This Is One Of The Fastest Things I've Ever Driven 

3:02 'I don't believe in apexes.' Jimmer Narrowstraight, sim-racer and amateur racing driver

10:25 is probably fairly accurate to the reaction the Ferrari engineers had when they were testing the F2004 to discover how ludicrously fast it really was

The "V10 Era" on proper slicks was always the dream. Pure insanity no doubt but it would have been fun.

Modern rubber compounds are incredible, it's not just the lack of grooves, there is a lot more to modern tires, including changes in the layout and materials of the carcass.

But how slow do the grooved tires make a modern car? That’s what I wanna know next

I’ve done this and it’s so much more fun to drive the F2004 it’s glued with slicks. Also try the 2005 McLaren too it’s a great mod. The aero is awesome. With the F2004 adding slicks makes it much more competitive.

10:26 Live footage of Ferrari testing the f2004 for the first time.

I was actually lucky enough to see this in real life, except the 2003 On a track in Georgia called Road Atlanta... Ferrari took the F2003 to set a record at Road Atlanta. Except they had provided it with slick tires. It still holds the record for the track to this day

You have to remember your nearly 200Kg LIGHTER than a modern F1 car with the 2004 being 605Kg vs the 798Kg of a 2022 machine.

Your self-deprecating and humble style is very endearing, and you're a darned sight better driver than you sometimes give yourself credit for. But what makes this video, and the channel in general, is the thought, the research, the education, the interest in the technical aspects of the sport. Bravo Jimmy.

The funny thing is, the '05 F1 cars are still faster than the '22 cars over race distance because the '22 cars can't run full power all the time due to battery charging.

The fastest lap time during this years Austrian GP weekend was set during one of the show events by Ralf Schumacher in his 2004 BMW-Williams. Those cars were really fast back in the day. It's not just about top speed. The biggest difference is that those cars were about 200kg lighter. So they were much nimbler in tight corners, they could brake later and had better acceleration out of the corner. The only big advantage modern cars have is downforce, which makes them faster in high speed corners..

The V10s will always be THE sound of F1 to me. Watching the Schumachers, Alonso, Button...and even the kinda forgotten names like Fisichella and Sato. That was great part of my childhood right there!

I love the design of the 2022 cars (besides Mercedes), but there is something about the size of the older cars that excite me! Imagine those cars, with DRS, the passing and racing would be amazing! Wish there was some common ground they could meet on, the cars nowadays are gigantic compared to this older car.

Fun fact: a 2004 era car is faster over a race distance than a current hybrid era car. It's not even close - they're 2-3 minutes faster over a full race. The hybrids are immense over a single lap, but the battery charging and fuel consumption management affect their long runs massively.

absolute beast of a car with that v10

I mean Alonso set pretty much identical times to what the other drivers did at Abu Dhabi when he did his Renault Demo run with his old car on slicks...

I experienced the naturally aspirated V10 twice, once in 99 at the Nürburgring and in 2000 at Hockenheim. You basically needed earplugs anywhere near the track. Those cars were deafeningly loud. Very nice sound, but serious tinnitus risk

There's a setup specifically for the F2004 (with the *khm* non-cheater engine) in Spa that allows much better lap times by lowering the downforce a lot. It is very very hard to drive the car like that as it will try to kill you in every corner, even in Blanchimont which is usually flat out even with the F2004. The times go down to 1:38.1 but most (the non-jedis) will be around 1:40, which is still a very impressive time.

This is such a coincidence! This mod is already out a while and EXACTLY at the day I wanted to upload a video about this car Jimmy does 😂

At some circuits at Ferrari Race Days events, customers with F2002 and F2004 using modern tires were faster than record times! Circuits like Spa, Monza, Silverstone, the FIA doesn't let the times publicize for obvious reasons! Even this year Montoya with a 2003 BMW if I'm not mistaken was faster than the 2022 cars and wasn't even using full power!

Heard a V10 F1 car for the first time irl a few weeks ago at brands hatch. Best sound I have ever heard by a country mile.

My favourite era of F1.. amazing soundtrack, so nimble... so much more exciting than what we have now.. love it!

