The Corvette That Took on the World... and Won! 

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That yellow and black paint scheme is still so iconic for me.

The C5R is the car that got me into this type of racing. Back when they didn't just show NASCAR and Drag Racing on TV.

One of the craziest, best sounding and fastest GT1 and GT3 cars of all time as a german, i miss the Corvettes on the Nordschleife. Bring them back. Aswell the Vipers and Panoz monsters.

My friend's brother bought a C5R from a team in Belgium and I was there for the initial fire-up @ his Corvette Repair shop in Mtn View, CA....It was still in full FIA race specifications with a shockingly long procedure to start & warm up the engine. The FIA mandated 27mm(?) restrictor orifices were still in place on the race motor....Also the Carbon Brakes. There was a group of people there from Pratt & Miller and Katech to train on the systems of the car. Sadly he never was able to truly enjoy the C5R as he had a tragic medical diagnosis a few months after buying that piece of history. He had another Corvette race car that you overlooked that also competed @ Le Mans the 1968 L-88 Corvette had a couple of decent showings @ LeMans....RIP Jim H.....You were an amazing guy who accomplished quite a bit in your lifetime.

I was blessed to hear that Katech 7.0L V8 on the C5R when I was young kid. The thundering roar of that engine YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IT.

Interesting note about Dale Jr's crash at Sonoma; *To this day* Dale says his memory of the moments immediately following the car bursting into flame are that a lone brave track marshal reached into the inferno and pulled Jr to safety. This isn't what happened. Video does show a marshal getting to Jr and guiding him away from the car to the medical team...but Dale gets out of the car on his own. He believes he sustained an undiagnosed concussion during an earlier round of the NASCAR Cup Series that was aggravated by this crash.

The Corvette and Viper some of my favourite cars in Grand Turismo

I always remember one Top Gear when they tested the latest Corvette against the newest TVR. It was all “ohh, this destroys it in a straight line, it’s almost 1000 pounds lighter, and unlike the Corvette, this one can handle”. And then the Corvette blitzes it by something like 6 seconds around the lap.

Great presentation as always. As an aside, it’s bizarre to me that people actually get upset with the fact that different cultures have different accents and pronounce words differently.

Corvettes sometimes get made fun of, but dude the platform of C6 and C7 is incredible.

Can’t wait for the C6R video. The car that was so successful it made multiple other competitors back out of AMLS

Gosh I love the sound of a roaring American V8! Sounds like a godly beast. The Compuware Yellow Corvette is an iconic GT race car that I'll never forget. Edit: That's amazing, I had no idea that the C5R was piloted by the Earnhardts. What a legend!

Ok. We need a video on the S7 and S7R these videos are amazing

I have an old C4 and love to drive it. it's not as flashy as the later generations, but still damned fun to drive.

To put in perspective the time the Corvette came out Eisenhower was president, USS Enterprise still existed as more than a Star trek name. The interstate highway system had yet to exist. Daytona speedway was 6 years away.

I remembered this iconic 2000 Corvette C5R in Gran Turismo 3 A Spec and R:Racing Evolution.... On Gran Turismo 3, it even can battle Rin Hoshizora's R390GT1 LM 1998 with proper tuning!

Legend. That is one way to describe it. Color scheme should be called Championship Yellow. The C5R set the standard for Corvette's racing pedigree. In 2023 a Texan, Dutchman, and Argentine conquered the world in a C8R with two races left in the season. Also winning in class at the Centenary 24hrs of Le Mans also helps.

When the U.S Manifested into a car.

Its all about that sound as its flies by!

Man, just as I was searching for a video to watch during lunch, the video comes out. Brilliant.

The C5.R ran so the C6.R could fly

Corvette in 🇫🇷: "WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRRRR" 🦅🦅🦅🦅🍔🍔🍔🍔🚀🚀🚀🚀

Ron Fellows is a certified bad ass

Not here to harp on Aluminum vs Aluminium, but rather to say that Katech is pronounced kay-tech. They’re such legends they deserve the respect

That shot of old school Road Atlanta is awesome. That place has come such a long way since then.

I have a C5 Hardtop 6 spd and I love taking it to VIR and Mid-Ohio. Great track car, have had a ton of fun in it.

The C5r was amazing, but it would have been legend if Dale Sr didnt pass away in '01, he was absolutely falling in love with team ownership AND sportscar racing! I could see a world where Dale Sr's DEI team became the Penske of GM and his team's Cadillacs racing at Le Mans, god we were all so robbed!!!!

