That Petrol Emotion: Motor Racing at the BBC

Technology Documentary with no narration published by BBC in 2012 - English language



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'Motor Racing at the BBC: That Petrol Emotion' is a five-part series which tells the compelling story of the early days of Formula 1 - from the 1950s through to the 1970s - courtesy of images from the BBC archives.
Today Formula 1 motor racing is one of the most popular and lucrative sports in the world, watched by millions and attracting huge sponsorship and television deals.
But when Grand Prix racing originally developed its own World Championship in 1950 it was a different era all together. This is explored in the series, five films drawing exclusively on the BBC's own archive to show what the world of F1 was like before the contemporary era. There was a wealth of fascinating material, not just of Grand Prix races but of all aspects of motoring and at a time when Britain as a society was changing rapidly.
The glory days of British motor racing are celebrated in this sleek archive series, which buffs up some of the BBC's most memorable coverage from the sport's earliest days, a treat for devoted petrolheads with a taste for Grand Prix history.
Series takes us for a spin through the evolution of the multimillion-pound sport, from the 1950s, when the drivers were still identifiable as people in cars as they whizzed around the racetrack, to the present day, where it's all aerodynamic styling and rocket-science engineering.

Series Producer: William Naylor ; BBC Productions Bristol

5)  Part 5
The final part of Formula One's 'Rock 'n' Roll Years' archive series focuses on an era when motor racing lit up the world... with cigarette advertising. The sport was now largely bankrolled by sponsors who emblazoned their names all over the cars and the drivers. Those branded overalls needed big personalities to fill them and attract audiences to their brands, and none came bigger than Britain's James Hunt.
BBC cameras followed this rake's progress from his time with the amateur Hesketh Racing, run by aristocrat Lord Hesketh, through to his later incarnation as Marlboro Man at McLaren. 'Hunt the Shunt' had charisma and charm to burn, but by the end of the decade he had burnt himself out.

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Video Codec: XviD 1.1.2 Final
Video Bitrate: 1557 kbps
Video Resolution: 624x352
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.773:1 (16:9)
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 128kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 27 min - 29 min
Number Of Parts: 5
Part Size: 350 MB
Source: PDTV
Encoded by: johncymru@alt.binaries.documentaries

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