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Remember Speedvision they'd show Alms races all the time, along with the SCCA races with the RealTime Integras...I drove an Integra at the time so i was extremely interested in Kleinubing pedaling his Integra to all those wins
@@jesselee4279 You and me both...I had a 2000 Integra that I put a Vtec head on with a ball bearing T3/T4 turbo, greddy intercooler, full exhaust, racing seats...white Konig wheels and a white grill to hide the intercooler... I'd give anything to have that car back... The car was Milano Red
One of the craziest, best sounding and fastest GT1 and GT3 cars of all time as a german, i miss the Corvettes on the Nordschleife. Bring them back. Aswell the Vipers and Panoz monsters.
Those 3 you mentioned were monsters of a car the Vette wit its sound n performance the Vipe wit its dominance n the Panoz wit its sleek design. In my opinion those 3 were the best at that time. Not including the Saleen S7
My friend's brother bought a C5R from a team in Belgium and I was there for the initial fire-up @ his Corvette Repair shop in Mtn View, CA....It was still in full FIA race specifications with a shockingly long procedure to start & warm up the engine. The FIA mandated 27mm(?) restrictor orifices were still in place on the race motor....Also the Carbon Brakes. There was a group of people there from Pratt & Miller and Katech to train on the systems of the car. Sadly he never was able to truly enjoy the C5R as he had a tragic medical diagnosis a few months after buying that piece of history. He had another Corvette race car that you overlooked that also competed @ Le Mans the 1968 L-88 Corvette had a couple of decent showings @ LeMans....RIP Jim H.....You were an amazing guy who accomplished quite a bit in your lifetime.
Interesting note about Dale Jr's crash at Sonoma; *To this day* Dale says his memory of the moments immediately following the car bursting into flame are that a lone brave track marshal reached into the inferno and pulled Jr to safety. This isn't what happened. Video does show a marshal getting to Jr and guiding him away from the car to the medical team...but Dale gets out of the car on his own. He believes he sustained an undiagnosed concussion during an earlier round of the NASCAR Cup Series that was aggravated by this crash.
And the fact that he fell into arguably the same death trap that his father unfortunately did yet made it out alive in the end, he’s gotta understand what a lucky fella he is surviving what is essentially a flashback to Dale Sr.’s 2001 tragedy. Incredible! It’s kind of like Dale’s biggest haters literally wanted to end his continuation of his father’s legacy (because they’re just jealous of it, I guess??) so I guess they conducted witchcraft so that he would crash and burn. But NOPE, that fast-on-the-track mf proved em’ wrong!
I am a true Vette hound , however , team ORECA and their Vipers . This was an incredible era to be passionate for this arena of motorsport . I would have house parties on race-day. We would place bets on our favorite cars , it was so much fun .
I always remember one Top Gear when they tested the latest Corvette against the newest TVR. It was all “ohh, this destroys it in a straight line, it’s almost 1000 pounds lighter, and unlike the Corvette, this one can handle”. And then the Corvette blitzes it by something like 6 seconds around the lap.
@@theKashConnoisseurI mean, it was pretty deserved lol. Even that corvette looked like it’s interior was done as a Fisher Price special edition. The Vette and GT40 are the only proper cars we’ve ever built, and even then only some of them. It took us until the C8 to build a true world beater that wasn’t desperately hoping you’d never actually get into it and see the interior. That said, what a car to finally get right. The C8 is truly a triumph.
@@piedpiper1172 the entire reason the Corvette is a bargain supercar is because they didn’t bother milling the stereo knobs out of billet titanium. If they bothered with all of that useless euro-twaddle, they’d cost just as much.
@@ImInLoveWithBulla The C8 is half the cost of any comparable car, and it’s interior isn’t detailed by Fisher Price. There is a gap between billet titanium volume knobs and discount play pen plastic, the interior.
So is the C5. It may have Chevrolet build quality, but it was a very impressive car for the time. It’s also the last car ever produced with pop-up headlights. The Esprit ended production before the C6 came out.
Great presentation as always. As an aside, it’s bizarre to me that people actually get upset with the fact that different cultures have different accents and pronounce words differently.
