Hope you all enjoyed the video! Big thank you to Isotta Fraschini for helping to make this video possible by providing some of the images, footage, and personnel responses! Wishing them the best of luck next season! Happy holidays everybody, you’ll hear from me next, in 2024!
2023 is my first year I got interested in ALMS and WEC. I had discovered your channel a year ago when you made a video about GTE ending in WEC. Funny that the video that made me sub was the GTE vs GT3 comparison. Thank you for your work cause your videos are short, straight to the point and provide great explanations in their topics. Keep it up and I hope in 2024 your channel gets the growth it deserves.
I am happy that you are enjoying the videos, and thank for subscribing! I strive to do exactly what you mentioned these videos do, so it’s nice to know it’s working! Thank you for your support!
I think it is grid size. LeMans is limited to 55 plus one possible "new technology car" ( the Corvette in 2023 and a hand controlled car for disabled drivers the year before). With LMP2s allowed in and the sheer number of GT cars, some had to be left out.
Yes, but saying it doesn't mean anything until FIA and ACO don't publish the entry list. Look at Vanwall, that discovered only in november that they were out, replaced by the third Ferrari...
I hope for them to have a reliable season and be kinda competitive. I do not expect too much from them as the other manufacturers have more experience. But let's see.
To be honest, @@williamford9564 , we would be thrilled with a Top10 finish, since it would mean having A LOT of big names behind us, in a 19 cars class 😅
And this was why I was not worried about what happened with Glickenhaus and ByKolles/Vanwall, because IF will be there to race the banner of the small team, with a properly sorted car that can make a difference. Go get 'em, guys...:D
I wish them best of luck, but from how i see it being a Glickenhaus would be a pretty big success for them. They just got the naming rights from an old company and now have developed theyre own car with hybrid. And all this with an ELMS team. I would love to see them succeed, but most likely they will make the race for not being last against Vanwall competitive
I am extremely glad to see IF in WEC, It would have been nice to have many small teams to battle amongst themselves, maybe even higher. Maybe Vanwall can sneak into Le Mans and we can see more small teams
-ish. This isn't a privateer who bought a long dead name or the side venture of an investor. IF still exists (they make power plants for ships) and they are a subsidiary of the 4th largest ship building company in the world. Also their engineering partners (Michelotto, Williams) are world class. There's some serious money and corporate weight behind this project. Not that backing and budget guarantees success (see Peugeot's recent performances despite their funding, capabilities, and endurance racing pedigree).
This is a thing that causes a lot of confusion, @@thechannelimashamedof2361 . Isotta Fraschini Motori (the company from Bari that produces boat engines) has been a totally different company since the 1960s, and so it's independent of us. By the way, it's a bit imprecise to define us as "privateer" (as we're often defined in the comments) since we're trying to be a (small) Car Brand like the rest of the companies on the grid. At the end of the day, we're like the rest but just enormously smaller. 😅
I think reliability will be a key issue, especially with an unknown engine, chassis and components. You would hope that they would fare better than Vanwall did this year. Having just one car is going to be a limitation on getting racing experience. I do wonder why these smaller manufacturers go for LMH and not LMDH where they would get a proven chassis and the budget would be significantly smaller.
It's probably because of the greater creative freedom allotted to them via LMH. I suppose it might also be since they feel wins will have a greater impact on the brand since they built it from the ground up as opposed to basing it off an existing Oreca, Dallara, Ligier, or Multimatic chasis
Two motivations, @garycarmichael8432: 1. We're using the FIA WEC to tell the world that the Isotta Fraschini brand is back and that Isotta Fraschini cars are going to hit the roads like one hundred years ago. If we want to show people that we're a company that creates cars, we need to show that we can produce a complete car instead of assembling together parts built by other companies (like the chassis or the hybrid system, which are mandatory the same by the LMdh rules). 2. The LMH ruleset allows you much more freedom, so we can show the world what we're able to do on the quality level of our products, which was one of the key points of IF cars in the past century when 7 Rolls-Royce were necessary to buy an Isotta Fraschini 😉
@@IsottaFraschiniAutomobili thanks for the reply. Great to get your response. Best of luck for 2024 and hope that you have a solid season and achieve your goals.
