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Merzario was the bloke who knew how to unbuckle Lauda's seatbelt after his crash at the Nurburgring in 1976. Nobody else knew how to do it. If he hadn't been there, Lauda would have died. I'm sure of it.
The great shame of it is that Montjuic was a fantastic layout - probably a better track than Monaco in any case. Were it not for the haphazard organisation, it might have soldiered on for a little bit more.
Not to make excuses, but lost a little bit in this fine review of the race is that there was little control over the races by the FIA. Local jurisdictions ruled the day, and the fledgling GPDA had little sway. Safety standards was still a distant dream. The irony is Montjuic was a beautiful track. Possibly the best track ever. It was fast and sweeping, undulating in elevation, all within a major city park. It was surrounded by beautiful trees and buildings. Obviously, deathly dangerous, but then pretty much all tracks were. You could perish at Monaco or the Nurburgring. All tracks presented the opportunity to hit something very hard, at very high speed.
Speed had little to do with the dangers. In 1994 (a truly horrific season), everyone was still badly shaken by recent events and were looking forward to Monaco as it was next on the schedule. They thought its cramped layout and slow speeds would make it safer. Then more tragedy: Karl Wendlinger had a very bad accident. He was quite lucky to survive but I'm sure the harbinger of death lingered over the drivers through the race. Michael Schumacher won with Damon Hill coming 2nd.
Not only cevert, a year after in 74, Helmut Koenigg was beheaded by one of those barriers who's lower side failed to hold the car and cut koenigg and the car in half
So there’s a weird thing that connects the two of them. In the movie Rush from 2013 when the movie reaches the point of the Watkins Glen GP that Cevert died at, his crash was changed. In the movie he was shown to be decapitated when he wasn’t in real life. Was a grisly image but not factual. The movie takes a lot of liberties but it was used in the film to show many examples of how dangerous 70s F1 was. Fantastic film with that very specific tidbit
Cevert wasn't actually beheaded.. it was much worse..
He was essentially cut in half, the barrier entered at his shoulder, went across and down his torso and exited at the waist.
Peter Revson was killed at a Kylami test session after striking a barrier in ‘74. He was replaced by Tom Pryce, who died at Kylami.
@@crazydrummer181 When Revson hit the barrier, the the barrier gave way and separated, and tore up his car badly. It then caught fire.
What caused him to crash was suspension failure, caused by a bolt that was replaced with one bought at a hardware store. The replacement bolt didn't hold up to the stress put upon it.
@@mkay1957Revson wasn't mutilated by the barrier and initially survived the accident but died from his injuries in hospital.
I was there as a young fan. I was lucky to have access to the paddock all weekend and mingle with the pilots and the teams. I remember an improvised football match between pilots and mechanics of different teams and many other anecdotes. Formula one was very different then. Montjuic was a fantastic circuit but a perilous one. I enjoyed every minute of the weekend but on race day, the moment the two Ferraris in the lead were out, I had this inexplicable intuition that the race would turn mad and a tragedy would happen. I couldn't enjoy the race feeling this dark premonition.
Bro you don’t sound like a 70 year old 😂
These cars are so much better looking than todays F1 cars!
Some are . The players car with black and gold paint was incredible.
Nah todays cars are absolutely beautiful.. people are absolutely ruled by nostalgia
One of those killed, Mario DeRoia, was a photographer from Toronto.
How unlucky was Rolf Stommelen?! 2 rear wing failures, 1 killing 4 spectators, and the other ending his own life…
8:45: Carlos Reutemann was one of the most underrated F1 drivers ever and on a short list of the best drivers never to win a Formula One World Championship. 10 full seasons. 12 wins, 45 podiums, one second place in the Championship three thirds and one fourth. The graphic of 9 wins in 1981 IS NOT CORRECT. He won three races that year, South Africa, Brazil and Belgium.
Alan Prost also won three races, as did World Champion Nelson Piquet. Reutemann led Piquet by one point going into the last race at Las Vegas, but coming off a 10th place finish the race before. He started on pole, but for reasons never explained, he fell like a rock right from the green flag, finished 8th and lost the championship by one point. This seemed to devastate him. Frank Willians had to convince him to return in 1982. In 1982, he finished in 2nd place in the first race, exited with a mechanical failure in race two and then announced his retirement saying he " was not motivated any more" and "(his) heart was not in it". There was later speculation that he felt that Frank Williams was playing favorites with teammate Alan Jones late in the season, which may explain Carlos' much weaker performance as the season went on. His three wins are in the first five races in the season.
he won 2 formula one races in 1981 - brazil and belgium
perhaps the main reason, he seemed to lose form during the year was when williams moved from michelin tyres back to goodyear
@@nelsonschumacher7956 He did win only two races. My original source had 3 race wins but this included the opening South African Grand Prix which was stripped of its championship status and designated as a non points race, verified by Wikipedia. Apparently UA-cam is not allowing me to edit my original post.
