where my passion is. I subbed to F1TV and I watch all the sessions every weekend. I highly suggest getting into F1. Eff NASCAR BTW, no offense lol Britain is the home of F1 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧
Many great F1 eras through the years and now we're living the Max Verstappen Era. He just broke the 70-year standing record for win percentage in a season. So yea.
the 84 people were killed by the engine departing from the car and travelling through the crowd of spectators. F1 the car in my head is alwasy John Player Special Lotus, best looking livery ever.
Le mans '55. 82 spectators dead and 120 injured, many by decapitation. As well as Mercedes withdrawing from racing, Switzerland banned the sport, which it maintains to this day.
Mercedes has done the problem of hiring(not rookies of course but...) two very competetive drivers that'd eventually crash into each other multiple times. Nico and Lewis, multiples crashes, Lewis winning two championships and when Nico won his in 2016, he instantly retired. Mercedes has done the same mistake of hiring two very competetive drivers that have and probably will crash into each other even more with having Lewis there and George Russell in 2022 and onwards.
Mercedes already came back to Mclaren in the early 90's as an engine supplier winning titles with Hakkinen in '98 '99 and then with Hamilton in '08. BAR Honda withdrew from the 2009 season and team manager Ross Brawn bought the team for 1.- pound, they bought Mercedes engines and became champions with Button that season. Mercedes then bought a 75% stake for 110 million pound and the Mercedes "works" team was there.
Well, not going as fast... Hold your horses there: in 1950, year of the first F1 championship, the top speed registered was 290 kph, that's just over 180 mph...
What people seem to forget about the 2021 season finale (because of how it ended) is that Hamilton left the the track, cutting the corner in order to gain a position early on in the race and never gave the place back (which are the rules) Thus he should have received a 10 second penalty , meaning he would have to have finished 10 seconds ahead of Verstappen to win the Championship anyway , which was never going to happen
There are a bunch of what ifs about that season and none of it matters now. Lewis didnt get a huge penalty for Silverstone, neither did Max for Brazil and a thousand other incidents between the two couldve been judged differently. But what is indesputable fact is that the FIA broke their OWN rules in the last race of the season on a whim. Masi and the FIA just decided it was time for a new WDC and literally robbed Hamilton of his 8th title in the last lap of the last race, no one can deny or defend this arbitrary decision and it remains a stain on an otherwise otherworldly season. This is obviously a different situation from "just" not applying penaltys correctly and its objectively a way worse look for the FIA. Verstappen is a deserving champion for his performance in 2021 but at the end of the day he was gifted the last race win and WDC title and Hamilton got unfairly and arbitrarily punished because seemingly people wanted to see an end to his dominance. A year later Verstappen won the WDC without any such controversy anyways, no one can deny his talent, still the 2021 WDC wouldve been Hamilton had they not thrown out their own rulebook.
Well yeah, a spec series will always result in closer racing and thus more entertainment for the fans. Half the charme of F1 is the fact that it isnt just a drivers championship but an engineering championship on top of that.
The way the Ham Stans used the AD21 racing director decisions to delegitimize Max's title win is one of the most unfair things that I have witnessed in sports history. The 2021 season was only close because Merc could not handle Max running away with the title. So they tried to cheat their way to victory. Referee calls (or in this case, decisions by the racing director) are beyond the control of the drivers. Neither Lewis nor Max can sway these calls. If a car from the sister team, AlphaTauri, had caused an unnecessary crash in the last race of 2021 so the safety car had to come out, that might have raised concerns about dirty play. That would have been unacceptable. However, what Mercedes did was on a completely different level, even compared to such tactics. When Max was running away with the championship, Mercedes resorted to taking him out. Lewis orchestrated a massive 25-point swing by targeting Max at Silverstone. Putting him with 50G in into the barrier. Bottas decided it was time for some bowling in Hungary, using Max's car as the pins. The damage to Max's car far exceeded any cost cap breach (3 or 4 times over) that would later be used to put shade on RB and Max, so these dirty tactics hit Red Bull in multiple ways. And it didn't end there. Mercedes resorted to cheating with Hamilton's car in Brazil 2021, employing every dirty move in the playbook to try and recover. In the end, justice prevailed, the cheaters lost and the true champion emerged. All hail, Max Verstappen, who has also just broken the Vettel and Ascari record in 1 season, something Lewis never could. Karma is a bitch.