Thank you so much for this one Jimmy! This is something that I've been thinking about for years now and I'm so happy to see the result.

I seen Michael Schumacher’s F2004 and I clicked immediately!!

“Imagine driving a car like this in real life” -Only Nando has

If that 1:37 was real, it wouldn't have merely beaten the 919 Evo, it would have absolutely demolished that lap record by nearly five seconds, around a track where lap records are decided on tenths. I have a sneaking suspicion the mod is a little bit too generous with how grippy those modern tyres really are.

9:46 you were pushing so hard the front right tire lifted DAMN

All my nostalgia feels are lighting up lol! Fun for new and old fans of F1 I think! Just like the Group B videos, who doesn't like a little bit of a universally adored era?! Great content as always :)

Everytime i hear those exhaust notes, i get excited. If only the modern ones had anything approaching that sound

Proud to be one of the test guys for this mod, and it's incredible to see it on one of your videos! Really happy for Ali! :D

For all doubters: Take a look at the preliminary program for the Austrian GP at the Redbull Ring in 2022. Ralf Schumacher drove a few laps there with his 2003 BMW on Pirelli medium slicks and was immediately, without any real setup, just a second slower than Max Verstappen's pole lap of the same year on soft. Add the difference between Mediums and Soft and then the difference between the Ferrari from 2004 to the BMW from 2003 and a proper setup for the track and you get that the Ferrari F2004 is around 4-5 seconds faster than the current Redbull on the same tires.

4:10 -- Didn't expect to hear Alexander Brandon in the background. Kudos to your editor, have the Conspiravision album running in the background for work regularly. Big nostalgia points with that.

The F2004 on slicks would be sickly fast.

I'm loving your sound effects usage, thanks Jimmer.

Fastest lap of the 2004 Spa gp was 1m45s! Absolutely insane cars even with the grooved tyres

Was wondering when you were going to do a video on this mod!! I tried it out the other day, and it's absolutely mental, especially the A and B tuned spec cars

At the Red Bullring this year - Ralf Schumacher drove his old BMW Williams a few laps with slicks - apparently they could not publish the times as he was faster than the 2022 times 😂

Love when Jimmy makes this kind of content, always a pleasure to watch!! That outro by the way… 😂😂😂

Honestly more amazing than the "less fuel" part: Engines last 6-7 races instead of one :D

despite only being 6 years old when Schumacher was King, he and Ferrari captured my imagination like no one in Motorsport ever has, that brilliant Red Ferrari rocketing down the straights screaming as it blasts around those old tracks, the way he danced it through the corners especially the bust stop chicane at Spa, the sheer speed and brilliance, and the absolute ruthlessness of Michael himself was utterly mesmerising, you can take his records and lap times all you want, but to me he'll forever be the Greatest of All Time

starting my weekend off proper, what a king

Love you man. Thanks for the awesome content.

Thumbs up for jimmer, love the work!!

It's difficult to find figures to clarify/confirm, but a friend of mine runs a classic F5000 in historic racing in the UK (and occasionally abroad), it is an ex Surtees car and was driven by various big time drivers over the years. One of the things he tells me is that due to the tyres being produced with modern techniques, despite looking the same to the eye, and the cars being driven by amateur drivers with wallets (and stomachs) bigger than the skills they possess, the lap times are often 5 seconds faster than they were back in the day in full competition. I think this shows the kind of difference tyre technology can make. Being a couple hundred kgs lighter than the newer stuff helps as well. Same has happened with Sports bikes as well, they are unashamedly around the 210kg level now, they were sub 200kg back in the mid-00s, with the excuse the electronics make up for it. I'm not so sure though.

What a car, love that noise.

