1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport racecar - Action, sound & on board @ Imola
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Italiansupercarvideo, 19Bozzy92 and I filmed the Stena Line Gentleman Drivers Pre-66 Cars race at the Motor Legend Festival 2018 at the Imola Racetrack, a great event dedicated to modern & past motorsport.
In the video you can see a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport during the race in the best of action on the circuit: flatout acceleration, downshift, fast fly bys, sideways, overtake, drifting and curves. Listen to the music of the engine driven full throttle on the track. Also start up of the engine, details and on board laps.
The Corvette Grand Sports were raced with several different engines, but the most serious factory engine actually used was a 377 cubic inch displacement, all-aluminum, small block with four Weber side-draft carburetors and a cross-ram intake, rated 550 hp (410 kW) at 6400 rpm.
Driver: Michiel Campagne
Thanks to my friends Italiansupercarvideo ( / italiansupercarvideo ) and 19Bozzy92 ( / 19bozzy92 ) for the collaboration.
Io, ItaliansupercarVideo e 19Bozzy92 abbiamo filmato la gara Stena Line Gentleman Drivers Pre-66 Cars al Motor Legend Festival 2018 all'Autodromo di Imola, evento dedicato al motorsport storico e moderno.
Nel video potete vedere una 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport in azione sul circuito durante le gare: accelerazioni, scalate, passaggi in velocità, traversi e curve. Ascoltate il sound del motore guidato a tutto gas sul circuito. Anche accensione del motore, dettagli e camera car.
Le Corvette Grand Sports hanno corso con diversi motori, ma il più utilizzato è il V8 6.2 litri di alluminio, quattro carburatori, che sviluppa 550 cv a 6400 rpm.
Pilota: Michiel Campagne
Ringrazio i miei amici Italiansupercarvideo ( / italiansupercarvideo ) e 19Bozzy92 ( / 19bozzy92 ) per la collaborazione
Glad to see that this car is being driven like it should be, and not only standing there in a garage
Reminds me of a Mario Andretti quote: "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough". Great video.
The C2 still shreds
That is one menacing, bad ass car! Sounds terrific!
Got to ride along with Delmo Johnson in a Superlite Corvette on a pre race hot lap in 1963 at Green Valley Raceway in Ft. Worth, TX.
You sir are a lucky man
Boy is not afraid to get into them turns.
So much more stable than the Cobra. Every time I hit the curve in the Cobra I felt like I was going over, every time, didnt though ...........but the G.S. never felt that way
Not a original those are in museum's 6 and 5 million dollar cars that only five exist nope this isn't one of those 🤣
The car oversteers a lot and pulls the front tires off the ground in the curves. Near video though. Looks like a handful to drive.
FarOutRadioMusic: Your observations are what makes the Grand Sport thrilling for us old-timers. When I was a freshman in high school, Chevrolet did not yet have a V-8 engine. Barely a decade later Zora built 6 of these lightweight monsters with a 377 c.i.d. V-8 making 600 h.p., and they would have "beat all comers and won all the races" if GM had not issued an order to burn them before they had time to even get started competing with factory sponsorship. Fortunately, a wise GM employee recognized the stupidity of his burn order and burned only one of the two that GM had captured, using it as a smoke screen (literally?) to spirit the other one away to safety. Today, an enthusiast wealthier than myself can buy a new Z06 with that same size engine (378 c.i.d) that makes 650 h.p. and idles as quietly as my house cat purrs, but whether or not it can run circles around a 1963 Grand Sport is a moot point. That ground shaking noise, oversteering and front tire pulling are characteristics that some of us old folks think cannot be obviated by any modern computer-controlled genteel supercar - although I love them too! They were indeed a "handful to drive," but if that interests you, look up the Porsche 917, which most old race car drivers consider the scariest race car ever. In 1969 John Woolfe died in one on the first lap of the Le Mans race; both of the other 917s in the race retired with mechanical failures, but one of them was 50 miles ahead of competition when it broke at 21 hours into the race.
