Excellent, thanks

Thanks for posting this. I was there! It was my first motor sport event. I was just 14 years old and had cycled to the circuit with a school pal. I had no real idea what the BOAC 500 was, but I had read about the race in a newspaper, and it seemed like a good idea to go. I have little recollection of the race, other than the immense noise as the field roared past me on the opening lap, oh and a white car won! 😎

Great stuff, a treasure to see.

Many thanks for solving something I've been puzzling over for a long time. Photographs of the grid show a McLaren M1A at the back and I couldn't figure out what it was doing there, not being eligible for the race as it was a Group 7 car, i.e. neither Group 4 nor Group 6. Now I realise it was a camera car, though I assume it pulled off very early as I don't see it in any further shots.

I’m here via a comment Hugh left about covid and the aftermath of the UK government’s incompetence. I’m so sorry for your loss and I think that this is a very sad, but important reminder of the profound consequences of mismanaging a pandemic…and of having too many narcissists with too much power :-(

Magic time...

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I was there too. The Howmet gas turbine car broke down. The Chaparral 2F was and is my favourite

“Lolas and a Chaparral on the first row of the grid”, “Lotus and Chevron” “Ferrari beating Porsche to win the World Championship” all beautiful words and something sadly missing from today’s soulless equivalent of hybrid sameness. And the general scruffiness, seemingly amateur, lack of finesse and a more relaxed approach to health and safety all add to a world unrecognisable to us now

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A BOAC 747 was the first airplane I was aware of being on. 1971. JFK to Heathrow. My first auto race attended, 1970 Trans Am at Lime Rock.

the things i'd do for a 1:1 upload of this

I remember reading about these cars, and this race in 80's and 90's in Road and Track magazine, usually written by Phil Hill, great driver, great writer.

It’s awesome to see comments from folks that where there, I’m 19 and so never got the chance, but man what a beautiful time, all those who were alive to witness it, be thankful, today these kinds of people and attitudes are only found in amateur racing. Modern cars are fast, but nothing compares to those cars with no aero, such amazing racing!

Hugh Dibley was lucky to be alive at this time. I was at the first Can-Am race at St Jovite in 1966. Due to the primitive (non-existent?) aerodynamics of the time, Dibley's car (Lola T70) got airborne as it went over the infamous 'hump' on the St Jovite back straight and landed upside-down in the bushes on the hill to the left of the straight. How he ever walked away from that I have no idea. There's an interview with John Surtees here on KZbin where Surtees explains how to properly handle 'the hump' in a Lola T70 - tap the brakes just before cresting so that the nose dips down as you go over the crest - a trick he had remembered from his motorcycling days.

Back when Britain was the greatest country in the World and London our beloved capital.... 😔

So who knew? He drove from the airport into the centre of London ? Passed houses of parliament, St Paul's cathedral, Barnaby street and Tower Bridge to get to brands hatch in kent? Yikes, this must have been filmed by the tourist board to appeal to americans?

この天気でも、イギリス人はオープンカーに乗るんだ・・シャパラルが登場した時は、実験車かと思った。そのままレースに出場した。

It was my first BOAC 500, loved the Chaparral and glad it won…..Great bit of film…….remember it well for crashing into the back of an E-Type Jag on my push bike while cycling home 8 miles away…..happy days!!

Sir Jack🇦🇺and old mate jumps in a Cobra and cruises off.Too cool.

He took a tortuous route to get from Heathrow to Brands Hatch!

'Kin Hell this is awesome seeing this and reading the comments below, great bit of History, cheers.

Marvellous! I’m going to be trying this in Grand Prix Legends pretty soon.

Hey! That me! I'm the blob at 15:22 at USGP West 1982.

I love the old cars but the mindless camera work and moronic editing ruin the clip. It's to bad there are so many idiot directors and editors with no sense of imagination on how to capture the action.

O that so takes me back. I attended a lot of race meetings at that time with my late father Robbie Rushbrook of Lola Cars. I remember Hugh's ambulance transporter parked outside Lola's in Bromley. Thanks for the memories.

Takes me back. I was there in the crowd. On the way home, the throttle cable on my FIAT 500 broke. I used some fishing line from the carb, out through the louvres above the engine and in through the sunroof. Yanking on it was a bit inexact, but with only 18bhp it didn't matter much.

Beginning of the clip: Not Patrick McGoohan driving then?

Blimey I went to Wandsworth School for boys with a Hugh Dibley in the 60s!

Not quite sure why anyone would drive straight from the Airport, to London around Parliament Square to get to Brands Hatch. Must have been 1966 Sat Nav! Oh joy though, those were the days when Sports Cars really we’re worth watching and listening to. Lovely and innocuous to see the tiddly Europa and Elan up against those behemoths!

Funny how the sight of a bunch of long forgotten cars and drivers can spark so many happy memories for those lucky enough to see them at the time.

Even if the picture quality is terrible, its amazing to see all the driver and car legends of the 60s.

A classic sports car wet dream!!

Pit lane limiters - who needs 'em?

amazing

"Right hand" Cobra?

That was very cool. I wish I could time travel and go back and see some of those historic races!

What a great historical document of its time, not only the cars, the clothes, but the filming technique and soundtrack. Top level race drivers are so different today, I remember as a boy of about 10 meeting Jack Brabham hobbling around on crutches with a leg in plaster at Silverstone, imagine Lewis Hamilton even getting near the fans today!

So the guy jumps into a Cobra?

Ohh, how I wish I can go back to this era.

Vintage racing here in the PNW is mostly American muscle, which is still cool but I loved it 20-30 years ago when the Californians would bring up their exotics such as those in this race. The sounds and those sleek designs...

A big thank you!

Sad that the original quality could not be preserved...now just a blurry relic

What a ridiculous Wing setup

THNX!!

I’m glad that ‘wing’ thing was banned or never caught on. Imagine something pressing down on the wheels and giving more grip. That’s just pure cheating!