Close racing with different cars. Something that is lacking in other race categories. I was there at Sandown historics watching this very race. Love it !!!!!!!!
What I learned from watching different race series, that the more professional it get, the more boring are the races, smaller race series whit tuned street cars, are much more entertaining.. Nice race, beautiful cars
@@JosephStalin9252 u reale mean f1 is not boring.. Sorry but I hate f1, that's not even a real car! I watched back in the 80 motorsports.. And the most cars then where streetcars tuned.. Today the most popular races are tube cars whit carbon skin... That's boring in my opinion.. If u like f1 then good for u, I don't watch that stuff anymore, whit all these boring rules.. And flipping spoiler and what else.. I like real motorsports, whit clutch stickshift and so on...
With the right exhaust setup, the V8 can be louder. Old gen 4 NASCAR stock cars scream like F1 cars back then even when turning at 6800 rpm. Or maybe that's just unique to NASCAR V8s, idk.
Yes!! Always great to see the FD body! She's been slightly massaged, but still one of the sexiest cars to go around a race track. Not to mention the sound!! Doritos for the win!!! :-)
Arron Johnston v8 supercars ruined touring car racing in Australia. So great to see close racing with different engine and chassis configurations. Reminds me of amazing touring car racing in the 80s.
in South Africa it was called the Modified Saloons. all Manufacturers, all type of Cars, all type of Engines. great noises, great Racing. totally destroyed and abandoned for Touring Cars and same Car Formulas.
That Alfa has been around for a very long time. I recall seeing it dominating in the sports sedan series at support races for Gold Coast Indy more than 20 years ago.
@@tonybrowne7220 yep, prolly over 20yrs, I remember it at Malalla up there with Mick Monterosso red Escort RS2000 6ltr and others, great stuff the sport sedans 👍
Yea, I’m pretty sure the Alfa being used is known as the alfetta gtv and it’s been around since around 1976. That is when my grandfather bought his and I’m now working on restoring it.
Nice work Alex & congratulations again Tony. Great to see something different keeping up with the Chev power in Sports Sedans. Reckon they should allow quad rotors in this category to really even out the field :)
Alfas are fast, Im so glad I had the chance to own 155 twin spark 2.0 150hp but man the way this car was able to accelerate it felt like it had 250hp, it was reving up so fast.
I wonder if the 155 TS had better gearing then? Because I used to own a GTV TS and that thing was sloooow! The gearing was too tall for the engine. I fixed that issue by swapping the TS for a heavily modified 440 bhp engine from a Fiat Coupe 16V Turbo :D
what a beautiful piece of art and styling the Gen 3 RX7 is. when the video stops the in-car shots, and shows multiple cars racing, one realizes how gorgeous the Mazda is compared to plain vanilla other models
Sequential transmission en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_manual_transmission ua-cam.com/video/7HzX1pXHOMU/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/RikzgmPvmnE/v-deo.html Most commonly found on motorcycles. So fun to drive!
look up "faceplate" or "dogbox" transmissions basically they remove the synchro block rings and weld on big meshing teeth which allows you to just slam into the next gear up or down no clutch need (in most trans)
Hard to believe the 3rd gen fd is 30 years old now. Still such a gorgeous car. I had a '93r1 but had to let it go because the tt rotary was just too expensive for me to maintain much longer. But I do miss driving her 😭
Does anyone know much about the history of that Alfa? I remember as a kid watching a very similar car racing at ATCC support races at Wanneroo raceway in Perth but this was back in the late 80's/early 90s. I'm curious to know if it's the same car
Well they are a long way from stock standard. Only the shape is common to the road cars. The cars are full fabricated race chassis and run indycar and sportscar / canam type transaxles, carbon fibre and fibreglass panels etc. The are truly high dollar racing cars.
@@chasermalloy7406 All good mate! Have you driven one of these things? Closest I've been was to drive a friend's highly race modified 997 GT3 up a very twisty mountain road while he followed in my (slightly less potent) stock 993. Oh, those were the days my friend!!
@@deldridg Yes, I've had a lot of them. Used to have a collection of Aussie racing cars from Sports sedans, group c, Group a, V8 Supercar , Formula 5000 / Formula pacific etc.