The issue with Aluminum is that it's actually spelled different in Britain but many people don't realize that. They think the Brits just pronounce an I that isn't there. But it is in British spelling ... Aluminum vs. Aluminium
Gosh I love the sound of a roaring American V8! Sounds like a godly beast. The Compuware Yellow Corvette is an iconic GT race car that I'll never forget. Edit: That's amazing, I had no idea that the C5R was piloted by the Earnhardts. What a legend!
I remembered this iconic 2000 Corvette C5R in Gran Turismo 3 A Spec and R:Racing Evolution.... On Gran Turismo 3, it even can battle Rin Hoshizora's R390GT1 LM 1998 with proper tuning!
To put in perspective the time the Corvette came out Eisenhower was president, USS Enterprise still existed as more than a Star trek name. The interstate highway system had yet to exist. Daytona speedway was 6 years away.
Legend. That is one way to describe it. Color scheme should be called Championship Yellow. The C5R set the standard for Corvette's racing pedigree. In 2023 a Texan, Dutchman, and Argentine conquered the world in a C8R with two races left in the season. Also winning in class at the Centenary 24hrs of Le Mans also helps.
I still remember getting this car in Gran Turismo 4 when I was a kid. This thing is absolutely legendary. It's so iconic, and it awesome to see that it's not just iconic to Americans.
The C5r was amazing, but it would have been legend if Dale Sr didnt pass away in '01, he was absolutely falling in love with team ownership AND sportscar racing! I could see a world where Dale Sr's DEI team became the Penske of GM and his team's Cadillacs racing at Le Mans, god we were all so robbed!!!!
I think about this often! We were robbed, Jr was robbed, and we were robbed of how good Jr would've been. It's sad af tbh. I could 100% see Dale having a corvette team and possibly an 8th cup championship. I hate this timeline we're on
ive got heritage on both sides, but know less and less about my native UK. Used to think i knew alot, but i was 3 when i left for godsakes. Anyway, I still like the general attitudes back there. Folks tend to let you be you, be it wanker or night jester or maybe you like bright orange jeeps! Its all good, you be you. . Cheers from the US, now a citizen.
the C6R (and the Vipers, for due respect) shook me to my core at the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. the noise and vibrations coming from that engine out that exhaust just absolutely topped anything else on track.
@DCresident123 You know what's cringe? The late 80s IMSA GTO rules. They kept changing because the Audi with the turbo chirping V5 kept kicking ass week in and week out. Meanwhile, the C4 Corvette and Foxbody Mustang with V8s are getting roasted by the GOAT Frank Biela and the Audi factory team.
Still have a big ol 1 18 of the 2001 Corvette #3 that raced the 24H of Daytona..its .the weathered race version Miss you Dale ..... i watched that race ..actually made an still have 4 VHS tapes ...It took 4 brand new vcr tapes at the time lol 4 Tapes ! I still have them an work just fine ..Good ol Speed vision i belive .
Watching that GTP turn in SO suddenly between 1:21 and 1:26 hurts my eyes every time. Those cars must have been incredibly pointy. You can literally see the MOMENT the steering wheel moves, the entire nose of the car just GOES. Also, as someone who was born and raised in the Motor City, it's Kay-tek. Not Kah-tek. :P Pratt and Miller, Katech, Kinsler (famous for his ITBs in Indycar), and so many other huge racing shops and tuners are within an hour of Metro Detroit. It's a highly underrated motorsport haven.
We're gonna need a video on that Ferrari. I had heard of that 550 GT car but never knew just how quick they were off the bat or that they decided not to contest unexpectedly.
The C5 Corvette, the road car, got a lot of flak from the European automotive press (hurr hurr leaf spring suspension) but it was a very advanced car. Front mid engine, rear transaxle, perfect weight distribution, more rigid yet lighter than the competition, and the LS engine is a legendary thing people are still building today. My car has a highly modified example that makes 800 horsepower on low boost.
Cheers, mate! One of my all-time favourite race cars - seen the shot with the two C5.R's crossing the finish line at Le Mans in 2001? It had rained a lot that Le Mans, and those two, otherwise beautiful chrome yellow Vettes, were dirty like pigs 😁
So pretty much, The C5R couldn’t beat the viper until manufacture support was severed. As legendary as this car is, it is a 2nd place project at the end of the day. I’d choose ORECA’s GTS Viper every time
Team Aluminium! And I live in the US... but I'm European :D I have a C5R model 1:18 scale model, and the C5 is still one of my favorite Corvettes of all times!
