The 919 Hybrid Evo sets a new all-time record lap at the Nürburgring, “Nordschleife”. Watch the complete on-board record lap by Timo Bernhard. www.porsche.com/919tribute
Finq08 You’re not surrounded by a forest with walls in a fighter jet though. One tire touching the grass on corner entry could result in a fatal crash going that fast round there. They’re not pulling 8 G’s like a jet, but that Porsche is pulling 6 G’s in the corners with much higher risk.
Clarkson once explained it, that's the difference between race driver and the normal humans. we never push to the limit cause we fear the consequences, but race driver manage to shut those limiters off, the idea of crashing never, ever cross their mind. also many are known to get into "the zone", meaning a state of concentration that is close to meditation giving them hyper awarness. their driving become as instinctive as breathing, their muscle memory do almost everything, they don't waste any time thinking about what to do in any situation. we can all think we're a good driver, but a rally/F1 pilot would just utterly crush 99.9% of us in a race, if only by sheer precision and consistency. those guys are a special breed, and deserve all the respect and admiration in the world.
4:50 blasting from 250 km/h to 360 km/h through a long corner with electric boost maxed out. The electric motor almost doubles the horsepower at the top end.
The craziest thing is that this lap could've been even faster, the driver himself admitted as such. Not because the driver made errors or didn't push the limits, it's simply that the human body's limits are below what the car was capable of... what a level of engineering we're at
@@olamendihuaca3798with a longer Gear Ratio theyd lose accelaration. 30kmh more for Just the straight doesnt save enough time to decrease the accelaration.
@@the4GIVENsome solutions are possible, one is just put the new jesko gear, or just use more modern eletric engine and battery to compensate the longer gear... With emotor the car can have 3000whp with the wheight of a 3 cil engine nowadays, and if the new superconductor is real the car will be capable of more than 10000whp with almost no significant wheight.
I’d say just have a video game controller and no person in the car and they will go under 5 minutes potentially which would be mind blowing, just having it computer controlled. But what’s the fun in that if u can’t feel the g’s right?
I was wondering how many aids are built in that assist the driver and take away worries such as er….everything…..except pressing the metal and steering the best line. Anybody?
@@josephinebennington7247 LMP1 cars are allowed a traction control system but that's pretty much it. There is no stability control and there is no ABS. there is nothing (but the driver himself) preventing the car from going into a corner too hot and understeering into a wall, or turning in too early, hitting one of those aggressive curbs and sending the car up on 2 wheels.
It's also hard to believe that a record set in the 80s (Stefan Bellof's) held for nearly 40 years despite the incredible evolution of Electronics, tyres and aerodinamics...
@@TheSummoner True if we consider race spec cars, but also modern, powerful and very expensive track only cars like the Zonda R or the P1 LM still get a 30 sec gap from the 40 years old and analogic 956..
Andrea - Don’t get me wrong, Bellof’s result was and still is outstanding, but if they kept racing on the Nürburgring with Le Mans prototypes his record would have been beaten way sooner. Plus one has to take into account that there are two degrees of separation between the cars you mentioned and the 919 Evo, since the formers are a track version of a road car, while the latter is a race car further modified ignoring regulations.
Don't forget this is a V4 engine as well. Absolutely mental that it can reach 370 kph while also being planted in the corners, this is one utterly insane car.
@@DasBaSchott that's where the HYBRID comes in the equation: BOOST to mantain that speed. Worth mentioning also that they needed to cap max speed due to the road ondulation in the long stretch (became too bumpy).
@@DasBaSchott it is activated until top speed. and to be honest you have a point on "mantaining" the top speed : it is all on the engine not the boost , the boost is used to reach the acceleration faster. Good call buddy.
It must feel so weird. You are full throttle with the revs slowly climbing then BOOM, immediate acceleration like pulling another gear as you hold on for dear life
Yea the front wheels are attached to the electric motor, so imagine the torque when you are flat out with the rear wheels then when the boost kicks in you are propelled by the front wheels with an added output from the electric motor of 294 kW (an extra 400 HP!!)
in fact the car accelerated so fast with the boost applied that they wrote a software that managed the upshifts, because timo couldnt handle it manually ( at least at a consistent level).
True, at times it was lacking, especially on the hill climb. But I overcompensate in the "technical" cornering, especially the cornering done in the parking lot, where his turning radius is just non-existant.
Same, just came from the Volkswagen ID.R lap video, which was very impressive. The Volkswagen took the apex of Flugplatz at 228 kph, which is mindnumbingly fast. Meanwhile, the 919 EVO was going 272 kph at the same point.
