F1 - Reims Gueux - 1956 French Grand Prix

[@Listento360]

Throw back in time, great to see this preserved. I've recently visited the circuit and shot some 360 footage. Les Amis du Circuit de Gueux are doing a fine job there to restore the buildings, so future generations can enjoy the history of F1 racing. It's a place where regularly spontaneous cars & coffees appear.

[@rogerparr5684]

Listen to 360 I’ve been to the current site twice. It’s well preserved and a very evocative location. Well done to all involved !

[@andrewholt9332]

ANDREW HOLT 0 seconds ago Question ? Is the old Auberge Restaurant from the 1950's still standing at the circuit ?

[@andrewholt9332]

ANDREW HOLT 0 seconds ago Question ? Is the old Auberge Restaurant from the 1950's still standing at the circuit ?

[@saragrant9749]

I’ve seen a documentary about this and its preservation. It’s amazing to see such a pivotal piece of history being treated with such care and respect.

[@fadedsideways]

If you pause the footage at exactly 2:29 you can see Fangio's famous four wheel drift.

[@stevetournay6103]

Wonderful. The "disappointing debut" (two years behind original schedule) of the T251, the final Grand Prix Bugatti, was also its swansong. Two T251s were built, the first of the pair being the one that took the flag at Reims; perhaps surprisingly both survive, in the Musee National de l'Automobile in Mulhouse, France. (Along with several dozen other Bugattis including two of the famous Royales.) I must visit France someday...

[@papiciapapicia3546]

I'm from Reims and remember the Grands Prix being there. The restaurant still there still with some stands. Local brew a magnum of champagne!

[@andrewholt9332]

Question ? Is the old Auberge Restaurant from the 1950's still standing at the circuit ?

[@andrewholt9332]

I am living in UK, I am wanting to locate a man in Reims by the name of Arnaud Michael Delaunay Arnaud is the Son of the first ever British F1 world champion Mike Hawthorn, Arnaud's mothers name is Jaqueline, Arnaud has an aunt by the name of Monique, Monique used to work for a dentist in Reims, she apparently had a house behind Reims Cathedral, I would be forever eternally grateful for any help or information you or anyone can give to me

[@Circuitsofthepast]

Great footage. I visited the remains of the Reims-Gueux circuit last summer. Great to see the grandstands packed with spectators, while they are now empty. Also good to see the complete pits, because a part of the pits has been demolished in 1972 after the last races.

[@andrewholt9332]

ANDREW HOLT 0 seconds ago Question ? Is the old Auberge Restaurant from the 1950's still standing at the circuit ?

[@Circuitsofthepast]

@@andrewholt9332 If you mean Restaurant la Garenne, yes it is still there.

[@andrewholt9332]

@@Circuitsofthepast Thank you so much for the information, do you know if it is still open and running as a business?

[@Circuitsofthepast]

@@andrewholt9332 Yes it is. Next time I'll be there I will visit it and look inside.

[@jameseastwood4984]

​@@andrewholt9332 we were there yesterday and whilst we didn't ask, it certainly looked like it was trading.

[@jameseastwood4984]

Thanks for posting. We were there yesterday.

[@Passion0Automobiles]

Merci sur ce super partage !!

[@mateagoston8145]

And people are complaining about Baku's 2km "too long straight" because it's not F1 anymore but drag racing... They hardly know anything about the real roots of F1.

[@robertoriveros3053]

great footage!

[@fadedsideways]

2:28 to see the whole drift in action

[@hugoluishumoffe]

No conocía el circuito de Reims Gueux Francia es largo con subida y bajadas extensas, y buenas curvas. se hablaba muy poco

[@rud1693]

merci - fantastic

[@fabianrocha9924]

Annie Bousquet of France was killed in an accident during the Sportscar support Race for the Grand Prix

[@maxmulsanne7054]

_'The turn at the Reims circuit where the accident happened is now named after Annie, and the Annie Bousquet award, for high-performing women in French motorsport, was created in her honor.'_ - source: _Speedqueens Blogspot_

[@BlueSkyCrystals]

The drivers drifting around corners on a track they averaged 122mph every lap…drivers were cut from a different cloth back then. Nowadays grand prix drivers can’t stay between the lines, and they whine about having to 😂

[@master-kq3nw]

fantastic circiut

[@yvanowitch]

Le circuit revit désormais grâce à l'association LES AMIS DU CIRCUIT DE GUEUX. un ou deux week-ends par an et consacré à un rassemblement de voitures anciennes.

