The "algorithm" popped this up for me. Takes me back to sitting up on the grass at Moss corner / Mosport in the 1970s. Rules? Ha! Hearing the Chevy concert through those megaphones echoing off the pine trees up the back straight no matter what the body work - McLaren, Shadow, Lola etc. These normally aspirated Chevy torque monsters on full chat is an unparalleled concert that has to be felt and heard to truly appreciate pure motor racing. Nice to see the fire-breathing turbo pretenders falling by the wayside to the rule of cubic inches are king. Even the cool-down lap sounds mean! Great to see / hear these monsters in angry mode - thanks. Makes me wish for a brown stubby to drink to bygone eras (sorry only an old Canuck gets the last bit, eh).
When I was a kid I had the pleasure of standing next to one as it was started Scared the hell out of me but I loved it! Incredible, beautiful and flat out fast...
No traction control, no ABS, three pedals, a stick and no floppy paddles - oh, and 700 ft-lbs of torque in a 1700 lb car. Truly an awesome driver to master one of these things.
@@thethirdman225 I've heard (and read it in countless auto magazines) as ft-lbs all my life here in the U.S. Has it changed recently or are you in a different part of the world?
@@Veeter99 No, those mags are simply wrong. It’s an extremely common misconception. I’m not making this up. People just get the words the wrong way around. A foot pound is the work done by one pound acting over a distance of one foot. A pound foot is a unit of torque and is the amount of rotational force imparted by one pound acting on a lever one foot long. Newtons and Newton Metres make a lot more sense. Apart from anything else, they deal with mass, rather than weight and secondly, they’re easier to differentiate.
Thanks for bringing back the golden years, of brute force and pure horsepower. And don’t forget that sound, from a little old fuel injected Chevy V8. Glory days!
Nicely driven, and love the tribute to Danny with the helmet. We don't see enough of the Can Am cars here in NZ. We have a wonderful selection of F5000, but not enough Can Am. Thank you for sharing (can't believe it's taken me this long to find this video). 🇳🇿🏁👍
Denny was an amazing character . I did not know him but listened to many conversations he had . Despite people calling him the bear he was a chatty funny guy when he was relaxed .He was underrated as a driver too . He beat his team boss in the 67 world championship and was a master in these cars and was competitive in F1 till the day he retired.I used to see him in the paddock at Tasman series races. However make no bones about it he was as tough as they come!
He was called "bear" for the strength of his character, for his posture, for doing things the way he thought they should be done. He was admired for that and will continue to be remembered. I have a miniature of his McLaren M19 on my desk. Race In Peace, Denny!
Saw Denny lead from the pole, in the Gulf McLaren M8F at the 1971 Road America Can Am as a little kid. Took off like a shot from Jackie Stewart in his LM T260 Lola who could not keep up. Vivid memory of watching these opening laps at corner 14. We got to Fireman’s Hill above Turn 5, in time to see Denny coast down escape road with a broken half shaft. #7 Gulf McLaren M8F Peter Revson won after starting from back with no qualifying time. 740 HP was quoted in 1971. No one was blocking the fence line with roped off canopies, the hippies were not as selfish as today ‘s road racing spectators are.
Beautiful… I saw Hulme and Revson drive the M8F at Le Circuit. They finished second and third to Stewart in the Lola T-260…..beautiful cars…brings back. Empires of childhood heroes who are no longer with us.
This video of the McLaren M8F and driver were ultimate cool. Driver did a remarkable job of pushing it where it needed to go. McLaren is my all time favorite Can-Am race cars.
@@RogerBarraud what guy? The driver? If that's what you're saying, congratulations for being just another internet cliché. An internet troll. Or maybe you didn't watch the entire video, because after he got the tires up to temp, he let it rip. But maybe you think you could do better. Nah, you're just a lame troll.
One of the great sports car drivers driving surely, one of the greatest sports cars. Denny Hulme, F1 Champion, Le Mans winner and as he proved during the Can-Am series, a master of using big power. Great to watch him at work.
Denny Hulme n'a pas été déclaré vainqueur au Mans. Le Mans 1966, les vainqueurs sont Bruce Mc Laren / Chris Amon. Denny Hulme / Ken Miles ont été classés en seconde position pour quelques mètres.
It is a lot more challenging to drive one of these cars than a regular drivers realizes. . Wonderful machine. If you are not a track person you can only imagine what it is like. Driving on the conservative side at a Historic Invitational is the correct thing to do.
The thing I learned quickly in GTP is the fact that they aren't made to be corner monsters. Just fast on the straights. McLaren sought to change this & was a great driver making fewer mistakes to boot.
The only time I have ever seen these things in action, it struck me how slow and deliberate the drivers made the gear changes. I could only assume that the change was very heavy and that the possibility of rear wheel lock was never very far from their minds. They look like a real handful.
