This Car Raced for Over 10 Years. How did it Keep Winning?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The Honda NSX is a sports car icon both on and off the track. Starting life as Japan’s answer to European mid-engined sportscars at the dawn of the 90s, the NSX would go on to change the way we think about supercars. But to become so beloved Honda would need to prove their new flagship was more than just for show, the new NSX would need pedigree, it would need to win...
Written by: Fred Knight
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That's the second most beatiful car to ever compete in SGT after the McLaren F1
@@fqeagles21SOK McLaren F1 GTR, TAISAN VIPER & TAISAN PORSCHE 911 also.
@@purwantiallan5089 nice picks
Only the pre face lift models
It is remarkable that when NSX entered the grid, they were racing against R32s and F40s and on their last season they raced and won against R35s.
R33s to be exact when a NSX entered by Team Kunimitsu joined the JGTC in 1996
entered the grid being broadcast on those old ass crts and left in HD
@@DiscGolfLeagueMVPaww come on CRTs aren't THAT old.. 👴
@@AdamTheMan1993i think it was ‘95, not ‘96. And they came first in the GT2 class which was a huge milestone at that time since their counterparts (NSX-R GT1 Turbo) failed to finish.
Pretty remarkable achievement but it's the result of a good project and tons of resources in development remarkable indeed but not unexpected
I know it's a big part nostalgia, by my god something about NSXs, supras and gtrs on a fuzzy screen with 90s/00s graphics is godly
I know exactly what you're talking about and I agree, those 90s films just seem to make cars.... more real. I love it
Resolution mate... graphics are purely synthetic. Sorry for my knit-pickage!
plus the 4:3 aspect ratio 😩
I actually miss old TV,shitty resolution loaded with commercials for stuff we just had to have,ahhh the memories
@shainemaine1268 just makes me think about how if you want the correct answer to something you post the wrong answer online. It's an odd phenomenon but one that I do enjoy, you learn alot that way.
Before I even got to 22mins into the video I was already thinking "what a nice nsx poster, i want one" lol
I was eying the poster up in the skyline episodes
the NSX status as legendary is well deserved when you have Satoru Nakajima, Ayrton Senna, Gordon Murray, Keiichi Tsuchiya and Kunimitsu Takahashi praising it.
Fun fact: Lanzhu Zhong also a massive fan of these SUPER GT NSX cars especially 2006 ARTA NSX and 2006 TAKATA DOME NSX, and their aforementioned drivers like Ralph Firman, Keiichi Tsuchiya and Ayrton Senna.
Not to mention, Senna was also responsible for the car's handling, when he said it felt fragile, it was and the final product got 50% stiffer
@@gdmya indeed.
You blew up, dude! I remember when you were below 3k subscribers making the same caliber of content then and now, the caliber being godly. Keep going strong
Always super cringe when people wanna define others' 'success' or not. Just comment 'great content, great vid, as always' like how hard is it to make a comment without throwing your own opinion as a factual observation. Honestly...
Every new episode new items are added to the background. The NSX GT Poster and car model. Also I believe it's the first time seeing the Calsonic Skyline model on the shelf next to the McLaren F1 GTR.
These late 90s and early 2000s JGT liveries are sooo iconic! Could watch this old footage all day
The 2020s super gt liveries also are equally iconic.
This is probably the only video that tell the nsx story that also goes through their motorsport history deeply. Amazing video as always
Thumbnail is an absolute stunner!
I honestly think the NSX looks better than most Ferraris.
A lot more people agree than you probably think
To me with the exception of the F40 and the 575 GTC, the NSX looks better than any Ferrari, and with a unique body style.
Other than the F40, I absolutely agree
Ferrari 288 GTO is better but NSX is up there too
The NSX is up there with the 458 although I will die on this hill and say the 458 is still better looking and one of the best looking supercar in the 21st century (and possibly of all time)
You just know it becomes really good when GT2 music starts.
Damn, this video was amazing
The way you talked about the NSX winning its final race ever actually made me emotinal :'D
Staying in the super gt theme, you could make a video on Subaru’s involvment in Super GT as well!
