Fans did not appreciate such historic levels of many top level manufactures investing so much into a category which has so little exposure than F1. This WAS the golden period.
I remembered watching Silverstone 2015 and telling me : "what a hell of season this upcoming one will be!" Today, despite heavy battles in LMP2 and GT I really miss this period where F1 was boring as hell and WEC so interesting, 3 manufacturers (with the hope of a 4th with Nissan) battling hardly for the win (even if Toyota was out of the race title in 2015), Le Mans was THE race we were all waiting for and I just loved the design of the LMP cars
They should have hired Ecclestone when he stepped down in F1. Really such a shame to see empty stands given the racing action no blue flags and the importance of this technology.
@@christianponicki9581 Group C cars were ridicusly expensive too at that time, and anyway Hybrid LMP1 had lots of great Racing, such like Group C, and thats why we will remember it the same way we remember Group C Racing (well i didnt live the Group C era but anyway xdd), because it had great Racing and very close and high perfomance between Audi Porsche and Toyota.
@@rutar2008 Group C was usually $10m for factory teams or something, and chassis were $500k. LMP1 budgets easily topped $100m, most of which seems to be compliance w regulations.
@@christianponicki9581 They're way less regulated than F1 power units! These guys had so much freedom on how to meet the power output restrictions. In the end their solutions became more similar simply cuz there were clear advantages to turbocharging and lithium ion batteries, but they were still different from eachother. F1 even regulates the bore and stroke of the engine's, that's not freedom. These things r great! 2015 was the best example of this 👌
Imagine Porsche, Audi, Toyota, and Peugeot being in the LMP1 class with equally competitive cars racing wheel to wheel for the lead of the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Group B Rallying, Group C Sports cars, F1 1980s Turbo era....and the LMP1-H Era - THE Golden ages of motorsport. Something about the fact that the worlds largest motor manufacturers threw absolutely EVERYTHING at this financially..budgets well in excess of £100m a year with a massively open rule book to create genuinely remarkable machines. Plus the fact that it all happened in a fantastic ethos of sportsmanship within and between the teams. Nothing this beautifully wonderfully pure and insanely fast could last long :( RIP LMP1-H. Thanks for the memories. The sad thing is it never really got the recognition it deserved at the time - at a time when F1 cars were stupidly slow, this was..in my view.. the genuine pinnacle of motorsport at the time anywhere in the world. And what a Pinnacle it was.
You forgot the Can Am series (which was the Greatest racing series of all time), group A DTM (best dog fights of all time, FIA cancelled it because it was over shadowing F1), group 5 sports prototype( Because 917k) and of course Group 5 GT( craziest GT cars of all time)........... There were many golden ages of motorsports............
Hmm, BTCC was amazing racing obviously, but my point was more, not just amazing racing, but amazing cars too. Group 5 was mentioned - I'd agree with that. Can you imagine what seeing a Porsche 917 must have felt like in a world where the most popular road cars of the day was probably something like a Morris Minor? Extraordinary. I think the LMP series is the last time that real "wow" factor has really been captured by the machinery itself... Remember standing in the pit lane at Silverstone in 2016 and looking at the final iteration of the Black-livery Audi R18...it looked like a stealth fighter with wheels - people just gawping at the thing . The new WEC cars are nice, but just not as "special" somehow.
@@wumplite well Porsche and Audi left which left Toyota alone in lmp1. ACO tried to react to that by introducing privateer teams without hybrid system due to costs. However Toyota is ususally 2-3 seconds faster a lap which makes them win every race easiely without any resistance. And the worst part is, that it is self influcted. Toyota said, they do not want to have the privateers beat the worksteam because it'll let Toyota look bad and the ACO agreed. That's why lmp1 sucks. There is lmp1 and lmp1.5...
2015 had the best LMP1 racing of all time. so many lead changes in cars completely different in terms of power train, fuel, cylinder count and electric power tech.
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2015 was crazy. Audi's smooth operator turbodiesel. Porsche's punchy 4cylinder. Toyota's sophisticated hybrid. And Nissan's outlandish FWD !
@@Xiphactinus I see Ferrari bringing the SF90, Mercedes the Project One, Aston the Valkyrie and Toyota the GR SuperSport, maybe Audi can come up with something as well.
@@adityavisvanathan38 Very true. In my opinion Audi is shitting on their racing roots like no other manufacturer. I mean at the end of the day it's a company that needs to make money but for me Audi lost its character. They left WEC for obvious reasons and now completely snitched DTM. Besides that they quit the development of models like the R8 to save cash. Audi is just going to be another "techy" and "sporty" hybrid and EV oriented brand like everyone else in the future. People don't care about performance cars anymore. It all comes down to marketing and the way buyers want to be seen from society and the people around them. It's going to be just like with phones. Pure status symbols. Sad.
There was an year at Le Mans in the 70s I think, some years before the chicanes took the Mulsanne straight, Peugeot had a LMP1 racing, and that shit just hit 240 mph in the straight (before broke down and leave the race)
Can't wait to see LMH and LMDh going at it in the next few years. LMP1 was an incredible class, but I think we're slowly entering into another golden age of motorsport!