I wonder how it would perform with the Ultrasofts from a few years ago

would like to see this with a cup of tea in one hand and a scone in the other..... great vlog brother

Glad you enjoyed it as much as we did during testing :)

I think it would be faster, or at least very close with the modern cars. These cars were 200kg lighter than the modern cars, with similar power outputs but less downforce. The cars move about more too and sound epic and are a lot smaller, makes them way more entertaining to watch as a spectstor

Ralf Schumacher proved this out at the Austrian GP a couple of years ago. They took a 2003 Williams and bolted on modern Pirellis. 47 year old Ralf Schumacher did a short demo run with no practice, no setup optimisation, and with a slightly detuned engine as it was just a display run. He managed to set a time that would have put him on the second row of the grid if he was in qualifying. Imagine how much faster that could have been with a driver in their peak pushing to the limit, with the car properly set up for the conditions. Would have completely blitzed the modern cars. While the modern engines have the same power, they only achieve that some of the time because they have to harvest energy at other times, and they are also significantly heavier. The only reason modern cars are faster than the V10s are because of the wider grippier tyres. Put them on the same tyres and even with their far more advanced modern aero they would struggle against a 2004 car. An interesting comparison is that the all conquering Mercedes of F1 W05, arguably the most dominant car in F1 history, was slower around a lap than a 2004 Minardi at many tracks, before they started clawing that laptime back with wider tyres and more aero in the years that followed.

Jamble f1 vid, team boss king

As a recovering addict of PS2 "TOCA 2" from 1998, I have not touched video games since the early 2000s. I would love to see what you can do with a Group A Nissan Primera or Renault Laguna around the Nordschleife or the old Spa

Great video jimmer, always like to see you in a v10 f1 car, also for a video suggestion, maybe compair a group c car, an lmp1 and le mans hypercar?

that is a master piece of a video

The F2004 IS a beast! The fact alone, that an almost 20 !!! year old car is barely 2 seconds slower thn the 2022 Red Bull says alot. There is a reason, that car is so loved. I once had the honor to sit in one those mashines You dont need to drive it, just sit inside you can feel that car.

I've been waiting for Jimmy to do this video forever

God I can't handle this, as impressive modern f1 is, the raw brutality will always get the edge. DRS and losing the V10 is when the love changed into like.

yes yes yes ive wanted a video exactly like this for so long

Crazy how fast F2004 was! All track records were broken by the newer cars (2018-now). F2004 still holds 3 Circuits, 2 by Schumi (Bahrain, Shanghai) and 1 by Rubens (Monza). On the other hand Kimi (Hockenheim, 2004) and Montoya (Istanbul, 2005) still hold the records respectively. What an era!

There’s not many console sim-racers out there for this kind of stuff but one thing I managed to do on the PS4 Assetto Corsa is drive the F2004 round the old Monza with the banked oval. One of the scariest gaming experiences I’ve ever had but it was amazing.

anyone noted the way jimmy slaps the gear paddle. love it

Oh jimmer!!! You must update that bloody vanilla Spa you're driving. The new 3.0 version was released this/last week... it looks a shed ton better! Great vid once again chap.

Hey there jimmy been watching you for a long time now your the one that got me in sim racing just dont have a proper sim wheel like the fanatic wheel i wish i could have one of thous

Just did a 1:34.171!! I would love to see what the old cars would have done in real life, would have been mental!!

I hear from Rubens Barrichello that they qualify with more gas than normal to hide de full potential of this car, that's how insane this car is!

i can already see jimmo taking the slick tired v10 f1 car around nords 🙃

I wish they would introduce some sort of a one off yearly competition for a lap record, or maybe they do it at every track. Not no rules, but almost no rules. You can have moveable aero, computer controlled suspension and aero, etc. So, the cars only go out on the track one at a time for safety reasons.

thats basically what theyve done at austria this year with ralf schumacher's williams. he said he loved it with slicks (and proper engine sounds) also how beautiful these cars look with slicks on, if i think of alonso's demo run in abu dhabi 2020 with the R25(?)

This video was so epic, that f2004 smashing the lap record by 10 seconds; even the f1 pole lap! XD I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the new lap time! XD Just a suggestion: maybe the same thing can be done on the Temple of Speed (aka Monza), for the best speed performance :) Keep up the good work Jimmy! Lovin' the vids!