This is what real racing is and not that lame GT and WTCC they're feeding us with.That RX7 sounds heavenly and is damn fast.Same goes for Alfa as well.
@@ferrarikingdom sure, but these are race engines not the cars that are taken out on Sundays for a drive around the block. Reliability is important. 500hp is reliable in a race.
I currently use a 20B in my RX8 with help from JDM Industries, Rotary Hub, Apex Central. On 20 pounds of boost she dynos at 682 at the wheels. This is by no means an insane tune- it’s a conservative tune so I’m not filling up every time I drive it. Max I’ve seen is 35 pounds of boost @20B and about 918 whp. But the apex seals, shims, iron seals don’t last that long at that amount of boost and power. Unless you get the expensive stuff. Billet irons, have them machined etc.
@@chloehennessey6813 exactly my 20b is currently 820 whp and it was reliably at that for 3 years daily driven before deciding to rebuild for a pp and big turbo . It had weekly street races on the engine too
MORE PLEASE MUCH MUCH MORE! Question, where's the silver Centerline Suspension FC RX7 these days? I know he was mucking around early 2020 with some custom made velocity stacks to squeeze every last pony from that screaming 20BPP but am yet to see it at any of the SS rounds this year? Although only 400HP that thing is usually racing for podiums against that Audi and Alfa we just saw. Im a boost addict i cant deny it, but the Naturally Aspirated 20B dare i say it, is far less of a handful for the driver, easier to race, more traction, and is normally on the podium every round and has many long standing lap records to prove its worth.
Faark this beast can move if she can get on boost a little faster in the slow corners we have a perfect track car. Thumbs up to the driver. Drive's it like he stole it 👍👍👍
@@alexwilliams7119 Hey man, Greetings, may I do a little interview with you? ^^: - What kind of category do you race in? - How did you manage to get an authentic RX-7 FD nowadays? - How expensive is to compete in a category like this? Do you plan on racing internationally sometime?...
@@MiguelMedV Sure, no problem. - The category we race in and that the car was built for is called Sports Sedans here in Aus. - The car is a space frame chassis with a fibreglass body... built from scratch by my father and I. There are only a few genuine Mazda parts left in it, the rest is hand built. - Cost to compete in Sports Sedans varies depending on a range of factors. Competitors budgets would differ vastly depending on running gear, type of car construction etc. - As the car was built to the Australian Sports Sedan regulations, i'm not sure if it would fit in an overseas category. I envisage the cost of such an endeavor would be prohibitive for us though so no plans to race outside of Aus at the moment.
Close racing with different cars. Something that is lacking in other race categories. I was there at Sandown historics watching this very race.
Love it !!!!!!!!
Check out the Goodwood members classics race with Chris Harris and the Rover SD1
Like old camel IMSA series
I was trying to figure out what all the apparently different classes were doing together!
GT3 is where you need to look... so many brands
Yes that is the point!!!
What I learned from watching different race series, that the more professional it get, the more boring are the races, smaller race series whit tuned street cars, are much more entertaining..
Nice race, beautiful cars
Although theae are chassised cars
Arne Pielhoff watch the 2019 German gp and come back and tell me it was boring. I dare you
@@JosephStalin9252 u reale mean f1 is not boring.. Sorry but I hate f1, that's not even a real car! I watched back in the 80 motorsports.. And the most cars then where streetcars tuned.. Today the most popular races are tube cars whit carbon skin... That's boring in my opinion.. If u like f1 then good for u, I don't watch that stuff anymore, whit all these boring rules.. And flipping spoiler and what else.. I like real motorsports, whit clutch stickshift and so on...
Just like my ex, that RX7 is a screamer
Lies
If she was a screamin she wouldnt be an ex
@@davecroucher6063 the problem was she liked screaming at many different people
I was never a fan of rotaries, now i am
I've got a 20b stiff now
I would say "same"...
Wat u mean
@@joedm um, the wood is hard. Make sense?
LOVE the backfire of the car in front :o
3:48 you can really tell how much louder the rotary is here its so AWESOEMEE
With the right exhaust setup, the V8 can be louder. Old gen 4 NASCAR stock cars scream like F1 cars back then even when turning at 6800 rpm. Or maybe that's just unique to NASCAR V8s, idk.