This is what the World Endurance Championship SHOULD be like (at the front). This is why Toyota formation-flying x laps ahead of some non-hybrid independents is so depressing.
7 years with lots of development (and money) have passed, what are you trying to point out? Hybrid was very unpopular, because it was garbage back in 2012, but they improved it and became a success. With this same "logic" you have here, we can say that *"When Nicola Tesla started with electric cars, everyone was laughing, 100 years later everyone is going full electric, I wonder why?"*
@@DD-fb1hr Well, it was an experiment, and, naturally, it wasn't competitive enough compared to the combustion engine powered cars, but it existed. He converted a 1931 Pierce-Arrow, and it produced 80HP. Just look it up.
I miss these kinds of races between these absolute beastly cars. I barely even follow WEC anymore since of the lack of LMP1, the closest i'll get is IMSA
The race starts and the first time they came up to the slower classes when Toyota, Porsche, and Audi were all fielding cars was just magical stuff. As good as it is to see 2024 WEC top class being stacked and healthy nothing will replace watching these space ships slicing through traffic while battling nose to tail.
You are right Audi and Porsche should not have left. They left because of formula e. Otherwise they would have still been in the Wec. Would have been very interesting and competitive
@@houseking9211no question they have dominated like no one else. But with them and all the major brands besides Toyota gone, lemans is almost unwatchable.
@@alulatadesse1646 You do know that Porsche is there with Ferrari, Cadillac, Peugeot and soon-to-be Isotta Fraschini, Lamborghini and BMW as manufacturers? While they aren't at the pace of Toyota yet, give it a few more races in WEC and Le Mans will be back to glory days.
The best days are yet to come again! LMH and LMDh are now a championship with a lot of manufacturers and privateers. LMH: Ferrari, Toyota, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Bykolles LMDh: Porsche, Audi, Acura, BMW, Cadillac, and Lamborghini We are entering a golden age once again
Man I'm gonna miss these guys. Diesel hybrid was the reason I'm an Audi fan today, and my God Porsche's hybrid system was remarkable! This was the golden era of modern Motorsport. Hope these guys can make something similar in Formula E, but I'm not holding my breath.
It's 2023 now and we have a 13 car grid for the season. Porsche, Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, Cadillac, Glickenhaus, Vanwall...this will be a great one. Next year will be even better when BMW, Alpine, Lamborghini and maybe Honda and Isotta Fraschini are joining
This is the era I wasn't able to witness. :< I only watched WEC this year when Porsche and Audi left the LMP1 scene. The recently concluded 24hr Le Mans GTEPro and AM was much more exciting than LMP1. I hope LMP1 has more competition. :
Wow. You came late to the party. 2014 to 2016 were - I honestly think this - the absolute zenith of all motorsport. At that point you had three of the worlds largest marques spending money like water on a competition with a virtually open rule book and creating cars which were going faster..and faster..and faster and pushing the envelope of what was technically possible. Then dieselgate killed it all. In a way, it' was probably good it ended when it did because they were getting *insanely* quick...and it was only a matter of time, in my view before someone got killed in one - despite how strong the chassis were. People ay "well an F1 car has a lower lap time" - yeah, but an F1 car doesn't drive at night, in rain, while passing anywhere near as much traffic of multi-class cars which don't jump out the way for blue flags....in THAT context these things were utterly utterly bonkers quick. We won't see anything like again I don't think.
Augustine Depp I know how you feel. Since I'm belgian I saw a flyer of this event (spa 2016) and the cars looked good so i went. The racing wasn't bad😅
U can see full races on UA-cam still, I think. I started watching the 6hrs of Silverstone thinking I'd take a break for food and come back to it...I sat on the edge of my bed for 6hrs straight when the battle between Audi and Porsche began 45min in. It was awesome! lol
Yea in F1 they are all crying at the slightest hint of body touch (and to be fair its warranted because the cars are so fragile). In LMP it's like a full on brawl, and more reminiscent of actual fighting for positions, than just having the better car or team strategy. Much more sustained action in endurance racing
@@GekkonidaeKing I think prototype racecars are more efficient conceptually than f1 because of closed bodywork. If you had a prototype race car with same power to weight ratio, and grip levels as an f1 car, it woud have less drag, better fuel economy and be faster. Look the the 919 evo, it was 390lbs/177kg more than an f1 car with skinnier tires, (evo lost 81lbs from lmp1 spec 919, had about the same power output on average, and still had laptimes that would qualify it in an f1 race. A lot people forget that the scope of the evo project was not rebuild the car from the ground up free of regs, but to basically upgrade it. The open wheel cars have an inherent advantage too, the driver can enjoy the advantage of getting visual feedback from the tires locking up ect and maybe cooler brakes. However F1 brake rotors do get hotter despite having more ventilation holes than p1, because they can brake even harder without lock up thanks to having additional down force.
this is an example, why I liked F1 pre DRS, because there were more duels for positions, personally the thing I like mosz abour races are the duels for places.
