1969 German Grand Prix

[@mausershooter100]

I also attended this race. I was thrilled to get some color footage of Graham Hill. The day's program included a race of nothing but Opels. By the fourth lap or so, it seemed about half of them had disappeared. Ran off the track, I had guessed.

[@pmormal]

Great job from german tv for this live 1969 coverage . The circuit was 22 km long, so it was a true challenge to film it for television.

[@AlexCluster]

what a glorious era

[@karpabla]

What a podium! Ickx, Stewart and McLaren! And what a time, with men of steel and no teams of corporations with loads of thick-glass engineers managing the races.

[@alebatte]

simply fantastic

[@philip1956alp]

Très beau video et belles prises de vue de la TV allemande! ickx etait imbattable ce jour-là!

[@alebatte]

@piobairesicago I agree, the DFV is just unforgettable

[@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter]

Those guys are really shifting! Fearless! Damn you had to be, not just good back then, but brilliant! These guys were that & more! Great post!! Nice one!

[@hadriambartalan949]

Bellissimi ricordi! 👏👍🖐🐊

[@hmdwgf]

from 8:52 to 9:12 (left to right) jackie stewart (2nd place) jacky ickx (winner) and bruce mclaren (3rd place)

[@EricIrl]

Colour TV started in Europe in 1967. However it took until the mid 1970s for all TV breaidcasts to be in colour.

[@rustafur]

Any chance of getting it posted? I'm sure all of us watching this great video would love to see it.

[@scarsurfing]

Sir.JYS has a funny moment at the end

[@ilcavallino73]

I wasn't even born yet! All that momentum, man-handling... Five stars my friend!

[@SkyManagerNYC]

amazing video!

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

This track is a living testament, that it isn't the track that is the problem, but the cars... Had the cars been more safe, there wouldn't have been as many fatalities

[@topski100]

There where occasionally 'in colour' broadcasts, but it was early days!

[@lucienterragnolo6063]

Quel beau podium. Une des plus belles courses de Jacky Ickx en F1.

[@frederickmiles327]

Its truly lethal I give Stewart that, but it was actually Brabham and Emerson Fittipaldi who were most determined to stop it. I think 12 actual F1 cars but a lot of F2 cars started. Within a few laps Andretti,Elford and Courage among the F1 field had all gone off and very nearly fatally. Doubtlessly a few of the F2 field eliminated themselves. With the wings the cars don't so visibly fly at the level of alow level strike plane as in 67, but their still airborne at ever brow.

[@2007Colonial]

Stewart won at the Nurburgring in 68', 71' and 73 and won in fog & rain in 68', so he must have been trying at some point! It is a shame about these great circuits though, todays F1 sucks in comparison!

[@BD12]

1:54 yeah don't worry guys, if anything happens you'll have plenty of time to jump out of the way

[@topski100]

shame there's no colour, the scenery is terrific. I drove around there earlier this year and found the track an incredible challenge, it would be so easy to crash if you go off! I can only compare it to driving on public roads because it's unlike any other track I've visited!

[@bluemoon95]

Amazing!!!!

[@Kropikovo]

@marcosfastback Have you got a chance to post your own movie on utube? Would be great! Perhaps as a video response to this one?

[@piobairesicago]

Is their anything that sounds as good as Ford DFV Cosworth running wide open in a grand prix car roaring by in top gear? For example, the drive by at Schwedenkreuz at 1:22 to about1:36. Beautiful. The DFV just sang like no other racing engine I've ever heard.

[@tejastiger61]

Thanks a MILLION for sharing this wonderful GEM of a film. BRAVO !!!!!! NASCAR drivers are girly men sissy compared to these REAL HERO DRIVERS.... It's not even close .....Watching this incredible action is the BEST .... The person who shared this by taking the time to post ... Has GREAT taste in video.... you will receive good karma for sharing with the rest of us... Well DONE ... BRAVO !

[@frederickmiles327]

Yes in part. Nascar is very fast though and if that girl pin up driver had really been likely to win at Daytona they would probably have crushed her. As one of the Nascar heroes said she wasn't really a driver, all she had was very low weight which was of course all Von Trips had he was 5ft 11.5 and just under 9 stone my exact specifictions if I ate all day at 18-24. Its a 1.5 sec bonus on a GP circuit. It Dana in a race winning position in the Daytona 5oo had tried to ride out of the box and take them she would have been crushed and more

[@ninoachcar9426]

- Espetacular !!!

[@koolstup]

Who crashed at the Karussell?? - PS - great footage.

[@hmdwgf]

there isn't any armco barriers on this track either

[@motorsportfan1990]

1:52 why are these guy standing so close to the track??