Actually, working out on the course, you'd find the huge V-8s in the McLarens relatively quiet compared to much smaller V-8s in Trans-Am cars, ferinstance.
Great video of my all-time favorite race car. The driver seemed very careful. Ordinarily he would have eaten all those cars in the race in short order.
Check it out; Denny Hulme died in his racecar at Bathurst in 1992 from a heart attack. Great driver and former world F1 champ and gentleman. It's only his name on the helmet.
I saw it happen during that race. What a great way to go for a true road warrior! To die doing what you love...not in bed at night. We should be so fortunate. But yes, he could've tried a little harder. The car was & is a beast, & wouldn't have suffered from it. Sill have the 1:20 scale model with his livery on it.
Can-Am races lasted for a couple of hours , that looks a heavy , exhausting car to muscle around for that length of time . no power steer , of course . Denny Hulmes nick-name was " the bear " more for his temperament , but he was a brawny strong guy , which was why these cars suited him , and he had much success in them .
What are you talking about? That car weighed 1500lbs and the engine weighed about 470lbs and all of it was well behind the front axle centerline. I bet this car was fantastic to drive. Would you say the McLaren F1 was a heavy beast to drive? The M8F was 700lbs lighter.
The people commentating that race had no idea what the achievements of Denny Hulme were. It upset me at the time. Probably in the top 5 drivers to come out of this part of the world. He was F1 world champion in 1967 and won it in a brilliant handling but towards the end of the year underpowered car. He beat Jack Brabham fairly and squarely and Jim Clark in the slightly unreliable Lotus 49. Denny was very quiet just loved motor racing. He was a close personal friend of Frank Gardner who gave him the drive in the 1992 Bathurst Race.. He was runner up in the 1966 Le Mans in Ken Miles o Ford Gt Mk11 in a controversial form finish that gave the race to Mclaren/Amon. He won more can am races than I believe anybody else. He was though a tough guy., his father Clive won a Victoria Cross in WW 11. I do have a bit of a problem with the helmet because my friend and I met him at Sandown Park in Melbourne, and he talked with us, he is not just a name to me.Boy could he tell a story a real natural, he would sit on the back tyre and spin a yarn, that was on the Thursday and Friday before the race, Saturday the crowd would hit and they would see the determined and quiet Denny. Imagine a 16 year old listening to a Formula 1 world champion tell stories. I was on cloud nine.But I understand what these guys are doing and I appreciate that they are keeping these wonderful cars alive.
The helmet may say "Denny Hulme" but it's someone else driving. Denny was long gone by 2014. Actual vintage racing starts after 4:30, and after the white Mustang is passed, no other cars are seen until a back-marker appears before 18:00. The form in Vintage racing is to pass on straights not fight it out in curves. Nattering voices in sound track talk about a Brabham and bug-eye Sprites...NOT in this video! Must be some kind of generic narration... yeah, the Lotus 23 from Boca Raton wins it... or not...
Remembering the late 60s and the early 70s, Mclaren wasn’t ever the fastest. Bruce and Denny won because of durability. UOP Shadow, Lola, Nd of course Chaparral were always faster. But Mclaren very seldom broke.
That McLaren showed just how insanely fast those old CanAm cars were..
could been faster if it wernt for the gatekeeps
The "algorithm" popped this up for me. Takes me back to sitting up on the grass at Moss corner / Mosport in the 1970s. Rules? Ha! Hearing the Chevy concert through those megaphones echoing off the pine trees up the back straight no matter what the body work - McLaren, Shadow, Lola etc. These normally aspirated Chevy torque monsters on full chat is an unparalleled concert that has to be felt and heard to truly appreciate pure motor racing. Nice to see the fire-breathing turbo pretenders falling by the wayside to the rule of cubic inches are king. Even the cool-down lap sounds mean! Great to see / hear these monsters in angry mode - thanks. Makes me wish for a brown stubby to drink to bygone eras (sorry only an old Canuck gets the last bit, eh).
When I was a kid I had the pleasure of standing next to one as it was started Scared the hell out of me but I loved it! Incredible, beautiful and flat out fast...
No traction control, no ABS, three pedals, a stick and no floppy paddles - oh, and 700 ft-lbs of torque in a 1700 lb car. Truly an awesome driver to master one of these things.
Torque is pound feet, not foot pounds.
@@thethirdman225 I've heard (and read it in countless auto magazines) as ft-lbs all my life here in the U.S. Has it changed recently or are you in a different part of the world?
@@Veeter99 No, those mags are simply wrong. It’s an extremely common misconception. I’m not making this up. People just get the words the wrong way around.
A foot pound is the work done by one pound acting over a distance of one foot. A pound foot is a unit of torque and is the amount of rotational force imparted by one pound acting on a lever one foot long.
