You are absolutely correct about that. The CTR-2 was based on the 993. The original Yellowbird from RUF was just called the CTR. It was built around the 930 Turbo. 4 speed tranny, 3.3L Turbo engine. This video is the original Yellowbird. A reporter nick named this car Yellowbird when they took it out for track day. The name stuck, and all Ruf Turbos are known as Yellowbird now.
What a legend! The part at 1:48 is insane that's a seriously quick part of the ring at the top of the hill. It's hard enough driving this car on this track with the wheel, pedals and stick shifter on GT5. Doing this in real life requires true skill and bravery. He must have balls of steel to drive a CTR YELLOWBIRD liie this!! BIG respect!
Actually, I think the driver is 1 of Ruf's drivers, when I went to see the factory he gave a copy of this video to me also and we went for a ride !!! Amaaaaaazing Giorgio Ferri
The "twitching" you see in the steering wheel is because it doesn't have power steering- no 930's do. You get direct feed-back from the road. You feel every bump in the steering wheel. It's one of the many things that makes this such a great "Driver's Car". No power brakes either. She's a friggin beast when the Turbo spools up. Really just the most fun you can have in a car. Ruf Yellowbird just made the best car (930) better!
I've owned and raced three tricked-out Corvairs, and am used to terminal oversteer and how to avoid inducing it. This guy blows my mind...and the Ruf engineers did an amazing job with that car, it should have been doing donuts half the time ~
I just watched this for the first time because a friend of mine just scored a 1989 yellowbird for $39k.. We went to road Atlanta with his $200k twin turbo, and all any of us could think about was how awesome it would be if the Ruf were there and ready... I CAN'T WAIT!
Nice!! Everyone should experience a 930 at full roar once before they die. Do you understand that the car doesn't get "twitchy" now? It doesn't dampen the road imperfections like most cars do. If a pidgeon takes a big crap, you will feel it though the wheel. I hope you get to drive the 930 at some point. There is not another car made that feels like the 930. It's an amazing combination of brutal power, and delicate touch when you drive her right. Best car ever made in my opinion!
I was talking about the First CTR nicknamed the Yellowbird. It was a Carrera 2 with a 3.2L engine and they enlarged it to 3.4 and added twin turbos (I dont know if they are sequencial) they gave it an inhouse made 5 speed manual transmission and coated it with some of the 930's body panels.
The greatest of all time.... Heard the guy didnt wear a helmet because he was gonna die if he crashed anyway. This guys has CAJONES!!! I practically drop a brick everytime I watch it. If I were sitting in the car it would surely need new seats.
It's awesome to see actual, real, skill-based inertial drift...not skidding, which is what 99.9% of people who drive Skylines and and Supras mistake for drift. This is actual skill.
Yes because at certain High speeds The fast flowing air around the rear haunches together with the shape of the car caused a vacuum to form and actually pull air out of the ducts instead of pushing it in!
Also, among skilled drivers one may be able to take adventage of the 930's instability like Stefan does while the same driver may think a skyline is too stable and cant go as fast around the bends, while another may constantly spin out or not be able to reach the limit in a 930, while being in the Skyline he can use the extra grip for better exit, to me 930's characteristics are perfect, but the skyline is no sloch, I just love to drift for fastest cornering
A little lesson in cars is in order I see... this is the infamous RUF CTR Yellowbird, based on a 930 porsche with a 3.2, bored to 3.4 and equipped with twin KKK26 turbochargers, so yes it's VERY powerful. Second of all, it's a 2nd generation 911, which means it undesteers severely, and snap oversteers on trying to counter the understeer, dub that to nearly 470 bhp and you'll have your answer. The driver did insanely good on a car like this
@shaggyC5Z06 If i'm not mistaking Walter Röhrl was driving this. He was a famous rally driver in the groupe B rally days. These days he's the main test driver for Porsche.
Ruf "Yellowbird"; '86 original production. 3.3L. Turbo engine, 4 speed transmission. I agree. This was the only car that should be called the Yellowbird. I don't know where you guys are thinking that Ruf bumped up the 3.2L engine, it was the 3.3L engine all the time.
