For those who don't know, car transmission gears are helical so they are waaay more quite, what you're hearing is each individual tooth of each gear hitting thr next one on the gear it touches and that makes alot of noise in the vid, its basically spur gears like in lego sets
What a heck of a driver, first class skill right there, I love how aggressive he was even from the start, he was not taking loss as a possible outcome for sure hahaha
The sound of the transmission was cool. But you have to admit, the guy driving and the car being driven were definitely the class of the field. That was more impressive to me than the sound.
IIRC, he actually qualified first but had a tire blow out on the way back to the pits. Since he put on new tires, he was forced to start in the back. I believe he won the race.
It looks like this guy OWNS this circuit. As in literally owns it. Yes his car appears to be faster than most of the others, but clearly he knows every single corner and straight as well - Every single line was perfect, anticipation of what the other drivers were doing was flawless and the overtakes were pure class.
That's really something I don't like about modern stuff like DSG's and other computer controlled gearbox/clutches. They sound like a bloody bus' automatic transmission!
I like the blip blip downshift sound just as much as the wowowah up shift sound... Like a symphony. I could listen to this shit to fall asleep like old people with ocean sounds
@@CAL1MBO Yup. How many influencers out here are trashing Hellcats and Ferrais on the regular? Driving on city roads in a straight line is a diffrent ballgame then pushing it on a track. And that driver had some impressive command of the car and hit every apex fast each time. Its the driver, not the car.
I cant believe I only found this now! The way the gearbox whine intensifies with the speed and the shifting while he destroys the field... Words cannot describe... Damn! It is so good...
I was pretty confused at first since I shift based on engine sound and the sound got loader when he shifted up. I then realized it was the titled transmission. The reverse acoustic feedback still hits hard.
@CannedCoochie I mean that usually the dominant sound in a car is the engine and it gets louder with high speeds in low gears (high rpm). But here the transmission overshadows the engine sound and the transmission gets louder when the car is faster. So you shift up accelerate and instead of hearing the expected noise reduction after the shift it just gets louder.
Sometimes I wonder why he's taking a certain line then it suddenly becomes clear how brilliant it was. Everything about this is awesome. I'm glad I found this, better late than never.
For everyone complaining about the sound, the signal is clipping. Microphones by their nature pick up certain frequencies better than others which makes those frequencies louder, and in this case the engine whine at higher frequencies is coming through too loud for either the mic or the audio signal to handle and it's distorting/clipping. No doubt it sounds pretty bad in the car but it sounds way worse to us.
@@surinderbhangu7807 the sounds from straight cut gears is LOUD. the video does not do it justice, but you can increase your system volume by bunch to get a feel of it. like Krebs mentioned, after a little while it gets annoying, and starts hurting fast. you might think its cool as a video or on a ride along experience and it still is, but it starts to hurt when actually driving races. be it track or rally.
@@surinderbhangu7807 People who own decent headphones ($400+) will complain about the whine. It's so shrill and piercing that I have to watch it practically muted. Your average consumer headphones/speakers will smooth out the sound and make it less harsh, due to the fact that they're less accurate at reproducing sounds.
zeek3177 Same, I have a friend who is the exact opposite of a car guy, but he recently found out what drifting was, so after I get/build my first car, which is going to be a 1964 chevelle ss with a supercharged 498 stroker and straight cut gears, I'm going to see his reaction to driving/riding in the fastest car he's probably ever going to be in.
Can we appreciate the moment at 3:07 where he provokes then catches the over-rotation to get round the corner faster. Skills to pay the bills. Also nobody appears to have told him that physics should apply to his car during corners, because the speed he is taking some of them while chasing the frontrunners is just absolutely ridiculous. AND his braking is about 10% later than everyone else! I also love those little hand gestures 😂 I wonder if the full video was ever available anywhere...
he seems to be utilizing slip angle a lot more than the other drivers. he must be very at one with his car. very phenomenal driving skills, but all around skills alone isn't all this dude has. he drives like the car is an extension of his body, making him much more confident with the turns. mans hopped on the track making it look like he went on the easy difficulty and passed what seemed like 20 cars on the first lap.
Thank you so much for keeping my onboard driving video. Please don't delete it. I never imagined watching my old onboard driving after many years have gone👍
Hearing this brings me back to my 1st edition Xbox 360 with NFS Most Wanted. Once I beat the story and got the M3 back that's all I would use to drive around town and annoy cops. Loved that sound.
i always get a childlike grin on my face when i hear this a proper passionately built racing car - all about the performance and soundng like it could detonate any time!
The driver is really amasing he is like 90% of the time at his traction limit and he never have an inch of hesitation to jump in curves with full throttle even if he is already losing the back 😱😱
We put this BMW in the hands of our tame racing driver. Some say he invented the curtain, and some say that he's never been inside of a bathroom. None of that matter's now, because he's called "The Stig"!!
Fuck, I remember watching this video over 10 years ago, now I'm taking a course on gearboxes and they mentioned direct gears and immediately remembered of this video
@@verdehat8694 I can believe it. The 787B is probably the loudest race car ever made (not counting top fuel stuff). It is absolutely ridiculous. I've heard some loud cars but that thing was so much louder than anything else.
How ironic that the driver is called Rolf Van Os and that he drives a BMW! (if yoy need an explanation, BMW's equivalent to Honda's V-tec is called Vanos).
@@pathos8307 Fiat had the first successful variable valve timing in an automotive application in the early 60s, Alfa Romeo released the first production car with variable valve timing in 1980, Nissan had variable valve timing on their production cars in 1987, and finally in 1990 Honda introduced variable valve timing on their cars. I like some Hondas, I own a JDM AP1 S2K, but they get far too much credit for variable valve timing.
In real life it actually wouldn't sound as high pitched/ear piercing like it does here, and it's really not that loud... The mic and speaker can't reproduce the sound properly and makes it sound terrible.
I've seen this video many times over the years and the sound that transmission makes just makes me smile. Amazing vehicle and amazing driving. Outclassed the entire field.
Very very well sorted car and driver ! Thanks for sharing, I've whatched this video many times now since i discovered this video more than 10 years ago :)
Absolutely FIERCE, at the very edge of control driving. I was holding onto my chair. He just ran down the field like a four wheeled PacMan in fast forward on nitro.
its enough to make your eyes water. this is some incredible driving. that car just sticks to the track. don't think i've smiled this much for a long time
He seems to have the best setup for the track. I can imagine that the Porsche's have too much power to take advantage of it and that the other ones have a too big gearbox, or too less power. As you can see, the gearbox matches perfectly the track and the car handles very neutral.
This is a straight-cut differential too, hence why the pitch keeps increasing constantly with speed! Other categories have only the gearbox gears as straightcut so the pitch of the whine drops back down with each shift.
I do not believe this is necessarily correct. The output shaft will of course always be increasing in RPM with speed and therefore will produce the same sound. A differential must match a pinion to a ring and you will not geometrically be able to create "straight" cut gears. Not in the sense that the tooth peeks are parallel but you could cut them to be convergent on the ring center and center-mount the pinion which could make more noise.
