F1 1962 Rouen-Les-Essarts

The 1962 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Rouen-Les-Essarts on 8 July 1962. The race was won by Dan Gurney, his first Formula One victory, driving a Porsche, that company's only win as a constructor in a Formula One championship race.

[@505197]

Dan Gurney knew how to keep a car in one piece. Some have that talent, and many don't. Dan was also one of the few that passed away from old age, RIP Dan.

[@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri4927]

Daniel Sexton Gurney, rest in peace, One of the Best

[@tsf5-productions]

I love those "classic 1960's" F-1 cars. There is nothing like the sounds of those race cars of that era...and the jazzy fast moving music to accommodate the film footage. It was one of several Gurney victories that gave more character in his racing career and race car designers years. Some of us still miss him after his passing a few years ago.

[@Demun1649]

I think, and I was there, that the race was better because there wasn't any music over the speakers. The video just hides the engine sounds, and the tyre squeals.

[@ptvfr800]

I love Raymond Baxters commentary style, I could listen to him all day!

[@ITProjectManagerMan]

I was 6 when this race too place. In 1966 I saw the movie Grand Prix for my birthday, I’ve been in love with auto racing ever since. Grand Prix Legends sim I loved was modeled after the 1967 Formula 1 season and has this exact circuit. If you went off these circuits, you died or were crippled.

[@user-ff9er4dl6g]

Priceless history. The greats who paved the way for glory.

[@zachstone6635]

This was a race before before I began following F1 and Le Mans in 1963. Gurney and Ginther both drove excellent races. Surtees showed us what we had to look forward to. 7 world titles on motorcycles, one on F1 and he was the champion of the first Can Am season. An amazing man.

[@kevinmccorkle7476]

Class, innovation, courage. Kind of miss that these days.

[@IncCLem]

Thank you ! Hillarious the pilot who controling his throttle by hands at 20:40 min

[@peterkolozs687]

the sounds of these cars are epic! thanks for uploading!

[@tangerinedream7211]

Watching this modern elf N safety would have a heart attack Lovely period film with elegant cars .

[@alanwhite6293]

When racing cars were for racing, and Men were Men. Nuff said.

[@edwardburek1717]

Thanks for posting this masterpiece - of course, no one would dare organise a race like this in such a haphazard manner. To think that normal traffic would carry on driving on the circuit mere minutes before the race started... madness.

[@davefloyd9443]

Cool AF. Just like Jo Bonnier racing in a short sleeved shirt. Thanks for posting this. Noticed Chopper looking very young at 15:30

[@thethirdman225]

Good pick up.

[@allamar9083]

So wish I could have been raised in Europe at this time period. Lovely!

[@tonynorris9139]

When track safety consisited of old tyres and straw bales. Gurney, Bonnier, McLaren and Surtees later became car builders and Gurney and McLaren winning in their cars.

[@thethirdman225]

And Jack Brabham, the only driver to win a World Championship in a car bearing his own name.

[@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri4927]

@@thethirdman225And the only that "walked to.a Championship" He pushed his car to the Finish Line to get the necessary points for the Championship!!!

[@thethirdman225]

@@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri4927 Haha! Yes! Good point.

[@edwardmonsariste4050]

Music has a Ghostbusters kinda vibe to it.

[@fredrickmillstead2804]

No runoffs, trees, no Armco, deadly circuit.

[@tomsmith5216]

The captions are pricelss. Unnes Irelsnd was "in his eyelids" and Surtees was SETI...Jo Bonnier was Joe Burton...lol

[@LathropLdST]

Are you going to add: -Rouen becoming 'room', -Lotuses becoming 'lettuces' or 'looters', -Clark becoming 'cup", -Bruce McLaren becoming Gustav Marin, -Ginther becoming 'gives us' -and Trintignant becoming 'Trentino' or 'continual'? Word salad: 'Trevor manganese sweet fast'😂 Mario Kart 1962: 'Interno Mags with the second Koopa' 😂 Flip the (wet) bird: 'But in the pits one hen Stein was watered, one year's airbox an engine did not occur well for genex' Cussing: Dan Gurney becoming 'DAMN' Gurney 😂 Have car will travel: X2: Dan Gurney becoming simply 'journey' Tarmac: 'And Richie Ginther was nice surface' One of the best yet, my sides hurt 😂: 'Perkins's Graham Hill Depp's teammate kinfe but said Jesus still with him and Clark's not too far back' Relax: "The I 20s turn Gregory when he was lying forth on the 14th lap"🏁 Name calling: Jo Bonnier became 'Jerk in Banja', in my subtitles 😅 bless his soul!

[@jeremybenjamin2377]

11:00 'Strike bound at Modena', yeah right. That used to mean that Enzo had merely had some disagreement with the organisers about money!

[@naughtmoses]

No; actually, Ferrari was an organizational mess in '62 (owing in part to the Old Man's unwillingess to truly reward Hill and the crew people after winning the title in '61).

[@edteach3r]

Magnificent circuit! Braking into that hairpin must have been a nightmare.

[@plantfeeder6677]

Love this. Right when I started following F-1. I see the Kansas City Flash standing on the side on the road. Wonder if he managed to jump out.😂(if you kn o w you know.) Masten Gregory 3 years later in 1965 would be telling Carroll Shelby as he headed to victory lane at Lemans: "You know that's a good car. I stuffed the clutch in it and revved it to seventy-eight hundred rpm and it didn't even bend the valves."

[@DavidLand91]

Why oh why did you do the KZbin stabilization? It ruined the racing footage... so jumpy!

[@AmericasChoice]

Great circuit.

[@jinxed_jinxed_3443]

Great stuff :) thanks.

[@robertlevasseur6843]

I wonder how many drivers went to Mass.

[@user-pi7gd9ek3d]

Вот были времена

[@Demun1649]

LOTUS. Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious.

[@fifie1]

Fabuleux circuit. Que le France n'a pas su conserver... comme tant d'autres choses d'ailleurs.

[@naughtmoses]

Stirling Moss =and= Phil Hill =and= Taffy von Tripps all MIA (or DOA). These little cars were built like Tinker-Toys. AND... I can't remember if the grossly under-rated Masten Gregory dove out of =his= or not. (He was known for that.)

[@robertolocati7431]

Vetture semplici ed essenziali , per Piloti veri

[@margitrohrnbeck]

❤❤❤

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

14.05 OH MADAM

[@malcolmthomas180]

But but but, didn't someone die here in a flaming inferno, Jo Schlesser if my memory serves me correctly?

[@edteach3r]

Precisely.

[@ptvfr800]

Jo Schlesser did die at this circuit, but not until 1968..

[@Bumlove4everyone]

180hp from a v8. A 1000cc bike can put that out now.

[@darnhard]

fanfkntastic

[@Mr.Wonder1ng]

10:43 How pathetic those helmets were

[@MrKruger88]

The drivers having no fear seems reasonable, because they wouldn't pursue top level racing if it was any other way. But all the people standing track side, those people seem stupid. At least don't position yourself on the outside of corners.

[@MrKruger88]

🏁PORSCHE🏁

[@karstenhanel8481]

No safety standards

[@stephenfasick5839]

Can you imagine these femininity looking punks that are currently driving on a circuit like this!!!!!

[@rolfdejonge3915]

Super! Thanks! ✌️🤠💥🌟🌀👍

[@fioralbannach6647]

The awful commentary, with that typical RP, during that period. It makes a mockery, of just how dangerous & brutal, racing was back then. A lot of the drivers racing here, were unfortunately killed later. Stunning archive footage, of an incredible & very dangerous circuit.