RAC TT Full Race | Revival 2016 

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Regarding putting roofs on Cobras, my guess is that they put fiberglass roofs on the ragtops in order to turn a sports car or roadster into a GT car for the purpose of the rules of this race. You could buy after market removable hard tops for Cobras and Tigers (as well as most ragtops like the XKE roadster) back in the day; but they generally conformed to the soft top lines. These hardtops seem to be shaped more like fastbacks , probably for aerodynamic reasons. Which brings me to my question about this video. I feel like I came in the middle of a movie. I thought this footage was circa 1964, when I never missed an SCCA road race at Watkins Glen , NY. Stingrays, XKEs, 289 Cobras, a must be one of a kind Sunbeam Tiger (Which had Daytona Coupe body work done on it), Ferrari GTOs, etc. But because of the shape of the hard tops and the name of the vid , this must be a vintage car race Am I correct? I never knew there were enough 289 Cobras made to take them racing almost 55 years later.

BUY 1 is now on a BMW X6 - it was actually registered to it less than 2 weeks ago as I write this comment

@@olliebonugli8881 Thanks for the update! Good to see the number in regular use.

Ritchie Raven , not me!

Sure not me !

formula bland?

Sometimes I wants to.

LOL I wants to see it all the time. Don't you wants to?

me too :-)

He bumped the leader, cheap "win". At least the battle for second was clean.

It looks like they touched but there appears to be no body damage? Did 89 bump the cobra's wheel? Hard to see if there where any tell tail damage on the Jag.

I think the jaguar is faulty , you can see the pilot steering to the left for a fraction of a second , did he do it on purpose or not ? One can argue it was to recover from the glide , but i have the feeling he pushed the cobra out ...

At the 1:17 to go mark, the 'E's front wheel definitely twitches left. A necessary adjustment, or a deliberate nudge? I love the Lightweights, but it did look slightly fishy...

These are lightweight or semi lightweight e types putting out 340 bhp. At the 1964 Goodwood TT they were able to beat the Shelby American Inc. Cobra Daytonas

A majority of race tracks are way bigger than Goodwood. That's where the Cobra's power came in handy. Or they were put in the back like the Mustangs and Camaros. I honestly don't know how Goodwood qualifying works, but usually the muscle is at the front, sometimes they use a reverse grid where the Mustangs, Camaros, Falcons, etc. will have to cut through the field.

​@@johncarl5505that's on the Gerry Marshall trophy for later touring cars at the Members' Meeting. This grid is the RAC TT Celebration race at the Revival meeting. And here, the grid is decided by the qualifying times; fastest cars in the front.

@56Stick....Saw your comment before watching this....After watching this race I have to agree with you...This was a really close race ruined by bad sportsmanship at the end.

@@therealmaxspeedster Apparently, you and 56Stick have never raced in competition among gentlemen. I'd say it was unavoidable.

"Gentlemen" don't ram their opponents off the track. EDIT: Just watched highlights of 2017 RAC TT just to check on 56Stick's claim of this dude wrecking people 2 years in a row....2017 was way worse than this...Guy spent most of his race banging his fender into the back of Cobras that he couldn't pass cleanly then finally drove straight through the back of a guy to try and get the lead...He got a 30 sec penalty for that...Should have got DQ'ed...He's gonna kill someone.

Yes E-Types have a thing about Cobras.

@@therealmaxspeedster And "Gentlemen" (cowards, dilettantes) don't win races either. They chicken out and then complain. If you're not willing to go to the edge and stay there you shouldn't be racing.

She's so heavy

Johnnyc drums all original crossplies as they were pre 66

I think it's for the helmet if the driver is tall.

Johnnyc drums purely for racing and aero dynamics, roll cages etc

​@@maudwagner7211also, the aerodynamics were improved by the roof...

plenty of replicas, like David Harts Kirkham Cobra

@@timekeeper6968 His Kirkham car has a black band across the nose. This is a different car

wrong

@@timekeeper6968 Any evidence?

One historic racer once said, that you don't think of the value when you're racing the car, because you're easily the worst driver in the grid if you were to do that.

It's Pre 1966. So the E-Types are 3.8 and the Cobras are 289.

I guess, in modern-day historic racing, not as much... I read somewhere that someone managed to talk to one of the mechanics of the no.89 E Type, and the mechanic told him that the E Type's engine had been tweaked to produce up to 420bhp!

You need to switch to slot cars. Shedden and Lewis are real race drivers, and they keep racing alive, attractive and profitable.

That AC Cobra produces about 150 hp

@@FinTume LOL good one!

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And they should be smoking pipes, no helmets of course and there should be a death every three or four races.

They have the tyres they used to use and also there all stock in terms of power so shut up

@@quinnboy3296 They aren't stock in terms of power at all. The #89 E-Type puts out over 400 bhp.

@@oldlud8971 yh remember in the times these cars race they where not stock