Again this is a part of my F1 history. I worked on Ivan's car at Leyton House. The fuel pressure was the reason his car slowed at the end of the race. The oil pump did NOT fall off ! The car would have stopped there & then if that happened.. Also the floor had been re-designed by Adrian before France . & the wind tunnel belonged to Southampton Uni. The Leyton house tunnel was very small but actually gave the correct numbers. Adrian believed the Southampton tunnel was correct when he should have used the numbers from the Comtec tunnel.
Nicely pointed out, i thought 'oil pump fell off' was a very odd description, not what I remembered happening and almost certain to cause immediate retirement.
Ivan Capelli is an underrated driver. With Newey as the designer, MLH produced many gorgeous cars. I loved their teal livery too. Wasn’t that Phoenix race the one where Alesi put in an absolutely amazing race as a rookie or maybe 2nd year driver for Tyrell?
The Phoenix race was the first race for Alesi's first full season as he'd joined Tyrrell midway through '89. Some outrageous racing against Senna from such a new driver! Really marked out Jean as a star for the future.
I watched this race last year, and had forgotten how eventful and enjoyable it was to watch. It’s really unfortunate that Ivan didn’t get the Ferrari ride he deserved.
as a young YTS trainee , i spent many hours in 88 & 89 making the vehicle graphics for leyton house and march racing then posting them off to various exotic places throughout the season, it was always a thrill to see my handywork on the telly on race days.. great video!
@@Fastbikkelcheers mate, my boss was an amatuer driver so he was pretty chuft too , especially getting sent signed photos from the top drivers etc, great days !
This is amazing story, quite similar to Arrows from 1997 Hungarian GP. The only difference is the fact that they managed to stand on a podium several times before that unfortunate last lap. Riccardo Patrese scored their first one, finishing 2nd behind Niki Lauda's Brabham on a 1978 Swedish GP. By the way, it would be interesting to watch a Penske or Hesketh story of a similar one-time-wonder success (John Watson, 1976 Austrian GP or James Hunt, 1975 Dutch GP).
I remember the Leyton House era and it was wonderful unfortunately it didn't last long and the two drivers really didn't reach those heights again. But it was very exciting at the time.
I think the same way. At the start of this video when the Leyton house car was shown, the models of Newey design era I guess, immediately the first thought that came to me is this how an open wheel race car should look. They're much smaller than today's behemoths and so sleek and slick without dozens of little flaps or air guides and channels to manipulate where the air goes completely screwing with the way it affects the following car to where you couldn't follow closely and have great close battles for years. At least the new formula design has addressed some of this and the close racing is much improved. Anyway those were the best years of racing I believe since the car designers hadn't messed with the good thing until later
March/Leyton House had fantastic races in 1988 with Ivan Capelli. The day Ayrton Senna won his first WC at Suzuka 1988 Ivan Capelli was fighting Alain Prost for the lead and Capelli even took the lead of that race for a moment. Unfortunatelly he had to retired from the race because of an electrical failure just three laps after that.
So thankful to have found this indeed, your coverage and stories are so thorough with the right amount of humour to make you chuckle 🤣 Please keep up the great work!
You make great content! Can't believe you haven't much, much more views and subscribers! May I suggest a video on the rise and fall of the Stewart team, culminating in their sole win by Johnny Herbert in the crazy European GP '99? Or on the Ligier team with Olivier Panis win in the equally crazy Monaco GP of '96?
Thank you! Ligier and Stewart are both really interesting topics - Stewart has certainly come up a few times in some past videos. Consider them on my shortlist.
Genuinely this and is so underated because this kind of detail and length and effort to bring the context and documentary type and so much care love it
I can’t understand how you’ve only 10k subs mate. That’s a lot when you think about us all sitting in a room listening to you, but amazing to me how under rated your channel is in the internet world of things. Your docs are top notch, with awesome visuals, phenomenally well researched stories and great commentary. Should seriously have hundreds of thousands of subs. Keep up the great work.
I've been binging all of your content. Amazing content, awesome editing and pace, and I really love your choices of subject matter on your videos. I'm a big motorsports fan, in a house of motorsports fans, and I was unaware of some of the drivers/stories you retell, and definitely of much of the details. Keep it up!
BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE WORKING AT LEYTON HOUSE . ALSO ROBIN HERD USE TOO RALLY METRO 6R4 IN LETON HOUSE COLOURS . KNOWING ADRIAN AND ROBIN IS SUCH AN HONOUR.
