Williams FW14 driven by Tiff Needell Old Top Gear 1992

Very rare footage of Tiff Needell driving Nigel Mansell's Williams FW14 in 1992. The filming was for a Renault France advert and it took place during the 1992 Formula 1 season. This was recorded on VHS and was taken from a tape that hadn't seen the light of day since about 1992, hence the dodgy picture quality!

[@colinmalcolm2422]

Tiff is a top bloke. I've done laps with him at Thruxton and he's an amazing driver and a cool guy.

[@kylewaddington1983]

Do you think he ever came to Australia and go to Bathurst

[@kylewaddington1983]

Would he ever came to Australia

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

​@kylewaddington1983 : The only person who knows the answer to that is Tiff.

[@danielmori501]

Ah, the 90's, when everything was ok. Look how far we've come.

[@reds005]

My thoughts exactly. Take me back

[@jamesstewart1794]

How far we've regressed?

[@Spindal45]

Yes the 90s were perfect, with the average diesel fuel price at $.86 a gallon, now we’re at $6.10 a gallon, that global warming sure is doing its job.

[@williamstephens9945]

90's was not a good decade.

[@farishanafiah8461]

​@@williamstephens9945You mean the 80's?

[@kalyankothekar]

It's weird to see young Tiff again. I miss the old top gear gang as well. Tiff and Jeremy bickering about some car.

[@AllWheelsGood]

I know, I've found it hard to watch the series of the last few years. Too much nonsense!

[@bernardoquina3047]

Amazing stuff! I pass near the Estoril Autodrome every weekend.

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

0:15 yes that’s the car that took Nigel Mansell to the 1992 world championship in f1

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

@5:55 - there was a new British F1 champion by then. Nigel finally cracked it in this car's successor - the active ride FW14B.

[@kdpwt]

I swear this guy is Keiichi Tsuchiyas english cousin. He has driven pretty much everything from group a corollas to F1 cars and can hold a decent powerslide himself

[@mark4lev]

Dying breed. You won’t have guys like tiff nowadays, who can drive anything, including old cars with manual gearboxes.

[@kdpwt]

@@mark4lev I think thats the direction we've been going for quite a while, everything is becoming more specialised. In the 50s, F1 drivers were more like freelancers and they could drive anything from touring cars to endurance events

[@Rmcaw]

Thank you for uploading this, makes me all nostalgic for the 90's, France in general was still a motorsport powerhouse and the french car manufacturers took motorsport seriously. Those VR simulator trucks were all the rage....I just need a shell suit now!

[@p.s.6021]

The BEST Engine in F1 in the World 🇫🇷💪

[@IanBlimey]

Always loved Tiffany Dell.

[@EleanorPeterson]

🤭

[@denismcmanus8740]

This is when top gear was at it s best best presenters to great at explaining cars

[@MiataBRG]

Write to us at Top Gear... I remember those days! 😂

[@Kale050]

amazing footage

[@Annabelle66633]

1:44 love that sound 😍🏎

[@peterfowke7818]

This very interesting what Nigel Mansell was driving 1992 in F1 back with Williams racing car FW14 in history of that team.

[@ACH-DK]

TIiff is my hero ❤️

[@JK7kaye]

This is awesome, I wish I could find that old top gear clip with Jeremy Clarkson and Michael Schumacher in his Benneton gear.

[@jasonrushton5991]

If I had time to go through every comment & give them a thumb's up. I WOULD!!! Brilliant, used to love the old TG Up to the current presenter's.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

“Each engine costs over £100,000” those were the days!

[@jeroenroland9322]

Before 1994, i was dreaming very sad, sad dream. alain prost angry with senna and left formula 1. then were was big crash, it was real bad, very bad, it was senna, he could not survive it. scene, replay again, and again and again in my dreams. I woke up, believe it was just a dream.

[@gdogg3710]

That looks suspiciously like a repurposed FW13 he’s chasing after in the black…

[@AllWheelsGood]

I think you may be right. Good spot!

[@F-Man]

I was wondering if it might be a 14-B, as it was done in carbon for a 1:18 scale Exoto model, but you’re right, it appears to be a 13.

[@gdogg3710]

@@F-Man airbox is the give away…

[@marfrandema1884]

@@F-Man What a beuty this car was! and by the way happy new year ferrariman!

[@F-Man]

@@marfrandema1884 Happy New Year!

[@chrisb8075]

Well that threw me.... Moansell's overalls, helmet and red 5, and a calm, pleasant atmosphere with intelligent interchanges. If only Tiff had a crystal ball tuned in to BTCC Donnington.......

