Fraser Best race cars are more sensivel than street cars, so if you wanna be a racer, you need to know the control of your car practecing on other type of racing, and you need to know how is the track. thats why exist the qualafiting think
Wow, nearly tipped 340 km/h a couple of times. Imagine the speed without the chicanes. Those were the days. That tire blowout was really scary and could easily ended in big tears. Skilled driver for sure!
Reflexes and reaction time are two different things. His reflexes can only improve so much, and the brain can only become so quick to process... he was expecting it, he knew the car well through that corner and tentatively got a little earlier trying to see if he could get away with it, then quickly adjusted. He must have read something before he felt the rear go, because that's just beyond Ayrton Senna reaction times....
Hit the nail right on the head there. These cars are going so fast that you can't just go off reactions alone. These drivers know exactly how the car will react to the inputs it receives. He knew accelerating that early in the chicane would have a good chance of breaking the rear loose. So when it did, he was ready.
Andres .C Brandon Ryan Tiago Jorge Anything involving hand-eye coordination is, by definition, a _reaction_ and not a reflex, no matter how fast you are going.
Ben Ryder Yes, today. But back in the times it was in full condition and the Mulsanne straight was an actual straight without the chicanes, Sauber C9 reached 400 km/h in qualification, while ti was definitely a bit slower in a race mode, it still repeatedly reached about 380 km/h in the race, which is tremendous if you consider the fact it is a 24 hour race. Those C11s were even a bit faster then those C9s, but I don't know the precise number, maybe about 405 km/h. Nowadays, these cars are historics, they are still very fast but they never reach the speeds they did when they were in full condition. Real beauties and moster in the time
SRAMEK Yes yes. I know the old LM had a massive straight without the kinks. But the car looks like it is stuck between mid 320s and 330s due to the gearing or something.
SRAMEK Ben Ryder Firstly, the C9 reached 400km/h _once_, driven by Kenny Acheson in 1989. Secondly, it did not happen at night. Not ever. This was the last time the old 5 kilometre straight was used. From 1990 onwards, chicanes were introduced and nobody has been anywhere near 400 km/h since. The highest ever top speed on the Mulsanne Straight by any car was the Peugeot WM88 in 1988 which reached 405 km/h. Anything about the C11 reaching 405 is speculation because it never raced on tracks where that sort of speed would be possible. The practical limit for this C9 would probably be somewhere north of 340 (which you can see just before the first chicane). The highest speed recorded in 1990 was a Nissan at 366 km/h, which is amazing considering how little distance they travel. There would be no point gearing them any higher. Even as it was, it would have taken probably 2/3rds or even 3/4 of the length of the old straight to get up to 400 km/h. The drag at that speed is enormous. For the record, the FIA no longer sanctions tracks with straight lengths over 2 kms.
in real Group C race cars were pretty easy to drive race cars other than japanese games try to tell us... you need a easy to drive car if driver should push it over 24h too the limit or close to the limit... u can build a hard to drive endurance racer but the chances that it will be successfull tend to zerro... best way to judge that is to watch semi pro driver getting the chance to drive such cars ...they all tell you they are impressed how easy the Group Ccars are to control...that is exactly what you need if you drive 24h under hard competition. The less stress the car put on the driver the more energy he could put into driving at the limit without exhursting... the 787B is a good example how to make it wrong.... their lucky win at LeMans was so exhursting for Johnny Herbert in the last stin that he could not go to the podium to celebrat with the other driver the one and only victory of the car... the noise and heat level in the Mazda 787B was borderline suicid level...
garyhope2 Wrong- NASCAR engines actually rev much higher than this. The typical stock car redlines at ~9700rpm. In the 2014 season (when power wasn't restricted), they were making 950hp out of a naturally aspirated 5.8L PUSHROD v8, turning at over 10,000 rpm. You may criticize the tracks and the fans, but NASCAR engines are a wonderful thing.
