THERE WAS EVEN A F*****G MORGAN! How GT3 Became Motorsport's Most Popular Series 

Only in GT3 racing would I be able to see a Bentley slapping the bloody daylight out of a Porsche, amazing stuff

As a Child of the 90s, GT1 was my holy grail. It makes sense now why it had to end and GT3 came to be. I still dream that someday we do see GT1 return in the future. Great Video

There are two other reasons for the popularity of GT3. From a manufacturer standpoint, they are semi-mass-manufacturing cars that the actually sell, for a profit, to actual customers. They may not be road cars and normal customer, but they are still cars and customers. GT3 (combined with GT4 and TCR) form a worthwhile profit center for some manufacturers. From a romantic standpoint, who doesn't think that it's cool that the cars all look different?

The Morgan Aero GT3 is still one of the most gorgeous racing cars of all time

Watching the Blancpain endurance series at Silverstone with 60 GT3 cars is a memory I will never forget. The racing in most GT3 series ive watched has been great, even down to series like British GT

That Morgan Aero Supersport GT3 of AutoGT Racing from 2009 is an absolute GOAT. My first exposure to GT3 racing was the 2009 FIA GT3 at Silverstone. And the Morgan won. Twice. And one of them was won by Max Martin.

GT3 at lemans could have an enormous field with LMDH and LMH it could make endurance racing the thing to watch again.

It's fascinating how so many race series/catergories died because someone decided to throw a shitload of money in order to win it... The GT1 category had some fantastic cars in it and as a 90s kid I still love cars like the CLK-GTR, the Porsche GT-1, the XJ220 or the McLaren F1.

gt3 and lmp2. the am teams are the real heroes of endurance racing. these two classes also have some of the most dramatic and physically enjoyable race starts. the early morning start at the Bathurst 12H is my pick. But 30+ oreca/gibson taking the green flag at Paul Ricard was a close second. ( ELMS ) ELMS has the best action on track. its free and easy also British gt

I don't know what it is I love about gt3, watching it is great fun, driving the cars in sims is also great fun. But I get that kick from other series such as f1, but gt3 has something I can't quite describe that I love

I'm fully awaiting the 100k video promising Roberto Moreno story and just being a compilation video of every time Aidan's said Roberto Moreno on the channel.

GT1 was the first real time when I recognised a race car. Before that I only really cared about road cars. Then I saw Top Gear put that Aston Martin DBR9 round the track and I was stunned by the speed and the noise. Road cars fell a bit out of my vision after that and I got a lot more into race cars. Good to hear about the path the GT3 cars took from those categories.

Got my first taste of Motorsport at the Silverstone round of the 97 FIA GT. Definitely my favourite era, got to see lots of incredible racing. Saw Fabio Babini hold off the raging Lister Storm's to win in the Paul Belmondo Viper, and got to see the MC12's take one of their many wins at the Spa 24. Awesome stuff.

Was introduced to the whole scene through playing TOCA Touring Cars (and yes, I almost always drove the Honda).

I love gt3 so much, I went to Brands Hatch for the GTWC round across the two days and I stood on the pit straight for practice. I couldn’t help but smile as those screaming v10 Audis and Lamborghinis came past. Amazing stuff.

This channel keeps it real. It's the only channel that can compare GT3 to Resident Evil and have it actually make sense. Keep it up.

ACC is my absolute favourite sim; the cars are the most satisfying to drive out of any platform, and the sound design is perfect. No sim comes close on engine noise

I remember watching the Mosler. That car was just wonderful

Great material as usual. My only regret is that I can’t create 28k accounts to subscribe to you for the Moreno video ;)

I always used to wonder where the Porsche 911 gt1 and 2 went. Thanks for the explaination

Sadly never played GTR or GTR 2 but how i got into GT racing was Total Immersion racing. They had cars that i fell in love with Like the Lister Storm and Panoz. That game made love the diverse range of cars and manufactures racing each other.

That description is very accurate regarding the Morgan, its just so goddamn out there in terms of design in comparison to the shapes it was surrounded by. In a way though, that's another cool things about GT3 is The Variety you can get. Yes German Domination happens abit but look at the teams running them, they tend to be kinda good (Compared to, well, literally ANYONE that attempted to run the Honda or the Lexus. Sad Japanese racing fan noises). Even then, name another professional category where you get to see Nissan's Dummy Thicc Turbo Brick on the same track as a 911, or again that Morgan on the same piece of race track as a Ferrari. You could argue that being a thing for years at the Nurburgring, but that's one race at a track where you see all sorts of..weirdness even outside the race weekend (Nothing will ever compare to the absolute surreal nature of seeing things like the A-Team Van driving around the Nordschliefe, That happened and nothing will ever make it unhappen)

I want that F*****g Morgan for Xmas! Great video

As always.. A pleasure to attend to your race history lessons!.

Cheers 🍻 thanks for all the great stories

Great video. I wasn't sure how exactly GT3 came about and I was too young to watch GT1. So thanks for the good explanation.

