Bridgehampton - 1966 Can-Am Round 2 - Grand Prix Legends
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Just a short trip south from the Ingural round, the exciting new Can-Am series heads to New York and Long Island for the Bridgehampton Grand Prix. In a race which already had enough story lines, it marked the start of perhaps the biggest innovation motorsports has ever seen when Jim Hall unloaded the first of his winged Chapparal's. Onlookers giggles quickly turned to amazement as the white beauties flew around the beach-side course. Although the debut ultimately ran into some issues, the cork was out of the bottle, and the battle of wings had begun! Can Richie beat the winged oddies and come out on top?
This video uses the fantastic Can-Am 1966 mod for Grand Prix Legends which can be found here:
canam66.gplworld.de/
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0:00 Intro
0:58 History
3:33 Points
3:54 Circuit Overview
5:31 Qualifying Results
6:58 Race
40:04 Final Results - Ігри
The continuing adventures of Richie Axelson continue!! Great driving there.
Thank you so much for talking about Jim Hall. He, and his Chaparral, is responsible for drawing me, as a 12 year old, into a life long love of auto racing. It's unfortunate he isn't mentioned much considering his engineering impact on the sport.
The format of these videos never gets old for me. I really love the historical context provided at the beginning of the videos, it really places the content historically for the viewer. The fact that it is all delivered through a modded version of a game itself that is becoming vintage adds some interest too as I'm sure many viewers will think to try to recreate the race for themselves at home. Something else about GPL (and the amazing mods) feel 'old' thus adding a bit of additional nostalgia. Then the POV race which is somehow a super relaxing view with your commentary.
UA-cam historic simracing gold.
What a great race to watch and well done Richie. Seeing GPL here again is almost enough to make me want to set it up again but at 85 I think those days really are behind me. I watched your installation video just this afternoon and it's excellent but by the end it just reminded me how many pitfalls there are to getting a working installation. I guess I'll just live it vicariously through Mr Axelson.
Age is just a number, don't let it discourage you. In Poland, country I am from, famous world class racing driver, Sobiesław Zasada, started in Safari Rally Kenya 2021 being 91 years old!
I was at this race as I have told you before. I still remember it! One of the best days of my childhood!
I also had the Cox Chapparal 2E slot car and the wing worked! 1/24 scale.
The graphics of this game that came out in 1998 is amazing...they were ahead of their time.
Great to see Richie Axelson '66 series back.
Nice to witness Masten Gregory as being part of the grid.
As an European I just recently got real familiar with his name and palmares as a racing driver. Added him just last saturday to setup a round-the-world classic/vintage AC Championship consisting of huge grid historic tracks, with Masten himself behind his favourite wheel. Against both these Can-Am beauties and drivers as well as a huge variety of TC Legends, SCAA's, etc. and tried to let CrewChief learn each and single driver's name. Just so stimulating.
But still stimulating on a higher level, just hearing Jake's historic guiding voice. Bless you.
What a cool old series! The Big Bangers.🏁
Awesome series! happy to watch more of Mr. Axelson
I love these richie axelson videos and seasons. Recently rewatched your old 1955 and 1965 gpl season. They are so fun to watch. But to be honest all your content is great.
great to see old Richie back on track again.
Its been a while. Great to see Richie back
I have a lot of friends that raced here with AAMRR. After asking them which out of the various tracks they raced at in those days was their favorite they all said "The Bridge."
Nice to see Richie back again. My GPL has stopped working, I will have to sort it.
This was an amazing race to watch. It was a great battle on all fronts; man vs. man, man vs. machine, and man vs. himself. This one had everything!
First impressions of this track...
Feels like an American Spielberg, Austria. I didn't feel that until I imagined modern F1 on this track. Just flat out into high speed corners, up and down elevations.
great to see this 66 series back!
Looking forward to the return of Richie's Formula 1 season soon! Hopefully not too far way... In a parallel universe somewhere, his currently infant son is doing quite well in Indy Cars! 😊
Great video! Brings back memories of my Skip Barber racing school in 1993 at Bridgehampton. What a fun track it was, especially diving down into turn 1 and 2 and seeing how much throttle you were brave enough to hold. The track was sold and turned into a golf course development in the mid to late 90’s and the remaining strip of it is now only accessible via private invite. The bridge is still in place. Good driving Richie!
freaking golf.
UA-camr TFMan54 has a couple of videos at Bridgehampton hidden among other racing videos and railway things. Having watched his stuff a lot, I've grown quite the appreciation for the Bridge, so it makes me happy to see it feature in your 1966 series.
HE IS FINALLY BACK!!
As always, absolutely stunning to watch! One of my favourite era's, Can/Am was always wild to watch, and this catches that feeling perfectly 🏁👏👏👏 really looking forward to the next one 👍🏁🍾
Great series Jake! Love the race everything and everyone content
the old king still kicking some asses
I appreciate GPL saying "On" Long Island.
The front straight and first couple of corners still exist. The rest was converted into a golf course. They actually serve as the entry road into the golf course.
thank you for all you do GPLaps!
Thoroughly enjoyable race again so close, next time hopefully.
Woohoo!! Good to see ol Richie back at it!!! Great vid dude!!
Great racing Jake really enjoyed this one.
For a 26 years old game the graphics is impressive the flat plank crowd 😂
yeeah, been waiting for this!! :)
Richie! Richie! Richie!
Nice
Thank you Jake. Your videos are actually educational. I now know how "Lowenbrau" is actually pronounced! 🙃
Been missing Richie.
thanks
In the uk we pronounce Lowenbrau as low-n-brow with brow sounding like eye brow. It's a make of lager but i'm sure you knew that.
Miss that track. Golf course now, But part of the track remains - could it return ?
Was basically closed due to noise. In addition locals didn't like it. Great views as shown here.
I have a NASCAR race coming up at Bridgehampton, so thankyou for 21 laps of tuturial. I never realised it was on Long Island, though. Is Bridgehampton one of "the" Hamptons, then?
1998 until now. How long are GPL's legs? I raced so many times on GPL, good race and then just one tic of missed concentration and 20 or 30 laps for nothing. I still think GPL is the purest sim out there.
Hi GPL! We need updated version of tutorial on how to install Grand Prix Legends in 2024 because it seems to be problematic on Widows 11 and newest graphics cards. Game is unfortunatelly not working for me and many other users. Very fun video as always btw :)
The crowd is looking a bit thin. (If you know what I mean)
30.05 "I haven't seen any yellow flags...." 😢
Gurney won this race in real life....I personally think his Lola was the best liveried, and had a long wait for a spark model if the exact car.
Of course in reality the Chevy engined Lola T70s seemed to see more success than the Ford powered ones. But Gurney knew how to paint a car to look cool 😎
Can-Am!? PLEASE tell me there is a Speedway Park map (Edmonton AB) and you'll be running the Klondike 200....
Is it the final video of 66 season? 😢
Sure hope not, it shouldn't be.
Chapparals were lauded as innovative, but most models never won a race or even finished. Jim Hall didn't see real success until much later at Indy. Strange how the GPL track looks nothing like the Assetto Corsa mod.
First to the feast 😊 .
About time