Mercedes return to F1 in 2010 with Michael Schumacher was very underwhelming. The car wasn’t good and Schumacher was a shadow of his former self. It wasn’t until 2013 when Nikki Lauda convinced Lewis Hamilton to join Mercedes did it start to turn around. I remember thinking it would be a good long term decision for Lewis to stretch his wings and get away from McLaren and that could take a few years to bear fruit. Well they were competitive his first year with Lewis and Nico finishing 4th and 5th. And 2014 1st and 2nd. But those first 2 years back with Schumacher and Nico Rosberg it was hard to take Mercedes seriously.
They slipped in scenes from the movie "Rush" and you never noticed. That's how good the movie is and it is really about just how much the two leads captured, in both look and feel, the essence of James and Nikki.
Daniel Bruhl was excellent in it
Cannot be anything near to a complete history without at least mentioning Jim Clark.
Jackie Stewart missed too after all he did on and off the track
Fangio? Moss? Surtees? Rindt?
Though Clark for his pure driving godliness and Stewart for both his driving, his surviving and the work he did to make so many others survive too.
Jack Brabham, too.
Everyone mentioned here and Gilles
Or sir Jack Brabham
If you guys have chills seeing the footage of Senna fatal crash... I can barely describe what i feel. I was watching the race on TV, i saw the crash live. And see my childhood hero dying when i was only 8 years old. I was unable to watch the rest of 94 season, also only saw the results of the races in 95. Took almost 2 years to me to, to get courage to sit in front of a tv and get back to watch the races.
Either a fake fan who didn’t watch Quali or a Ratzenburger hater
People were mad about Schumacher in 94, because he had hit the wall and ruined his own race the corner before he had contact with Hill, and it was argued that Schumacher already knew his car was toast, and knew that wrecking Hill was the only way he could win. Schumacher of course denied knowing his car was done already, and that it was the contact with Hill that ended his race, not the contact with the wall.
Turns out, when your barriers consist of some Haybales and a picket fence, a 150mph crash headed towards the crowd can turn rather nasty. The footage of that crash at Le Mans is horrific, the car goes cartwheeling through the Grand stand crowd.
At Le Mans in ‘55, the car chassis spun At ridiculous speed down the side of the start finish straight and people were decapitated and chopped in half, the footage is so violent and fast, anyone in the way had no chance.
Don't spoil the fun.. let them react to it blind.
Levegh didn't spin, he got launched into the air
@@squidcaps4308It's weird to put the Word "fun" in it to such a horrific accident.
Nope it was the engine that flew into the crowd decapitating spectators, Iv seen pictures of the aftermath. So sad. And no safety at all for spectators back then.
@@Ramtamtama BTW, Levegh's car was lauched into the air by the mistake of the pilot that won Le Mans that year, Mike Hawthorn with a Jaguar
If you haven't, you two HAVE to watch the Formula 1 movie called RUSH, which was in the video at the 12:14 mark. Its not entirely accurate to Niki Lauda and James Hunt rivalry but it is a damn good watch.
The pre-F1 era ("Grand Prix racing") contains some very wild cars aswell. Like when the only rule were 1500cc engine displacement, and they superchaged these m-fs to oblivion. 1500cc with 600hp in the late 1940s from the BRM engine. Naturally it's harder to have a relation to these races since there aren't as much moving footage available.
8:34 on the IndyCar/Dan Wheldon death, although he didn't die the day of the crash Justin Wilson died in 2015 after being hit by debris at Pocano.
As someone else mentioned, you should watch Grand Prix: The Killer Years, by the BBC. It covers how safety procedures were brought into the sport, but showing how horrific racing was prior to that. It blew my mind the first time I saw it.
Been fascinated by F1 & watched it for 40 years now. Never miss a race (even the bad ones) also have around 1500 F1 model cars. Well done guys for reviewing & reacting to this👍
Being British, I'm proud to say there's been TWELVE British F1 champions over the years. The next closest is three champions from several other countries. 🇬🇧🏁🇬🇧
Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill (2), Jim Clark (2), Jon Surtees, Jackie Stewart (3), James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (7), Jenson Button.
