This Car Won Le Mans, Then Never Went Back. Why?

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  • Опубліковано 31 сер 2022
  • The GT1 era of sports car racing birthed some ridiculous cars, but it was Porsche that pioneered the idea of building a road legal racing car purely to homologate its racing counterpart, and it started a revolution. So where did it go wrong for Porsche? This is the story of the Porsche 911 GT1.
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    #porsche #lemans #racing
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  • @automobilistic
    @automobilistic  Рік тому +110

    The background music for those interested:
    0:00 - Gran Turismo 4 - Arcade Mode
    0:27 - Gran Turismo 3 - Light Velocity / Car Dealer (my own remix)
    2:17 - Gran Turismo 3 - Slipstream
    4:12 - Gran Turismo 2 - East City

    • @giannicacioli2896
      @giannicacioli2896 Рік тому +19

      That makes the video 1000 times better hahahaha

    • @tonywilson4713
      @tonywilson4713 Рік тому +3

      I would contend that Group C was not madness in its initial concept, but morphed towards that over time. I was just starting my mechanical engineering degree when it came out and the concept was fairly simple. Anything goes along as it fits into the silhouette except how much fuel you have. The idea was to drive innovation in motor sport.
      It started to come unstuck with Sauber, who had the massive V8 twin turbo they could wind up for qualification and getting to the front and then dial back for fuel economy. In a way it did all the groundwork for what Audi later did with diesels. But that also means that Sauber was innovating.
      The problem with Group C was it allowed those with enough money to out innovate the others. In a way that's motorsport at the top levels. Its as much about who can out innovate the rest rather than who has the best driver.
      AND ITS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY.

    • @poplaurentiu4148
      @poplaurentiu4148 Рік тому +1

      I hear Porsche, BMW, Ferrari will go back to Le Mans from 2023 -2024..

    • @BOABModels
      @BOABModels Рік тому +4

      Talking of Gran Turismo, the Strassenversion is now on GT7 - it's not quite as effective as the track version but it can be tuned at least

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +5

      @@BOABModels I'm looking forward to getting my hands on GT7, need to get my hands on a playstation though first haha

  • @ThexMJT
    @ThexMJT Рік тому +237

    GT1 Era was amazing for the cars produced. CLK, Porsche GT1, F1, Lister, Lotus GT1, Diablo G1, Panoz

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +29

      I agree, some of the greatest cars ever made in my opinion

    • @fyfyi6053
      @fyfyi6053 Рік тому +14

      Well the top le mans cars of the late 90s and early 2000s are maybe the most revolutionary sports cars ever built.
      They're so revolutionary that today manufacturers still produce hypercars in the same style.
      Pagani is a good example.

    • @Gangsta_Playz
      @Gangsta_Playz Рік тому +4

      Include the Ferrari F50 GT in that because that is a BEAST

    • @klovor
      @klovor Рік тому +3

      @@Gangsta_Playz more appropriately the maserati mc12

    • @monsieurcommissaire1628
      @monsieurcommissaire1628 Рік тому +1

      Totally agree. It's unfortunate that the politically driven rule makers then proceeded to ruin things.
      Again.

  • @arkeusalexander9054
    @arkeusalexander9054 Рік тому +173

    Didn't know Porsche back in '98 defied gravity like the CLR one year later.

    • @iandc7050
      @iandc7050 Рік тому +25

      BMW LM also had it happen.

    • @Emira_75
      @Emira_75 Рік тому +17

      @@iandc7050 oh yeh, not quite as perfect of a flying flip but wayyyyy more scary in an open top car :|

    • @alieffauzanrizky7202
      @alieffauzanrizky7202 Рік тому +2

      Also that flying car at monza that almost clipped audi r8's rear wing

    • @theiceman7590
      @theiceman7590 Рік тому +1

      Sauber had a flight in the 80s aswell

    • @theiceman7590
      @theiceman7590 Рік тому +1

      @David van den Boom at the Mulsanne crest in 1985

  • @oldfrend
    @oldfrend Рік тому +121

    this was the pinnacle of sports car racing. never been a fan of prototypes - they don't look like anything on the road. but these GT1 monsters, the fact that you could buy them and see them on the road made them feel just a bit nearer to you.

    • @askeladden450
      @askeladden450 Рік тому +9

      that was what I was initially hoping from lmh but oh well, atleast we have a decent amount of teams nows

    • @oldfrend
      @oldfrend Рік тому +3

      @@askeladden450 i like that lmdh at least have unique looks to them. DPI and lmp all looked like they were stamped out of the same car factory.

