Forgotten Race Tracks - Davidstow Cornwall - I do a lap of an F1 Circuit!

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
  • #F1 #abandoned #Cornwall
    Davidstow seems like an unlikely place for Formula 1 race events but after RAF Davidstow Moor closed, that's exactly what we got!
    If like me, you enjoy motorsport, history and looking at pieces of tarmac... you'll love "Forgotten Race Tracks" where we take a look at some of the old and abandoned race tracks around England.
    From Drag strips to Formula 1 circuits, in this short series, we'll be investigating what remains of Britain's motor racing history.
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  • @stevemarshall3481
    @stevemarshall3481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Taught my son and daughter to drive up there, surface is awful but it was safe enough to teach them pulling away and clutch control 👍

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      There was someone learning when I visited. We don't get nice things like this around our way.

    • @chas1759
      @chas1759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Remember driving my cousins Anglia in the early 80s around there.He was nuts and we drove down Rough Tor with me at night.

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Gpa did same for my Mum on Wetheringfield (Sudbury) af.

  • @roystonpapworth9520
    @roystonpapworth9520 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When I drove around there it was full of sheep! Nice to see Davidstow get some love…

  • @KoolKy04schannel
    @KoolKy04schannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    wouldn't call that a hot lap but certainly one of the fastest in years!

  • @joshuagunner9465
    @joshuagunner9465 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You pronounce it like david, sto

  • @doctorwalex
    @doctorwalex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back in 1991 I went to the White Goddess Free Festival just down the road from there. I had no idea I was only a few miles away from a piece of British Motor Racing history. Damn.

  • @russcattell955i
    @russcattell955i 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    in the 2000's rally events were held here.

  • @iniquity123
    @iniquity123 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Where is Davidstow ?
    End of David's foot.

  • @neilsheppard6673
    @neilsheppard6673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Next time you're in Wales, you should visit former RAF Llandow, between Cardiff airport and RAF St. Athan. That too was a Coastal Command airbase during WW2, and during the cold war was a dispersal airbase for the V bombers. It was also the original proposed site for Cardiff Airport, which is now down the road along with the huge BA maintenance hangar. But I digress. Llandow is no longer active, but is now a racetrack of sorts and they have track days for performance cars which you can hire, or drive your own. They also hold other car-related events there at weekends but you need to check what's on.
    I enjoyed that video, interesting stuff about the early days of F1. Shame about the weather though!

  • @scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain
    @scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great video as always mate, you will have to come up to crail in Fife for a shot on the old airfield/dragstrip

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cheers mate. Isn't Crail currently a track you can drive/hire?

    • @scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain
      @scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AutoShenanigans yeah events are on most weekends from March till October like on the drag strip and the drifting ring.

  • @user-fc9qy1ky4j
    @user-fc9qy1ky4j 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Learnt to drive on the remains of RAF Harrowbere irfield (near Yelverton , Devon) in the late 70s - would love to know how many of us learned the niceties of parking, reversing etc on what's left of the perimeter road?

  • @mrmando69
    @mrmando69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video , thanks for your research. 2023 and bigears highway has more potholes than this long abandoned venue.

  • @caravaningincarathevan467
    @caravaningincarathevan467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    you should come too Buckinghamshire there are lots of old airfields that were used as race tracks

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wasn't aware.. whats good in that area?

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What's left in Bucks ¿?

    • @caravaningincarathevan467
      @caravaningincarathevan467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@suzyqualcast6269 Bovingdon airfield in hemel hemsted, Haddenham Airfield. I'm sure there are loads more

  • @sampleheed
    @sampleheed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    As a child I played in this airfield and lived next door to it and I’m sorry to tell you but you are mispronouncing its name you should be calling it David as in the name like David Bowie the way you pronounced it sounds more like Davith as in the only gay in the village from Little Britain

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It seems I pronounce everything wrong... you'll get used to it :D Thanks for watching mate.