I've loved F1 since I started following it in the early '80's. So glad your channel showed up in my recommendations. Can't believe you have so few subscribers tbh! Some very good documentaries, with great old footage. I usually avoid TH-cam F1 videos as they are usually drivel, but I've watched a few of yours now and they are great! Also enjoy your sense of humour. Cheers!
Great race this was! I always liked Paul Ricard it was maybe my favourite circuit along with Brands hatch. It's a shame it gets so much hate now despite being almost the same layout. By absolute coincidence I live in Aubagne about 10km from the circuit. Not a surprise to see a car by Adrian Newey performing miracles!
❤ watching F1 w/no pit lane speed limit or maybe something ridiculously fast by that point. These were also the days when basically everyone besides Williams + McLaren always had a 65% chance of DNF & so many 💔s.
This did lead to Aryton Senna doing the fastest lap at Donington Park at the European GP in 1993. The pit lane entrance was before the last turn shortening the track but he did not stop to change tyres and continued down the pit lane at full speed. The race had changeable conditions with cars swapping between wet weather tyres and dry weather tyres regularly.
6:07 That is definitely a picture of the Penske PC-7 chassis and not the March 82C Bob ran the following year to this picture. The PC7 was the PC6 (1979 Indy winner) with revised sidepods to become a retrofitted ground effects car.
Great storytelling with brilliant amount of footage to go with it! Love it! Quick question: I've never heard anyone say the name Chris Amon like you did (like Amón) - is that the correct way to say his last name?
Thank you! Regarding Chris Amon and the pronounciation - I’ve almost certainly got it wrong! There is an infamous trend on this channel of me, unintentionally, pronouncing things wrong.
@@TheMobileChicane Thanks for the reply, I didn't know, I'm very new to your channel, haha. But keep up doing these, I'm a F1 history buff and get tired of all the content thrown at me from today's F1, so this is definitely a welcoming break from all that
Awesome videos, been on a binge! 1 thing , not being a twat. Akagi... the G pronounced as Gi "git" not Ji :P Subbed. the Leyton House racing team was a massive thing here in Japan. Akagi had his fingers in a lot of motorsport pies.
@@TheMobileChicane nah, he left because he was assured upon signing that he would be a part of any team discussions and decisions. The relationship was fractured after Williams were charged with manslaughter charges in the wake of Senna's death at Imola too. Patrick Head & Frank Williams broke this agreement and also refused to make him a share-holder of the team and then the what totally ended the relationship was when they opted to release Damon Hill post-1996, as Newey had felt Hill was key to the development of the team and car. They actually put him on gardening leave prior to joining McLaren, so he wasn't able to influence the design of the MP4-12 (Neil Oatley designed it) while Newey worked on the MP4-13 for '98, which didn't end up doing too bad! Also this video was fantastic, your description of France 1990 was really interesting to listen to. I'd love a video on the Onyx team from 1989-90 if you were looking for any more ideas, Stefan Johansson got 3rd at Portugal '89, though their eccentric owner killed the team off.
@@cribbe6547 I do vaguely remember reading an article about Onyx before and how their owner was one of the more colourful types we've seen in the paddock - I'll have to go back and find it. But rest assured, an Onyx video is going on my list!
@@TheMobileChicane Yeah, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem. You know he's a real character just reading the headline of his wikipedia article. 'he was a Belgian stock market guru, economist, econometrician, convicted fraudster, author, philosopher, public figure, politician, and member of the Belgian and Flemish Parliaments. Some life alright! I've watched many of your videos since the algorithm blessed me yesterday, I do hope to see your channel grow, fantastic content my friend
Source material is taken from a variety of places around the internet. As I use them for commentary, criticism, research and teaching - this falls under Fair Use, or Fair Dealing as it may be known in other countries.
Again this is a part of my F1 history. I worked on Ivan's car at Leyton House. The fuel pressure was the reason his car slowed at the end of the race. The oil pump did NOT fall off ! The car would have stopped there & then if that happened.. Also the floor had been re-designed by Adrian before France . & the wind tunnel belonged to Southampton Uni. The Leyton house tunnel was very small but actually gave the correct numbers. Adrian believed the Southampton tunnel was correct when he should have used the numbers from the Comtec tunnel.
Nicely pointed out, i thought 'oil pump fell off' was a very odd description, not what I remembered happening and almost certain to cause immediate retirement.
This channel is a hidden gem
Thanks Rory!
Totally agree
Some of the best f1 content on TH-cam
Thank you Sam!
