Leh Keen behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 R at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring, just prior to a nine-hour red flag stop to racing due to poor conditions.
"welcome to the salty spittoon how tough are ya" "how tough am I? I once drove at Nürburgring in the nighttime." "yeah so" "while it was raining" "uuhhh right this way, sorry to keep you waiting"
This is like... THE dream...The dream drive of every car fanatic out there. What we witnessed was a man making love to his car; fully tuned in to the track and its limits. Skill, precision, finesse and a WHOLE lotta balls.
This guy really is a little bit crazy, but more than that, he walks on water... The real rainmaster. He just simply overtakes everyone that is still alive lol. And those slides at 7:37 and 7:52 ... like its nothing. And the last straight at 9:00, good lord.
I can't imagine driving a GT3 R on the ring at full-tilt, let alone in the rain at night. That car is always secretly planning the death of its driver.
He was pushing it in the rain but was very smooth on the acceleration and braking and downshifting. If he was really all out full tilt this video would be a couple minutes shorter.
@@nidhishshivashankar4885 I think depth perception is also a part of it, like you can identify things more easily if you have 3D vision rather than 2D video. I've had 6 years of driving experience since that comment haha
+Bad Dallas Drivers because professionals constantly train the correct way and correct all subtle deviations to correctly fix all problems before they get too out of control w/o losing much desired position like how people balance on a tightrope
How to turn this video from great, to Fucking Awesome: 1) Pause this video at 00:24 2) Open a new tab on RU-vid and enter: /watch?v=0hyGM3uyzQc 3) Play both at the same time. It should sync perfectly. 4) Enjoy!
Great Idea FPSguy2 and GothaRsk I featured that on my Motorsport Blog splash-and-dash.de/2015/01/30/matrix-soundtrack-passt-perfekt-zu-on-board-aufnahmen/
I would use GT3 Racecar and Nordschleife to kill all my enemies 1 by 1 because they are alll scared from fast cars that just go from 0 km/h to 100 km/h. So 1 lap Nordschleife will be enough for them to die from heart attack. Actually just a few corners is also enough.
Seven years later this video still gives me goosebumps. Excellent driving style by Leh Keen. I still remember how we cold it was at our tent at Galgenkopf.
Carl Edwards defeated Michael Schumacher in the Race of Champions. In the past when Nascar ran on road courses, team owners would hire so called "Ringers" to drive the cars. Ringers were drivers like Gurney, Donahue or Villeneuve. Nowadays the ringers are almost a thing from the past. Very rarely you will see a ringer in a Nascar. Even more rarely you will see them win races. Ringers like Ambrose, Montoya and Almendinger, while they are very competitive at road courses, they still haven't won a oval race at Nascar, simply because it is a total different kind of racing.
bowelrupture It is different, but no current pure NASCAR driver wouldn't be able to do what Keen did in the video and that's the point, no one says, that there aren't very very talented drivers in NASCAR, but without long practising (actually real learning how to drive competetivly on the racing level), they wouldn't be able to do it.
SRAMEK I would love to have drivers like Jeff Gordon, Juan Pablo Montoya, Tony Stewart, Jamie McMurray, Marcos Ambrose, Jimmie Johnson or Robbie Gordon take a VLN car and take some time at the Nordschleife.
INCREDIBLE!! I think this is the best onboard-video I've seen so far! I was sitting behind my screen and leaning into the corners, anticipating oversteer and so on, I never had that before. I didn't know about Leh Keen, haven't seen him in the European GT-scene yet (maybe LeMans but I'm not sure) but someone who flies sideways over the hill at Pflanzgarten II (in 5th gear!) certainly knows what he's doing. Fantastic job! Great driving, Great video! Thank you Leh Keen and thanks to "drive"
This will more than likely forever be my favorite racing driver POV video on RU-vid. Absolute madness. You can’t even see where the track is! This is pure track memorization perfection at its finest!
I edited this video 11 years ago in a hotel room at Frankfurt airport after Leh gave me the footage. Still absolutely bonkers / amazing to watch a decade later.
wow, this is just Jaw dropping amazing, from the 5 minute mark i was biting my nails, from the 8 minute mark on i almost fell to the floor! simply gorgeous piece of driving!
It's not the kind of onboard video I've saved to my Onboards playlist of Nordschleife tutorials, but it was still a very serious, it can be said surreal experience to watch what it's like to be a racing driver and be given the most difficult task of all: to drive on it is inherently one of the most difficult tracks in the world, at night+ pouring rain, so with zero visibility on a rain-soaked tarmac, so in almost impossible track conditions, still trying to drive at a competitive pace.
There isn't an F1 driver currently that could do what this guy is doing! Sportscar drivers are the real thing! Unbelievable lap, full opposite lock in 5th gear over a crest my heart jumped
@@Robsphotographync I so much wish I could, but there was no camera running anymore in the night… But it was remarkable in any case. We gained roughly 100 places up until red flag (starting initially close to the end as part of the slowest class). Of course not gaining that many places by overtaking within that stint, but also because many had left their cars in the boxes already when things started to get really nasty. But some faster cars were also beaten… ;-) But there were also not too many cars I lost places to either ;-) I guess a roughly four digit number of ring laps helps when the sight gets close to 50 m. It was funny to see which cars overtook on Döttinger Höhe whom before I showed the way around the circuit before the straight - yet with most of them to be caught up again latest until Flugplatz ;-)
@@afrozen10-02 It feels a little like dancing on a razor blade as fast as possible, knowing the shortest inattentiveness will hurt. Tense on a scale 1 to 10? Probably a 12-13 with Adrenalin to the max :-)
I can't believe the amount of grip over the rest of the cars he passed.:0 @7:50 the slide downhill at 160kp/h is smooth and calm, awesome just awesome. Rainmasters around the world, Leh Keen you are well amongst them.
