Oh man, I haven't seen (nor commented on) this video for what seems an eternity. Yet it still impresses me everytime I see it. Even more so, since I've driven the old 911 model that the RUF yellowbird was based on. Many people still don't understand how dangerous that car was. When you drove it, you got so pumped full of adrenaline it was crazy. Too bad the old girl got wrapped around a tree, but It was inevitable really. Old Porches, they are just that insane.
Understeer is a trait of 80's 911's. Remember the rear weight bias... This is a masterful blend of power oversteer and understeer. Complete control of a difficult car to drive this fast around corners. This guy is a master.
Thanks! Now I finally know the facts about this movie. I´ve had it for some years but never knew who´s driving. This is a piece of art, best race movie ever, beautiful!
HOLY CRAP!!!! That is some seriously hard core 911 driving!!! Anybody that's driven any pre-996 911's knows what a handful they can be. Add 2-300hp and you've got a wild monster. BRAVO to the driver!!!
Phenominal driving!!! He certainly earned his money!! Seriously I wish it was me; but I have rather a mountain to climb first!! These drivers amaze me. It surprised me to see motorcyclists and a car on the track at the same time. Thanks so much for showing the video!!
Everytime I watch this I just can't believe how ridiculously out of control he seems and the insane handful this car is. It's then that you realize the amazing skill he has and just how much fun it would be to be able to just keep it under control period. I wish I had that kind of skill. Amazing video.
hes driving in a wonderfully brutal yet precise manner...this is driving for the pure pleasure...sometimes, its not all about the lap times. This is definitely one of those times!
superb driving. Obviously this isn't the first time he has driven the Ring, as his placement is about perfect every time. The sounds are amazing, and the drifting is all about maintaining momentum through turns, when the car does not have enough traction to stick it at that speed. Any car doing a lap under 9 minutes is impressive. Great run!
My wife and I were thinking about possibly looking at one at the RUF center in Dallas. Then we read your review and it made the decision for us. We are definitely going to try and get one now. We love cars that feel like they are going to kill us at any time, it is driving at its best. We joked about how the new 911s weren't dangerous enough, we want a widow maker.
Oh My god this guy is an amazing driver. its like watching someone drive on a videogame except way more hardcore!! It is so hard to be brave enough to keep those speeds round corners. THIS MAN IS A PRO!!!
That is Stefan Roser, alright. I've driven that particular Ruf CTR myself, and though it was lot easier to drive than my own measley 911 SC, this is one of the most skillful driving I've ever seen.
They call this guy Sideways Stefan I heard somewere....I cant imagine why :) That car and guy are as one. He knows what the car is doing....and better yet: what the car is going to do. He never lost the handling of his car, eventough sliding almost every corner. Very, very entertaining to watch!
amazing driving skills - certainly the most interesting video of the ring i 've ever seen.. the way he controls this yellow beast is just uncanny.. no dorky paddle shifts or 4wheel drive or any electronic crap.. its just too bad there werent any decent cameras back then to capture this lap in HD
you got to be kidding me! ive owned 2 porsches (86 911) & (89 911) this guy can drive. a porsche is very tricky to get the hang of going through corners fast. the tail always tries to swing out on you, you got to stay on the gas (very scarry at first) this guy is a pro! ive had nightmares abouy doing this. i cant imagine whipping the steering wheel 90 degrees at 150mph. its almost hard to watch.
1 A thing of beauty, the way he drives this car is beyond belief!! 2 Would die to get some private lessons from this guy!! 3 is that a CTR Yellow Bird??
I did saw faster Cars on the Track but i newer saw a driver working that hard on the wheel the entire time. This Porsche needs so much handling skills and knowledge of the course and it wouldn't forgive a single small mistake. Absoultly Amazing !!!! What the hell was he thinking hitting the curbs at the end of the long straight... this could have cost him his life...
I drive an older ('81) 911 as my daily driver. The suspension is set up about as far as you can go with these cars, while retaining the torsion bars instead of going with coil springs. And I've driven the car on the track, to name a couple, Laguna Seca and Sears Point, cough, cough... I mean Infineon Raceway at Sears Point. I don't think I'll ever get used to that.
