69 German GP

[Dare]

This is the F1 I fell in love with!!!When the drivers
were hero's and we didn't know about their shortcoming.
Sorry the youngsters missed F1 at its best

[PG_Gabriel]

Excellent Stuff!   

[lkjohnson1950]

Notice how the cars were moving around under braking? Lower down force. More chances to pass, but the track safety is really unacceptable. Unbelievably road cars today turn times faster than those F1 cars did.

Lonny

[cosworth151]

Great find, Dare! That was the era I became an F1 fan, too. By the way, that was (l to r) Jackie Stewart, Jackie Ickx & Bruce McLaren on the podium.

Lonny is correct about the safety issues. I couldn't imagine going at those speeds with nothing between the cars and the trees. Gerhard Mitter was killed in an F2 car at this circuit on the Friday of the week-end this was filmed.

[John S]

Good stuff Dare. The two Jackie's certainly had a ding dong going on over the lead.

I was just about discovering F1 along with you others at that time, it's not the cars or the safety that amazes me watching it again now; it's that flaming great winners laurel wreath that the victor was, swamped(sorry), adorned with.

 

[Dare]

It always amazes me watching the spectators
standing around like it was a Sunday drive.I'm
surprised more fans weren't killed

[jodevizes]

Those guys had cajones the size of cathedrals. It was amazing the way the cars left the track over the hills and no safety rails.

They sounded pretty good too.