    • @Orcawhale1
      @Orcawhale1 Рік тому +24

      This a very odd take, because its litterally the opposite.
      Group GT1 was intended to race sports cars, yes.
      But that changed, when Porsche created the 911 GT1 for the 1996 season.
      After that, it was essentially a prototype in everything, except name.
      And unless you were the Sultan of Brunai, you couldn't buy any of them.
      So all in this is a very odd comment.

    • @oldfrend
      @oldfrend Рік тому

      @@Orcawhale1 odd if you're too stupid to understand nuance and subtlety sure.

    • @mewtwo.150
      @mewtwo.150 Рік тому

      Lol, I think it was easier to see on at the racetrack, than the road version on streets

  • @wendigockel
    @wendigockel Рік тому +87

    If I had a racing team with enough funds to participate in the WEC from 2023 onwards, I'd enter a Porsche with a livery reminiscent of the 911 GT1 '98. As I grew up in Germany, I grew up with Playing cards depicting predominantly German race cars. This white, blue and neon-red livery with the Mobil, IBM and Warsteiner-sponsor stickers will stay embedded in my brain forever. It's a prime example of a livery done perfectly!

    • @thediamondlord8528
      @thediamondlord8528 Рік тому +2

      Porsche did something like that at Petit Le Mans in 2018

    • @timmycrockett3348
      @timmycrockett3348 Рік тому

      i would have a merc clk lm 98 for todays wec :)

    • @A.BurakUslu
      @A.BurakUslu Рік тому +3

      GT1 was the downloadable car of the NFS series game Porsche Unleashed. Like you, whenever I come across GT1 name I always think of that livery. It's just awesome.

    • @indigenoussober407
      @indigenoussober407 Рік тому

      I’m partial to the Lancia/Martini Liveries. Rally Icon and TIMELESS

  • @williamford9564
    @williamford9564 Рік тому +39

    That LeMans win was very similar to Mazda's. A slow midfield car that won because faster cars blew up.

    • @skeezix8156
      @skeezix8156 Рік тому +2

      A tribute to engineering really though

    • @monsieurcommissaire1628
      @monsieurcommissaire1628 Рік тому +10

      To finish first, first you must finish.

    • @nehylen5738
      @nehylen5738 Рік тому +6

      Not really: they did 4th and 5th in quali. You could say that of the 1995 McLaren F1 GTR which was 10s a lap slower than the prototypes it toppled, but certainly not of the 911 GT1 98', which was 1-2s slower over a lap compared to CLK LM & GT-One, over a 11km track. But if your technology can't last the 24h, you lost either way.

    • @DapperHesher
      @DapperHesher 6 місяців тому

      Yup, Merc pounded the snot out of them everywhere else (WEC and IMSA).

    • @theiceman7590
      @theiceman7590 2 місяці тому

      The 911 GT1 was really quick. It was only just behind the Mercedes CLK LM and Toyota GT One

  • @samacw
    @samacw Рік тому +52

    I remember the GT1 era fondly, it went so crazy so quickly.

  • @ConstanceMists
    @ConstanceMists Рік тому +24

    Every day I find new motorsports content on youtube and am blown away by how few views/subs the creators get. This is class stuff right here, great content

  • @alieffauzanrizky7202
    @alieffauzanrizky7202 Рік тому +33

    It's sad that porsche only made 1 example of gt1 98. Imagine if they made loads of them like merceedes' clk gtr

    • @surrealtom
      @surrealtom Рік тому +14

      "loads of them" and CLK GTR don't really work in one sentence

    • @X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X
      @X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X Рік тому

      There is no homologation version of the 1998 Mercedes (with a V8 engine) either. Both Porsche and Mercedes built 25 homologation cars of their 1997 version.

    • @Jusuff
      @Jusuff 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8XThere is one CLK LM road car

    • @X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X
      @X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Jusuff
      Oh, yes, you are correct.

  • @theamalgamut8871
    @theamalgamut8871 Рік тому +9

    They didn't actually gave up after 1998, as they did invest a lot of time and money in the LMP2000, that never raced...
    So, the hiatus really only began after that.

    • @vh99_
      @vh99_ Рік тому +5

      The LMP2000, such a shame it never got the chance to race ... 😞

  • @Emira_75
    @Emira_75 Рік тому +13

    Love the video :) despite being a 911 gt1 fanboy. The 993 gt1 road car is just the ultimate man made thing ever

    • @Emira_75
      @Emira_75 Рік тому +1

      Or maybe the Furai obviously

  • @karpabla
    @karpabla Рік тому +3

    The legendary 917 also used a loophole like that to be homologated. It changed the goal posts and the not less legendary 70 and 71 seasons happened.

  • @yourtallness
    @yourtallness Рік тому +6

    FIA really knows how to kill off the most exciting car categories: Group C, GT1, free engine design in F1 etc.

