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[cheapracer]

I was quite surprised to stumble across the entire 1989 Japanese GP onboard video last night.

The video alternates entirely between the 2 cameras of Senna and Prost from warm up lap to finish and runs for over 1.4 hours. The bulk of it is from Senna's car and quite tantalising watching him slowly catching Prost from about the 1 hour mark for many laps until 'that' moment. .

Speaking about that 'moment', notice that Senna attempts to bump start his car twice, clearly in breach of outside assistance, all these years I believed it was just one attempt and that's why he got away with it.

Also note how much trouble Senna has keeping his visor clean as he closes in on Prost and we all know Prost gave up immediately they connected, makes me wonder now if Senna's visor problem was oil from Prost's car and Prost maybe felt he wasn't going to finish anyway.

Anyway enough of my ramblings, the video. As I don't want to breach any legalities you yourselves will have to Google "Stagevu" and then once there use the search function for "1989 Suzuka (OnBoard)",

Enjoy.

[David Shaw]

Excellent Thanks for the heads up.

[nmansellfan]

Good find, cheapracer.

This is from Fuji Televisions 'Drivers Eyes' series, every year from 1989 to 1993 (i think that was the last year) they produced one or two onboard compilations - 1989 was the only year they produced a full race compilation. I have the 1991 version which covers around 40 mins of that years Japanese GP, with onboards from Mansell, Patrese, Senna and Berger. The other video from 91 (most of it is on Youtube) was called 'Opening Laps', which does exactly what it says on the tin, with onboards from those four guys plus Alesi, Prost, Piquet and Moreno. 3.5 litre V8, V10 and V12 ecstasy!

[cheapracer]

1989 was the only year they produced a full race compilation.

If you search Stagevu with enough patience and enough search titles there is a whole treasure trove and oddities of race car stuff there including 2008, 2009 and 2010 complete onboard races.

Try car brands, drivers names, race titles etc.

Also Youku and Tudou for the same - they are Chinese sites but the search box is the same system/result as anywhere else.

Edited by cheapracer, 19 September 2011 - 13:24.

[dav115]

Not really sure why this was moved over to TNF as there are some neat modern f1 clips on there too, but never mind.

...I have the 1991 version which covers around 40 mins of that years Japanese GP, with onboards from Mansell, Patrese, Senna and Berger...

That's a great clip, watching Mansell all over Senna's gearbox and then going off at Turn1, watching Senna hunt down Berger with the side by side video feed of both drivers, seeing Berger miss his upshift heading towards 130R and letting Senna pass him, and then going back to Berger at the end with that epic sounding engine misfire (sounds like one of those crossplane R1s at low revs) and Senna giving him the win in the last corner. I think there was also a part where Senna had it sideways on cold tyres in the middle of turn1 coming out of the pits, but that may have been in the '89 clip instead.

[cheapracer]

Not really sure why this was moved over to TNF as there are some neat modern f1 clips on there too, but never mind.

Actually I posted it here first and over night considered that RCF Senna Vs Prost rubbish being dished out at TNF might not be appreciated so I posted it at RCF as well to keep the division.