IF is a mysterious black horse next year to me. It is like an unknown hidden boss suddenly appearing from nowhere. I hope to see they competing actively next year and challenge with all the giants.
Excellent video ! very impressed with the participation of the people who work on this project in this video! congratulations for getting those answers! . The road car in yellow is beautiful! I hope they do very well in the category!
What IF has done is what glickenhaus shouldve done from the start. Launch the race car, launch a track only special THEN launch the road car. Jim could suck it. Always complaining instead of selling road cars
Ever since IMSA switched to the new LMP3 regulations jumping up from 420 to 455 bhp and adding traction control, the only 2 manufacturers who built cars for the new regulations were Ligier and Duqieune, didn't know they had their own race team on top of building new LMP3 cars, cool to see them running in the hypercar class for IF in WEC, but I believe IMSA dropped their LMP3 class for the Weathertech Sportscar Championship and now they run LMP3 and GT4 cars in one of their support series, forget what it was called, on top of the Michilen Pilot Challenge with GT4 and TCR
Incredible video, Jonah! Big thanks, for you and for the Isotta Fraschini staff. This car will be my favourite next year, even if they are underdogs. I remember I was a little child when I first "met" the name Isotta Fraschini in a book about old cars. I couldn't even read that time, my mum showed me those beautiful pictures (she's really fond of car racing). And there we are, some two decades later, one of the first car company I was familiar with became alive and competes in my favourite championship. What a dream, what nostalgia!
I don't expect a team the size if IF to compete in IMSA at all. Not just due to the regulations IMSA has for building road cars, but because they need to focus on WEC as they don't have the resources the major brands do in the first place. Doing so would stretch their resources far too much. I'm looking forward to seeing the car in action for sure, and I hope it does do better than the Glickenhaus and Vanwall did. I DO however have a huge problem with what the major brands in WEC are doing. Where are Ferrari, Peugeot and Toyota? The Rolex 24 at Daytona IS the second biggest endurance race for top class prototypes on this planet regardless of whatever bias one may have between WEC or IMSA. For those top brands to basically act like it either doesn't exist or isn't big enough to worry about participating in is a slap in the face of the very regulations and rules sets that brought these cars into existence in the first place. I want to see ALL these cars in action EVERYWHERE as much as possible. The IMSA teams are doing just that. Only Acura has decided to this point to not attempt Le Mans. Yet there is hardly ANY reciprocation from WEC teams to run Daytona and THAT is not okay. At all.
They applied for a name change from 'ISOTTA FRASCHINI' to 'ISOTTA FRASCHINI DUQUEINE' and it was rejected by the governing body due to the application being lodged after the November 20 deadline. They will run as 'ISOTTA FRASCHINI' in 2024.
Thanks for sharing this vedeo! I don't have no idea about IF, but now I know. It's a good thing that a variety of manufacturers will join the WEC Hypercar category!
1:57: I think it is important to point out that Isotta Fraschini is owned by Fincantieri, an Italian shipbuilding company that is the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world,. according to Wikipedia. It also owns American shipbuilder Manitowoc Marine Group. The positives are Isotta has a huge $7 billion euro revenue company with lots of capital behind it. This is unlike Glickenhaus and Vanwall which were small companies controlled by individuals and with limited capital resources. The negatives are it does lack experience in the automotive field, so that is relying on a series of contractors to develop and construct the cars. What is the experience of these companies, who are entering a series with the mights of huge auto manufacturers like Toyota and GM? Michelotto and WAE don't seem to have resumes in any other major racing series, such as with companies like Dallara and Oreca, which are constructing LMDHs. The other thing to be concerned about is the shipbuilding industry is a very cyclical industry ( in other words it can have cycles of huge prosperity and then times of severe downturns). If things are going bad, that may affect how many resources the parent company may have to put into Isotta. I don't claim to be an expert on the shipbuilding industry, but the parent company did lose $324 MILLION euros in 2022.