Questa macchina ha un'accelerazione e una ripresa spaventose e chi la guida ha un'abilità eccezzionale nel dominarla,veramente un gran pilota,tra l'altro il vecchio nurburgring è una pista fantastica ma molto difficile.
Nice drive. The film hasn't been sped up, it's shot on a non digital camera with the 'sport' setting which does this to everything. i have footage of me walking and it looks like this. The time says it all - getting a 1980's motor round the 'ring' in under 10 minutes is frankly awesome
Boy, this guy really loves to haul ass, porsche style; The back end seems to want to step out everywhere! Awesome car control to keep that thing pointed straight at those speeds :O
(the 90 degree point is where your car slides out and you try to correct it to bring it back in line. It is always possible to save the slide and get back in line without crashing as long as you don't go past 90 degrees to the direction that you were trying to go. Once that point is hit, it's impossible and you WILL spin the car. And this is a universal rule.)
that is fucking INTENSE!!! he's not even wearing a helmet leave alone having a roll cage. he's actually driving it for real as other people do it on their play stations LOL. fucking AMAZING!!! BALLS OF STEEL!!!
I drove this course in a similar car in Gran Turismo 4 just last night, and I had a hell of a time keeping it on the road more often than it was off the road. I don't understand why this course has such a great reputation - it's bumpier than hell and you can't control well when it's like that.
No, this is Stefan Rosen driving the YellowBird, which was made in 1987, and was Alois Ruf's personal car. look up an old issue of Road and Track, they tested it against some other superfasts in 1987.
I'm sure you've spent lots of time in Germany prototyping and developing some of the world's most powerful and exciting production based sports cars there Speeding. Guy finally saved up enough lunch money for a Porsche and a driving school and now he's Jackie Ickx. This is how a 475bhp rear engined rear drive car with no dynamic supension or traction control is driven!
This is a MAN'S car. I don't mean that as a knock against the ladies, but most supercars today, even most Porsches, are so civilized and sanitized and easy to drive. This is a reminder of what Porsches were like to drive before ABS, PASM, PSC, and all the other alphabet soup electronics made driving a car like this so frightening and fun. This car takes skill, nerves and reflexes to drive well. Most of today's cars might beat this on the track, but they are driving themselves.
Final comment from me - You may want to also ponder on weight distribution and how that affects steering. RUF was 40/60 (slight improvement on 37/63 for 930). Hence, tail happy. Then add lots of power (469bhp claimed but likely 500bhp+), no driver aids, archaic tyres and low torsional rigidity (compared to a modern day Porsche) due to a bodywork full of holes and this tail happy behaviour is amplified further. Not difficult to understand if you know anything about cars. ;-)
Stefan Rosers lap of the Nurburgring in a 460bhp rear wheel drive Ruf CTR1 "Yellow bird" from a 1980's betamax RUF promo video called, "Facination on the Nurburgring". Glad to see this online!
thanks for the info buddy! yeh ive got a renault clio so i dont exactly use 1st gear very much lol so i was just curious. If I went into 1st gear at anything over 20 mph i would blow the friggin engine up lol!!
My bad, the RUF is an awsome sports car that requires only the best of drivers to handle its tail heavy brutality. At normal speed this video is just as increadible as it is sped up a fraction of a second. The driver does not look like hes in a silent film twitching thu every turn. This guy is an awsome driver no question abought it.
Heh, an old 911 can give you any and all sort of over AND understeering, all depending on what you are trying to force it to do ... I should know, I crashed mine twice because it got the better of me. Admittedly, the worst bit is when the rear end suddenly lets go during acceleration out of a turn. It happens so damn fast that many gets caught out. I'm guessing this is what you were thinking of.
Nurburgring is a very difficult track and the 911CTR RUF was a difficult car to drive really fast.This guy knows what he's doing.This kind of driving is pure skill,not driving straight for 10seconds.Any idiot can go fast straight.
Wow, very impressive (exciting even with all the rapid steering corrections and squeeling tires). Kind of a shame there wasn't the capability from the 50's through the 60's to include lightweight cameras to truly document what the cars and divers of those periods really experienced in racing conditions.
