This F1 Car Couldn't Do More Than 3 Laps Without Exploding 

I love these historic Formula 1 videos

this was why senna's technique was so OP/Necessary. In the slow speeds he would rev constantly to combat the turbo lag

Jimmy, going back to his roots :) - Crazy car: Check - Hot lap of Nordschleife: Check - Lots of "Oh my God!": Check

I'll say the same thing I said way back in the Senna Adelaide Pole Lap vid; the craziest thing is that these guys did this for real, with no regard for safety or fear of mistakes. Absolute madness.

Jimmy and a classic F1 car. Already know this is gonna be a banger!

from 100 to 200kph before the first corner, tears in my eyes

As someone of 1986 vintage I am offended by the ‘old people’ comment. Or at least I would be if I wasn’t so tired.

I want to see a VR race in this

Seeing this car brought me back memories. In 1988 my mother bought me a ZX Spectrum 48K with a bunch of games, one of them was Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix. I played that game a lot. Nigel ended up becoming my favorite F1 driver and Williams my favorite team up to this day. This car was on the cover of that game.

I'm SO glad to see Jimmy back behind the wheel of a sim rig at the Norschleife. The commentary of the history of the car with this new editing was an awesome touch. This is one of his best videos ever

Holy shite, this was an amazing lap, Jimmer! Loved the extra ingame angles that show just how fast and on the ragged edge that car was going throughout the lap! Superb job, mate!

What I love is the fact the most powerful f1 engine ever, was a 1.4l 4 cylinder, it's hilarious to me

so, technically. what jimmy showed in the beginning is turbo dwell. when the engine isn't moving enough air to get the turbo spooled up, because of being at too low of RPM. lag is the time it takes to build boost once you're up in the power band

Vids like this, where you truly do what you love are the best. Pure joy and excitement. Always tons of fun to watch this crazy combinations.

They were also using exotic fuels back in the day as well, which also added to engines blowing up.

Love this! The editing, seeing you drive, the fly by clips, the added music, I was really drawn in to watching the whole way. Great video!

Just glorious. Along with the V10s the mid 80s V6 Turbos are legendary. And they sounded amazing. The turbo whistling on the downshift and the backfiring shooting flames out the pipes is monstrous.

Glad I was able to witness those times on location when they were. But just even so happy that newer generations find interest in those eras, too. Thanks, Mr. Broadbent ❤

driving this insane formula 1 car while wearing grandpa slippers, never change jimmer

Love every video you make Jimmer keep up the great work!

I don't know if you care about DTM (deutsche tourenwagen meisterschaft), but there is a mod that someone made that is the 1991 season. Absolutely amazing. recommend. Love the videos Jimmy

With that drag race, it's not just the turbo lag that's an issue, it's that those old F1 cars had almost comically anemic levels of torque, like you could go buy a nice every day four door car with more torque. And oh god I am so happy someone recreated one of those old F1 cars properly.

Vids like this are why I started watching your channel in 2017 . I think you and the hoonigans are my sim racing influences !

Absolutely love the classic cars and even more when Jimmy takes one for a spin 🔥🔥

I have to stress again: I LOVE the editing in this vid, again. All the small sound details, the jokes in between, the mini-YTP elements here and there: just *click* noice ❤🎉

Highly recommended Race Sim Studio cars to anyone looking for mods for Assetto Corsa. The quality, sound, textures and details are all insanely well built. The mods are occasionally on sale too and are pretty cheap.

Bought this the day it came out and out of 3000 mods, this is easily top 5 for me. Absolutely blast to drive and a fantastic mod. I’ve also been putting in laps here too, as long as you keep off the curbs it’s not bad 😂

Jimmy's concerned face reminds me of the Lotus 98T on 100% boost at Bathurst. So much fun, into a tension migraine afterwards :P

I'd love to see RSS do a mod for some older Le Mans cars, like the Porsche 917 LH. I saw that car at the Porsche Museum and damn I fell in love with it, want to drive on so bad.

