This is the year I got discovered endurance sports car racing! It started with 1999 Le Mans highlights on Speedvision. So excited to see this race! The Viper is what led me to racing. Thanks ALMS for uploading these vintage races!
Watch this race and particularly the series, is amazing, all that cars, the diversity of mechanical engineering, V12, V10, V8, V6, 4 cylinders, turbocharger and normally aspirated has been through in this series, with the spirit of the great race of all, the 24 hours of le mans, and all this now is beautiful and great remember, the American Le Mans series in my opinion was the best motorsport series of all time. After the unification of the Grand Am and with the new owners( Nascar) , not matter if IMSA is the sanctioned body for the series, the owners are Nascar, all the essence of the le mans race are gone, and is a shame because this series was awesome.
Your comment is 7 years old, even 7 years ago the cars where still somewhat diverse if we look back now.. Now we have all hybrids with almost all cars being build by a external chassis manufacturer like Dellara.. Only Porsche and Ferrari built their own chassis for their Le Mans Hypercar prototype but they are forbidden to race in the American series since the American contenders are forced to use one of those few standardized chassis. It’s a real shame how unified and boring endurance racing got.. It always was about manufacturers finding a unique solution to gain an advantage and not everyone driving the same stuff, like modern indycar. I hope you are doing well after 7 years, have a nice Sunday!
@@rolux4853 Ferrari, Toyota, and Peugeot aren't forbidden from running in IMSA, they just choose not to. Why? Well, not to make too many excuses for multi-billion dollar/pound/euro/yen corporations, but Akio Toyoda got grilled by some of Toyota's executives for spending a ton of money on racing, while Peugeot (who doesn't even sell cars in the U.S.) are too busy trying not to suck in just the WEC at the moment. And Ferrari? A lack of a sense of humor, I suppose, though I doubt that third, predominantly yellow 499P would've happened at all if not for the presence of Ye Yifei and the copious Chinese backing he likely drew. The upside is that Heart of Racing are going to make a run at IMSA with the revived Valkyrie project, so IMSA's at least going to have the best-sounding LMH in its field next year. Regardless, the rest of your point still stands. A four-chassis oligopoly for the LMDh and LMP2 cars, defined power and torque curves for even the LMH cars, strict aerodynamic performance windows, and then BoP sprinkled on top to bring about the age of the 1000+ kg sports racer. Add to that the forced extinction of the charming garagisti running their own unique cars - like the visually distinct Riley and Scott Mk.IIIs Rafinelli and Dyson used to give BMW such a run for their money - and you have a sportscar racing landscape whose appeal is miles wide but inches deep. At least back in the 2014 USCR, independent teams COULD build a car themselves. Now it's buy or die, with strict homologation rules killing any potential for variation. As Dan Binks put it: "you can’t even drill a hole in the car because it’s not on the FIA paperwork". As perverse as it sounds, it's nice occasionally seeing comments like this. Recent ones, that let a skeptic of the current world order know that they are not going crazy.
Many people are skeptical about this new USCR. All we can really do is wait and see. It may end up like the Champ Car/Indy Car merger of 2008, but hopefully it'll last and we'll at least see some sophisticated racing in the US. The France family has repurchased IMSA now. They wouldn't have if NASCAR didn't care about road racing. Heck, the Sprint Cup Series uses the Glen and Sonoma while their support series use Road America. Hopefully USCR can see some success over the next decade or so.
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God, I miss these car designs. Not always the color scheme. But the late 90s/early 2000s were better than those from today 😁.
This is the year I got discovered endurance sports car racing! It started with 1999 Le Mans highlights on Speedvision. So excited to see this race! The Viper is what led me to racing. Thanks ALMS for uploading these vintage races!
Watch this race and particularly the series, is amazing, all that cars, the diversity of mechanical engineering, V12, V10, V8, V6, 4 cylinders, turbocharger and normally aspirated has been through in this series, with the spirit of the great race of all, the 24 hours of le mans, and all this now is beautiful and great remember, the American Le Mans series in my opinion was the best motorsport series of all time. After the unification of the Grand Am and with the new owners( Nascar) , not matter if IMSA is the sanctioned body for the series, the owners are Nascar, all the essence of the le mans race are gone, and is a shame because this series was awesome.