@@johncarl5505 Even back then they were revving closer to 9k. The current cars are almost pushing 10
Man I was right there shifting those gears with you. What a race!
Outside cam: buuuzzzz buuuzzzz
Cockpit cam: WHAAAAAA WHAAAAAA WHAAAAAA
Awesome stuff, alternating between inside and outside cameras is always magnificent..
Yes!! Always great to see the FD body! She's been slightly massaged, but still one of the sexiest cars to go around a race track. Not to mention the sound!! Doritos for the win!!! :-)
What does doritos chips have to do with a FD?
Just kidding
- Beautiful
- Fast
- Rotary
- RWD
- Pop-up Headlights
*_Legend..._*
Was thinking the same thing, all of the aero and widebody is simply just exaggerated that of the original shape. Beautiful
The shape of the rotors inside the engine or something
soooooooooooo much better than boring arse "supercars"
Arron Johnston v8 supercars ruined touring car racing in Australia. So great to see close racing with different engine and chassis configurations. Reminds me of amazing touring car racing in the 80s.
@@buncho888 Ah, those days were pure racing, no limits or stupid electronic aids for everything and excessive regulations...
in South Africa it was called the Modified Saloons.
all Manufacturers, all type of Cars, all type of Engines. great noises, great Racing.
totally destroyed and abandoned for Touring Cars and same Car Formulas.
Guess this poor boomer hasn't seen any new supercars since the 1960s, lol.
Gotta love how it's "cool" to hate on supercars
That’s so awesome! I love watching these cars! I don’t understand why anyone would give this a thumbs down, makes no sense to me!!
That Mazda sounds absolutely amazing ❤️❤️❤️
LOVE the sound of a screeching rotary at 10K or more lol
Very typical,not amazing...Wwwwzzztt!:)
@@joe125ful most funny comment :)))
@@igorkiulins39 But true..
3:47 check out that audio difference! 20B just sounds so vicious as it chases the V8 🔥
The sounds!! Rotary heaven
That Alfa has been around for a very long time. I recall seeing it dominating in the sports sedan series at support races for Gold Coast Indy more than 20 years ago.
Nic Greig .And always to be found up the sharp end of the field.
@@tonybrowne7220 yep, prolly over 20yrs, I remember it at Malalla up there with Mick Monterosso red Escort RS2000 6ltr and others, great stuff the sport sedans 👍
Yes!!
Yea, I’m pretty sure the Alfa being used is known as the alfetta gtv and it’s been around since around 1976. That is when my grandfather bought his and I’m now working on restoring it.
@@HUEEY 👍👍🏿👍🏻
As a young man I loved them . Kept my pocket empty since they were so thirsty. Loved the noise.
Damn that rx7 is one sexy looking race car
Why UA-cam does not delete your comment and mine did? (Because of using the "S" word XD)...
Love it 👍
That pass was timed perfectly and damn that beast sounds mean as hell
You are building some crazy and very innovative race cars over there. Chev powered Alfa ! Awesome.
This one of the best vids I've ever watched...heavenly
More mental and exciting looking than most high end series
Nice work Alex & congratulations again Tony.
Great to see something different keeping up with the Chev power in Sports Sedans.
Reckon they should allow quad rotors in this category to really even out the field :)
I was so pumped the entire time, well done!
Watching completely different cars competing is honestly the best
That sounds is awesome! Also that GTV looks great!
Supergreat. Elegant and vvvery bad
I get goosebumps just hearing that roar of the rotary!
Awesome job Alex. Your little Mazda keeps getting faster!
Finaaaaally, I've found my sleeping music
thanks mate
That Alfa 😱😱
Alfas are fast, Im so glad I had the chance to own 155 twin spark 2.0 150hp but man the way this car was able to accelerate it felt like it had 250hp, it was reving up so fast.
@anonMS dawg lol Haha good that you told me the one on the video has 500hp I thought it was 150.... 🙄
I wonder if the 155 TS had better gearing then? Because I used to own a GTV TS and that thing was sloooow! The gearing was too tall for the engine. I fixed that issue by swapping the TS for a heavily modified 440 bhp engine from a Fiat Coupe 16V Turbo :D
@@dimitrovbmw No this has a Chevrolet V8 750hp
@@robertryan7204 No what? I did not ask anything!!!