Just seen all the historic F1 cars around Silverstone the weekend, unbelievable 👌🏻

that split screen view was AMAZING! also in the description, project cars? lol

This era was really so wild ahaha RSS do a great job, and this seems like another confirm of that. I'd love you to check out a mod I'm making from earlier than January, full time. It's a kart from sodikart, the rs4. I'm the guy who created formula DS BTW, this time for making the first well made simulation of a rental kart

Inner racing line on the carousel would likely smash the real thing to pieces. You'd have to run the outside line. Enjoyed the video thanks.

Ah, the good old days when a quali engine has as much chance of blowing up as it did finishing three laps, four at most. Add manual boost control for each bank of the engine adjusted by hand wheels in the cockpit at 100mph exiting Stowe. You should get Nigel's son to run that sim then have a sit down chat with him about how MENTAL his dad had to have been to drive that thing!

The physics of this Car look spot on, really well captured, it moves from the track side perspective exactly how they used to move when you watched them on TV, really captures the squirm and rattle of this era

you must take a trip to santa pod jimmy. They bring some crazy quick fast cars up there

Brilliant! This is what I wanna see! 🤘👍

Love these sim vids

i love how the boost gauge and rev counter are for the race spec car so they're just maxxed out all the time

Jimmy, I loved this! These pre-recorded things are (I believe) the way best forward mate. The long live streams were perhaps for a different time, and a different Jimmer - he was stuck in a shed 24/7, so live streaming 24 hours races was a wonderful and fun escape for him, but you've moved on since then. I'd love to see more of this, and recorded races you decide to do with your friends that you comment over at a later point - allowing you to focus on the racing as you do it. You've got so much happening at once mate - live races, team 87, the Billstein racing... maybe dropping the really long live stream races - which don't seem to be a whole lot of fun for you sometimes anyway - is the way to go? Either way, I loved loved loved this - you're at your best when you're doing bonkers crazy shit like this and you big silly grin while you do it really shows through in the end result 10/10 mate!

And imagine the lunacy required to pilot these things in real life at full pelt while having to dance with death every time you made a mistake or a mechanic stuffed up. The gonads on those lads must have been ginormus!

This is mod review is an instant classic, amazing video.

Yet another brilliant video Jimmy, love the way you referred to the F1 engines as "hand grenades" ..... very true of the time, though were you aware that in actual fact the YAMAHA F1 engines used by the 1989 Zakspeed team WERE ACTUALLY hand grenades !!! And were often referred to as exactly that because of the regularity (even when turned down for the race) with which they BLEW UP !!!

I'm 54 and not old! ;) The mid eighties turbos were.... sublime. Watch full race reruns. OMG. The best era of F1? Maybe its just about what you watched as you grew up. But Senna, Prost, Mansell and Piquet in these monsters? Just the best.

3:00 Jimmer with the Todd Rogers Human Element (TM) strats

Good on you Jimmy. You're like a fine bottle of red wine.. you just keep getting better.

So today was my first day (Not including last summer) of me working at an auto shop, and one of the guys there gave me a freakin' WELDER as a gift. And the cool thing about this welder in particular is that instead of needing a big oxygen tank, it includes like 2 pounds of solid oxygen pellets, and you literally set one on fire, then put it in this canister, which releases the oxygen this welder needs. It's absolutely bizarre, but it's so cool at the same time.

Hey editor is 7:02 the first time we've seen that dual camera view? I like it!

I missed your quick and easy prerolls!

A Williams FW15 with the experimental CVT gearbox would be interesting in the sim

One big difference of this compared to archive footage of the FW12 it's made to look like is this thing is absolutely stuck to the ground everywhere whereas if you look and Mansell and Piquet the car is bouncing around all over the place. So either you have way too much downforce on or (much more likely) the track isn't bumpy enough...still looks great though!

I saw these Race in 1986 Adelaide. I was 4 years old. Still remember the noise, my Dad made me use ear plugs all day 😅 You could even hear these cars racing 20km away in the nearby hills. Not even joking!

Loving the "racing-slippers"!! 😎

try it ayrton senna style gas tapping to keep the turbo going

This looks like so much fun

Nice lap!

Wow Jimmer. 0 to Jesusssss in 6 seconds. Mansell, Schuie, Damon and all the rest 'raced' these wheel to wheel! They say Mansell could drive up the wall and along the ceiling of a tunnel, upside down, it had so much downforce. I remember and love those races. Thanks so much for this nostalgia. No punterino Jimmer.