The closest I'll probably come to owning an NSX is owning my Insight, which is also all aluminum and was built in the same factory as the NSX
The 2003 TAKATA DOME NSX & 2006 TAKATA DOME NSX both have incredible look and top speed. These two are also the fastest cars of the Super GT500, especially on Gran Turismo 5.
Thanks a lot, man! Great tribute video to the racing NSXs, love the Epson sponsored one, and luckily I have the Tamiya kit to build the model of it. Cheers!
Thank you very much for "NOT" calling the toyota 4 cylinder a 3sgte!! I get so sick of hearing people saying that being that the 503e is not the same as the 3sgte...
Once again THANK YOU!!
2:55 Yes it is Variable valve timing. But I think you'll find that its the Variable valve LIFT that is giving that added power. There are two cam profiles in there.
this guy is the best automotive documentary imo. informative, decent background music, great background videos, not unnecessarily long, and straight to the point
That’s true, but the Squidd is still really good at putting details to his videos
Ahhhh yess I'd recognize that little gran turismo song anywhere haha. That cracked me up, very nice addition because anyone my age has only seen these cars on a ps2.
I have most of those JGTC/GT500 NSX liveries burned into my brain due to Gran Turismo. That white Mobil 1 livery was just something else.
I will always love how their V6 become so sophisticated they didnt even switch it out until HSV-010 when they *finally* use a V8
The same V6 they used *from the beginning. From JGTC to the dawn of V8 era of Super GT*
The V6 that ACTUALLY sounds better than its F1 counterpart
This car was featured in the Gran Turismo series of video games and I was a having a lot of fun around tracks like the Nürburgring Nordschleife and Suzuka, both as a production based supercar and a GT racer.
Thank you for a great effort about one of my all time favourite. Absolutely loved those mid90s Kunimitsu and Raybrig GTs at Le Mans. Idea for a future video: roll of honour of your growing scale model collection
The liveries of the NSX's are legendary. Easily recognizable.
every video on this channel is made with simply amazing production quality. i hope this channel keeps to grow as fast as it has been. keep up the great work!
also finally a channel doing relevant and interesting merchandise, props, man !!
0:01I come here because the Gran Turismo 7 newest update that this 2000 Honda NSX Castrol Mugen JGTC is added into the game.
Got it a day after it came out
The NSX is one of the coolest racing cars ever. Loved driving it on Gran Turismo in various versions!
The 1998 photo @9:51 actually shows the Mugen X Dome logos on the noses of all four cars (the white/black Mugen logo & the orange/black Dome logo just below the Honda emblems) just as you're saying Mugen and Dome split. I suspect that Mugen-Dome Project was not only the name of the on again/off again entrant (team), but that the Mugen-Dome Project was the name of the developer/constructor of the JGTC NSX GT as you explained @7:00. While the 1997 car has only the Dome logo on its nose, it appears that all JGTC NSX GTs regardless of team have Mugen X Dome logos on their noses from 1998 through 2002. From 2003-2009 they instead have the logo/wordmark of Honda Racing.
automobilistic videos still dont dissapoint, its amazing
this video made me really proud to be a future owner of my dads civic, i always loved honda but didnt know that side of theirs
I got to say, your voice effort on this video convinced me that someday you'll succeeded those guys who do narration in nat geo or bbc documentaries. But i selfishly hope you'd still be doing this kind of youtube automotive and motorsport docs!
Love these detailed videos on racing cars from the golden era. Keep them coming!
Another cracking video for one of my all time favourites 👌 once again superb 😊
At a time when the manufacturing industries of most countries, and it's people, took pride in quality....over quantitie$.
Japan had stood out.
More posters!!
The 2.1 from the JGTC Supra shares more DNA with the IMSA 4 cylinder cars than anything else
It's the engine also used in the Celica right ? man it pissed me of when the best supra ever Is basically a Celica with supra clothes, all this time I thought it was supra with the legendary 2jz engine.
@@uthopia27 Correct, both the Celica IMSA GTO car and the Eagle MKIII prototype had a version of it.
