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Which F1 Decade Is Your Favourite?
1950's 2 (5.9%)
1960's 4 (11.8%)
1970's 4 (11.8%)
1980's 14 (41.2%)
1990's 7 (20.6%)
2000's 3 (8.8%)
Total Votes: 34
Your Favourite F1 Decade
Topic Started: Feb 27 2007, 11:26 AM (324 Views)
Paul_Murtagh
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With F1 well into it's 6th decade of racing, which decade do you feel has been the best in F1 history?
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theghostofnuvolari
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votes seem fairly evenly spread, which is cool. i'm surprised why no-one's written any reasons down yet.

i voted for the 70's as i felt it was a very experimental time, and the cars didn't look like the clones of the 90's, nor the slippery cigars of the 60's. i can watch stewart sliding his tyrrell all day, fat slicks, dodgy aerodynamics, nurburgring, hunt vs lauda, the jps lotus, chapman, sideburns and flares.

on a rainy sunday you could give me the 70's championship dvd's and i'd be happy as a pig in poo. :D
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John
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They are evenly spaced because the poll is flawed... as it is possible to vote in 1, 2, 3.... or even all era's......

I found that out when I could'nt decide as all racing is good... <thumbs>
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JJB-Ferrari
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The 1980's:

Prost, Senna, Lauda, Piquet, Reutermann, De Angelis, Jones, Mansell, Arnoux, Laffite, Villeneuve, Rosberg, Capelli;

Lotus, Brabham, Tryrell and Ligier's final period of competitivness;

turbo engines, v 6's, v 8's, v 10's and v 12's.

composites, active suspension, flat-bottomed cars, hydro-electric transmission, damper units, pneumatic suspension to change the hight of the car to meet regulations in the pits and lower the car when on the track!

oh, and the Kyalami GP!!!

I can't see what else you could ask for in a single decade of motor racing. This is without doubt my favourite era for the sport DESPITE the fact that my beloved Ferrari won very little during those 10 years.
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The Saint
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Oh the 80's...no doubt there.

I canot see why anyone would pick the Schu dominant years.....they were bloody awful!
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John
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Not for the Schumacher fan's it wasn't..... <rolleyes>
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The Saint
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Well for MOTORSPORT fans it was awful.
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John
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Got me..... <clap>

The Era you started watching must be the greatest as it was exciting enough to grip you....

I started in the mid 1980's so I agree... it holds many great memories
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John,Feb 27 2007
02:32 PM
Got me..... <clap>

The Era you started watching must be the greatest as it was exciting enough to grip you....

I started in the mid 1980's so I agree... it holds many great memories

Same here I started to watch F1 in 1983 but really got into it in 84 <thumbs>
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JJB-Ferrari,Feb 27 2007
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The 1980's:

Prost, Senna, Lauda, Piquet, Reutermann, De Angelis, Jones, Mansell, Arnoux, Laffite, Villeneuve, Rosberg, Capelli;

Lotus, Brabham, Tryrell and Ligier's final period of competitivness;

turbo engines, v 6's, v 8's, v 10's and v 12's.

composites, active suspension, flat-bottomed cars, hydro-electric transmission, damper units, pneumatic suspension to change the hight of the car to meet regulations in the pits and lower the car when on the track!

oh, and the Kyalami GP!!!

I can't see what else you could ask for in a single decade of motor racing. This is without doubt my favourite era for the sport DESPITE the fact that my beloved Ferrari won very little during those 10 years.

Yes, the 1980's. The time of the crazy technological advances and insane speed from the turbo cars. Throw in some great drivers as well.
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flood1
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Well, I'm a little off center here because I like it now because all of those other races have been decided. If I could relive the past, the late seventies and the early eighties (coincides with my university years).

Old Dr. Who or New Dr. Who. Well, I've seen all those old stories, I'd like to see the next one.

I just hope that 2007 is a year that we we talk about 10 years from now.
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gillesno27
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I voted 1970s, although it was close with the 1980s. I was born in 1983 and started watcing in about 1987 so I have vivid memories of Senna in the Camel Lotus 99T, Red5, Berger's mighty Imola crash, etc. It's just that I find the 1970s an infinitely fascinating decade for touring cars, sportscars and F1. F5000 and both Can-Am (Group 7 and Single-seat) series were active. The whole scene appears more relaxed and the car in that period were uncomplicated enough so that I can now enjoy watching them in GP Masters and TGP. The circuits were great and the drivers were real characters.

If only I had been born in 1963 to really enjoy it to the full!
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mpv2409
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It's got be the 80's.

The cars were better looking, the engines were insane and it was a period of experimental and advancing technologies. Fatter tyres, less aero and less electronics made the cars look more exciting on the twisty stuff, and the drivers were real Hero's.

The main reason for me though is that it was the decade I was introduced to it (born in 79) and I still have great memories of the levels of access you'd get at Brands Hatch around the paddock and pits, even on race day, and you could stand right at the armco wherever you wanted........not anymore! In fact just this xmas my Dad dug out a photo of me in Mansell's Williams the day before he drove it to his first win....oh the memories!!! :D
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John,Feb 27 2007
02:26 PM
Not for the Schumacher fan's it wasn't..... <rolleyes>

no, it was GLORIOUS!!! even just to see how much it wound everybody else up!
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dcoulthard19
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I would probably go for the 80s, that was clearly a very good era in F1 but I think the 90s were very good(apart from Senna's death). You had some great battles between MS and Hill and MS and Mika that will be remembered. Also MS turned out to be good.

In the early part of the decade we had Senna, Prost and Mansell entertaining us.
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