Ferrari Racing Days Laguna Seca - F1 Test Driver: Marc Gene - RECORD SETTING LAP!! 

me too, from the old gran turismo ps2 games LOL

And those games are so realistic too, they really make you feel you are there on the track. I did win a lot on the computer, but back in '94 I went to this two hour Bridgestone racing school and I spent two hours on the real thing. Only problem was the class only cost about $300 and in order to protect their cars we were told "speed is not important, just take the right lines, apex, downshift, bla bla bla.... we were "flying" on the straight at well over 60mph in those Camaros. The fun part was when the instructor was not in my car (he was in the first one, the other three followed) and I was last, so I would slow down, and then hammer it to catch the group. Did about 20 laps altogether, and some 15 years later when I got on the computer game, it felt so familiar, only no one to fuck with me to slow down all the time. I have posted the video from the 8mm that was part of the package

Loved this track on Toca 3. Tons of great tracks. Man I miss my winxp!

Same. N I'm 5 min away lol

I've raced it, been to it, been around it, worked at it, and camped at it.

Philipe Maciel traction control :D

Imagine the 2004!🤐

It looks so weird...

Not necessary... the car was not designed for those tyres.

@@TheSmokeeeey or 2008!

Why wouldn’t it happen?

@@BayAreaMike99 the elevation changes on the track are too extreme for modern f1 cars to handle

That would be awesome, f1 at laguna seca!! FIA and Liberty media needs to make it happen.

@@marshi4683 and also the Karen’s who live there are getting annoyed at the sound levels 🙄😒

​@@BayAreaMike99 strait elevation Is main reason. but tons of others ranging from paddock to runoff areas, to track width(in certain areas)...mostly safety stuff and the fact that current F1 cars are fat pussies

nowhere close to the limit, but a solid clean fast lap

Man u're luck i'm sure u've seen so many legends and legendary cars there...

@@kubabonga The real fun stuff at Laguna is the Historics! CanAm Cars from the 70's are amazing to watch! Cars with in excess of 1000hp, that have a difficult time getting sufficient grip. Go on RU-vid and look for them! This is one of my favorites: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hqtBxqJraFg.html

But, as we see, the most standard effort. Catch up, match, develop further with ease, enjoy your daily usual simple tasks; tech talks and all of the rest too. Seen that all future task are on the other side, we are not to stay here. (When Wernher von Braun meets Dark Side of the Moon.)

TheFokker03 i heard F1 looked into it but the track was too small, great track though

@@macthemec too small, they race in Monico, the tightest twistiest circuit known to man. I would love to see F1 at LS instead of that garbage street course they have planned in Miami, just imagine wheel to wheel into the corkscrew, it would be amazing.

Royce Nord yeah seeing a bunch of F1 cars through the corkscrew or even turn 2 would be awesome

@@macthemec Indy is going to race there in 2019. It should be pretty good.

yeah,too short of a track

Why? What am I not seeing, it's an in lap and he was driving slow...

@@celpabedn its one hell of a corner very tight

2:38 is even more, because he is in the fast lap there

How? In realtime maybe, but the video is 24 frames per second.

i find it hard to believe this video is 24 frame a second. It depends on the refresh rate tho.

Ko-wing wong Lol fucking bullshit

I was just wondering that, interesting. These guys going on about frames? This is a recording of what the tyre looked like at the time, how do frames affect the tyre spinning speed

KalvickQT stroboscope effect.

taking that pikes peak escudo around this course !! still dont think i got this time lol!

​@@jackmiller8851 Also Toyota GT-one

You obviously never drove the Nordschleife ;) ;)

In Germany.

I gave up on GT once I discovered Forza. Still one of my favorites. I live two hours away.

RonnyDonny13 You don’t memorize it. You feel the track.

RonnyDonny13 That’s why I hate pornos.

the corkscrew!

Where Rossi write a historic Moment on moto GP. 2007 Rossi vs Stoner. 🤩🤩🤩

Sloppy Joe if that was reality today, cars would break down and we would have the most dull era of f1 back

@@CHRISrnbWORLD overtaking without any fight is not racing. Without talking about these dull engines, complicated and excessive rules, too much complexity, electronics etc

@BajofBull have fun with your mediocrity of a sport. I'll still be enjoying motorsports of the two-wheeled variety on Irish and IOM soil.