People saying that an 8 minute lap is slow should have their heads examined. Lets consider what he's driving. The RUF Porsche 911 "Yellow Tail" is based on the 911 SC chassis made entirely in steel, a heavy engine at the rear (460 HP) - so, it's going to powerslide some. And the car is almost 20 years old by now! Traction control? I think NOT. ABS? Mayyybe, but don't bet on it. He pushed it pretty hard, and kept it both smooth and in control. Yes, smooth ... for an old 911.
Man that guy really knows what hes doing there! Some really nice driving. Sometimes it seems like he will lose control but hes doing it pretty well. But is this really a RUF Turbo as this is a 930 model? Cause the 930 RUF Porsches are really rare.
This is b/c the engine is in the back and it wants to come around and swap places with the front. To drive one fast on a course with this many turns, you have to oversteer around the corners and turns as Stefan did to keep your speed up, and use the porsche's rear weight advantage to accelerate out of the turn.
Yeah, Alois the owner of RUF called, also him for "sideways Stefan", because he likes powersliding. And the Yellowbird RUF was released in '87, so it's OLD.
OH MY GOD! Pure insanity at how fast he is going compared to the bikes. I would like to see a vid of Walter Rohrl (Porsches test driver) going around the green monster. Anyone have a link to that?
True. At least I think they made the engine block out of aluminium, so as to cut down on th weigth that was actually behind the rear axle. Even then, though, it understeers madly when you acellerate.
The correct way to be ahead of yourself when racing is to plan your braking and accelerating according to the turns. Going in especially. The most important part of racing road tracks is braking. Everyone has acceleration and speed through the turns. Not everyone has the feel of the track when braking. That is where champions and amateurs are seperated.
Stefan does a great job of driving, but if I were driving on that track, at these speeds I would be wearing my full race suit, gloves, and helmet. (former race school director)
I have seen this a hundred times, and every time I watch it again I am still Freaking AMAZED!
Oh man, I haven't seen (nor commented on) this video for what seems an eternity.
Yet it still impresses me everytime I see it.
Even more so, since I've driven the old 911 model that the RUF yellowbird was based on. Many people still don't understand how dangerous that car was. When you drove it, you got so pumped full of adrenaline it was crazy.
Too bad the old girl got wrapped around a tree, but It was inevitable really.
Old Porches, they are just that insane.
Understeer is a trait of 80's 911's. Remember the rear weight bias... This is a masterful blend of power oversteer and understeer. Complete control of a difficult car to drive this fast around corners. This guy is a master.
Thanks! Now I finally know the facts about this movie. I´ve had it for some years but never knew who´s driving. This is a piece of art, best race movie ever, beautiful!
HOLY CRAP!!!! That is some seriously hard core 911 driving!!! Anybody that's driven any pre-996 911's knows what a handful they can be. Add 2-300hp and you've got a wild monster. BRAVO to the driver!!!
Looks like hard work to keep that thing between the lines. I'm exhausted watching it!
Balls of Steel!!!!
I was riveted the whole 8 minutes.
Amazing.
Phenominal driving!!! He certainly earned his money!! Seriously I wish it was me; but I have rather a mountain to climb first!! These drivers amaze me. It surprised me to see motorcyclists and a car on the track at the same time. Thanks so much for showing the video!!
Everytime I watch this I just can't believe how ridiculously out of control he seems and the insane handful this car is. It's then that you realize the amazing skill he has and just how much fun it would be to be able to just keep it under control period. I wish I had that kind of skill. Amazing video.
hes driving in a wonderfully brutal yet precise manner...this is driving for the pure pleasure...sometimes, its not all about the lap times. This is definitely one of those times!
That was some serious driving. Even if he was all over the place, he had it under control the whole time. Awesome....
i love the sound of the tires screeching across this track--awesome pov video
That's the most damned impressive thing I have seen this week! Great car control.
