It’s a classics race people, nobody is pushing their car real hard for safety and insurance/pocketbook/rarity reasons..he never goes full throttle this entire race..there are short video stints where he does and it honestly looks scary even from the camera view how fast it accelerates and eats that M1 for lunch
you can net beat detroit power,, American V8,s are better engines than ferarri and porsche and more reliable,, i just wish they put them in smaller cars for racing like this.
Not sure why he isn't using this car to its FULL potential. He's only using half the engine this thing has. That thing has WAY more in it than this. It's like he's out for a leisurely Sunday cruise. lol 🤷🏼♂️ Awesome car though.
Classic races are really not all out competition, it’s for fun and show…this car is Godzilla on the straights for sure, but the vaping moms mini-van driving crowd would have their egos Crushed on the way home From their job at game spot if he went all out…so here we are.
WHY IS HE TURNING EVEN IN THE LITTLE CORNERS THAT U CAN ENTER ALMOST STRAIGHT FORWARD?????? HE CAN BE PRO AND ALL THE SHIT U WANT BUT THATS NOT A PROPER RACE DRIVING.
It's no problem with him, it's the car. This car performed horribly the one year it competed in Le Mans, which I believe was something like '74 or '75. It came straight out of NASCAR and, though it was faster in the straights than most GTs, it couldn't turn fo shizzle.
MiniOne82 Despite the natural limitations of a Nascar vehicle (when compared to the others), it seems to me the driver could be a little more brave. Maybe he was too concerned about the integrity of the Dodge, which was a mistake...
This is a classic race, these guys are driving very rare and very expensive cars and trying to put on a show, none of them were driving hard. If he had actually driven this car to its full potential he'd be running over 200 on the long straights, flat out with no turns this thing would eat m1s for breakfast lol. This gen of charger became well known in Nascar for the incredible speed they'd carry on super speedways, they're fairly slick as far as aero.
@@iloverush123 In the real race in 1976, this was not the case. The charger ended up with dnf possibly because of wrong fuel usage which kill it's engine. I believe that the 71-72 Plymouth body is a little more aerodynamic than the charger, they could have put that to race as well.
@@sayakpal3428 they didn't do well exactly bc of the fuel, you're right, however, this is not that car. This car has roughly the same power but is using a 426 hemi built to run on modern fuels, not 83 octane. The originals were wedge head 426s built for this but they couldn't get the compression low enough iirc. The Plymouth was slick, but this was the last gen of the fuselage b body, which is why they were used for so long in Nascar bc the next gen charger/magnum/Mirada was about as aerodynamic as a brick and there really was no way to make those competitive short of a reskin. As far as weight, it's as light as it was gonna get per Nascar rules and probably their rules too so not much to be done there.
@@iloverush123 Yeah, you've well expounded it. And you're right, the 75-78 chargers and roadrunners are no race cars. I just saw some photos of 1976 le mans, it seems like the charger was a 71-72 body unlike this one.
