V12 F1 In Car lap of the Old Silverstone

[@chillyfly]

I remember this car being put together in the workshop at my first job after school, at Lola. They used the factory as a base during the Silverstone testing week, and they fired it up in the workshop. I stayed 3 hours late after work just to hear this engine run! Gerard Ducarouge, the designer who worked at Lotus during Ayrton Senna's time there, had a lot of input into this car. I remember being an 18 year old kid asking him about Ayrton Senna's driving technique. Happy days!

[@jmartinez27671]

the good old days...

[@nathanpeabody4388]

Whenever I explain Formula 1 to someone new I show them these videos. This is what I remember from childhood but moreover this is the period I enjoy most.

[@schuey7wc]

one of the best sounding engines i have heard,for 5 years when we had the lamborghini v12's at adelaide grand prix they would always send a shiver down my spine.....loved it

[@Treetop64]

The cars used little downforce for this circuit, because the weight of the drivers balls kept the cars firmly on track.

[@stefanoberndorfer1771]

What a nice track compared to today.

[@Apoic123]

V-12s and 6 speed manual, i wish the rules would never change , its so awesome to watch.

[@allygilmour6182]

Miss the sound of the beautiful V12. RIP.

[@hmdwgf]

I don't think there will be a circuit like this ever again, one where you have to brake and stay over 160mph on 95% of the circuit. Fantastic.

[@MrBennyC1983]

@devilscoachman79 I went to hockenheim 2 years ago, nothing left of the old circuit. :( trees have been planted and you'd almost never know it was there. Wondering through the woods, I got to ostkurve, on the banking there was a chair and a marshals post up in a tree.. a little bit further I found the old straight leading back to the stadium section :)

[@mikloslipcsey7923]

And this is in one of the slower cars of the day: it rarely made it passed pre qualifying! Strewth! Still, a fantastic view of what it was like.

[@AlonsoRules]

Club Corner, flat in sixth gear. We need more corners like that in these modern circuits. The closest thing we have is 130R.

[@AlonsoRules]

130R retains some of its challenge, but yes its not the same :(

[@AlonsoRules]

Pouhon is better than Eau Rouge imo

[@FelipeFreiredeSouza]

Dude, F1 has been destroyed since last decade.

[@surfing636]

A real circular steering wheel and gear shift lever on the right, nice to see the old style. I'm sure some drivers would like the old style better too. So much extra crap on the steering wheels, some would just like to focus on racing!

[@Holden308]

From all reports, the Lola cars that Larrousse ran in 1989/90 were just about the best handling car in the F1 paddock. The Lamborghini V12 though was unrefined in a lot of ways but with enormous potential. Sadly it was only towards the end of the Lambo V12's run in F1 did its potential start to show, but only in testing and with a certain A. Senna and McLaren helping to develop it. McLaren went Peugeot, Senna went Williams and the rest is history.

[@keithildinho]

That really is the OLD Silverstone! awesome

[@nathanpeabody4388]

Plenty of teams with a whole mess of powerplants from V8's to V12's, Lamborghinis' to Judd's. Its also worth mentioning that the standard pattern gearboxes rocked, and the cars looked gorgeous. Too bad Bernie will never look back or listen to the fans.

[@azynkron]

What do you mean? He gave us the Halo!

[@JackRoadkill]

That's F1 in one of it's greatest periods. Manual box, six gears, no electronics and a whacking great V12 lump behind the driver. It was just a 1000 bhp go-kart... I miss those days.

[@filipborin555]

In fact at the time teams like Ferrari have semi automatic flappy paddle gearboxes.But Larousse team is behind them technologically thanks to its financial impotence at the time

[@fdsaman123]

Herman Tilke pay attention - This is what a real F1 circuit is like.

[@gold333]

You can see Eric Bernard is an amazing driver. Insane skills. Would LAP anyone on these comments in identical cars within 4 laps. Yet compared to people like Senna and Prost he was a nobody. Supreme skills involved in this old Formula One. Look up Tyrrell katayama suzuka to see what these guys were doing with their feet. Double declutching at lightning speed, hitting the clutch 8 times in shifting down fro 6th to 2nd.