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i wasn't sure how you saw it, so i didn't go into detail - there are a lot of carlos fans who claim he was cheated, but that is not true
the south african grand prix was cancelled, due to the time restraints in getting the new cars to comply with the 1981 rules. at the time, foca and fisa were in a bitter war, and foca came up with the master stroke of making fisa believe they could run their own series without the works teams like ferrari, williams, alfa etc. if it failed, they would have been vitually broke and would have been defeated by fisa, but with kyalami available and race ready, they decided to put on a demonstration of how powerful they were. the south african grand prix was ran without the fisa sanctioning, or their teams, and was a formula libre race, not a formula one. the cars that raced in south africa were all 1980 spec cars with the sliding skirts which were illegal in 1981. therefore, no matter what, the race could never be counted for the 1981 title, because the cars were illegal for 1981
La gara in Sudafrica era fuori punteggio mondiale .
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Very interesting and well produced video, I really enjoyed watching this. Bonus points for making the effort to pronounce the names correctly (you even got Reutemann's name correct by the end).
Glad you enjoyed it!
Of course, it was despicable that the circuit organisers couldn't be bothered to mount the guardrails properly, even by the lax safety standards of those days this was a dereliction of duty. As someone who watched F1 in those days, it was a very different era and drivers were expected to risk their lives and accept that not all of them would survive the season, but things were beginning to change with the advent of Jackie Stewart demanding changes to circuits that he regarded as unsafe to race.
The pity of it was that Montjuïc was a great street circuit, albeit the increased speeds of F1 cars with their advanced aerodynamics were stretching its safety capabilities in 1975 and that the tragic deaths of four spectators would permanently close it for use as a Grand Prix circuit, although motorcycle racing continued there.
Also Nikki Lauda's accident was the real beginning of track safety. F 1 was starting to get alot of bad press.
It's a shame that this track ended in infamy... I love the layout, the elevation changes and the scenery
Mass was also the poor sod in the wrong place at the wrong time for Gilles Villeneuve to launch off the back of Mass' March at Zolder in 1982 and ending Gilles' life.
And for a short time blamed for the Villeneuve crash but....later cleared
I was there at that race as a mechanic at BRM. Also remember the chaos of the event. The drivers strike, the barrier repairs and taking part in the football match.
The paddock was in the old Olympic stadium which I think never held the games due to the Spanish civil war. Remember the transporters departing ASAP after the race was stopped to get over the border into France before the Spanish authorities had chance to impound them. Crazy and sad weekend. Great setting for a motor race though.
Great video. The still shots are fabulous (especially Cevert and his Tyrrell) and will go into my collection. Liked and subbed.
There are those who say that Indy 2005 or Spa 2021 are the worst races in F1 history. In my view though, this race weekend is far worse than either of those examples, combined. Teams and drivers being blackmailed to race in unsafe conditions, a mass boycott, an accident that left a driver severely injured and spectators killed and a delay in calling a halt to the race, I'm surprised this isn't brought up more
I'd arguably put 1994 San Marino on that list. No one was forced, no protests happened, but two drivers killed and a third severely injured marred that weekend as one of the truly dark weekends of F1.
@CnyAutofreakRacingVideo Spa 1960 would be on that list as well, the only example of 2 drivers losing their lives in one race
I have heard about this race before and am fully aware that the drivers were blackmailed into racing.
@@FloridaManRacerLet's not forget that in the middle of the *'94 San Marino GP* those two drivers died *RIGHT* after hitting the walls in their respective corners. The race should've been *STOPPED* {in accordance with Italian law} right away when *Roland* was pulled out and the doctors knew that he died. After *Senna's* crash, they held the *Race Restart* and, as the cars went down the track, a bunch of fans (+ a cop) were hurt when two cars that were piloted by *Leto* and *Lami* hit each other. That sent car parts sailing through the air and into the stands!!! ~ JonseyG 👲😿
#RIPRatzenbergerSenna
@@FloridaManRacerHe broke his nose, if I'm remembering things right...