I may be wrong because I'm still getting into looking at them, but I believe all engines called LS1 were 5.7L and a 6.0 liter would be an LS2 (or a few others, but those aren't aluminum so they wouldn't be the one he's talking about)
The C4 was really the first Corvette to break away from it's wishy washy older siblings. It was Banned from SCCA because it beat everything in the circuit. Through Callaway's Secret Sauce the C4 Was arguably the first full production "Hyper Car" as well. GM took everythign they had learned from the C4 and baked it into the C5.
Awesome video! I have a suggestion, could you do videos on the Corvette C6.R, the Saleen S7R, and the Callaway Corvette's that raced before the C5.R that you mentioned earlier on in the video.
Amazing vid. as always! I love all your stuff and have watched every single vid (I think). But if I could make a suggestion: Would it be possible to display the actual year of the topic you're talking about up the corner at all times? I find I lose track sometimes!
Completely miss the C4 dominance in racing. They were so unbeatable they were kicked out of the Escort Series. They were also 29-0 vs the 944 turbo in the series. They had to create their own series called the "Corvette Challenge" series. Then came the C4 zr1 and right after the Callaway. Then the sledgehammer corvette and the different dominating variants from the base model, grand sport (lt4) and zr1.
The yellow paint with black rear is not on the same level of finesse and advertisement as Lancia, Toyota, Porsche, BMW and many other factory teams brandished in other racing series at the time. But if there ever was a paint scheme that says it means business, this on the C5 was it.
Let us not forget that Prodrive managed to give the Corvette C5-R Proper competition...while having NO factory support from Ferrari whatsoever. I cannot think of another instance where that has happened since (Closest I can think of is the Reiter Engineering Lamborghinis, but it wasn't nearly on the same level of success Or even production of said cars).
I wanted to buy a skyline living in Idaho thought it would be cool and then I realized Corvette basically have the same tail lights so as long as you're winning, nobody can tell
One of the few home-grown racing efforts I as an Murican don't have to follow trepidatiously waiting for the engine to grenade itself after 3 laps assuming Wade Wankerson III doesn't Leeroy Jenkins the thing into the damn wall or finish in 365th place behind Scuderia G-Wiz. Great stuff as usual. I would absolutely LOVE a Saleen S7 vid!
@@DCresident123 So slow that it was keeping up with LMPs on the straights, and was 3 seconds faster than the entire GTE AM field? So slow that after it broke 20 hours into the race and fell to last place, it still managed to finish 39th overall? Looking at the reporting on the event, it seems like the Garage 56 NASCAR entry performed better than almost anyone expected.
@@theKashConnoisseur it was unregulated and STILL finished 39th out of 40 LOL.... also no it didnt keep up with lpms what on earth are you talking about? Plus with a trans swap they wouldnt be allowed to continue if they were in an actual class. Try learning first before posting such wrong comments...
@@DCresident123 you can watch it keeping up with LMPs on most of the Mulsanne straight. But you obviously didn't pay attention to the coverage. Also, 39th out of 70 or so cars, not 40. What part of "it was able to run 3 seconds faster than the entire GTE AM field" did you fail to comprehend lol. I bet you honestly think no other LMPs or GT cars had mechanical issues, either.
@@theKashConnoisseur only 40 finished... also are you too dumb to get that it was unregulated and STILL broke down and it wouldnt be allowed to continue if in class? Also do you even know that like 90% of the car was changed?
Remember when the twin turbo Callaway Corvette "Sledgehammer" that held the title of Fastest Production Car from 1988 to 1999 with a 255 mph top speed? I sure do. Especially when I look at my own Callaway Corvette
It's less strange when you consider where the Chrysler group sells most of their products, and what forms of motorsports that specific market is interested in. It's no less strange than Porsche's absense from the NASCAR ovals. Porsche buyers, in general, don't watch NASCAR. Dodge buyers, in general, don't watch the 24 Hrs of Le Mans.
