1986 - Murray Walker interview about Elio de Angelis

[@RacerToni98]

30 years ago today. R.I.P Elio de Angelis

[@nicholasjohnson6724]

Finished in the top six forty three times. That is amazing. Very underated.

[@OA-zis]

Today 30 Years Ago... :( Only 28-years-old Elio died in Smoke Inhalation. :( Rest In Peace Beautiful Elio! Sweet Dreams! We never forget You,The Young Great Racer! With Love, Simone Lana. "Very fine,cultured,charmed..." Yes,yes! Good-natured,nice and very handsome,pretty guy. The F-1's Last Gentleman! :) I love his perfect piano playing too. Big Loss...! :( Real Tragedy. He was so,so young... :(( // My Two Favorite Formula-1 Racing Driver are Elio de Angelis and Sebastian Vettel...Wonderful Men. The Bests! //

[@SnowdriftBoy]

"Finished in the top six, forty-three times." Wow, hats off! That is indeed "a very considerable achievement!" 👏🏎🏎

[@DogDayDreams]

So sad but thanks for posting.

[@davidpeberdy9430]

I first saw him at donnington park in a JPSpecial never will I forget him such a special man even now I still think of him with fondest memories

[@jacklaidlaw6097]

He was as fast as Senna, as handsome as Cevert, he held his own against champions more than once. He could easily have been champion if given the right car. His biggest fault was he was he was more like Fittipaldi, Hunt, Stewart, when F1 was growing into the age of Prost, Senna, and Mansell. He didn’t fit in.

[@nickypoundtown9568]

It was just timing 84 really was the last chance for Lotus before their downward spiral and he just wasn't good enough to get the most out of the car, his enthusiasm faded by 86

[@paulo9504]

DeAngelis was as good as anyone on his day. However, there were very few days like that for him. He was a good and steady driver, but not elite. He wasn't World Champion material but a good points scorer. Senna's arrival proved that. He was basically a good #2 driver in reality. He left Lotus because he knew Senna was the man and he would never be #1 there. His move to Brabham when they were beginning to tank, was a little sad. It kind of reminded me of Peter Revson leaving McLaren at the end of 1973 to join Shadow for 1974. If Revson just stayed with the Yardley McLaren satellite team, he would have been much better off.

[@markuseggstein8349]

By all respect for De Angelis...But he wasn't the same class as Senna... The 85 season as the drive longside together in the Lotus team: Points: 38 Senna, 33 De Angelis, Pole Positions: 7 Senna, 1 De Angelis, Qualifying overall: Senna-De Angelis=13-3. Victories: 2 Senna, 1 De Angelis, Podium: 6 Senna, 4 De Angelis..

[@Mark-zk3gu]

@@paulo9504 If Mansell was champion material, then so was De Angelis, who soundly outperformed Mansell in 1981, 1982, and 1984. The only season Mansell won (1983), De Angelis had 12 mechanical failures in 15 races.

[@Mark-zk3gu]

​@@markuseggstein8349 That's true, De Angelis wasn't as good as Senna, but he scored 33-38 in points against Senna and 3-5 in races where neither driver had a mechanical failure, which is a damn good effort. He was in between the Senna-Prost tier and the Mansell-Piquet tier. As was Keke Rosberg.

[@therealbennymack]

Murray was spot on with this one.

[@GECKOZFTW]

I'd like to think that if Elio lived, he could have been a future champion. He had a good way with the cars he drove from the footage I've watched, and he proved himself as a race winner. The simple fact that he could match Ayrton Senna should be an indication that he was a good driver.

[@GECKOZFTW]

@Mr. Handsome Actually I don't watch him. I just saw him pull this face in Pyro's knife video and I was like "New profile pic yes"

[@paulo9504]

When Senna wasn't retiring from races in 1985, he usually owned DeAngelis. During the second half of 1985, Senna basically destroyed DeAngelis. There is a reason Elio didn't stick around at Lotus.

[@cantrait7311]

@@paulo9504the same way Schumacher destroyed senna Senna fear of Schumacher speed made senna a second rate driver compared to The great Schumacher

[@vonHammock]

Being in the process of watching all F1 races from late 1960s, and now at the 1986 season, I was very sad to hear this. De Angelis was a very good, well behaved driver, and seemed to be a good guy in general. Sad to see him go so young and needlessly. RIP.

[@meerkatandpug]

Great driver.

[@silviahelena6468]

ELIO DE ANGELIS, ESPETACULAR. BELISSIMO.

[@nicholasjohnson6724]

The last of the gentleman....... RIP and God bless you Elio, you will be missed, but never forgotten.

[@brendanwilliams7291]

Such a gifted driver, like Ayrton Senna and several others too young to die.

[@sarwendah1]

So sad. RIP. I just happened to know him from a history of F1 drivers' strike in Kyalami that he was the one who paled the piano to entertain himself and the other drivers in a conference hotel. The night when almost all drivers stayed united to spend the night together in the same place.

[@silviahelena2611]

ELIO DE ANGELIS,É SEMPRE UM PRAZER INENARRÁVEL OUVIR DEPOIMENTOS SOBRE VOCÊ. GRANDE VÍDEO.

[@marguskiis7711]

Interesting, here they say he died due head and chest injuries but later years it was written he was poisoned by smoke and extinguisher gases.

[@paulo9504]

That is correct. His physical injuries were fairly light. He had a broken collarbone and some minor burns to his back. He died needlessly because there was no proper emergency services set up for a test session.

[@philmasters5277]

An bit of trivia for anyone who may be interested; the interviewer was Paul McDowell. Viewers in the UK (who were youngsters in the 80s) may remember him better as a presenter on Newsround. The fact that he's on the Breakfast Time sofa here indicates that he may well have been holiday cover.

[@donroberts2126]

Do you remember him doing "Eureka!", a show all about inventions, with Sylvester McCoy, Mike Savage, Bernard Holley, Jacqueline Clarke and Madeline Smith...? Thought not...

[@umcidadaoqualquer683]

Grande piloto 😔

[@sylvesteredwinlambert8016]

Were the changes to safety at testing sessions made as Murray suggested?

[@BD12]

testing sessions were more properly marshalled afterwards, if I remember remotely accurately - the issue was that there just wasn't enough people at the track

[@nickypoundtown9568]

Im hetero but He was a good looking dude, blonde italian

[@silviahelena2611]

ELIO DE ANGELIS,JÓIA RARA!!!!!

[@ericapeters6017]

Safe this say this was avoidable, but instead Elio was a victim of negligence.

[@silviahelena2611]

ELIO DE ANGELIS, JÓIA RARA!!!!!!!!!

[@master-kq3nw]

Crash was in 1 turn

[@JonathanAllen0379]

If a scheming and ruthless Ayrton Senna hadn't been insistent on Elio De Angelis being traded from the team so that he could be number one driver in 1986, this never would have happened. Karma came around to bite him on the ass eight years later.

[@passat_cl]

If you'd use a better video recorder you might be able to avoid this kind of distortion. The tapes aren't the problem 90% of the time

[@giorgiot1961]

Vive Elio