They really should have some bicycles on the rooftop tho! That would be so fun
@williamhall6679 ай бұрын
just thinking that myself, it would make a brilliant velodrome.
@R4baDader9 ай бұрын
That would be a sick velodrome
@CoenFierst9 ай бұрын
folding bikes, scooters, segways, … anything with 1-2 wheels not needing a combustion engine, really. In line with the times and future.
@juhonieminen42199 ай бұрын
It would make a great Stunt Jump location in GTA Turin.
@DeFausti9 ай бұрын
@@CoenFierst Make it like the Nordschleife, pay a fee to drive and only overtake from the left
@douglasboyle65449 ай бұрын
Don't think we missed your cheeky low level shots of you walking by the "TIM Retail" signs. 😊
@pras121009 ай бұрын
For anyone who did miss it you will find this at 07:52
@ralphhowes9 ай бұрын
@@pras12100 TY!
@0causton09 ай бұрын
I came here to comment this but knew someone would have beaten me to it!
@zork9999 ай бұрын
@@pras12100 Ahh, you missed the one at 1:20
@douglasboyle65449 ай бұрын
@@pras12100 Also at 1:19
@SodaAnt9 ай бұрын
The Jessica cover is just perfect for a racetrack video!
@freddyspanish26979 ай бұрын
And the song at about 3:30 is Cars by Gary Numan, a very fun idea!
@FindecanorNotGmail9 ай бұрын
2:12 Fleetwood Mac: The Chain. Used as intro to BBC's _Formula_ _One_ TV show 1978-1996 and 2009-2015, and therefore much associated with racing in the UK. The video game "Formula One Grand Prix" (1992) copied it for its intro but changed the notes just enough to avoid licensing issues ...
@Craftlngo9 ай бұрын
@@FindecanorNotGmail and not to forget "Movin' all up" starting around 05:00
@mhoop19 ай бұрын
I WONDER, IS THAT TIM'S ARRANGEMENT FOR JESSICA?
@robburgess45569 ай бұрын
@@mhoop1 I believe he plays all, or at least most, of the music in his videos.
@DaveDaveson9 ай бұрын
The Tim Traveling Jukebox for this ep. 0:10 Jessica by the Allman Brothers Band (BBC Top Gear used the track as its theme tune) 1:46 Left Bank Two by The Noveltones (BBC Vision On Theme) 2:11 The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. (BBC used it at the theme tune for its F1 coverage) 3:32 Cars by Gary Numan 5:00 Movin On Up by M-People 5:45 You Raise Me Up by Secret Garden (also covered by Josh Groban and Westlife) 6:00 Dont Stand So Close to Me by The Police 6:20 Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys 7:14 It's Caper Time (Self Preservation Society) by Quincy Jones (main theme to the Italian Job which featured the building in its car chase) 8:04 Movin On Up by M-People (again) 8:22 The Carnival by Gordon Giltrap (ITV Wish You Were Here theme) I think thats everything
@cpcallen9 ай бұрын
What's the tune at 6:37? That's not still Good Vibrations AFAICT.
@CussCuss169 ай бұрын
@@cpcallen I recognize it but can't put my finger on it, I think its something that a BBC show, 5th gear or something uses in between segments.
@Vtarngpb9 ай бұрын
Tim missed an opportunity to rewrite the lyrics for The Flower Pot Men again though 😂😭
@matthewbrotman29079 ай бұрын
Tim also used “The Chain” in his visit to the old F1 track at Reims.
okay, 'you raise me up' playing when you talk about the lifts is genius
@Stevie-J9 ай бұрын
3:17 - The whole clock spins! Awesome!
@MrHack4never9 ай бұрын
I checked the website, the bouys movements are realtime repetitions of another bouys movements, which might be interesting to other technical nerds
@Stevie-J9 ай бұрын
@@MrHack4never Ok that's really cool too. Kinetic art in the factory that made motors, gears, and mobile machines.. I love it so much
@althejazzman9 ай бұрын
Yeah weird, so that the time is always pointing up?