When the C5R showed up we basically said to everyone shut up and suck my exhaust. Appreciate the love from across the pond brother.

FINALLY! A video on the Corvette C5-R! My personal favorite GT car and one of my favorite sounding for sure.

Ah the good days of Gran Turismo 3.

We're gonna need a video on that Ferrari. I had heard of that 550 GT car but never knew just how quick they were off the bat or that they decided not to contest unexpectedly.

Watching that GTP turn in SO suddenly between 1:21 and 1:26 hurts my eyes every time. Those cars must have been incredibly pointy. You can literally see the MOMENT the steering wheel moves, the entire nose of the car just GOES. Also, as someone who was born and raised in the Motor City, it's Kay-tek. Not Kah-tek. :P Pratt and Miller, Katech, Kinsler (famous for his ITBs in Indycar), and so many other huge racing shops and tuners are within an hour of Metro Detroit. It's a highly underrated motorsport haven.

Any videos on the Saleen S7R. That car is highly underrated. Hardly ever mentioned in both street in racing terms

Still have a big ol 1 18 of the 2001 Corvette #3 that raced the 24H of Daytona..its .the weathered race version Miss you Dale ..... i watched that race ..actually made an still have 4 VHS tapes ...It took 4 brand new vcr tapes at the time lol 4 Tapes ! I still have them an work just fine ..Good ol Speed vision i belive .

c5 race car from Gturismo brought me here 👍👍😍😍

Cheers, mate! One of my all-time favourite race cars - seen the shot with the two C5.R's crossing the finish line at Le Mans in 2001? It had rained a lot that Le Mans, and those two, otherwise beautiful chrome yellow Vettes, were dirty like pigs 😁

I miss my ‘04 C5 so much. It was my first manual car, I got it at the end of 2020, and I only got to keep it 1 year before full transmission failure.

I still remember getting this car in Gran Turismo 4 when I was a kid. This thing is absolutely legendary. It's so iconic, and it awesome to see that it's not just iconic to Americans.

I love the C5-R since first seeing (and more improtantly hearing) them at Le Mans in 2000! 24 years later I now own a C5 - ambition fulfilled!

Saleen S7R is just a GOD of sportscar. Steve Saleen is ummm. Not someone I'd go out of my way to have a beer with, but dang. That car....

In the case of the Corvette - Win on Sunday, Wear tall white socks and short pants on Monday

The C5 Corvette, the road car, got a lot of flak from the European automotive press (hurr hurr leaf spring suspension) but it was a very advanced car. Front mid engine, rear transaxle, perfect weight distribution, more rigid yet lighter than the competition, and the LS engine is a legendary thing people are still building today. My car has a highly modified example that makes 800 horsepower on low boost.

My favourite was the C6.R but I loved these too. I miss the front engine yellow Vettes so much. ❤

Amazing vid. as always! I love all your stuff and have watched every single vid (I think). But if I could make a suggestion: Would it be possible to display the actual year of the topic you're talking about up the corner at all times? I find I lose track sometimes!

I may be wrong because I'm still getting into looking at them, but I believe all engines called LS1 were 5.7L and a 6.0 liter would be an LS2 (or a few others, but those aren't aluminum so they wouldn't be the one he's talking about)

Awesomely done as always. An idea for the next video would be the ALMS BMW M3 GTR or the TVR Cerbera Speed 12

Every once in a while, america has to show europe that we know how to turn right.

We got a couple P&M built C5R's in British GT, remember them being some of the best sounding cars of the time

Awesome video! I have a suggestion, could you do videos on the Corvette C6.R, the Saleen S7R, and the Callaway Corvette's that raced before the C5.R that you mentioned earlier on in the video.

I love that you teasippers always have to comment on us saying it The Right Way it's really quaint and I have to appreciate it.

So pretty much, The C5R couldn’t beat the viper until manufacture support was severed. As legendary as this car is, it is a 2nd place project at the end of the day. I’d choose ORECA’s GTS Viper every time

Team Aluminium! And I live in the US... but I'm European :D I have a C5R model 1:18 scale model, and the C5 is still one of my favorite Corvettes of all times!

C5R andd viper GTSR are iconinc

that was perhaps the most tasteful mobile game advert I’ve ever seen Also, FEEL THE AMERICAN THUNDER! There is no replacement for displacement!