@@omsetiotway The 919 evo has no restrictions compared to a formula 1 car, take a single rule off of a f1 and you'll shave seconds. Regulations bud, regulations
I was lucky to see all of the 3 x 6h of Silverstone, where it was like a war between Toyota, Audi and Porsche. I do not regret a single minute spent watching them battling
@ya No it isn't. Would you cancel the whole project last year as Toyota top? There are so many people working on it. And they had the speed over Porsche and Audi. Only some really bad luck. LMP1 are beautiful cars and tech. And we saw excellent racing. Now because of VW group pulling out both Audi and Porsche we are left with Toyota and some private teams in LMP1. I feel sorry for Toyota because they have a excellent car.
This was the best years of competition, they all had their strengths and weaknesses. Innovation and engineering at its best, with awesome cars handed to excellent drivers
I was fortunate enough to witness this era live. Im forever sad that we wont get this back. Maybe well never get anything like it ever again and it pains me. I miss this
Now in 2024, Porsche is back along with the 7 other manufacturers, fingers crossed we one day get the return of Audi and Mazda and that Honda/ Acura will come over to WEC from IMSA
Just wish WEC gains the same sort of Fame that F1 commands and soon.....this sort of racing is way more interesting with big names rolling in their R&D on wheels to prove their might....F1 is more glam, simply put an F1 car cant have the speed and competitiveness of an endurane Racer.......WEC is REAL RACE CAR ENGINEERING ....and this is REAL COMPETITION......really hope WEC is held at the same pedestal as F1 and sooonn
Can't wait for 2021 to see those beautiful hypercars battling it out on track. We have Toyota, Aston Martin, Glickenhous, Peugeot/Rebellion, Bykolles and hopefully some more.
Who is here after Audi and Porsche announced their return with a LMDH spec? Not to forget Toyota, Peugeot, Glickenhaus, Bykolles would also be there with LMH spec cars in the top tier of WEC.
SmartAndFast 1- Thank you for posting these wonderful clips of different races, different years... It would have been so nice if you had posted the RESULT after each episode of racing... A little more work but it would have been very, very worthwhile for the viewers to know the result of these racing duels... Don't you think?
I'm a big fan of WEC since the beginning, and even before. But when i'm watching this video, it makes me feel i didn't pay enough attention to these astonishing races in live. The cars were beautiful and we had epic battles. But... at this time, we used to see fight on each race, and we thought that it woudl be forever, And now, the LMP1 is so poor that the TV Coverage shows GTEpro, everytime. And we, fans, are crying watching this video , remembering old good times. Sad.
The three major works teams that are still competing in the LMP1 / Hypercar class of the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race will give us who are still watching the excitement. However, Toyota is by far the strongest of all.Let's continue to liven up motorsports with motorsport fans, racing drivers, and people involved in cars all over the world, hoping that such a wonderful legend will be handed down.That's right, the cars that made such a wonderful legend and the cars that made the Gran Turismo series Polyphony Digital staff including Mr. Kazunori Yamauchi who made such a wonderful legend at Gran Turismo Sports and its successor Thank you for recording the car that will be
As a Factory Porsche driver I love to watch these kind of battles because I imagine it is me driving the Porsche car against Jackie or Sconey in the Toyota. I guess Byrone (Brian) or Tyrone would be driving the Audi but they probably are not as good as us, no offence but it's kinda true. Also I love the livery of the Porsche but I wish they switched to a Gulf coloured livery like mine. My good mate and Porsche teamate Joey was at the Porsche Motorsport Factory recently and he spoke to his fellow aussie mate and Factory porsche driver Matt Campbell about it so we'll have to see what happens. Also I am from Brazil so I'm so happy that Felipe Nasr is joining the porschd hypercar team for next year. I hope I get to speak to him because he could help me improve. I know, maybe he can come and watch the final BFE race In Sao Paulo. That would be so COOL!
We're going to have highlight reels like this with the new LMH class with the 11 manufacturers and it's going to be awesome stuff for the upcoming years. 23'-26' is going to be amazing
Glickenhaus and Alpine had a great battle at this year's Le Mans in LMH, so even though LMP1 is gone we have a lot to look forwards to in the next 2+ years
Mad to think that WEC introduced hybrids to manufacturers to try and equalise between privateer and manufacturer teams! Nuts how far technology comes in the light of strong competition!
Can't wait for the rules to change, I like TOYOTA but they've had it too easy this season. Perhaps a win against actual competition rather than against themselves & their reliability would be even sweeter.
These battles bring good memories, from Porsche winning in a LMP1 car, to Porsche moving on to a GTE Pro car Man I just wish Porsche could go back to making a LMP1 car
Great races Battle like legend Audi Toyo and Porsche are fast teams in Endurance serie legend history battle fastest car in the World great with F1, Dtm, Indy and other series legend battle excitng race
Probably would be closer to the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo than the PB18: seen as the PB18 is basically a customer-friendly version of the virtual racecar. But I doubt they would use either. The Hypercar class actually has a larger emphasis on regular engines: hybrid power output is reduced by 33% and fuel usage isn't restricted compared to LMP1. You can't just take an electric car like the e-tron's and turn it into a hybrid without significant redesign. At that point, they may as well just make a new model specifically for the class.