[@Fmontes]

Agreed. But then as is now, there's only 3-4 teams that can win a GP on any given Sunday. And a Larousse wasn't going to get it done.

[@littleinkling4604]

New Silverstone has lost its aura, its soul, everything that made it great. This is an emence track and Bernie and Tilke have a lot to answer for. They like long straights and slooooow corners because its easier to zoom in on the sponsors.

[@AlonsoRules]

+Little Inkling Tilke didn't resign Silverstone, it was Populous.

[@nordimejia5790]

you just blew my mind. That makes complete sense.

[@mellowfellow6816]

Why bother zooming in on sponsors if no one is watching?

[@the420secrets6]

Disagree with the sponsors part. Why redesign the track for ‘more sponsor time’ when everyone can see the sponsors anyway.

[@littleinkling4604]

@@the420secrets6 Head-on shots of long straights, with big advertising hoardings in the background, still on screen, make sponsors very happy. Slow corners allow for easy zoom shots (its obvious from the TV direction, even more so after it went in house), and pts awarded to top 10, rather than top 6 legitamise more screen time for other cars... and when I say cars, I mean sponsors. It actually makes it an unwatchable sport for me now. Angles are terrible, and a constant change to show all cars means the race narrative is lost. And yes, i assure you its to make sponsors happy and F1 viable.

[@KevBygrave]

Yeah, a shame that weve lost the old Silverstone, I think that getting rid of the original Hockenheim was the worst thing thats ever happend to a circuit, its ripped the heart out of it, a sad sad shame

[@tommy9927]

Stowe and Club are mind blowing. Shame it's all 2nd and 3rd gear nowadays. 270kph exit speed at Stowe and 2 yards of run-off area^^

[@lsan_gaming]

Damn! I don't know how many years this video has, but it doesn't have any dislikes... That's awesome!

[@sergeantsupreme4395]

Jinxed it

[@Tommylawrence09]

should of kept the old circuit!

[@cocorocks88]

That antenna on the wing mirror looks like its been lifted straight off my old '97 fiesta.

[@TheSwanlake2009]

lambo v-12 , those were the days.

[@Missouriman37]

lamborghini! awesome!!!!

[@gold333]

Lol, 90% of the lap on the bump stops. Amazing.

[@Yeshaq]

Excelent Quality.

[@S.M.Jean-Mahmoud_Ier]

Larrousse F1 cars had such a heavy ballsack they were unable to run as fast as the preys : they were the predators, the chasers.

[@Lolzilol123]

@Jamirofan89 What do you mean if the drivers stand a chance? If you mean it as in "can their bodies take it", then yes, that is nowhere near the g-force they are submitted to at Maggots-Beckets-Chapel in modern F1.

[@ashacrasha]

@damianrawle tell me about it ay man, imagine Silverstone like this now! Miss these cars...

[@nanzuke]

After Prost, Bernard was regarded as the most promising Frenchman of his generation. After a serious accident he failed to maintain the level!

[@PhilipMReeder]

AWESOME!!!

[@nissangtpzx-t9529]

Imagine this layout with the 2020 F1 cars. PURE SPEED. Even faster than Monza. Would be incredible to watch imho.

[@Apoic123]

i want that lambo v12 and i want old f1 rules back.

[@122ALVARO11]

Old silverstone was just beautifull... a drivers circuit today like all the rest ( exceptions made to suzuka spa and interlagos) are just playstation circuits

[@zardinho]

Today, we have only Interlagos, Spa and Suzuka, Monza. The rest, with a few exceptions, are tilkodromes and silly mid-east circuits...

[@rondee]

That was the layout!

[@AutodromEilend]

@man710r That's right, those were steering wheels for men, kids needs many buttons in the "nintendo controls" that they use nowadays as steering wheels.

[@Treetop64]

Yep. EB's helmet, V-12 Larrousse Lamborghini.

[@2Dante]

Eric Bernard´s Larrousse?