Srokaldinho 4.4s but who’s counting

@@bobespirit2112And this car ran with a detuned engine. But anyway, that comparison makes no sense. F1 is much faster, but also much more expensive.

@@IschChef well few years ago indy car was slower by only a margin. V8 f1 engines were very slow compared to today v6 turbos or 00's V10s...V8s by their own power without drs the barely hit 325, which is fast, but not for an F1 car.

I don't think they were the peak of F1, compared to the early 90s cars they looked awkward. Due to the regulations they were narrow tracked earo compromised ugly cars that couldn't race closely with each other. What we got in that era of F1 was closed course rallying.

there is a Ferrari F1 car on permanent display at the Ferrari shop in Rome

Sounds like a v8

@@limoncr5205 They cut 2 cylinders to not break the record by an humiliating margin...

1:40 is what Pobst did in a 2014 Vanquish with 565 bhp. Not slow.

For 1.6 bill you can build it full size bro

Lmao with that amount of money you could fund your own F1 career if you're decent at driving, or at least own full size F1 cars and pay mechanics to work on it for you.

My dream track would have a mix of raidillion up one side of a hill and the corkscrew down the other 😍

Grichka Bogdanoff it is In fact called montage

@@yarou26thewise_yt82 no shit Sherlock

@@glpro2696 thx and u are in fact a dumbass

Marc Gene is probably the best test driver in the history of F1, he knows how to develop and adjust a car like few others!

SI vede fumo sull'anteriore sinistra

Best turn on any racing game ever imo so satisfying when you hit it just perfect lol

That’s because f1 cars have better grip, brakes and downforce than other race cars. Other cars usually enter this corner from far right instead because it’s the only fastest way to approach this corner in a slower and heavier car.

by far the best idea to get through that section that i've ever seen. Wizardry. The steering wheel really makes it look like he just cruised on through by the narrowest of margins, turned right a little to set up for the corkscrew and it was magic. i've got to try this and see if it works.

The track is too small

The FiA would ruin another great track with a mile of runoff areas. Best they don't.

too narrow and corners are not exaggerated enough. If you think f1 doesn't have enough passing now....

@@BourbonJawnt and yet they still race Monaco.

@@lorddrac_dontaskmetodance monaco is only there to pay homage to the sport

it's V10

Thought context: "V10s aren't enough, still bring back ******* V12s."

V10>V12

The V10s do sound better, though.

Will not happen.

would've*, which is a contraction of "would have".

easely a 0:59:57 lap time

@@becauseimbored1531 Lol. F2004 was only about 0.33 sec faster at Fiorano track, so it's probably less than 0.5 sec faster in Laguna Seca. Then again, Schumi wasn't that much faster than Gene, 1 sec at max, usually much less, so we are talking something like 1:04.300-1:05.200 realistically.

@@oo.llpee.7457 schumi would yeet it over the corkscrew

My favorite corners for passing were T2 and T11 (motorcycles). T1 is the scariest corner. You can also pass entering the corkscrew (T8) but it is tougher.

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That's not real though, can't press restart if you crash the real thing.

If only it was as simple in real life theres a lot of other things that slow you down understeer wind direction etc. everything's different in a game your not really connected to the car in life you are braking and the rest will never be the same. Although to be fair 53 seconds on a game your looking at a minute and 5 to 15 seconds which is still seriously quick.

*coughs* Assists

Search for the video where Clarkson does exactly this "sim driving" on Laguna Seca with a Honda NSX. He couldn't get even close to his sim time.

Gran Turismo isn't a sim.

genius machinery! handling corner and aceleration like that NO

Nope nothing comes close to an F1 car's abilities, it's insane what they're capable of

Thanks guys for letting me know.

They'd be the fastest on oval if they were set up for lower downforce

Fugedibobo I agree. They would have a higher top end than any car out there. The power to weight ratio is phenominal in these cars. Lower the downforce, lose aero flaps open the drs, put wings with less drag and you will unleash a BEAST

Real life online

@@Dankboi420 yeah but you can only race with people via Ad hoc, Wi-Fi lobbies are not working at the moment

ihatemadmoe 2nd one. The ferrari 2004 was even faster.