LMP1 Audi, Panoz, Pescarolo, Lola, Chrysler, Dome, Bentley, Ascari, Reynard, Panoz, Riley & Scott, Zytek, Creation, Dallara, Courage, Cadillac, Lister Storm, Oreca, Durango, Norma..... that was 20 years ago and we miss you !!!
Fans did not appreciate such historic levels of many top level manufactures investing so much into a category which has so little exposure than F1.
This WAS the golden period.
I remembered watching Silverstone 2015 and telling me : "what a hell of season this upcoming one will be!"
Today, despite heavy battles in LMP2 and GT I really miss this period where F1 was boring as hell and WEC so interesting, 3 manufacturers (with the hope of a 4th with Nissan) battling hardly for the win (even if Toyota was out of the race title in 2015), Le Mans was THE race we were all waiting for and I just loved the design of the LMP cars
They should have hired Ecclestone when he stepped down in F1. Really such a shame to see empty stands given the racing action no blue flags and the importance of this technology.
This will not happen again? :(
@@pummyy I asked myself - why this didnt happen in my country . When i saw these empty stands
@@seawolf9616 Aston Martin Valkyrie 😎
In the future, we’ll look at lmp1 the same way we look at group c nowadays. Good gosh were these amazing years. I sure will miss this.
Completely agree with you. They are currently working on bringing a gt1 programme back in the WEC. Let's hope that has a good outcome
Hyperregulated bureaucratic nightmare with $100m hybrid systems shoehorned in? maybe not quite like Group C....
@@christianponicki9581 Group C cars were ridicusly expensive too at that time, and anyway Hybrid LMP1 had lots of great Racing, such like Group C, and thats why we will remember it the same way we remember Group C Racing (well i didnt live the Group C era but anyway xdd), because it had great Racing and very close and high perfomance between Audi Porsche and Toyota.
@@rutar2008 Group C was usually $10m for factory teams or something, and chassis were $500k. LMP1 budgets easily topped $100m, most of which seems to be compliance w regulations.
@@christianponicki9581 They're way less regulated than F1 power units! These guys had so much freedom on how to meet the power output restrictions. In the end their solutions became more similar simply cuz there were clear advantages to turbocharging and lithium ion batteries, but they were still different from eachother. F1 even regulates the bore and stroke of the engine's, that's not freedom. These things r great! 2015 was the best example of this 👌
Imagine Porsche, Audi, Toyota, and Peugeot being in the LMP1 class with equally competitive cars racing wheel to wheel for the lead of the Le Mans 24 Hours.
LMP1 is over, look to WEC Hypercar now
@@falcongamer58 and maybe GT2 :)
@@TheEryk03 yea GT2 is coming back, hence the profile pic I have to one of the upcoming racecars
@@falcongamer58 yeah love the R8
Well, we’re halfway there
Back when lmp1 had more than 2 teams
1*
Rebellion is LMP1,5 😂
Tired seeing Toyota 1-2 😂
@@cakezeef1271 now Red Bull 1-2, and sometimes Ferrari 1-3.
Meanwhile in 2023...😎
Group B Rallying, Group C Sports cars, F1 1980s Turbo era....and the LMP1-H Era - THE Golden ages of motorsport. Something about the fact that the worlds largest motor manufacturers threw absolutely EVERYTHING at this financially..budgets well in excess of £100m a year with a massively open rule book to create genuinely remarkable machines.
Plus the fact that it all happened in a fantastic ethos of sportsmanship within and between the teams.
Nothing this beautifully wonderfully pure and insanely fast could last long :( RIP LMP1-H. Thanks for the memories. The sad thing is it never really got the recognition it deserved at the time - at a time when F1 cars were stupidly slow, this was..in my view.. the genuine pinnacle of motorsport at the time anywhere in the world. And what a Pinnacle it was.
You forgot the Can Am series (which was the Greatest racing series of all time), group A DTM (best dog fights of all time, FIA cancelled it because it was over shadowing F1), group 5 sports prototype( Because 917k) and of course Group 5 GT( craziest GT cars of all time)........... There were many golden ages of motorsports............
May I also add Super Touring, especially in the British Touring Car Championsip
I'd agree on Group 5 with the 917 and Ferrari 512M - definitely right up there.
Hmm, BTCC was amazing racing obviously, but my point was more, not just amazing racing, but amazing cars too.
Group 5 was mentioned - I'd agree with that.
Can you imagine what seeing a Porsche 917 must have felt like in a world where the most popular road cars of the day was probably something like a Morris Minor?
Extraordinary.
I think the LMP series is the last time that real "wow" factor has really been captured by the machinery itself...
