That save at 280+ is an absolute masterpiece. My 2nd time there.. I really loved that car, and the Panoz.. even with Tom Kristensen in the No. 17 BMW. Even the ACO adopted the design on the Le Mans logo, with the silhouette
My post with the link keep getting deleted. Search for Automobile Club de l'Ouest old logo, then a coffee cup with the silhouette logo from 1989 pops up
indeed prettiest race. I think the Toyota TS-020 or better called GT-one looks like a Group C having sex with a prototype class. What a beast. Too bad it never won first place in the Circuit de la Sarthe, they were faster than anything else back then.
When the GT-One made its debut, commentators said it reminded them of a Group C prototype because their frame of reference forced them to compare it to cars of the past. I didn't discover this car until I saw it in Gran Turismo 3 a few years later. I always thought it looked like a direct competitor to the then-current LMP cars circa 2003 (Bentley Speed 8, Audi R8, Pescarolo, etc.), so I was kind of perplexed to find out it was originally conceived of as a production-based GT car several years prior. I initially thought GT-One was just a hype name for a race car that wasn't necessarily meant to denote the class it competed in, because it was obviously a pure-bred Le Mans Prototype from the start, right?
Yeah it actually sounds a bit like, if meet a group of 4-5 people with vuvuzelas.. Not after 22 hours though, the Vipers, Panoz, a few of the V12 and especially the Porsches sounded like they were running on a gasoline/gravel mix
3:46 can we all just take a moment to appreciate how fast the drivers reaction was after that crash? mans was ready to reverse out of there before he even stopped turning it was insane
Every year I have been there, it was a awesome experience with great help from the english spectators.. one year they had a gigantic camp across the main road just by the start/finish, nex to the airfield. Really nice spot... music, a big grill with wieners and a refrigerated truck. It was really something. Since all the other campers also came in outrageous cars, and had to go by this 1-lane road to get to the infield of the circuit, the english set up a kinda checkpoint. So that people could cross the road firstly, take pictures of the beautiful cars.. but also they splashed water on the road, and anyone they encourage would do massive burnouts. My brother wanted to go to the souvenir shops and amusements, so we only stayed for about an hour. Too bad that you can't show photos in comments. Can only imagine all the other cars that they egged on to go wild..
@@NitroNuggetTV Probably just a joke as the British are some (or at least were) of the biggest motorsport fans, so the large numbers of Brits are so regular they're basically a rule at this point.
@@eins2001 ok but, regulations change, because most of times brands like porche, ferrari etc, they dont like to loose to cars like the viper, that win in they won game, hope you anderstand what I am saying.
@@aenoofficial the three tail lights on each side is the road car version the race cars only have two on each side but it’s the head lights that confuses me because in one source I looked up it said the ‘99 have 4 lights in the headlights and ‘98 three on each. While an other source said the opposite, and another source said the ‘99 has both variations of the head lights…
Man, this commentator has no idea what he's talking about. He is literally just speaking to hear his own voice. "Oh...that Porsche has impact damage. That car has clearly hit someone". No, sir, that would be a tire puncture...
