Die fahrende Teekanne - Der Renault Turbo

"Will this ever amount to anything?" – Jean-Pierre Jabouille is actually a patient man… extremely modest and calm for a racing driver… but that's probably also because the Frenchman is not only a driver, but also an engineer… analytical and detail-oriented… And that's one of the reasons why Renault brought him to the team over three years ago… in the spring of 1976… the mission: to build and develop the first Formula 1 car with a turbo engine… with Jabouille, they were killing two birds with one stone… a capable engineer who was also able to drive the race car at its limit… But the three years weren't easy… Jabouille started in a total of 22 Grand Prix races from the 1977 season until the spring of 1979… and in 16 of them, the Frenchman retired due to a mechanical failure… almost always engine or turbo failure… trailing a long white plume of smoke behind him… which earned the yellow Renault the mocking nickname "the rolling teapot"… A Formula 1 racing team…sponsored by the French state, which was supposed to be a flagship French project…is increasingly becoming a laughingstock… The race in Kyalami…a month ago…offered a glimmer of hope…for the first time, the Renault turbo was on pole position…only to then retire with engine failure after just over half the race distance…and now here in Long Beach, the total embarrassment for the yellow cars…both Jabouille and his new teammate René Arnoux suffered broken driveshafts in practice…leading team principal Jean Sage to decide, for safety reasons, to withdraw both cars from the race… Jean-Pierre Jabouille is frustrated…but he finds some solace in the fact that he will be driving the new RS10 for the first time in the next race…little does he know that in less than three months he will lead the Renault turbo to its first victory…the first Grand Prix win for a turbocharged car in Formula 1 history… Like & Subscribe For more Formula 1 videos, visit    / @nabravoo   Sources: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/ https://www.motorsport-total.com/ https://primotipo.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ https://www.formelaustria.at/    / @f-won_racing   https://sfcriga.com/ https://de.wikipedia.org/ https://www.hockenheimring.de/ https://de.motorsport.com/ https://www.motorsport-magazin.com/ https://www.speedweek.com/ INFO: This video is for entertainment and informational purposes only. The copyrights of all materials used, such as images, videos, and music, are and remain the property of their respective owners. Despite extensive research, it was not possible to identify the copyright holders for all image and video material. I request that individuals and institutions who hold rights to this material contact me for appropriate compensation. I make no claim to this content. I invoke fair use and the right to quote for the purpose of illustrating the information presented in this documentation. Disclaimer: All images and video clips used are marked for "Editorial Use" from the copyright owner. Furthermore, Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 grants allowance for "fair use" (in German, "Zitatrecht") for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright law that might otherwise be infringing. [The last sentence appears to be incomplete and unrelated to the preceding text.] 0:00 French Tristesse 2:23 The End of a Myth 3:38 Gordini 4:36 The Supercharged V6 6:37 The Eternal Test Car 10:41 The Botched Premiere 12:11 Formula 1's Laughingstock 13:36 The Breakthrough 17:05 The New Driver 20:26 Still Not World Champion 22:45 Light and Shadow 27:03 End and New Beginning