This really could become the new F1 - please don't ruin this too by turning it into another environmental treehugging PR bullshit thing. And this is coming from a philosophically buddhistic ovo-lacto vegetarian hippie.. ..that likes to fly around corners smelling like gasoline to the music of noisy engines.
What??? The fastest class on le mans is lmp1 hybrid, you can complain about threehuggers, but those cars use even less fuel that f1 cars... This is just an old sauber from the early 90's.
Im pretty sure this might be the fastest lemans car of all time, this thing was just beyond powerful and agile. The c9 was already a monster but this c11 is a souped up c9.
This is in the top five for me easily. You should also check out Georg Plasa's BMW V8, Jozef Beres Audi Quattro 5cyl, and Mazda 787B 3-rotor flyby videos. Heres my favorite 787b flyby ruclips.net/video/7dBiPZBIst4/видео.html
I watched this so many times and again this could easily have been so much worse. What cool hands! So much on top of her; came out 2nd chicane and got on her early and she slapped him hard-yet he caught it.
she got a little tail happy at the end there ill admit im an ok driver but i would be shitting my pants for him hes like meh all good we have been here before ol gal😂
its a Sauber C11.. i dont understand why people call it Mercedes?? The car was developed and built by Sauber in Hiwil Switzerland. Mercedes has just built the Engine. Correct name is Sauber Mercedes C11
wrong. colloquial almost everybody says "sauber c11". but the official and correct name is "mercedes-benz c11". there was an interview with leo ress who engineered the c11. he said that the last race car with the name "mercedes" was the w 196 (silberpfeil) from 1955. after that no race car had the name "mercedes" in it. but the c11 officially was the the first race car after 45 years called "mercedes" again. it was the race drivers, the commentators and the motorsport magazines who called it "sauber c11". by the way: the sauber c7 was powered by a bmw engine. the sauber c8 was the first race car in cooperation with mercedes-benz. and from 1987-89 the c9's official name was "sauber c9" or "sauber-mercedes c9", but from january to april 1990 they named it "mercedes-benz c9". there never was a c10 because it was difficult to pronounce the name. so in theory the c11 is a c10. oh...and: both companies, sauber and mercedes, developed and built the c11.
That is so intense. I would be so exhausted after this that I would probably sleep for three days after qualifying. It takes a special kind of individual to do this..
Driving with a manual 'box and unassisted steering should definitely have another taste... It has a very different, much crisper taste for we, simple watchers, I can imagine how different it is when actually done in first person.
The C11 is an amazing sounding car, another good on board video of this Beast.....Good driving well before the blow out, then an excellent save, Great Stuff....
Huge respect for saving that! He is going 290 kmh when he goes onto the grass after the blowout! I've seen Nigel Mansell save an F1 horror smash in the Australian F1 Grand Prix in the 80s, which was on a par with this one. Well done that driver!
Great video! I like how you can see the throttle and brake on the green and red bars. It's amazing how much of the driving is done on full throttle, and how quickly he gets back to full after cornering.
There's more to racing than top speed. The Group C brakes earlier and slows more than the LMP1. It's also important to remember that Group C cars could only be pushed hard in qualifying. In the race, they had to save fuel.
And he went that fast while in zero gear.
Imagine how much faster he would go if head cranked into 1st gear.
Lol
@Dane look at the gear indicator it always says 0
Lololol
REKCEP 😀😂😂😂
CVT!
nice engine sound!
***** For sure!
Engine sounds brutal! Acceleration wow!
Phenomenal levels of control, and what a brute of a car!
Driving that car should be the closest thing to being in a war.
310km/h??? 337km/h wohl ehr... ich liebe den W119
Gran tourismo for me for sure realitie kick in at 6377RPM 336KPH 1:26 🏆
How the driver controlled that I don't know, but it was fantastically well done.
Anya: that is just insane.
Once, 416kph with a WM powered by a Peugeot engine, in 1988. It was in a test drive.
405km/h in race.
Too easy if you're a good pilot.