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Excellent video idea.... check out Pierre Kleinubing and the RealTime Racing Integras of the early 2000s.
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That yellow and black paint scheme is still so iconic for me.
Always has been.
And still a GOATED LMGT3 car.
COMPUWARE
Only the real OGs remember the silver and black IMSA car... That's my childhood icon😅
The C5R is the car that got me into this type of racing. Back when they didn't just show NASCAR and Drag Racing on TV.
Remember Speedvision they'd show Alms races all the time, along with the SCCA races with the RealTime Integras...I drove an Integra at the time so i was extremely interested in Kleinubing pedaling his Integra to all those wins
@bizzlea887 I remember that! One of my favorite color schemes for the integra. I still want to build a tribute car in that livery
@@jesselee4279 You and me both...I had a 2000 Integra that I put a Vtec head on with a ball bearing T3/T4 turbo, greddy intercooler, full exhaust, racing seats...white Konig wheels and a white grill to hide the intercooler... I'd give anything to have that car back...
The car was Milano Red
@@jesselee4279i wish Speed TV back broadcasting FANATEC GT WORLD CHALLENGE races.
@@bizzlea887well those racing legacies are never forgotten.
One of the craziest, best sounding and fastest GT1 and GT3 cars of all time
as a german, i miss the Corvettes on the Nordschleife. Bring them back. Aswell the Vipers and Panoz monsters.
I hope those German teams field those C8 Z06 GT3 in the future
@@Yosh1azits been very longtime we dont see Corvettes racing in LMGT3 class anymore.
Those 3 you mentioned were monsters of a car the Vette wit its sound n performance the Vipe wit its dominance n the Panoz wit its sleek design. In my opinion those 3 were the best at that time. Not including the Saleen S7
Yeah last new model I remember from Panoz was the Abruzzi I think
My friend's brother bought a C5R from a team in Belgium and I was there for the initial fire-up @ his Corvette Repair shop in Mtn View, CA....It was still in full FIA race specifications with a shockingly long procedure to start & warm up the engine. The FIA mandated 27mm(?) restrictor orifices were still in place on the race motor....Also the Carbon Brakes. There was a group of people there from Pratt & Miller and Katech to train on the systems of the car. Sadly he never was able to truly enjoy the C5R as he had a tragic medical diagnosis a few months after buying that piece of history. He had another Corvette race car that you overlooked that also competed @ Le Mans the 1968 L-88 Corvette had a couple of decent showings @ LeMans....RIP Jim H.....You were an amazing guy who accomplished quite a bit in your lifetime.
Interesting note about Dale Jr's crash at Sonoma;
*To this day* Dale says his memory of the moments immediately following the car bursting into flame are that a lone brave track marshal reached into the inferno and pulled Jr to safety.
This isn't what happened. Video does show a marshal getting to Jr and guiding him away from the car to the medical team...but Dale gets out of the car on his own.
He believes he sustained an undiagnosed concussion during an earlier round of the NASCAR Cup Series that was aggravated by this crash.
And the fact that he fell into arguably the same death trap that his father unfortunately did yet made it out alive in the end, he’s gotta understand what a lucky fella he is surviving what is essentially a flashback to Dale Sr.’s 2001 tragedy. Incredible!
It’s kind of like Dale’s biggest haters literally wanted to end his continuation of his father’s legacy (because they’re just jealous of it, I guess??) so I guess they conducted witchcraft so that he would crash and burn. But NOPE, that fast-on-the-track mf proved em’ wrong!
@@hectorzambrano4092 he got ptsd from it and took his racing more cautiously ever since though
I was blessed to hear that Katech 7.0L V8 on the C5R when I was young kid. The thundering roar of that engine YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IT.
I am a true Vette hound , however , team ORECA and their Vipers . This was an incredible era to be passionate for this arena of motorsport . I would have house parties on race-day. We would place bets on our favorite cars , it was so much fun .
I always remember one Top Gear when they tested the latest Corvette against the newest TVR. It was all “ohh, this destroys it in a straight line, it’s almost 1000 pounds lighter, and unlike the Corvette, this one can handle”. And then the Corvette blitzes it by something like 6 seconds around the lap.
