1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship - Rd 3 Donington Park - Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy
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- ITV coverage of round 3 of the 1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship held at Donington. Mario Andretti, Hans Stuck, Nelson Piquet, Alan Jones and numerous other famous names compete in an event held in honour of F1 driver Gunnar Nilsson.
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This footage is like finding a lost Beatles tape. Bravo!
An ebay find years ago on VHS 👍😎
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This is the race that convinced my step-father to buy one of these cars in 1983. For 4 ears we owned a red BMW M1 and it was definitely a neck turner....until my step-brother took it into his mind to steal it and race it in the Palos Verdes switchbacks and crashed into a rock. Yes, a rock. Fiberglass plus rocks....total rebuild. The car was being worked on by Vasek Polak and before it could ever get finished, it was purchased by someone and I believe it resides in Italy now.
did someone make an offer to your step-dad?
@@cool3865 That would be the final sentence of my comment.
What a find ! Never thought I’d see full race coverage of a Procar Race. Absolutely brilliant
Brilliant to watch….cheers for posting this
People always talk about senna at nurburgring in the 190e but never about piquet in the m1's.
Very good point. 👍🏁 Piquet was beating F1 Champions, just like Senna did in the 190e.
Great video. A lovely bit of archive footage. Donington park was a beautiful circuit back then. All the nice trees on the infield before the circuit was ruined in a bid to get the British Grand Prix there. Such a shame.
Had no idea there was ever a series for these cars till I watched Goodwood 2021!!!
Thank you for posting this @MontyMotorsport. The event did Gunnar Nilsson and his campaign proud and I am working on his biography.
Nice.
Dominant performance by young Piquet.
Also nice to see Hunt and Jones in the sand trying to keep up with him. They were really trying.
I went to this on the sunday... I remember it rained early morning.. Great to see this coverage...
Dear me, where did you dig this up from. And in such great quality. Saw the Procars in Germany in 79 and at Brand Hatch in 80. Thanks man.
Fantastic cars & race. Great to see.
6:21 _"Out of the Grand Prix drivers I would say Alan Jones."_
Hell yeah!! 🏁💨
Monty, as a 60 year old this and all your other stuff is like finding an old friend. I am heavily into this and have commented before. I didn't know what i was missing. My heartfelt thanks again.
Thanks Paul! 👍🏁
@@MontyMotorsport And finally, aren't those M1's the epitome of what a GT car should look like?. Thank you for your kind reply. Paul.
@@paulreilly3904 The M1 shape hasn't dated a day and still the best sounding straight six. 🙂
51:55 TR7 with the hazards on - how authentic!
Wow! Incredible Racing, some of the biggest names of Racing, incredible. Thanks Monty!
Great race
Right on mate
Thanks for the upload watch your channel for a while now
Donington Park with all the trees is a beautiful sight…
Lovely. I have other video from that event. I suspect it's the last video of Fangio driving in the UK and Hunts last semi official drive in an F1 car. A neighbour of mine has two or three of those M1 cars.
BMW published a great book about the M1, out of print now, but they come up on ebay now and again. 👍🏁
I’ve a picture when I was 2, in 1980/81, in front of Jones’ #27 Procar. Wish I could remember it.
rsce these in ams2 and they are a hanful in the sim good to see the real thing for refrence ❤
Watcing these just make me think "please don't crash, please don't crash"!
This is pure gold
WHAT a Christmas present right there! As a kid Scandinavian fan of Nilsson I never knew about a Donnington Memorial dedicated to the Swede. And what a mindboggling opener interview of celebrities...and Harrison "..'n quite old cars...but so am I"...and what age is he there? 39? I'm 51, soon 52 and but feels like Methusalem right now.
And the race of one of my all time favourite race car series...just so perfect all around!
Glad you like 🏁👍 53 here soon!
When BMW’s were so beautiful 😍 delicate grills
thanks for this
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This has to be one of the coolest racing series ever, even though it didn't last too long
Yep. Way better than the lame IROC series here in states. Riverside was good, but too many ovals involved in that BS.
Lovely BMW Spec car racing and a extremely stacked grid! surprised people don't know this series.
Crazy this was JAMES HUNT last Race :(
Still the time when F1 drivers mixed with drivers of other categories, should happen now, who needs 23 F1 races in one year
Piquet is the greatest Brazilian racing driver ever.
Jackie, baby! Always a great ambassador.
Innanzitutto grazie per la presenza di due persone meravigliose: jakie steward e George Harrison .Complimenti alla B.M.W M1 di Nelson Piquet 285 km/h e già l'avantreno era molto leggero! La macchina tendeva a sbandare. Tutto in un progetto che avrebbe dovuto raggiungere i 350 km/h, delusi i poveri tedeschi quando provatala nella galleria del vento si accorsero che il bolide tendeva a decollare, avrebbero avuto la facoltà di appesantirla,ma...rifiutata questa ultima opzione si preferì abbandonare per sempre il progetto ingegneristico...E 26!!!
Was the F1 time trial televised?
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MR GEOGE HARISON & YACKE STEWARD
TWO GOOD OLD CATS FROM THE ENGLAND
SO POGIEZE GEANEY GOD FELOWS AGEYN EGEYN AGEYN!!!!!!
When he said yesterday
The only time procar went to Donington was in 1980, per wikipedia?
1979 non Championship... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Nilsson_Memorial_Trophy
@@MontyMotorsport Cool thanks. I'm making a documentary on the E46 M3 and it starts out in 1975 with the development of the M1.
@@MontyMotorsport About 8 minutes of the run time will be about the E26, E30 and E36.
Jackie is happy! so long as there are no brown goat drivers around
Nelson could barely speak english then