It was actually 407.
They said 405 to promote the Peugeot 405. ;)
Fraser Best race cars are more sensivel than street cars, so if you wanna be a racer, you need to know the control of your car practecing on other type of racing, and you need to know how is the track. thats why exist the qualafiting think
even speedo is not sure how fast is it
300 310 330 Kmh idk man
@@ashtonjames7166 340 km
I had a blowout in the same place the other month, no big deal. I simply reset to game.
This is funny lol
If your a real car guy, you gotta love video games 😁🏁🏁
Well, if you play online in simracing you can reset nothing.
@@bestopinion9257 bruh its a joke
@@SeanCampbell_iRacing bruh?
Driving one handed down the
Mulsane like a total boss.
Fun fact, the Mulsanne straight used to be fully straight and the bends had to be added because the Sauber C9 was consistently reaching 400 km/h
They thought about adding ballast, but the 100lb balls of steel the drivers had was enough :P
I was going to ask if that was the Mulsanne chicanes...
No, shifting is mandatory
Wow, nearly tipped 340 km/h a couple of times. Imagine the speed without the chicanes. Those were the days. That tire blowout was really scary and could easily ended in big tears. Skilled driver for sure!
400-410kmh
Old mulsane straight ❤❤❤❤ love the old lemans setup❤
Ma il punta tacco no?
249 mph was the unofficial record, Porsche 917. Officially 246.
You can learn what to do when a tire blowout happens in driver safety courses, and there are also race driving courses as well.
Great save from oversteer at 1:35 very quick reaction!
Reflexes and reaction time are two different things. His reflexes can only improve so much, and the brain can only become so quick to process... he was expecting it, he knew the car well through that corner and tentatively got a little earlier trying to see if he could get away with it, then quickly adjusted. He must have read something before he felt the rear go, because that's just beyond Ayrton Senna reaction times....
Andres .C Great explanation, I like it even more now!
Hit the nail right on the head there. These cars are going so fast that you can't just go off reactions alone. These drivers know exactly how the car will react to the inputs it receives. He knew accelerating that early in the chicane would have a good chance of breaking the rear loose. So when it did, he was ready.
Andres .C Brandon Ryan Tiago Jorge Anything involving hand-eye coordination is, by definition, a _reaction_ and not a reflex, no matter how fast you are going.
TheThirdMan I know, that's what I said. It was a reaction not a reflex. A reflex is bumping your knee with a hammer and kicking in consecuence.
My arms are sore just by watching that heavy steering. Oof
How exciting it must have been to reach 400 km/h in this, especially at night
It looked like it maxed out at 330 km/h
Ben Ryder Yes, today. But back in the times it was in full condition and the Mulsanne straight was an actual straight without the chicanes, Sauber C9 reached 400 km/h in qualification, while ti was definitely a bit slower in a race mode, it still repeatedly reached about 380 km/h in the race, which is tremendous if you consider the fact it is a 24 hour race. Those C11s were even a bit faster then those C9s, but I don't know the precise number, maybe about 405 km/h. Nowadays, these cars are historics, they are still very fast but they never reach the speeds they did when they were in full condition. Real beauties and moster in the time
SRAMEK Yes yes. I know the old LM had a massive straight without the kinks. But the car looks like it is stuck between mid 320s and 330s due to the gearing or something.
Ben Ryder gear ratio
SRAMEK Ben Ryder Firstly, the C9 reached 400km/h _once_, driven by Kenny Acheson in 1989. Secondly, it did not happen at night. Not ever. This was the last time the old 5 kilometre straight was used. From 1990 onwards, chicanes were introduced and nobody has been anywhere near 400 km/h since. The highest ever top speed on the Mulsanne Straight by any car was the Peugeot WM88 in 1988 which reached 405 km/h. Anything about the C11 reaching 405 is speculation because it never raced on tracks where that sort of speed would be possible. The practical limit for this C9 would probably be somewhere north of 340 (which you can see just before the first chicane). The highest speed recorded in 1990 was a Nissan at 366 km/h, which is amazing considering how little distance they travel. There would be no point gearing them any higher. Even as it was, it would have taken probably 2/3rds or even 3/4 of the length of the old straight to get up to 400 km/h. The drag at that speed is enormous. For the record, the FIA no longer sanctions tracks with straight lengths over 2 kms.