    • @therrydicule
      @therrydicule Рік тому +5

      It's more complicated than that...
      1.
      Group C was already dying of a slow death when the FIA brought that 3.5 liter rule in 1990. That's a thing which isn't often said...
      First of all, when the FIA created Group A, Group B, and Group C in 1982 things didn't go as planned. The FIA assumed that a Group B circuit racing would rise: that didn't happened. Which is why you got kind of a jump from Group 5 in the 1970s and early 1980s to GT1 in the GT circuit racing top class in Europe, and see some cars looking like touring cars in the 1980s IMSA GTO and SCCA Trans-Am. It's weird.
      It's also why they changed the name "world endurance championship" to "World Sports Prototype Championship" in 1986.
      But Group C had been used in "DTM" (well, DRM actually, but it's the same championship) up until 1985. It wasn't used anymore, been replaced by group A and than some DTM evolutionary rules.
      The BDRS SC was already moving away from C2 because some races had 9 competitors. That championship replaced thundersport...
      The interseries started to have Formula 2 and 3000 readapted, replaced some Group C and Can-am cars.
      By 1989, in the world sports car championship : the Sauber C9 that won was based on the Sauber C8, dating from 1985. The Porsche 962 dated from 1983-84. The Jaguar XJR-9 was evolved from a project dating from 1985.
      So the FIA wanted to shake things up in Group C to make the cars more modern, reduce cost in F1, and bring a world touring car series on crack by using the same engine all around... It didn't work as expected: too many teams tried in F1 and not enough in sports cars. Meanwhile, the cost of engines skyrocketed. The Alfa Romeo 164 procar was weirdly great to see, but that gone nowhere because nobody was interested.
      The intention were good. On paper the plan seemed great. Even how it was implemented had some good effects.
      They just didn't expect that much investment in F1 by teams during a recession. They also didn't expect the news sportcars to be that lacking in endurance and some old group C to still be that good.
      GT1 wasn't an FIA idea. It was by Jürgen Barth, Patrick Peter, and Stéphane Ratel. The SRO group and their GT3 tours? That was the early efforts of many of the same guys! The idea was to bring different cars used in one brand series together, including some touring cars.
      The FIA adopted their class system, because they can do that sometimes, and gave an homologation for a world championship to the same group.
      Here it wasn't just the FIA that killed it but also economics and bad timing: McLaren pulled out at the end of 1998, Panoz was talking of moving to the new LMP-1 class instead, BMW had pulled out two years earlier, one of Zackspeed car skipped one race and wanted to move to GT2 only (turns out that the viper was fun for them). Davidoff Classic racing team pulled out somewhere in 1998 from Gt1.
      At some points, you need a minimum number of entries to support a class. It died during the winter of 1998 due to lack of entries.
      The free engine design in F1: if you means the V12 and V8 in F1, everyone was de facto using a V10 before it became a rule to use a V10. I would like that the FIA bring some rules to encourage variability in F1 engines, I'm not sure how that could be done.

  • @ThatGamePerson
    @ThatGamePerson Рік тому +3

    Love the Gran Turismo 2 music (I think it was in 1 too, but I played that one like 5 min)

  • @a92gsxdsm
    @a92gsxdsm Рік тому +8

    Thanks for another stellar video. Love the history you provide on these amazing cars. Cheers!!

  • @unpass
    @unpass Рік тому +3

    fingers crossed that the Porsche-Penske outfit will have success next year

  • @TheMrFishnDucks
    @TheMrFishnDucks Рік тому +3

    Fantastic video. Great looking car. Cannot believe some were homolgated. Keep up the good work.

  • @otmotivealt8522
    @otmotivealt8522 Рік тому +4

    I recently found your channel last week and I have have now watched almost every video.
    Your channel is just so great

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      Thanks! Really happy you're enjoying the videos!

  • @Understeerking
    @Understeerking Рік тому +1

    I was on the back straight on Road Atlanta when the GT1 98 decided it wanted to be a F-22.

  • @relicx3933
    @relicx3933 Рік тому

    Excellent content. Ive seen only one of these irl (not racing, stationary) and i think it still had a classic livery on it. Iconic.

  • @barryjohnson5288
    @barryjohnson5288 Рік тому +8

    Well it was nerfed. other GT1 cars had 630hp the 911 GT1 only had 550hp because of the FIA GT1 rules stated that turbo charged cars had to be dropped 70hp.
    A good example is in the 97 FIA GT1 championship the Porsche 911 GT1 couldn't keep up with the McLaren F1 GTR, and Mercedes CLK GTR, but at lemans the McLaren F1 GTR was getting dusted by the 911 GT1 till it caught fire. The 911 GT1 should be 3× Lemans champion.