I love the sound of that screaming rotary engine !
what a beautiful piece of art and styling the Gen 3 RX7 is. when the video stops the in-car shots, and shows multiple cars racing, one realizes how gorgeous the Mazda is compared to plain vanilla other models
A great Tassie built car there. Nice driving Alex!
2:06 - Spicy food, hot Exhaust.
that friggin rotary sounds excellent, whata great engine concept.
Great clips ... thx for sharing.
The ALFA is such a beauty !!
👍🏿👍🏻👍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏻👍 x 1000
Violent and beautiful. I’m in love. The 20B is my dream engine.
respect for keeping pop-ups
WE used to have Thundersaloons here in the UK, some guy had a v8 Calibra which was awesome to see and hear...
bloody beautiful
For *Real...*
Could listen to that all day long. Feeding my HP addiction. lol
Great vid and nutty car!
Thanx for posting
"Nutty Car" though :V, but Yes, I agree XD...
While I'm at work, I like to listen to fast-paced music to help keep me focused. This will do nicely :)
absolutely demonic, awesome sounds!
Good Lord that sounds good
Love seeing ex V8 supercars still being used and not collecting dust in some showroom or gallery
I've never seen a transmission that shifts like that, can someone kindly explain what it is and how it works?
Sequential transmission
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_manual_transmission
ua-cam.com/video/7HzX1pXHOMU/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/RikzgmPvmnE/v-deo.html
Most commonly found on motorcycles. So fun to drive!
look up "faceplate" or "dogbox" transmissions basically they remove the synchro block rings and weld on big meshing teeth which allows you to just slam into the next gear up or down no clutch need (in most trans)
A.k.a sequential transmission
@@Tirethief302 it's not a sequential. Its still H pattern but with dog engagement
@@maseywat kind of a manual sequential if you will
We need more of this long version
What event is this and where 😍
Alex berry It's the "Sports Sedan Championship" and the circuit is "Sandown Motor Raceway" near Melbourne in Australia, God bless.
What was the car in front at the start with the flames? A Calibra?
That rotary scream.!!
Hard to believe the 3rd gen fd is 30 years old now. Still such a gorgeous car. I had a '93r1 but had to let it go because the tt rotary was just too expensive for me to maintain much longer. But I do miss driving her 😭
living acouple blocks away from here is fun
espacially when i can just sit on the bridge and watch from there
Does anyone know much about the history of that Alfa? I remember as a kid watching a very similar car racing at ATCC support races at Wanneroo raceway in Perth but this was back in the late 80's/early 90s. I'm curious to know if it's the same car
What car was ahead of them? Looks like an audi?
0:08 is that a mk1 escort on the right ?
Dang, this car sound lika a dream
Need more of this ❤️
Yeah, we can't wait to see the Sports Sedans back out in 2021.
Great video ✌️👍
That Rota was a Beast !!!
Alfa V8 win...best car there+engine sound omg!
So fast straight.
Alfa V8 Wroooamm!
RX7 WWzzzzztttttt! :)
Can you upload more?
what grit has the Alfa
I love watching car vids on fast forward.
Looks up definition of proper race car: 20b... “take a seat, let me learn ya”
great video
That black car with the big spoiler really got me mad with those blockings, you showed him whats what.
Far better to watch than the Supercars
What race series is this?
great vid
What transmission is that? 6-speed H-pattern dog box?
Hey mate, yes it's a Holinger H6S
@@alexwilliams7119 Sick! An Aussie thing?
Roman Macias yep 👍
@@alexwilliams7119 Rad
yeah I was wondering about the box as well, love the fd's!!
Good driving dude
The sound of dreams
Wow truly amazing
These things look and sound awesome. And totally stock standard too.
Well they are a long way from stock standard. Only the shape is common to the road cars. The cars are full fabricated race chassis and run indycar and sportscar / canam type transaxles, carbon fibre and fibreglass panels etc. The are truly high dollar racing cars.
@@chasermalloy7406 Indeed. My comment was intended as a joke - just poorly executed! Awesome machines eh? Cheers, David
@@deldridg sorry - bit slow today. Should have realized it was tongue in cheek !
@@chasermalloy7406 All good mate! Have you driven one of these things? Closest I've been was to drive a friend's highly race modified 997 GT3 up a very twisty mountain road while he followed in my (slightly less potent) stock 993. Oh, those were the days my friend!!
