The Original LMP1 Audi R8 - Like You've Never Seen It Before!
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2020
- These days if you mention R8, people will almost certainly think of the Audi supercar. But that was named for another, earlier car. The one which went to Le Mans, and showed that Audi were a force to be reckoned with.
I'm finishing my mini series on Audi race cars with an in-depth look at a real, Le Mans campaigned race car. It's pretty cool, and we take the covers off!
#Audi #R8 #LMP1
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Could you do a comparison with this and my Dacia Sandero 1.5dCi (midnight blue)?
Well... I suppose pound for pound, you get more car with the Dacia.
Goid news! No
Did Dacia offer a racing stripe package?
If not, it's not even a real car.
If so - it's an absolute racing beast with at least 362hp.
If you don't think racing stripes add power, fight me.
James May entered the chat
Man this video is 3 hours to short, what a beautiful peace of engineering ❤
I saw the Veloqx R8’s at Sebring 2004, and saw all the various R8’s at Sebring and Road Atlanta. Wish they would have also raced at the Daytona Rolex 24 too. Gorgeous cars.
Thank you, and Audi UK, very much for making this video (and the others) happen! To a racing enthusiast like me it is pure heaven to see a racing car as successful as this one in such detail.
ps:
Toyota found out things go wrong at Le Mans in pretty much every single year they tried; their history of losing Le Mans with the fastest car is nothing short of astonishing.
The R8 is more beautiful and special. Thank you for the close look at this legendary car👍
My pleasure! Until the next time.
Looking at that car especially the internal components makes me want to say, "I've got to get me one of these!!!!"
It's not just "told" that Audi changed the entire rear of the car in 3 minutes - there's video proof of them doing it here on UA-cam.
It wasn't just the transaxle (transmission +differential combined)... It was the suspension mounting points and basically the entire rear of the car, minus the engine. I think it was a complete rear subframe.
I remember watching the race when they changed the rear end... amazing to see the group do that! Truly spectacularly engineered!!
Hope AUDI give you more access to their race cars and lift the frock as it were on them, seeing the mechanics and engineering is awesome. If they could through them on a lift so we can see under neath would be even better!
Great content.
it's probably a flat shaped pannel for aerodynamic purpose.
Nearly no contend
Just a great car and talking
I hope Audi gives us all access to their Heritage collection including these!
JayEmm is one of the last true car fanatics on UA-cam
I'm incurable
@@JayEmmOnCars You have the sharpness of an Aventador
What an absolutely legendary machine
bustin 3 minutes for a transaxle? pfff....amazing!! the cockpit-front section piece of carbon seems super thick and solid. the rear of the car reflect fully how bright engineers and designers really are.the modularity of this car gives a clear advantage for such long distance races where anything can happen in a blink eye,then you have to be able to react in such manner too. this R8 is legend.
I just recently purchased my first old Audi project car and I am loving it. I admit that watching all your video content has certainly influenced my decision to become part of the Audi family
Awesome job. Your enthusiasm is great to see. I was there at Sebring in 2000 when the R8 won on its debut. At that time no one knew that we had witnessed the coronation of what would be the most significant prototype of the decade and would establish itself alongside the Porsche 962 as an all time great. All through the 2000's I was at every Sebring 12hour and petit Lemans. Every time the main question was, "Will anyone challenge the Audis". And generally speaking, at those two events, no one ever could.
Great video, I’ve only seen it run in anger once in 2005 and it’s a properly special thing to see driven on the limit. The extra crash structure for the rollover protection was supposedly added after Michaele Alboretto was killed in a testing accident at the Lausitzring when the car rolled at high speed.
There is something about these cars that just tickles a special part of my brain. It's the shire simplistic nature of the goal of being the fastest combined with the hugely complex task of getting there. There is pragmatism combined with huge human and mechanical effort. It's beauty for the needs sake not for the beauty sake. Simple yet complex. Brute force and elegance in one. Power and balance in an incredible harmony just for the simple task of arriving faster or going further than the competition. No BS, no show just GO! And that's beautiful.
This was awesome. Hopefully you can do more of these under the skin looks of these crazy cars. Keep up the good work.
Great stuff, epic car - thanks JayEmm, keep it up :)
More like this please. I could look at the guts of these cars forever!
Please please please keep doing more Audi content! The Audi content is why I keep coming back 👍🏻. Awesome video!!
