The 1979 French Grand Prix, last 80 laps between Rene Arnoux and Gilles Villeneuve.

What many consider the greatest wheel to wheel racing in F1 and professional motorsports.

Please right click and save as I have no idea what the bandwidth is on this link (not mine)

Go this forum and click on the link

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/s...40536

Regards,

Jon P. Kofod

 

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What many consider the greatest wheel to wheel racing in F1 and professional motorsports.

Please right click and save as I have no idea what the bandwidth is on this link (not mine)

http://www.we-todd-did-racing....k1NDE=

Regards,

Jon P. Kofod
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Link no good.

 

Try it now. Something get's deleted when I paste the link.

 

It works now and that was a good race nice vid

 

awsome vid, wish it was longer!

 

Oh man.......... oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man!

That was simply beautiful. Villeneuves super lockup pass into one was spectacular........ and it got better from there!!!!

Brian

 

I wish they would ban all the electronic gizmos and bring back turbos

I just finished reading a book on Senna... "As time goes by", its just fascinating.

 

I had just started paying attention to F1 and we had just got cable television. In the Seattle area, that meant CBC coverage of GP races - only Monaco got any regular coverage on US networks at the time. I watched that race and it was this brawl that sealed the deal for me.

I've got Arnoux's autograph on a Caeser's Palace postcard from the event in Vegas a few years later.

Cars of that era were really fun to watch because they had oodles of power, lots of drag (look at the size of those rear meats), and not a lot of stick. They were unfortunately also pretty lethal. I can remember reading back issues of R&T the year after that at my university library, being amazed that F1 drivers were getting killed at a rate of several per year through the '70s...

K

 

Saw this video before, it's amazing

 

There is nothing like wheel to wheel racing. Ferrari did it best, thats why I will be a fan for life.

 

Now it's just a moving car show. I miss the good ol' days.

I pray that new rules will make it fun to watch again because I think every race I watched last season I slept through. Thank goodness I have a vcr!

 

nice, but it looks like almost every motogp race this year.

 

am i the only one who misses murray walker's commentary?

lemme clarify; i miss the MW-MB tag-team.

the commentary of james allen drives me up the wall

 

That was intense just watching it!

Awesome find!

 

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Will you be at MotoGP Laguna Seca?

 

that just brought back quite a flood of memories for me. I was only 8 at the time, and we were sitting in the living room at my grand parents for the weekly sunday ritual of the F1 or Moto GP. My mother was there, my uncle, and my grand parents. At the end of that race we were ALL standing up and screaming at the TV! Which never, ever happens in our family. It is an incredible memory that this video brought back. Thanks Jon. The folowing X-mas, I asked for and recieved my first Scalextric (sp?) slot car track. A figure 8 with one Ferrari, and one Renault.

Slice of life.

 

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I read that and the Villeneuve biography over the summer when I was working third shift. The Villeneuve book is nothing short of amazing.

 

It should be easy to remember the French Grand Prix of 1979 at Dijon, France for the first victory of a turbo-charged engine aboard a Renault driven by Jean-Pierre Jabouille. This victory was almost overridden by the fantastic challenge for second position between Gilles Villeneuve and René Arnoux. For the last three laps of the race, they passed one another, they pushed and shoved, even touched, for a grandiose spectacle never repeated since. For history`s sake, remember that Gilles finished second...








Modified by DB2-R81 at 2:27 PM 12/2/2004

 

Thanks...super bored at work, and that was a great video!

 

wow............................................... ................... wow................................

I wasn't even born or being thought about when that race took place,....................... ................................................. wow

 

WOW

the only thing that would be better is if u could hear the comentary/road noise instead of the techno

 

OH MY GOD!

Now that is racing between two drivers with skills most of us only dream of!

Oh yeah, I agree with .RJ:get rid of the driver aids and bring back turbos.

*wonders if F1 will ever return to this level of competition*




Modified by ITRbroham at 8:28 PM 12/2/2004

 

Thanks Jon that was incredible.

 

I think they used that music in the movie, "Driven".

Would've been great to see an upstart Senna against Gilles.

 

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