Power is nothing without control! Huuuuuuge respect for mr. Rosler. And for THE track.. It´s all about how the old ´ring handles you.
superb driving. Obviously this isn't the first time he has driven the Ring, as his placement is about perfect every time. The sounds are amazing, and the drifting is all about maintaining momentum through turns, when the car does not have enough traction to stick it at that speed. Any car doing a lap under 9 minutes is impressive. Great run!
My wife and I were thinking about possibly looking at one at the RUF center in Dallas. Then we read your review and it made the decision for us. We are definitely going to try and get one now. We love cars that feel like they are going to kill us at any time, it is driving at its best. We joked about how the new 911s weren't dangerous enough, we want a widow maker.
That was some serious raw talent right there!
AWESOME DRIVING!
best car/road/rider/job i've ever seen yet.
great skill
Oh My god this guy is an amazing driver. its like watching someone drive on a videogame except way more hardcore!! It is so hard to be brave enough to keep those speeds round corners. THIS MAN IS A PRO!!!
That is Stefan Roser, alright. I've driven that particular Ruf CTR myself, and though it was lot easier to drive than my own measley 911 SC, this is one of the most skillful driving I've ever seen.
brilliance personified! what amazing driving skills..!!!
They call this guy Sideways Stefan I heard somewere....I cant imagine why :)
That car and guy are as one. He knows what the car is doing....and better yet: what the car is going to do. He never lost the handling of his car, eventough sliding almost every corner. Very, very entertaining to watch!
man that is nerve racking to watch, brilliant though. His reflexes are godly.
amazing driving skills - certainly the most interesting video of the ring i 've ever seen.. the way he controls this yellow beast is just uncanny.. no dorky paddle shifts or 4wheel drive or any electronic crap.. its just too bad there werent any decent cameras back then to capture this lap in HD
Holy Krap! I love boosted 911's but my heart was racing watchin this guy saw at the wheel around the ring.
Pobre YellowBird quemando rueda, no negare que este hombre es un excelente driftking DRIFT KING de Nürburgring!!! buen vídeo ;-)
Very Crazy !!!! Fantastic Work, Fantastic CAR !!!!
Very Congrats !!!!!!
Nice drive, he is one with the car, feels every little movement of the rearaxle be4 it happens. Respect. Great job!
some of the best driving i've ever seen.
that was some balls out fearless driving, well done.
That was amazin, that guy has got some skill!!!
you got to be kidding me! ive owned 2 porsches (86 911) & (89 911) this guy
can drive. a porsche is very tricky to get the hang of going through corners fast.
the tail always tries to swing out on you, you got to stay on the gas (very scarry at first) this guy is a pro! ive had nightmares abouy doing this. i cant imagine whipping the steering wheel 90 degrees at 150mph. its almost hard to watch.
Damn nice driving. Excellent control.
this lap is nuts.. ! lol and as far as i can see without any additional protection. You really got to have a lot of faith
Damn. He makes it *look* so easy. Excellent driving :o
If he hadn't been rev-matching so perfectly, would have spun out on every corner. Perfect driving.
1 A thing of beauty, the way he drives this car is beyond belief!!
2 Would die to get some private lessons from this guy!!
3 is that a CTR Yellow Bird??
That guy can drive! Nice sounds!
I did saw faster Cars on the Track but i newer saw a driver working that hard on the wheel the entire time. This Porsche needs so much handling skills and knowledge of the course and it wouldn't forgive a single small mistake. Absoultly Amazing !!!! What the hell was he thinking hitting the curbs at the end of the long straight... this could have cost him his life...
Yes that is a very unforgiving car. If you make a mistake the car will let you know immediately. This guy's got skills!
Great driving in a difficult circuit with a very challenging wheel !!!
I drive an older ('81) 911 as my daily driver. The suspension is set up about as far as you can go with these cars, while retaining the torsion bars instead of going with coil springs. And I've driven the car on the track, to name a couple, Laguna Seca and Sears Point, cough, cough... I mean Infineon Raceway at Sears Point. I don't think I'll ever get used to that.
Awesome driving skills .. thats serious hard work
Ahhhh the slide out of Adenau, he just kills it!!!
