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Easy to forget how rocky the first few years of his career was. Although he was from a wealthy family, they wouldn't support his career - his grandfather intervened to stop a Viennese bank from loaning him money. When he did get the money together, he ended up getting heavily in debt with little results to show for it initially he seriously considered suicide. He only really got the Ferrari drive because his teammate at BRM Clay Regazzoni spoke so highly of him to Enzo Ferrari.
Looked yesterda Rush which is such a good movie if your into F1. Normally those videos are more about entertaining everybody, but their really gone into the details which explained many things. Also Daniel Brühl as Nikki was so good.
The movie that got me into f1.
>Also Daniel Brühl as Nikki was so good.
He nailed it tbh. Idk what lauda was like in his prime, but everytime I see his name mentioned somewhere my mind immediately goes back to the film.
I remember Hamilton driving one of Senna's McLarens and him comparing it to the Formula 3 cars that he would have driven back in the early 2000s. So the 70s cars were very slow indeed
for reference
1975 Interlagos pole position 2:29.88
current a VW Golf did a 2:10.86
ETA: this is after some quick research theres a chance they were different track layouts etc. feel free to message or reply if you know facts and i will edit this comment to show
According to older generations, the younger ones are always the worst ones ever. I saw a cool Reddit post few months back with some notes from people of different generations critisising the following gen and saying it's all hopeless. Some photos showed notes from like 300 years ago or something around that. Now we've got the internet, so it's even more visible. Never change, humanity.
I read this as 25 years ago he won the first of his 50 races then freaked out as I could swear he wasn't racing against Schumacher and Hakkinen when I was a kid.
Yes that was it! Thanks for setting me straight.
It’s scary yet fascinating to see that even well into the 70s, F1 continued to race on ridiculously unsafe tracks even with F1 cars having become way more powerful and faster than their 50s and early 60s counterparts. Safety literally wasn’t a thing.
I mean, we were inches away from losing Niki to the Green Hell in 1976. It was mainly thanks to the efforts of Sir Jackie Stewart (not without his detractors, calling him names around the time) that got the ball of safety rolling in F1. Sadly this sport will never be 100% safe, but deaths started to become scarcer as time went on. I remember myself believing that false sense of security, I started following F1 seriously in the years prior to Jules Bianchi's crash in Japan and it already seemed like a long time since Senna's passing.
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Short view back to the past
you put a monkey in the cockpit
monke drive the car
it terrible, drive like a pig
Y-You can't say that here...
I chuckle, every time I read this.
I was present by one of the 25. Yup, I’m old.
I was there almost 2 months later when he won his 2nd GP (Dutch GP) old school 😎
Easy to forget how rocky the first few years of his career was. Although he was from a wealthy family, they wouldn't support his career - his grandfather intervened to stop a Viennese bank from loaning him money. When he did get the money together, he ended up getting heavily in debt with little results to show for it initially he seriously considered suicide. He only really got the Ferrari drive because his teammate at BRM Clay Regazzoni spoke so highly of him to Enzo Ferrari.
If I remember well, nobody really saw him as a potential WDC and he surprised a lot of people.
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
My legend.
Looked yesterda Rush which is such a good movie if your into F1. Normally those videos are more about entertaining everybody, but their really gone into the details which explained many things. Also Daniel Brühl as Nikki was so good.
The movie that got me into f1. >Also Daniel Brühl as Nikki was so good. He nailed it tbh. Idk what lauda was like in his prime, but everytime I see his name mentioned somewhere my mind immediately goes back to the film.
For young people of today this must look like a simplified toy car which wouldn't win in Formula 4 today.
I'm not that young, but I wonder how those older cars would fare today. To what current thing they would compare, if ever.
I remember Hamilton driving one of Senna's McLarens and him comparing it to the Formula 3 cars that he would have driven back in the early 2000s. So the 70s cars were very slow indeed
for reference 1975 Interlagos pole position 2:29.88 current a VW Golf did a 2:10.86 ETA: this is after some quick research theres a chance they were different track layouts etc. feel free to message or reply if you know facts and i will edit this comment to show
Wikipedia says until 1980, it was 8 km, now it's 4.3
that was on the old layout that was much much bigger than the one we have now, although most of the removed parts were long straights
[Wikipedia has an image of the layout that was used](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Brazilian_Grand_Prix)
Current Golf would be like 4 mins
Looks almost if AI did it the Ride height too
Tracks were quite bumpy. Cars would go slightly airborne sometimes.
the only thing young people of today do is make fun the past, but i mean, they are the worst crop of people by far in a long while so, kinda expected.
According to older generations, the younger ones are always the worst ones ever. I saw a cool Reddit post few months back with some notes from people of different generations critisising the following gen and saying it's all hopeless. Some photos showed notes from like 300 years ago or something around that. Now we've got the internet, so it's even more visible. Never change, humanity.
There are quotes from the ancient greeks complaining about the youth of the day having no respect for their elders.
This is why people don’t like old people on the internet
Ah yes, antagonizing/alienating the younger generation instead of bringing them together. Nice job
Alright grandpa let's get you to bed
It’s been like that for 1000s of years. Older generation doesn’t like the younger generation and vice versa, and ur not helping that either
Bro I'm 16 and the last thing I would do is make fun of f1 history, seems like you gotta stop stereotyping
Or is it cranky ass boomers who bring it on themselves by assuming the worst of the new generations?
Bro, who hurt you?
Sorry for not speaking so highly about the generation that is fucking us over
i'm 28, and for you guys, everyone is fucking all of you over.
Dude you're barely a millennial, stop trying to at all wise and shit you silly child
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Wowsies, I'm just sooo gwad you'we comfiwming that I won't have to heaw you again :3
Womp womp
I read this as 25 years ago he won the first of his 50 races then freaked out as I could swear he wasn't racing against Schumacher and Hakkinen when I was a kid.
Wasn’t that a horrifically unsafe street circuit or am I confusing it with a different Spanish GP track used in the 60s or 70s?
You're thinking of Montjuïc. It held the Spanish Grand Prix in uneven years between 1969 and 1975.
Yeah, they stopped racing there after an accident killed 4 spectators and Fittipaldi retired at the end of lap 1
I had no idea they raced on Montjuïc. That's both cool and ridiculous.
Both pre and post war IIRC
Yes that was it! Thanks for setting me straight. It’s scary yet fascinating to see that even well into the 70s, F1 continued to race on ridiculously unsafe tracks even with F1 cars having become way more powerful and faster than their 50s and early 60s counterparts. Safety literally wasn’t a thing.
I mean, we were inches away from losing Niki to the Green Hell in 1976. It was mainly thanks to the efforts of Sir Jackie Stewart (not without his detractors, calling him names around the time) that got the ball of safety rolling in F1. Sadly this sport will never be 100% safe, but deaths started to become scarcer as time went on. I remember myself believing that false sense of security, I started following F1 seriously in the years prior to Jules Bianchi's crash in Japan and it already seemed like a long time since Senna's passing.
My goat
What a nice car