~ JonseyG 👲
I am so glad that people like Niki Lauda and Jackie Stewart advocated for safety and eventually standards changed, although it took a long time. It always surprised me that the death of Jim Clark years earlier didn’t startle the whole sport into implementing effective barriers and runoff areas - I guess it was a truly foreign concept back then.
Well Clark died in a can am car not an f1 car, so the fia and f1 saw no need to change.
Nope, Clark died behind the wheel of a Formula 2 car. It likely didn’t spur change because nobody new what caused it since it occurred in an unpopulated part of the circuit.
@@cocacola150dr I remembered wrong then. Someone died in a can am car though, McLaren maybe.
@@99EKjohn McLaren died in a can am car testing but most likely from pit crew incompetence since the crash was caused by the rear bodywork coming off.
@@rickden8362 I don't believe that the reason for McLaren's crash was ever definitely proven, they think it might have been the the rear aero failing, but no one was at that part of the track when it happened so there are no eye witnesses I don't think. There weren't eye witnesses for either crash, Mclaren or Clark, if I'm remembering correctly.
4:40 The wreckage of Stommelen's car eerily reminds me of that of Jochen Rindt at Monza, 5th September 1970, both carrying number 22.
Great review but its interesting to note the barrier had done what was expected for on Stommelen initial crash. The accident itself had nothing to do with the first fears of the drivers and if it wasn't by the rear Hill wing flying possibly ths GP would have a surprised result
Very good recite of this race. Thanks for some footage. The drivers had thought this was a good track two years before. Seeing F1 cars doing jumps is crazy. Thank you, will sub and see what you got. Very Informative. Give Lombardi her due, she scored. Arigatou gozaimasu senpei.
The barriers not being set up properly (missing or lose bolts) was criminal. It makes the problems at the recent Las Vegas pale in comparison.
Very well done, narrated perfectly.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you! Very good video featuring the not as well known Pace and Stommelen - both great and brave drivers from that era. 😁
Thank you very much for watching - glad you liked it!
Emmerson Fittipaldi became a fan favorite in the US during the CART era of IndyCar racing, and he was certainly one of mine in the late 80's and early 90's. When I first heard this story many years ago, he became someone I respected on a different level. He was the only driver who had the guts to call the race organizers and Spanish gov'ts. bluff on their threats. His slow laps and eventual trip home were proven to be the right thing to do.
The fact Ken Tyrell took the responsibility on his team's shoulders and fixed as much of the barriers as he could over night speaks volumes to who he was as a man, not just a racer.
I'd like to sit here and say how lucky we are that racing isn't like that anymore, and in a lot of aspects it certainly is MUCH safer. But I still see glaring issues at least once per season that absolutely boggle my mind that the so called pinnacle of motorsports would let their drivers, teams and the fans be exposed to such dangers beyond what should be considered reasonable.
Example A1: How was a barrier, similar to that of the one Cevert lost his life with and the one shown in this video at a current F1 track when Romain Grosjean speared through it? It would've been Cevert all over again had it not been for the HALO, which yes, was the altering safety factor in the equation, but the barrier shouldn't have been deemed suitable just because the HALO now exists. There's still a LOT of unacceptable crap that happens in F1, and I'm sure (example #2) Carlos Sainz would agree with me on this, when a MAN HOLE COVER isn't secured on a street circuit and literally rips a gaping hole in the floor of the car in 2023, people STILL aren't taking safety seriously enough in Formula One.
I'm under no false impression that racing can ever be made 100% safe, but these are literally the stupidest possible things to be screwing up as an organized championship of 60+ years and yet not being held accountable for their negligence in any way, shape or form. The FIA, all race organizers/representatives of tracks, and Liberty Media need to start feeling some pressure from the authorities of these countries if stuff like that happens because it's no longer excusable for stupid avoidable mistakes to lead to dead people. There's enough knowledge of what CAN happen to try to prevent it. At the point someone fails to try, is the point it becomes criminal negligence. Period.
Well, I guess those concrete walls at Indy never killed anybody. Or the fences at Daytona. Or firecrackers. Or those pull cords on mini-blinds that kill babies. Or skateboards.
Oh, Romain is a really bad example by the way. That guy ALWAYS finds new ways to crash, maybe they could use him for your so called "maybe this will happen" theories so no one ever gets hurt again.
