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Ahhhh.. the good ol days. The 787B was behemoth of a race car. Fascinating technical insights here. Great upload. Watching LeMans 2024 cured my insomnia!

It's so stupid that most accidents in rally during the Group B era were caused by spectator on the track, but they decided to blame the car spec rule instead.

I remember seeing the R8 for the first time at Sebring 2000. I could immediately tell it was something special.

GT series should be more popular imo. The cars are cooler.

Group C was flourishing to overtake F1 until Mr B.E destroyed it.

Very cool video. If you liked this comment so far, hit the "like" button, it makes a huge difference. Bring more videos about DTM beasts.

I always pronounced it as "Gillette". Well, I stand corrected.

There should be a fan car series.

i drove it many times... in Gran Turismo 2/3 and 4

20 or so years later, Aston Martin debuted another underpowered dog of a prototype racer called the "AMR-One".

I'm not here to argue the pronunciation of aluminum. But when you Brits say it wrong I throw tea into the ocean. 😂

I was at le mans in 2001 and 2002. There's a clip in the video where you can see me standing on the grassy knoll.

The road going version is my 'money no object' dream car - don't know why, but it enamoured me instantly

We're gonna need a video on that Ferrari. I had heard of that 550 GT car but never knew just how quick they were off the bat or that they decided not to contest unexpectedly.

Will you ever do a video of the history of GTP? Similar to your GC video

This whole video is kind of a waste. Think about it. The Porsche 956 was designed in 1981. The Porsche 962 was designed in 1984. So jaguar finally beat cars that were several years old after a few years of trial and error full redesigns some extensive including the engine doing this after every loss to Porsche. Meanwhile broke Porsche did very little and most changes were just to make the car legal so that model they were working on could race in other racing series. Don’t forget in racing a car older than 3 years is typically developed out! Look at Red Bull in F1 right now. They nailed the rules in 2022 especially by mid season. The other teams caught up this year because by year 3 there is only so much Red Bull could do without rule changes with aero. Not much you can learn about a race car in year 3 or 4 or 7. Porsche also had many pvt teams buying their cars which means all those teams looked at tweaking things in the hopes of a finding an advantage Porsche didn’t see. So by 1988 it’s developed out big time. So that old beast of a car she’s gotta race a brand new car that had cousin cars in years past only purpose was to go out and learn what worked and what didn’t work never winning at all especially right out the box like Porsche did. I’m guessing Jag was better off than Porsche financially (I realize at this time they we’re publicly traded and about to be bought by Ford but Porsche also died off several times in the 80s and 90s) back then as well so they had more money to throw at it and didn’t have to worry about supplying a insane amount of customer cars like Porsche did with both the 956 and 962. Really if anything the headline for this vid should be something like why did it take them so long to beat old broke Porsche!! This is all another reason those Porsches are legends if you ask me. It Took a manufacture throwing tons of money and brand new latest and greatest tech over 3 years changing models and engines output every year just to learn how to match and occasionally beat a very old school out of date chassis in a old broke ass Porsche….

I love how people romanticize that one car that so and so made. Ford made a bad ass GT40 and went on to make...the Contour. Wasted talent.

Cool video, but how did the Audi 90 Quattro change American sports car racing forever? Based on this video, it would appear that the Audi 200 Quattro had a bigger impact on American racing.

We spell it differently which most people who complain about how we say it as there is one less I.

i remenber this and the le mans flip , crazy cars crazy cars

My beloved fridge

Ol viper just couldn’t hang

It’s wild how tame group b was in the beginning

aka. "Let build our own Meta Game with our R8"

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I love NSX gt2

Corvette vs Viper vs Ford GT vs Saleen if only they all compete in the same year

I always thought that the engine was in the rear of the car giving the look of it

Saw them at Road Atlanta and Have book about them took my daughter to the races and got her hooked on road racing she moved to London and now it’s Le Mans that we do

it's a crime that polyphony digital never inlcluded it again in future gt games

The Squidd thumbnail made me happy. fucking clickbait.

What a bunch of nimrods 😮

Whut 😮

That car has a really cool name 👍🏽

“Nimrod” should have been the first warning.

British designer for this car-he’d previously designed the Peugeot 905. Peter Ellery.

I love the C5-R since first seeing (and more improtantly hearing) them at Le Mans in 2000! 24 years later I now own a C5 - ambition fulfilled!

Europeans try not to hate america challenge: impossible. Now before you all come crying in the comments, chill its a joke and also dont diss my darling V8.