Sorry, but it's not like that. The company today known as Fincantieri (back in the days had a different name) bought in the 60s the part of the company specialized in boat engines, that today has its headquarters in Bari, in the south of Italy and very far from Milano, and so the Isotta Fraschini Motori is a company totally unrelated to us, We have good relationships, but there's no financial connection at all between the two companies, just a very similar name 🙂
The comment about being "even older than Ferrari" shows a lot of lack of knowledge of history. Alfa-Romeo ( where Enzo Ferrari started), Lancia and Maserati all had extensive history in the pre WWII period.
Ferrari as a manufacturing car establishment was created after Isotta Fraschini was though, same with Lamborghini. So technically the statement is still true.
Enzo Ferrari raced himself with Isotta Fraschini much before founding his company. He even conquered with an Isotta Fraschini 100/110 IM his first podium ever in 1920 Parma-Poggio Berceto race, with the car he bought from Alfieri Maserati (yes, the founder of the car company with its same name). Alfa Romeo was founded in 1910, so ten tears AFTER Isotta Fraschini was founded. If you want to find an Italian company that was founded just one year before us, it's FIAT, founded in 1899.
@@briand7381 what their actual financial situation is for example. Or what difficulties they've had while testing. Who actually pays for all of that right now? What happened with their contract with VectorSport? Why do they think, they can survive besides Toyota and Co., where Glickenhaus couldn't? And so on, and so on... You know, stuff, that's actually interesting to know...
You’ll have to gain my trust that you know what you’re talking about. A whole video on Mazda prototypes and not a single mention of Dyson who not only campaigned the Mazda MZR-R running the AER (Dyson owned engine builder) from 2009-2013. AER continued to supply Mazda with engines through the 2021 season. Be wary of Formula Jonah….
That Mazda video I made was about the DPI Mazda. I didn’t want to get to much into detail about Mazda prototypes pre 2017 (besides the 787B) as that was not the topic of my video. Yes it probably would’ve been better to mention AER, but there is nothing I can do about it now, considering the video has already been released. I did however note that Mazda returned to prototype endurance racing in 2005 as an engine supplier, and returned to fully fledged Mazda factory supported cars in 2014 with the Speedsource run Lola LMP2 cars, which I felt was enough background history for the DPI. One day though, when I make a video about Mazda in prototype racing all together, then I’ll be going further in detail, and talking about Dyson’s involvement in pre 2017 Mazda entries.
Good looking car and wish them best of luck but like Vanwall and Glickenhous, they wont last in the long term. WEC seems to be moving towards the f1 model with hypercar, being hypercar will be a manufacturer series.
See my comment above. They have a lot more money behind them than Vanwall and Glickenhaus did. The question long term may be how long the parent company will continue to support this if it doesn't go well.
Getting both speed and reliability right in debut season for what appears to be a manufacturer with limited resources is too much too ask of them. Car lioks good and it's a nice underdog to root for
Hardly limited resources the parent company is Fincantieri who are a big player in the marine industry. From the Italian and US Navy to super yachts for oligarchs.
@laupernut Fincantieri only owns Isotta Fraschini Motori, which nowadays is completely unrelated to the Isotta Fraschini that makes cars, other than having the same name and origin.
Glad to know how much you like us 😅 But that's fine, since it's true that in the last 74 years we haven't produced cars. We're trying to recover the time lost, we'll see if we're able to do that next year 🙃
@IsottaFraschiniAutomobili nothing todo with hate, but carry on. You're still irrelevant to anything, no road cars, no one off supercars.. just a bought off the shelf car, that isn't even made in Italy. Hell, the enigine isn't even Italian. It's a bit of joke really. And no, no hate,? Just observant and speaking the mind of everyone in the sportscar world.