I enjoyed this video so much. thank you mate! can you pls take this around the Nürburgring?!?!

didn't Montoya once say that the 2004 cars would become too fast to drive if slicks weren't banned?

would be interesting to see the time with a '93 Williams modelled on the same slick tyres and track

I would argue that the grooved tyres where part of the formula (sic) that made the V10's great. They had the power and they could've had the handling if it wasn't for those dammed tyres, but that made the racing so much better. We where watching risk Vs reward week in and week out. Yeah obviously the sound track helped. Like a lot.

The red of the soft Pirelli rubber on the F2004 hits you right in the Jimmers!

0:11 "The Blues Brothers" Nice! :-D

@ jimmy Broadbent after all these years of simfluacing you still deliver a proper clip....great editing, great tunes...and you made me laugh ...all boxes checked ...thank you

Grooved tyres were also in the days of tyre wars. Michelin and Bridgestone. Ferarri used the Bridgestone and almost everyone else used the Michelin. Michelin's tyres being the reason for the 2005 US Grand Prix being a 6 car farce.

It's not that unrealistic. If you don't count only total downforce, but also a huge weight difference, it's actually pretty realistic comparison. Downforce effectivness is going significantly low when you are adding weight. That is the reason it's so decisive today to have as much downforde as physically possible, because those cars are so heavy that their inercial forces have to be overcome.

Wow! I was just doing some online AC races with the F2004 at Spa today after some months without racing! This car and track is such a great combo I can’t dip into the 1:39s like the guys can tho, they’re crazy fast!

That shot of the F2004 with slicks... Sight of perfection. The V10 era was 'my' era. I'm old enough to vaguely remember the last V12's but my love for F1 was formed in the V10 era. And it's the best engine because it's not only a good engine, it also stirs the soul. Facts. Although to be fair, the modern Turbo V6 is a genuine masterpiece of engineering; most powerful engines in F1 history, most torque, most efficient and generally the most reliable.

As a spectator of F1 from 1986 I think the best sounding cars were from the early 1990s with the V12 Ferraris. Quite often Berger and Alesi would be first out of the pits and you could hear the shriek of the V12 as it went around Spa or Monza.

That's mindblowing, I was gonna crap on the hybrid era time, but my god even a 1:41 is 4 seconds slower

The intro, it's just too much, it had me laughing my ass off, gud jub Jimmer 👍

Good shit Jimmy

3:44 "a good old but of the papti-fun"

Just caught this. What a cracking video. Ye I have to agree gaps probably not that big, probably not far away. At the end of the day the rubber is what makes all the contact with the road, people forget how much tyres change the feel and performance of a car. Real world tip, don’t run budget tyres, dangerous false economy.

Jeez, I miss the 'ripping-curtains' sound of the V-10s!! Best time ever for the F1 class.🏎😄👍

Tats so quick jimmy

The Michelin tyres had grooves at an angle. They passed the contact patch regulations when new but exploited a loophole in the rules which states used tyres could not be expected to maintain the regulation contact patch at all times through their life. As the Michelin tyres wore down, the contact patch became bigger until it was almost a slick again.

Hey Jimmy, loved this! As we are approaching Italian Grand Prix Monza weekend - the fastest track on the F1 calendar - please please can you do a V10 on slicks vs Hybrid shoot-out at Monza and beat Barrichello's fastest race lap record... these comparisons are the best for us misty-eyed V10 beards

They have a 2022 spa in race department, it’s really awesome and you should check it out.

This really blew me away....the porche feels like a mini after this

Someone needs to do this for real

Be interesting to see what a current F1 car would do on the grooved tyres.

that lawnmower sound in the new car 😆

10:34 That flabberghasted expression. "How the feth did I do that in a car from 2004?" The cars were JUST THAT GOOD. I don't carte if this mod isn't realistic.

like. jimmy. go try and use the default f2004 with slicks to have atleast a sim comparison. what a lovely sound ive listened to for almost 12 mins straight

i wonder what it would be like for other f1 eras. The grooved tire era would probably be the one that changes the most, but it would be interesting to see the big turbo lag era cars on modern slicks.

Not bad only 2 sec of Max his pole time! Haha that mod looks like insane fun to drive at any circuit! If you can find a more accurate version (or not haha) use it more often it looks and sounds insane! Maybe take this on a tour of famouse tracks together the 2 other crazy cars?!?