[@jeanvanlaere2151]

Just a guess, but I suppose they want to watch the race ... ;-)

[@ArgenisElMalamenMelchor]

ESTIMADO ROLOS a ver que dia hacemos un video reaccionando a Checo Perez y su primera victoria en f1?

[@CompTechs]

@piobairesicago Well said!

[@AlejandroPerez-lp6qq]

Que gran carrera. Icks gana

[@gert-janboot3928]

Ickx was faster in 1967 in a F2 car than others in a F1 car at Nurburgring enough said Ickx is and was the real ringmeister!! but Ickx never had a reliable car Ferrari was very unreliable in these years!!

[@hmdwgf]

I wonder if any F1 track today has bumps like the one at 3:47. No, probably not.

[@MusicVideoJudge1]

look at the safety Barriors.

[@hairyarmpitlovernaturalbea6600]

earliest example of playing national anthem for winning constructor on the podium in F1. British anthem for Brabham team.

[@barath4545]

JCCyC It's Piers Courage.

[@JCCyC]

The guy with the car in the ditch -- Rodriguez? Siffert? Courage?

[@TAttiusMaximvs]

The second car in the ditch was Jo Siffert's Rob Walker Lotus 49

[@yog28]

Great footage, Nordschleife rules!

[@frederickmiles327]

Stewart and Moss were the dominant drivers of there eras, but if the contest the one race or performance that matters, Hawthorn or Ickx were the greatest drivers that ever lived and most terrifying, if you were idiot or beyond criminality or someone who exceeded all levels of brilliance and criminality like Colin Chapman, Hawthorn would give you a brake test after ten laps when both debuted the new streamlined Vanwall at Rheims in 1956 that Chapman survived by half an inch from death on rock and in the following days race it in numerous way disguise the talent. Here at Nurburgring Ickx took pole, started tenth and within two laps passed nine cars, Andrettri and Elford had nealy killed themselves on the opening lap and by lap 6 had closed ten seconds to duel with Stewart for two laps before getting past conclusively on the fifth time he overtook Stewart but always on the handful of sane passing points that Hawthorn, Moss, Collins and Brooks used. Two races later Ickx caught Stewart again at Mosport and Stewart in the dirtiest move of his career risked anything by trying to smash Ickx car in risking both their lives and just took himself out of the race .

[@gnosticbrian3980]

I think Fangio had the legs of Moss. Likewise Clark had the legs of Stewart.

[@hmdwgf]

@koolstup Piers Courage

[@frederickmiles327]

He was always going to lose it. In 1969 and 1970 most of the GP designers, team bosses and managers thought Courage was the most certain. He was way over the old top an Old Etonian millionaire driving for half bright Frank Williams. Courage was offered the Ferrari No 2 to Ickx as were Andretti and Siffert. Courage did not have there reasons for rejection No 2 to Ickx. Driving for Williams that year was a second idiot decison.If he was worthy of a place at Eton he would have gone with Ferrari

[@frederickmiles327]

Well Marky I don't agree at all. Ickx was one of the greatest. He clearly outdrove Stewart here at Nurburgring in 1969 and later at Mosport. In the final round in Mexico Ickx was clearly fastest, but brain fade saw, Hulme win in a Goodyear race. Ickx actually won the 1970 World Championship. Ridn't and Miles Lotus 72 was totally illegal, with far too high a wing in the British GP. In the German GP in 1973 Stewart won only because Ickx, McLaren was on the wrong hard tyres

[@2POWERFUL]

@tejastiger61 Take a seat and rest, "American". Let's enjoy this lovable F1 classic WITHOUT STEREOTYPING NASCAR. SHEESH!

[@frederickmiles327]

Marky, Stewart was exhausted by the end of the 73 season and probably couln't have raced in 1974. In 1973 Lotus lost because the effort was divided between Peterson and Fittipaldi. Peterson was blindingly fast but Lotus no longer wanted Ronnie by early 1975 because he had no idea how to set up cars and was even worse than Ickx in that department. Another point is that in 1971-72 the Ferrari's were unreliable but Andretti as reg No 3 could never qualify near Ickx or even Regga.

[@cervinima]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMG!!! sudshleife + nordshleife??????

[@markmark.7964]

Stewart was better in F1 than Ickx he won 3 championships in 5 years in 2 different types of cars and probably would have won a fourth were it not for an ulcer. He also retired as World Champion at 34 years of age at the top of his game and could have easily won another 2 or 3 Championships.

[@gert-janboot3928]

Bullshit!! Ickx was way faster than Stewart but Ickx had the bad luck with the very unreliable Ferrari back in the day !!