I do wish consumer cars were built with the same ease and speed of replacement in mind!!
Buy a bug. 7 minute engine swap.
Oh, so you want us to change a lightbulb for 5 Euro? Fine, but first we have to take off the Frontbumper and take out the headlight, that makes it 505 Euros...
@Mark Chippendale.....Wish all you want; but you'd refuse to pay for the upfront costs
Quick exchangeable modular component parts costs money. If you look at desktop PC vs. an enterprise server. The server has redundancy in mind with hot-swappable hard drives, fans & power supplies. So in case a component breaks there’s fall over backup that won’t completely shutdown the computer. You could replace the broken hard drive, fan or power supply and the server without shutting down the computer. Sort of like endurance racing in Le Mans. Your domestic car or PC doesn’t really need quick service repairability. Since your domestic car isn’t racing and your PC doesn’t need 24/7 uptime availability. So all those modular components isn’t necessary and will just drive up costs. Domestic cars are also engineered and optimized for quick factory production line assembly.
@@Massegainer I think there is a Renault where one has to remove the wheel and inner fender to get at the light bulb. The "worse" one I have come in contact with was an Corsa, on that one had to remove the air box to change the head light bulb (I can not remember if it was the left or the right side).
Most beautiful R8 ever Made. Love that livery!
Amazing video, gave me chills watching it just thinking of the heritage/history of these r8s. When people mention audi r8 to me i picture one of these, not the more modern road car! Thanks for the excellent video
Glad I'm not the only one.Almost everytime someone mentions the R8,I had to ask "the proto car or the road car?"
Well done Audi...you have gone up greatly in my estimation. James I just loved the R8...great week mate!
Excellent video, you lucky man!
Thanks for sharing this, it's beautiful engineering.
Got to see one on the track a couple of years ago at the Barber Historics. Also got to see the transaxle change happen live. Amazing piece of engineering.
This is definitely the best of the series!
Audi super tourer, grew up watching BTCC as a kid in the 90’s awesome cars. Great channel too
ha, working in a pit team soon.....great video, thanks, looking forward to the next set of surprises.
I enjoy a lot of your reviews but the Audi sport ones are special, thank you
This is dream collection for me...all this Le mans cars with a4, 80... just perfect
Great Car and great Video! I loved the more technical bit. If there is time later it would be great if you could explain the suspension on the car in detail. Besides the Engine a very interesting bit of the car.
I have two wrecked Champion racing Nr. 38 noses. One wrecked by JJ Lheto on the first lap of the 10 hour at Road Atlanta and the other wrecked by Johnny Herbert at the only race at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C.
What a car wow its amazing to see a car in so much detail 👍👍👍👍👍
Great series.
It's not just "told" that they replaced the rear end in minutes, you can still find the original TV coverage on UA-cam of them doing it for the first time at Le Mans. If you like seeing these cars up close, you should definitely attend the races. I'm not sure if it's different in Europe, but in the IMSA series in North America, every ticket counts as a paddock pass, and it's not hard to get up pretty close with the cars and drivers.
This channel is just getting better and better.
Very cool. Thank you.
Nice look at a great race machine. Used to be amazed watching them dominate at road atlanta Petit Lemans
Some really nice videos, I’ve seen the cars close up at classic events and they are truly works of art with incredible attention to detail. Couple of points which people may find interesting. The whole modular approach was kind of stopped by the ACO to some extent. They didn’t like the rear axle change system as they felt changing that much of the car was a bit too much of an advantage. The rule was changed in that you can not replace the gearbox casing anymore. Secondly with regards to aero. For sure if anyone has seen the latest LMP2’s or LMP1’s naked they are very much like a single seater underneath now. Just incredible. The air is channeled so much now through the body rather than over it. Lastly I could be wrong but maybe the rollover hoop modification was due to the accident with Michele Alboreto. During testing the first version of the car it took off and landed on its roof. The impact just crushed the roll hoop and he didn’t survive. I think the car landed on a guard rail but I could be wrong. Very sad and a tragic loss. Still a pretty safe race car though. I’ve seen some huge accidents recorded in the R8 and the driver walked away, that flat bottom though was always a danger. However you’ll notice on the R15 the regulations were changed and the cars were mandated to have two roll over structures.
Sadly, Michele went over the guardrail at the Lausitzring. The first impact took off the rollhoop, so it wasn't there when it hit again on the guardrail, before landing on the access road around the oval.