Amazing video; although the car is neither a 993 or a 930. It was built on the normally aspirated 3.2 Carrera platform. That is, two generations prior to the 993.
In this car, with these tires, I'm pretty sure a lot of the sliding he did was actually very, very fast. (as fast or faster than you could do trying to keep the car in grip, because of it's balance and grip level) not in every case, but in many of these.
I was talking about the First CTR. It was based on the Carrera 2 and had body panels "like" that of the 930 thats why so many people mistook it being based of the 930. And yes I have checked and doublechecked my facts.
Its not the STEERING that created the problem, it's the weight of the engine on the back wheels, that makes the front very light, without enough pressure to cause natural oversteer on entry. Braking solves the problem, by loading up front wheels, turning in, and creates another UNLOADING the rear wheels, allowing the whole weight of the engine act as a pendulum, because of less grip on the rear tires. Physics. Porsche 997 have this problem STILL, and yeah, I've driven a 964 on a track. I know it
i have never seen so much crap written on a post, clearly very few of you have and idea about Stephan or the car, this was not a "track" day,and the car is not unbalanced or hard to drive,how do I know? I have drove this car,he did not tell people in the pits he didn't want a helmet,(what a load of bollocks)he was driving purely for fun, not speed, I have been in with him when he has been going for it,and for fun, Stephan used to race in group c,,,he is rather good...
The reason he had no helmet is because he told the RUF people he would gonna die anyhow if he crashed so he went without. Being their chief driver he knew the car very well and believed in his abilities to run the ring in that beast. A helmet would probably have done little for him crashing at the speeds he was running. Dale Earnhardt was wearing a helmet when he wrecked and still died. And he had other safety equipment too.
I didn't want to delete, just I wrote 3.0 RSR instead of 2.8...which is QUITE different ;) Of course you're right about the engine wheight: this is a "problem" of most of Porsches, and even much in this case. Moreover, of course one's OBLIGED to load the front if you don't want to keep on straight..so that the back then follows by. But I guess you can hold the back much better than he does. That's just overdrifting. (and I agree about THE racer) :D
That's one angry fucking car. When it loses time on the oversteer it growls, and claws up the rubber making that time back on the exit. Fucking brutal.
@odysseimfg Yes, I did. I'll never forget the first time I saw it, I had friends over, we got nice, turned on the speaker and subwoofer, you know the deal. Everyone was like, WOW.
Your also Wrong RUF made the CTR from a Carrera 2 with a 3.2 L Engine and opted with twin turbochargers. They chose the carrera 2 because of its lighter weight in comparison to the Turbo The name Yellowbird was coined because of its distinctive yellow color and the sound of the blow off valve being simmilar to that of the chirp of a canary.
And to that comment that you deleted. It's silly to compare a Fully S/L, rather comfy-ish heavy Yellowbird with 2 KKK turbolag generators to a late model RSR, which is not only stripped to be as light as possible, but also runs racing grade suspension, engine, gearbox, tires and aero. Besides Rohrl is pretty much THE Racer of the century with his skill being unparallelled, and he knows his way around "The Mother" and about bad road conditions more than most modern day GT-R class GRIDS combined.
anyone who has been in a old porsche knows the cars can be a handful at speed with 220 hp this car is double that with smaller tires than a 930 turbo of the same era. This guy driving has balls the size of watermelons. Normal humans could not do this anywhere on any track
Sure he isn't going the fastest way around the track, not even close, everyone knows cars go faster when they are pointing straight, but the idea of the vid was to show how much FUN you can have in your RUF on your favourite B road, oh and how many rear tyres you can use up backing it in and flooring it in second gear. real meaning of the term LOL. Fantastic.
Oh, BTW. Maybe it's just my point of view but as I see Walter Rohrl drivings on wet Nurburgring with a 3.0 RSR (ehm, talking about bhp?)...doesn't look definitely like this.
I'm never getting sick of this. One of the most stunning performances with one of hardest car to handle.
You are absolutely correct about that. The CTR-2 was based on the 993. The original Yellowbird from RUF was just called the CTR. It was built around the 930 Turbo. 4 speed tranny, 3.3L Turbo engine. This video is the original Yellowbird. A reporter nick named this car Yellowbird when they took it out for track day. The name stuck, and all Ruf Turbos are known as Yellowbird now.