@PianoKwanMan9 ай бұрын
It would make a cool wall clock in my house
@THESLlCK8 ай бұрын
@@althejazzman lol no. So they can record laptimes. Each rotation is one minute. each tick is one second.
@Guppster289 ай бұрын
I rarely comment on videos, but I went to Turin 2 years ago, partly to experience parts of The Italian Job, after my siblings and I watched it so many times with my Dad when we were young and I agree, it is a truly beautiful place, and so many other things to do! Thank you Italy 🇮🇹 ❤️
@andrewschroeder95029 ай бұрын
I saw that "of course, we're not here to see any of that" coming, but it was still extremely satisfying! In my opinion, it's the most epic one you have ever done!
@valleyscottblog24409 ай бұрын
“Of course, we’re not here to see any of that” are some of my favorite words on the internet! Always followed by something completely unexpected and immensely interesting.
@billysgeo8 ай бұрын
Is that like his "catchphrase" or something?
@thomasb15219 ай бұрын
I have to say your music choices on this video have been great. Top gear and the chain, perfect for the topic.
@gododoof9 ай бұрын
Italian Job theme too
@dogg0nit329 ай бұрын
Agreed! Who made the MIDI ones in the first couple minutes?
@MrGreatplum9 ай бұрын
@@dogg0nit32- Tim does all his own music!
@zorktxandnand37749 ай бұрын
Also Cars, Gery Newman. , the "top gear music is " is Jesica by the Allman brothers band.
@ralphhowes9 ай бұрын
@@zorktxandnand3774 Gary Numan. Hate to correct but I saw Gary perform back in the late seventies, can't let it slide!
@berttroubleyn34759 ай бұрын
"It's floors were it's flaws... well, you know what I mean", is a peak Tim Traveller line.
@berttroubleyn34758 ай бұрын
(Autocorrect murdered me, of course that had to be "its" twice)
@Acceleronics9 ай бұрын
Your Easter egg songs are fun! Love the Top Gear intro.
@MysteriousFigure9 ай бұрын
And the chain as well, classic f1 intro!
@TrippingtheBrightFantastic9 ай бұрын
Cars - Gary Numan 3:30
@bewilderbeestie9 ай бұрын
Don't forget _Good Vibrations_ when talking about the structural issues.
@TalesOfWar9 ай бұрын
Aka Jessica by the Allman Brothers Band.
@ralphhowes9 ай бұрын
@@bewilderbeestie Nice catch
@Teo95sero9 ай бұрын
Torino is a beautiful city, the city centre is very nice and relatively well kept. It was the first capital of Italy after unification and was the capital of the Savoy dominions for centuries, so lots of art and history is there. And then food. Being the capital of my region (Piemonte) I can tell you can eat very well and with more reasonable prices than Milano (my adoptive city later on). Go on with exploring mate, enjoying your channel so much! Cheers!
@evryhndlestakn9 ай бұрын
Sounds very nice. You'd think they would hold a winter Olympics there sometime.🙄🤭😁✌️
@Teo95sero9 ай бұрын
@@evryhndlestakn the Olympics were instrumental in making the city the small jewel it is now. The hardware was there (art and history and architecture) but almost non existent promotion and maintenance (heritage of an industrial past and culture)
@evryhndlestakn9 ай бұрын
@@Teo95sero of course as soon as I saw you had written Torino I immediately flashed to when the city hosted the winter Olympics & was only being cheeky. What year was it they hosted & have they hosted it more than once?
@Teo95sero9 ай бұрын
@@evryhndlestakn it was 2006, never hosted any other huge event like that ever since.
@evryhndlestakn9 ай бұрын
@@Teo95sero I think nowadays big events like that risk bankrupting all but the largest cities. Nice to have such a historically significant & attractive city in your life. All the best😁✌️
@PopeLando9 ай бұрын
8:00 Impressed to learn that the roof garden was apparently designed *by* 40,000 plants! They should feel at home then.
@TheTimTraveller9 ай бұрын
Haha I thought the same thing 😀
@dlevi679 ай бұрын
The rest of the English is no better. Then again, they couldn't even get the Italian right, where the 'Balilla' (a small Fiat from the 1930s) became 'Barilla'. Bah, humbug.