Remember standing in the pit lane at Silverstone in 2016 and looking at the final iteration of the Black-livery Audi R18...it looked like a stealth fighter with wheels - people just gawping at the thing .
The new WEC cars are nice, but just not as "special" somehow.
Hypercars is waiving in the background
Back when LMP1 was great...
What has changed? Can you fill me in please. I see so many simular comments :o
@@wumplite well Porsche and Audi left which left Toyota alone in lmp1. ACO tried to react to that by introducing privateer teams without hybrid system due to costs. However Toyota is ususally 2-3 seconds faster a lap which makes them win every race easiely without any resistance. And the worst part is, that it is self influcted. Toyota said, they do not want to have the privateers beat the worksteam because it'll let Toyota look bad and the ACO agreed. That's why lmp1 sucks. There is lmp1 and lmp1.5...
We need a petition for wec to post these races in full, every le man after 2011 until 2016, and every 2015 race because highlights aren’t enough
Yep. All 2014 races also. Thats my favourite year, Koll Malme. 👍
Well they’re happening. Some of them
1:40 Porsche > when you add all spec points to power, Audi> when you add all spec points to downforce :D
As well as teamwork!
2015 had the best LMP1 racing of all time. so many lead changes in cars completely different in terms of power train, fuel, cylinder count and electric power tech.
2015 was crazy. Audi's smooth operator turbodiesel. Porsche's punchy 4cylinder. Toyota's sophisticated hybrid. And Nissan's outlandish FWD !
Man is it sad to see how far this class has fallen. Hopefully the hyperclass is gonna bring back life with a bunch of different manufacturers
Can you imagine Hypercar class having Ferrari, Aston, Mercedes, Audi and Toyota? That's what we need!
@@Xiphactinus I see everybody but Audi coming on at the moment
@@Xiphactinus I see Ferrari bringing the SF90, Mercedes the Project One, Aston the Valkyrie and Toyota the GR SuperSport, maybe Audi can come up with something as well.
@@luisenriqueperezperez3193 Audi coming back is very unlikely with VAG shutting down all ICE motorsport programmes.
@@adityavisvanathan38 Very true. In my opinion Audi is shitting on their racing roots like no other manufacturer. I mean at the end of the day it's a company that needs to make money but for me Audi lost its character. They left WEC for obvious reasons and now completely snitched DTM. Besides that they quit the development of models like the R8 to save cash. Audi is just going to be another "techy" and "sporty" hybrid and EV oriented brand like everyone else in the future. People don't care about performance cars anymore. It all comes down to marketing and the way buyers want to be seen from society and the people around them. It's going to be just like with phones. Pure status symbols. Sad.
5:09 cars were giggling
Lmao
Lol
sounds like muttley
Lol
Like a witches cackle...
5 years since Porsche left yet this 12 minute video was more entertaining than the entirety of the 2023 F1 season so far
And 2022, and 2021, and 2020, and many many more combined 😁
They're BACK!!! They won in 2024 Rolex and Qatar 1812km
@@diethersantos6404 They also won the 24h of daytona
@@marcstafanov8431 and won in Laguna Seca in both GTD AND GTP and a 1-2 for porsche in Hyper and in LMGT3 in Spa
I’ll never forget the heartbreak of the end of the 2016 24HR LeMans.
What happened
@@lionki7264 The lead Toyota broke down on the start/finish straight with 3 minutes left to go, Porsche ended up winning that race.
@@lionki7264 Toyota won the 23:57h of Le Mans
The golden era of the LMP1 before everyone left. Excellent racing for the books.
Ah, I can remember all of these. Let's hope LMP1 will gives us some more amazing racing in it's last few years.
Rather doubt it unfortunately with Toyota now being the only hybrid LMP1 car..😔
Peugeot was no joke either in lmp1
Except in 2010, their reliability that year was an actual joke
Not to forget the 905 Evo b
For a few years
There was an year at Le Mans in the 70s I think, some years before the chicanes took the Mulsanne straight, Peugeot had a LMP1 racing, and that shit just hit 240 mph in the straight (before broke down and leave the race)
Rickson D'avila Ma that was group c
Lotterer,.Treluyer and Fassler: the best trio of drivers of this century.
9:25 - 9:30 that was sarcastic and smooth af from the dude xD
Can't wait to see LMH and LMDh going at it in the next few years. LMP1 was an incredible class, but I think we're slowly entering into another golden age of motorsport!
if all these teams will come back....we will witness the new golden age
@@Khamûl0fTheEast all these teams and more!!
LMDh turned out very well so far. IMSA has been super close and competitive so far this year. WEC will get there too.
The racing is beautiful and the commentators are some of the best I've listened to, fantastic video!
This is what the World Endurance Championship SHOULD be like (at the front). This is why Toyota formation-flying x laps ahead of some non-hybrid independents is so depressing.
That second was so entertaining lol. I loved how Audi and Porsche were going back and fourth lol
*When TOYOTA started with HYBRID everyone was laughing, now everyone is now going HYBRID, I wonder why?*
7 years with lots of development (and money) have passed, what are you trying to point out? Hybrid was very unpopular, because it was garbage back in 2012, but they improved it and became a success.