[@szymon6207]

Yvan ARNOULD aha history

[@asd36f]

The last appearance by a Bugatti in a Grand Prix - a sad way to see a company with so much success and history end with barely a whimper.

[@DL-ls5sy]

oui la Bugatti 251 à moteur arrière transversal...un peu comme la Honda de formule 1 de...1964

[@andyelliott8027]

Within four years seven of the drivers in this race died in crashes, Peter Collins, Eugenio Castelotti, Jean Behra ( the first three finishers in this race), Mike Hawthorn (road crash), Louis Rosier,Harry Schell and Alfonso De Portago.

[@williamford9564]

@@andyelliott8027 You see those cars with no roll hoops and if they had seat belts, drivers didn't use them anyway. They were death traps. Collins and Behra died after being ejected from their cars and De Portage was crushed when his car fell on him after a crash at the Mille Miglia.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

Back when people were not saying _”Back when…”_

[@yvanowitch]

Le circuit de Gueux revit grace à l'association ""Les Amis du Circuit de GUEUX"".

[@qsdqsd8052]

Enfin!! C'etait triste de voire des vieilles tribunes et des stades délabrés le bord de la route

[@jeanpavee7934]

C'est bien. Mais ce n'est plus le même tracé sur une grande majorité du circuit.

[@AlfradoBerad]

Such a shame that Lancia didn't have the funds to stay in F1...Cheers to the D50 Lancia.

[@antoninopirrone2541]

❤️💕

[@syarifsyafudin5807]

5 minutes stop🤯

[@dropway9108]

If they would have let me onto the track back then, with my '94 Ford Escort Station Wagon, we all know who would have won this race. You're lookin' at him kid! It's me. It's always been me.

[@vincentdf9498]

J' ai un an.

[@DL-ls5sy]

dernière apparition de Colin Chapman sur une Formule 1....

[@phoenix0282]

et seul apparition

[@amongdull9311]

Autres temps autre moeurs : le vainqueur BOIT une coupe de la bouteille qu'il vient de gagner au lieu d'en asperger le contenu sur les personnes présentes.

[@DL-ls5sy]

oui depuis Dan Gurney et AJ Foyt au Mans en 1967, il est devenu d'usage d'asperger l'assistance de champagne..

[@amongdull9311]

Ah Ok. Et le fait que ce soit une bouteille de Champagne, c'est parceque c'est à Reims ?

[@DL-ls5sy]

traditionnellement, le pilote ayant réalisé le meilleur temps aux essais (ce qu'à Indianapolis on appelle la "pole position") se voyait offrir une caisse de champagne, que ce soit en F1 ou en F2....ça donnait du coeur à l'ouvrage !

[@DL-ls5sy]

Il y a certainement le poids des lobbies viticoles...à Indianapolis, le vainqueur buvait ostensiblement un verre de lait...le lobby du lait devait être content..l'américain Dan Gurney (qui a participé souvent aux 500 miles d'Indianapolis) a sans doute voulu marquer le coup en refusant de boire de l'alcool...de même que son compère l'américain AJ Foyt...simple hypothèse

[@christiandidier8562]

je suis un bénévole. amis du cirqcuit

[@DL-ls5sy]

et vous avez réalisé un travail remarquable ! Bravo !

[@DL-ls5sy]

2 mn 24 : Bugatti

[@andrewholt9332]

I am living in UK, I am wanting to locate a man in Reims by the name of Arnaud Michael Delaunay Arnaud is the Son of the first ever British F1 world champion Mike Hawthorn, Arnaud's mothers name is Jaqueline, Arnaud has an aunt by the name of Monique, Monique used to work for a dentist in Reims, she apparently had a house behind Reims Cathedral, I would be forever eternally grateful for any help anyone can give me