If you can do any Nurburgring, or Le Mans posters, and any Group C posters I'll be buying. Know you have to watch license issues. Love your channel, always great information shared!
What an ending.
One of the best, if not the best Japanese car ever ❤
This was some of the best content I've seen about these gorgeous racing machines. They were always my favourite cars in the series.
Mate I've been following you for maybe months thinking that you are prob around hundreds of thousands of subs (I never really took the time to check your sub count I was that certain) but now that I've checked, you are underrated as hell mate I love your content
Honda could have easily won 5 GT500 titles from 1998 to 2002 had the car would've been more reliable as it was by far the fastest of the 3 major GT500 cars
I can only imagine the hours upon hours that researching the 15-year-old racing career of the NSX took. I didn’t know this car kept on racing for so long, which makes me wonder -Is there any other car that has competed this long?
Probably the 911 if we count it and the huracan which is at its 9th year of racing and maybe the r8
Hi Mate,
I'm an American expat living in Japan and have worked in Super GT. If you ever need help with pronounciation "Kunimitsu" or "Dome". It's pronounced just as it's spelled in English with a little u at the end "Doumu". It translates as childhood dream. So not like domo (Japanese thank you)
At the very least, I want to say: keep up the great work documenting these events. I loved my years in GT-it was my favorite series of all those I've worked in. To the point I never left the country. Cheers!
Love this channel. Keep up the excellent work
Takata the Castrol are the best NSX colors ngl
Thank you for this video! Very interesting history!
Love that the thumbnail is also a poster on the wall 😊 i want one, looks good
I only found ya channel last night. I love these cars. Im currently racing the nsx online on gt7.😅.
Excellent video! Keep it up!
I love NSX gt2
Heya, nice video! Always wondered about the story of this beautiful race car. I have an idea, can you do a video about the BMW M3 GTR race car? Never seen one about them! It would be a cool topic!
Thank you so much you make video of story of the Honda NSX racing history and i know the NSX because of F1 legend Aytron Senna test drive this car on track on japan in 90s.
Great documentary. Love these car racing stories.
Subaru's 1992 project name WRX stands for World Rally eXperimental.
So, I think we can allow New Sportscar eXperimental from Honda.
Great video, thank you !
So many of GT7 cars in my garage their.
L9ve the NSX.
Well detaild story as always👈✌
Yes! I knew you’d make a great video about this! Thank you!
I am really enjoying these car history documentaries you been making i wonder what you got planned in the future
This guys videos are so good. Would definitely buy merch
I have a suggestion: Group B biggest failure, Citroën with their BX 4TC
I couldn't stop thinking about Grand Turismo 2 and 3 while watching this video.
Hands down my favorite racing car of all time, behind the Toyota GT-One. Little young me would never stop racing this gorgeous bastard in Gran Turismo back in the day.
Right!! Thats it!! Can someone tell me why we say an engine is mounted in the "middle" of the car when it is so obviously mounted behind the driver, in the back? I'm 53 and I still haven't worked that one out!
To the best of my understanding "mid engine" simply means the engine is mounted between the axels, as opposed to over the axels (as in "front" or "rear" engine cars). Mid mounted engines can either be in front or behind the cockpit, but behind is more common. In front is sometimes called "front-mid" and behind is sometimes called "rear-mid" but because most "mid engine" cars are rear-mid most people just say "mid engine", only specifying when its the more unusual front-mid layout.
Don't take that as gospel but that has always been my understanding.
awesome video man
I always imagine “what if” Honda had stuck to the original NSX formula but updated it with 21st century technology and materials. Carbon fiber, titanium and magnesium replacing steel and aluminum. A “mated” double K20/24 4-4.8L V8, putting out 450-550hp NA. Since I am dreaming, a 6spd manual, cuz automatics, even double clutch ones suck. The crazy light materials allow Honda to keep the weight to under 3500lbs. And let’s be honest, the original NSX at 270hp was considered underpowered vs what was available back then as well. People still said it was the purest sports car they ever drove back in 1990.