    • @andrewcarter9649
      @andrewcarter9649 Рік тому +2

      The WSC-95 was faster than the 911 GT-1 in 96 and proven reliable, it was rightly the odds on favourite. The 97 car beat itself with that massive engine fire, but it's worth remembering that we hadn't quite reached the era of bullet proof reliability that Audi would uscher in for the 2000's.

    • @barryjohnson5288
      @barryjohnson5288 Рік тому

      @@andrewcarter9649 the 911 GT1 should be 3 time lemans champions. (2 overall)

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Рік тому +1

      @@barryjohnson5288 in 97 there was a intake ruling that would affect boosted cars more than n/a..... Which is why the aging F1 was still able to be competitive in 97.... Fina shinitzer BMW F1 lost it's championship lead on the final race of the season when a the leading car cought on fire.......

    • @MegaBYSON
      @MegaBYSON Рік тому +1

      clearly porsche fan boy making stuff up to save face, it couldn't compete, it was a long time ago

    • @barryjohnson5288
      @barryjohnson5288 Рік тому +1

      @@MegaBYSON at turbocharged GT1 cars were detuend to 550hp by the FIA rules, I'm not making it up.

  • @MegaTube1313
    @MegaTube1313 Рік тому +1

    I was lucky enough to work on the gt1 in Germany 1996 whilst employed by Lola 🚘

  • @toddhildebrand6057
    @toddhildebrand6057 Рік тому +1

    Love the Gran Turismo music in the background. Glorious!

    • @mdtxtdi
      @mdtxtdi Рік тому

      The OST is amazing

  • @hmdwgf
    @hmdwgf Рік тому +1

    One car that is often overlooked is the Ferrari F50 GT1, which never got to race at all. It was supposed to race against the McLaren F1 GTR's, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes CLK GTR, etc. It's one of the great "what if' stories.

  • @RedLP5000S
    @RedLP5000S Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing this insightful story. ✌🏻🇺🇸

  • @TheFran17
    @TheFran17 Рік тому

    Really nice content. Lots of interesting stuff from all your videos. I really hope you keep doing videos despite being a small chanel, the quality of the videos is really high and i know you will keep developing the quality of it over time. For the time being keep working and good luck

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      Thanks! I really appreciate the support and the kind words. Plenty more content on the way!

  • @schore69
    @schore69 Рік тому +1

    first. great stuff you provide here. keep it coming, and hopefully your channel explodes, like it deserves!

  • @Plaganomica
    @Plaganomica Рік тому

    Love the gran turismo music. Great channel

  • @cinemahumano
    @cinemahumano Рік тому

    Great video

  • @lucasl.5084
    @lucasl.5084 5 місяців тому

    I've been watching your videos for 4 hours straight now

  • @GoldMonkeyGamer
    @GoldMonkeyGamer Рік тому

    Gran turismo music is a nice touch, nice video

  • @Gallo_ii
    @Gallo_ii Рік тому +1

    "intervoven with motorsport like no other" you say...one company pops into my head right away though.

    • @romanvice
      @romanvice 11 місяців тому

      Pennzoil, right?

  • @hirdy161
    @hirdy161 Рік тому

    That flip was sick!

  • @bmstylee
    @bmstylee Рік тому

    Watching these cars fly gives me Top Gear vibes where we learned that Mark Weber is The Stig's favorite pilot.

  • @ringoferrer2343
    @ringoferrer2343 Рік тому +2

    How does this only have 1k views wtf?

  • @andrehooker3229
    @andrehooker3229 Рік тому

    I remember the Radio Shack RC of the Porsche 911 GT1 I still have the Road & Track magazine that featured the Porsche 911 GT1 and the Mercedes CLK GTR road cars. That Gran Turismo music though 😁

  • @x1tekja
    @x1tekja Рік тому +1

    Me: sees the clickbait thumbnail while remembering who the manufacturer with the most wins at Le Mans.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      I disagree that its clickbait. As I detail in the video, the reason that Porsche stopped racing the 911 GT1 (and ultimately left the sport until 2005), was because they felt the car was "too slow" to be competitive against the new cars from Mercedes and Toyota.

  • @tangerinedream7211
    @tangerinedream7211 Рік тому

    That GT one era was fantastic to watch trackside, Porsche, Mercedes, Nissan, BMW and Toyota slugging it out, happy days.

  • @notmenotme614
    @notmenotme614 Рік тому +3

    Why did Porsche abandon Le Mans?
    I’m guessing it’s because top level motorsport isn’t cheap, it’s a money pit. There comes a point where the manufacturers accountants look at the pros and cons and say that a motorsport race series is no longer worth entering.

    • @MegaBYSON
      @MegaBYSON Рік тому +1

      he said it in the video, 'Porsche believed it couldn't compete', please don't make stuff up

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 Рік тому +2

      @@MegaBYSON Porsche couldn’t compete… without spending vast sums of money in research and development. Why have so many Formula 1 manufacturers quit over the past 10 or 15 years? Motorsport is not cheap.