Great , now I need to find that episode !
Top Gear always held a barely disguised contempt for American automobiles. Even when it was absolutely not deserved.
@@theKashConnoisseurI mean, it was pretty deserved lol.
Even that corvette looked like it’s interior was done as a Fisher Price special edition.
The Vette and GT40 are the only proper cars we’ve ever built, and even then only some of them. It took us until the C8 to build a true world beater that wasn’t desperately hoping you’d never actually get into it and see the interior.
That said, what a car to finally get right. The C8 is truly a triumph.
@@piedpiper1172 the entire reason the Corvette is a bargain supercar is because they didn’t bother milling the stereo knobs out of billet titanium. If they bothered with all of that useless euro-twaddle, they’d cost just as much.
@@ImInLoveWithBulla The C8 is half the cost of any comparable car, and it’s interior isn’t detailed by Fisher Price.
There is a gap between billet titanium volume knobs and discount play pen plastic, the interior.
The Corvette and Viper some of my favourite cars in Grand Turismo
Corvettes sometimes get made fun of, but dude the platform of C6 and C7 is incredible.
So is the C5. It may have Chevrolet build quality, but it was a very impressive car for the time. It’s also the last car ever produced with pop-up headlights. The Esprit ended production before the C6 came out.
@@scottoleson1997 agreed. I should have included the C5 as well. I actually love a C4, thats what i have now
The C5.R ran so the C6.R could fly
Can’t wait for the C6R video. The car that was so successful it made multiple other competitors back out of AMLS
Great presentation as always.
As an aside, it’s bizarre to me that people actually get upset with the fact that different cultures have different accents and pronounce words differently.
I say !🇬🇧 ... ..no one expects the Spanish Inquisition
The issue with Aluminum is that it's actually spelled different in Britain but many people don't realize that. They think the Brits just pronounce an I that isn't there. But it is in British spelling ... Aluminum vs. Aluminium
Gosh I love the sound of a roaring American V8! Sounds like a godly beast. The Compuware Yellow Corvette is an iconic GT race car that I'll never forget.
Edit: That's amazing, I had no idea that the C5R was piloted by the Earnhardts. What a legend!
When the U.S Manifested into a car.
Sorry but you're talking about the Viper/Challenger
@@TheLPN05Fanto be fair, Oreca, a French company, ran the Viper, while the Corvette was run by Americans (Pratt & Miller), if that's what OOP meant
@@TheLPN05Fanor perhaps the C6 Corvette.
Yea that too
Again and again this is what we do when we’ve sat back and enjoyed letting the kids play. When America arrives you best get the kids out the yard.
Ok. We need a video on the S7 and S7R these videos are amazing
I remembered this iconic 2000 Corvette C5R in Gran Turismo 3 A Spec and R:Racing Evolution.... On Gran Turismo 3, it even can battle Rin Hoshizora's R390GT1 LM 1998 with proper tuning!
Same with the first 4 Forza Motorsports
To put in perspective the time the Corvette came out Eisenhower was president, USS Enterprise still existed as more than a Star trek name. The interstate highway system had yet to exist. Daytona speedway was 6 years away.
Legend. That is one way to describe it. Color scheme should be called Championship Yellow. The C5R set the standard for Corvette's racing pedigree. In 2023 a Texan, Dutchman, and Argentine conquered the world in a C8R with two races left in the season. Also winning in class at the Centenary 24hrs of Le Mans also helps.
It should be. For 2025 they reintroduced a yellow for customer cars with a similar hue called "Competition Yellow"
I have an old C4 and love to drive it. it's not as flashy as the later generations, but still damned fun to drive.
I still remember getting this car in Gran Turismo 4 when I was a kid. This thing is absolutely legendary. It's so iconic, and it awesome to see that it's not just iconic to Americans.
Ah the good days of Gran Turismo 3.
facts v-spec
Its all about that sound as its flies by!
Man, just as I was searching for a video to watch during lunch, the video comes out. Brilliant.