These videos are the highlight of watching RU-vid. Thank you for all your hard work.

Saw a red C5 the other day and also a C5R replica road legal build someone made, very cool cars!

As a American, I appreciate that you said aluminum correctly

The C5R, to me, is one of the best looking cars of all time.

The C4 was really the first Corvette to break away from it's wishy washy older siblings. It was Banned from SCCA because it beat everything in the circuit. Through Callaway's Secret Sauce the C4 Was arguably the first full production "Hyper Car" as well. GM took everythign they had learned from the C4 and baked it into the C5.

Thx for being an actual human doing their own work . Thx for the content 🤘🏻🏁

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As much as I do like the Corvette... ...seems that if Dodge hadn't dropped, this story would be vastly different.

Thank you for this video. A great story of a true modern motorsport powerhouse.

Great work, C5 is my favorite generation, clean and sleek design.

I’ve been waiting for a vid from you! I love everything you make man!

Loved using this car in gran turismo 3

Thanks!

One of the few home-grown racing efforts I as an Murican don't have to follow trepidatiously waiting for the engine to grenade itself after 3 laps assuming Wade Wankerson III doesn't Leeroy Jenkins the thing into the damn wall or finish in 365th place behind Scuderia G-Wiz. Great stuff as usual. I would absolutely LOVE a Saleen S7 vid!

Your content is amazing and you definetly deserve a bigger audience❤

I dated a girl whos father owned a saleen S7 twin turbo, at 160mph the car made so much downforce it could drive upside down.

WHAT AN AMERICAN LEGEND 👏

This and that badass Camaro zl1 from the Garage 56 leman entry are so damned good looking, so gnarly, America, fuck yeah!

Let us not forget that Prodrive managed to give the Corvette C5-R Proper competition...while having NO factory support from Ferrari whatsoever. I cannot think of another instance where that has happened since (Closest I can think of is the Reiter Engineering Lamborghinis, but it wasn't nearly on the same level of success Or even production of said cars).

Ol viper just couldn’t hang

You should natke stories about more recent and modern cars for once like the Audi R8, The Huracan, Ferrari 499P, etc

The yellow paint with black rear is not on the same level of finesse and advertisement as Lancia, Toyota, Porsche, BMW and many other factory teams brandished in other racing series at the time. But if there ever was a paint scheme that says it means business, this on the C5 was it.

Excellent retrospect!

dont matter who you is or where you from, gotta like a corvette

When viper out is where corvette could shine

Remember when the twin turbo Callaway Corvette "Sledgehammer" that held the title of Fastest Production Car from 1988 to 1999 with a 255 mph top speed? I sure do. Especially when I look at my own Callaway Corvette

When America puts effort into racing, they win. It’s that simple

Man that company knows your demographic! Didn't know how many times i was watching group c and thinking that fishing was something i wanted to get into. /S But anyway. Congrats on getting that ad money my guy you deserve it.

I wanted to buy a skyline living in Idaho thought it would be cool and then I realized Corvette basically have the same tail lights so as long as you're winning, nobody can tell

Love your work man keep it up

The c6r is my favorite Corvette race car but the c6r is an icon

The Corvette on Le Mans was iconic, last couple of years it was just another ordinairy car with a boring V6.

It's strange how Chrysler/Dodge has never built an LMP car.

Hod I miss the manufacturer wars between the big 3. Back when the industry had some balls still

Definitely have to do the GT40/GT now

You gotta credit motorweek

Dale Jr. At Sonoma/Sears Point was claimed by him to have been caused by him slipping on his own fuel, that being said he was the only one to make the claim, Honestly I was there working as a Timing and Scoring Offical, my Father and Sister were both Flagger/Communicators out on the corners, there was no evidence of any fluids coming from that car especially just prior to the accident, if you ask me Dale was afraid of that car or that car on that Track, he had been doing poorly in the sessions prior to the crash and his big issues were in the Carousel and in the Esses...

Put your foot in that big corvette and rotate the earth.

corvette greenwood 1976 le mans is another corvette race car, but i dont know if it prefomed well in racing.

I sense a Saleen S7 R video being in production

Funny thing, the vette price is the least extravagant of any its competitors

We spell it differently which most people who complain about how we say it as there is one less I.

Well done video

Could you talk about the panoz ?

So what i heard was, the c5.r became what it was only because the viper lost its support and backing from the manufacturer..