He thought it was just another usual day at le mans. Tyres gets punctured, cars colliding into each other, fuel sprayed everywhere, feet get run over, and so on and so on... lmao
Ah yes the race that was so weird that a Group C Porsche wearing a badly fitting GT1 costume won the race, and Toyota began their infamous streak of bottling it at the 23rd hour
@Yirlani Seeing these verified accounts a lot on comment sections. It's some kind of exploit probably involving bots that they're using to get their channels recognised. As if comment sections weren't already enough of a shit show.
The commentator was also talking about how the regulations of that year limited the tire width of the cars. Might be why some cars went out of control or blew a tire
It was not unusually hot but hotter than normal, we were around 27/28°c when the temps are around 20/21°c in june, the first time my dad took me to the track, got a heat stroke...
@@bryncubberley8898 That's Keichii Tsuchiya. Remember later on in the clip there's this NA1 NSX-R GT2 that clipped the apex too hard and nearly ran into the F355 while correcting that mistake? That's Keichii Tsuchiya at the wheel. He even won his class the next year in a vehicle that's almost the same as this. The one and ONLY dori-dori.
@@PedroKing19 Yes sir he participated in All Japan Touring Car Championship (Group A), 24 hours of Le Mans, even NASCAR events at Suzuka and Twin Ring Motegi. The list goes on and on.
@@raptorne1 well 2 things this was 1994 second thing. These are mechanics they need to move fast. I have a pair of safety shoes and they are bulky and heavy. Maybe there are specific motorsport shoes. But this was 1994 😂😂😂
a co-worker's brother was crushed to death by his car while he was fixing something underneath, and the car was kept elevated on the jacks. Getting under so many kilos has always given me a lot of respect. It's a bit scary that anything will fail.
it's not really a parade lap, those guys are low on fuel and/or on worn tires, waiting for the clock to go to 0:00 so they can end the race, this still happens occasionally in endurance races with several classes. still haven't found a solution afaik.
@@jonnie2bad that sounds like a simple solution but it isn't. how do you recognize who's going slow when it isn't blatantly obvious? Are you going to compare laptimes? What if the car has a mechanical failure, and how could you erase doubts, would you take their car and go for more laps after the race? What if people start ramming teammates to have a reason (damage) to slow down? What if people start bruising walls? How can you even decide what kind of damage is enough to slow down and what isn't? When your tire pressures drop you should slow down to avoid blowing a tire which would cause more danger on the track than simply driving slow, but now you could actually program your computers to give false readings to allow you to slow down because of check engine lights... I guess this just shows what F1, Nascar and so on are about, the teams just constantly try to dodge the rules and the race officials constantly have to create new rules to ban whatever the teams are doing. It's much more complex than it looks.
Venturi: the Ferrari of the early 90s. At least when it comes to Le Mans. But getting in the way of the car you already hit TWICE for a third time is just ridiculous.
Wild hearing some of the names. Eddie Irvine went onto F1, was Michael Schumacher's first teammate at Ferrari. Jeff Krosnoff, co-driving with Irvine, died in a crash in the Toronto Indy GP in 1996. Ol Hurley Haywood just doing his thing. Stephane Ratel! He basically runs GT racing these days. And how many times can some 'Venturi' cars cause problems in a single race? Jfc. RIP Corvette mechanic's toes.
I like to imagine this all happens in the last 5 minutes of the race and its just the announcer getting run ragged switching between one inept situation to another.
Killed in an accident eerily similar to Dombreck's in 1998, only his was an Indy Car (not a good combination, especially with wire fence all around). Killed a marshall as well, I believe.
Heh, that's Stephane Ratel as in the guy that founded SRO and looks after most of the world's GT racing series these days. Oh, and that's Keiichi Tsuchiya getting a massage in the next shot!
35 seconds in is Keiichi Tsuchiya, also known as the godfather of drifting, he was racing an NSX in the GT category. One of the best Japanese drivers ever.
@@anthonypoltes7413He still was part of many Le Mans lineups and nearly even won it in 1999 overall, on top of his GT2 win a few years before, there's better drivers that have come from Japan but I'd say Tsuchiya is probably one of the best.
Its goddamn LeMans there's practically V8 supercars in traffic with almost F1 cars. The mirrors are not a suggestion. Venturi driver was probably griefing like a sulky Frenchman is wont to do.
No fins, no hybrids. I won't be returning to Le Mans unless the ACO puts this in it's rules. I'm sick of watching pig ugly advertising boards with their insipid hybrid engines at La Sarthe. I had hoped hypercar would be a return to proper racing cars but Toyota appear to have already ruined that prospect with a 'hypercar' that is barely distinguishable from their recent LMP cars.
@@bigmoncrief6071 well look at what peugeot released today with pics of the 9x8 hypercar that has no wings. Sure toyota went the safe way, but other manufacturers are doing some really weird out of the box stuff. So dont give up hope yet
holy shit that guy in the venturi getting out on a active track, im fairly certain there is a big rule about never getting out of a car on a active race track since there's been a few incidents over the years
It was apporachable. Group C especially, the rules were so open that you could find just about any engine you can think of, racing there. Thats why it was so incredibly popular. Some steps are being made, but I wish we could go back to how open Group C was
i miss the days when the chassis & bodywork is this various. i mean, Mazda 787B, Toyota GT-ONE, Jaguar XJR12D, Porsche 917, Merc CLK GTR, Nissan R92CP are different even when you look at it from afar.
I see that AF Corse's Ferraris of recent years were inspired by the Venturi cars. Good to know you can always count on one group of GT drivers to inject some arcade game hazards into real life racing.
Imagine driving those cars though, pushing your car to it’s absolute limit, shifting gears like your life depends on it, sounds like all I could ask for in life.
I was researching about the races for the WSC in 94. But there is none. The WSC disbanded in 92. They just invited a bunch of manufacturers to the 94 Le Mans.