Not here to harp on Aluminum vs Aluminium, but rather to say that Katech is pronounced kay-tech. They’re such legends they deserve the respect
my bad, thanks for the correction
Ron Fellows is a certified bad ass
The C5r was amazing, but it would have been legend if Dale Sr didnt pass away in '01, he was absolutely falling in love with team ownership AND sportscar racing! I could see a world where Dale Sr's DEI team became the Penske of GM and his team's Cadillacs racing at Le Mans, god we were all so robbed!!!!
I think about this often! We were robbed, Jr was robbed, and we were robbed of how good Jr would've been. It's sad af tbh.
I could 100% see Dale having a corvette team and possibly an 8th cup championship.
I hate this timeline we're on
When the C5R showed up we basically said to everyone shut up and suck my exhaust. Appreciate the love from across the pond brother.
ive got heritage on both sides, but know less and less about my native UK. Used to think i knew alot, but i was 3 when i left for godsakes. Anyway, I still like the general attitudes back there. Folks tend to let you be you, be it wanker or night jester or maybe you like bright orange jeeps! Its all good, you be you. . Cheers from the US, now a citizen.
Ive gotta say, couple of good comments right there
cringe
I have a C5 Hardtop 6 spd and I love taking it to VIR and Mid-Ohio. Great track car, have had a ton of fun in it.
the C6R (and the Vipers, for due respect) shook me to my core at the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. the noise and vibrations coming from that engine out that exhaust just absolutely topped anything else on track.
c5 race car from Gturismo brought me here 👍👍😍😍
FINALLY! A video on the Corvette C5-R! My personal favorite GT car and one of my favorite sounding for sure.
Corvette in 🇫🇷: "WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRRRR" 🦅🦅🦅🦅🍔🍔🍔🍔🚀🚀🚀🚀
Kilometer its James.
Viper: Chamberlain, Oreca, Carsport Holland, and Team Goh taught me about kilometers. Now I'm fluent in MPH and KPH.
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@DCresident123 You know what's cringe? The late 80s IMSA GTO rules. They kept changing because the Audi with the turbo chirping V5 kept kicking ass week in and week out. Meanwhile, the C4 Corvette and Foxbody Mustang with V8s are getting roasted by the GOAT Frank Biela and the Audi factory team.
@@shaneharrisnj3484 Also i would add Porsche
Any videos on the Saleen S7R. That car is highly underrated. Hardly ever mentioned in both street in racing terms
Still have a big ol 1 18 of the 2001 Corvette #3 that raced the 24H of Daytona..its .the weathered race version
Miss you Dale .....
i watched that race ..actually made an still have 4 VHS tapes ...It took 4 brand new vcr tapes at the time lol
4 Tapes !
I still have them an work just fine ..Good ol Speed vision i belive .
Watching that GTP turn in SO suddenly between 1:21 and 1:26 hurts my eyes every time. Those cars must have been incredibly pointy. You can literally see the MOMENT the steering wheel moves, the entire nose of the car just GOES. Also, as someone who was born and raised in the Motor City, it's Kay-tek. Not Kah-tek. :P
Pratt and Miller, Katech, Kinsler (famous for his ITBs in Indycar), and so many other huge racing shops and tuners are within an hour of Metro Detroit. It's a highly underrated motorsport haven.
We're gonna need a video on that Ferrari. I had heard of that 550 GT car but never knew just how quick they were off the bat or that they decided not to contest unexpectedly.
That shot of old school Road Atlanta is awesome. That place has come such a long way since then.
In the case of the Corvette - Win on Sunday, Wear tall white socks and short pants on Monday
Loved the C5Rs at Le Mans. Not sure I've heard anything so earth shatteringly loud. That noise ❤️
Saleen S7R is just a GOD of sportscar. Steve Saleen is ummm. Not someone I'd go out of my way to have a beer with, but dang. That car....
What's wrong with Steve Saleen? I'm just don't follow news.
I love that you teasippers always have to comment on us saying it The Right Way it's really quaint and I have to appreciate it.
I miss my ‘04 C5 so much. It was my first manual car, I got it at the end of 2020, and I only got to keep it 1 year before full transmission failure.
The C5 Corvette, the road car, got a lot of flak from the European automotive press (hurr hurr leaf spring suspension) but it was a very advanced car. Front mid engine, rear transaxle, perfect weight distribution, more rigid yet lighter than the competition, and the LS engine is a legendary thing people are still building today. My car has a highly modified example that makes 800 horsepower on low boost.