  • @MrNussbuss
    @MrNussbuss Рік тому

    Please try to do an episode on the Lotus Elise GT1.
    Absolute bonkers car.

  • @DrRacer78
    @DrRacer78 Рік тому

    @automobilistic The funny thing is that the 911 GT1 isn't the only mid engine 911. The RSR's as of late are mid engined & have been doing quite well.

  • @shomu_og2841
    @shomu_og2841 Рік тому +1

    0:15 bro thought this was rocket league

  • @DiavoloGrenadine
    @DiavoloGrenadine Рік тому +1

    The Group B and the GT1 era were the best era in racing.

  • @geoffbuck6890
    @geoffbuck6890 Рік тому +3

    “Insane Group C” ? Don’t you mean WONDERFUL…

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      I mean both haha

    • @geoffbuck6890
      @geoffbuck6890 Рік тому

      @@automobilistic 🤣

    • @AJBa83
      @AJBa83 Рік тому

      Gonna say, wasn't the thing with Group C was that it was actually very sane and thus successful (unlike Group B which really was unhinged). The insane bit was killing the whole lot off with the infamous F1 engines rule change. Pricing out everyone except big manufacturers... who then promptly left for F1 proper anyway. GT1 was basically a way to rescue Le Mans from oblivion.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      @@AJBa83 group C cars got so scarily fast that they had to add chicanes to the mulsanne straight! Yes it was ultimately the move to F1 engines and trying to spin group c off as a formula series that killed it, but by the later years (even pre-F1 engines) it was pretty crazy

    • @AJBa83
      @AJBa83 Рік тому

      @@automobilistic that's true. I've always wondered what an onboard from Win Percy's Mulsanne Jaguar crash would be like since according to Brundle he could see the tops of the trees underneath. Makes Dumbreck'd flying CLR look a bit small.

  • @agentcrm
    @agentcrm Рік тому +6

    Lancia and Audi both build homologation specials way before Porsche, in the rally world.
    Dr Porsche was also racing well before WW2. Just not with his own company.

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Рік тому

      They did??? Before the 1973 911 Carrera RS Or the 1972 bmw CSL? or the 1965 Shelby gt350?...... Homologation specials were not new in the 80s...... I get it man, you think your a classic motorsports enthusiast now because you saw the Grand Tour special covering the Audi and lancia rivalry........cool dude 👍

    • @agentcrm
      @agentcrm Рік тому +5

      @@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Lancia Did it well before group B. The Stratos was a competition special.
      The 911 and BMW batmobile where built on existing platforms and where not the game changers that the Stratos or Quatro were.
      Also I never watch grand tour, Clarkson is more of a wanker than your gatekeeping comment.

  • @m1a2abramsmainbattletank58
    @m1a2abramsmainbattletank58 Рік тому +3

    Right until Porsche returned back to Le Mans to compete in the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance class and the Le Mans Prototype 1 Hybrid class.

    • @MegaBYSON
      @MegaBYSON Рік тому

      and.....

    • @m1a2abramsmainbattletank58
      @m1a2abramsmainbattletank58 Рік тому +2

      @@MegaBYSON continued on until they left, then developed their new hypercar which they will return to compete in Le Mans

  • @davidbennettracing538
    @davidbennettracing538 Рік тому +1

    Love the Gran Turismo soundtrack…

  • @hallo_welt_ag
    @hallo_welt_ag Рік тому

    GT1 was created to stop the madness, but it only needed a year to turn insane
    Haven't seen anything backfire as bad since the skirt ban in 1981

  • @biggusbestus551
    @biggusbestus551 Рік тому

    Appears they failed to observe the "keep the rubber side down" technique ...

  • @rainergumpert5945
    @rainergumpert5945 Рік тому +1

    I'd loved to see the F50 GT racing against those.

  • @Vixen1525
    @Vixen1525 Рік тому +1

    1:26 Hey.. That is the best looking Nissan >~< Even better than any Skyline! Don't hurt her :(. She is not weird, she is special..

  • @treszenrv9401
    @treszenrv9401 Рік тому

    So much space left without sponsors. 😹
    Mercedes should consider putting some on the floor. There is so much footages of the cars from that angle.