Newtons and Newton Metres make a lot more sense. Apart from anything else, they deal with mass, rather than weight and secondly, they’re easier to differentiate.
It's easier to go with nm 🙂
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A fantastic drive. Truly a pleasure to watch you hunt down the more recent machinery.
Thanks for bringing back the golden years, of brute force and pure horsepower. And don’t forget that sound, from a little old fuel injected Chevy V8. Glory days!
Yes an incredible sound! I wouldn't call the 8.0 Liter V8 small though.
Nicely driven, and love the tribute to Danny with the helmet. We don't see enough of the Can Am cars here in NZ. We have a wonderful selection of F5000, but not enough Can Am. Thank you for sharing (can't believe it's taken me this long to find this video). 🇳🇿🏁👍
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Denny was an amazing character . I did not know him but listened to many conversations he had . Despite people calling him the bear he was a chatty funny guy when he was relaxed .He was underrated as a driver too . He beat his team boss in the 67 world championship and was a master in these cars and was competitive in F1 till the day he retired.I used to see him in the paddock at Tasman series races. However make no bones about it he was as tough as they come!
He was called "bear" for the strength of his character, for his posture, for doing things the way he thought they should be done. He was admired for that and will continue to be remembered. I have a miniature of his McLaren M19 on my desk. Race In Peace, Denny!
His father was a WWII Victoria Cross recipient.
Saw Denny lead from the pole, in the Gulf McLaren M8F at the 1971 Road America Can Am as a little kid. Took off like a shot from Jackie Stewart in his LM T260 Lola who could not keep up. Vivid memory of watching these opening laps at corner 14. We got to Fireman’s Hill above Turn 5, in time to see Denny coast down escape road with a broken half shaft. #7 Gulf McLaren M8F Peter Revson won after starting from back with no qualifying time. 740 HP was quoted in 1971. No one was blocking the fence line with roped off canopies, the hippies were not as selfish as today ‘s road racing spectators are.
Beautiful… I saw Hulme and Revson drive the M8F at Le Circuit. They finished second and third to Stewart in the Lola T-260…..beautiful cars…brings back. Empires of childhood heroes who are no longer with us.
This video of the McLaren M8F and driver were ultimate cool. Driver did a remarkable job of pushing it where it needed to go. McLaren is my all time favorite Can-Am race cars.
My impression was that this guy is a bit of a HalfAss.
@@RogerBarraud what guy? The driver? If that's what you're saying, congratulations for being just another internet cliché. An internet troll. Or maybe you didn't watch the entire video, because after he got the tires up to temp, he let it rip. But maybe you think you could do better. Nah, you're just a lame troll.
Definite extra cool points for the Gulf sticker on Denny's hemlet.
My arms are sore just watching him steer
One of the great sports car drivers driving surely, one of the greatest sports cars. Denny Hulme, F1 Champion, Le Mans winner and as he proved during the Can-Am series, a master of using big power. Great to watch him at work.
Denny Hulme n'a pas été déclaré vainqueur au Mans.
Le Mans 1966, les vainqueurs sont Bruce Mc Laren / Chris Amon.
Denny Hulme / Ken Miles ont été classés en seconde position pour quelques mètres.
Looks like a blast to drive! That sound!!!!
It is a lot more challenging to drive one of these cars than a regular drivers realizes. . Wonderful machine. If you are not a track person you can only imagine what it is like. Driving on the conservative side at a Historic Invitational is the correct thing to do.
The thing I learned quickly in GTP is the fact that they aren't made to be corner monsters. Just fast on the straights. McLaren sought to change this & was a great driver making fewer mistakes to boot.
The only time I have ever seen these things in action, it struck me how slow and deliberate the drivers made the gear changes. I could only assume that the change was very heavy and that the possibility of rear wheel lock was never very far from their minds. They look like a real handful.
These things were so damn fast!
Stratahoovius They are also some of the best sounding cars ever
Geoff Nicosia Those big-blocks sounded more like tsunamis crashing against the coast than regular V8s, lol!
Actually, working out on the course, you'd find the huge V-8s in the McLarens relatively quiet compared to much smaller V-8s in Trans-Am cars, ferinstance.
So it's basically a 900 hp go kart. Scary by today's standards.
Great video of my all-time favorite race car. The driver seemed very careful. Ordinarily he would have eaten all those cars in the race in short order.
Mark H Denny passed away in 1993 when driving a M3 at Bathurst
Denny IS Smiling....
Check it out; Denny Hulme died in his racecar at Bathurst in 1992 from a heart attack. Great driver and former world F1 champ and gentleman. It's only his name on the helmet.
I saw it happen during that race. What a great way to go for a true road warrior! To die doing what you love...not in bed at night. We should be so fortunate. But yes, he could've tried a little harder. The car was & is a beast, & wouldn't have suffered from it. Sill have the 1:20 scale model with his livery on it.
