Brilliant Racing Videos

Forgive the double post, it didn't seem possible to add two quotes into my previous message...
05XR8
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...must admit I lost touch with Best Motoring/Hot Version, as I haven't seen a lot of the newer videos.

Great clip though, glad to see they are still putting stuff out. BM/HV stuff was absolute gold back in the day.
 
tbtstt
Forgive the double post, it didn't seem possible to add two quotes into my previous message...

...must admit I lost touch with Best Motoring/Hot Version, as I haven't seen a lot of the newer videos.

Great clip though, glad to see they are still putting stuff out. BM/HV stuff was absolute gold back in the day.
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They have been adding lots of videos from their archives. Stuff I didn't know existed since 2000/2001 when I started following BMI.
Many new videos are YouTube members only. Really cool looking episodes, but I'm not subscribing to that.
 
05XR8
They have been adding lots of videos from their archives. Stuff I didn't know existed since 2000/2001 when I started following BMI.
Many new videos are YouTube members only. Really cool looking episodes, but I'm not subscribing to that.
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Yeah, the early 2000 content was so good (which was good, as it was often very hard work to get hold of it! :lol:). The touge features were easily my favourite and they couple where they feature WRCars were the absolute peak for me. I know there are a few compilation DVD's available from that period, but whenever I see them for sale they are silly money.

I'll have to catch up with their YouTube channel; like you, I am not really interesting in a subscription though.
 
tbtstt
Yeah, the early 2000 content was so good (which was good, as it was often very hard work to get hold of it! :lol:). The touge features were easily my favourite and they couple where they feature WRCars were the absolute peak for me. I know there are a few compilation DVD's available from that period, but whenever I see them for sale they are silly money.

I'll have to catch up with their YouTube channel; like you, I am not really interesting in a subscription though.
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Yeah, I left all those DVDs to one of my nephews back in the states.
 
Not the usual faire for this thread, and I'm not generally one for reaction videos, but I felt this one is a bit special.

At the 1995 Goodwood Festival of Speed Chris Rea unveiled his Ferrari 156 Sharknose recreation to Phil Hill, who had driven one of the original cars to the 1961 F1 championship, taking the title at Monza in the same race his teammate Wolfgang von Trips was killed. Enzo Ferrari had no fondness for old race cars and so the originals had been scrapped; Rea had one made from scratch from technical drawings and photographs.





Quote from Hill at 2:10 in the first video: "Gosh, I wish Wolfgang was with us to see this."
 
Roo
Not the usual faire for this thread, and I'm not generally one for reaction videos, but I felt this one is a bit special.

At the 1995 Goodwood Festival of Speed Chris Rea unveiled his Ferrari 156 Sharknose recreation to Phil Hill, who had driven one of the original cars to the 1961 F1 championship, taking the title at Monza in the same race his teammate Wolfgang von Trips was killed. Enzo Ferrari had no fondness for old race cars and so the originals had been scrapped; Rea had one made from scratch from technical drawings and photographs.





Quote from Hill at 2:10 in the first video: "Gosh, I wish Wolfgang was with us to see this."
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It's because of scenarios like this, and others already lost to history, remaining examples of historically significant cars should be laser scanned, filmed and photographed for the future.
 
Pete05
It's because of scenarios like this, and others already lost to history, remaining examples of historically significant cars should be laser scanned, filmed and photographed for the future.
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This, to me, sort of sounds like what Kaz's vision for Gran Turismo is - a digital museum to automotive history. We could argue all day about how PD goes about it, the playability of it as a game, but I think this digitisation of automotive history is what has tried to be done with the series bit-by-bit since GT4.
 
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This, to me, sort of sounds like what Kaz's vision for Gran Turismo is - a digital museum to automotive history. We could argue all day about how PD goes about it, the playability of it as a game, but I think this digitisation of automotive history is what has tried to be done with the series bit-by-bit since GT4.
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There are countless, priceless, almost complete, significant cars from history being kept and just waiting for the discovery of that vital part or parts.