Sad day, Michele was SUCH a nutcase off the track, and a great driver on it; really in his element in sportscars. I'm always reminded of him when I see Patrese return to historic and GT racing: Michele tried to persuade Riccardo to 'un-retire' and join him at Le Mans in the late 90's, but Riccardo said he was finished with competitive racing.
Another excellent video Jay, keep them coming 👍. They need to let you drive one of these legendary cars. My fav was the BRITISH Touring car. I saw the Volvo S40 touring car at Oulton Park at the Gold cup which is is a great day out. Had some classic cars and reminded me of my youth. The boy racer of the 80s Vauxhall NovA, which when I sold it in 1999 in mint condition would never think it would be worth 7k plus. I got offered a BMW e30 M3 for 6k at time but at 18 was thinking about insurance. Would have been a gold mined now.
Great selection of Audi Sport vid's, pity none of them could be run.
Would have loved to hear that R8 cold start.
A "cold start" on a race-car like this isn't nearly as simple & quick as one might imagine
I need ur Quattro, B5 RS4, and C5 RS6 videos, love the channel 🍺
The A4 is amazing, but this... Looking at the heart of the behemoth... joy!
James thank you for the epic content! Please convey our deep gratitude to Audi for the exclusive access and allowing us to get a glimpse of such historic legends. Please keep up the AWESOME content. Hope to meet you if you ever come to Texas. Thank you again...
I am planning a trip to Texas for 2021
Email me or Instagram me perhaps
Thx for doing this as always like to see race cars up close - but I gotta say I’m surprised that someone doing a car video like this wouldn’t know more about race cars to begin with. You thought that bodywork panels were part of the structure?! Lol
David Brabham said he was blown away when trying the R8. The Panoz was a great car - and still managed to win (some) races against the Audis - but he very quickly noticed how much of a difference having 3x the budget makes, as it was piss easy to get ridiculously competitive laptimes with it.
That Panoz had to be absolutely manhandled to go fast, and Brabham & Magnussen did just that. But yeah the R8 was on a different level.
Superb item well done ✅
The quick-release on the pipes is a good idea...Nice..!
Pretty standard dry-break racing couplings those.. The real key was the gearbox & axle mounting (developed by Joest, more than Audi...) - so effective that the ACO changed the rules to prevent gearbox changes in-race, as everybody would have developed them, at huge cost, just to keep up.
Great video. I was at Le Mans in 2002 and 2003 so witnessed what you said. The Bentley sounded like a hoover in comparison to everything else.
Can you do a similar feature on the Porsche 917? For me, it is arguably the greatest race car ever made.
Keep up the excellent content. 👏
Don't expect Porsche to be as kind as Audi are ! The R8 video is one rare moment to be sipped slowly
"You either get it or you don't". So true.
Beautiful stuff, but I think the tourer was my favourite. Childhood memories
I saw them running here in Portland Oregon in the ALMS series, and they were not only blindingly fast, they were oddly VERY QUIET.
Don't like to nit pic as your content is always great and I look forward to seeing you next up load every day however you could have mentioned Audi's success a bit better just for 30 seconds. Still was only a google search to see all there wins.
Look forward to your next lot :)
p.s. do a Jag week with the XJ220 (get it out again) and XJR15 pleeeeeease! O and a C-Type and D-type 😁😁😁
Great detail and a fantastic car! and yes, I get it ;)
A quality item thanks
The true monster is just behind you : 3 Audi R15+ TDI finishing respectively with 397, 396 and 394 laps at Le Mans 2010 (397 laps being the Absolute record up to this).
Excellant reveal.👍🏎🏎🏎👍
Cheers!
So jealous of you lol.
I love the le-mans cars but for me has to be the Super Touring such an awesome car.
A bit of classic to me to you at the end
Good content.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the Audi secret garage visit. some great info on the cars, but i found the content void of something... so i rewatched all 4 videos. and 2 points began to show, when you spoke about the vehicles you gave some great details but at points it was crying out for some period race footage so we could see the cars moving.
and point number 2, you went into great detail telling us about the cars, but nothing of the people, the builders, the drivers, the team owner, the fans, to really complete the picture i'd have liked to have heard anecdotes of people who were involved in the cars in period. still though great series. and i hope to see more like this.