  • @tehsheik
    @tehsheik Рік тому +2

    The Mclaren F1 was out before the 911 GT1. Mclaren started the madness, Mercedes finished it. Great vid though.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +2

      The McLaren F1 was conceived and created before the creation of the BPR Global GT series, let alone the LMGT1 class, and so it is not fair to say the F1 was a homologation special the likes of which Porsche, Mercedes and Toyota built. It is certainly true that Mercedes finished the class though haha

    • @Thnsrd42
      @Thnsrd42 Рік тому

      @ countreefus I agree with tehsheik. It was the F1 that really set this all off, especially when it won Le Mans in 1995. Remember, Mercedes used the F1 as a test mule for their CLK GTR race car.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому

      @@Thnsrd42 I agree that the F1 was a formidable GT car, but it was a road car first, and a race car second, which is within the spirit of the GT1 regulations. Was its pace responsible for porsche's re-reading of the rules? Quite possibly, but the F1 was not a homologation special like the 911 GT1 and Mercedes CLK-GTR. Goes to show just how good the F1 was that other teams needed a re-think to compete!

  • @christophercripps7639
    @christophercripps7639 Рік тому

    One normally thinks of Le Mans cars as being prototypes or one iff efforts (Mazda 787, Dauer 962) uet the one Porsche Street Version GT1 for homologation was a one off. FIA "sports car" racing has gone a long way away from the days when Porsche built 25 917s to qualify as a production car.

  • @roddas26
    @roddas26 Рік тому

    Your pronunciation is impeccable.

  • @rebelchild9652
    @rebelchild9652 Рік тому +1

    The sard mc8-r entered Le Mans in 1995 and it was the first to do the one off homologation car entry. Porsche got the idea from them

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +3

      Good point, I had forgotten about the MC8-R. That being said I doubt Porsche weren't already working on the 911 GT1, as the MC8-R was revealed only a year before the 911 GT1 started racing.

    • @rebelchild9652
      @rebelchild9652 Рік тому

      @@automobilistic ah fair. Would be hard to believe the 96 car was developed that short. I do think the mc8-r deserves mention when talking about the rise of late 90s gt1.

  • @F4aXxZ
    @F4aXxZ Рік тому

    I want to play Gran Turismo 3 so bad right now.

  • @pedz23
    @pedz23 Рік тому

    I love the Gran Turismo music

  • @biffdanielson2820
    @biffdanielson2820 Рік тому

    When your race car identifies as an airplane.

  • @travosk8668
    @travosk8668 Рік тому +2

    What a beautiful car tho

  • @Zero_dice
    @Zero_dice Рік тому

    Can you make a video of Toyota GT ONE, and the new Toyota ,ganzo,that is destroying the new prototype class?

  • @iandc7050
    @iandc7050 Рік тому +1

    i think its incorrec to call the 911 GT1 itself a failure. The Le Mans GT1 class as a whole failed, but the Porsche GT1 was the one of the manufacturers to win the damn race with it

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      The 911 GT1 certainly wasnt a failure, it won Le Mans! But it wasnt the fastest car there, and that is reflected by the fact porsche chose to stop racing in GT1 even before the class was killed off

  • @marioluizandradecosta3241
    @marioluizandradecosta3241 Рік тому

    Esse caso é o mesmo das Mercedes, . A área na frente do eixo dianteiro, é muito comprida

  • @wolfgangvan-uber6515
    @wolfgangvan-uber6515 Рік тому

    Mercedes-Benz: “Hold my downforce.”

  • @the.flat.six.
    @the.flat.six. Рік тому +1

    Porsche didn't have enough money to put his cars into the race in the early years of Porsche.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому

      True, if I remember correctly they first competed at Le Mans specifically in the early 50s

  • @bradchikenheart2
    @bradchikenheart2 Рік тому

    Thank you for your awesome videos i fucking adore so much that you use the awesome Gran turismo soundtrack keep the amazing content coming plz!

  • @brianfinamore4962
    @brianfinamore4962 Рік тому

    prettiest car ever made

  • @user-rt3bg2lh5o
    @user-rt3bg2lh5o Рік тому

    996Headlight♥

  • @nobodyimportant6614
    @nobodyimportant6614 Рік тому +1

    Porsche didn't "abandon Le Mans. After so much success in the 89s and 90s people (fans and other manufacturers) were getting tired of hearing about Porsche. So they turned their chassis development data over to sister company Audi. The R8 was born and Porsche A.G. continued to dominate under a different name.
    BTW: While Dr. Porsche was essentially conscripted by Hitler to design military vehicles and the Volkswagen during WWII, he got his start in automotive engineering with Auto Union in the 30s and designed some of their most successful Grand Prix cars.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +1

      Porsche were developing an LMP car for 2000, sadly it was scrapped and the progress was turned into the Carrera GT. Its my understanding that VW (who owned Audi from 1998) only merged with Porsche in 2011, and so if it is the case that Porsche were the brains behind Audi's great successes in the early 2000s I would love to know more about how that came to be!

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Рік тому +1

      @@automobilistic Porsche has been developing stuff for Audi since the late 80s ..... Porsches actually designed the VR6 engine and the corrado. They would also develop the RS2........ There's dealer showroom posters showcasing the 964 and RS2 together.