I make that 10 champions with 20 titles between them. Good point though. Brazil, Finland and Germany next up. Not so many French or Italian champions considering their countries' contribution to motorsport.
@@roypalfrey5694 My memory ain't what it used to be! 🙈🤣🇬🇧
Damon Hill too...
@@roypalfrey5694 You forgot Damon Hill.
Every new generation (so far) has given us at least 1 British champion.
I say "new" because the pre-war veterans didn't give us a British champion, and "so far" because because Lando turns 24 next week and George is only 25
I’m tellin yall, y’all gotta react to literally anything early 2000s F1. Just the sound of those V10s makes any video about them an audio experience no matter what it’s about
81 drivers in 1950 but not all in every race, don't forget the Indy 500 was also part of the F1 Championship back then, so those drivers will also be included too and drivers sometimes only entered 1 race, their home race or the race with the most prize money.
There is an excellent but heart breaking documentary about the 1955 Le Mans disaster, even interviewing survivors who were in the Grandstand on the day, and you can see in their responses how badly it affected them for the rest of their lives. There are before and after films of the scene that show the amount of carnage.
IndyCar’s most recent driver death wasn’t Dan Wheldon, but fellow Brit Justin Wilson, who died in a crash at Pocono in 2015.
Thanks again lads If you are thinking of doing film reviews" Rush" isn't too shabby as a start, the James Hunt Niki Lauda dramatization. of for documentaries "Senna" is brilliant
The Quick and The Dead the F1 one of course
Rush!! Great film about Lauda & Hunt over the years, you lads will enjoy it.
I remember that Ferrari was sponsored by malboro, and team Jordan (I forget the company name) was always sponsored by Benson & Hedges. Heck I think nearly every F1 Team when I was growing up in the 90's had a cigarette sponsor....
The best thing about this is the fact they they use the correct music for F1 - the greatest guitar riff of all time from Fleetwood Mac's The Chain. Watch "This is Formula 1 - F1 intro (BBC remastered)" and yep - That was the sound of Formula One 🏎😁
In sports, 2021 was the best year of my life. Greetings from The Netherlands.
9 Year old me saw Senna go into the wall live on TV. Rather glad I didn't understand the impact and magnitude back then. What a sport though.
Hi Daniel and Spencer, new subscriber, loved your reaction! Keep it up, greetings from The Netherlands!
I really recommend you watch Le Mans 55 - A deadly competition, it's an animated 15/20 movie about the crash and shows how things where back then. Between the drivers, the merc team themselves... It's really REALLY good(also recommend subtitles as there is a bit of French you might not understand) !!!
In May 1902, the first races in Great Britain took place on the seafront in Bexhill on Sea. The races had been the brainchild of the Eighth Earl De La Warr, and with the assistance of the Automobile Club, later known as the RAC, the races took place at speed, back and forth from the top of Galley Hill to the Sackville Hotel. Over 200 vehicles from all over the continent took part and brought thousands of people to Bexhill to watch vehicles reaching speeds, the like of which they had never seen before on British soil.
Guys you need to check out the 1955 Mille Miglia 1000 mile race run over public and also mountainous roads in Italy. The race was won by Mercedes-Benz factory driver Stirling Moss with the aid of his navigator Denis Jenkinson. They completed the 992-mile distance in 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds - an astonishing average speed of 99 mph over such rough and twisty roads - this was the 1950s!
You two deffo need to watch RUSH
The fatalities at Le Mans in 1955 were one driver and eighty three spectators. Also I recommend watching”LE MANS 1955-Deadly competition-Animated short film by Q Baillieux-HD(full movie)”by Univers Court
Great comments about the different generations cars heralding in new new leading teams and drivers. Perhaps IndyCar with their 14 year old engine/chassis combination might one day take the hint.