Really enjoy the racing car content. Only thing I would say is more tech details and race stories if possible. Do Prodrive still have their museum? The JLR museum have a few interesting cars and prep customer cars, last time I was there an XJR-12 was in the garage. Could also reach out to Bicester heritage for old Bentley's and a few more modern Porsches.
Really cool to see the R8 without its clothes on.
Maybe you could get in contact with BBM Sport and see what they are working on at the moment?
I had a model of one over 20 years ago 👍🏿😁
You continue to outdo yourself, James. Thanks to you and Audi UK!
Thanks for watching!
I was standing in the tribunes across from the pits at Le Mans in 2000 when they did that very gearbox change. The astonishment from the commentators and actually watching it unfold was incredible. Rules changed the next year to outlaw such major sub-assemblies being swapped out (needed to finish with the same gearbox case, engine block and other key components that you started with IIRC) but Audi made an overnight step-change in how to run an endurance outfit and prepare to win.
Mr Shug same with witnessing it on tv. Mind blowing 🤯
Joest deserve a LOT more credit than Audi do for that one.. Their role in understanding how to win Le Mans; how to run and how to beat works teams, and for the first time being able to work with a manufacturer in developing a car from scratch was invaluable. Joest designed that quick-change, not Audi, using the lessons learned from 20+ years of racing (or beating) Porsche.
OsellaSquadraCorse that is true, Team Joest is very smart and talented.
VERY COOL hope you see a video when we hear it out on a track. would like to see a audi R8C GTP
Fabulous video the all time best Audi race car period.... I don't care about the faster tech which came later, as James said "this is the real deal" .... makes me want to buy an R8 road car...
Super cool, i enjoyed all 4, but liked the r8, and the A4 the most. Kind of defeats the purpose of showing off a scale model of a race car, when we all want to see the engine and all the components, whether its a rep or the real deal. Awesome content!!
If you go to the Silverstone classic this year you may see an r8. I consider myself lucky that at the last two events, they have had an r8, Peugeot 908 hdi, Bentley speed 8 and Aston lola dbr1, 2 racing.
is was a great series. hungry for info on these Audi lemans prototypes
Love the video, I just wish it was x2 as long. Please on the next video, at some point run the camera slowly and closely all around the engine/transaxle. You don’t even need to point anything out, I believe that the kind of audience that seeks out this kind of content knows what an intercooler or an exhaust manifold looks like. We want to see the way the engineers and designers packaged it all and made it all fit and work together.
What are the rods above the shock springs? Are these transducers to record wheel travel? I appreciate nice closeups of the suspension.
In 2003 Audi was under strict orders not to push the Bentley's. It was clearly a marketing ploy and further reinforces the fact that they were really R8s under the skin.
thank you
I saw the R8 racing in the states back in the day. I think it was ALMS at the time after IMSA imploded. One of my favorite sports car prototype race cars of all time. #1 has to be the 962. #2 is the Sauber C11. #3 and #4 are the Mercedes CLK-GTR and the Audi R8. Not sure which I like better.
Jay the R8 was my favourite followed by the A4 touring car. keep it up
Biela running out of fuel was actually part of an Audi own DVD...Followed the R8s right back to 1999 when they ran R8R and R8C's. A great era (esp battling with the Toyotas and Peugeots) which we thought would go on for ever. Feel priviledged to have been part of it looking back...BTW who gives a thumbs down on this? If you dont like, dont watch...
The geek in me noticed the tyres are all placed with Michelin at top. Professional
Could we have some spotlight on the Audi 002 perhaps
All great cars from different eras. Anything adorned with Wiggins clamps does it for me. It's a shame though that Audi don't support their heritage road cars with availability of parts like some other marques do. Perhaps you could have a word in their ear :)
I believe they are working on it
I'm more drawn to the TDI car.
Could you possibly do a review with that one ?
Naked LMP1 R8? _Oh my!_
Its a lmp900 actually ;)
Recently watched the Le Mans 66 movie, incredible that over 50 years ago they had card that could accelerate to 200mph+ 400 times in 24 hours without breaking 🤯 Also impression that they were only about 10% slower back then, I know that means being lapped 40 times but still
Don't forget the circuit was different too
JayEmm on Cars learn something new everyday
probably a noob question but what happens to the water being sucked in by those intakes that feed the air filters and the turbo? I imagine that at 200mph a lot of water enters if it's raining!
Thats an impossible question to answer, which one did you like most? They're all fantastic in their own particular way.