@@deldridg Yes, I've had a lot of them. Used to have a collection of Aussie racing cars from Sports sedans, group c, Group a, V8 Supercar , Formula 5000 / Formula pacific etc.
This is what real racing is and not that lame GT and WTCC they're feeding us with.That RX7 sounds heavenly and is damn fast.Same goes for Alfa as well.
Dammit that grey audi sounds brutal!
20B Motor. Stark!
3 of my favorite cars all in a row. Audi, Alpha, and a Mazda Rx7.
Holy crap that turbo
Damn, that had to be at least 800HP, what a beast.
500 on a good day
@@butwait 500 is easy for a 13b so I doubt a 20b is struggling to achieve the same
@@ferrarikingdom sure, but these are race engines not the cars that are taken out on Sundays for a drive around the block. Reliability is important. 500hp is reliable in a race.
I currently use a 20B in my RX8 with help from JDM Industries, Rotary Hub, Apex Central. On 20 pounds of boost she dynos at 682 at the wheels. This is by no means an insane tune- it’s a conservative tune so I’m not filling up every time I drive it.
Max I’ve seen is 35 pounds of boost @20B and about 918 whp. But the apex seals, shims, iron seals don’t last that long at that amount of boost and power. Unless you get the expensive stuff. Billet irons, have them machined etc.
@@chloehennessey6813 exactly my 20b is currently 820 whp and it was reliably at that for 3 years daily driven before deciding to rebuild for a pp and big turbo . It had weekly street races on the engine too
oo v oo ..a unique grit
Not sequential gearbox?
A man's sport
MORE PLEASE MUCH MUCH MORE! Question, where's the silver Centerline Suspension FC RX7 these days? I know he was mucking around early 2020 with some custom made velocity stacks to squeeze every last pony from that screaming 20BPP but am yet to see it at any of the SS rounds this year? Although only 400HP that thing is usually racing for podiums against that Audi and Alfa we just saw. Im a boost addict i cant deny it, but the Naturally Aspirated 20B dare i say it, is far less of a handful for the driver, easier to race, more traction, and is normally on the podium every round and has many long standing lap records to prove its worth.
Great racing 🙌🏾👍🏾
Love Sandown!
I heart that RX7.
This is why we need thundersports racing back in the U.K. big power, no traction control, free engine configuration, just Can am style rules.
Amazing! How it works this championship? Absolutely insane!
Faark this beast can move if she can get on boost a little faster in the slow corners we have a perfect track car. Thumbs up to the driver. Drive's it like he stole it 👍👍👍
I think this is more interesting then f1 car racing
Into corners, yeah let’s race!.. Out of corners ‘hey wait up guys!’
Awesome - from another #37 red FD owner 👌🏻 lap times? My best is 1:16.8 but I assume you're a fair bit quicker than that ?
Hey Doug, I did a 1.10.4 but it’s the first time I’ve raced there. Bit left in it.
@@alexwilliams7119 Hey man, Greetings, may I do a little interview with you? ^^:
- What kind of category do you race in?
- How did you manage to get an authentic RX-7 FD nowadays?
- How expensive is to compete in a category like this? Do you plan on racing internationally sometime?...
@@MiguelMedV Sure, no problem.
- The category we race in and that the car was built for is called Sports Sedans here in Aus.
- The car is a space frame chassis with a fibreglass body... built from scratch by my father and I. There are only a few genuine Mazda parts left in it, the rest is hand built.
- Cost to compete in Sports Sedans varies depending on a range of factors. Competitors budgets would differ vastly depending on running gear, type of car construction etc.
- As the car was built to the Australian Sports Sedan regulations, i'm not sure if it would fit in an overseas category. I envisage the cost of such an endeavor would be prohibitive for us though so no plans to race outside of Aus at the moment.
Doug M what racing series is this.
Doug M I see sports sadan series but I also see coupe racecars like the corvette
This amazing, awesome shit right here!
PLEASE SHOW US SOME MORE?? :)
Doritos 4ever!🙌
what was the first car he was following just before the Alfa? Looked like a Calibra!
Yes with another Chevrolet V8
Now, THOSE are car interiors.