F1 are built around downforce and light weight, not the LPM1 cars, they are heavy and had downforce diminished actually. But hey thats how innovation happens
@G G yes he did but he also answered his question I have this problem too of answering something that was semi answered or already answered its human nature to help when asked for help
"Something to tell your children about" Kobayashi: Son, and THAT was the greatest day of my life! Son: What about when I was born? Kobayashi: Not even close
Gave me goosebumps. I haven't played Gran Turismo 5 for years, I did play the 24 Hour le mans Endurance Race and this brought back some strange feelings.
In reality that line would be slower than this guy's line. At the world class level people are on that line consistently the best of those find ways to pick up tiny increments of time.
Nah it's pretty rough. Just look at telemetry through the corners - full gas or full brake, nothing in between. It could've been another 2 seconds faster if he was trailbraking.
@YaBoiSenna Toyota! Im just used to seeing Audi LMP cars. The Toyota being the camera car, and the Huracan being just before the second chicane on the Mulsanne.
@@almightyone3147 the problem with f1 is that the drivers dont take as much risks, its mostly about the technology and strategy of the team, thats why i like to watch le mans and bathurst, because each car has its strength and weakness, they make insane overtakes
@@jbhaltjbhalt8397 BoP when done right, can be fucking awesome since the strengths and weakness of cars can be very diverse but achieve almost identical lap times on a good track. Until this year, I thought IMSA had done an absolutely fantastic job. The ACO and WECs heavy success tweaks though really feel like too much and have led to some ludicrous sandbagging in GTE, especially at Le Mans in recent years. SRO seems to also have a pretty good BoP formula since Bathurst is always a banger.
@@willlasdf123 i know but im talking mainly about the drivers, f1 drivers usually dont risk overtaking unless its completely safe or on a straight, i havent seen a lot of WEC but the ones i have seen were incredible, there was a lot more things to watch, i like f1 especially at the start of the race but other than that it does get a bit boring imo, but everyone knows f1 got a lot worse without the screams of the v8 and v10s
@@Axuled wtf is not even funny...you sound like a 12 yrs old kid who plays nfs and never brakes cuz he can slam in other cars, braking is the most important thing in racing wtf...it's not funny to tell someone doesn't brake, specially when they drive with +300km/h and then need to take some slow curbes.
I don't think Kobayashi would care, when the press asked him how he was able to get so many cars under braking at the chicane in Suzuka (I think 2011?) he responded that it was because he had Asian eyes and couldn't see the braking point so well! The guy from the BBC nearly had a stroke but Kamui laughed it off!
Angga Pratama Dude. I don't care much about childish comparison here. I enjoy what i see and i see this is impressive and just say it. Who cares F1 lmp1 or even fucking Voyager 1 is faster, break the speed of light and bend the universe. Living your life always comparing stuffs with another will forbid you to truely enjoy it.
@@ayrton_aftemage4435 "send it" is a common saying in Australia and NZ. The full phrase is "Lick the stamp bruv. F#€ken send it" meaning to just give it everything. Win or bust
I feel like for whatever reason Japanese and American drivers never get their fair shake in F1, along with the wall of top notch Kiwi talent that inevitably ends up Sports Cars (or if you're Scott Dixon, Indy). Dude has absolutely proved himself to be a fucking master of Sports Cars, regardless of having the top equipment with Toyotas recent program.
He was one of the only Japanese drivers that wasn't a Pay driver in F1 and ultimately was the reason he got forced out early. He was a Toyota Factory driver that got damaged the most by their withdrawal from F1.
Yes, he was absolutely fearless and a real racer in F1. I wish he had been with a better team that didn't need pay drivers to stay financially viable, he might still be racing in F1 at the front of the grid where he belongs.
Put some small padding against a brick wall and then hurl yourself at it at approximately 67.1 mph. There you go. Now do it 10x/min for 24 hrs, taking a 3 hr break every 3hrs or so. Now you're a race driver.
I'd like to see that Toyota in a "no rules"-version like the P919. Would make it a lot of fun watching Porsche trying to hold onto their "record runs" at Spa etc...
