This is a tribute to the Era of the World Sportcar Prototype Championship - Group C. Video footage from: lemans24gtone Music: Two Steps From Hell - After The Fall
M. G. How old are you? I'm 15, born in 2002... I'm not from that era, are you? But I have a knowledge about Prototype cars + historic prototype cars thanks to the video game "Gran Turismo"...
Cool, I've played them all in my video game and they do exist, except for the Porsche... my favorite was the merdeces Sauber c9 with well over 370 kph. www.flickr.com/photos/nbdesignz/14396765721 This is a picture of the Sauber the Mazda in the video game... Ikr the graphics is jaw dropping lol xD
@@magnom3922 keep dreaming pal. If the others wouldn't breaked, Mazda wouldn't had won that race. I know, the car looked cool and sounded amazing, but it's rivals were 5+ sec faster. I don't take merits from Herbert, Gachot and co, thou.
@@Ihelpanytime Of course LMP cars are quicker than Group C cars, they came tens of years later. But Group C cars are still fondly remembered as the peak of endurance racing, with ground effect being first introduced in sports cars, with numerous factory teams fighting against each other, and the sheer diversity between the cars. On the same grid, Porsche, with a twin-turbo flat 6, competed alongside Mercedes' twin-turbo V8, Jaguar's NA V12, and Mazda's 4-rotor engines. Unfortunately, being born in 2000, I never had the chance to witness these monsters but I wish that, one day, endurance racing can reach the heights of Group C
@@Ihelpanytime If a Group C/GTP car was built today with todays technology and materials it would destroy a LMP1. These cars had way more down force, they were hitting 250 MPH in straights BACK THEN. In fact the new super cars that are hitting 300MPH already are basically modern group C/GTP cars with similar body styles for those levels of down force, but with todays technology.
@@Ihelpanytime it's always good to see true passion. But bear in mind one thing: the mere top speed or top acceleration or best record lap obtained nowadays is "obvious" to get. Technology helps in every corner: computerized simulations upfront, materials knowledge, manufacturing so precise to be unseen by human eyes but effective for a computer controlled machine even when producing a rivet. Back in the '80s was still a world where projects were rarely computerized: it was still pen, paper, engineers ideas and testing. Computers were at the dawn and used as telemetry after building the car with few informations compared to nowadays. Have a look to car-cams from GroupC, Rally, F1 in the '80s-'90s and make a visual comparison to today's car-cams. It should give you immediately the difference at least about car's behaviour and smoothness of drive. The "way" to reach and drive at 320km/h back in the '80s was absolutely another world compared to cruise now at 350km/h. Today's drivers can't even imagine it: they drive on a railway compared to 30 years ago. The human factor now has become a mere technical-precision on doing what is needed to put the car in the condition wrote by a man-aided with a computer. Back then was almost guessing, was pure unknow to be discovered just once on Mulsanne at 330km/h. This makes the difference.
JRR. you get an MTV and AVA award for this work of art! Judging by the comments below, you nailed it! This truely captures why there is such a love for man and machine!
Requirements to drive these monsters........ Have massive ball's, and be able to put 140kg of pressure on the break for hours. Awesome cars. Awesome drivers :)
What a great iconic era in motorsport. The cars, the drivers... the sounds, the smell .. the speed... amazing cars they were...Great video showcasing the monsters from the past...thank you for sharing..
No paddle shifts , real stick shifts , 240 mph plus, they were awesome spectacles as were the MEN who drove them .Sadly their days came to pass . 2012 is the year they will return to open at Le Mans in vintage racing ... the Gods of racing may smile upon them as the fans will clamor their return and once more the tracks will bear the thunder of the mighty Group C . The music score is most appropriate for this tribute and should be named for those of us who do not know the title
no,it died in 99 after the demise of gt1 .. group c was intense,but they had stupid fuel limitation regulation... most drivers talked about fuel saving this and that.. boring eco run. the eco run of group c ended with 3.5L spec engine,but then again that was only half decent because of the engine note.
I'm a guy that likes to hear the sound of the vehicles instead of music, but in this case the music by " Two Steps From Hell" called "After The Fall (No Voice)" is just perfect.
As my d+t teacher used to say when i was in school. Quuwwwality. Vaguely remember silk cut cigarette adverts at airports showing the jaguars when i was a young-un. Knew it had some connection with my racing car styled pedal go kart but couldn't work out why.
Why both of you guys are angry? Oh, I forgot...welcome to the internet... xD. Group C race cars have higher top speed than F1s, due to lower drag and higher HP, but their weight are as heavy as two F1s, which allows F1 cars to be faster than Group C around the track. But they have lower top speed due to the lack of transmission.
With the popularity of historical type racing and the amount of interest in group C prototype cars and group B rally cars I wonder what would happen if IMSA and the FIA rewound the rule books to the days of group C an B but with today's technology safety and materials. I mean take say the E-Tron put one of Audi's monster I5 motors into that car or any of today's top chassis and put the 1200 to 1500bhp monster engines of the late 80s early 90s qualifying packages combined with modern hybrid power systems what would happen. Just how fast would this modern group c car be at le mon . Now this is what I'd pay good money for
No, it's a 767B. The 767B had the engine radiators on either side of the engine itself, whereas the 787B had the radiator in the nose, resulting in a completely different nose shape.
They don't want people dying. Despite loving group B and C, it was a carnificine. Going down the mulsanne at 250mph or sliding in the dirt 2 feet from the crowd with up to 1000hp rally cars has already caused enough fatalities.
Group C and Group B are perfect example of why free formula for rules just can't work, you end up with extremely dangerous championship, but a competitive one or uncompetitive one, but not as dangerous.