yes - shifting at 303 kmH to the next gear ;-)
kt35 pw fast and furious
no traction control, just skill is what you witnessed.
that explains why it accelerates like an out of control demon thats about ready to kill the driver yet the driver has full tame
That was a very nice safe sir, well done!
Oh these old group C cars, nothing else will never come close to them.
Gotta love em'!
Yeah, nowadays le mans cars are a total joke next to these
2:56
New underwear time.
Proper driving in a proper car, manual gearbox, more power than traction... Respect...
Even though the Mercedes was either turbocharged or supercharged it had the sound of a big American or Australian V8
That beast is difficult to drive even in Gran Turismo Sport
In Assetto Corsa with the turbos turned all the way up, it's borderline undriveable below 4th gear. Absolutely badass machine.
Fav car in GTS from a pure enjoyment standpoint
Husaberg R Except its not
in real Group C race cars were pretty easy to drive race cars other than japanese games try to tell us... you need a easy to drive car if driver should push it over 24h too the limit or close to the limit... u can build a hard to drive endurance racer but the chances that it will be successfull tend to zerro... best way to judge that is to watch semi pro driver getting the chance to drive such cars ...they all tell you they are impressed how easy the Group Ccars are to control...that is exactly what you need if you drive 24h under hard competition. The less stress the car put on the driver the more energy he could put into driving at the limit without exhursting... the 787B is a good example how to make it wrong.... their lucky win at LeMans was so exhursting for Johnny Herbert in the last stin that he could not go to the podium to celebrat with the other driver the one and only victory of the car... the noise and heat level in the Mazda 787B was borderline suicid level...
Manual gearbox! I miss that so much!
Julio Cesar all race cars are manual??
@@jacksonsims2685 old days yes, by now no one left
Julio Cesar every car in NASCAR is manual, every F1 car is manual, every Le Mans/WEC car is manual
Jackson Sims I guess he means it's an H shifter with clutch (no sequential stick, no paddle shifters).
David Aguilera if he means that then he would be correct but I don’t know if that’s what he’s talking about.
For him to be driving the c11 like this in 2012 makes this pilot my hero! This is how they are supposed to be driven. Who is driving here?
Bob berridge
Proper sound, proper manual gearbox, proper driving!
Its manual didn't know that
@@luxuriousmindset1906 You can see driver with right hand change the gear.
Thats called Racing! Not modern F1! Fack them, as J. Clarkson said :)
top gear would have been funnier if they all spoke like that lol
It hits 340 kmph mark.
I can't believe 212 mph, Jesus chirst that is a fast motor lol
amazing stuff, and beautifully controlled that blowout
310kph?
Windshield wiper: “hold my beer.”
respect....proper natural racing driver with reactions to match....superb
These cars have no problem doing 390km/h or 242 mph. Amazing
holyshit great car control
This sounds like NASCAR, but much, much, better.
Le Mans compared to NASCAR. Absolutely barbaric!
You idiot, many of the American cars like the Panoz was using a NASCAR engines.
Much higher RPM's. Much more interesting with left AND RIGHT TURNS and speed ups and slow downs.
garyhope2
Wrong-
NASCAR engines actually rev much higher than this. The typical stock car redlines at ~9700rpm.
In the 2014 season (when power wasn't restricted), they were making 950hp out of a naturally aspirated 5.8L PUSHROD v8, turning at over 10,000 rpm.
You may criticize the tracks and the fans, but NASCAR engines are a wonderful thing.