I love the C5-R since first seeing (and more improtantly hearing) them at Le Mans in 2000! 24 years later I now own a C5 - ambition fulfilled!
The C5R, to me, is one of the best looking cars of all time.
Cheers, mate! One of my all-time favourite race cars - seen the shot with the two C5.R's crossing the finish line at Le Mans in 2001? It had rained a lot that Le Mans, and those two, otherwise beautiful chrome yellow Vettes, were dirty like pigs 😁
My favourite was the C6.R but I loved these too. I miss the front engine yellow Vettes so much. ❤
So pretty much, The C5R couldn’t beat the viper until manufacture support was severed. As legendary as this car is, it is a 2nd place project at the end of the day. I’d choose ORECA’s GTS Viper every time
The viper would’ve been completely dominated the next year anyway. The lack of support is just a convenient excuse for it to fall into irrelevance.
then again, Pratt & Miller would face Prodrive shortly after, triumphing over them many times as well
Team Aluminium! And I live in the US... but I'm European :D
I have a C5R model 1:18 scale model, and the C5 is still one of my favorite Corvettes of all times!
Tbh, I use both "aluminum" and "Aluminium" depending on who Im talking to. Aluminum for Americans, and Aluminium for Europeans.
Do you also call platinum "platinium"?
C5R andd viper GTSR are iconinc
I may be wrong because I'm still getting into looking at them, but I believe all engines called LS1 were 5.7L and a 6.0 liter would be an LS2 (or a few others, but those aren't aluminum so they wouldn't be the one he's talking about)
Every once in a while, america has to show europe that we know how to turn right.
As a American, I appreciate that you said aluminum correctly
The C4 was really the first Corvette to break away from it's wishy washy older siblings. It was Banned from SCCA because it beat everything in the circuit. Through Callaway's Secret Sauce the C4 Was arguably the first full production "Hyper Car" as well. GM took everythign they had learned from the C4 and baked it into the C5.
that was perhaps the most tasteful mobile game advert I’ve ever seen
Also, FEEL THE AMERICAN THUNDER! There is no replacement for displacement!
We got a couple P&M built C5R's in British GT, remember them being some of the best sounding cars of the time
Awesomely done as always. An idea for the next video would be the ALMS BMW M3 GTR or the TVR Cerbera Speed 12
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I bought my yellow C6 because of the GT series C6R. It’s a dream to drive.
These videos are the highlight of watching UA-cam. Thank you for all your hard work.
Saw a red C5 the other day and also a C5R replica road legal build someone made, very cool cars!
Thx for being an actual human doing their own work . Thx for the content 🤘🏻🏁
Thank you for this video. A great story of a true modern motorsport powerhouse.
Awesome video! I have a suggestion, could you do videos on the Corvette C6.R, the Saleen S7R, and the Callaway Corvette's that raced before the C5.R that you mentioned earlier on in the video.
Great work, C5 is my favorite generation, clean and sleek design.
Loved using this car in gran turismo 3
Amazing vid. as always! I love all your stuff and have watched every single vid (I think). But if I could make a suggestion: Would it be possible to display the actual year of the topic you're talking about up the corner at all times? I find I lose track sometimes!
I appreciate the suggestion! I think for videos that cover a lot of time (like this one) something like that is a good idea, I may well try it out :)
As much as I do like the Corvette...
...seems that if Dodge hadn't dropped, this story would be vastly different.
Completely miss the C4 dominance in racing. They were so unbeatable they were kicked out of the Escort Series. They were also 29-0 vs the 944 turbo in the series. They had to create their own series called the "Corvette Challenge" series. Then came the C4 zr1 and right after the Callaway. Then the sledgehammer corvette and the different dominating variants from the base model, grand sport (lt4) and zr1.
The yellow paint with black rear is not on the same level of finesse and advertisement as Lancia, Toyota, Porsche, BMW and many other factory teams brandished in other racing series at the time. But if there ever was a paint scheme that says it means business, this on the C5 was it.
Thanks!
right back at ya!
