Motor Racing at the BBC. BBC4 8pm tonight

Ace, thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks for that! Programmed to record!

Looks good, But Ive missed the start,

If anyone else has,
these are the times its repeated
:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rd365/broadcasts/upcoming

That was brilliant

Part two is on at 8:30 tonight.

Formula One's archive series continues by charting how the oily rag pioneers of British motor racing emerged from the garages of rural England to take on the slick, Italian marques. A mixture of inspiration and perspiration led teams like Vanwall, Cooper and Lotus to dominate the sport for over a decade from the late 1950s onwards. Former mechanics Jack Brabham and Graham Hill became world champion drivers, John Cooper revolutionised the sport by moving the engine from front to back, and Colin Chapman, the genius of Lotus, created the aerodynamic racing shape we know today. All powered by a treat of a period soundtrack and some alarmingly pukka BBC voices.

;D

Part three tonight

The 'Rock 'n' Roll Years' of Formula One archive series reaches the undoubted golden age for British drivers that was the 1960s. This was when a quiet Scot, Jim Clark, and a debonair Englishman, Graham Hill, could be regularly relied on to lord it over the world championship. As they swinged their way through the rankings, Britain beyond the paddock was swinging its way through the Sixties. And the BBC was on hand to link the glitz and the glamour of grand prix racing to the aspirations of a growing audience of 'petrolheads' with the magazine show Wheelbase - a blokeish forerunner of Top Gear

Not available on iPlayer for some unfathomable reason? Either way, excellent show, just love it.

I really hope they get as far as the 80's, rally cross and turbo F1, yes please

wasn't it just. was to young to remember it.

in next episode is the nikki lauda one, remember seeing it at the time as a youngster & thinking how painful & terrifying that situation must be.
had nminor burns welding , not enough to even scare & that hurt enough.

repeated tonight at 11pm well worth watching/recording if you haven't seen it