I remember the days of those quali engines and entire spare cars. Used more engines in one weekend than in half a season nowadays.

I tell you what we need more in sim racing. Sheer TT servers for these things around a circuit like this or classic Adelaide. THAT is peak simracing.

One of the main reasons the cars didn't finish is because the rules were much more open so every team was pushing the limits far more. Now there is an emphasis on the cost and that means durability and standardized parts and a much more strict rulebook. When there are very few rules every boundary is pushed to the extreme.

I'm 38. This car is nearly as old as me and yeah, they made everything absolutely fucking bonkers back in the day. Just look at Senna and his black and gold Lotus 98T. Stupidly mad car. Same era.

This was the era of F1 when I was just getting into motorsports . . . IIUC, some of those Quali engines were knocking on the door of 1500 hp at full song.

Just because I remember these cars doesn't make me old. It makes me classic.

„Sorry old people“ I felt that 😂

My glorious kia rio with a broken EGR valve had similar turbo lag but with not quite as much power

Great work jimmy 😊, thanks for another historic F1 car 🏎 lap respect 🙏 🫡 😊

god damn videos like this make me miss eras of formula one that where gone before i was even born

First place I took this car after I bought it was Nords. I was also surprised when it turned what it called a 6:57 lap. 5:57 sounds much more like it to me from what I experienced.

I worked at the USGP in Detroit in the 80's and the bigger teams would literally throw away the qualifying engines after the session as there were no useable parts left in them. Those things were beasts!

Love your stuff Jimmy 😂😅 you the reason I got acc ❤

f1 cars really had a severe boost addiction back then

It would be interesting to see what that motor could do in a modern F1 car with 8 speeds and DRS!

great video jimmer

I wanna see a VR race in this classic F1 car from F1 2013.

Please, Jimmer I want a cinema video of this lap.

I kinda miss these "money isn't an issue" times in racing. Nowadays they have tons of budget restrictions and limited testing hours to ensure that there isn't just one guy who wins every race

Jimmer, ur lap started for some reason when u loaded in so by the time u started the lap it was 1 minute and 8 seconds into the lap so the lap should be in the 5:17’s

jimmys casually sliding the most powerful f1 car around the most dangerous racetrack in grandad slippers, love it jimmy ;D

Someone needs to mod in the 93 Williams prototype with the CVT so this guy can hot lap that time bomb of a drivetrain

that Williams was and is the most advanced car I've ever seen

Jimmer banger video epic

Classic Jimmer content, what's not to like!

Now this enbgine in modern chassis ad tires.

I've been into F1 racing since Geoff Crammond was a virgin and I have never seen any drive as insane as this legendary James

nice racing shoes jimmer❤❤

Are you gonna be at Goodwood this weekend jimmer?

I wonder what would happen if you keep pushing the accelerator when changing gear or in low speed corners to keep the turbo spooling... As far as i know thats what senna did, mansell too

We should bring these engines back.

How dare you say sorry old people? I'm 36 not 37 lmao! Always enjoy these videos when you pull out some motorsport legends Jimmer!

Would love to see you host online race with this car. Not when you just race AI but actually get your community involved in a short 25 min race with this car

Love the fact you smashed a lap out in your slippers 😂

1986 was my first year of watching, i have severely rose tinted glasses for those cars.

Great value at £4. And kind of appropriate. Computer games on cassette tape in that era were typically £3.99

This would be *terrifying* to drive at Bathurst

Rss smashed it out the park again with this❤

RSS's historics never miss - their Formula 70 and 90 were absolutely amazing, and this is no exception. Between this stuff, Sergio Loro's excellent old tracks, and VRC's 90's BTCC pack, Assetto Corsa is in such a wonderful place at the moment - I just wish it had better Ai, which I know is being worked on.

What a rush, now that's how it should be

I think he summed up the draw of simracing pretty neatly, "Drive mad cars in places I've never been"

Formula RSS should make a Williams FW15C I would love to drive a car that has active suspension abs and traction control I want to know how such a car would feel. But probably a active suspension is not possible in AC.

1:18 Dammit Jimmy why did you have to leak the SF-24 like that. NOW OUR SECRET FOR ETERNAL SUCCESS IS GOING TO SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE ACCROSS THE WORLD!