This car had HUGE potential. The main issue was excess drag, not lack of power. The 6.3 engine was up to the race-spec power level of Sauber and Nissan turbos (admittedly not qually but that is less important in endurance racing) and level with Jaguar V12s race or qually. The chassis had too much downforce and drag which massively limited top speed when they arrived at Le Mans. But in only their third race at Brands Hatch they finished 4th - in a field which contained works Mercedes, Jaguars, Nissans, Toyotas, Mazdas, various Porsche 962s, some excellent C2 cars etc. The high downforce was just what you needed at Brands hence the performance in what was still a very new car, beating local favourites Jaguar (as an aside, it is interesting how the fame and fortune of those two English brands has effectively switched in the intervening years).The car in the next few races secured 6th/7th/8th place finishes against the colossal competition listed above, at circuits like Spa, Nurburgring, Donington. The aerodynamics were being completely revised for 1990 and a lot of the drag/downforce had been dialled out. Their non-participation in 1990 is a huge "what-if?" of the Group C era and it is a terrible shame Ford pulled the plug as the AMR-2 was being designed (I think they got as far as building a tub or two). I was at both the Brands and Donington races in 1989 so at least got to see it raced in anger twice. The car had the most glorious exhaust note of any car in Group C, US V8s, Mazda rotaries, Merc turbo V8s and barking Jag V12s all included. It sounded like a classier version of a big American V8 and would purr, rumble and roar. The car was simply a glorious sight and sound and I loved its Union Jack-esque patriotic livery, actually a coincidence as the main title sponsor was French oil group Mobil, but nevertheless it looked great on a British car. A terrible, terrible shame the team didn't continue. I tend to think they could have won the 24 in '91 at what would have been their third Le mans assault. I should also mention a Scottish connection in all this - IIRC Protech had a lot of Ecurie Ecosse personnel on the team. At the famous 1993 F1 European Grand Prix meeting at Donington (where in soaking wet conditions Ayrton Senna at one point had lapped the field), despite being thoroughly cold, wet and miserable, I got into the paddock for the touring car support race (BTCC) and spoke briefly with the late David Leslie who was competing in that race and who signed my programme. A hugely underrated driver who was racing the AMR-1 in 1989 as a works driver. I immediately asked him about the Aston (LOL screw the touring cars - I think he was a works Nissan driver at the time) and the AMR-2's potential. He seemed as depressed as me about the programme being cut in its infancy (it was relatively recent history at the time) and felt the AMR-2 would have been mighty, particularly at Le Mans due to the reduced drag of the second chassis design. A biased view, perhaps, but the quiet Mr Leslie was no braggard or bs-er, so I tend to take him at his word. Btw, another of the AMR-1 drivers was the (still living) legend Brian Redman... The Toyota TS-010 was perhaps in essence Tony Southgate's design for the 3.5 litre Group C1, originally intended as the Aston Martin AMR-3, which would have been powered by a badged Ford F1 HB V8 3.5 - as was the utterly awesome 1991 title-winning Jaguar XJR-14. Another case of "what might have been?", although hard to see it beating that particular Jag! Southgate of course had designed the world title and Le Mans winning Jaguars to that point but was (presumably) let go when Ross Brawn and team came in for the XJR-14, so Aston tried to snap him up and would have done, but for the project cancellation. One can wonder whether a Ford HB V8 powered TS-010 would have been quicker than the Toyota V10 powered version we got, but I'm getting into alternative universes here. A footnote - the Nimrods were not a total disaster, nor a great success. They weren't designed as Group C cars which is not mentioned in the film - they were actually an out of date late 70s (Lola designed and built) flat-bottomed chassis design and they struggled to shoe-horn ground effect venturi and other features as a result. It was obsolete as soon as Group C came in. The original design, if racing in the late 70s, might have been nearer the front of the grid against e.g. Porsche 936s, Renault A442s, Alfa 33s etc, although not convinced they'd have beaten that sort of competition on such a limited budget! I think modified forms of Aston Martin Nimrod raced until 1985. Engine reliability (prep was by Tickford) was the main issue however (ditto with EMKA, Cheetah etc). They did achieve some IMSA top-6 finishes however, including at Daytona IIRC. For both cars, I recommend Paul Chudecki's book Aston Martin V8 Race Cars which sets out the full racing history of both Nimrod and AMR1 programmes. It's out of print but a superb read. And a big THANKS for covering this car, it is a largely forgotten late-ish works Group C effort which had bags of character and potential, first rate drivers etc. The project's cancellation is my motor-racing equivalent of the TSR-2 and it still pains me. I won't explain that reference, but those who know what I'm referring to will understand!

2:46 What car is in front of the Peugeot

What camera do you use?

The most performance faked car of every GT. Who tells to the people that the engine was... an humble 3.2 v6 "Busso", shared with 147 GTA? You've to play GTR2 to have a believable Gillet racecar

The Storm is a phenomenal car.

he needs display cases for his models, plastic or glass.

It may have not been competitive but that 1983 EMKA car in red sure was pretty

Love hearing the z31 get mentioned in this period of racing. Could’ve mentioned that as well as the z32 gto class car , there was also the z31 gto class car

Nice to see ur channel is growing

Put your foot in that big corvette and rotate the earth.

“NIMROD RACING” 🤣🤣🤣

I remember this car from the video clip of Superfunk “Last Dance”.