porsche is just utterly insane when it comes to endurance racing they have taken 18 rolex 24 overall wins and 19 overall 24h of le mans wins, not even mentioning the wins they got as an engine supplier or the class victories in various endurance gt classes
Prototypes will never not be cool (aside from the early DP cars) but seeing GT cars fight for overall wins against them is something thats always a sight to behold.
I think they looked interesting. Sure, they were silhouette cars, akin to Nascar or the current Rally1 Cars in WRC, but they offered variety in the endurance racing landscape and, most importantly, produced good racing.
3:54: One of the favorite cars for many fans of that era, the Momo Ferrari."Gentleman" driver, Giampero Moretti, founder of Momo, an auto excessories company in Italy, tried for almost 30 years to win the LeMans or Rolex 24 Hours. In 1996, his car finished 2nd less than a minute behind the Riley and Scott co driven by Wayne Taylor. In 1998, he, Arie Luyendyk, Mauro Baldi, and Didier Theys won the Rolex 24. Moretti got in the car and drove it to the finish in the last 45 minutes with not a dry eye in the house.
I Love the era when it was possible for GT cars to take overall victories. Nowadays it would take a massive hypercar pileup for a fast GT3 car to triumph.
Really loves these videos always wanted to know the history of endurance racing in North America. Could you do a complication of all the 24 hours of Daytona since the start. A Daytona 24 through the years
Great video. I’m really looking forward to 24 hours of Daytona and this whole season! I just wanted to point out Chevrolet/GM had another overall victory in 2014 with Chevrolet Corvette DP. The chassis was a Coyote I think but they were running a GM LS6 V8 engine in the Daytona prototype class. Thanks
Technically yes they did with Action Express Racing. But for this video I labeled it as Coyote winning Daytona as the sources I gathered labeled it as Coyote winning overall in 2014
My sources said that the labeled manufacturer was actually Coyote. I choose to say Coyote was the manufacturer that won in 2014, even though it was technically Chevy, as that was what my research indicated.