Gᴜᴛꜱ • ᏖᏂᏋ ᏂᎧᏬᏁᎴ Ꭷƒ ᎴᏗᏒᏦᏁᏋᏕᏕ NO THEY ARE NOT
This really could become the new F1 - please don't ruin this too by turning it into another environmental treehugging PR bullshit thing.
And this is coming from a philosophically buddhistic ovo-lacto vegetarian hippie..
..that likes to fly around corners smelling like gasoline to the music of noisy engines.
That's y bernie put a stop to them back in the day before it finished f1
What??? The fastest class on le mans is lmp1 hybrid, you can complain about threehuggers, but those cars use even less fuel that f1 cars... This is just an old sauber from the early 90's.
You might want to read that again, or have someone translate it :)
oh missed the coming form part, sorry about that
+Rhyle To late
What recent car sounds like this?
simply amazing! Especially in neutral gear... :D
BRUUUUUUUTAL sound.....
Much better than the glorified screaming F1 V12
It's a.close battle...really close battle.
Monster car for a monster driver... love it.. so raw and angry
Hell yeaahhh 🔥this sounds like a race car,goes like obe and the driver drives it like obe..👍👍
No paddle shift that's a race car driver skill
Blown tire? Excellent save.
Not a tire, he has blown an engine.
Blown engines dont steer you into the grass tho you can see he was going right even with countersteering
Good GRAVY that engine sound is ORGASMIC.
Music to my ears.
rapide et effrayant!
Ngl I wish the Mulsanne straight had been run without the slowing down corners to see its top speed. I mean it went up to 335 eventually!
Awesome control!! That's why he is there and I am here!
2:54 what you came for
I „came“ sooner than that 🍆
man this car is a monster !!!! I think it's the fastest Mercedes car of all time
Im pretty sure this might be the fastest lemans car of all time, this thing was just beyond powerful and agile. The c9 was already a monster but this c11 is a souped up c9.
+Augusto Ortiz totally agree with you 👍
S. W. 400, with the two chicanes ? Come on.
@Stefan W. It never did 407 km/h.
I've set my alarm clock to that sound
2:50 scares the shit out of my ass. Man’s a living legend to control that...
What an engine!!!!!! What a sound!!!!!!!! That thing is beyond awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I was in the middle of the night walking in a forest and heard this? Yes I would climb to the tallest tree
Long live Group C.
I'm not into cars at all, but from what I've heard over my entire life thus far, this is the best engine sound of all time.
This is in the top five for me easily. You should also check out Georg Plasa's BMW V8, Jozef Beres Audi Quattro 5cyl, and Mazda 787B 3-rotor flyby videos. Heres my favorite 787b flyby ruclips.net/video/7dBiPZBIst4/видео.html
@@followtheciaence4 rotor ;)
Awesome din. Saw them race at Le Mans in 1991 and the C9s at Brands , Donington and Silverstone in 1989.
Pilotos de antigamente eram heróis, que máquina difícil de domar. Isso a quase 400 km/h
Manual gear shift. No traction control. Wow!
3:00 !!! WTF? Piss my pants. Need the huge balls of those heros. Massive respect.
How they could have lived without gear at the wheel ... it looks like pre-history now
And bext step automatic shifting ... that would be insane
Best Group C car for sure, and definitely my favorite! Wish we had it in Gran Turismo 7!
Could not fathom heel toe shifting a monster w/ so much speed and power
Du vrai pilotage du grand Art👏 . Quelle voiture diaboliquement belle😍, une sacré caisse pour de sacré Mec ☝️💪
The reason why he can drive with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the gear it's because the mass of his ball's keeping the car stable
Por dios como soplan esos turbos ni el piloto lo puede controlar a ese demonio que locura debe tener mas de 1000cv seguro 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
real racing 3 !))))))
That is one of the sweetest sounding V8s I've ever heard.
THAT was racing
I watched this so many times and again this could easily have been so much worse. What cool hands! So much on top of her; came out 2nd chicane and got on her early and she slapped him hard-yet he caught it.
she got a little tail happy at the end there ill admit im an ok driver but i would be shitting my pants for him hes like meh all good we have been here before ol gal😂
I am here for the V8 sound !