I encourage you to look at this video by PA Squared and listen to what 600 h.p. from 377 c.i.d. sounds like coming from a raw, all-analog engine. It is on the ragged edge to the extent that it takes skill to even keep it running at idle. Forgive my verbosity - I love this stuff.
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FarOutRadioMusic it doesn’t over steer as much as its competitors, and the is called torque, lifting the front wheels, torque is more important than horsepower , at times, and that is lugging 3600 lbs cars out of corners with enough propulsion it pulls the wheels along with its 550lb sprint rates keeping the car stiff, It’s a car from the sixties that was in the future back then, this car would still destroy a lot of so called race cars today all things being equal, Equal meaning they all raced in class. This is a super car of the times .... read about the “widow makers “ and than talk about ass happy cars lol .,( Porsche era turbos 1973 and back )
The Grand Sport weighed 1300 lbs less than a production Corvette, with about 30% more power. Of course it over-steered if you got on it! It takes a good driver to control a true race car. This driver doesn't seem to be very skilled.
@@lverock He is just being spectacular for the spectators, but he is also quick...
Here's a video of him winning two races at a historic race on the streets of Copenhagen in 2009, sliding the car all over the place, but keeps ahead of Mustangs, a TVR Griffith, and a very brave man in a Lotus Elan...
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And here's another one at the 2010 event...
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Drive it like you stole it. Car is such a brute.
Can you tell me who built the car? Doesn't look like a Superformance
Ignorante q.b. per far durare le gomme dietro 3 giri..Però il pilota si diverte un sacco..anche quando è ora di frenare..👍👍👍
Lo9ks like a real hand full to drive
you don`t get it
that superb car is asking for better tires. Is it an obligation to run on bias plies??
Yes, they had to race in period correct tires.
Better tires would destroy the car--quite literally. Tube framed specials like this were only built to have enough structural rigidity to take the forces of bias ply tires. That's why old Ferrari, Porsche, Lola, Alfa Romeo, and Alpine prototypes from the 60s have to be run on period-correct tires.
@@flyingphoenix113 depends, racetyres yes but not sportstyres.
@@64fairlane305, sometimes, yes. But, most sports tires can't generate the same lateral or longitudinal forces as race tires (and, if they can, then they shouldn't be used).
This guy is a terrible driver. That Vette was lucky to survive ! 😖
This guy needs some driving lessons.
I don't know why people post videos of themselves driving when they're not very good at it. I see so many guys who just don't know what they're doing with down changes. The blips are miss-timed or half the time there's no blip at all on the down change. Just bad technical driving. I'd be embarrassed to show this if it was me. This guy must have plenty of money for tyres too. He's cooking the fuck out of them on every exit. That means overheated tyres and bad lap times.
You must know very little about vintage racing. The driver is far from the best, but he also isn't doing a bad job by any means for a gentleman driver. Those bias-play tire compounds are incredibly hard and don't overheat except under exceptional circumstances. In fact, they can easily fall out of their optimal temperature range if they aren't driven hard enough! Go to the Goodwood Revival and Le Mans Classic, and you will see this amount of oversteer every lap. Additionally, you have entirely missed that it could have simply been a poor setup for this particular track, and it isn't fair to place the blame for an ill-handling car entirely on the driver.
@@flyingphoenix113 Agreed, and he might well have been putting on a bit of a show for the spectators.
@@nathangoshawk I think it's a mix of being spectacular for spectator, and also, the car being that much of a handful...
Here's a video I found of the same driver, Michiel Campagne, driving the same Corvette (which seems to be painted white at the time), winning two races at a historic race at Copenhagen in 2009, winning against Mustangs, a TVR Griffith, and some extremely brave man in a Lotus Elan. And as you can see, even on a narrow street circuit, he drives the Corvette just as sideways...
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Here's another smaller footage of him driving at the same event in 2010, according to the description, he won again...
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@@jcgabriel1569 Thanks for the video. Having watched him being interviewed and discovering that he is pretty well off (he has a significant position in the real estate business) I think it's quite possible that the Corvette is his 'toy' and he is just having fun. It does seem very likely that the car is a recent re-creation and not an original.
Great car - bad driver.