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Forum Archive 2023 => Laugh? I nearly started. => dMw's Community Centre => Community Archive => Look What I Found on the Internet => Topic started by: spudgun55 on October 30, 2008, 02:05:39 PM

Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: spudgun55 on October 30, 2008, 02:05:39 PM
found this amazing footage of an f1 driver taking a ferrari for a spin around the streets of paris in the early hours,  



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uGTKlOHOG6I
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: Doorman on October 30, 2008, 02:15:55 PM
Nutter! I bet he wouldn't be able to pull that stunt today. I' have seen it before so I didn't watch it all but there is a point when a car nearly pulled out of a side street in front of him. :flirty: Sorry to be negative, but I have a thing about public roads being used as a sports venue. :sideways:
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: delanvital on October 30, 2008, 02:23:56 PM
Moral aside, that was cool to see. The nutters doing it today and taping it are just copy cats then :)
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: Zootoxin on October 30, 2008, 02:40:10 PM
Crazy son of a beach!
Erm, what do red lights mean again?
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: spudgun55 on October 30, 2008, 02:45:08 PM
Claude Lelouch, the director, explained that the car he was driving was actually a Mercedes, with the Ferrari exhaust note added to give the viewer a greater sense of speed, he also confirmed that he drove the car himself.:g:
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: BrotherTobious on October 30, 2008, 04:33:29 PM
Quote from: Venom;249174Crazy son of a beach!
Erm, what do red lights mean again?

Obviously go much faster !!!
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: Snokio on October 30, 2008, 06:28:00 PM
Quote from: spudgun55;249177Claude Lelouch, the director, explained that the car he was driving was actually a Mercedes, with the Ferrari exhaust note added to give the viewer a greater sense of speed, he also confirmed that he drove the car himself.:g:

close, it was an old bagger of a merc, film speeded up and dubbed over with a Ferrari 250 GT sound (or was it a 275 GTB :g:) I'm afaid that you will never get a Merc sound like a Ferrari :flirty:

shame it wasn't real though :sad:
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: DogMeat on October 30, 2008, 09:43:12 PM
I did wonder why an F1 car had headlights...
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: Zootoxin on October 31, 2008, 08:56:39 AM
Quote from: Snokio;249209close, it was an old bagger of a merc, film speeded up and dubbed over with a Ferrari 250 GT sound (or was it a 275 GTB :g:) I'm afaid that you will never get a Merc sound like a Ferrari :flirty:

shame it wasn't real though :sad:

But all the other cars were travelling at a normal speed ?
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: Aquilifer on October 31, 2008, 02:17:40 PM
One trick is to put the camera very low. It gives a sense of much higher speed. You can try it in e.g. LFS. Make a film and watch it from a custom viewpoint which is put close to the road surface.
Title: f1 driver let loose in paris 1970s
Post by: delanvital on October 31, 2008, 03:07:55 PM
Quote from: Aquilifer;249258One trick is to put the camera very low. It gives a sense of much higher speed. You can try it in e.g. LFS. Make a film and watch it from a custom viewpoint which is put close to the road surface.

Yeah I know and was surprised of how slow the film felt. I think he tried to compensate a lot by doing this, but if you are used to the effect you can see through it...
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