8 Reasons Why F1 Was Weird In The 1950s

The name tht is the hardest to say and a f1 driver is -- Daniil Vyacheslavovich Kvyat

Pascara made the nurbergring

The way he pronounces "Reims" has me dying

i love the EL GRAFICO covoers

yes because f1 cars were like nascar they were just regular cars souped up and basically coffins on wheels and in closed wheeled cars coffins on wheels in style

“Points for fastest lap is weird” r/agedlikemilk

Weird because old. Haha old people

2100 why f1 was weard in 2020to2030

TheY HAd v6 we only have single inline piston engines

Ah, back when safety was; "Just don't suck, now hand me my driving whiskey."

Watching a 1950s f1 race:
Driver:drinks
Me:I would like to report a drunk driver

Liked just for attempting the name

The guy of the Long name was the cousin of the Spanish king at that time and even raced for Ferrari but sadly died when one of his tyres blew up in Monza

Weird because the death rates were so high, you’d have to change your favorite driver at least once a season

It was 50's everything was weird

wasn't weird, was DIFFERENT

Seeing fastest laps as reason nowadays feels strange

I will give you one reason why F1 now is a joke computers drive cars and Hamilton record is totally false its the car and not him that wins I will give you 4 drivers better him Fangio, Clark, Senna, and Schumacher

We have fastest lap points in 2021 so it must have been a recent change (though apparently you have to earn points in some other fashion in order to also get the fastest lap point - if some dude in 15th sets the fastest lap no one gets anything).

Jose Froilan Gonzalez, Ferrari first winner in F1.

What about privateers? Privateers. So much. There was no real number of drivers a team had. No definitive amount of cars on th grid. Just chaos.

but there is still one point offerd for the fastest lap

How many chin ups did/could you do?

People on F1: They are just cars who race in circles
Monaco GP: Am i a joke to you?

When I was a kid in the 90s I had a book of F1 stats and some of the 50s drivers would have points tallies like 34.76521. I knew that they would split points for shared races, so that accounted for some of the weirdness, but I had no idea about the shared points for fastest laps so that clears up how that all came to be. Thanks!

The way he pronounced Maurice Trintignant's name gave me an aneurysm

The way he pronounced "Trintignant" I didn't have the slightest idea who he was talking about, although I know Formula 1 history pretty well and have even written about it professionaly. It just dawned on me after the third time.

Hamilton racing in the 50s:

Bono , my cigarette has ran out.

Bono: Alright Lewis, box to light a new ciggy

I think the reason I think it's weird is because it's so different. I was born in 1991, October 29th, and I was a teenager in the Michael Schummacher era. Heck, he was winning when i was a preteen. And as a person born into the modern age of the 90s and 2000s, the fact that Formula 1 was so different back then really shocked me. The cars did not have front or rear wings, and looked like logs with wheels on them. Their engine was in the very front. Those wheels look like ones used for motorbikes. So many things were so different in the stone age of Formula 1, I questioned if it's even the same thing. And the lack of pernament tracks did not help.

American open wheel racing like champ/indy series predates formula 1 by almost half a century.

As for nobility, I would like to add Gijs van Lennep. Together with Helmut Marko, he also won the1971 LeMans.

Alfonso de Portago 🇪🇦

You are kind of insulting everyone in this era but yes f1 back then was different, engineer knew about aerodynamic since the 1920 and driver where not less fit they where stronger but with less endurance because of the harshness of the car they drove.

Downforce was just not a thing because the tire and track of the time where not good enought so they made the car to go as fast as possible in a straight line.

That's why f1 top speed is still 350kmh since the 1930s

Drivers used to eat some food if they were hungry during their pit stops

is the mercedes at the start the w09 without the halo? because it doesnt look like the w08

That was not F1 TBH looks like child toy car

The bit about nobility participating isn't a surprise to me at all. Back in the day, motor racing (at least, of a certain minimum caliber) and aviation were seen as elite sports (after all, you had to be rich to own and maintain a particularly high-end motorcar or a decent personal aircraft) and a great way to flex both one's wealth and one's skill. Ever heard of Count Trossi and his custom streamlined Mercedes-Benz SSK?

Fun fact: apart from being one of the aristocrats that raced in the 50s, Alfonso de Portago was also the first Spaniard to ever score points and a podium in F1, sharing a car with Peter Collins in the 1956 British GP, finishing 2nd to Fangio one lap down. Fellow countryman Paco Godia went on to score points the following race.
De Portago was unfortunately killed in the Mille Miglia the following year, but the books regard him as the pioneer of Spain in F1, with the aforementioned Paco Godia, Emilio de Villota, Adrián Campos and Luis Pérez-Sala continuing our country’s tale in the sport before Marc Gené, Pedro de la Rosa and Magic Alonso came

I only realised how old this video is when points for fastest lap returning to Formula One was mentioned

This Guy forgot sebring

monza oval

no seatbelts

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