It's a RUF Yellowbird, based on the 1987 911 Turbo, it had something like 470hp and similar number in torque.
from time to time yes, this guy is all over the place. There is a very big difference
Questa macchina ha un'accelerazione e una ripresa spaventose e chi la guida ha un'abilità eccezzionale nel dominarla,veramente un gran pilota,tra l'altro il vecchio nurburgring è una pista fantastica ma molto difficile.
Jesus christ I lost count of how many times he nearly lost it.
This dude is a powersliding maniac.
Nice drive. The film hasn't been sped up, it's shot on a non digital camera with the 'sport' setting which does this to everything. i have footage of me walking and it looks like this.
The time says it all - getting a 1980's motor round the 'ring' in under 10 minutes is frankly awesome
Boy, this guy really loves to haul ass, porsche style; The back end seems to want to step out everywhere! Awesome car control to keep that thing pointed straight at those speeds :O
NUR so! Der Kollege hat's voll drauf. Natürlich ohne Helm. Ich hab schon beim Zusehen gekotzt. :-)
Que maravilla, que manos, que derrapes controlados, que circuito y que coche.
u see that wheel jerk at around 45,46 seconds.that how some drivers end up in the wall.this guy is a god.
this car is so delicate to handle. definitely not a beginner's car!!! ;-)
Damn!! this guy is on A MISSION!!!
(the 90 degree point is where your car slides out and you try to correct it to bring it back in line. It is always possible to save the slide and get back in line without crashing as long as you don't go past 90 degrees to the direction that you were trying to go. Once that point is hit, it's impossible and you WILL spin the car. And this is a universal rule.)
that is fucking INTENSE!!! he's not even wearing a helmet leave alone having a roll cage. he's actually driving it for real as other people do it on their play stations LOL. fucking AMAZING!!! BALLS OF STEEL!!!
holy shit!!
this guy got balls to take the yellow bird like that!!!
Cooolll lap
I drove this course in a similar car in Gran Turismo 4 just last night, and I had a hell of a time keeping it on the road more often than it was off the road. I don't understand why this course has such a great reputation - it's bumpier than hell and you can't control well when it's like that.
Lovely vid, amazing driver!
YES!!!!This is the way to drive the 911.
The guy is a MASTER!
No, this is Stefan Rosen driving the YellowBird, which was made in 1987, and was Alois Ruf's personal car. look up an old issue of Road and Track, they tested it against some other superfasts in 1987.
I think he's doing a great job, that particular porsche is very difficult to drive at the limit....i'd say he's pretty talented.
I'm sure you've spent lots of time in Germany prototyping and developing some of the world's most powerful and exciting production based sports cars there Speeding. Guy finally saved up enough lunch money for a Porsche and a driving school and now he's Jackie Ickx. This is how a 475bhp rear engined rear drive car with no dynamic supension or traction control is driven!
This is a MAN'S car. I don't mean that as a knock against the ladies, but most supercars today, even most Porsches, are so civilized and sanitized and easy to drive.
This is a reminder of what Porsches were like to drive before ABS, PASM, PSC, and all the other alphabet soup electronics made driving a car like this so frightening and fun.
This car takes skill, nerves and reflexes to drive well. Most of today's cars might beat this on the track, but they are driving themselves.
now that's a driver!!! incredible...
Final comment from me - You may want to also ponder on weight distribution and how that affects steering. RUF was 40/60 (slight improvement on 37/63 for 930). Hence, tail happy. Then add lots of power (469bhp claimed but likely 500bhp+), no driver aids, archaic tyres and low torsional rigidity (compared to a modern day Porsche) due to a bodywork full of holes and this tail happy behaviour is amplified further. Not difficult to understand if you know anything about cars. ;-)
if we all can be sure about one fact: this guy knows how to handle his ruf.
Stefan Rosers lap of the Nurburgring in a 460bhp rear wheel drive Ruf CTR1 "Yellow bird" from a 1980's betamax RUF promo video called, "Facination on the Nurburgring". Glad to see this online!