  • @gc2672
    @gc2672 Місяць тому

    bravo

  • @fredschriks8554
    @fredschriks8554 Рік тому

    GT1 Championship was killed off by the Mercedes CLK GTR. It was winning everything.

  • @derrickstorm6976
    @derrickstorm6976 Рік тому

    Wait but Group B started the trend of making road cars by designing rally cars

  • @estebanod
    @estebanod Рік тому

    "Le Mon" 😅

  • @jackmakackov7077
    @jackmakackov7077 Рік тому

    The real question is, how much is that road car they made one of worth???

  • @silvioantonio6952
    @silvioantonio6952 11 місяців тому

    Remember guys, to finish first. First you need to finish!

  • @azzahripratama.9a
    @azzahripratama.9a Рік тому

    Can you make video about why Audi so dominates 24h le mans

    • @bmstylee
      @bmstylee Рік тому +1

      Dr Ulrich ran an amazing team. They could swap an entire rear end assembly in an insanely short time. They had some of the best drivers and engineers.

  • @d.e.b.b5788
    @d.e.b.b5788 Рік тому

    I still can't get my head around, Porsche nuts who insist that putting the engine behind the rear wheels is the best design. Even Porsche itself stopped doing that in their top tier racers over 60 years ago.

  • @daveblock4061
    @daveblock4061 Рік тому

    The GT1 is only 40kg lighter than my stock 1979 930. Would not an aluminium, or better yet carbon, tub have made more sense? F1 had been using carbon for a decade at this point and Lotus had a street car (Elise) in aluminium.

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому

      This mostly had to do with the weight regulations of the GT1 class, which set a minimum allowed weight. 1996/7 there was no incentive for Porsche to save weight, as they were already as light as was allowed by the regulations. That being said many of the cars that competed in 1999 used aluminium honeycomb chassis, though that is at least in part due to the weight limit being decreased to 950 kg if I remember correctly

    • @daveblock1688
      @daveblock1688 Рік тому

      @@automobilistic Thanks.

    • @nerd1000ify
      @nerd1000ify Рік тому

      A little bit of an off-topic but related titbit: in competitive sailing (e.g. my dad races 505s, and I used to race Laser Radials) it's common for the class to have a minimum weight for the boat. It's common these days for the most competitive boats to be built underweight, the weight is then brought up to the minimum using lead ballast.
      Doing this lets you optimise the weight distribution of the boat in a way that wouldn't be possible if the weight was structural. Have racing car manufacturers ever done something similar?

    • @daveblock4061
      @daveblock4061 Рік тому

      @@nerd1000ify Our boats were never weighed so never carried ballast.

    • @K9RacingAndStuff
      @K9RacingAndStuff Рік тому

      @@nerd1000ify pretty much every race car manufacturer in every series does this nowadays if they can if a minimum weight is imposed.

  • @Commander-McBragg
    @Commander-McBragg Рік тому

    They’re still there

  • @ry7hym
    @ry7hym Рік тому

    wait the Ferdinand was from Porsche?

  • @luisrosmaninho1948
    @luisrosmaninho1948 Рік тому

    Eu sou mais slow e ainda cá ando.

  • @Mister-Mayor
    @Mister-Mayor Рік тому

    Easy, they're saving money for F1 campaign

  • @RikMaxSpeed
    @RikMaxSpeed Рік тому

    You win the prize for being the first automobile journalist who correctly says “miles per hour” - well done!!

  • @jakethejeweler3092
    @jakethejeweler3092 Рік тому

    Ahh yes, the people's car. How do we forget

  • @l7ragoon
    @l7ragoon Рік тому

    Can I just say this, when all the manufactures were in their prime. Porsche wrong place and time with their quick cornering car, Toyota with their fast vehicle and Mercedes choice with their v8. Etc etc.

  • @23GreyFox
    @23GreyFox Рік тому

    What Porsche did with the GT1, wasn't it just the same with the 917 decades earlier?

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому

      The 917 was not a homologated car, as it raced in the Group 6 prototype class. The only road-legal examples of 917s are as a result of private modification. Porsche themselves never produced a 917 road car, as it was not required by the regulations of its class

    • @surrealtom
      @surrealtom Рік тому

      @@automobilistic they did make one road legal 917K for the, at the time, owner of the Martini brand. It initially had Alabama plates and then changed to Texan ones in the early 00s after the owner's death.