The more SRO and NLS races I watch, the more it is obvious that they have absolutely nailed the perfect balance to make sportscar racing perfection. The last hour of this year's Nürburgring 24hour or the last hour of last year's spa 24hour show what this racing can be like.

I started watching gt3 last month (March i think) in my recommendation, thanks to it I started to get addicted in automotive industry, and found some famous/exciting automotive racing like Formula 1, wec, indy, nascar, v8 supercars, ect.

Saw the first ever GT3 race at Silverstone, pouring rain but awesome looking cars. Great category.

Earned a fan here. Love this kinda talk

GT3 should be just GT at this point, specially if LeMans Hypercar is not going to be a category on which we could see road going hypercars racing.

Saw the thumbnail and for a second thought u were talking about the band

TVR speed 12 GOAT

CTCC switching to GT3/GT4 rules was probably the best decision they ever made. This year there where three GT3 cars in the field which doesn't sound like much but that was a third of the field which itself while small was larger then the series usually has. Granted two of them where Ferrari's that where also running in IMSA and GT America but then isn't that part of the point?

A comparission of Group A and GT3 would be interesting. They seem to be the equivalent of their respective eras

Any other honda fans watching these brilliant videos???

I used to like the Superstars International Series myself

GT3 are in the sweet spot of fun vs cost thats its quite interesting in Real Life.

I would really look forward to you streaming your ACC races ngl

5:31 When the bass drops

It’s so popular I haven’t watched it YET.

Hello from the one Honda fan!

It's free to watch on RU-vid. The commentary is as good as it gets. The racing is usually enjoyable. From a manufacturer/sponsor pov it's perfect because the audience can watch the races any time without running a high risk of knowing the result and can watch repeatedly if they feel so inclined. It may lack a bit of glamour and the production may lack polish at times but it's the racing that counts. Isn't it?

I welcome GT3 replacing GTE. GTE was always a massive cost that didn't really make for any better racing than GT3.

When money talks teams start to walk

Someone needs to mess up the GT3 grid by homologating a Dacia Logan or something for it, just for the laughs when a Ford Focus or a Honda Civic overtakes a 488, 811 or a Vantage or something

Yup, old man had an Audi A4 in the 90s, so I supported Audi .

Is that Portero circuit in Argentina on iracing and assetto corsa?

Story About The World Touring Car Championship Please

morgan needs to get back to gt3

Timely video since this season on iRacing I decided to dive into the GT3s

Some cars are front engined, some mid engined, and some rear engined or _wrong_ " Based!

They toyota gt1 is one of my favorite cars of all time. Its a shame it isn't really in games anymore...

There's Also GT300 In Super GT

100k let’s go people

8:12 shut that door. Aidan, switch in a high pass filter please.

@ 6:08 Exactly he puts up 3 fingers and a a VRS commercial started 😂 fucking instant lightning. Who hes really uping his production 😂😂 nope commercial lol

Can you make these videos longer?

About "There is no Monza because they think they get killed by someone who is Senna". I was active in a GT3 SimRacing league and we usually had a 20+ car grid even in the lower ranks. And our test race was basically this. You can check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I8FqIjTfBWU.html Sorry for the low light I used the wqrong processing filter at that time. Good thing it was just the test race the real event went off much much cleaner

More GT3 content!😁

Because GT3 was shoved down our throats

They had GT1 They had GT2 So the next logical step below this... GT5

Btw, I believe Chevrolet is bringing the Corvette to GT3 because the class it traditionally runs in in IMSA, GTLM, is dead, as GTLM's final race was the 2021 Petite Le Mans at Road Atlanta... also, to bring up the point about fans of GT racing support being based around manufacturers, I have always supported team Corvette... mainly because of patriotism as Corvette is basically Team America, especially when they show up to Circuit de la Sarthe... also Dale Earnhardt Sr and Jr drove a C5R to victory at the Rolex 24 hours of Daytona right before Dale Sr passed away

im that one honda fan

Basically because it's semi road-relavent, cheap and actually fair, both to teams and drivers, correct?

Is this the imsa equivalent of the TCR class?

The price point is withing a well to do business man rather than just the uber rich so some decent property developer can get.

Basically

I have to question at least to Australians, why the V8 supercars didn't move to GT platform? at least from my perspective the new gen 3 are look similar to the GT4 cars, so why not moved to GT's?

Best of gt3 is in japan. prius, subaru brz...

Where that entry fee for F1 came from? Since the times of Eccleston, or was implemented recently by liberty and all other owner that I don't understand entirely?

GT3 won because it realized the secret other GT regulations tried to ignore: manufacturers don't care, if they ever did, about innovation, about true technical competition, about making a better car or technology. They care about getting marketing value for money, about being predictably near the front. GT3 was also the first class specifically made to cater towards amateurs with questionable skill, lots of money, and the desire to race a Ferrari, and those are the people who provide most of the budget for most of the teams racing them. I know fans like the diversity, the noise, being fun to drive, whatever, those aren't the reasons.

can gt3 go the way of gte

isn't gt3 equal to gt daytona in imsa?