@MrHack4never9 ай бұрын
If it was a big wild garden, you could technically say that
@gteixeira9 ай бұрын
Aha! The KZbin Research Paradox in practice!
@gteixeira9 ай бұрын
@@TheTimTraveller It seems that your strategy of publishing a deliberately wrong information in order to get a comment with the truth has worked lol.
@jamessteel90169 ай бұрын
Love these wacky places you go to Tim in Europe 👏 🇪🇺
@stickynorth9 ай бұрын
Even though it's not as high speed, I am glad that the new Hyundai Singapore factory that uses mostly robots to assemble Ioniq EV's in the city (35,000/car per year output using 110 workers) has a 6th floor test track keeping the tradition of these factories very much alive... There they allow users to watch their car being assembled and then you can take it for a test drive on the roof. Not a bad business model I hope more automakers revive... I'd love to see similar facilities in NYC, London, Los Angeles, etc. The re-regionalization of auto assembly using local labor and robots... Lots of robots!
@TheTimTraveller9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the update, I didn't know about that one, that's really cool! Just opened a few months ago apparently. I wonder how much a ticket to Singapore costs...
@zeroyuki929 ай бұрын
@@TheTimTravellersounds like a perfect material for a sequel video
@andreasu.35469 ай бұрын
Nothing like getting the opportunity to crash your new car before it was even delivered.
@LeonardTavast9 ай бұрын
@@TheTimTraveller You should ask Noel Philips to do a collab with odd places to see in Singapore. He's currently doing it in Australia.
@johnladuke64759 ай бұрын
@@andreasu.3546 "This one seems to have crashed, I don't want to buy it anymore." lol
@Tracomaster8 ай бұрын
If I had a penny for every time someone built a rooftop track on their car factory, I'd have three pennies which isn't a lot but it's still weird it happened three times
@ColinHarvey789 ай бұрын
I’ve missed these brilliant films - we just wait for those features of “and of course we haven’t come to see any of that…”, the advice for disabled visitors and the piano covers. Superb editing, research, presentation and humour, all in all, fantastic! Keep up the great work.
@abigailcooling66049 ай бұрын
This has got to be one of my favourite videos from you Tim. The piano cover of The Chain, hilarious puns, flying-crashing-cars animation, and ability with languages and pronunciation is just amazing. Another thing to add to my motorsport bucket list (along with the Reims-Goeux circuit).
@SynchroScore9 ай бұрын
There was actually a fourth rooftop test track that perhaps you missed, because it doesn't seem to have lasted very long. This one was at the main plant of the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend, Indiana, USA. Not much information on it, but it appeared to be made of wood planks and was wide enough for the small, slow cars made in the early 20th Century. Studebaker later constructed the first automotive proving ground in 1926, not far from South Bend. While Studebaker itself is gone, the proving ground was sold to Bendix Corporation, then Bosch Automotive, and finally to Navistar, which is the successor to International Harvester's truck business and still uses the test track. The most striking thing about the facility was built in 1938, when Studebaker planted some 8,000 pine trees to spell out the company's name. The tree sign and the Studebaker Clubhouse (originally an office building for test engineers) are on the National Register of Historic Places.
@cliffm65669 ай бұрын
Very cool to see Lingotto again, I stayed at the NH Hotel in 2016 and the first thing we did was visit the Angnelli museum and track, walked the entire circuit, and saw helicopters landing on the helipad used for Fiat execs. The enter factory is a fantastic architectural conversion by Renzo Piano and is worth a visit just to see this famous building.
@KrulKrulSprietSpriet9 ай бұрын
How daring of you to walk trough the red light! Loved to video. :)
@paulfarthing28079 ай бұрын
My favourite Italian city, much underrated. I have been to the track several times ... and the gallery.
@sirrliv9 ай бұрын
My mother actually got to drive a car around this circuit while holidaying in Italy in the 1970's.
@dlevi679 ай бұрын
Sorry, mate - your mum did no such thing; it was never open to the public, much less when it was still working as a factory.