  • @DoomWarriorX
    @DoomWarriorX Рік тому +1

    Just saying Porsche would not return for several Years is Sportscars not only misleading but dening interessting stories in its own. First Porsche did continue to produce GT2 and GTE cars for customer Teams with several class wins e.g. Manthey in '99 and Proton in '10. Additionally the LMP 2000 project Porsche denied exited until last year. The reason for cancellation are rumored but likely Audi R8. Than in 2005 with semi works Team Penske entering ALMS in LMP2. In 2008 and '09 customer treams even class win in Le Mans with this car. It is true a full blown works Team did not exitst up until 2013, but saying Porsche was not involved in Sportscar racing is so wrong.

  • @TheGrinXpedia
    @TheGrinXpedia Рік тому

    Porsche didnt create the trend
    Toyota did with the failure named MC8R

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому

      Good point. That being said I highly doubt Porsche weren't already working on the 911 GT1, as the MC8-R was revealed only a year before the 911 GT1 started racing. Additionally, the huge failure of the MC8-R probably isn't what encouraged other manufacturers to follow suit - failure doesn't make for great inspiration lol

  • @Jason-gt2kx
    @Jason-gt2kx Рік тому

    Automoblism? interesting

  • @zachcd390119
    @zachcd390119 Рік тому

    Too slow, but still amazing

  • @marks7197
    @marks7197 Рік тому +2

    I think Porsche must have been a bit aggrieved that the TWR bitsa WSC car beat their true works effort twice in succession at Le Mans. They had a habit of losing interest when the works team lost, Like the late 80"s when they dropped the full works Group C cars after losing to Jaguar. They supported the privateers well (Joest) but weren't fully in it any more.

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Рік тому

      Not the first time with Porsche gets pissed when someone improves their own cars and beats their own game. the first time this happened was in 1956 when a swiss engineer put a wing on a 550 Spyder(before chaparral since he gets all the credit). I think he sets pole and Porsche lobbied to bann it since it beat their own works 550s with an A-list team of driver's..... Like savages, the officials ripped off the wing. Another time was with the Kremer racing 935k3...... Porsche was upset that it was better then their 935/78 which was the final factory version of the dominating 935 family...... The K3 would dominate everything and even defeat prototypes..... It's only kryptonite was the Zakspeed Ford capris in the DRM........

    • @marks7197
      @marks7197 Рік тому +2

      @@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo they can't have been that fussed about the 935 though as they continued to offer Joest and Kremer support after that when they ran the 936 copies and after that when they didn't have proper group c customer 956's. Mad given how awful the 1980 or 81 917 turned out. I think as any manufacturer would however, offer more customer support when they weren't up against the factory cars. But the 956/962 era was rife with the RLR tubs and privateers running massively modified chassis, yet Porsche still offered factory support to the Joest cars in the late 80's.

  • @michaelgomez4994
    @michaelgomez4994 Рік тому +4

    fun fact: the porsche gt1 was beaten by the corvette c5r at the 2001 daytona 24h

    • @automobilistic
      @automobilistic  Рік тому +2

      There's a reason Porsche ended the factory effort after 1998...

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Рік тому

      No shit it makes since.... The GT1 was super old by then and wasn't that competitive originally anyways..........

    • @michaelgomez4994
      @michaelgomez4994 Рік тому

      @@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo the c5r was in a slower class. and still won

    • @michaelgomez4994
      @michaelgomez4994 Рік тому

      @@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo it’s not a gt1 car and beat all gt1 cars and prototypes at the daytona 24h

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Рік тому

      @@michaelgomez4994 they were both in the same class, man........ Jesus Christ.........and a lower class 911 was second place.... The 911 was winner overall as well in 1973 against prototypes. And a 935k3 won le mans overall in 1979. And the McLaren F1 won le mans overall in 1995..... It happens....... Sometimes the GT cars get the best of the prototypes........

  • @kirboturbo6932
    @kirboturbo6932 Рік тому

    6:18

  • @user-yv8zr6br4q
    @user-yv8zr6br4q Рік тому

    NO TECH IN GERMAN CARS 2022.

  • @parttimetourist
    @parttimetourist Рік тому

    Love them or loathe them Porsche is one of the ugliest cars on the road so why do some people swoon over them?

  • @touchofgrey5372
    @touchofgrey5372 Рік тому

    I wish you'd get to the point!

  • @carlopampuri1317
    @carlopampuri1317 Рік тому

    Question for germans: is this pronounciation of Porsche correct?

  • @Aaron_b_c
    @Aaron_b_c Рік тому

    Porshhh

  • @alexshank1414
    @alexshank1414 Рік тому

    Porsche and WW2 tanks doesn’t sit right with me. But who asked.

  • @Luisml8
    @Luisml8 Рік тому +1

    so they feared the competition and didnt want to race in 1999 lol

    • @trance9158
      @trance9158 Рік тому +2

      No... The rules nerfed the ability and competitiveness of the Porsche. It's the only way the FIA can ever defeat Porsche.