[@AllWheelsGood]

"Moansell" 😁 I think Frank Williams accused him of "always whinging".

[@scottl.1568]

Tiff is the man!!

[@AllWheelsGood]

He is and still regularly reviewing cars at the ripe old age of 70!

[@neilr4867]

Go Pros, drones and CGI have removed the need for most of this.

[@chrisbrinkley4688]

As some one with half Portuguese daughters I can attest that the greatest technological breakthrough in our oldest ally's nation is brown grass. Apparently that's new

[@AllWheelsGood]

🤔

[@kdpwt]

How Williams has fallen from grace

[@durodesduvo8424]

So interesting

[@TheSupradude26]

Spending a full day driving a fairly current generation full blown single seat F1 car, Indy car or even one of the second class F2 or Indy lights cars has 100% always been at the top of my list of the best way to spend a day. The funnest handful of days I’ve actually had in my life were the 5 or 6 days that I did track days at the 2 best and nearly brand new road courses that are within a 90 minute drive from my house. There were a couple more days that were also super fun but they were rainy so while it’s still fun, doing 140 mph in the rain with other drivers whom some obviously massively lack driving skills is pretty sketchy at times. I’ve done 6 or 7 full days with both my 2003 supercharged Mustang Cobra as well as my 2008 Corvette Z06, both pretty heavily modified for road course track days, with the Cobra having about 450 rear wheel HP compared to around 320 to 340 stock, plus a ton of suspension and chassis upgrades which is what that car needs when in the car stock form, with one of the biggest improvements was going from the four garbage original and stock Goodyear 275/40/17 tires to 275/35/18 front and 315/30/18 rear Michelin Pilot Sports on all 4 it actually handled quite well. The Z06 was obviously then a completely different class however, but being 2 times the price when new it’s no surprise. Upgraded to 575 rwhp from about 450ish all motor N/A 7.0 liter that could rev to 7500rpm all day long with no drop off. Best, smoothest, most ridiculously great all around motor I’ve ever owned/used. Along with the same Michelin tires in 275/35/18 front and 345/30/19 rears and over 500 pounds lighter than the Cobra at just over 3100 with me in it. 160 on the straight vs high 140’s in the Cobra. Driving those were so much fun I couldn’t imagine how much faster ever the slower older single seat cars would be. The real problem and what would have been an issue if I had actually pursued a driving career is none of the F1 or Indy cars are designed to fit a driver that is 6’ 6” tall. While if a driver came along that was world class but that tall they could make the car work for them, but even when I was in Las Vegas and wanted to pay for the class where you can drive the single seaters I think the limit was around 6’1” or so, any taller and you weren’t allowed in those cars. Completely lame.

[@AllWheelsGood]

Cool. Maybe you need to make a video on this subject alone and your experiences?

[@philhill7973]

Nice old film

[@boing615]

Great find, shame about the jumpy frame rate but not much you can do with that age of footage. I tried to copy an episode of Petrol Torque from VHS from about 96 but the audio was awful, sounded like it was under water.

[@AllWheelsGood]

Yes, I know. I'm testing another VHS to digital converter the moment. It creates a less jumpy frame rate but the picture quality isn't great. Like you say though, the biggest issue was the quality of the original VHS footage itself.

[@boing615]

@@AllWheelsGood I've found the DAIN interpolator to be pretty good at smoothing footage framerates out but it has it's limts and like all interpolators it smears between jump cuts.

[@timhuggins1993]

All wheels good Use a best condition VHS tape , Time based corrector SVHS Vcr unit like jvc s7600 , they cost upto 3 or 500 pounds now at 20 years old but was 1k in 2000 . but they fix the jumpy on screen errors and automatic tracking too fix fuzzyness , and a dvd player like panasonic es10 as a time sync based unit to stop signal fps drops . Decent make audio cables fixed firmly into the units , Then a good Anologue to Digital capture card called magewell DVI USB upscaler and A recording program on pc to record it . I did 200 digital vhs conversions like this using the above hardware costin 600 pounds total on my channel and many of my finished upload videos was as good as prpfessional transfer companies for roughly £3 per tape but others that charge 60 pound per tape !

[@tomstech4390]

Imagine if they remastered that original video footage. With digital media all thats there...is there. Meanwhile if its recorded on film and then put out at 576i you can take those old films and remaster them and put them out at 1080p or whatever you like. Renault are you hearing this?