@12many4you9 ай бұрын
-The 70s -Italian men working there. -@sirrliv's mom Oh, i bet his someone got a ride
@eddjordan23999 ай бұрын
@@dlevi67how do you know that? you have no idea who his mum was why she was there she could have been a test driver for all you know.
@dlevi679 ай бұрын
@@eddjordan2399 "while holidaying in Italy"
@laurencefraser9 ай бұрын
@@dlevi67 I mean, there's still theoretically a very narrow slice of posibilities where it's actually true (related to someone who was there for less holiday-related reasons that involved the factory, or the like)... but you're right that it certainly doesn't seem very likely.
@uncipaws76439 ай бұрын
7:52 Certainly satisfying for Tim to see the sign for TIM Retail. Also let's appreciate the custom background music with various themes suiting the topic.
@wis3149 ай бұрын
Years ago i stayed in the hotel in the Lingotto building and then you could get to the roof circuit from the hotel. They advertised it as a running track. Of course we did a lap (walking, not running).
@andycooke62319 ай бұрын
The hotel is still there, we stayed there in September 2023 as part of a Great Rail Journeys holiday.
@moistie9 ай бұрын
5:20 Edoardo Persico - was an Italian architecture and art critic, designer and essayist. In 1926 he moved to Turin, where he supported himself by working as a mechanic assembler for Fiat.
@Desire4Sound8 ай бұрын
I rememeber this was mentioned once in a simracing forum. Very funny and crazy as well!
@Tibis429 ай бұрын
It's so nice to see that the quality of your videos remains as high as when I first discovered this channel years ago! The stories are fascinating, and the editing is the cherry on top 😄
@TrevorMoses3129 ай бұрын
If you're still in Turin, Tim, I can recommend going to the cinema museum there. A truly incredible place in a magnificent building 😊😊🐢
@LRM12o89 ай бұрын
5:44 You Raise Me Up 6:08 Don't Stand So Close To Me Two of the best and most subtle musical puns I've ever heard abd they're from someone I didn't expect to make musical puns! 😂👍
@Ramonatho9 ай бұрын
That Gary Numan cover was so smooth I almost didn't even notice it.
@carsten.a8 ай бұрын
We once had to rebook a stay near Torino on short notice and the hotel inside Lingotto was quite a good offer. At that time, we did not know what it was before. And as my wife and I prefer to take stairs rather than elevators, we usually ask for lower levels in a hotel. We had no idea that “not higher than 2nd floor (for our US fellas 3rd)” really means in that building where you have a wall height of somewhere around 5 m/15 feet. It was quite an exercise! But it was really a unique experience we had.
@thomasdieckmann57119 ай бұрын
Haha, Gary Numan Cars well chosen music track. Great work, Tim!
@RickImus6 ай бұрын
True! At 4:00.
@gio18909 ай бұрын
Never thought that I would end up seeing one of your videos about my hometown, I’m so glad you liked it 🤩 love your work!
@robfenwitch74039 ай бұрын
Thanks, Tim and thanks to Pinacoteca Agnelli.
@Qspecialman8 ай бұрын
My wife and I visited this site last year, it really is as good as in the video.
@LieRoy869 ай бұрын
Mate i have been missing your videos! glad to see you are back!
@marklima749 ай бұрын
I arrived in Torino the day of your upload to celebrate my 50th birthday and dragged my wife to Lingotto. Mind blowing coincidence; wish I’d checked KZbin on the day. I’m a Lancia & Fiat car fan and an architect so Lingotto is a must see for me. The wife is now a Lingotto fan and also now a Tim fan too 😊
@TheTimTraveller9 ай бұрын
Happy (belated) 50th!
@brushfuse9 ай бұрын
I'm pleased the lads from The Italian Job got a mention - If you're from the UK, this is likely the only reason you know of Turino at all.
@derekheeps12449 ай бұрын
Hardly : it is very well known as an automotive design and manufacturing centre , not just for FIAT .
@ZGryphon9 ай бұрын
Also, the Olympic Winter Games were held there in 2006. Granted, they're not as big as the summer event, but I suspect a fair few people noticed that, all the same.