You surely think to know a lot of things,@@mikehunt9894 , but you said many different mistakes 😅 Let's review them one by one: 1. No road cars or supercars? And so what's this? ua-cam.com/video/S4fmbG_Wre4/v-deo.htmlsi=G_BSwdayBd_QaOVF Better than a simple rendering, this one is really moving on the real roads 🙂 2. Bought off the shelf car?!? The car had been totally projected, designed and developed in Michelotto Engineering in Padua, which definitely is an Italian city by all Italian engineers 😳 Yes, we used WAE wind tunnel to define the aerodynamics and in 2023 we went three times in Sauber wind tunnel in Switzerland, but it was to develop the aero OUR ITALIAN ENGINEERS designed 😅 3. The engine had been developed together with HWA, but starting from OUR REQUESTS AND IDEAS, nothing had been "bought" from any other car brand. We did anything different from BMW, as an example, who went to Dallara to design its LMdh. And differently from Bmw or Lamborghini or Porsche we designed even our cockpit and not bought from mandatory companies. Yes, our hybrid system was designed together with Bosch, but its different from any other and not the same like all the LMDHs. So are we really this joke you think we are? 😉
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Hope you all enjoyed the video!
Big thank you to Isotta Fraschini for helping to make this video possible by providing some of the images, footage, and personnel responses! Wishing them the best of luck next season!
Happy holidays everybody, you’ll hear from me next, in 2024!
2023 is my first year I got interested in ALMS and WEC. I had discovered your channel a year ago when you made a video about GTE ending in WEC. Funny that the video that made me sub was the GTE vs GT3 comparison. Thank you for your work cause your videos are short, straight to the point and provide great explanations in their topics. Keep it up and I hope in 2024 your channel gets the growth it deserves.
I am happy that you are enjoying the videos, and thank for subscribing! I strive to do exactly what you mentioned these videos do, so it’s nice to know it’s working! Thank you for your support!
Cool to see that you're basically a journalist now! It's great to see that Endurance Racing finally gets more attention!
Update :The third driver is Antonio Serravalle from Canada.
Are you planning to go any WEC events next year? I am going spa and imola can’t wait!
I'll miss Glickenhaus and Vanwall, but I will be supporting Isotta and BMW
Thank you for your support, really appreciated!
@@IsottaFraschiniAutomobili Always got to support the Underdog and really looking forward to buying a Diecast model of the Tipo 6.
You’d make great reporter/journalist for the WEC! :DD But I have a question. Why won’t the WEC allow them to race 2 cars at Le Mans? Is it grid size?
I think it is grid size. LeMans is limited to 55 plus one possible "new technology car" ( the Corvette in 2023 and a hand controlled car for disabled drivers the year before). With LMP2s allowed in and the sheer number of GT cars, some had to be left out.
possibly budget
Sooo three Italian manufacturers in the wec
Indeed!
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They confirmed since July that they will be in WEC for 2024.
Yes, but saying it doesn't mean anything until FIA and ACO don't publish the entry list. Look at Vanwall, that discovered only in november that they were out, replaced by the third Ferrari...
Alejandro Garcia is bronze ?
I thought bronze drivers were not eligible to drive in hypercar
Yeah he's a silver not a bronze, it was a mistake
10:32 Aren't Bronze-rated drivers allowed to race in Hypercar class of WEC?
Originally from what I understand Alejandro was a bronze driver, but now he is a silver driver in WEC 2024. It was a mistake unfortunately. Sorry!
Basically a filler car.
Hope they stay out of everybody’s way!
We'll try to avoid disturbing all the rest of the field, @guybeingaguy, don't worry 🙂
I hope for them to have a reliable season and be kinda competitive. I do not expect too much from them as the other manufacturers have more experience. But let's see.