Just stumbled upon your channel, been watching the F1 reactions and couldn’t find you reacting to grosjean’s crash anywhere. If you haven’t, would love to see it
I've got some photo's somewhere from when we went to Brands Hatch back in the days of turbocharged and ground effect cars, 80's way before F1 was all over the airwaves, TV and radio etc. This was when Jones, Reutermann, Pironi, Laffitte, Fittipaldi, Piquet, Prost etc were in their prime. We were doing a pit walk during the practice sessions over the days prior to the actual race and were taking photos and I got one of Prost's Mclaren car, and he didn't have his name on it, but instead they'd put a nickname for him on it. It was "tadpole" (he was 5ft 5" tall)
Useless info maybe, but it's one my brothers, friends, and myself still laugh at whenever it's mentioned.
Grand Prix: The killer years.
Watch it.. you won't be disappointed
This video starts by saying most accidents resulted in death.. I hope that was just his meme nature cos thats just plain untrue. Though deaths were unfortunately far too common.
You'd be surprised how fast these cars got even in the early days. Especially with the more speed orientated tracks. Le Mans and the like were much faster back in the 50's.
Check out Nigel Mansell. The Only F1 and Indy car champion at the same time.
My F1 driving hero.
I like how 19:37 is last corner. and now it was on last lap. where Alonso showed his experience just last week.
IS THAT GLOCK?!?
Love your motorsports content 👍
There is a documentary about Brawn coming out soon. Looks excellent.
There is nothing more wholesome than watching people learning about something they don't know about and being excited. Always nice to see. I do wish the documentary focused on had a lot more about the earlier years, though. Pretty unfortunate that almost the entirety of the first 2 decades of F1 is little more than a footnote here, and not a single mention of Jim Clark... Who is still the greatest driver in F1 history imo. If you want to learn more about that period of F1, check out the documentary "Grand Prix: The Killer Years." Fantastic overview of the first 30ish years of F1, and a much deeper dive into what the sport really is.
But, also...
"The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix to this day remains the most devastating weekend in Formula 1 history."
The 1961 Italian Grand Prix would like a word...
It should be noted that the 83 (or 82 or 84) number of casualties in Le Mans of 1955 is a number most sources agree on. We don't really know the exact number of dead, because the fire made exact counting impossible. Only those who were accounted for, so those who had someone who was looking for them and knew they've been at the race are counted. Due to the era it's more than possible some spectators simply had nobody looking for them... For example a son, brother or uncle who went away to made their own living and you just never heard back from them.
Mercedes returned to motorsport in 1989 and competed mainly in sports car and endurance racing before returning to F1 as an engine supplier in 1993. They then brought out the Brawn team (formerly Honda) in 2010 and brought Michael Schumacher back from retirement to help build the team from 2010 to 2012 before he retired for good. In 2013 they signed Hamilton and from 2014 to 2020 were the team to beat.
Brawn wasn't Mercedes(Mercedes powered but not owned), Mercedes bought them after that 1 magic year.
@@dzzope I know. They were Honda in 08, Brawn in 09 and Mercedes in 2010.
@@jacobmassey3897 "They then brought out the brawn team"
Maybe you just typo'd?
@@dzzope for the last time. The team was BRAWN GP in 2009 and they used Mercedes engines. Then in 2010 Mercedes brought the team. They struck a deal with Ross Brawn to buy him out while still allowing him to run the team as the rebadged Merc outfit in 2010. I can't dumb it down for you any more so I'm just assuming you're being intentionally difficult.
@@jacobmassey3897 for the last time you have a typo in your op that i was correcting. You said mercedes brought out brawn not bought out.
Also you could take that stick out of your ass when someone says the same thing as you.
Channel 4 in the UK produced an excellent documentary "The grand prix car 1945-1965" that is worth watching. Two episodes are on youtube but the 3rd is missing for whatever reason. The documentary has John Watson( modern F1 driver ) driving various old F1 cars of their time together with the associated history. Rest assured these were extremely powerful and fast cars but clearly death-traps by current standards. Drivers of today can't easily be compared to drivers of that era as the crashes they've had in their modern careers would likely be either life changing or fatal back in those racing days. There is something more interesting and exciting about cars of those days where it was more open to those with smaller budgets and "backstreet garage" style. Todays budgets are eye-watering.