With this same "logic" you have here, we can say that *"When Nicola Tesla started with electric cars, everyone was laughing, 100 years later everyone is going full electric, I wonder why?"*
@Petidani0330 tesla didnt work with electric cars, but I see your point
@@Petidani0330 Tesla and electric cars? I think you should take a look into some history books mate xD
@@DD-fb1hr Well, it was an experiment, and, naturally, it wasn't competitive enough compared to the combustion engine powered cars, but it existed. He converted a 1931 Pierce-Arrow, and it produced 80HP. Just look it up.
@@Petidani0330 Yeah I know about the electric engine, what I meant was that Nicola Tesla was in no way involved in developing an automobile.
Thanks to Gran Turismo, I know a little about LMP and GT3 cars as well. And yeah, this moment is so gold to watch.
This is one of the greatest battles in motorsports. Glad to watch it live. I missed those days.
The race is 5 hrs deep and those first two commentators are going HAM as if it's the opening lap 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I miss these kinds of races between these absolute beastly cars. I barely even follow WEC anymore since of the lack of LMP1, the closest i'll get is IMSA
To be fair, imsa is pretty bangin tho
Quincy Gaming and alms is the sauce, at least back in 2011 and back, when they had the Audi r10 in there
5:10 I dont know if the car was laughing or crying
Can't believe I slept on this series before Audi and Porsche left. I missed so much
The race starts and the first time they came up to the slower classes when Toyota, Porsche, and Audi were all fielding cars was just magical stuff. As good as it is to see 2024 WEC top class being stacked and healthy nothing will replace watching these space ships slicing through traffic while battling nose to tail.
In 2015 : this LMP1 racing would be classified as good racing , but In 2020 : this would be classified as GOLD
These LMP1 cars look so gorgeous, I remember playing these cars in racing games all those years ago, truly iconic!
The instant torque and HP of the electric motor boost made these races so exciting. It sucks that Audi and Porsche left.
to be fair to them, audi and porsche both set some of the most unbreakable reccords in endurance racing history
You are right Audi and Porsche should not have left. They left because of formula e. Otherwise they would have still been in the Wec. Would have been very interesting and competitive
@@houseking9211no question they have dominated like no one else. But with them and all the major brands besides Toyota gone, lemans is almost unwatchable.
@@samuelgovender2034I think everyone is coming to the realization that ice motors are not going away soon like it was assumed they may return.
@@alulatadesse1646 You do know that Porsche is there with Ferrari, Cadillac, Peugeot and soon-to-be Isotta Fraschini, Lamborghini and BMW as manufacturers? While they aren't at the pace of Toyota yet, give it a few more races in WEC and Le Mans will be back to glory days.
The best days are yet to come again! LMH and LMDh are now a championship with a lot of manufacturers and privateers.
LMH: Ferrari, Toyota, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Bykolles
LMDh: Porsche, Audi, Acura, BMW, Cadillac, and Lamborghini
We are entering a golden age once again
I truly hope so
5:02 "General Election at the UK, you could get any of these guys elected could ya" lmao
Man I'm gonna miss these guys. Diesel hybrid was the reason I'm an Audi fan today, and my God Porsche's hybrid system was remarkable!
This was the golden era of modern Motorsport. Hope these guys can make something similar in Formula E, but I'm not holding my breath.
I watch this like once a month.
I miss this era of sports cars. The 919 was such a beast.
WEC was beautiful. So happy to say that I witnessed the best period 15-16, and then porsche and audi left the championship
i would say 2014-2017
Fkn shame..
Wow this is so much better to watch compared to F1!
It's 2023 now and we have a 13 car grid for the season. Porsche, Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, Cadillac, Glickenhaus, Vanwall...this will be a great one. Next year will be even better when BMW, Alpine, Lamborghini and maybe Honda and Isotta Fraschini are joining
This is the era I wasn't able to witness. :< I only watched WEC this year when Porsche and Audi left the LMP1 scene. The recently concluded 24hr Le Mans GTEPro and AM was much more exciting than LMP1. I hope LMP1 has more competition. :
Wow. You came late to the party. 2014 to 2016 were - I honestly think this - the absolute zenith of all motorsport. At that point you had three of the worlds largest marques spending money like water on a competition with a virtually open rule book and creating cars which were going faster..and faster..and faster and pushing the envelope of what was technically possible. Then dieselgate killed it all. In a way, it' was probably good it ended when it did because they were getting *insanely* quick...and it was only a matter of time, in my view before someone got killed in one - despite how strong the chassis were. People ay "well an F1 car has a lower lap time" - yeah, but an F1 car doesn't drive at night, in rain, while passing anywhere near as much traffic of multi-class cars which don't jump out the way for blue flags....in THAT context these things were utterly utterly bonkers quick. We won't see anything like again I don't think.
That was legendary. So bummed I only started watching this year with solely Toyota.
