Driving Audi's 1000bhp R18 LMP1 race car 

Barış Karasakız endurance cars will also sometimes have a slower more comfortable setup

Times of comfortable cars in endurance racing are over. Those cars are build to be as fast as possible in combination with low fuel and low tire consumption. When i think back ten years, yes - cars where build and the setup was made to put the lowest possible stresslevel into the driver. Today the competition is so hard - just finishing does not guarantee you a good place. You have to be fast also.

@@Kai_ST200 You don't watch WEC based on your comment lol

@@Harmonic14 tell me what is wrong. I am watching every WEC Race, many of them at the racetrack, because i know many mechanics, engineers and drivers. I am driving for myself in TCR class in VLN (ich denke die kennst du 😉) and some Creventic events. If you think there was no competition, because only Toyota is in LMPH, i can tell you, there are some other classes like that privateers in LMP1 and also LMP2 and GT classes :)

@@Kai_ST200 what he means is the cars are stable, won't spin and go into a low-earth orbit on every mistake, and also they value consitency over fastest lap time I'm pretty sure there was an experiment (in simulator, with actual racing drivers) witch showed that drivers maintaining a "fast, but consistent" pace was the best on average. Because if you really are driving constantly at "100%" you'll make mistakes that cost you more time.

turboboy1983 I was about to punch you in your teeth. Until I read the closing remark.

Those that actually know why Audi was forced to leave WEC will indeed not say that.

Live by the diesel, die by the diesel right?!

jody024 why were they forced to leave?

Žiga P. Škraba diesel gate and porsche

PS: The issue with the Ferrari FF was totally Ferrari's fault for wanting to go low profile to appease the target audience. A great car can take a kerbing.

Yes, like a pro!

daily hooligan almost wanted to try seeing that

daily hooligan not almost... it is heartbreaking :(

Yes it looks better imo, but the sound is questionable

Justice Clark That’s because the F1 cars are also restricted lol

Feels?

Elyas the 919 sounds way better then an f1 car

Big f1 fan but it’s true lmp1 looks way cooler

Thank you!

its the americans fault, if the americans hadnt biched as much about the VW Scandal, audi would still be in endurance, VW would still be in rally

Mursi83 o I didn’t know that i felt a bit confused at the end

You are funny :)

Damian Blakemore I

Chicken Soup for the Loser everywhere

premium stuff

The old top gear trio aka the new grand tour trio made it

decided to advertise their videos for once

Chicken Soup for the Loser Straight out of Clarkson's ass!

tyres LUL

X-ImWazz-X that's how the FIA officially spells it LUL

Whoa, you really know your tires!?

Instead, we get the terrible terrible Formula Eeeeeee from them... (Was trying to immitate it's sound with the Eeeeee xD)

Michal Valta if you need to explain your joke, then it was a bad joke

DONT USE GODS NAME IN VAIN

Wonder why that may be...

I'm sure, that cost cutting is the biggest reason why. Also, Porsche is more titled and more legendary team of Le Mans, so it's why Audi had to leave, not Porsche. Unfortunately :(

I don't think it was planned from the beginning. But then dieselgate started happening which instantly raised questions about money which raised questions about motorsport budget. The fact that Audi used their LMP1 program to promote their TDI (diesel) engines and technology probably didn't help either.

It might be much easier then that. Let's say political even. Reminds me a bit of Mesarati Ferrari in mid 2000 with the MC12. The group might need to push the Porsche brand now redirecting founding toward that brand. Or it could be a temporary break from Audi untill some new gamebreaking ideas will come up. History told us that when Audi comes back, it will be with a platform 10 years ahead of competition (Quattro rally, IMSA GT, diesel powered R-1x and who knows what's next).

they need the money for their deisel emissions fines

Tyler Cochran yeah drivetribe is a car-platform created by jeremy clarkson, so all the best car-porn will come out on this channel, with the best journo names making vid's on it! Yes🍾🍾❤

Not this guy, Top Gear trio

Nicholas, for real? ... It's a Clarkson backed channel? ... Damn, sounds too good to be true. So he owns the rights and gets to decide what goes on it and not?

And now it's shit. I bet these journalists were too good to be underneath the now overscripted and tired old Top Gear hosts who started drivetribe.

Don't forget the crazy amount of torque.

They havent competed since the king of lemans porsche returned And fuck diesel racing

no , i`m not .

Haha ignorant people like you make me laugh.

Ден С why fuck diesel racing? the fucking thing obliterated lemans

Yeah :/

Suckit up I would because racecar lol

Suckit up of course u wont

r/whoosh

This was sarcasm ya dopes

That went right over their heads.

abyssunderground all top tier racecars are one of a kind. they all have the smallest of differences to try and have what it takes to beat the other guys

Straight cut gears

wrong. that's the hybrid system recharging when braking

Javier Rosado Jr. it’s partly that and just transmission noise

Zak Walls Exactly, it's what a whole bunch of power being transferred sounds like when you can't hear the engine noise.

Sadly not i would love to see the R18 again same with the 919

Man, that guy shows up in the unlikeliest of places. =0

*SMP Racing Intensifies*

Funny you should say that...

Deon Mpofu no. Its not normal.