Edit: part 3 of the above series seems to exist under jmx tv archive on youtube, there may be others too but at least its out there( it covers mostly british cars 1959 onward ), a very good series long before celebrity love island, big brother etc........ we even made good tv at one time long ago in the uk 🤣
A very good F1 driver was the Scot called Jackie Stewart, who with other drivers had a strike against just how dangerousF1 had become. Todays cars are much much safer with shell built cockpits and hoops in front of the driver for protect in crashes and roll overs. Drivers wear an asbestos like material all over suit as protection against fire. Looking at the old style F1 cars which were very close to the ground and very flimsy in driver protection, makes realise just how brave the guys were who drove them. The video didn't mention probably one of the best F1 drivers of all time-Jim Clark(a Scot). He won The 1965 Indianapolis at his 3rd attempt, won 27 f1 Races and the world F1 tile twice with Lotus.
When a new formula is introduced what normally happens is that the dominant teams are still winning and investing the bulk of their engineering in the current season while other teams will invest more heavily in the engineering of the new formula making the currently dominant playing catch up when the new formula is implemented. That is why a change in formulas (eras) usually shakes things up. What also happens is that any innovation that one team has is quickly implemented into the other teams as fast as possible (in some cases this can take a lot of redesign of the chassis to implement) so eventually these things are nullified (things like Mercedes pre-chamber ignition in the cylinder head and their split turbo design). It can take several races for some secrets to be leaked but eventually, everyone figures out what everyone else is doing.
One of the crazy innovations was the F-duct that McLaren introduced. Formula One had a rule that basically said you could not have any moving parts in the aerodynamic design of the car. So what Mclaren did is that they came up with a design that allowed them to run an air intake from the front of the car passing air over the rear wing on straightaways to spoil the downforce/drag that the wing generated meaning they could get higher top speeds. How did they do this? They physically ran the duct along the inside of the cockpit beside the driver and cut out a portion of the duct so that under normal conditions the air would not make it to the back wing and the car would have good downforce in corners where it was needed. However, on a straight away, the driver could physically use the back of his hand to cover the opening in the duct redirecting the airflow to the back wing and reducing drag. The car itself had no moving parts, it was the driver's physical body that changed the airflow characteristics. It didn't take long before people noticed the McLaren drivers covered the duct on straightaways with TV cameras that were placed on the car and soon the other teams implemented a version of the F-duct as well. Some used the driver's hand, and other designs utilized the driver's knee or leg. Eventually, the FIA decided it was too dangerous to have drivers operating the cars when they were at their highest speed with one hand and banned the F-duct. A bit later the FIA introduced the Drag Reduction System which allows drivers who are less than a second behind the car in front of them the advantage of being able to open the top flap on their back wing which reduces drag and increases top speed. The moment the brake peddle is pressed the DRS system is shut off and the wing goes back to normal geometry.
Boys you should really look up Jim Clarke
He raced in and won championships in every type of racing cars you can think of , Rallying, Saloon Cars , Formula 1 , Indy 500 he won the lot
Best year 1965 when he bagged the LOT! 😃
Although it has nothing to do with motorsports, you should watch "History of the entire world I guess" video, which inspired the style of this one. It's possibly one of the greatest videos on TH-cam, in my humble opinion.
If you haven't already of course.
You should do a review of “hitting the apex” if you havnt already,its narrated by Brad Pit,it follows 6 of the greatest motogp riders of all time that all raced each other. It shows highs lows & unfortunately tragedy 😞 if you love motorsport at its highest level its well worth the watch. These riders are crazy
100 % agree, Hitting the Apex is a must-watch if you love motorsports
But only if you watch the first 2 films before that.
All 3 films follow Rossi and pick up where the other left off.
Faster, fastest, hitting the apex.
The first 2 are narrated by ewan mcgreggor.
Would be great to do a Live Patreon watch-a-long with a Race in 2024. Theres 3 races in the States again this year - Miami, Austin and Las Vegas.
