I had no idea there were races for such old cars... I mean, I knew about Goodwood, but didn't know about how old the cars could be (100!!!) . Needless to say, I'm absolutely blown away by the quality of the cars and of the racing.
Wonderful footage of these races at Goodwood. ...ONE SUGGESTION FOR THE EPISODES? i wish they would ADD the "Model / Manufacturer and Model year of the car" in Status Banner... They display the Rank, Drivers name, Car # , and Time differential... There is a LARGE space between the Driver's name and Car # where they could ADD the "Model / Make and Model year of the car" ! - I am surprised they do not do this! ... I wish they would! It's so much about these wonderful old cars ... Someone inform them of this suggestion please?... Again, Thanks again for these wonderful episodes.
Absolutely fantastic racing! To see cars like this, as old as they are, going out and putting on a great show with truly fantastic driving is just mind blowing.
Every time I watch these old cars around Goodwood and listen to those wonderful thumping engines, I get a smile on my face ~ always wanted to go and watch live, must be outstanding sceptical
Although I have no personal knowledge I am assuming that these classic race cars must be worth a small fortune. To take them out and actually use them as intended, for the public to see, I think is commendable.
Yes, that is true. Thankfully, cad cam and incredibly advanced 3-D printing technology makes custom built parts something that is readily available to all. Sometimes, new things benefit old things. That's a good thing. ;-) But what a great race. I really got a kick out of watching it. Although there were the obvious crowd favorites I found myself rooting for each and every car as I didn't want to see any harm come to any of them. Great entertainment.
That Delage is simply magnificent. So smooth, refined and powerful, and clearly a wonderful machine to drive. These upstart cycle-cars aren't even comparable!
Apparently Mark Walker's tires are better brakes than his drums. It seems like he ran into problems late in the race, though. Great race, wonderful machines.
That's right, that's right, it's so much better when the cars aren't consistent, they are miles apart from one another, there are few overtakes, there are massive differences between the cars, and the drivers sportingly wave each other through! It's soooo exciting the slow pace and incompetitivity!
Listen to "B Bumble & the Stingers... Bumble Boogie" on another tab while watching this video with the sound on this video turned down or off. It's perfect!
I still hope that a good video game company can make a racing game of vintage eras. But it would have to be done properly, with unique engine sounds for each car, accurate handling etc. and the tracks should be of the period and not a modern looking track that would ruin the immersive experience.
It would really be nice if it would be a soft sim game, kinda like wreckfest where it is good for people on keyboard, it couldn't be a hardcore game because the audience might be too small when facing big titles like Forza Horizon, which does have an early Bugatti. I would personally like a game where we could simply put aeroplane engines into cars then race them, kinda like most of these as well as the BMW Brutus.
I just discovered this channel. WOW!! How nice it is to see these classics race. How fast are they going? Are there any rules that make them govern their top speeds?
In case you are wondering why they have so much positive chamber on the front wheels. It's because the handling with those tyres and suspensions was so awful that the cars oversteered dangerously, so they added massive positive chamber to induce understeer.
I think the initial reason for the positive camber was due to the typical narrow roads back then being very...well, cambered :-). They litterally rode on the crown of the road. Positive front wheel camber on a cambered road makes steering easier - horse-drawn carriages also had lots of positive camber, often on both axles. But you are correct in that positive camber on the front offsets some of the oversteering tendencies simply by destroying grip at the front, but back in the day with near-circular section high-pressure tyres on gravel roads I don't think that aspect would have made a huge difference.
For those who can't get enough of this car, and wanted to see it racing, here's a link that could help; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GUpFOO9Rows.html the car that eventually finished third is the very same car in the video, driven by the same driver... though My absolute favourite car is in the video, it's the one who won the race...
I love how that fiat has more displacement in one cylinder than i have in all of my 3 cars combined (5.9 liter split over a 2.3l inline 4 turbo, 2.0l inline 4 turbo and 1.6l inline 4 naturally aspirated) also funny that my 1996 2.3l volvo 940 makes more power than that 28.4 liter fiat. but to be fair, my volvo is like 80 years newer so quite a bit more sofisticated.