Augustine Depp I know how you feel. Since I'm belgian I saw a flyer of this event (spa 2016) and the cars looked good so i went. The racing wasn't bad😅
U can see full races on UA-cam still, I think. I started watching the 6hrs of Silverstone thinking I'd take a break for food and come back to it...I sat on the edge of my bed for 6hrs straight when the battle between Audi and Porsche began 45min in. It was awesome! lol
Good god, I’ve never heard Martin Haven so amped than in the first clip
Its better than f1, more solid body panel, more aggresive overtake....
Yea in F1 they are all crying at the slightest hint of body touch (and to be fair its warranted because the cars are so fragile). In LMP it's like a full on brawl, and more reminiscent of actual fighting for positions, than just having the better car or team strategy. Much more sustained action in endurance racing
Well, they're crying about the cars being so fragile because a crash could cost their lives.
@@GekkonidaeKing I think prototype racecars are more efficient conceptually than f1 because of closed bodywork. If you had a prototype race car with same power to weight ratio, and grip levels as an f1 car, it woud have less drag, better fuel economy and be faster. Look the the 919 evo, it was 390lbs/177kg more than an f1 car with skinnier tires, (evo lost 81lbs from lmp1 spec 919, had about the same power output on average, and still had laptimes that would qualify it in an f1 race. A lot people forget that the scope of the evo project was not rebuild the car from the ground up free of regs, but to basically upgrade it. The open wheel cars have an inherent advantage too, the driver can enjoy the advantage of getting visual feedback from the tires locking up ect and maybe cooler brakes. However F1 brake rotors do get hotter despite having more ventilation holes than p1, because they can brake even harder without lock up thanks to having additional down force.
this is an example, why I liked F1 pre DRS, because there were more duels for positions, personally the thing I like mosz abour races are the duels for places.
@@omsetiotway The 919 evo has no restrictions compared to a formula 1 car, take a single rule off of a f1 and you'll shave seconds. Regulations bud, regulations
f1 is a political sport , nothing like grass roots racing as this , this was the best ever racing , on tarmac , Amen.
2023 should give us battles like these, hopefully.
I was lucky to see all of the 3 x 6h of Silverstone, where it was like a war between Toyota, Audi and Porsche. I do not regret a single minute spent watching them battling
And I was starting to think that the lmp1 category was boring
@ya No it isn't. Would you cancel the whole project last year as Toyota top? There are so many people working on it. And they had the speed over Porsche and Audi. Only some really bad luck. LMP1 are beautiful cars and tech. And we saw excellent racing. Now because of VW group pulling out both Audi and Porsche we are left with Toyota and some private teams in LMP1. I feel sorry for Toyota because they have a excellent car.
Damn these are amazing battles
This was the best years of competition, they all had their strengths and weaknesses. Innovation and engineering at its best, with awesome cars handed to excellent drivers
I was fortunate enough to witness this era live. Im forever sad that we wont get this back. Maybe well never get anything like it ever again and it pains me. I miss this
Now in 2024, Porsche is back along with the 7 other manufacturers, fingers crossed we one day get the return of Audi and Mazda and that Honda/ Acura will come over to WEC from IMSA
Thanks for the video mate, miss these kind of races😔
I love the Shape of those LMP1 cars look. Angels that soared over 200 MPH in the straights of Circuit De La Sarthe.
Next time someone says racing is boring, I’ll show them this video.
So much emotion back then, God I wish I could just go back and watch them all now that I’m fully into racing now
Brilliant all three makes put in huge effort and all saw success. Plus the battles like these were exceptional.
Almost all the battles are between #7 audi and #18 porsche
Just wish WEC gains the same sort of Fame that F1 commands and soon.....this sort of racing is way more interesting with big names rolling in their R&D on wheels to prove their might....F1 is more glam, simply put an F1 car cant have the speed and competitiveness of an endurane Racer.......WEC is REAL RACE CAR ENGINEERING ....and this is REAL COMPETITION......really hope WEC is held at the same pedestal as F1 and sooonn
2014-2016. The three best years in endurance racing I think
This is orgasmic level of racing
Omg this video is unbelievable thank you so much!
I miss these battles...and Audi sport lmp1 5:35
Porsche vs. Audi: the best battles by far!
Can't wait for 2021 to see those beautiful hypercars battling it out on track.
We have Toyota, Aston Martin, Glickenhous, Peugeot/Rebellion, Bykolles and hopefully some more.
Well Aston Martin stopped developing a Hypercar and Rebellion also won't partner up with Peugeot as they will stop racing at the end of the year.
Who is here after Audi and Porsche announced their return with a LMDH spec?
Not to forget Toyota, Peugeot, Glickenhaus, Bykolles would also be there with LMH spec cars in the top tier of WEC.
Team Joest Audi Sport 💚
SmartAndFast 1- Thank you for posting these wonderful clips of different races, different years... It would have been so nice if you had posted the RESULT after each episode of racing... A little more work but it would have been very, very worthwhile for the viewers to know the result of these racing duels... Don't you think?
