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Video: Lap of Long Beach with Patrick Depailler
With talk of a possible return of Formula 1 to Long Beach here's a view of the original city circuit where the F1 cars ran from 1976 to 1983 in what was known as the United States Grand Prix West. This video shows the Tyrrell of Patrick Depailler who would finish third in the 1978 race and win at Monaco a month later, in a time when on-board cameras were still a realm of science fiction. This footage was filmed with a cine camera bolted onto the roll bar of the Tyrell 008 when the team was still a front runner in F1. At the time the Ground Effects Era was in full swing. The cars were very fast and also a hand full to drive well. On this true street circuit, you went from concrete...
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