+MrStig691 Ehm. Yes it is. More downforce, so faster.

+MrStig691 the 2004 is faster, the 2005 is where performance got restricted (higher front wing, single set of tyres per race), then 2006 got the v8, and 2009 a ban on most of the aero innovations of more than the past decade

+AnarchistMetalhead 2006 was the last year of the V10 engine, 2007 was the first year of the V8, but agree the 2004 cars are the ultimate cars of the F1 era. Glad i lived through it

+gt362gamer agreed most lap records were broken by the 2004 cars, Montoya set the fastest lap ever in 2004 Brazil

The one-set tyre were introduced with only one purpose: to prevent Schumacher/ Ferrari from dominating. Without no-tyre change ruling, very likely that we would not have Alonso as the 2-time world champion. What's worse was the 1-lap qualifying.

Akira 2018 cars were not that much faster than 2002-2005 cars, maybe a 1:02 with similar mistakes gene did

The new cars aren't 6 seconds faster than this car. This is an 03 on full slicks not the 03 grooved tires

@@broshido2745 in race, 2018 cars were not much faster than 2002-2005 f1 cars. And without slicks..., just look in Wikipedia Melbourne 2004 and Melbourne 2018, the best lap in race was in 2004.

dark_slug23 Yeah but one lap they are much faster

@@broshido2745 no, they are just faster in 2004, it's a fact, and with refueling to, and like i said before without slicks. So just put slicks on 2004 f1... and you are faster than in 2018,

eltano06 yeah it's the F2003GA Ferrari with pirelli slicks from this era. pretty weird combination as that car wasn't designed to run on those tires.

DGPF but it should be faster with slicks right?

i thought the same, but they mute it when the actual lap started :)

you should watch the full clip before you start hating.

2 years later, we'll still wating for Christophers comeback.

@@MalminOG He died of embarrassment.

Gustavo Rosas stille better than oval tracks though.:)

Missed a right somewhere...

look at the way it corners it's insane, visibly quicker ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w7BR0gwt46E.htmlm7s he's literally accelerating mid corner

The way it always should have been

David Palleschi they persisted with slicks for 11 seasons, absolute joke

they probably have slicks on there because tyre companies don't actually make grooved tyres anymore!!

Slicks were always better much gripper than any groove tire when it was racing.

It's the F2003GA

VisionWells Whats the difference between an F2003 and an F2003GA???

Julian Barcelon there is no F2003, just F2003GA.

eltano06 That made me laugh. The difference is, one doesn't even exist. lmao!

SynKronized901 "It was a mistake. Get overr it!"

***** it's by design. formula one is so expensive to compete in because of all that great technology, and sadly at current time, you know that only 1-4 drivers can win a formula one race before it starts. US motorsports wants to have more competitors in their series.

wags2010 I definitely agree that Formula 1 tends to be stuck in a relentless cycle where it's always the same one or two teams at any given time winning everything. This year it's Mercedes and Ferrari. A few years back it was Red Bull and McClaren. In the 90s it was Williams or Ferrari. So I see your point. But with the inclusion of gimmicks like KERS and to a greater extent DRS, as well as no pit stop for fuel, we have seen F1 improve. Believe me it used to be a dull, predictable procession so it has got better. U.S racing does have a more purist, driver first type of competition which also has merit. Though my comment about the technology on F1 is valid.

rffgh

Depends on the track and what is called for.... a NHRA top fuel funny car or dragster would leave the F1 car in the dust... and if you went back to the faster days of Indy cars they were faster in a straight line and could corner as fast and only lost out on the brakes because they were using cast iron rotors.

duck Come on, comparing dragsters with f1 is ridiculous. I could counter by saying the British vehicle which holds the world land speed, Thrust SSC, is faster than any dragster. And believe me, no Indy car has ever been quicker around a circuit than an f1 car. An f1 car from 2006 was lapping about 6 seconds a lap quicker than an Indy car at Watkins Glen. As I explained, f1 cars accelerate quicker, have much better aerodynamics and so corner much faster, they brake quicker, change direction quicker, and over a 50, 60, or 70 lap race they would lap an Indy Car at any conventional circuit.