EXTREMELY High Quality footage - Monaco Grand Prix 1962

[Heel n Toe]

Just ran across this recently... gets a big 'WOW' from me. Excellent sound, too... headphones if ya got 'em.

[pwd72s]

Wow! Huge difference between then and now. But, that's what you get when the big money takes over. Loved the harbor shots...none of the mega yachts of today.

Heros I read about in R&T...never dreaming I'd be able to see such a video 56 years later...

[sc_rufctr]

Amazing footage. 1962? ... 3 years before I was born!

The silent aerial shots are spectacular.

[tdw28210]

Very cool. I think that may be Burl Ives doing the narration.

[sand_man]

Indeed, a whole different world! My dad was there in '67 when Bandini was killed.

[sand_man]

That narration reminds me of Burl Ives! LOL!

[OK-944]

Something raw and honest about this footage - humbling in its own way...those film photographers had to really know their stuff - as did those drivers!

[nota]

last year of porsche factory f-1 cars with dan the man driving [1st lap crash]

[herr_oberst]

That's good stuff. Best footage I've ever seen, it really gives a sense of the track - and I want to go to THAT Monaco, not the one that exists today. A real wave of nostalgia swept over me while I watched.

Thanks to the OP for sharing.

Any guesses as to the camera car in the opening? BMW 507? Ferrari something something?

So, I was curious and went to the Wiki to see the results. Interesting, a real race of attrition, with only three cars making it 100 laps. Phil Hill was one of them, so, there, Burl Ives! This was Jim Clark's first PP, and he set fastest lap, but he failed to finish. A tragedy on lap one when a Marshall was killed by an errant tire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Monaco_Grand_Prix

[livi]

Absolutely brilliant photage. Best race car video I have seen. None of that stupid contemporary music that always is wrecking todays car videos. Thanks for posting!

[berettafan]

great footage. sound seems dubbed though.

can not handle a voice that should be talking about Rudolph narrating it though.

[Steam Driver]

Back when racing was racing and not an over-regulated high-speed parade.

[Zeke]

No barrier between the cars and the drink. People standing virtually on the track. Yes, take me back but no thanks on the lack of safety. Look at the number of drivers in post #9 that are no longer alive and I don't mean those that died other than in racing accidents.

Thank you, Jackie Stewart.

[VincentVega]

So cool to see whats the same and whats changed. Great footage.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Zeke

No barrier between the cars and the drink. People standing virtually on the track. Yes, take me back but no thanks on the lack of safety. Look at the number of drivers in post #9 that are no longer alive and I don't mean those that died other than in racing accidents.

Thank you, Jackie Stewart.

Yea, it is easy to understand how a car can get into the bay. It is weird to NOT see all the gazillion dollar yachts filling the harbor.

Very cool. Thanks for posting it.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Wow! Huge difference between then and now.

Totally.

Just to contrast, here is Danny's pole lap from this year, and Kimi's pole lap from the previous year. Both in 50 frames (sorry, embedding not allowed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbrKA6IwgcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6HyNj8Owk

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by berettafan

great footage. sound seems dubbed though.

can not handle a voice that should be talking about Rudolph narrating it though.

Sound is dubbed but well done.

Why the hate wrt Rudolph?

[Neilk]

Originally Posted by Zeke

No barrier between the cars and the drink. People standing virtually on the track. Yes, take me back but no thanks on the lack of safety. Look at the number of drivers in post #9 that are no longer alive and I don't mean those that died other than in racing accidents.

Thank you, Jackie Stewart.

Crazy to watch that video and see the lack of any safety precautions. Someone posted this video about Jackie Stewart's efforts to improve the safety of F1, I thought it merited a repost.

[smadsen]

Hey, there was a barrier along the water. Three inch high K-rail/curb/launch ramp. And the light poles count as barriers too.

I know the cars are faster now. And safer. Tracks are safer. Organization is way better. But it was "sport' back then. "Art" even. How exciting to see a live black & white satellite feed in 1967 for the first time on Wide World of Sports.

Now I read the paper & snooze, if I even bother to turn the race on.

The older I get, the faster I went.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by sand_man

That narration reminds me of Burl Ives! LOL!

I could swear it was him as well. I'm sure it was.

Amazing footage- thanks for posting it!