@@Gally89714 Yeah, ya don't say. But there's still a risk involved, the point of the comment is that doing it at all gets morbid for about 97% of people
I've come back to this video at least 20 times since i first discovered it a few years ago. And the more laps i do on this track in racing games the more incredible this video seems to me. The way he just effortlessly flys through corners that are dangerous and difficult in other hugh downforce cars. This remains probably the most impressive thing I've seen a human do in my entire life
Even more impressive to me are the people who got in race cars 70 years ago going at similar speeds but with no downforce at all. Rolling projectiles with no seatbelt or any security at all. Also extremely difficult to drive and uncomfortable cockpits!
Well, the Option Auto Yellowbird video from 1987 is still as insane as it ever was. Maybe even more so. T-shirt, jeans, traffic and a widowmaker RUF Porsche. Only electronics in the car was probably the camera.
I think they will be more amazed how we first wielded massive mobile phones, then really tiny ones, then really big ones again with big screen, 10 cameras, pixel densities that the robots of the future can't even distinguish, etc etc
@@Sunnyislive25498 IRL Electric motors feel like NOS in games. They give instant acceleration and literally push the combustion engine to spin faster. It's like someone with a wrench helping the wheels spin faster than they can on their own. That's why hybrid technology is so powerful right now. The regular engines have less power at low revs, rise up, and then they drop down at high revs. Electric engines have the most power at low revs then it drops off the faster they spin, but they have immense torque at all times (man with wrench analogy). This is why they compliment each other so well.
For everyone wondering, No the video is not sped up. This car was built with absolutely no racing regulations with tires that only last for a single lap. The car is just that fast!
This guy is like The Ace Pilot. At this speed, this isn't driving anymore. See that helmet getting thrown around in there? It has a head attached to it. What a legend. In the same vein, he didn't want to drive another extra 100 metres after crossing the finish line. His poor neck, oh my god, he deserves the greatest vacation+ physiotherapy ever.
I always think while watching this video that the next lap record video title will be something like: "Porsche presents new Nordschleife lap record with its new jet aeroplane!"
Ty Mcfadden yeah they are hybrids but they don’t use kers anymore. I was just saying they keep bringing down the engine from the v12 to the v10 v8 v6 hybrids so the most logical step next are v4 hybrid engines
@@DanC8111_ oh, they dropped the kers system? i was unaware of that. but really, in the long run they will eventually be full electric. i sure miss the scream of a nasty ferrari v12, but i'm afraid we are probably a decade away from the demise of i.c.e.'s all together in most forms of racing.
This isn't an issue of driver skill. There isn't enough of a reward for slamming it through the coarousell or or taking flugplatz flat, and the danger when you're the fastest thing to ever touch the track just isn' worth it. I'm sure he knows he could be faster, he also knows his body itself was limiting him @@Huh-xz7ob
I've been watching F1 since I was six years old. I've seen every documentary there is on the history of racing. I've always loved endurance racing and have watched complete 24 hour editions of Le Mans, finishing with bloodshot eyes and a headache. I've been to the Nürburgring 24 hours and walked a lap of the entire track that day, watching from every single position. I must have done a thousand virtual laps of the Nordschleife in a dozen different games. Three and a half years after first watching this, I still think this is the most insane thing ever done in the history of car racing.
You're absolutely right man. That sure is crazy. This guy has some out of this world driving skills. And i thought i was good on simulators with ultra fast cars on nordschleife 🤣
Just UNFUCKENREAL !!!!! The amount of speed he carries into each corner is mind blowing. It had to be a HUGE adjustment, and take quite a few laps, for this driver to adjust his points of reference for braking and turning. I mean, no other car even comes remotely close to this lap time. It really does look like the tape is in "fast forward". As I former racer myself (Superbike & Supersport) I can't imagine how much fun it must be to have a vehicle with that much downforce that it literally "sticks" to the pavement unlike any other vehicle ever. I'm blown away watching this. Just incredible !!!!! Congratulations to Porsche.
@@brianshaggy Are you aware of the fact that the Nissan Gtr LMP1 car was a failed project that got abandoned many years ago?And also the fact that this very car in the video is not put under any regulations?Meaning its as fast as it can be.
@@robness1197 I am 100% sure Timo Bernhard, the driver, does the same! It is humanly impossible to react at this speeds! This is on another level of AWSOMEness! ^^
Almost. If he did experience time dilation effects then he would simply be 'not as old' as people that were outside his reference frame. In other words, time passed more slowly for him and the car.
I'd love to hear a commentary track for this; "And the 919 is just approaching flugplatz, I mean kottenborn, arembe...fuchsrö..., why am I even trying."