Bob Rowe correct. We like to try and wear the correct drivers outfit while we drive out cars. it's more fun for both us and the fans
And he pulled off to prevent hurting anyone else.
I can't believe how fast that white Mustang was.
JB91710 what do you call those type of mustangs?
gt1 car m8
A true master at work.......Godspeed Denny Hulme
Beast Mode.
Can-Am races lasted for a couple of hours , that looks a heavy , exhausting car to muscle around for that length of time . no power steer , of course . Denny Hulmes nick-name was " the bear " more for his temperament , but he was a brawny strong guy , which was why these cars suited him , and he had much success in them .
+chopperking1122 Scrawny McLaren could drive one!
What are you talking about? That car weighed 1500lbs and the engine weighed about 470lbs and all of it was well behind the front axle centerline. I bet this car was fantastic to drive. Would you say the McLaren F1 was a heavy beast to drive? The M8F was 700lbs lighter.
@@limowreck2612 Heavy steering. Heavy gear change.
Wonderful video of an absolutely amazing vintage race car. R&K Motors now have this car in their private collection showroom - NotForSale
+John Z No they do not. This car is still owned by the same private owner and will not be coming up for sale.
You simply need a lot more likes for this footage !!! Mine is yours...
Weird mix of cars...
Glorious sound though
Serious stones on all these drivers. They all look a handful lol.
Does someone have Peter Revson's car from then?
Obviously not Denny Hulme driving, he died of a heart attack while racing in the 1992 Bathurst 1000.
NZ Salt Flats Racer correct, it's the current owner of the car
But, I like the fact that he has a duplicate helmet so you get the whole vintage look
Sure, me too.
I was at the Bathurst race in 1992.A very eventful race.R.I.P Denny Hulme.
The people commentating that race had no idea what the achievements of Denny Hulme were. It upset me at the time. Probably in the top 5 drivers to come out of this part of the world. He was F1 world champion in 1967 and won it in a brilliant handling but towards the end of the year underpowered car. He beat Jack Brabham fairly and squarely and Jim Clark in the slightly unreliable Lotus 49. Denny was very quiet just loved motor racing. He was a close personal friend of Frank Gardner who gave him the drive in the 1992 Bathurst Race.. He was runner up in the 1966 Le Mans in Ken Miles o Ford Gt Mk11 in a controversial form finish that gave the race to Mclaren/Amon. He won more can am races than I believe anybody else. He was though a tough guy., his father Clive won a Victoria Cross in WW 11. I do have a bit of a problem with the helmet because my friend and I met him at Sandown Park in Melbourne, and he talked with us, he is not just a name to me.Boy could he tell a story a real natural, he would sit on the back tyre and spin a yarn, that was on the Thursday and Friday before the race, Saturday the crowd would hit and they would see the determined and quiet Denny. Imagine a 16 year old listening to a Formula 1 world champion tell stories. I was on cloud nine.But I understand what these guys are doing and I appreciate that they are keeping these wonderful cars alive.
Camera needs to be a bit higher. The wind screen distorts our view.
I would love to see a modern Can-Am series with the same rules....(no rules).do you think 2000 hp could last 200 miles?
Seems strange to be driving "clockwise" around Indy....passing the tower on your right...
Paul R very strange to watch indy in reverse
Road racing is almost always done clockwise.
I guess the Indy 500 isn't considered a road race. Oval track races seem to many times be counter clockwise....I'm not sure if they all are.
@@paulr7801 road races turn left AND right. :^)
"Outta my way, N00bs!!!1!!"
:-(
It’s just an 8.8 Liter V8...lol!
Kinda torquey Huh. Wow
Who's the driver here?
Chris MacAllister
Pulls like a freight train in third gear
Indy.
The helmet may say "Denny Hulme" but it's someone else driving. Denny was long gone by 2014. Actual vintage racing starts after 4:30, and after the white Mustang is passed, no other cars are seen until a back-marker appears before 18:00. The form in Vintage racing is to pass on straights not fight it out in curves. Nattering voices in sound track talk about a Brabham and bug-eye Sprites...NOT in this video! Must be some kind of generic narration... yeah, the Lotus 23 from Boca Raton wins it... or not...
I have a suggestion - why not mount the camera where half the road is obscured by the windscreen?
Too many Wombats, too many BillyCarts...
Remembering the late 60s and the early 70s, Mclaren wasn’t ever the fastest. Bruce and Denny won because of durability. UOP Shadow, Lola, Nd of course Chaparral were always faster. But Mclaren very seldom broke.
Denny would spin in his grave if he heard the horrible mismatching on the down shifts. Gentleman drivers....ughh. Unwatchable.