JACKIE STEWART Checks Out Alan Jones's 1980 Williams

/ super100mph
The 1980 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Calder Park Raceway in Victoria, Australia on 16 November 1980.
It was the forty fifth Australian Grand Prix and it was open to cars complying with Australian Formula 1 regulations, which permitted international Formula One, Formula 5000 and Formula Pacific cars. The race was also the final round of the 1980 Australian Drivers' Championship.
The race was won by newly crowned 1980 Formula One World Drivers' Champion, Alan Jones, driving one of his championship winning Williams FW07 cars in front of an enthusiastic home crowd come to see their new Australian hero. Italian driver Bruno Giacomelli finished second in the only other International Formula One car in the race, an Alfa Romeo 179. Third was French driver Didier Pironi driving an Australian built Elfin MR8 Formula 5000.
1976 Australian Grand Prix (ICMR Edit)
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[@lucascarioli]

Jackie Stewart, always very didactic about the car. I love he's approach in motorsport.

[@australianoutlander6679]

He saved so many lives with his tenacity

[@karlbassett8485]

1980 Cockpit: Steering wheel, gear lever, rev counter, four switches. 2020 Cockpit: Hey, there's an empty spot! Put some more switches and dials in there! More!

[@provocase]

I built that car when I was 15 in 1980... Tamiya, forgot the scale. Gorgeous f1 car, the state of the art back then. But I liked Laffite's blue Ligier even more - which I built too, of course ;-)

[@WideAwakeViking]

Both were 1:20. Tamiya didn't offer either in 1/12. I was avidly building Tamiya F-1 cars in the same time period.

[@BanjoLuke1]

A very succinct reminder of the extraordinary changes in F1 on the past forty years. I love that the dials are not mounted straight... The key reading is clear without the numbers being the right way up. There is something gloriously "backyard hillclimb special" about those instruments. But I recall at the time, cars like that Williams were at the very cutting edge of knowledge and technology.

[@sonicstep]

Not so complicated. I recall all that information from one viewing. It was very lucid. A contemporary F1 car I'm certain would be an entirely different matter.

[@jenkszy3684]

Amazing footage

[@beefchops1400]

Always concise and to the point is Jackie and looking back that car was a death trap! 🙈😂

[@edsonmarcosgarciamelo4087]

JACKIE STEWART , sempre JACKIE STEWART .

[@marguskiis7711]

Estonia 21 the F3 car from 1981 is very similar but has tube frame chassis.

[@asd36f]

Nothing to do with the Australian Grand Prix, but it was a shame that the international drivers weren't given the chance to have a look at Mt Panorama at Bathurst. With his emphasis on safety, I think Jackie Stewart would have had some interesting comments!

[@Super100MPH]

+Graham Clayton Yes would be interesting to see what he would he had to say about the mountain particularly back in 1980, chuckle

[@asd36f]

The organisers could have made Jackie go apoplectic by taking him to Lobethal!

[@buddywilliams5650]

40 years ago this month. Looked ALot more funner than today's crap.

[@SuperDougie89]

Now one thing you don't want is Jackie pulling on his knob to make it harder, especially towards the rear..

[@badgumby9544]

Amazing that there is virtually zero side protection in the cockpit.

[@sullybiker6520]

There wasn't much in the way of regulations. 1983 saw stronger noses (after Pironi and Prost's foot injury at Monaco) but side impact wasn't a thing for years. I think 1995 was the first year of a _very_ stringent side impact test.

[@Holden308]

Super100MPH, you wouldn't happen to have the 1980 AGP in your collection would you??

[@rantesMDP]

Reutemann ganó en Monaco 1980 con este Williams F1

[@TroystonB]

All the typical anti modern f1 comments below but fundamentally the sport has never changed.

[@chiefbrody3406]

That’s because it’s shite

[@russellparratt9859]

Fundamentally, the sport has changed entirely.

[@TroystonB]

@@russellparratt9859 nope. 4 wheels, an engine, a driver, all trying to go around the track as fast as possible. The technicalities may change but the essential elements do not.

[@TroystonB]

@@chiefbrody3406 you may have a point... it's often called formula yawn where i'm from.

[@russellparratt9859]

@@TroystonB Your distilling of the essentials to these 4 elements logically includes all forms of car racing, from the 1920's to the 2020's. Nope. Nothing has changed buddy. It's all exactly the same. Not.

[@Kamcio44]

Very interesting ;)

[@thethirdman225]

Behind the driver's seat?

[@beagle7622]

I remember this clip, This race was bizarre and from memory Jones ran away from the rest. Also a bad track for anything other than drags.

[@fredsalfa]

Looks scary and dangerous before hes even started

[@Super100MPH]

Ha Ha Ha, very much so!

[@metheult]

I admire Sir Jackie but how did the powers that are think going down the pit lane at racing speed was okay even into the early 90s.

[@MrsOliva]

Выключателем на руле прямо в глаз; в аварийном случае, конечно. Ох, инженеры.

[@stevenedwards1298]

This Alan Partridge sketch wasnt very funny

[@meerkatandpug]

Yes Jackie..zzzzzzzz

[@metalEric69]

John Smith u get an F

[@meerkatandpug]

Zzzzzzzzz..

[@theant9821]

i can't stand Jackie Stewart, he's one of the few drivers i cant stand as a person, despite his impressive career. even Schumachers lance Armstrong style of winning in the 90s at least he wasn't a tosser in conversation.

[@chrisb8075]

and yet he speaks so highly of you

[@gumpy4960]

So you’ve met him personally have you? You must have if you know how he is as a person. Also calling him a tosser, why? He was being informative, what’s the problem?