Awesome driving! I wish i could get my hands on a car like that.... i will probably crash on the first turn lol
thanks for the info buddy! yeh ive got a renault clio so i dont exactly use 1st gear very much lol so i was just curious. If I went into 1st gear at anything over 20 mph i would blow the friggin engine up lol!!
My bad, the RUF is an awsome sports car that requires only the best of drivers to handle its tail heavy brutality. At normal speed this video is just as increadible as it is sped up a fraction of a second. The driver does not look like hes in a silent film twitching thu every turn. This guy is an awsome driver no question abought it.
Heh, an old 911 can give you any and all sort of over AND understeering, all depending on what you are trying to force it to do ... I should know, I crashed mine twice because it got the better of me.
Admittedly, the worst bit is when the rear end suddenly lets go during acceleration out of a turn. It happens so damn fast that many gets caught out.
I'm guessing this is what you were thinking of.
holy shit ...he took those corners bloody hard !!
What a great pair of balls this guy as!
I have just a prop.... Skills!!! Someone that drives like this at the Ring should go to heaven!!! :P
Nurburgring is a very difficult track and the 911CTR RUF was a difficult car to drive really fast.This guy knows what he's doing.This kind of driving is pure skill,not driving straight for 10seconds.Any idiot can go fast straight.
awesome driving!
It is Stefan Roser driving.
He was RUF's official test driver back then.
I must say , this guy has balls
Wow, very impressive (exciting even with all the rapid steering corrections and squeeling tires).
Kind of a shame there wasn't the capability from the 50's through the 60's to include lightweight cameras to truly document what the cars and divers of those periods really experienced in racing conditions.
This is Stefan Rosen aka "Sideways Stefan" - the RUF factory driver.
People saying that an 8 minute lap is slow should have their heads examined.
Lets consider what he's driving. The RUF Porsche 911 "Yellow Tail" is based on the 911 SC chassis made entirely in steel, a heavy engine at the rear (460 HP) - so, it's going to powerslide some.
And the car is almost 20 years old by now!
Traction control? I think NOT.
ABS? Mayyybe, but don't bet on it.
He pushed it pretty hard, and kept it both smooth and in control.
Yes, smooth ... for an old 911.
Man that guy really knows what hes doing there! Some really nice driving. Sometimes it seems like he will lose control but hes doing it pretty well.
But is this really a RUF Turbo as this is a 930 model? Cause the 930 RUF Porsches are really rare.
JESUS! This guys knows how...
amazing driving
Stefan Roser. RUF's official test driver back in those days.
excellent driving.
That's how I drive my school bus every day!!!!!! No Big Deal!!! LOL
Lets not forget :
Old, old, old car.
Bad, bad, bad radial tires.
Big, big, big engine behind the rear axle.
He did ok, considering his odds. :)
Oh my God! This Porsche crazy! It jumping on track!
This is b/c the engine is in the back and it wants to come around and swap places with the front. To drive one fast on a course with this many turns, you have to oversteer around the corners and turns as Stefan did to keep your speed up, and use the porsche's rear weight advantage to accelerate out of the turn.
Yeah, Alois the owner of RUF called, also him for "sideways Stefan", because he likes powersliding.
And the Yellowbird RUF was released in '87, so it's OLD.
OH
MY
GOD!
Pure insanity at how fast he is going compared to the bikes. I would like to see a vid of Walter Rohrl (Porsches test driver) going around the green monster. Anyone have a link to that?
True.
At least I think they made the engine block out of aluminium, so as to cut down on th weigth that was actually behind the rear axle.
Even then, though, it understeers madly when you acellerate.
The correct way to be ahead of yourself when racing is to plan your braking and accelerating according to the turns. Going in especially. The most important part of racing road tracks is braking. Everyone has acceleration and speed through the turns. Not everyone has the feel of the track when braking. That is where champions and amateurs are seperated.
yep...that's the one, the driver is Stefan Roser and the track is the Nurburgring...
Some people say he sucks at driving. Hes like a really good driver. he can mainsteen speed and everything.
Walter Rhörl perfection drive...
Beautiful.
Stefan does a great job of driving, but if I were driving on that track, at these
speeds I would be wearing my full race suit, gloves, and helmet.
(former race school director)