What a legend! The part at 1:48 is insane that's a seriously quick part of the ring at the top of the hill. It's hard enough driving this car on this track with the wheel, pedals and stick shifter on GT5. Doing this in real life requires true skill and bravery. He must have balls of steel to drive a CTR YELLOWBIRD liie this!! BIG respect!
This is like nirvana.... Perfect track, perfect car, perfect driver on a perfect day... Absolutely LOVE this video!
This is such an amazing example of real driving. Made the hairs on the back of my head stand up and my butt pucker.
Actually, I think the driver is 1 of Ruf's drivers, when I went to see the factory he gave a copy of this video to me also and we went for a ride !!! Amaaaaaazing Giorgio Ferri
The "twitching" you see in the steering wheel is because it doesn't have power steering- no 930's do. You get direct feed-back from the road. You feel every bump in the steering wheel. It's one of the many things that makes this such a great "Driver's Car". No power brakes either. She's a friggin beast when the Turbo spools up. Really just the most fun you can have in a car. Ruf Yellowbird just made the best car (930) better!
I've owned and raced three tricked-out Corvairs, and am used to terminal oversteer and how to avoid inducing it. This guy blows my mind...and the Ruf engineers did an amazing job with that car, it should have been doing donuts half the time ~
I did't know anything about this car until yesterday, then I watched the car and driver video. Now it is my favorite car hands down
This has to be the most exciting Porsche video I've seen.
I just watched this for the first time because a friend of mine just scored a 1989 yellowbird for $39k.. We went to road Atlanta with his $200k twin turbo, and all any of us could think about was how awesome it would be if the Ruf were there and ready... I CAN'T WAIT!
Nice!! Everyone should experience a 930 at full roar once before they die. Do you understand that the car doesn't get "twitchy" now? It doesn't dampen the road imperfections like most cars do. If a pidgeon takes a big crap, you will feel it though the wheel. I hope you get to drive the 930 at some point. There is not another car made that feels like the 930. It's an amazing combination of brutal power, and delicate touch when you drive her right. Best car ever made in my opinion!
What an amazing driver and an amazing car for the time! Plenty of faster cars around the Nurburgring these days but I doubt any are more fun.
Love the way he corrects the slides... :-)
brilliant driver..
awesome car..
and i bet he finish the lap with no rear tyres left..
I was talking about the First CTR nicknamed the Yellowbird. It was a Carrera 2 with a 3.2L engine and they enlarged it to 3.4 and added twin turbos (I dont know if they are sequencial) they gave it an inhouse made 5 speed manual transmission and coated it with some of the 930's body panels.
only thing there is to dislike about this video is the picture quality!
If i'm not badly mistaken, this is Walther Röhrl.
This is RUf test driver Stefan Rosier
I can't believe they took this video off, it was friggin amazing!!
This video is amazing. The yellowbird is a freaking hooligan.
The greatest of all time....
Heard the guy didnt wear a helmet because he was gonna die if he crashed anyway.
This guys has CAJONES!!! I practically drop a brick everytime I watch it. If I were sitting in the car it would surely need new seats.
@thaape I have been celebrating this video for 5 years now, the best Ring video that will ever be. 5:18 rules. Sabine Rules.
DAAAAAMN, that is the best driving i have ever seen, especially in a car like this. Who is this guy??
This guy is my new hero.
One of my favorite Nurburgring videos.
Walter Rohrl. He is one of the best Ring drivers, especially for Porsche.
@thaape Agreed!! Also had the same guess as to the reason for no helmet! At these speeds, what's the point?
your one of the few people who gets it!nice one!
It's awesome to see actual, real, skill-based inertial drift...not skidding, which is what 99.9% of people who drive Skylines and and Supras mistake for drift. This is actual skill.
up there with "Climb Dance" as some of the best footage i've seen. astonishing. takes balls to get the tail out on Mutkurve. damn.
Yes because at certain High speeds The fast flowing air around the rear haunches together with the shape of the car caused a vacuum to form and actually pull air out of the ducts instead of pushing it in!