[@blacktoothfox677]

Some of that looked scarily unsafe for the camera crew! Honestly, I doubt they would do that now.

[@AllWheelsGood]

"the cameraman perched on the nose of a tired old 911" 😁

[@blacktoothfox677]

@@AllWheelsGood Right! He can be lashed in though. I was more concerned with the crew opposite the corner's apex, right in the line of where it spits you off! /// Gotta admit, it never occurred to me what a perfect camera-car a 911 is... someone thought about that. Great video bud, love the channel

[@johnandrews3568]

Ha that simulator used to be used by Labatt as a bobsleigh sim. Getting their money's worth.

[@toshihorrich8405]

Black FW13B‼️

[@kevvynolan8753]

Tiff needs a seat in F1

[@AllWheelsGood]

He's still got it! 😉

[@MGBranco]

I just passed Estoril circuit today!

[@AllWheelsGood]

Cool. Were you paying homage to the track, having watched this video?

[@MGBranco]

@@AllWheelsGood no I just live nearby...

[@rhyswilliams4893]

"Pucka 35mm stuff" ahh the 90s

[@MarkAldrich74]

The question is, who won that competition for the Formula First at Brands?! Did they go on to racing glory & a career in motorsport like "our Tiff"?!

[@AllWheelsGood]

I heard that it was a Mrs Smith, 62, from Hertfordshire that won the competition. She went on to briefly compete in Formula 1.

[@jbradbury2]

The thing he can never do is put a car on its tippy toes. If he could he would not be doing this.

[@cosmic-tiger]

Is this the Mansell Williams that Seb Vettel recently bought or a different year?

[@AllWheelsGood]

Not quite. Vettel bought the FW14B.

[@kylewaddington1983]

Tiff can speak more then English languages by the sounds

[@ThomasHaberkorn]

Why no F1 at Estoril anymore?

[@AllWheelsGood]

I think it failed F1safety requirements on quite a few occasions so it got abandoned from the calendar.

[@bfapple]

The Algarve circuit was fun in 2020.

[@zanemurcha9742]

Does anyone know who won that competition they promoted at the end?

[@AllWheelsGood]

I heard that it was a Mrs Smith, 62, from Hertfordshire that won the competition. She went on to compete in Formula 1.

[@zanemurcha9742]

@@AllWheelsGood that's a good one. Did you know what the other F1 car used in this shoot was? Looked a bit like the Coloni C4 that Andrea Moda tried to use at the start of the season.

[@AllWheelsGood]

@@zanemurcha9742 it definitely looks like a repurposed Williams FW13, especially judging by the shape of the air scoop and the bulges in the area near the nose under which the dampers sit.

[@GrrMeister]

4:17 *And all that to sell a ½ Pint of Labatts - prefer a Pint of **_Corona_** although recently given bad press !*

[@AllWheelsGood]

😁

[@oxcart4172]

What the hell happened to John Robinson? Never heard of him!

[@AllWheelsGood]

Not sure. I'd never heard of him either!

[@oxcart4172]

@@AllWheelsGood I couldn't find much at all about him on Google. Seems to have raced a lot of Porsches but that's about it!

[@andyhamilton8940]

Oh boy dont show that rope loop in NAPCAR

[@AllWheelsGood]

"napcar" 😁

[@JohnSmithShields]

What car is the black one?

[@AllWheelsGood]

Williams FW13

[@seamusblack5876]

John Robertson?

[@1Jhonealmeida]

The Black Care it's a Williams?

[@AllWheelsGood]

Yes, we think it's the Williams FW13/FW13B.

[@captaintoyota3171]

God i pray someday i can afford F1 exp riding in a 2 seat f1 car. My dream

[@AllWheelsGood]

Well, there's always the simulator 😉

[@rhyswilliams4893]

£3500 to drive a Jordan. Not the full grunt engine though( but will you really use it if you had it?)

[@AllWheelsGood]

@@rhyswilliams4893 where can you drive the Jordan at that price?

[@rhyswilliams4893]

@@AllWheelsGood in the Uk

[@rhyswilliams4893]

@@AllWheelsGood The Ej12. Its got a judd v8 in the back

[@finregan9322]

5 fps.....nice

[@olafmaciejewski1429]

911 diesel ??? :D :D :D smoke like old truck

[@AllWheelsGood]

😄

[@harlyslamm2888]

Tiff failed to qualify 50% of his F1 races...he is more qualified as a make up artist then an F1 driver

[@AllWheelsGood]

😆

[@rhyswilliams4893]

Didn't exactly drive a top quality car..