The crash that killed 84 people can be found on TH-cam. Many were decapitated by the flying engine block
Let’s just ignore “8 world titles” 😬
Well worth exploring that 1955 Le Mans disaster. Horrific but a very important part of motorsport history
The '55 Le Mans crash/incident/whatever you want to call it a car was going into the pits (the pits weren't like they are now, they basically pulled up at the side of the track, the pits weren't in a pitlane. Look at some old footage and you will see what I mean), Mike Hawthorne was that driver. A car (Macklin) behind him swerved to avoid running into the back of him and collided with another car (Levegh) who was beside them launching him into the air (the picture you can see in the video). The car (Levegh) was going around 125mph (200kph) as it liftoff flying into the packed grandstand where the car split into two and exploded into flames. There are videos of the incident and some do show the graphic incident and the aftermath but if you watch them just remember they do show the dead and dying in them. Levegh was killed outright having been thrown from the car as none of the drivers wore seatbelts in those days. As stated on Wikipedia "Large pieces of debris, including the Mercedes' engine block, radiator, front suspension, and bonnet (hood), were sent flying into the packed spectator area in front of the grandstand. The rear of Levegh's car landed on the berm and exploded into flames.". After the crash they continued racing even while they removed the dead and injured from the track, the reason stated that the organisers didn't want to cause panic and/or to cause a traffic jam of spectators leaving blocking the roads and hindering the emergency vehicles (most people didn't even know what had happened). Mercedes and some of the other teams immediately withdrew out of respect but Jaguar, who Hawthorne was driving for and was leading the race, decided to continue and did win the race. Jaguar and Hawthorne would come under much criticism for their actions that day. Hawthorne would later die in a road accident in 1959 aged just 29 on the A3 Guildford bypass while driving his comprehensively modified 1958 Jaguar 3.4-litre saloon (now known as the 3.4 Mk 1) VDU 881 to London. While the circumstances of the accident are well documented, the precise cause remains unknown. In the aftermath many circuits were closed and racing postponed while drastic safety changes were made on circuits and courses that had not been modified since their introductions.
Mercedes didn't withdraw until several hours after the accident, and they did it to avoid the bad publicity.
Germany wasn't popular still with ww2 being only 10 years earlier, and having been involved in that crash didn't want the headlines to be about them.
So withdrew. Jaguar being British didn't have to worry about such PR problems so had no reason to withdraw.
Besides I'm sure the dead would rather the race continue. Stopping it benefits no one and hurts the sport severely, which given the circumstances was already in trouble given the scale of the crash.
You should check out history of f1 engines
it may not be as fast, but the performance still exceeded what the brakes and tyres were capable of sustaining safely
Wow, you guys didn't know about the Le Mans crash... now, you got to react to it. It was quite... horrific.
a cart-wheeling car went into the grandstands
John Players Special Lotus, Black and Gold. Mclaren were White and Red Marlboro
Britain have more winner than any other country by miles, but you wouldn't know it watching this video. Strange
There's a very good documentary about the le mons disaster, many of the victims were decapitated
No championship?
AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship & AIACR European Championship: hello? is anybody out there?
Do you guys will watch the Las Vegas GP?
You should check out this year’s Brazilian Grand Prix, another Alonso masterpiece.
he was only defending from Perez, no big deal
you guys should check out a documentary called "Grand Prix the killer years".
Let's not talk about 2023 - in case we are talking about records in a single season of entire history
The switching in regulations and eras doesn't impact the drivers all that much. It has mor impact on the car design. Schumacher won in Benneton and a decade later he was in his 5 in a row. Alonso got the next 2 wins, but got very close to a few more in the early 2010's. Max won 2021, the last year of an era, and has now also won 2022 and 2023. Manwhile Hamilton and Alonso are still showing that they are formidable.
agreed the chance is never zero
If you want a video that puts in perspective how difficult F1 cars are to drive you should look out the top gear episode where Richard Hammond tries driving one
Top Gear isn't the most reliable source of car reviews.. They ham things up too much for the camera.
That said, that particular dramitisation does do a good job of communicating how hard they can be to drive.. even if, as said, it's hamm'd up a bit much.
Top Gera is English exceptinalism, and a poor automotive show. Sorry! I hate it.
@@alimantado373 Fair enough but the episode i mentioned still gives great insight to how not anyone can drive an F1 car
I got lucky enough to hear the v10s in 2001,02,03 and it was ans still is the most insane noise ive heard
You guys should watch the top gear senna tribute it’s only a short video but really good
Abu Dhabi 21 is the equivalent of let's use football as an example, blue team having 10 goals and red team having 5 goals, and then out of nowhere saying that red team can bring in fresh players and next goal wins.