Go outside. Eat something bad for you. Have some danger in your life. It's good for you.
Konieg was beheaded, not cevert. Cevert was almost cut in half at the torso. As the barrier almost cut the car in half .my friends father was a Glenn official and that's what he saw when we were there
Not much of a F1 fan but this video was excellent. I'm definitely interested in seeing more F1. As for my thoughts on this awful race, I'm wondering why they would do anything like this again as we've recently seen in Vegas.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Isn't this the race where, prior to practice, the majority of the drivers had agreed to a strike and refused to drive, but then Ickyx basically played strikebreaker?
Thank you for an excellent documentary. You really did your homework.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's amazing how cavalier race organizers can be with driver's lives.
They where.
Powers that be will powers that be. Applies to wars and suchlike. All I wanna say that they don´t really care about us and stuff..
Just another case of F1 and track owners/management being dragged kicking and screaming towards the modern era where safety is taken a lot more seriously than it was, which was basically and afterthought.
Yo estuve en esta carrera, estuve en el sitio del acccidente unos minutos antes, grandes pilotos. 🇪🇦🕵️
Excellent video. Really well done. I watch a lot of these historic racing videos. You've chosen an interesting subject and then illustrated it well. It's well written and your narration is first class. The only very minor mistake is that of your pronunciation of Reutemann at one point. Because of your video I'll be exploring the race further and I'll subscribe straightaway. I'm very impressed.
Thank you very much for the kind words - it means a lot!
@@F1PitLaneTVthe plaudits I offer are well deserved. I'm just back from work and am now re watching your excellent video and others which have yet to match up to yours on that GP.
1:19 I’ve watched F1 casually for years, but I’ve begun to deep dive into the world of F1 the past month or so. So not only were the drivers threatened legal action by the organization, there was also the threat that the police could possibly confiscate their vehicles?
These incidents are heartbreaking to listen to whenever drivers, and/or any innocent people, are caught up in the chaos resulting in injury or death for what would appear to be ignorance and/or greed on the organization’s part.
If I’m incorrect, I mean no disrespect. It could be because I’m binge watching older races, highlights, and documentaries that I’ve seeing things differently due to a flood of information dumped on my brain seemingly all at once.
What a star studded field .. incredible
The organizers were the culprits of everything, they were very autoritarian and didn't want to instale a chicane at the stadium as the drivers asked for.
The drivers should have paraded around at half speed after the threats of legal action. Its crimminal how the tracks and organizers have been getting away with putting the drivers at risk. You know they made sure the checks would clear at the bank theough.
Great job, the organisers of the race really put the pressure on the teams and drivers to race, threatening to have the cars impounded was really going a step too far, the race should have been held at the Jarama Circuit just north of Madrid to avoid the whole situation.
Ickx and Oliver not think so
Could have mentioned Tom Pryce killed along with a young steward at Kyalami in 1977.
This 1975 season was my induction into F1. Cars were great.
I drove Fittipaldi to Goodwood in 2000.
Carlos Reutemann (Roy te mann) was also a hero, along with Clay Regazzoni (Reggadzohnee).
Was the famous Lauda crash mentioned, also 75 I believe, and the loss of Ronnie Peterson at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1976 I think after surviving trapped in a long fire initially at the start of the race iirc.
Good video though, I learned or was reminded of one or two things.
As well as Peter Revson, the guy who Tom Pryce replaced. Revson died at a Kylami practice session in ‘74.
Petterson died in 1978 Monza crash; N Lauda 1976 Nurburgring
At least Regazzoni survived. He was the victim of a very bad accident that cost him the use of his legs.
Peterson in 78
Montjuich Park is one of the most beautiful circuits ever to host a motor race
Poor spectators! It is a truly shame!😢
Jacky Ickx's nickname is "Mister LeMans".
This was criminal. The Guadia should have arrested the organizers
“Rooter-man" hmmm 🤔
oh my word 2nd rear wing failure was just one to many...this time stomelen stumbled and fell down...like a fallen soldier...however not before achieving victories in other race categories😢😮
Montjuich was a disgrace. Exactly a year before, a very similar accident happened in the 250cc motorcycle GP where a French rider hit and killed a track safety official crossing the track and laid wounded on the ground with 3 other riders without any assistance for a good 30 minutes.
Rolf's crash was just before the demise of the whole Embassy Hill project. Tony Brice who you see racing here was about to die in a plane crash with Graham Hill who was the pilot.