Also, among skilled drivers one may be able to take adventage of the 930's instability like Stefan does while the same driver may think a skyline is too stable and cant go as fast around the bends, while another may constantly spin out or not be able to reach the limit in a 930, while being in the Skyline he can use the extra grip for better exit, to me 930's characteristics are perfect, but the skyline is no sloch, I just love to drift for fastest cornering
A little lesson in cars is in order I see... this is the infamous RUF CTR Yellowbird, based on a 930 porsche with a 3.2, bored to 3.4 and equipped with twin KKK26 turbochargers, so yes it's VERY powerful. Second of all, it's a 2nd generation 911, which means it undesteers severely, and snap oversteers on trying to counter the understeer, dub that to nearly 470 bhp and you'll have your answer. The driver did insanely good on a car like this
why this drifty driving style?
tears for me at every turn!
Basic block and internals from a 956 Grp C racecar i think, Stefan Roser is a God
I was biting my nails the whole time. That steering wheel sure got a workout!
The driver is legendary Stefan Roser,and so s this tape!
The Ruf is on fire!
I can't even keep this car on the road in GT5, this guy does it balls to the wall IRL. He's seriously NOT human.
@shaggyC5Z06 If i'm not mistaking Walter Röhrl was driving this. He was a famous rally driver in the groupe B rally days. These days he's the main test driver for Porsche.
Ruf "Yellowbird"; '86 original production. 3.3L. Turbo engine, 4 speed transmission.
I agree. This was the only car that should be called the Yellowbird.
I don't know where you guys are thinking that Ruf bumped up the 3.2L engine, it was the 3.3L engine all the time.
Amazing video; although the car is neither a 993 or a 930. It was built on the normally aspirated 3.2 Carrera platform. That is, two generations prior to the 993.
In this car, with these tires, I'm pretty sure a lot of the sliding he did was actually very, very fast. (as fast or faster than you could do trying to keep the car in grip, because of it's balance and grip level) not in every case, but in many of these.
That's not a hot lap that's a fuego lap!!!
I was talking about the First CTR. It was based on the Carrera 2 and had body panels "like" that of the 930 thats why so many people mistook it being based of the 930. And yes I have checked and doublechecked my facts.
Its not the STEERING that created the problem, it's the weight of the engine on the back wheels, that makes the front very light, without enough pressure to cause natural oversteer on entry. Braking solves the problem, by loading up front wheels, turning in, and creates another UNLOADING the rear wheels, allowing the whole weight of the engine act as a pendulum, because of less grip on the rear tires. Physics. Porsche 997 have this problem STILL, and yeah, I've driven a 964 on a track. I know it
Is that Walter driving? The shift throw kind of reminds me of his style.
Was in his marrow when he was going to visit britain and meet one of that fabelous british girls. ;)
i have never seen so much crap written on a post, clearly very few of you have and idea about Stephan or the car, this was not a "track" day,and the car is not unbalanced or hard to drive,how do I know? I have drove this car,he did not tell people in the pits he didn't want a helmet,(what a load of bollocks)he was driving purely for fun, not speed, I have been in with him when he has been going for it,and for fun, Stephan used to race in group c,,,he is rather good...
Its based on 930 3.3 turbo, a 965s(964 turbo) predecessor.
that is the yellow bird though, i think. it has the intercooler slits on the 3/4 panels
this guy is in like in a ww3 batle with this thing! hes correcting on straights!
@jelzin1985 I fucked up I was thinking 930 as in a 930 turbo, but 930 is the chassis I believe.
Walther is a crazy pilot......
I like this car, but I love this track!!!!!
The reason he had no helmet is because he told the RUF people he would gonna die anyhow if he crashed so he went without. Being their chief driver he knew the car very well and believed in his abilities to run the ring in that beast. A helmet would probably have done little for him crashing at the speeds he was running. Dale Earnhardt was wearing a helmet when he wrecked and still died. And he had other safety equipment too.
I didn't want to delete, just I wrote 3.0 RSR instead of 2.8...which is QUITE different ;)
Of course you're right about the engine wheight: this is a "problem" of most of Porsches, and even much in this case.
Moreover, of course one's OBLIGED to load the front if you don't want to keep on straight..so that the back then follows by.