Yes, your channel deserves so many more subscribers, you make awesome content!
Top notch content mate, stories like these need to be explored more, such stories represent a bygone era of F1.
Thank you so much!
I was always a Prost fan.
Attended the Elf Winfield school at Paul Ricard in 91.
But God I was rooting for Guegelmin and Capelli at that French GP.
Ivan Capelli is an underrated driver. With Newey as the designer, MLH produced many gorgeous cars. I loved their teal livery too. Wasn’t that Phoenix race the one where Alesi put in an absolutely amazing race as a rookie or maybe 2nd year driver for Tyrell?
The Phoenix race was the first race for Alesi's first full season as he'd joined Tyrrell midway through '89. Some outrageous racing against Senna from such a new driver! Really marked out Jean as a star for the future.
I watched this race last year, and had forgotten how eventful and enjoyable it was to watch. It’s really unfortunate that Ivan didn’t get the Ferrari ride he deserved.
Don't we all like an amazing underdog story? Fantastic commentary on the race, i was on the edge of my seat. The humour is on point!
Thank you! We're long overdue another underdog story I feel.
Really interesting and Informative video. Really enjoy the 70's and 80's content 👌
Thanks Graham!
So underrated, I've been binging these videos for the past few days
Thank you!
as a young YTS trainee , i spent many hours in 88 & 89 making the vehicle graphics for leyton house and march racing then posting them off to various exotic places throughout the season, it was always a thrill to see my handywork on the telly on race days.. great video!
That's amazing! Thanks for stopping by.
Oh wow, that is a nice complement to this documentary.
"it was always a thrill to see my handywork on the telly on race days."
Hehe, i bet it was!
@@Fastbikkelcheers mate, my boss was an amatuer driver so he was pretty chuft too , especially getting sent signed photos from the top drivers etc, great days !
This is amazing story, quite similar to Arrows from 1997 Hungarian GP. The only difference is the fact that they managed to stand on a podium several times before that unfortunate last lap. Riccardo Patrese scored their first one, finishing 2nd behind Niki Lauda's Brabham on a 1978 Swedish GP. By the way, it would be interesting to watch a Penske or Hesketh story of a similar one-time-wonder success (John Watson, 1976 Austrian GP or James Hunt, 1975 Dutch GP).
Penske, Hesketh, and that 1997 Hungarian GP would all be great topics! They're on my list.
I remember the Leyton House era and it was wonderful unfortunately it didn't last long and the two drivers really didn't reach those heights again.
But it was very exciting at the time.
I've seen this video like twelve times now and I still enjoy it like the first time. Great work!
Thanks Dieg!
Your channel is a godsend. I believe it's destined for glory.
Thank you!
I still think the older cars looked better than the new cars. Mid 80’s to early 90’s 😍
I think the same way. At the start of this video when the Leyton house car was shown, the models of Newey design era I guess, immediately the first thought that came to me is this how an open wheel race car should look. They're much smaller than today's behemoths and so sleek and slick without dozens of little flaps or air guides and channels to manipulate where the air goes completely screwing with the way it affects the following car to where you couldn't follow closely and have great close battles for years. At least the new formula design has addressed some of this and the close racing is much improved. Anyway those were the best years of racing I believe since the car designers hadn't messed with the good thing until later
One of my favorite F1 stories. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed!
On the edge of my seat - listening to the commentary… you made me research both drivers, the team, old mech on eBay etc etc! 😜😜
Great channel! Sub’d!
Thank you!
Nice addition to YT man, thanks for sharing. I like these detailed stories.
Thank you!
March/Leyton House had fantastic races in 1988 with Ivan Capelli. The day Ayrton Senna won his first WC at Suzuka 1988 Ivan Capelli was fighting Alain Prost for the lead and Capelli even took the lead of that race for a moment. Unfortunatelly he had to retired from the race because of an electrical failure just three laps after that.
A great tale, well told. It was one of the first Formula one races I ever watched.
11:29 had me wheezing-
outstanding video
Thanks! Being lower than a shorty with the apple bottom jeans and the boots with the fur is a feeling we all know all too well.
So thankful to have found this indeed, your coverage and stories are so thorough with the right amount of humour to make you chuckle 🤣 Please keep up the great work!
Thanks so much!
You make great content! Can't believe you haven't much, much more views and subscribers!
May I suggest a video on the rise and fall of the Stewart team, culminating in their sole win by Johnny Herbert in the crazy European GP '99?