Just travel with the rest of the championship for the entire season and they'll be better than Glickenhaus was
@@romiarkan450 then just be in front of lmp2s and theyll do better than vanwall too
I think they would be very happy with a top 6 finish in a race this year.
To be honest, @@williamford9564 , we would be thrilled with a Top10 finish, since it would mean having A LOT of big names behind us, in a 19 cars class 😅
real, haha. also at least be in front of the P2s and now gts for the season@@romiarkan450
And this was why I was not worried about what happened with Glickenhaus and ByKolles/Vanwall, because IF will be there to race the banner of the small team, with a properly sorted car that can make a difference.
Go get 'em, guys...:D
I wish them best of luck, but from how i see it being a Glickenhaus would be a pretty big success for them. They just got the naming rights from an old company and now have developed theyre own car with hybrid. And all this with an ELMS team. I would love to see them succeed, but most likely they will make the race for not being last against Vanwall competitive
I am extremely glad to see IF in WEC, It would have been nice to have many small teams to battle amongst themselves, maybe even higher. Maybe Vanwall can sneak into Le Mans and we can see more small teams
-ish. This isn't a privateer who bought a long dead name or the side venture of an investor. IF still exists (they make power plants for ships) and they are a subsidiary of the 4th largest ship building company in the world. Also their engineering partners (Michelotto, Williams) are world class. There's some serious money and corporate weight behind this project. Not that backing and budget guarantees success (see Peugeot's recent performances despite their funding, capabilities, and endurance racing pedigree).
This is a thing that causes a lot of confusion, @@thechannelimashamedof2361 . Isotta Fraschini Motori (the company from Bari that produces boat engines) has been a totally different company since the 1960s, and so it's independent of us.
By the way, it's a bit imprecise to define us as "privateer" (as we're often defined in the comments) since we're trying to be a (small) Car Brand like the rest of the companies on the grid. At the end of the day, we're like the rest but just enormously smaller. 😅
@@IsottaFraschiniAutomobili Interesting, so there's no connection at all between you and the boat engine company?
It's cool that they're making their own engine. I hope they do well.
They couldnt have done a better marketing campaign for the companies revival
Rooting for the small team is always fun. Here's hoping they can pickup carry on what Rebellion and Glickenhaus left behind.
I think reliability will be a key issue, especially with an unknown engine, chassis and components. You would hope that they would fare better than Vanwall did this year. Having just one car is going to be a limitation on getting racing experience. I do wonder why these smaller manufacturers go for LMH and not LMDH where they would get a proven chassis and the budget would be significantly smaller.
It's probably because of the greater creative freedom allotted to them via LMH. I suppose it might also be since they feel wins will have a greater impact on the brand since they built it from the ground up as opposed to basing it off an existing Oreca, Dallara, Ligier, or Multimatic chasis
Two motivations, @garycarmichael8432:
1. We're using the FIA WEC to tell the world that the Isotta Fraschini brand is back and that Isotta Fraschini cars are going to hit the roads like one hundred years ago. If we want to show people that we're a company that creates cars, we need to show that we can produce a complete car instead of assembling together parts built by other companies (like the chassis or the hybrid system, which are mandatory the same by the LMdh rules).
2. The LMH ruleset allows you much more freedom, so we can show the world what we're able to do on the quality level of our products, which was one of the key points of IF cars in the past century when 7 Rolls-Royce were necessary to buy an Isotta Fraschini 😉
@@IsottaFraschiniAutomobili thanks for the reply. Great to get your response.
Best of luck for 2024 and hope that you have a solid season and achieve your goals.
IF is a mysterious black horse next year to me. It is like an unknown hidden boss suddenly appearing from nowhere. I hope to see they competing actively next year and challenge with all the giants.
Yes, I'm excited 🔥 Best looking LMH so far
They have constantly responded to me in Twitter so I'm gonna be rooting for them
If that works so well, we continue answering you also here on YT 😅
@@IsottaFraschiniAutomobiliconfermo ,avete risposto anche a me su UA-cam riguardo alla scelta del turbo unico anziché il biturbo.