Didn’t the ACO say that the gt3 class will be a pro-am only? I think they realized having a pro class at Le Mans would ruin the class

The only thing that I really hate about GT3 series around the world is the fact that constructor championships still exist. It pisses me off because it feels like the organizers of GT3 series act like the viewers are fools that don't understand that there is BOP making a constructor championship just a pointless gimmick.

Aidan, I love your face, your voice and of course, videos, but constructive crit: THE READING IS SO DISTRACTING MAN

If you're sick of F1 looking fixed then go to GT3 where you know it is . Entertainment without all that complicated technical competition elements that you don't have to pretend to understand any more.. Roll up roll up for this races B.O.P dice throws. . And yes I used to watch sports car racing when it almost all Porsches , and yes it was LOADS better because it was actual motorsport. Good video though

Just off the title alone you won. That Morgan had no business there 😂😂

I wish we had gt3 with success ballast rather than BOP

I have never been a fan of GT3, and in my opinion, the peak of GT3 was in 2012 when those cars were used in the GT1 World Championship. GT3 having driving assistants kinda still makes me think it's for amateurs. And until now, DTM and that one year of GT1 world championship were the only instances for GT3 being Pro-driver only. And in both of them, the championship ended with a lot of controversy.

Yeah... I'm not going to be interested until the rip out the ABS and TC. At the very least, take them out for the pro classes like IMSA is going to have next year.

GT3 might be the last great combustion engine homologation group we will witness before the electric cars take over. Which isnt a bad thing, but I've witnessed the growl of the Bentley....

Dunnoif it's worth mentioning but I found the intro screaming sound intro annoying and obtrusive that it put me off watching whatever this is at all, like being slapped as you sit down for dinner, like an assault, shame as you are usually quite interesting but after that you can do whatever, Im out

best GT racing was during the BPR GT era of 1994-1996 , FIA GT3 is so crap, big grids yes but lacky variaty and is too artiifical

GT3 is just fast enough to be exciting and challenging to drive alone, while being slow and balanced enough to facilitate wheel-to-wheel racing in almost any track you can think of. That is a balance that is hard to find in other motorsport categories, and is especially relevant for simracing

It’s taken me over a year to realize in the intro ‘Sim Racing and The Real World of Motorsports’ is synced to the V10 scream. This is the quality content I come back for

the morgans cool gotta wooden racing cars

I don't know whether it's right for me to use the word or not, but for me the reason why GT3 holds so much appeal (aside from close racing) is because it's diversity. GT3 has a lot of varying cars, varying shapes, varying manufacturers, with different properties unique to each other. It's rarely boring to see those cars racing each other. One shape battling another, bigger against smaller, boxy against curvy. The shit looks like pulled straight from Need for Speed. It's so colorful. *And this is why GT300 holds even bigger appeal compared to the standard GT3 issue.* I rarely get that kick. The closest one I can remember is when I see varying traditional clothings from a lot of Indonesian tribes.

Before GT3, there was the GTP class raced in Australia. It was a very successful series, as they effectively just took off the shelf Ferrari Challenge and Porsche Cup cars, BOP'd them and raced them, along with a bunch of other random brands filling out the rest of the grid. I've always assumed that series was the impetus to create the GT3 format. I do wish they'd ditch the ABS and traction control though, even if just for the Pro category. They could just introduce a subtle penalty of some sort and simply increase it every year until everyone has switched. That would avoid a sudden need to redevelop existing cars. And the penalty could be kept suitably mild as to not be a big deal for the AM cars to use if they wanted too.

Aidan i’m disappointed you didn’t mention the Toyota GT One in that list, that thing does not look road legal at all!

Also helps that GT3 isn't a pile of toxic politics. Has a similar feel to formula E in the way that people are there for the racing not for the off track drama.

Watching the Viper completely dominate back in the 90's got me into GT racing. Good ol days

As a spectator on track I miss the sound of the GT1. The only big races I can watch now here in Eastern Germany are GT3 races. Even DTM is GT3 now, so I miss the variety and I am one of the people who moan about TCS and ABS, knowing the Porsche Cup races are more interesting because they are harder to drive.

There were also some other GT1 cars that never raced in GT1 series like Nissan R390 GT1, Toyota GT-one, both built for Le Mans and Ferrari F50 GT, which sadly never raced.

I thought this video was about the controversial ending to the GT3 season 😅 and how Porsche withdrew their protest “for the interest of the sport”… would be a good video to make to compare and contrast to the Mercedes situation

Can't NASCAR try to be part of GT3? Let's see a Camaro or Mustang in the great road circuits or a Bentley at Daytona.

I wish they would create GTB - Grand Touring Build. So basically manufactures and customer/ private teams alike would pick a already existing car and build it to downforce, tire, safety, bhp, power to weight, etc. regulations apply a balance of performance if necessary and go racing.

Excellent. Thankyou.

Together with GT4, GT3 is by far my favorite racing class. You simply can't predict the winners. Although some cars work better at certain tracks than on others.