I think it was pre-War Auto Unions I was reading about. Last one known to the experts all ready to go, but missing a vital part or two.
A similar story of the last two or three survivors having to be stripped in order to make one complete example.

Museums are another example. They hold many static or rolling chassis simply because of the inability to source unavailable parts.

At least with blueprints, technical drawings, photos and scans, those parts can be replicated.
Much in the same way certain classic cars are, or have recently been the subject of continuation builds.
 
Racing isn't exactly the full focus of this video, but stadium events like these were how much of mainstream America was introduced to motorsports in the '80s before NASCAR really pushed itself into the forefront. These events were a lot more common back then and you don't really see them at a scale like this anymore, even modern day Monster Jam events feel scaled back in comparison, and when you consider a whole generation of kids grew up watching events like this you can understand how big trucks and big engines became cornerstones of American car culture.

Plus this was in the days when nothing was really standardized as far as engineering, so each of these vehicles is uniquely built in ways that doesn't exist anymore. That's something motorsports in general has lost in the modern "made perfect by computers" era.



And frankly, if you don't think a jet-powered funny car doing a dirt track pull is cool, then I dunno what else to tell you.
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Shame the brand will never see cars like those again. Would be cool if today’s base 911 Carreras were raced instead of the GT3 Cup cars.
Pete05
Call me crazy, but I'd rather watch these than the current Cup cars.
Nowhere near as fast, but so much more entertaining to watch and just look at how hard a driver has to work to extract a lap time.
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You’re not. I forgot to press post to what I was thinking, after watching the first couple minutes.
 
05XR8
Shame the brand will never see cars like those again. Would be cool if today’s base 911 Carreras were raced instead of the GT3 Cup cars.

You’re not. I forgot to press post to what I was thinking, after watching the first couple minutes.
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Pete05
Call me crazy, but I'd rather watch these than the current Cup cars.
Nowhere near as fast, but so much more entertaining to watch and just look at how hard a driver has to work to extract a lap time.
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Extra hard work when the door starts flying open. He's trying to close the door with one hand and countersteering with the other one.
 
I know these aren't cars but there are some crazy moments in this video.
 
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Forgive the double post (didn't seem to want to embed two videos in a post?) and also not strictly a racing video...



...but absolutely fantastic promo (I think) from Toyota. The opening Yaris WRC and GR010 shots are stunning.
 
05XR8
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I remember that Hyundai was such a total pig, when they convinced Colin Bond to get involved, somehow, they even tried turning the head on the block 180⁰.
Their thinking behind the west-east orientation was having the intake side at the front of the motor, giving it cleaner airflow and more room for development.
Anyone that dares to dive down that rabbit hole will see an unsurprising lack of reliability and results.
From memory, Cornish abandoned the Lantra for a Honda and enjoyed greatly improved reliability, if nothing else.
 
Pete05
I remember that Hyundai was such a total pig, when they convinced Colin Bond to get involved, somehow, they even tried turning the head on the block 180⁰.
Their thinking behind the west-east orientation was having the intake side at the front of the motor, giving it cleaner airflow and more room for development.
Anyone that dares to dive down that rabbit hole will see an unsurprising lack of reliability and results.
From memory, Cornish abandoned the Lantra for a Honda and enjoyed greatly improved reliability, if nothing else.
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Here’s his and Noonz replies to the post.
Jim Cornish
I just had a mate forward this to me… never thought that footage would see the light of day again
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It really was a golden era of racing.
Aaron - hope you’re well, mate. Just wish you’d used the Wakefield footage!
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Jim Cornish Gday mate great to hear from you. Standby, the Honda win is in the files and ready to appear soon!
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05XR8
Here’s his and Noonz replies to the post.
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Where did you find this?

I had no memory of him winning in the Honda. I'm just impressed with myself for remembering he drove a Honda about 30 years ago.
Probably the ex-GRM Valvoline car driven by Steven Richards.
 
Pete05
Where did you find this?

I had no memory of him winning in the Honda. I'm just impressed with myself for remembering he drove a Honda about 30 years ago.
Probably the ex-GRM Valvoline car driven by Steven Richards.
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