The whole season was already controversial with Hamilton punting Verstappen into the wall at Silverstone and just getting a slap on the wrist. If he had done that in the final race he would have been disqualified, but doing it mid season is somehow OK. Without those 25 points he wouldn't even have had a chance in Abu Dhabi for the title.
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight Max isn't innocent either and had the better the majority of the season. The fact is the final race was the decider and the one that mattered, and in the race Lewis was outclassing Max until Masi got bored.
Senna's crash was caused by the skidplate bottoming out due to lower than expected tyre pressures, in turn caused by running too long behind the slow safety car following a previous incident. The sensors on the steering column were reading torque specs right up to impact, so no, not a "mechanical failure". His column was modified to be slightly longer for him, but investigations found the steering to be operational up to impact. Senna's crash is the reason F1 cars have both a wooden bargeboard (to stop teams running as low again and risking bottoming out) and wheel tethers to stop wheels entering the cockpit in crashes
Entire History of the Formula 1? More like just the footnotes.
1st comment 🎉🎉🎉🎉woohoo.. haha great video lads.
missed Shumacher winning in the pit lane at Silverstone 😂
F1 drivers had a high fatality rate in the early years. Of the Top 5 racers in the first season (1950) 4 of them were to die in their vehicle, though champion Farina died in a car crash on the way to watch the 1966 French Grand Prix, rather than as part of competitive racing or testing. Only Fangio from the original top 5 died of natural causes.
An interesting aspect of the early years of F1 was that the Indy 500 counted as a Grand Prix for the championship, despite the fact that none of the normal F1 racers competed in it. This meant that the 6th and 7th placed racers in the inaugural season were Americans Parson and Holland who finished 1st and 2nd in the Indy 500 and didn't compete in any other race. Perhaps explaining how both went on to live long lives and die of natural causes.
Max verstappen is on his 3the championship now and 17 won races 21 icl sprintraces
Am I missing something here, nothing about Nigel Mansell who had 31 F1 wins
As a Brit, I love football, have to, but F1 is where my passion is.
I subbed to F1TV and I watch all the sessions every weekend.
I highly suggest getting into F1.
Eff NASCAR BTW, no offense lol
Britain is the home of F1 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧
Many great F1 eras through the years and now we're living the Max Verstappen Era. He just broke the 70-year standing record for win percentage in a season. So yea.
The saddest period of F1: From 2010 to date
the 84 people were killed by the engine departing from the car and travelling through the crowd of spectators. F1 the car in my head is alwasy John Player Special Lotus, best looking livery ever.
Le mans '55. 82 spectators dead and 120 injured, many by decapitation. As well as Mercedes withdrawing from racing, Switzerland banned the sport, which it maintains to this day.
Mercedes has done the problem of hiring(not rookies of course but...) two very competetive drivers that'd eventually crash into each other multiple times. Nico and Lewis, multiples crashes, Lewis winning two championships and when Nico won his in 2016, he instantly retired. Mercedes has done the same mistake of hiring two very competetive drivers that have and probably will crash into each other even more with having Lewis there and George Russell in 2022 and onwards.
Talking about F1 history and crashes without talking about Jules Bianchi and the halo ir hard…
Mercedes already came back to Mclaren in the early 90's as an engine supplier winning titles with Hakkinen in '98 '99 and then with Hamilton in '08.
BAR Honda withdrew from the 2009 season and team manager Ross Brawn bought the team for 1.- pound, they bought Mercedes engines and became champions with Button that season.
Mercedes then bought a 75% stake for 110 million pound and the Mercedes "works" team was there.
Merc came back to Sauber first
i know, but it seemed there was a little confusion about Mercedes and Mclaren in the video.@@RaceDayReplay
Well, not going as fast... Hold your horses there: in 1950, year of the first F1 championship, the top speed registered was 290 kph, that's just over 180 mph...