Your comment is 7 years old, even 7 years ago the cars where still somewhat diverse if we look back now..
Now we have all hybrids with almost all cars being build by a external chassis manufacturer like Dellara..
Only Porsche and Ferrari built their own chassis for their Le Mans Hypercar prototype but they are forbidden to race in the American series since the American contenders are forced to use one of those few standardized chassis.
It’s a real shame how unified and boring endurance racing got..
It always was about manufacturers finding a unique solution to gain an advantage and not everyone driving the same stuff, like modern indycar.
I hope you are doing well after 7 years, have a nice Sunday!
@@rolux4853 Ferrari, Toyota, and Peugeot aren't forbidden from running in IMSA, they just choose not to. Why? Well, not to make too many excuses for multi-billion dollar/pound/euro/yen corporations, but Akio Toyoda got grilled by some of Toyota's executives for spending a ton of money on racing, while Peugeot (who doesn't even sell cars in the U.S.) are too busy trying not to suck in just the WEC at the moment. And Ferrari? A lack of a sense of humor, I suppose, though I doubt that third, predominantly yellow 499P would've happened at all if not for the presence of Ye Yifei and the copious Chinese backing he likely drew.
The upside is that Heart of Racing are going to make a run at IMSA with the revived Valkyrie project, so IMSA's at least going to have the best-sounding LMH in its field next year.
Regardless, the rest of your point still stands. A four-chassis oligopoly for the LMDh and LMP2 cars, defined power and torque curves for even the LMH cars, strict aerodynamic performance windows, and then BoP sprinkled on top to bring about the age of the 1000+ kg sports racer. Add to that the forced extinction of the charming garagisti running their own unique cars - like the visually distinct Riley and Scott Mk.IIIs Rafinelli and Dyson used to give BMW such a run for their money - and you have a sportscar racing landscape whose appeal is miles wide but inches deep. At least back in the 2014 USCR, independent teams COULD build a car themselves. Now it's buy or die, with strict homologation rules killing any potential for variation. As Dan Binks put it: "you can’t even drill a hole in the car because it’s not on the FIA paperwork".
As perverse as it sounds, it's nice occasionally seeing comments like this. Recent ones, that let a skeptic of the current world order know that they are not going crazy.
This was back when speedvision was doing 24 hour broadcasts for rolex 24. Great times!
Love the sounds of the V12 protypes!
Kinda funny how the original Audi R8's started only 11th & 12th on the grid. Complete dominance since then, too bad it's going to end for 2014 :(
Cool! Here's to many more decades of American sports car racing!
Fantastic audio in this program. Positively drowns out the commentary!
YES you said it. Some modern races the cars are too damn quiet, while the announcers are all we hear.
Year before the king of P1 comes
haha love the classic on board camera quality!
Thank you guys so much!
This is amazing! Thank you so much!
the variety was insane! not over regulated and forced to have a grid full of copy and paste cars.
Amazing race.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Panoz need to create another GT or LMP car
Nice viewing, some sexy cars in there ;) Thanks for the upload!
Sucks BMW and Williams didn't continue to develop that LMR V12 car.
bmw were preparing engines for Williams back in 2000.
Coronavirus brought me here!, March 2020
Many people are skeptical about this new USCR. All we can really do is wait and see. It may end up like the Champ Car/Indy Car merger of 2008, but hopefully it'll last and we'll at least see some sophisticated racing in the US. The France family has repurchased IMSA now. They wouldn't have if NASCAR didn't care about road racing. Heck, the Sprint Cup Series uses the Glen and Sonoma while their support series use Road America. Hopefully USCR can see some success over the next decade or so.
Update: It's pretty damn good
Their support series also uses Mid-Ohio
Nice racing for 1999 yeahr
Do you think they'd sandbag to give Porsche a chance, considering they're both part of the VW Group?
Never knew Steve Evans covered Sebring.
He went to his only Le Mans 24 Hours for SpeedVision the following year.
BMW was gifted a bunch with this car through its entirety not just here, had to be back room politics taking place....
Oh, really? Hm...
Panoz need to create another GT or LMP car
Sl1f3rDrag0n yes!