The Race In Spain That Turned Into A Nightmare | F1 Stories

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[mrkipling]

Merzario was the bloke who knew how to unbuckle Lauda's seatbelt after his crash at the Nurburgring in 1976. Nobody else knew how to do it. If he hadn't been there, Lauda would have died. I'm sure of it.

[ianc]

The great shame of it is that Montjuic was a fantastic layout - probably a better track than Monaco in any case. Were it not for the haphazard organisation, it might have soldiered on for a little bit more.

[jettafixer]

These cars are so much better looking than todays F1 cars!

[peterf]

Not to make excuses, but lost a little bit in this fine review of the race is that there was little control over the races by the FIA. Local jurisdictions ruled the day, and the fledgling GPDA had little sway. Safety standards was still a distant dream. The irony is Montjuic was a beautiful track. Possibly the best track ever. It was fast and sweeping, undulating in elevation, all within a major city park. It was surrounded by beautiful trees and buildings. Obviously, deathly dangerous, but then pretty much all tracks were. You could perish at Monaco or the Nurburgring. All tracks presented the opportunity to hit something very hard, at very high speed.

[Nnnuvolari]

I was there as a young fan. I was lucky to have access to the paddock all weekend and mingle with the pilots and the teams. I remember an improvised football match between pilots and mechanics of different teams and many other anecdotes. Formula one was very different then. Montjuic was a fantastic circuit but a perilous one. I enjoyed every minute of the weekend but on race day, the moment the two Ferraris in the lead were out, I had this inexplicable intuition that the race would turn mad and a tragedy would happen. I couldn't enjoy the race feeling this dark premonition.

[ollielynch]

How unlucky was Rolf Stommelen?! 2 rear wing failures, 1 killing 4 spectators, and the other ending his own life…

[Bitterman]

Not only cevert, a year after in 74, Helmut Koenigg was beheaded by one of those barriers who's lower side failed to hold the car and cut koenigg and the car in half

[GVTheUltimateBook]

One of those killed, Mario DeRoia, was a photographer from Toronto.

[fidanfast]

It's a shame that this track ended in infamy... I love the layout, the elevation changes and the scenery

[williamford]

8:45: Carlos Reutemann was one of the most underrated F1 drivers ever and on a short list of the best drivers never to win a Formula One World Championship. 10 full seasons. 12 wins, 45 podiums, one second place in the Championship three thirds and one fourth. The graphic of 9 wins in 1981 IS NOT CORRECT. He won three races that year, South Africa, Brazil and Belgium.

Alan Prost also won three races, as did World Champion Nelson Piquet. Reutemann led Piquet by one point going into the last race at Las Vegas, but coming off a 10th place finish the race before. He started on pole, but for reasons never explained, he fell like a rock right from the green flag, finished 8th and lost the championship by one point. This seemed to devastate him. Frank Willians had to convince him to return in 1982. In 1982, he finished in 2nd place in the first race, exited with a mechanical failure in race two and then announced his retirement saying he " was not motivated any more" and "(his) heart was not in it". There was later speculation that he felt that Frank Williams was playing favorites with teammate Alan Jones late in the season, which may explain Carlos' much weaker performance as the season went on. His three wins are in the first five races in the season.

[TheEarlofK]

Of course, it was despicable that the circuit organisers couldn't be bothered to mount the guardrails properly, even by the lax safety standards of those days this was a dereliction of duty. As someone who watched F1 in those days, it was a very different era and drivers were expected to risk their lives and accept that not all of them would survive the season, but things were beginning to change with the advent of Jackie Stewart demanding changes to circuits that he regarded as unsafe to race.

The pity of it was that Montjuïc was a great street circuit, albeit the increased speeds of F1 cars with their advanced aerodynamics were stretching its safety capabilities in 1975 and that the tragic deaths of four spectators would permanently close it for use as a Grand Prix circuit, although motorcycle racing continued there.

[jasonl_]

Very interesting and well produced video, I really enjoyed watching this. Bonus points for making the effort to pronounce the names correctly (you even got Reutemann's name correct by the end).

[johnadlington]

I was there at that race as a mechanic at BRM. Also remember the chaos of the event. The drivers strike, the barrier repairs and taking part in the football match.
The paddock was in the old Olympic stadium which I think never held the games due to the Spanish civil war. Remember the transporters departing ASAP after the race was stopped to get over the border into France before the Spanish authorities had chance to impound them. Crazy and sad weekend. Great setting for a motor race though.

[johnmclean]

Great video. The still shots are fabulous (especially Cevert and his Tyrrell) and will go into my collection. Liked and subbed.

[nikolatesla]

Great review but its interesting to note the barrier had done what was expected for on Stommelen initial crash. The accident itself had nothing to do with the first fears of the drivers and if it wasn't by the rear Hill wing flying possibly ths GP would have a surprised result

[mgrzx]

Very good recite of this race. Thanks for some footage. The drivers had thought this was a good track two years before. Seeing F1 cars doing jumps is crazy. Thank you, will sub and see what you got. Very Informative. Give Lombardi her due, she scored. Arigatou gozaimasu senpei.

[qidude]

I am so glad that people like Niki Lauda and Jackie Stewart advocated for safety and eventually standards changed, although it took a long time. It always surprised me that the death of Jim Clark years earlier didn’t startle the whole sport into implementing effective barriers and runoff areas - I guess it was a truly foreign concept back then.

[guyincogneto]

Mass was also the poor sod in the wrong place at the wrong time for Gilles Villeneuve to launch off the back of Mass' March at Zolder in 1982 and ending Gilles' life.

[SiVlog]

There are those who say that Indy 2005 or Spa 2021 are the worst races in F1 history. In my view though, this race weekend is far worse than either of those examples, combined. Teams and drivers being blackmailed to race in unsafe conditions, a mass boycott, an accident that left a driver severely injured and spectators killed and a delay in calling a halt to the race, I'm surprised this isn't brought up more

[liamfriel]

Thank you! Very good video featuring the not as well known Pace and Stommelen - both great and brave drivers from that era. 😁