What people seem to forget about the 2021 season finale (because of how it ended) is that Hamilton left the the track, cutting the corner in order to gain a position early on in the race and never gave the place back (which are the rules) Thus he should have received a 10 second penalty , meaning he would have to have finished 10 seconds ahead of Verstappen to win the Championship anyway , which was never going to happen
There are a bunch of what ifs about that season and none of it matters now. Lewis didnt get a huge penalty for Silverstone, neither did Max for Brazil and a thousand other incidents between the two couldve been judged differently. But what is indesputable fact is that the FIA broke their OWN rules in the last race of the season on a whim.
Masi and the FIA just decided it was time for a new WDC and literally robbed Hamilton of his 8th title in the last lap of the last race, no one can deny or defend this arbitrary decision and it remains a stain on an otherwise otherworldly season.
This is obviously a different situation from "just" not applying penaltys correctly and its objectively a way worse look for the FIA.
Verstappen is a deserving champion for his performance in 2021 but at the end of the day he was gifted the last race win and WDC title and Hamilton got unfairly and arbitrarily punished because seemingly people wanted to see an end to his dominance.
A year later Verstappen won the WDC without any such controversy anyways, no one can deny his talent, still the 2021 WDC wouldve been Hamilton had they not thrown out their own rulebook.
If your forced off the track you take the chance of getting a penalty and drive on regardless. Called strategy kiddo!
Indycar is still much more entertaining than the usual procession of F1.
Well yeah, a spec series will always result in closer racing and thus more entertainment for the fans. Half the charme of F1 is the fact that it isnt just a drivers championship but an engineering championship on top of that.
Melhor piloto da década de 80 (80 a 89), Piquet;
Formula 1. Clue's in the name.
1994 adelaide is hill mistake, turn 6 non overtaking,and hill know what before his crazy attack.
19:30 *McLaren *7 Championships
The way the Ham Stans used the AD21 racing director decisions to delegitimize Max's title win is one of the most unfair things that I have witnessed in sports history. The 2021 season was only close because Merc could not handle Max running away with the title. So they tried to cheat their way to victory.
Referee calls (or in this case, decisions by the racing director) are beyond the control of the drivers. Neither Lewis nor Max can sway these calls. If a car from the sister team, AlphaTauri, had caused an unnecessary crash in the last race of 2021 so the safety car had to come out, that might have raised concerns about dirty play. That would have been unacceptable. However, what Mercedes did was on a completely different level, even compared to such tactics. When Max was running away with the championship, Mercedes resorted to taking him out. Lewis orchestrated a massive 25-point swing by targeting Max at Silverstone. Putting him with 50G in into the barrier. Bottas decided it was time for some bowling in Hungary, using Max's car as the pins. The damage to Max's car far exceeded any cost cap breach (3 or 4 times over) that would later be used to put shade on RB and Max, so these dirty tactics hit Red Bull in multiple ways. And it didn't end there. Mercedes resorted to cheating with Hamilton's car in Brazil 2021, employing every dirty move in the playbook to try and recover.
In the end, justice prevailed, the cheaters lost and the true champion emerged. All hail, Max Verstappen, who has also just broken the Vettel and Ascari record in 1 season, something Lewis never could. Karma is a bitch.
Dont make me laugh.
Well the first gen of F1 cars had a max speed of 180 mph.
i thing the era of mika hakinnen the team name was maclaren mercedes maclaren have the sassi end mercedes the engine
Fangio, Stewart, Clark and so on missing
Jim Clark best of the best
19:30 Mclaren, not mercedes
omg Nascar. How can anyone watch people turn left for several hours and not die of boredom?
The 55 le mans race needs a video on it own
Mercedes return to F1 in 2010 with Michael Schumacher was very underwhelming. The car wasn’t good and Schumacher was a shadow of his former self.
It wasn’t until 2013 when Nikki Lauda convinced Lewis Hamilton to join Mercedes did it start to turn around. I remember thinking it would be a good long term decision for Lewis to stretch his wings and get away from McLaren and that could take a few years to bear fruit. Well they were competitive his first year with Lewis and Nico finishing 4th and 5th. And 2014 1st and 2nd.
But those first 2 years back with Schumacher and Nico Rosberg it was hard to take Mercedes seriously.
F1 is pretty cool, but there is much better racing in sports car racing and the US IMSA series is one of the best.