Excellent video ! very impressed with the participation of the people who work on this project in this video! congratulations for getting those answers! . The road car in yellow is beautiful! I hope they do very well in the category!
Thank you so much @Mati03x ! I’m glad you liked the video!
We're glad you liked our Tipo 6 LMH Strada 😉
Love the car isotto hope you do well I am cheering for you love from down under 🇦🇺
What IF has done is what glickenhaus shouldve done from the start. Launch the race car, launch a track only special THEN launch the road car.
Jim could suck it. Always complaining instead of selling road cars
And a few days ago, they finished the 24 hours of Le Mans
As long as the motor sounds good. race pace is overrated. lol jk
Ever since IMSA switched to the new LMP3 regulations jumping up from 420 to 455 bhp and adding traction control, the only 2 manufacturers who built cars for the new regulations were Ligier and Duqieune, didn't know they had their own race team on top of building new LMP3 cars, cool to see them running in the hypercar class for IF in WEC, but I believe IMSA dropped their LMP3 class for the Weathertech Sportscar Championship and now they run LMP3 and GT4 cars in one of their support series, forget what it was called, on top of the Michilen Pilot Challenge with GT4 and TCR
It's IMSA Prototype Challenge
This channel is really underrated
Thank you!
Incredible from both you and Isotta, great to have a new independent team who will hopefully be more competitive
Incredible video, Jonah! Big thanks, for you and for the Isotta Fraschini staff. This car will be my favourite next year, even if they are underdogs. I remember I was a little child when I first "met" the name Isotta Fraschini in a book about old cars. I couldn't even read that time, my mum showed me those beautiful pictures (she's really fond of car racing). And there we are, some two decades later, one of the first car company I was familiar with became alive and competes in my favourite championship. What a dream, what nostalgia!
Thanks for the vid 👍
This is fantastic. Absolutely amazing to see how far the channel has come, doing proper work getting interviews. Keep up the good work.
Much appreciated! Thank you for your support! 👊
Woooooooooo!!!
I don't expect a team the size if IF to compete in IMSA at all. Not just due to the regulations IMSA has for building road cars, but because they need to focus on WEC as they don't have the resources the major brands do in the first place. Doing so would stretch their resources far too much. I'm looking forward to seeing the car in action for sure, and I hope it does do better than the Glickenhaus and Vanwall did. I DO however have a huge problem with what the major brands in WEC are doing. Where are Ferrari, Peugeot and Toyota? The Rolex 24 at Daytona IS the second biggest endurance race for top class prototypes on this planet regardless of whatever bias one may have between WEC or IMSA. For those top brands to basically act like it either doesn't exist or isn't big enough to worry about participating in is a slap in the face of the very regulations and rules sets that brought these cars into existence in the first place. I want to see ALL these cars in action EVERYWHERE as much as possible. The IMSA teams are doing just that. Only Acura has decided to this point to not attempt Le Mans. Yet there is hardly ANY reciprocation from WEC teams to run Daytona and THAT is not okay. At all.
whoa nice exclusive content you got there :))
Thank you very much!
HyperCar definitely gives me those 90s F1 vibes when the little guy could still chase their dreams. I hope they do well and enjoy their racing.
Good to see someone other than the big manufacturers on the grid, especially after Glickenhaus and Vanwall dropped out
Vanwall didn’t drop out they got rejected
Bravissimo what a great brand and car best of luck to isotta fraschini and the beautiful tipo 6
I hope they'll get podium in LeMans! 🙌🏼
Isotta Fraschini's team name is Isotta Fraschini Duqueine ?
Yes the name is Isotta Fraschini Duquenie Team
They applied for a name change from 'ISOTTA FRASCHINI' to 'ISOTTA FRASCHINI DUQUEINE' and it was rejected by the governing body due to the application being lodged after the November 20 deadline. They will run as 'ISOTTA FRASCHINI' in 2024.