That's indeed a good idea! Will think about it for future videos
I'm a big fan of WEC since the beginning, and even before. But when i'm watching this video, it makes me feel i didn't pay enough attention to these astonishing races in live. The cars were beautiful and we had epic battles. But... at this time, we used to see fight on each race, and we thought that it woudl be forever,
And now, the LMP1 is so poor that the TV Coverage shows GTEpro, everytime. And we, fans, are crying watching this video , remembering old good times. Sad.
The three major works teams that are still competing in the LMP1 / Hypercar class of the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race will give us who are still watching the excitement. However, Toyota is by far the strongest of all.Let's continue to liven up motorsports with motorsport fans, racing drivers, and people involved in cars all over the world, hoping that such a wonderful legend will be handed down.That's right, the cars that made such a wonderful legend and the cars that made the Gran Turismo series Polyphony Digital staff including Mr. Kazunori Yamauchi who made such a wonderful legend at Gran Turismo Sports and its successor Thank you for recording the car that will be
Accelerating... Fabulous driving skills. Such heart pumping.
As a Factory Porsche driver I love to watch these kind of battles because I imagine it is me driving the Porsche car against Jackie or Sconey in the Toyota. I guess Byrone (Brian) or Tyrone would be driving the Audi but they probably are not as good as us, no offence but it's kinda true. Also I love the livery of the Porsche but I wish they switched to a Gulf coloured livery like mine. My good mate and Porsche teamate Joey was at the Porsche Motorsport Factory recently and he spoke to his fellow aussie mate and Factory porsche driver Matt Campbell about it so we'll have to see what happens. Also I am from Brazil so I'm so happy that Felipe Nasr is joining the porschd hypercar team for next year. I hope I get to speak to him because he could help me improve. I know, maybe he can come and watch the final BFE race In Sao Paulo. That would be so COOL!
Probably the most underrated racing class.
that spa 2015 audi pass was truly insane
0:02 camera went full acid trip mode
GTP and Hypercar are here! Let a new golden age begin!
Next years this battle will go into the next round. Really looking forward to it
We're going to have highlight reels like this with the new LMH class with the 11 manufacturers and it's going to be awesome stuff for the upcoming years. 23'-26' is going to be amazing
Most ppl can’t imagine what these cars would feel like to drive. Absolute rocket ship
R18 is the King of overtaking on the outside of the corner :D
Glickenhaus and Alpine had a great battle at this year's Le Mans in LMH, so even though LMP1 is gone we have a lot to look forwards to in the next 2+ years
Porsche, Audi, Peugeot and Ferrari coming back to top class soon...
Some of the best racing in Dr decades
This was peak endurance racing
02:51 hybrid power!
05:10 car giggles :)
Mad to think that WEC introduced hybrids to manufacturers to try and equalise between privateer and manufacturer teams!
Nuts how far technology comes in the light of strong competition!
Love it
Could watch this all day
Great enthusiasm
This is golden time of wec i think.
Can't wait for the rules to change, I like TOYOTA but they've had it too easy this season. Perhaps a win against actual competition rather than against themselves & their reliability would be even sweeter.
These battles bring good memories, from Porsche winning in a LMP1 car, to Porsche moving on to a GTE Pro car
Man I just wish Porsche could go back to making a LMP1 car
Selbst nach dem 100sten mal gucken, ich dreh immer noch vollkommen durch was die jungs da leisten, atemberaubend!
Great races Battle like legend Audi Toyo and Porsche are fast teams in Endurance serie legend history battle fastest car in the World great with F1, Dtm, Indy and other series legend battle excitng race
How good is the Commentary from the Le Mans 2012 Clip
I love how in one clip in Fuji you can see the audi turn off the wiper for a second to lower the drag and get a higher top speed lul
Best movie I've seen lately. Ton o fun!
why don't we have this guys in Formula1, they race so hard yet so respectfull
Well some of them were in F1 like Buemi or Kobayashi.
I miss Porsche and Audi :'(
Porsche might come back soon.
Audi should come back to WEC with their PB18
#Audi peanut butter '18
lol
Probably would be closer to the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo than the PB18: seen as the PB18 is basically a customer-friendly version of the virtual racecar.
But I doubt they would use either.
The Hypercar class actually has a larger emphasis on regular engines: hybrid power output is reduced by 33% and fuel usage isn't restricted compared to LMP1.
You can't just take an electric car like the e-tron's and turn it into a hybrid without significant redesign.
At that point, they may as well just make a new model specifically for the class.
What is a pb18
@@SeanCampbell_iRacing it's Audi's electric hypercar concept, it's called the PB18
FalconGamer58 ah, ok, I didn’t know they had a concept
Thanks
LMP1 Audi, Panoz, Pescarolo, Lola, Chrysler, Dome, Bentley, Ascari, Reynard, Panoz, Riley & Scott, Zytek, Creation, Dallara, Courage, Cadillac, Lister Storm, Oreca, Durango, Norma..... that was 20 years ago and we miss you !!!
I love seeing them race hard especially through traffic