@LuPoj9 ай бұрын
I still cannot praise enough the musical choices Tim makes in his videos. I absolutely love "Cars"!
@dcvariousvids80829 ай бұрын
A flawless presentation of too many floors. And I didn’t know that’s why FIAT got its name.
@apveening9 ай бұрын
That all capitals name is a pretty serious hint at an acronym, from there it is a pretty easy search.
@derekheeps12449 ай бұрын
@@apveening it is pretty well known , not just among car enthusiasts
@apveening9 ай бұрын
@@derekheeps1244 We both know that.
@davidjones3329 ай бұрын
They did once have a competitor called FART. Can't imagine why that never caught on........?
@simonmcowan68748 ай бұрын
I remember seeing pictures of this during architecture studies in the '70s. Brilliant idea.
@TrevorSturman9 ай бұрын
Secretly Tim went to the shopping center because of the Tim shop. The center just happened to have a race track on top
@CenturyHomeProject9 ай бұрын
To me, the factory building is a work of art. I love the fact that it’s coming up to 100 years old and still has a purpose and use to the community. Is the ultimate and recycling.
@ABa-os6wm9 ай бұрын
Now THAT is what is called "Vertical Integration"
@Channel53official8 ай бұрын
Man that’s an absurd amount of weight to suspend. That’s incredible it is still in great shape
@wgf6009 ай бұрын
Jessica, The Chain, absolute great music as always
@didierg.bertrand61179 ай бұрын
In Belgium, we have a factory Rooftop racetrack too ! IMPERIA factory in Nessonvaux between Liège and Verviers. Now, totally destroyed.
@gentlemanzer9 ай бұрын
7:15 I was waiting for a tune that would sound like "Self Preservation Society"!
@chrisward639 ай бұрын
Was looking for an Italian Job reference!
@zork9999 ай бұрын
@@chrisward63 There are two
@leonerduk9 ай бұрын
That terrible floor/flaw pun is just the sort of thing that keeps me coming back ;) Keep up the good work.
@Runescope9 ай бұрын
I was JUST thinking this morning that I've been missing Your videos!
@PabloPalmeiro9 ай бұрын
We have one of those in Buenos Aires. Now's an apartment building with some restaurants but back then used to be Crysler's building
@mro4ts4579 ай бұрын
0:33 They made some rooftop circuits ontop of some of the factories in Detroit too*
@oddsandwindsocks59057 ай бұрын
Very impressive building, its massive even without the roof track .
@HubNut9 ай бұрын
You must have been there about the same time as me! I'm already missing the place. Fun fact. Even though there is a Fiat 500 cafe on the roof, the 500 was never made there...
@rikreviewt97989 ай бұрын
In Belgium, there is still a similar track on the roof of the defunct Imperia car plant. That test track was built in 1928 and is 1km long. Currently the site is being reformed into housing but the track will be integrated into it.
@crazy12300009 ай бұрын
Just a test track for fiat that was used in the Italian job (1969)
@FindecanorNotGmail9 ай бұрын
Italian job: Hence the music at 7:14
@DaveTexas9 ай бұрын
These types of places are why I love this channel so much! I doubt I would have ever found out this place exists were it not for seeing it here. It’s a place I’d absolutely love to visit - not a big tourist draw, but historically significant and utterly fascinating. Excellent video, as always!
@Vtarngpb9 ай бұрын
🎶”Let’s go, to Lingotto… where the cars go, up to driiiiiiive!”🎶
@michaelkiesling81489 ай бұрын
As usual, excellent video. I visited in 2017. At that time, it was unclear how to get to the roof. The museum was much smaller, and the roof was still pretty vacant. I wandered the mall looking for (what I assumed would be) obvious signs to the roof and found none. Finally, after ordering "nachos" at the food court, I asked directions and was told it required a visit to the museum. It is one of those buildings which from whenever I first saw a photo of it, I said, I need to go there someday! Thanks again for all your excellent work.