Kobayashi wasn't really a shining star in F1, but here he absolutely excelled and nailed it. Very well done Katsuo - Japanese perfection, as always. Love it !
honestly, I always respected him, this man has the biggest balls ever and 0 fear, he always pushes it to the max and it makes for AMAZING things like this.
@@revantha247 The movie was excellent and was very faithful to a documentary I had seen on the subject. In the movie the object appears to be to race a LeManns and they describe the prefect lap which is the fastest lap.
@@revantha247 Tchnology certainly does add to speed. I visited the Unser Museum recently while on vacation in Albuquerque New Mexico. The have a display of a model used for wind tunnel tests of the Penske car that little Al used to win the Indianapolis 500. They call it the million dollar model. The movie made a farce out of wind tunnels using ribbons instead but on the actual car. Between 1955 and 1965 there were dozens of drivers killed. In the mid 60s I believe they started focusing on making the cars safer for drivers (and spectators I might add). Where are you located? I am near Toronto Canada.
I’ve done a bit of track racing and I don’t think most people realise how fast and how much strength is actually needed to take corners at speed. It’s crazy as you see the truly top drivers make it look so easy.
Le Mans is amazing. Seeing the on board shots, especially at night is jaw dropping. Watching an IndyCar turn in at Indianapolis Motor Speedway 380 kph / 240 mph is always a rush. Back to Le Mans, if they would have left the Mulsanne straight as was (no chicanes) the P1's would probably be breaking the sound barrier (joking) by now. Ir F, I totally agree with you on the cornering speeds, just crushing G loads. Drivers all over the planet make it look a lot easier that it actually is. ;)
LMP1s don't really struggle to reach their top end *with* the chicanes.. honestly they're a perfectly good idea. What's so interesting about a car just going perfectly straight for almost an entire minute, especially when modern LMP1s have/had such ridiculous power-to-weight ratios and just blitz out of corners before you realize they're turning at all?
He was easily at top speed long before the chicanes. However I would imagine the gearing would be a lot different if the chicanes were not there. Thus the top speed would be insane. Remember the put those chicanes in because the Mercedes flipped over backwards?
"The fastest top speed recorded at Le Mans is 405 kmh. This was in 1988 by Roger Dorchy in a WM Peugeot P88. The record was set before the chicanes were built in 1990.
@@goodbyemr.anderson5065 not only the gearing, but I think the aero would be designed to be a lot more slippery too. Itd be cool af to see these things fly down the straight at 400+
honestly i would watch a lot more racing if all of the commentary was this good. I felt like I was right there with the driver with those corner and braking descriptions. So great.
what would you rather have? a lap record to demonstrate your mastery, or an overall race win that will be 1 in the countless. more than likely they had some out of rule cheat going on in the car and were offered an ultimatum. the car "broke" down and they forfeited their victory for a lap record.
i have only driven that track in video games but i can relate to what the dude is saying so much lol especially the relief of getting onto the power after you clear arnage feeling like you basically stopped
Wow!!! Total confidence and focus... and the announcer... he was as on top of his commentary as Kobayashi was on top of his car... special combination!! Thank you!!
This is why sports commentators need to be former competitors , this commentator knows that track, those cars, and what its like to drive them round it. His comments made it even more exciting to watch. Brilliant job.
WootTootZoot Funny isn't it, they make some of the most reliable road cars but when making race engines they're not quite there yet.(I know there is a whole other difference in road and racing engines.)
That is absolutely incredible. I knew these cars were fast and nimble but GD the ‘zoomed-out’ view when he’s going through the chicane turns is insane.... like 1mm off target and your in the wall at 170-180mph WOW
the only reason why he said that was because alot of the corners are very slippery and if kobayashi drove the wrong line, he would have sent his car into the wall
1:33 "I have an amazing car fastest thing you'll see it's a Porsche 911 rsr eat my dust" Car overtakes. "Was that a fancy Toyota Prius that just flew past me??
I know I'm late to the party here but what a glorious lap that was. Fantastic commentary - I'm a newbie to auto racing so it's amazing to have someone break it down so simply and so detailed while it's happening. The way the car danced around the track doesn't even look real. So cool