But I guess you can hold the back much better than he does. That's just overdrifting.
(and I agree about THE racer) :D
Racing drivers must be clinically insane. Who is this mad man?
That's one angry fucking car. When it loses time on the oversteer it growls, and claws up the rubber making that time back on the exit. Fucking brutal.
@odysseimfg Yes, I did. I'll never forget the first time I saw it, I had friends over, we got nice, turned on the speaker and subwoofer, you know the deal. Everyone was like, WOW.
In the Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashead, in drive like this guy!
Serious talent...for those who know how "challenging" a Ruf can be 470HP, 2550lbs...and that killer Ruf 5 speed...a pretty amazing machine.
DAYAM!! that guy is godly insane!!!! This must be stigs dad! LOL!!!
@tylerdurden0005
the driver is Stefan Roser, isn´t he?
This is god at the wheel
It's a 965turbo. 462hp (but it had more). The driver was a sick journalist, but he can drive.
'Yellowbird' was a nickname given to the CTR.
@The1andOnlyBody He means the lap time.
what a year
the driver looks like Keiichi Tsuchiya (drift king)
The Opinionator its Walter Rohl.
@Vision000 thanks
lose a leg: cool, lose an arm: cool... lose a head: dead
This video is the holy grail... :-)
....the stig?
Nurburgring is heaven on earth
5:19 made me get tissues
Your also Wrong RUF made the CTR from a Carrera 2 with a 3.2 L Engine and opted with twin turbochargers. They chose the carrera 2 because of its lighter weight in comparison to the Turbo The name Yellowbird was coined because of its distinctive yellow color and the sound of the blow off valve being simmilar to that of the chirp of a canary.
wer ist der fahrer. who is the driver, does anybody know this=???
wenn es jemand weiß, postet es mir bitte
ballz and skillz, yep, ballz and skillz!!
And to that comment that you deleted. It's silly to compare a Fully S/L, rather comfy-ish heavy Yellowbird with 2 KKK turbolag generators to a late model RSR, which is not only stripped to be as light as possible, but also runs racing grade suspension, engine, gearbox, tires and aero. Besides Rohrl is pretty much THE Racer of the century with his skill being unparallelled, and he knows his way around "The Mother" and about bad road conditions more than most modern day GT-R class GRIDS combined.
This Car is fucking brilliant with 469bhp 3366cc Flat - 6 Twin turbo 0 - 125mph: 11.4 sec and the top speed 211mph the ruf is betterthan ferrari.
( MAN CAN THAT BOY DRIVE!)
The driver is Stefan Roser to answer you question
I wonder how this car would do around the ring with today's tire technology?
The drivers name is Ascari Dua, Belgian pilot
Damn good car, I Love it!
ah le kéké dès le début devant les motard :)
anyone who has been in a old porsche knows the cars can be a handful at speed with 220 hp this car is double that with smaller tires than a 930 turbo of the same era. This guy driving has balls the size of watermelons. Normal humans could not do this anywhere on any track
is he wearin shoes cuz it dont look like he is at 6:18
@chunkeymonkey581 Holy shit, you're correct sir.
the machine is littarlly trying to kill him! but its all under control lol
yeah. and has some serious balls too...
Great video. I wonder which four people disliked this? Helmet enthusiasts? VHS-hating 12 year olds?
forget your skyline's,impreza's,evo's and supra's
nothing goes round a track like a ctr driven by a madman
@MrMpow3r yeah who is this guy?!?!?!
Does he give driving lessons???????
Aww come on no drivers view going through the carousel?
@rdlx3m That's the reason why i love this car, only real drivers can't drive it .
Sure he isn't going the fastest way around the track, not even close, everyone knows cars go faster when they are pointing straight, but the idea of the vid was to show how much FUN you can have in your RUF on your favourite B road, oh and how many rear tyres you can use up backing it in and flooring it in second gear. real meaning of the term LOL. Fantastic.
Oh, BTW.
Maybe it's just my point of view but as I see Walter Rohrl drivings on wet Nurburgring with a 3.0 RSR (ehm, talking about bhp?)...doesn't look definitely like this.
car for real man