    • @maybenot6075
      @maybenot6075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard david / davidstow, I live near liverpool so I'm used to working out dodgy accents 😊

  • @-DC-
    @-DC- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spectacular place to visit came across it completely by accident few years ago 👍

  • @TheMotorHubMedia
    @TheMotorHubMedia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I only live in Plymouth so not that far from here going to have to check this out

  • @MrGreatplum
    @MrGreatplum ปีที่แล้ว

    Ooh, I went up there a few years ago whilst on holiday and it was just as foggy! I didn’t realise it had been a race track as well as an airfield!

  • @MohsniLegend
    @MohsniLegend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love your channel

  • @trampster7306
    @trampster7306 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video. I think I'd heard that it was used for F1 before. I'm not far over the border in Devon and have been there a few times. There is an interesting Air museum nearby. They had a massive illegal Rave there a while ago, might have been last year, and it took months to clear up the Litter & Excrement.

  • @moonshinepz
    @moonshinepz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Flew my first solo up there, and when the weather was crap we used to try and race round the old circuit in our cars. It's a common, so it was a case of swerving around goats and sheep a lot of the time as well as potholes, and the damned Doc Martin film crew once or twice😂

  • @MrLunarlander
    @MrLunarlander 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I suspect it's not entirely disused, going by the rather well-maintained windsock at 3:35 and onwards!

  • @PurityVendetta
    @PurityVendetta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sounds like this track suffered similar problems to Darley Moor with the inclement weather. Darley is a bit more accessible and has faired better.

  • @Assimilator1
    @Assimilator1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope no Saabs were hurt in the making of this film!😁

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว

      The suspension took a bit of a beating :(

    • @Assimilator1
      @Assimilator1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AutoShenanigans 😭
      😁

  • @mikeythefish46
    @mikeythefish46 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good work 👍

  • @joylunn3445
    @joylunn3445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Terrible surfaces? Welcome to the A Roads of Ceredigion.

  • @minibus9
    @minibus9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    nice video, another in the south west would be Oddicombe Hillclimb

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi, good info.. is there a dedicated track or did it use the existing roads?

    • @minibus9
      @minibus9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      existing roads i think. Torbay motor club who used to run the event would be able to tell you for sure

  • @mattstreete4800
    @mattstreete4800 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Davidstow.. David as in Goliath, not Ginola ! Reminds me of cringe making M&S advert few years back, that pronounced the cheese the same way but with french accent!!

  • @pacificostudios
    @pacificostudios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good ol' full size pickup could do much better. You need something with more travel in the suspension. This is almost an off-road track.

  • @cronauer1985
    @cronauer1985 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Raf Dunholme was once used for racing.

  • @gui18bif
    @gui18bif 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "You are reversing"

  • @Adz_Win
    @Adz_Win ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ain't this the top gear track

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im not sure it was, that was Dunsfold.

    • @Adz_Win
      @Adz_Win ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AutoShenanigans ok 😋 bring more content 👊🏽👌🏼👌🏼

  • @edwardlees4585
    @edwardlees4585 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did a lap of the Monaco GP circuit in summer 2020 (on a Sunday in July in a rented diesel car) and it was just the same only with less risk of hitting a sheep.

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can see the similarities between rainy Cornwall and Monaco.

    • @Ston874
      @Ston874 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@AutoShenanigansAbsolutely, I have actually travelled to Cornwall on a couple of occasions thinking it was Monaco and I spent a few hours looking for a Casino!

  • @cymaz100
    @cymaz100 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s still raining since you left😂

  • @mramaz1ngarry728
    @mramaz1ngarry728 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wasn't there a illegal rave here a year or 2 ago.

  • @jordanlewis3790
    @jordanlewis3790 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you know davidstow cheese and cathedral city are the same but cathedral city is a quid cheaper?

    • @Assimilator1
      @Assimilator1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same cheese? I don't think so, I'm sure they tasted different, and Davidstow was much nicer!😋

  • @bryan3550
    @bryan3550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😢