@giovannirubino82749 ай бұрын
I also went there in 2017 and yes, get up there was quite a task. And when we finally managed to get there the building security was so surprised of seeing people that they started to run after us. What a memory!
@mabs5039 ай бұрын
Finally a place I've been to! :D Great hotel too.
@michaelmccutchan72299 ай бұрын
Thanks Tim for bringing back "We're not here to see any of THAT!" This IS a great video. Informative and fun! Really enjoyed it.
@angharadhafod9 ай бұрын
You didn't answer the question we all wanted to ask: did any cars ever go over the edge?
@kishascape8 ай бұрын
If they were racing then you know they did. Crashes always happen eventually
@markvwood20072 ай бұрын
@@kishascape Not good enough.
@mauser98kar9 ай бұрын
That's one of the most incredible mad-ladish pieces of engineering I've ever heard of.
@dliessmgg9 ай бұрын
i just love that it resembles the shape of the circus maximus :)
@Rutgerman959 ай бұрын
Have there been any incidents of a car going off the side?
@svenjansen21348 ай бұрын
Must have.
@HenrysAdventures9 ай бұрын
This is brilliant! I've seen pictures of Lingotto but never really thought my about why they put the test track on the roof.
@thetrampit9 ай бұрын
OMG you are in my hometown! Wish I could meet you!
@edoardobordin99829 ай бұрын
Same for me, I'd have liked to tell him some stories about the damage left by fiat in this city and italy tho
@CasualYoutuberEnjoyer9 ай бұрын
6:11 I love what you did playing ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me‘ by The Police while talking the tight spaces in the building creating bottlenecks
@teecefamilykent9 ай бұрын
Fantastic video sir, noticed a shop called "Tim" early in the video, did you buy anything from it?
@dlevi679 ай бұрын
It's a mobile phone shop, so probably not.
@teecefamilykent9 ай бұрын
Ahhh ok.
@stantonfuerton9 ай бұрын
I studied abroad in Torino many years ago, and our school was essentially across the street. Got to see it every day on the bus ride in. Unfortunately, the roof wasn't open then, so I never got the chance to see it. Got a great dose of nostalgia from your video!
@SanderEvers9 ай бұрын
Would be fun to take a bike there and ride around the track.
@danielknauss50199 ай бұрын
This is probably the highest value of any tourist attraction I’ve ever been to. €2 to go up and walk the circuit, with a great view of that area of the city is a steal! Theres a decent amount to do as a tourist in Torino, but I would put a trip to Lingotto as probably at the top of the list. I stayed in the hotel because I was in town for a business trip with no idea of the significance before I arrived. I was very glad I did.
@All_Hail_Chael9 ай бұрын
Self-preservation society!
@Davidbirdman1016 ай бұрын
Ah yes, this brings back memories. I was just a lad wearing my knickers and bolo helmet when I first took my laps around the rooftop tracks! Driving old number 83, a spastacky rollabout, fresh from the factory, with front and side rails for running my competition off the roof! I sent many a man, and one woman to the hospital. Bravo said my employer, Benito Mussolini!! Bravo! Our next race was in the Italian colony in north Africa, racing camels!! What fun!! Sadly the locals did not share our enthusiasm and chased us out of the country!!! Bully!! Your obedient servant, J H Chesterton IV
@NoName-zn1sb9 ай бұрын
Music bed's a little loud, eh?
@midgetautopsy61019 ай бұрын
6:20 Good VIbrations playing in the bg while you narrate about structural issues caused by excessive vibrations *chef's kiss*
@PopeLando9 ай бұрын
Partway through. You've just played the Fleetwood Mac, waiting to see if you put "Self Preservation Society" on as well... EDIT: 7:20 And there it is! 😊
@Facucamaro9 ай бұрын
Hello, I live in Buenos Aires Argentina, I like it motor sport and the history of it, I am really surprised to know that Chrysler had those facilities here... incredible... Very good content, greetings...!🏁👌👋
@theaverageteleporter74359 ай бұрын
Those existed?
@paddybm32459 ай бұрын
This is just such great feel good content. Did I know Lingotto before? Yes. But listening to Tim muse about it is always worth it.
