...It came to my mind yesterday, when I saw an advert for "The Factory" on Eurosport, sme Williams F1 documentary I guess. In 1997 I saw a couple of excellent documentaries of Benetton F1 on Eurosport, they covered everything from assembly in the factory to testing and the GPs. It was sponsored by Gillette and the title of the series had something to do with Gillette I think, but I can´t remember how it was called, sadly
My question is: Do you guys remember this documentary series? If so do you also remember how it was called?
I searched a while on google, but I didn´t find anything. It would be so great, to get the title and maybe find some recordings, the documentary was excellent as far as I remember. It would also be a great comparison between 97 F1 and todays.

So if you remember anything, PLEASE post it thx

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Come on guys, I need to find this!

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still nobody

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Hi! Obviously I'm new here...I have what you're looking for but it would take ages for me to upload it! I got it via torrent (not sure if you're allowed to mention other sites/forums her so I won't mention the site).
If you have no luck I will try to post it though!
It's called: A Year in The Fast Lane - 6 x 25 min episodes (350 mb each)

here's what your waiting for blizz......courtesy of our newest member, tmt

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Yeah great news, I think you´re allowed to post download links in the videos section. I´ll try to find torrents though, so that you dodn´t need to upload them. Otherwise it would be great, if you could upload them. Thx a lot mate!

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I´ve found it!
Episode1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4813611752

The other episodes there aswell, video quality very average, but that doesn´t matter to me. Enjoy it guys! And thx a lot to TMT!

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nice one! I'll try and find the old torrent links for you if you wish!

I'm sure you're also aware that McLaren did the same thing in the 1993 season, and also Arrows some years later. There were also one-offs with various teams! I'll search through my hard drives tomorrow, and list all the series/episodes I'm aware of in case I have something you need!

BTW i'd like to say this is a great forum...i was a bit lost when the fameflame forum disappeared, so i'm very happy to have found this one by pure chance (searching youtube for F1 test footage)

EDIT: here's the torrent to the entire series (2 GB). (credits to original uploaders Ximi and VoidNT)

Moderator "iceman1": You can PM him the Link of the Video

thanks a lot tmt!

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right...here's what I have:

1959 Pre Season Testing - behind the scenes with the Aston Martin F1 Team (8 mins)
1961 Pre Season Testing - behind the scenes with the Lotus F1 Team (4m30s)
1967 Nine Days In Summer - Behind the scenes documentary of Lotus/Ford F1 Season (48 mins)

The BRM Story - Documentaries on the racing history of BRM F1:
Vol 1 - The V16 Years
Vol 2 - The P25 Promise
Vol 3 - V8 for Victory
Vol 4 - 3 Litre Finale ( all around 1 hour)

1971 Monaco GP - Weekend of a Champion - Behind the scenes Documentary following Jackie Stewart and Tyrrell (1h20)
1980 The Frank Williams Story - Documentary following Williams F1 in the 1980 season (23 mins)
1981 Gentlemen Lift Your Skirts - Documentary following Williams F1 in the 1981 Pre-Season Testing (47 mins)

1986 Equinox - Turbo - Behind the scenes with Ferrari F1 at the San Marino GP (1h44m)
1988 Equinox - Toys for the Boys - The 1988 Season with Williams F1 Team (53 mins)
1991 The Road To Pheonix - Pre Season Testing and USA GP with McLaren F1 Team (51 mins)
1993 The Team - A Season With McLaren (6 x 30 min episodes)
1997 Benetton - A Year In The Fast Lane (6 x 25 min episodes)
1999 Driving Ambition - A Season With Eddie Jordan (36 mins)
2000 Racing Arrows - Season with Arrows F1 Team (5 x 25 min episodes)
2007 Track For Success - F1 Season with Williams (49 mins)
2007 Made In Holland - Behind the scenes with Spyker F1 (41 mins)
2008 The Factory - Williams F1 Season (8 x 26 min episodes)

phew! didn't realise I had so many! anything that takes your fancy, let me know and I'll try to find the original link - or if not I can upload

Wow, that´s a lot of footage! Nice!

I own "A season with McLaren", all episodes and I watched "The factory" on Eurosport.

What I would love to own is:

1986 Equinox - Turbo - Behind the scenes with Ferrari F1 at the San Marino GP
1988 Equinox - Toys for the Boys - The 1988 Season with Williams F1 Team
1999 Driving Ambition - A Season With Eddie Jordan
2000 Racing Arrows - Season with Arrows F1 Team



btw: The torrent link for the Benetton documentary isn´t there. iceman1, who is the admin wrote that you have to send me the link via private message. I would appreciate that

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whoops!
ok give me a minute and I'll PM you the link for the benetton torrent!

I'll start splitting and uploading today...might as well start with the 1st one...1986 Ferrari...bear with me as my upload speeds ain't great!

Just posted part 1 in the Video section:
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3721&p=85606#p85606

great job tmt, many thanks!

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thx mate.

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