Aditya Malik Passion!

Sounded like a super-charged tractor.

you're not alone mate, i fapped too!

It'd be prohibitively expensive to run. The budget for these kinds of cars is far above what a privateer team running at Le Mans usually spends.

SimonC979 Aston Martin needs an LMP1 car lol

MS if Audi is willing to sell them, and i reckon they will if they havent already. then yea a group could literally race their car. budget wise. not a good idea, i mean yea there's potential to make money in racing but manufacturers are those who benefit the most out of motorsports. privateers just run them for fun. i cant wait to see the car though. im sure we'll see what it looked like eventually

Must be some billionaire. Most sources say Audi had a budget of ca. 100-130 million Euros per season, Porsche being somewhere in that region as well. Some even say Audi had a budget of up to 240 million Euros per season. Toyota is much lower with estimated 40-70 million which can easily be seen by the lower number of cars competing.

In Dubio Pro Porsche yea the money put into racing is crazy. In F1 for example, the 2014 season (the first when the 1.6L V6 Turbo Hybrid powertrains came in) Red Bull (not Toro Rosso) alone for their 2 main cars were spending 400 million for 1 year. Understandably they wanted to defend their 4 year streak but i think Mercedes-Benz was spending around 200 million. And even smaller teams like Williams and Force India were much faster than Red Bull that season

an f1 2016 car sounds better than an ignorant f1 fan whining, right?

Ariff tbh it doesnt

the only good sounding thing on the audi is the whole electric part during acceleration and recuperation under braking. The diesel rumble is triggering af

Lets break it down once for all. What is better sound? High revs, Bee fucking? Exactly, Le Mans is about endurance and high rev makes things unreliable, I don’t give much fucks about how F1 sound, it doesn’t carry that level of entertainment and passion that Le Mans has.

Hope you se how it sounds in real life you won't say that if you do trust me.

I already commented.... Well...just bought a Bluetooth wraparound headset and played this as my first, and the sounds that this diesel makes, with that regeneration unit onboard.....the sound of perfected German technology. Mesmerizing.

there's no margin diesel electric in small cars, but they're used everywhere in busses costing 10x as much.

Yeah if he having a cup of tea and eating his lunch :)

Planinski Graditelj seveda bi haha 😉

Formula-E and electric cars in general have a great potential in them. They need improvements, yes, LOTS OF developments and corrections, but the time will come when electric cars will easily match the performance, durability and efficiency of the petrol and diesel cars. Having Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Nissan (basically Renault) in FE, and furthermore all of the above plus Tesla, Porsche and Volkswagen on the public roads, the improvements will most probably come way faster.

The Diesel Engine produces about 500 hp. The electric drivetrain gives this car the other 500 hp.

Well tbf if you think about it, the diesel also powers the electric drivetrain.

*3.7liter

Nah, just German engineering :-D

In a round about way.

Claudy_Focan the Aston Martin Lola

Ferrari F333 SP

DTM is amazing !

What's your problem with DTM? It's by far the most important racing car championship of the Germans, so it's only natural for the major German constructors to compete in it. Audi has been in there for many decades now, even in the old era of DTM in the 1980s and '90s, so it's a part of the DTM history, as well as the all-time superior Mercedes. Well, yes, Mercedes has just left, but it doesn't change my point.

This did not age well in 2020...

Hehe, absolutely. DTM was relevant in the 80s & 90s when the competition was huge and amazing and it was also ok in the era of 2000 to 2002, but after that it went downhill steeper and steeper and never recovered. In the last years it was a totally irrelevant shadow of it former self pretending technical competition but using BOP whenever it seemed fit NASCAR-like. What a joke. There's no way back for Audi though since LMP1-H will end and it's replacement will be a fully BOPed class as worthless as DTM. Real motorsports in terms of 4-wheel racing as a whole is close to dead and as bad as F1 nowadays is compared to the early 90s I must sadly say that it'll become the last unicorn once LMP1-H is done.

Daniel Parisi Porsche werent great when they first came back on the scene with the 919. of course they had to work out technical difficulties and such but still. Audi did good while they were there. they still had some fierce competition even when Porsche wasn't there

Porsche left before Audi entered though.

they won le mans in 2014 when porsche started and they still made really well in 2015 and 2016

Wasn't the 919 performing well already in 2014 and then dropped out cause of child deseases? Not trying to take Audi's respect, but the 919 is a very good car so it wouldn't have won 15,16 and 17 and 14 it was up with the others =)

The Real Kurti they had a good car in 2014 but not good enough. Then 2015 they were strong. 2016 they almost lost it but i think it's fair to say it's mostly luck that came to their rescue and 2017 they didnt have the superior car but Toyota faced issues that Porsche didnt and Porsche were able to capitalize on it. Regardless the wins were earned and they deserved it just as much as any other team would have

Rodrigo Deffune well it's a diesel

18 wins over many decades. Audi won 13 in 17 years. Fancy that as a percentage?

ellasOLE22 Porsche retired from Le Mans for long periods of time though.

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Porsche didn't win outright till the 1970. Le Mans was nearly 50 years old by then. Hardly the first kings. They are the most successful though, by number of wins.

yay