Other cars may have a stronger race winning pedigree but I would take an NSX every single time, over pretty much anything else offered. It's a choice I'll never make, mind, but still!
That switch to Gran Turismo music was a pleasant surprise
Senna didn't help in designing the chassis, he just helped them find the perfect balance of the suspension geometry and driving feel that the car needs.
By the time Senna was a household name, they were just done with the prototype in 1988 and by 1989, they got Senna into the whole prototype package and got him to do vigorous testing during F1's off-season which he gave extreme feedback on how the car should feel, how much the diff needs to lock or unlock and how stiff the springs needs to be and how much flex of the chassis can the driver feel.
Senna did not have a say in how the chassis was gonna be made but he did give vital feedback on how to set the car up for general use which, he did real well in that manner.
That is correct, which is why I said "...and they lent on all of Honda’s best motorsport connections, including Ayrton Senna, to help craft a chassis and suspension setup that would...". Nowhere did I say Senna had input on chassis design, only "chassis and suspension setup".
@@automobilisticSo diplomatic...
A fine example, sir. 🙏🏼
Ayrton Senna was a well known household name worldwide before 1985 when he drove for Lotus, he played a major part in the redesign and development of the NSX as a world champion. In the Ten years I seen him drive F1 he also drove a NSX on track and talked many people in buying the cars from 1988 to 1992 because he actually worked for Honda.
Safe to say this is among the most influential sports/supercars ever made
Great vid!! Thanks ❤️❤️
Excellent content,keep it up!
It’s astounding how amazing those 80’s and 90’s cars were compared to the boring shit we have now.
*one little caveat to this is that Mugen's 2007 championship win being decided before the end of the season was not the first in the series history, just first in GT500. The first before seasons end championship was Team Taisan with Tsuchiya Engineering's 1998 GT300 title with Shingo Tachi (RIP) & Keiichi Suzuki.
ARTA not Mugen
@@AdamTheMan1993 Mugen ran the ARTA for a while after they moved the 16 to the GT300
Glad to catch the jgtc race in California back in 2003-2004
I'm an NSX fan Boi and this is by far the greatest NSX apologist video of all time ❤
The art is so good
My inner Gran Tursimo is tingling😍
Gran Tursimo 2 Castrol NSX, Car Porn.
@@ih8temoney what?
This tickles my Tursimo too
@@darrickkoko2987 Have never heard the term, "Car Porn." A car so beautiful you would stick a poster on your bedroom wall. Your dream car? What about an R30 Super Silhouette Nissan Skyline? Or a Mazda 787B, even the Mclaren F1 GTR Longtail all car Porn, my car porn list is endless..lol
Looking forward to a video of the NSX’s successor the HSV-010
Gordon : Can i have your v12 engine 🥺
Honda : No
Nice thumbnail and video!!!
Beat Nissan? Just hire Carlos Ghosn
Good video. Thanks.
Comments not mentioning Gran Turismo for one single video. Challenge impossible.
The NA1 NSX was definitely more powerful (270HP) than its European rivals of the time - the 308 (252HP) and the 964 911 (247HP).
Later version went from 3.0 to 3.2 and had 290hp 224tq
When the Gran Turismo music hits at 15:00
13 years, 100 races, to finally win 2nd place… then the NSX was no longer built for sale.
Jgtc/super gt, the best gt championship in the world.
I still consider the 2006 Raybrig NSX possibly THE most beautiful race car ever...Gran Turismo 5 nostalgia certainly helps...
10:46 rare footage of Tom Coronel WITH hair
Gordon Murray actually approached Honda first to build the engine for the F1, but Honda refused
93 Takata NSX
When i was a child I hated this car because when i first saw one I thought it was a Ferrari and I saw the honda bagde and lost it that they copied ferrari, now i love them over any ferrrari.
My favorite gt500 car ever
The NSX is one of the best sounding V6!!
I used it in Gran Turismo 3 and 4😁😁😁😜😜😜
those nsx gts could have just had their own racing series, they looked great
Can you make the video about the R92CP
we need a movie about this ngl
When watching videos from this channel, I forget you're a small youtuber.