That was an amazing save. No overcorrection and instantly away from the throttle. Nerves of steel
Como inflan esos turbos por dios 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 una locura
Q luta contra o carro. Não deve ser fácil pilotar uma máquina dessas por muitas voltas. A todo momento o piloto quase perde o controle do carro.
You can see the understeer of those older cars so well, it looks like it hates those apexes but somehow he finds them
Wow, the roar of the MoTec exhaust is amazing!
A brown trouser moment if there ever was one!!
The sound of this car is incredible. Must be a rush to drive. Jesus.
(LeMans, WEC, DTM, Group C)>Modern F1
Sounds Like Chevy Silverado Ls1
最後超ヒヤヒヤした
А что случилось в конце, рулём задергал и конец!?
Скорее всего колесо прожёг
Good ole' group C. The cars are badass to look at, fast on the track, and scary as fuck to drive compared to every other class.
more badass than that 1990 nissan r92cp
and i noticed these cars were the fastest things i seen racing on the track
unlike racecars these dats
+fargeeks those weren't race cars, those were devils on wheels!
Awesome machine and brown trouser time at the end :p
its a Sauber C11.. i dont understand why people call it Mercedes?? The car was developed and built by Sauber in Hiwil Switzerland. Mercedes has just built the Engine.
Correct name is Sauber Mercedes C11
wrong.
colloquial almost everybody says "sauber c11".
but the official and correct name is "mercedes-benz c11".
there was an interview with leo ress who engineered the c11. he said that the last race car with the name "mercedes" was the w 196 (silberpfeil) from 1955. after that no race car had the name "mercedes" in it. but the c11 officially was the the first race car after 45 years called "mercedes" again. it was the race drivers, the commentators and the motorsport magazines who called it "sauber c11".
by the way:
the sauber c7 was powered by a bmw engine.
the sauber c8 was the first race car in cooperation with mercedes-benz.
and from 1987-89 the c9's official name was "sauber c9" or "sauber-mercedes c9", but from january to april 1990 they named it "mercedes-benz c9".
there never was a c10 because it was difficult to pronounce the name. so in theory the c11 is a c10.
oh...and:
both companies, sauber and mercedes, developed and built the c11.
That is so intense. I would be so exhausted after this that I would probably sleep for three days after qualifying. It takes a special kind of individual to do this..
Driving with a manual 'box and unassisted steering should definitely have another taste... It has a very different, much crisper taste for we, simple watchers, I can imagine how different it is when actually done in first person.
Schumacher's car...
Has anybody noticed that the tyre blew out virtually at the spot where Steve Mc queen had his crash in the Le Mans film?
Did not know that. My dad took me to see that movie at the theater when it first came out. Fond memories...
The C11 is an amazing sounding car, another good on board video of this Beast.....Good driving well before the blow out, then an excellent save, Great Stuff....
Huge respect for saving that!
He is going 290 kmh when he goes onto the grass after the blowout!
I've seen Nigel Mansell save an F1 horror smash in the Australian F1 Grand Prix in the 80s, which was on a par with this one. Well done that driver!
Auatralia 87, he lost the championship there, who goes to Prost.
Great video! I like how you can see the throttle and brake on the green and red bars. It's amazing how much of the driving is done on full throttle, and how quickly he gets back to full after cornering.
blame the regulations not the cars.
That's not a mercedes it's a sauber
I prefer Mazda 787b 🤔😬😂
200-300k/h in under 7 seconds!
Front right, I take it?
Gran Turismo real life
German V8 Power. :-)
There's more to racing than top speed. The Group C brakes earlier and slows more than the LMP1. It's also important to remember that Group C cars could only be pushed hard in qualifying. In the race, they had to save fuel.
Exactly.
A few seconds later and that could have been really nasty
HARDCORE !!