@jaiganticpooey3012 If only it could have been done sooner.
Thanks for sharing this vedeo!
I don't have no idea about IF, but now I know. It's a good thing that a variety of manufacturers will join the WEC Hypercar category!
Glad it was helpful!
The Motor is from Isotta Fraschini
10:44 really hoping for Bonanomi
1:57: I think it is important to point out that Isotta Fraschini is owned by Fincantieri, an Italian shipbuilding company that is the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world,. according to Wikipedia. It also owns American shipbuilder Manitowoc Marine Group. The positives are Isotta has a huge $7 billion euro revenue company with lots of capital behind it. This is unlike Glickenhaus and Vanwall which were small companies controlled by individuals and with limited capital resources.
The negatives are it does lack experience in the automotive field, so that is relying on a series of contractors to develop and construct the cars. What is the experience of these companies, who are entering a series with the mights of huge auto manufacturers like Toyota and GM? Michelotto and WAE don't seem to have resumes in any other major racing series, such as with companies like Dallara and Oreca, which are constructing LMDHs. The other thing to be concerned about is the shipbuilding industry is a very cyclical industry ( in other words it can have cycles of huge prosperity and then times of severe downturns). If things are going bad, that may affect how many resources the parent company may have to put into Isotta. I don't claim to be an expert on the shipbuilding industry, but the parent company did lose $324 MILLION euros in 2022.
Sorry, but it's not like that. The company today known as Fincantieri (back in the days had a different name) bought in the 60s the part of the company specialized in boat engines, that today has its headquarters in Bari, in the south of Italy and very far from Milano, and so the Isotta Fraschini Motori is a company totally unrelated to us, We have good relationships, but there's no financial connection at all between the two companies, just a very similar name 🙂
My fav channel when it comes to endurance racing. And with IF we have unofficially Merceds in WEC via HWA :)
Thank you, so happy you enjoy the content!
I saw them run at Monza. They look strong...
Awesome!!❤
The comment about being "even older than Ferrari" shows a lot of lack of knowledge of history. Alfa-Romeo ( where Enzo Ferrari started), Lancia and Maserati all had extensive history in the pre WWII period.
Ferrari as a manufacturing car establishment was created after Isotta Fraschini was though, same with Lamborghini. So technically the statement is still true.
Enzo Ferrari raced himself with Isotta Fraschini much before founding his company. He even conquered with an Isotta Fraschini 100/110 IM his first podium ever in 1920 Parma-Poggio Berceto race, with the car he bought from Alfieri Maserati (yes, the founder of the car company with its same name).
Alfa Romeo was founded in 1910, so ten tears AFTER Isotta Fraschini was founded. If you want to find an Italian company that was founded just one year before us, it's FIAT, founded in 1899.
Isn't Alejandro Garcia Silver rated ?
saw you in OnlyEndurance live yesterday😄
Cool! Yep I was there, didn’t want to miss out on Tim’s live stream for the award show😉
Looking forward to seeing them on the track.
Me too!
Great vid. Guessing it will have a vector sport livery? Should be good. Hope they do well
Vector Sport won't run the car anymore. Isotta didn't get give them the data they wanted so they split, Duqueine Engineering will now run the car.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Isotta Fraschini Duqueine will soon release their 2024 livery for competition!
Wonder road car is the same as racing version, minus modification for comfort, and for law?
From the testing footage videos on YT their car sounds like a deeper version of a Mercedes F1 engine.
TBH: You literally couldn't have asked more meaningless questions...
What would you have asked? Define meaningful
@@briand7381 what their actual financial situation is for example. Or what difficulties they've had while testing. Who actually pays for all of that right now? What happened with their contract with VectorSport? Why do they think, they can survive besides Toyota and Co., where Glickenhaus couldn't? And so on, and so on... You know, stuff, that's actually interesting to know...