[@porksniffer]

Fucking right it's mindblowing. What are the chances todays so called F1 "drivers" could drive this car @ this circuit? Has Vitaly Petrov ever driven an H pattern manual gearbox race car? Monaco required over 3000 gear changes per race. The cars were driven with one hand on the steering wheel for more then 1/2 the lap. These guys were gladiators!!

[@VWatch07]

F1 cars with analog RPM meters? Wow... that's a rarity

[@Rogier182]

Def agree, get Old Hockenheim back!

[@TheSwanlake2009]

imagine old hockenheim with these new f1 turbos 2018 on the straights. 4 DRS zones

[@singleturbosupra7951]

@@TheSwanlake2009 Imo F1 itself should rather stay on the current layout, but the old layout should be reclaimed back from the nature. Plant those trees elsewhere.

[@MusicVideoJudge1]

@fdsaman123 He did, he took the esses from here and put in the us circuit. At least he did one thing right for once.

[@schuey7wc]

@RedhotIta1 as i said it it my opinion what i like,and the ferrari is your's

[@schuey7wc]

@RedhotIta1 mate dont speak for everyone,i can assure you not everyone like the sound as i know of people who have other favourite sounds

[@MrBennyC1983]

@Jellowlink John watson

[@ErikGPL]

@hottotrot75 Agree, the current v8 sucks. We want the v10 back! The whole point of making f1 cheaper is ridiculious... f1 is expensive and it always will be!

[@1pac947]

I never knew old silverstone had fast laps holy cow 💀 thats seems like its under 1:10.0

[@nomiguda]

he redesigned a part of it. I hate comments like this.

[@vivilotus92]

@fdsaman123 not for today's F1 - unfortunately

[@SeanCBL7]

Propper f1car ...

[@Flipper1974nz]

I think the new Silverstone design is definitely an improvement from this old layout.

[@MrSpetsnaz]

@hottotrot75 cheesy, but so true

[@RobertTheSpy]

Old track - Full of high speed and fast corner. New track - A lot of silly "chickens".

[@RedhotIta1]

@schuey7wc The Best still 412T1 Ferrari V12 ;)

[@lazerpod66]

Only Britts would mangle up such a great circuit.

[@Vijet2000]

Well, Belgians have a way better track not that far away.

[@filipborin555]

That's why Paul Ricard in France is the best track ever seen in the motorsport history.

[@evildiabl04]

sounds like the commentator is talking through a fan ¬.¬

[@skywalker12190129]

同じI工ンジンを積む口一タスより良い車だったね。

[@RedhotIta1]

@schuey7wc all people who hear the sound of engine said this ;) . Anyway i like Ferrari you like this. :)

[@houseofwine7704]

Now Silverstone is fxxxed like any other moderm GP circuit. All what is left is a laughable joke, end of story. F1 is dead.

[@AlonsoRules]

Monza need to bring back the old second Lesmo again. The current corner is one of the worst corners in racing.

[@gt362gamer]

What are you saying? The actual layout is great.

[@DigitalDreamKids]

コンマ何秒を競うクルマのミラーの上にアンテナだなんて

[@superneddy]

@zardinho to be fair Sepang aint bad. But I will agree that most of these "new" tracks are pretty bland. Barain is crap. And the sooner valencia disappears from the calender the better

[@ToroRosso20]

Why do most of the F1 Tracks of today blow? I have seen the new layout for the USGP in Austin TX. It looks like total shit.

[@russeller71]

F1 how it should be V12s and a real drivers circuit,not like today,s Tilke designed yawn dromes.

[@dienkonig33]

@fdsaman123 Suicidal?

[@JacktheSmack]

LOL, Sponsored by BP.

[@Phlincke]

Besides the left right right complex before the finish, this track looks boring as fuck to drive, almost like a nascar oval.

[@Bmants]

To be biased against ovals is a form of ignorance, they are fun and demanding. Don't knock NASCAR, those people can drive. Since when is a fast track boring? I wish they would bring back some of the old, FAST, F1 circuits.

[@vprmn]

modern F1 car on this circuit = NO OVERTAKING anb boring race.. :)