It's like an arcade PC game where you crash 99 times out of 100 attempts, except Timo Bernhard is risking his life every second of the 5:19.54 run. Goosebumps. Speechless. Absolute respect 🐐.
@Jon Bravo how can someone say something like that? as if you even know 0.00001 % of all porsche owners, thats just not true. they dont flex like lambo drivers for example or what do you mean by saying douchebags? thats nonsense
@@jonathanbelfort5650 i don't particularly like porsches (except the carrera gt oh god yes) , but i can have no opinion on the kind of drivers that like or buy them. Tying a brand to a certain type of person is misguided, at best.
Such an engineering marvel. I'm sure Timo is thinking "I could have saved 0.01 seconds here and there". Should have given him more runs. Excellent work Timo!!!!!!
I am watching this video every few months. And every time it looks incredible. Truly, this is one of the most important laps in racing history. Real legend! Even in videogames i can't drive even close to this time. And i think, neither most of us can. But this guy and this car make it! In real life! It's so amazing.
This is insane. I struggle to post a 5:30 lap in the comfort of my home in the same car on Gran Turismo. By the end of the lap I'm mentally exhausted, heart rate elevated and sweating. Then this dude does it 11 seconds faster, in real life, with real speed, and g forces, and environmental factors, and the chance of actually dying. This is the most phenomenal lap of any racetrack i have ever seen. If you don't find respect for this you're crazy.
I believe this is actually a modified version of the 919, not the actual car that raced in WEC and 24h of Le Mans. Which would mean it's probably faster than what you've got in GT. However I still agree with you 100%.
This is jaw dropping skill. Holy crap you can see how intense it gets during the back straight near the end of the lap. That is a force very few can say they have experienced 🏎💨💨💨🙌🙌🙌
@@fondfarewell2 someone said they capped the speed, because if it went too fast around the bumpy road it would literally vibrate itself out of the track, suspension technology not there yet
That full boost pull at 4:50 is insane. You're already doing 230 in a fast corner and suddenly the hand of god is driving a divine freight train into your rear and shoving you effortlessly up to 370Kp/h. It ate 5th, 6th and 7th faster than most fast street cars pull 1-3.
Nah. I can manage 5:20 in Gran Turismo in the F1 car. It feels so utterly insane and scary that when it goes wrong, I'm shocked. It astounds me that a human has traversed the real circuit in the same time (actually faster).
369km/h. And listen in the Video. It´s the Engine limiter. There is a version today, with more than 300hp more! For me is the most scary, how fast he takes the corners and the time between 130km/h to 300km/h. NOTHING. Unbelievable!
Unquestionably, the most extraordinary exhibition of driving skill I have ever seen. And an amazing example of unrestricted engineering. Simply amazing. Thank you so much .
They're still restricted by emission standards, which makes no sense because race cars don't cause nearly as much pollution as public cars on the road or ships in the sea..... imagine if they could use whatever combustion engine they wanted lol.
2005 MP4-20 Raikkonen went through Au Roughe on the outside at staggering 345kph at full chat and averaged 332kph though out the race with traffic. NO DRS, no boost, barely any driver aids and full rock and rolla. Those 3.0 Litre V10 were simply the best. And the best racing. Also Montoya did 375kph at Italian gp same year.
@@tigertriumph1453 keep in mind: in the late 70s they went up to 450 on Hunaudieres-straight. That's why it has been separated by chicanes. Let the kids play in F1 while Porsche, Nissan and Audi nail down 14km for 24hrs with aprox 90% full throttle - still going like 340kmh
@@tigertriumph1453 Well let's not forget that Raikkonen had Traction Control in 2005 and that he beat Montoya's record of fastest F1 lap last season with his 2018 Ferrari. F1 cars might be more "futuristic" than before, but they're no joke
If the driver has the kind of reflexes to drive like this and process what he is seeing at that speed, imagine how he sees us mortals. He has truly unlocked ultra instinct.
he is basically not really reacting he is mostly driving on memory so he exactly knows when to brake and when to turn because he knows that route just that well.
Not even memory, well yes but not really I guess. You ofcourse need superb reflexes and memory in motorsport, the memory part especially in rallying but it's a lot of pure instinct in play here
Holy shit!!!! It almost look like the video is being played in Fast Forward everything was going by so fast. That driver is INSANE I would be terrified. My heart was pounding just watching the video.
Shivers, heart pomping and huge adrenaline rush just by watching a video, I think this is the first time something like that happened to me. I wasnt even in full screen . .
BTICronox 0:09 only half electrical boost was used, 0:16 he was not fully on the throttle until 140 or 150 kph. But the 150 - 250 gives a good indication