I dated a girl whos father owned a saleen S7 twin turbo, at 160mph the car made so much downforce it could drive upside down.
Did he try it ?
Creating own weight in down force and driving upside down isnt the same thing ...
Let us not forget that Prodrive managed to give the Corvette C5-R Proper competition...while having NO factory support from Ferrari whatsoever. I cannot think of another instance where that has happened since (Closest I can think of is the Reiter Engineering Lamborghinis, but it wasn't nearly on the same level of success Or even production of said cars).
dont matter who you is or where you from, gotta like a corvette
You should natke stories about more recent and modern cars for once like the Audi R8, The Huracan, Ferrari 499P, etc
Excellent retrospect!
The c6r is my favorite Corvette race car but the c6r is an icon
I wanted to buy a skyline living in Idaho thought it would be cool and then I realized Corvette basically have the same tail lights so as long as you're winning, nobody can tell
WHAT AN AMERICAN LEGEND 👏
Ol viper just couldn’t hang
Your content is amazing and you definetly deserve a bigger audience❤
When viper out is where corvette could shine
I’ve been waiting for a vid from you! I love everything you make man!
One of the few home-grown racing efforts I as an Murican don't have to follow trepidatiously waiting for the engine to grenade itself after 3 laps assuming Wade Wankerson III doesn't Leeroy Jenkins the thing into the damn wall or finish in 365th place behind Scuderia G-Wiz. Great stuff as usual. I would absolutely LOVE a Saleen S7 vid!
This and that badass Camaro zl1 from the Garage 56 leman entry are so damned good looking, so gnarly, America, fuck yeah!
shame it was so slow and broke down
@@DCresident123 So slow that it was keeping up with LMPs on the straights, and was 3 seconds faster than the entire GTE AM field? So slow that after it broke 20 hours into the race and fell to last place, it still managed to finish 39th overall? Looking at the reporting on the event, it seems like the Garage 56 NASCAR entry performed better than almost anyone expected.
@@theKashConnoisseur it was unregulated and STILL finished 39th out of 40 LOL.... also no it didnt keep up with lpms what on earth are you talking about? Plus with a trans swap they wouldnt be allowed to continue if they were in an actual class. Try learning first before posting such wrong comments...
@@DCresident123 you can watch it keeping up with LMPs on most of the Mulsanne straight. But you obviously didn't pay attention to the coverage. Also, 39th out of 70 or so cars, not 40. What part of "it was able to run 3 seconds faster than the entire GTE AM field" did you fail to comprehend lol. I bet you honestly think no other LMPs or GT cars had mechanical issues, either.
@@theKashConnoisseur only 40 finished... also are you too dumb to get that it was unregulated and STILL broke down and it wouldnt be allowed to continue if in class? Also do you even know that like 90% of the car was changed?
corvette greenwood 1976 le mans is another corvette race car, but i dont know if it prefomed well in racing.
Greenwood Corvettes were beautiful, the C3 was an amazing looking car and the widebody that the Greenwood Corvettes had was even better looking.
Definitely have to do the GT40/GT now
Hod I miss the manufacturer wars between the big 3. Back when the industry had some balls still
Remember when the twin turbo Callaway Corvette "Sledgehammer" that held the title of Fastest Production Car from 1988 to 1999 with a 255 mph top speed? I sure do. Especially when I look at my own Callaway Corvette
When America puts effort into racing, they win. It’s that simple
We spell it differently which most people who complain about how we say it as there is one less I.
It's strange how Chrysler/Dodge has never built an LMP car.
It's less strange when you consider where the Chrysler group sells most of their products, and what forms of motorsports that specific market is interested in. It's no less strange than Porsche's absense from the NASCAR ovals. Porsche buyers, in general, don't watch NASCAR. Dodge buyers, in general, don't watch the 24 Hrs of Le Mans.
Put your foot in that big corvette and rotate the earth.
The best race car in gran turismo 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I sense a Saleen S7 R video being in production
Corvette vs Viper vs Ford GT vs Saleen if only they all compete in the same year
Man that company knows your demographic! Didn't know how many times i was watching group c and thinking that fishing was something i wanted to get into. /S
But anyway. Congrats on getting that ad money my guy you deserve it.
You gotta credit motorweek