Or on the Ligier team with Olivier Panis win in the equally crazy Monaco GP of '96?
Thank you!
Ligier and Stewart are both really interesting topics - Stewart has certainly come up a few times in some past videos. Consider them on my shortlist.
Genuinely this and is so underated because this kind of detail and length and effort to bring the context and documentary type and so much care love it
Thank you!
What a gem of a channel!!! well done!!
Thank you Eduard!
I just found this channel too. Excellent information, delivered with excellent diction making it very interesting.
Thank you Roger!
I can’t understand how you’ve only 10k subs mate. That’s a lot when you think about us all sitting in a room listening to you, but amazing to me how under rated your channel is in the internet world of things. Your docs are top notch, with awesome visuals, phenomenally well researched stories and great commentary. Should seriously have hundreds of thousands of subs. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Appreciate those kind words.
I've been binging all of your content. Amazing content, awesome editing and pace, and I really love your choices of subject matter on your videos.
I'm a big motorsports fan, in a house of motorsports fans, and I was unaware of some of the drivers/stories you retell, and definitely of much of the details. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! Always gives me a big boost seeing comments like this.
so epic, great work on this vid mate
Thanks Marc!
BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE WORKING AT LEYTON HOUSE .
ALSO ROBIN HERD USE TOO RALLY METRO 6R4 IN LETON HOUSE COLOURS .
KNOWING ADRIAN AND ROBIN IS SUCH AN HONOUR.
Fantastic watch ....Thanks for putting this together ..
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
I vividly remember John Cena taking pole position in the Greenland GP. Unfortunately an icebear crossing the track ended his race.
This video deserves more views! 👏
Thank you!
17:39 Haha xD I love these little jokes u make during the videos ;D
Early subscriber here. This channel has way too few subscribers, content is top notch, I hope you will receive the blessing from the ALGORITHM
Thank you Lorenzo, I hope so too!
How do you not have more subs? These mini documentaries are great!
Thank you!
I am a big fan of your work! Keep going
Thank you, will do!
Since i have the bootle of champagne from that race I will have a video on it soon!
Really great video!
Thank you James!
Ivan Capelli is a what if story
I've loved F1 since I started following it in the early '80's. So glad your channel showed up in my recommendations. Can't believe you have so few subscribers tbh! Some very good documentaries, with great old footage. I usually avoid TH-cam F1 videos as they are usually drivel, but I've watched a few of yours now and they are great! Also enjoy your sense of humour. Cheers!
Uhm I have literally just read about this in Adrian Newies book. Very weird to get that recommendation now. Still very good video 👍
Thanks Luca!
Great race this was! I always liked Paul Ricard it was maybe my favourite circuit along with Brands hatch. It's a shame it gets so much hate now despite being almost the same layout. By absolute coincidence I live in Aubagne about 10km from the circuit. Not a surprise to see a car by Adrian Newey performing miracles!
❤ watching F1 w/no pit lane speed limit or maybe something ridiculously fast by that point. These were also the days when basically everyone besides Williams + McLaren always had a 65% chance of DNF & so many 💔s.
This did lead to Aryton Senna doing the fastest lap at Donington Park at the European GP in 1993. The pit lane entrance was before the last turn shortening the track but he did not stop to change tyres and continued down the pit lane at full speed. The race had changeable conditions with cars swapping between wet weather tyres and dry weather tyres regularly.
I have the bottle of champagne from that race since my grandad was their team principle😂
That’s amazing!
I will post video on my channels bout it!
Man i love this video
Thank you!
The awesome adventure of Ivan Capeletti and Mauricio Googlemi
What a great story to start my birthday
Thanks James, glad you enjoyed!
Just found this channel, this is a great video
Amazing content
Thanks PB!
Great stuff !
Thanks George!
I got to see that one great memory’s thank you
6:07 That is definitely a picture of the Penske PC-7 chassis and not the March 82C Bob ran the following year to this picture. The PC7 was the PC6 (1979 Indy winner) with revised sidepods to become a retrofitted ground effects car.
Mind blown. Amazing.
Thank you Benjamin!
Todays pronunciation error - It's Chris AY-mon. Loving the videos.
👍great video! 1999 was an amazing season
Excellent Video. Well done
Great video!
Thank you Stéfano!
You have a way with words 🙏🏼
great story!
Great storytelling with brilliant amount of footage to go with it! Love it! Quick question: I've never heard anyone say the name Chris Amon like you did (like Amón) - is that the correct way to say his last name?