@spychopath9 ай бұрын
7:54 You just wanted the footage of the "TIMRetail" sign, didn't you?
@theoldpcguy9 ай бұрын
Great video, I attended the Turin Auto Show in the Lingotto building almost exactly 30 years ago in April 1994.
@Ezullof9 ай бұрын
Keep in mind that these tracks were built at a time when "the future" would have big highspeed roads everywhere. At the time, cars were central and were only taking more and more space in our cities.
@njdevilku13409 ай бұрын
Is the United States?
@AnsonBeeker8 ай бұрын
I'm 110 years old. I have fond memories of this insane structure.
@christoffersvensson94319 ай бұрын
At 1:21 is that your own store?
@JohnADoe-pg1qk9 ай бұрын
👍😂
@TDOBrandano9 ай бұрын
The TIM group is the largest Italian Telecom company, founded in 1994 by the merger of several state owned companies. It's publicly traded, but the state still keeps a majority share in the company in order to defend the strategic interests of the country, and it manages the physical Telecom infrastructure in the country, that is however shared with the other operators. That specific shop is probably for Mobile products only.
@cyberfrank-bx2nv7 ай бұрын
I admit it s dangerous, but wow how it looks fab though! outrageous and passionate, visionary. I d totally see this as an rc racetrack though, surely something can be managed. and I don t think I can ever forget that concept for a hotwheels project. good show bro
@timmannchicken9 ай бұрын
Why have I never heard of this? I love it. I mean totally not safe for today, but I love the idea of it!
@Backtothebasic9 ай бұрын
Thank youTtim, you just rememberd me how youtube was when i liked it. Interesting, informative, lovely made Videos. Keep on going,
@thatonenigeriansformula9 ай бұрын
love how when he was introducing the racetrack he used the old f1 intro, great and amazing detail
@guyroebuck85109 ай бұрын
OMG. I thought this had gone too. Super. Sent a link to a car nerd friend of mine. I talk too much about trains( infrastructure) for his liking. You are a super presenter Tim❤
@Matty-B-on-an-MTB9 ай бұрын
Great video! I'm an ex Fiat / Alfa Romeo employee and was taken to the roof of lingotto by them on a "busman's holiday" back in 2005, when I was lead to believe it wasn't open to the general public then. It certainly wasn't an art gallery or as pretty as it is now. The shopping centre was open then though, which in itself was a pretty cool place! On a side note, Fiat also have , or at least had, a secret test track in the suburbs of Turin for development testing. I won't say where. It's not pretty, or even state of the art, at least not back in 2005! But it did have all the fundamentals of a car breaking test track and was very interesting to visit during the same trip.👍🏼
@shodan29589 ай бұрын
Even as a not so much a fan of cars person these days, even I have to be impressed with it. I love that its still in place.
@bastarddoggy9 ай бұрын
What great memories. I lived just across Via Nizza from Lingotto while working for a broadcaster during the 2006 Winter Olympics. The International Broadcast Center for the games was in the huge conference center there. I spent quite a few hours in the mall, but never made it up to the track, other than walking to the top of the ramp and looking out at it. I also spent a lot of time at the Mira Fiori factory getting new vehicles (Fiats, Lancias, and Alfa Romeos) for our company fleet from EuropCar, the official car rental agency for the games. I was working my butt off pretty much the whole time I was in Torino, but it was a blast!
@Kivikesku9 ай бұрын
Ah, so the 1970s-80s FIAT Mirafiori would have been named after the plant they built in the late 30s!
@Horstialtersack8 ай бұрын
Fine video with interesting and needful informations. Thank you!
@julienthomas14339 ай бұрын
In Clermont-Ferrand (hometown of Michelin), you've got some test ramps on factory roofs, used in the mid XXth century to test tires' grip. They are historical testimonies
@davejones92619 ай бұрын
nothing makes my day more than when i see a new Tim Traveller video has dropped.
@siebebijnens92858 ай бұрын
The track features in the car chase in The Italian Job! It's a great scene
@peterchains7 ай бұрын
Loved the version of the Fleetwood Mac's - The chain!