They're not emergency lights. During this race there are multiple classes, the blue light is to indicate to other drivers that this car is in a "fast class" - this way they know there is no point racing them. The cars aren't pulling over, they're simply getting out of the way.
It's not the gears effecting the sound of the engine, that whine is the gears themselves. In a normal car the gears are helical cut so they are quiet as possible. These gears are straight cut. Some manuals have a straight cut reverse, that's why they whine when backing up, but not going forward. You can also hear a lot of backlash when he let's off the throttle.
He is not checking for traction, he is correcting and recovering from slides and loss of traction. He is constantly fighting to keep the car on the track!
Driving for two hours is not easy, let alone a full day of endurance racing: seems like drinking water from the couch on tv, but a huge amount of concentration is needed. Some drivers prefer to put a mini map to remember a critical turn, or to focus on points where the car has a particular reaction, or maybe they just want to have some kind of reference. Drivers have not super-powers, they are humans and even a small map can be very helpful in critical conditions like in this video.
In addition you can shift much more quickly. There's no way a set of synchronizers can handle the stresses of a race. Instead, a driver will 'blip' the throttle for downshifts to sync the engine speed with the transmission speed. Also, transmission whine is typically the loudest noise inside a racecar.
yeah you´re right, because for the marshals is impossible to show blue flags in every second two days before the race there is a qualifying with 190 cars the top 40 cars get the blue lights and do another qualifying for starting positions the day before the race
6:40 Wow, that moment when oblivious Porsche driver nearly cuts him off. And then two major slides and saves right after, followed by 250 kph down the Döttinger Höhe with such poor visibility... Insane.
+Juzh123 F1 is open cockpit and a lot lighter and lower, so it's easier to tell where everything is and when you're losing the rear. It also has significantly more downforce. This guy is driving the full Nurburgring circuit (F1 doesn't do that) while having to safely lap significantly slower cars (F1 lap time difference is ~5s a lap from Mercedes to Manor) and keeping his own pace strong and conserving tires/fuel. This is all happening many hours into the race, when driver fatigue becomes a major factor. I'm not saying F1 is easy, but this guy deserves mad respect imo.
+Mark Wray Agree with most of what you said except the visibility. These WEC guys have wipers and a clear visor, while drivers in F1 have major visibility issues in the rain due to spray. Drivers often say they cant see.
+Juzh123 F1 cars can't do 340, in the dry, let alone in the rain. And here everyone jumps out of the way because the speed difference between categories is huge. There was a Peugeot 208 at some point. And 250 is uphill in a GT3 car with no visibility. That is amazing.
The fact there's more pros these days makes it cooler. Put it this way - you wouldn't seen an amateur putting in a performance like Maxime Martin did, and that's for damn sure. Most the amateurs were throwing it at the scenery on lap one.
This is very, very impressive, but probably semi-authentic. The camera is not the eye. He was probably able to keep his eyes on the track while the camera was shaking like crazy. Eyes can move. ^^ Still...mad skills!
What would it take to adjust the transmission shift speed? I'm sure the E60 M5 had such a device - so I reckon N24 should allow and incorporate them. A more gradual power delivery would be better in these conditions.
Raw as it gets, but still such a gentle throttle management and precise steering input... Hands down, one of the best racing videos, ever! Thanks for sharing! I'd advise anyone who loves this, to also look up the "classic" promotional footage of RUF CTR's "Yellow Bird", driven by Stefan Roser in the same circuit, 30 years before: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MzH_Y-ytRmI.html You're welcome :)
i'm new to watching motorsport so I'm not familiar with other.. uh... classes, for lack of a better word. Any recommendations for what to watch other than F1?
to race the 24 hour of nurburgring is truly a dream for me. if i died racing here, i'd have died one happy man, and the world could say, "he had no regrets but failed love."
That was amazing, and to think how more time you had to do that before the red flag!! Thank go for paddle shift!! Stuff letting ur hands of the wheel in that condition
Id like to have him as my driving instructor. I mean , it is hard to drive with so much water, it's even harder to do it on the Nordschleife because of the twists , the narrow track and the other cars, and it is even harder to do it in an Rwd Rear engined beast. Just look how hard and how many times he corrects his steering input.
Love this DRIVING! I followed a link posted on FORZA MOTORSPORT to get here. Wow! Did you notice the FORZA Motorsport Racing Logo on the cars dash board... I did. So looking forward to FORZA 5 on the next generation XBOXONE Console out by Christmas 2013. Everyone one is hoping and it is looking like weather will be included and Turn-10 will do their 5 Star best to make the tires weather traction as close to real as possible like they did for dry tack conditions. Best driver, drives a Porsche
