This car is so well designed and so perfectly set up that the driver looks like he's out for a Sunday cruise. So smooth and clean. No thrashing around and fighting the thing at all. Beautiful machine driven with real skill.
@@guyvanbrussel9772 He really does have a clue how to downshift properly. When he out-brakes the Porsche into the last two corners before the start/finish straight, he has to grab a few downshifts very quickly, while braking harder & later than normal. Plenty of times while racing, things just have to happen as needed, not necessarily flawlessly. And he's smooth, his steering inputs are very calm & measured. That is very difficult in an incredibly intense handling & hugely powerful car.
Really nice to see someone give this fantastic car some welly! All kudos to the driver, the way he set up that passing manoeuvre after Les Combes where he held it to the wrong side knowing it would give him the inside run down to Bruxelles and get the next 2 cars. Just lovely.
That driver, Giovanni Lavaggi is an Italian nobleman. He drove in 10 F1 Grands Prix ( as a pay-driver who put money into the team) but was never able to get anywhere near the car's limits, he was decribed as desperately slow by F1 driver Jonathan Palmer in TV commentary. It just shows how hard F1 is.
That was amazing to watch and listen to! Now if only there was a similar video of someone driving a Porsche 917 or Ferrari 512 like that....with good audio.
go watch Bellof, Bell and some other german classics from the 1000 km races in the 70s and 80.....that is REAL action.....and they burn of the italian "competion" there is some video onboards here on youtube....
I just knew he’d get to the chicane first. You CANNOT beat the sound of a 12 cylinder Ferrari. Damn I wanted to see him lap everyone, which he probably did on lap 3.
QUESTION; what causes the undulating fun-house-mirror effect in the image? I've seen it in all kinds of in-car racing videos, especially multi-thousand horsepower dragsters. My best guess is that it's caused by the high energy ignition system intefering with the video camera's electronic circuitry.
Different class of car and most technically up to date car there. It's no wonder he's pulling and passing on them , put him with a group of equivalent wsc cars from the era or newer Lemans prototypes and current cars and it won't be outclassing the other cars like this. The 333sp is one of my favorites of all time