OMG you touch it. I don't think I could afford to replace a bolt on that thing .
#Bestof2020 #bearbogu playlist !
Thanks for show me a piece of history that I never will ever see in real life!
.. Audi won in LeMans for me just because they are only one in the world that ever came prepared to do this job, everything was calculated exactly to all moast perfection, so I'm thinking if they ever try formula 1 with the same precision will they get the title in first year of participation ✌
- cheers from Transylvania 😈
When @6:20 he refers to an "incident with other car" did the single-seater style roll-hoop actually snap when Michele Alboreto's car flipped over? 😰
I’ve seen F1 cars up close and was always disappointed in how weak they looked. With LM prototypes and GTs I am always blown away by the thoughtfulness and workmanship that goes into each car. They really are built like tanks, built to last the distance.
Got to remember, this thing does the equivalent of most of an F1 season in one hit
TRAINing the world Audi made the R8 in particular very tough. One year at Le Mans, McNish crashed his R8 at the Porsche Curves HARD in the rain. He somehow slowly crabbed the horrid looking wreck back to the pits for repairs while McNish ended up with a concussion. In earlier decades, he would have been dead after such a violent crash, especially at Le Mans.
@@JayEmmOnCars And it's probably just as fast lol.
@@jstoli996c4s McNish was in some huge accidents..remember that one near the Michelin Bridge where his R18 clipped a Ferrari? Unbelievable he walked away from it.
TRAINing the world - ah yes. Lucky boy he is 🍀
Funny typo... The "Veloqx Partners" decals on the front bodywork... Velolqx... lol
How is that possible during a restoration like that? :D
Nice video as usual, but the Audi R8 story really started in 1999, not with the R8C though, but rather the R8R.
R8R and R8C. Though the R8R was a bit of a late start, they were both entered for Le Mans 1999; only the Roadster finished, and the Coupe was dropped, with the R8R concept taken forward to become the R8.
The R8C was the first Audi LMP designed and built though.
Great video.
Nice to see how actually are covers "slip on" attached and chassis alone underneath them :)
Fastest pit crew in the world in action at the end of video 🤣
Great man, you seem to look fitter, lost weight?
I believe the reinforced roll hoop was added after Michele Alboreto's testing crash that claimed his life. Rip.
I believe he was the only person to die in an R8 (racecar).
I think Alboreto is the only one who died behind the wheel of an LMP car. No one actually fatally injured with a Daytona Prototype
First time I saw that car naked was the aftermath of Alboreto´s crash pictures :(
It's built so well, that the modular design is actually banned. Having it built in 3 parts made it too easy for teams to basically rebuild the car from scratch while other teams struggled or just plain retired after a component failure. Audi was dominating on the track so well, that's why they were forced to change the nose on the R15, and still won anyway. Their foray into TDI warranted excellent reliability results, and set the pace for Diesel Hybrid technology that every hybrid road car should be using to this day. And the tech was already there with Volkswagen's Diesel electric hybrid concept car that was supposed to compete against the Prius. Elon Musk is an idiot for not realizing this.
I can get so much power out of the S4 engine with a cheap tune and goes like a race car with very high torque even at low rpms and top speed like a supercar. My favourite brand. I can't do anything with a 9114s to get more power cheaply.
I'm still trying to figure out that rear suspension.. That's a real mind bender
Looks like pretty standard pushrod setup. What are you seeing that's odd?
@@bradarsenault6984 go to 6:56 see the two shiny looking rods that run lengthwise with the car? They connect to the gold colored brace at the rear?@the front they connect to the pivot arms/ or cantalevers what ever you want to call them lol. Is that the swaybar setup? That gold brace must pivot when the suspension cycles. Otherwise it just it would just keep everything locked up , unable to cycle.
@@joedmac78 joedmac78 yes, that is a sort of like a sway bar, they are more commonly referred to as anti roll bars in this application but basically the same thing. instead of being attached to the lower control arm, like on a typical road car, it's attached to the bellcrank. If one wheel is pushed up, like what happens when weight is shifter in a corner and the body rolls, the other wheel will also be pushed up, to resist the body roll. If you look at the link that attaches the two sides you will notice there are 3 holes to attach the rod end to, allowing more it less leverage over the pivot. Those rod ends are usually adjustable as well, either to allow for or influence ride height. The details of it are beyond my knowledge of the overall adjustment lengths of the individual links, though.