At long last a REAL high quality motorsports youtube channel. You don't know how long I've waited to see this or how important this is in the grand scheme of auto racing channels on this platform. You deserve a medal dawg this is superb stuff
Great video. And honestly? The strike made sure that their negotiations worked. FISA and FOCA panicked without most of the field showing up. Drivers needed some control over their careers, otherwise they could be traded to random teams, or stuck in a terrible working environment, without the right to drive again should they up and leave. To have no cars on track was probably the best way it could've worked.
Since your already on 1982 you should do a video on Gilles Villeneuve’s career, maybe even Didier Pironi’s too since he gets so much hate due to the controversy
@@TheFormula2023 No problem, this video might have some useful clips if you decide to. Only onboard footage I've seen of Gilles. ua-cam.com/video/C5_iYlT74q4/v-deo.htmlsi=LBDbMG28Sv883xrb
@@TheFormula2023The 126C2, especially that later version with the pull rod front end was one of the great F1 cars but almost nobody knows about it. In a season where the team scored only one point from the first three races, missed the fifth race altogether because of Villeneuve’s fatal crash, missed the Swiss Grand Prix, ran six races with only one car and finished the season with a totally different driver lineup from what they started with, the fact that they still won the Constructors Championship was an phenomenal achievement. In Italy, then 42 year-old Mario Andretti, who had not driven in F1 for two years, put the car on pole. Pironi was stiff not to actually win the driver’s championship but missing the last five races made it pretty likely he would be overtaken. The 126C2 is a pretty under appreciated car. Just a thought bubble…
I can’t believe Oliver was that stupid as to openly threaten them like that. What a fool. Lauda and Pironi were quite right to raise their objections because the implications of signing were horrific for a driver’s career, though today we essentially have a system like this more or less by default. But it means that, unlike the way things were back then, today’s drivers are no longer able to race in other categories. If I’d been them, I wouldn’t have signed either. And incidentally, before everyone starts moaning about the FIA, FOCA showed themselves to be every bit as toxic, if not worse.
Any chance you will talk about the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix where a lot of teams boycotted the race with the Ferraris dominating the race and what happened between Gilles and Pironi?
I'm certainly not finished with 1982: the FISA/FOCA war and the Gilles/Pironi relationship are definitely stories I'm interested in - and it seems so are other people. I'm making a video about something else at the moment but I'm sure I'll come back to those topics soon enough.
At long last a REAL high quality motorsports youtube channel. You don't know how long I've waited to see this or how important this is in the grand scheme of auto racing channels on this platform. You deserve a medal dawg this is superb stuff
stop ya yappin'
Hunt's comment about having 31 cars to choose from is hilarious.
Great video. And honestly? The strike made sure that their negotiations worked. FISA and FOCA panicked without most of the field showing up. Drivers needed some control over their careers, otherwise they could be traded to random teams, or stuck in a terrible working environment, without the right to drive again should they up and leave. To have no cars on track was probably the best way it could've worked.
Absolutely great channel with very high quality videos. You need more views. You deserve it.
Thanks for your support - I appreciate it!
@@TheFormula2023 you really need to keep doing this videos. One day your channel will blow up i am very sure.
First RACE i ever Saw on TV. Some pictures on the video i remember from grandprix international magazine.
Bernie putting pressure on World Champion Nelson Piquet and Riccardo Patrese back then.
Incredibly well done summary. Reckon i'll subscribe and stay a long while! Very much looking forward to your future works. Keep it up!
Great material!
Well, at the end of the day the drivers got what they wanted.
Since your already on 1982 you should do a video on Gilles Villeneuve’s career, maybe even Didier Pironi’s too since he gets so much hate due to the controversy
That's a great idea - thanks!
@@TheFormula2023 No problem, this video might have some useful clips if you decide to. Only onboard footage I've seen of Gilles. ua-cam.com/video/C5_iYlT74q4/v-deo.htmlsi=LBDbMG28Sv883xrb
@@TheFormula2023The 126C2, especially that later version with the pull rod front end was one of the great F1 cars but almost nobody knows about it.
In a season where the team scored only one point from the first three races, missed the fifth race altogether because of Villeneuve’s fatal crash, missed the Swiss Grand Prix, ran six races with only one car and finished the season with a totally different driver lineup from what they started with, the fact that they still won the Constructors Championship was an phenomenal achievement. In Italy, then 42 year-old Mario Andretti, who had not driven in F1 for two years, put the car on pole.
Pironi was stiff not to actually win the driver’s championship but missing the last five races made it pretty likely he would be overtaken.
The 126C2 is a pretty under appreciated car.
Just a thought bubble…
Interesting documentary. It was Jean Marie Balestre though, not Belestre.
Yes, you're right - I think I've confused myself on the spelling on that one a few times!
@TheFormula2023 No worries mate. I remember this well. I was 17 years old at the time and was a huge F1 fan. Not these days though......
The pedant in me is compelled to say "Drivers' strike". Aside from that, great video! 👍
Thanks for your feedback - you're quite right! I've amended the title and thumbnail 👍
I can’t believe Oliver was that stupid as to openly threaten them like that. What a fool.
Lauda and Pironi were quite right to raise their objections because the implications of signing were horrific for a driver’s career, though today we essentially have a system like this more or less by default. But it means that, unlike the way things were back then, today’s drivers are no longer able to race in other categories.
If I’d been them, I wouldn’t have signed either.
And incidentally, before everyone starts moaning about the FIA, FOCA showed themselves to be every bit as toxic, if not worse.
And what Teo Fabi did gave him a sit on the Brabham Team in 1984.
I watched. I liked. And I subscribed.
This was certainly better and far more accurate than the sort of rubbish Adrian Millard churns out.
I’m guessing Eddie Cheever was the one in the Bama shirt.
How is this channel so small?
Any chance you will talk about the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix where a lot of teams boycotted the race with the Ferraris dominating the race and what happened between Gilles and Pironi?
I'm certainly not finished with 1982: the FISA/FOCA war and the Gilles/Pironi relationship are definitely stories I'm interested in - and it seems so are other people. I'm making a video about something else at the moment but I'm sure I'll come back to those topics soon enough.
Sulayem and Domenicali are small fish compared to Balestre and Ecclestone
Fabi sounds like weasel.
A job for the mob ?
Don’t fuck with niki
A big stink over a car racing sport
And you sat here and watched the video about it.
This was drivers were MEN not what we have today.
If they did it today, they’d still be considered as flannels. Which most of them are, you’re right, but maybe these should have been stoic, too?
I wonder if they were able to put a coherent sentence together back then as well.