Thank you!
Regarding Chris Amon and the pronounciation - I’ve almost certainly got it wrong! There is an infamous trend on this channel of me, unintentionally, pronouncing things wrong.
@@TheMobileChicane Thanks for the reply, I didn't know, I'm very new to your channel, haha. But keep up doing these, I'm a F1 history buff and get tired of all the content thrown at me from today's F1, so this is definitely a welcoming break from all that
I've never heard Amon pronounced the way you did in the video. It sounded like his name was Amoon.
Awesome videos, been on a binge! 1 thing , not being a twat. Akagi... the G pronounced as Gi "git" not Ji :P
Subbed. the Leyton House racing team was a massive thing here in Japan. Akagi had his fingers in a lot of motorsport pies.
Newey was with March in the early 80s and designed the 83G IMSA car ...and the Indy Car?
Cracking video this
Thanks Paeris!
Whoever installed those oil pumps probably took a quick vacation after that race lmao
We not long repainted the cg911 body,was such a privelage to work on, in our opinion. I Would never go near one again 😂😂
My favourite year of F1.
Also suggestion for a video : the story of the Rial team in F1
I’ll have a look into it!
Leyton house budget wouldn’t have payed for Ferraris hospitality bill
If only March/Leyton House had proper facilities.
Ah when f1 was f1
Aerodynamic instability and small steering wheel = Senna’s complaints w/ FW16
28:20, I'm confused. Is his name Even or Ivan? 😕
Ivan!
Ivan, pronounced Ee-van, because he's Italian
March Leyton House . Ivan Capelli .
Capeli really deserved better honestly
Its a gteat story, Ivan was a great driver, painfully underrated. Couldnt have gone to Ferrari at a worst time. A case of what might have been.
Ferrari’s 1992 year would be a worthy video topic by itself!
25:40, why employ someone who was intent on being a major liability/sabatour as opposed to an asset? 😳
Apple bottom jeans hit me like a flashbang lmao
Morale story: don't use a f2 chassis if your team compete in f1
TOP CHANNEL, GOOD "FORENSIC" WORK / ETHICS :-)
[ albeit a slightly monotone narrator's voice that made me reluctant at first ]
March.
The gestation of the car that killed Senna
Fun fact. newey left williams because they kept calling him "The Brown Hatter"
Haha, is that really true?
@@TheMobileChicane nah, he left because he was assured upon signing that he would be a part of any team discussions and decisions. The relationship was fractured after Williams were charged with manslaughter charges in the wake of Senna's death at Imola too. Patrick Head & Frank Williams broke this agreement and also refused to make him a share-holder of the team and then the what totally ended the relationship was when they opted to release Damon Hill post-1996, as Newey had felt Hill was key to the development of the team and car. They actually put him on gardening leave prior to joining McLaren, so he wasn't able to influence the design of the MP4-12 (Neil Oatley designed it) while Newey worked on the MP4-13 for '98, which didn't end up doing too bad!
Also this video was fantastic, your description of France 1990 was really interesting to listen to. I'd love a video on the Onyx team from 1989-90 if you were looking for any more ideas, Stefan Johansson got 3rd at Portugal '89, though their eccentric owner killed the team off.
@@cribbe6547 I do vaguely remember reading an article about Onyx before and how their owner was one of the more colourful types we've seen in the paddock - I'll have to go back and find it. But rest assured, an Onyx video is going on my list!
@@TheMobileChicane Yeah, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem. You know he's a real character just reading the headline of his wikipedia article. 'he was a Belgian stock market guru, economist, econometrician, convicted fraudster, author, philosopher, public figure, politician, and member of the Belgian and Flemish Parliaments. Some life alright!
I've watched many of your videos since the algorithm blessed me yesterday, I do hope to see your channel grow, fantastic content my friend
@@cribbe6547 that's quite the headline! Impressive stuff.
And thank you again, very kind of you.
2 questions where do you get your music from and the photos from, I doubt they are free to use?
@@TheMobileChicane it is genuine question
Source material is taken from a variety of places around the internet. As I use them for commentary, criticism, research and teaching - this falls under Fair Use, or Fair Dealing as it may be known in other countries.
@@TheMobileChicane in other countries is seen as copyright breach. Do you know Kym Ilman?
Car Leyton Adrian Newey March Judd
And his name was John cena!!!
Great stuff man but please do something about the the spit noises while you talk. Cover the mic or change it or something.
Great video!!
Thank you!