El único que tuvo lo que hay que tener fue Emerson. Chapeau.
Hopefully the families of the victims sued those that threatened to sue the drivers if they didn't race.
Why
Fitipaldi was a wise man. 🙏🙏
1:27 - Photo is from 1976.
Wow a 60 second penalty
How is it possible to have a head-on collision in an F1 race?
Mass was also a factor in Villeneuve's fatal crash, also in 1982. -U10
Not exactly.. he went of the racingline, but the qualifying tyres were the biggest problems you need to drive very slowly on the outlap to not cook the tyres… also Gilles Villeneuve wanted a 2nd run on his used tyres to out qualifying Pironi.. Gilles was fast but made a lot of errors during his career , and I think this was one of them.. took too many risks to get faster on used tyres..
I agree as Mass was driving down the middle of the track slowly forcing anyone approaching at speed to either go left of right. Mass went the same side as Villeneuve chose.
El error fue todo de Giles. Lamentablemente.
My Favourite driver was Ronnie Peterson ,
unlucky not to be world champion ,and
unfortunately he got killed at monza R.I.P.
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This is an incredible story, well told.
Can anybody explain why I suddenly want a cigarette and a stiff drink, shaken not stirred?
I'm not being cruel or something like that, but in many other courses have died more drivers, and they are still there. Montjuic was a wonderful layout, which just needed security improvements.
You Cut by Inshot will allow 4:3 without the blurred sides.
Hunt, Depailler, Reutemann, Lombardi, Pace, Jarier, Peterson, Stommelen, Brise, Pryce, Donohue: all dead, some of them few months later on during that season.
Jarier still alive..And Hunt is dead 20 years later.BS
@@-Iceman aye.
reutemann died some years ago at 79 .
Rolf Stommelen
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Drivers would have been better off for not racing!
The narrator pronunciation of the drivers names not correct
Spanish authorities had zero right to force them to race on a deadly track. SHAME!
You were incorrect on one point Maria therese DeFilipis was the first women to score points in a F1 Grand Prix in her Maserati 250F
Well.........sadly " The Mantra " of F1 Management is......." The Show must go on ", money is apparently more important, than Human Lives. 19 years later, a simular incident, cost the life of Roland Ratzenberger, and Rubens Barrichello had a massive crash, which could`ve easily killed him, but the race still wasn`t cancelled. The next day, Ayrton Senna crashed and was killed in the race. Will The Management of F1 ever learn...............probably not...........🤔
The cars look like Dr. Seuss characters with those intakes.
have you ever thought of graduating to more demanding reading material?
NAh bro@@errorsofmodernism7331
What about Ronnie Peterson?
1:46 holy hell that hairstyle. has to have been ridiculous at the time too right? aaaand he's hiding sideburns. dang son. I salute you sir. bold style for bold men.
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After all, it was the *1970s* and that's just the way they were... ~ JonseyG 👲
A Reutemann le robaron el título en el GP de Las Vegas 1981, según declaraciones de: Bernie Eclestone...
Se lo empezaron a robar en Sudáfrica, siguieron con el cambio de Michelin a Goodyear transado con Ecclestone... Brabham tenía que salir campeón. Las Vegas, con el "inocente" choque de Piquet corriéndole la trayectoria el sábado luego de que Carlos hiciera la pole, obligandolo a cambiar a un auto muleto a punto para el cerdo y con caja de cambios de madera fue las frutilla del postre.
hahahahahahahahah attention to safety hahahahh what a JOKE!!!
wheres the nightmare?
FFS
Bathurst (1000) ... pronounce Bath with a short 'A' (as in cAt), not Barth as in having a bath of water.
LoL
F1 car crashes were so cool back in the day
Note to the author: It’s reluctantly, not reluctingly.
So, people had to die for a woman to get points in F1? Sounds about right.
No it doesn't because *women* are *NOT* the problem.... ~ JonseyG 👲
In the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, Emerson Fittipaldi demonstrated what it means to have a well-functioning brain.
The other pilots proved to have inferior quality brains.
Well, he certainly did what he thought was right. A shame that others had no balls.
only Ickx who accepted to race
greed from owners and organisers trumps LIFES OF DRIVERS, how patthetic , and SURELY the corrupt ones don't miss ANY sleep about it , upside down part of this "SPORT"
Guardate la gente dove è un miracolo che i morti sono pochi