Super cool that the company worked with you in the making of the video. Really love this.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
You’ll have to gain my trust that you know what you’re talking about. A whole video on Mazda prototypes and not a single mention of Dyson who not only campaigned the Mazda MZR-R running the AER (Dyson owned engine builder) from 2009-2013. AER continued to supply Mazda with engines through the 2021 season.
Be wary of Formula Jonah….
That Mazda video I made was about the DPI Mazda. I didn’t want to get to much into detail about Mazda prototypes pre 2017 (besides the 787B) as that was not the topic of my video. Yes it probably would’ve been better to mention AER, but there is nothing I can do about it now, considering the video has already been released. I did however note that Mazda returned to prototype endurance racing in 2005 as an engine supplier, and returned to fully fledged Mazda factory supported cars in 2014 with the Speedsource run Lola LMP2 cars, which I felt was enough background history for the DPI. One day though, when I make a video about Mazda in prototype racing all together, then I’ll be going further in detail, and talking about Dyson’s involvement in pre 2017 Mazda entries.
Good looking car and wish them best of luck but like Vanwall and Glickenhous, they wont last in the long term. WEC seems to be moving towards the f1 model with hypercar, being hypercar will be a manufacturer series.
See my comment above. They have a lot more money behind them than Vanwall and Glickenhaus did. The question long term may be how long the parent company will continue to support this if it doesn't go well.
Bronze rated pilotes can race in the hypercar category? I thought they needed to be rated at least as gold pilote.
It was a mistake. At the time of recording he was a Bronze driver, it just recently became clear to me that he was moved up to Silver.
Getting both speed and reliability right in debut season for what appears to be a manufacturer with limited resources is too much too ask of them. Car lioks good and it's a nice underdog to root for
Hardly limited resources the parent company is Fincantieri who are a big player in the marine industry. From the Italian and US Navy to super yachts for oligarchs.
@laupernut Fincantieri only owns Isotta Fraschini Motori, which nowadays is completely unrelated to the Isotta Fraschini that makes cars, other than having the same name and origin.
You're right, @@normaluser5755 , there's no link between us and Isotta Fraschini Motori, just good relationships 🙂
Who? That random brand thats been irrelevant for 68+ years?
Blehhhhhhh
Should be real manufacturers
Glad to know how much you like us 😅 But that's fine, since it's true that in the last 74 years we haven't produced cars. We're trying to recover the time lost, we'll see if we're able to do that next year 🙃
@IsottaFraschiniAutomobili nothing todo with hate, but carry on.
You're still irrelevant to anything, no road cars, no one off supercars.. just a bought off the shelf car, that isn't even made in Italy. Hell, the enigine isn't even Italian. It's a bit of joke really.
And no, no hate,? Just observant and speaking the mind of everyone in the sportscar world.
You surely think to know a lot of things,@@mikehunt9894 , but you said many different mistakes 😅
Let's review them one by one:
1. No road cars or supercars? And so what's this?
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Better than a simple rendering, this one is really moving on the real roads 🙂
2. Bought off the shelf car?!? The car had been totally projected, designed and developed in Michelotto Engineering in Padua, which definitely is an Italian city by all Italian engineers 😳 Yes, we used WAE wind tunnel to define the aerodynamics and in 2023 we went three times in Sauber wind tunnel in Switzerland, but it was to develop the aero OUR ITALIAN ENGINEERS designed 😅
3. The engine had been developed together with HWA, but starting from OUR REQUESTS AND IDEAS, nothing had been "bought" from any other car brand. We did anything different from BMW, as an example, who went to Dallara to design its LMdh. And differently from Bmw or Lamborghini or Porsche we designed even our cockpit and not bought from mandatory companies. Yes, our hybrid system was designed together with Bosch, but its different from any other and not the same like all the LMDHs.
So are we really this joke you think we are? 😉