Is the mighty front-engined Panoz Roadster the craziest LMP1 car?
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Big 6.0-litre V8? Check. Front-engined enigma in the mid-engined world of LMP? Check. 5th at Le Mans in 1999? Check. IMSA Manufacturers' Championship to its name? Check. This Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S Chassis #001 is a real American hero so we just had to take a look when it arrived at Goodwood for the 77th Members' Meeting! #gwflatout #Panoz #LeMans
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Should there be more front-engined racing cars?
Absolutely ! 😃👍
For sure homie, for sure.
Bring it on!
Of course!
Absolutely! Chevy needs to add an option of keeping front-engined cars, and mid-engined cars. Both as C9R1 (front-engined), and C9R2 (mid-engined)
One of my all time favourites and has to be one of the coolest looking race cars ever built. I saw these at Le Mans in 2002 and let me tell you when you're sitting in the Tribunes opposite the pits and one of these goes past the ground shakes and you can 'feel' the racket in your chest. This has to be one of the loudest and deepest sounding race cars I've ever heard...utterly fabulous !
I was there too. Loved the sound of it, and the Corvettes. As you say , Simon, you can feel it as well as hear it.
Try top fuel haha
A friend of mine has promised to take me to Santa Pod to experience Top Fuel dragsters...when the world eventually gets back to normal🤞
I was there also, awesome sound 👍
Jon Meray. I witnessed top fuel at Santa Pod around 50 years ago. Impressive, but short!. The Panoz and Corvette for 24 hours is much better.
Thank goodness there are people like this owner who continue to run and enjoy these cars. They allow the rest of us to see and hear them. On track, rather than just gather dust in private collections or museums. Good on this bloke for taking his car around the world to enjoy it.
This LMP1 Panoz and the TVR Speed 12 are my all time favourite race cars. Both are very similar and unusual, because of the front engine, and that is the reason, why looks both of them like a brutal, mechanical batmobile...really, really love that shape!
I agree with you. My cousin and I were there the first time it raced at Petit LeMan at Road Atlanta, and we looked at each other and said "Batmobile!" What a classic race car.
There was also the Panoz Esperante GTR-1 that was also called a "Batmobile".
Yes, and sounding like a true beast. Besides winning the ALMS championship in 1999. I love these creations by Panoz
What was his obsession with front engine cars. I’ve seen the GT1 panoz and it’s also front engine. Isn’t front engine a disadvantage in racing?
He sells front engined road cars, so he wanted his race cars to have the same setup. Panoz will admit to being somewhat ignorant to the sport when he first started, but really, if you have an engine mounted in front of the driver, but behind the front wheel axles, the car can be set up to handle very similarly to a traditional 'mid engined' car.@@javiersilva1577
Yes!!! Amazing car! Preferred it as the GTR1 in 1998 spec but the lmp1 was amazing...especially as it went up against, and beat the mighty Audi R8. Incredible achievement (and not to forget its a british built Reynard chassis)
and 1997 of course
epsracing77 yup the 1998 car always seemed more complete somehow though
I was at Le Mans '99. All the cars came through with mid-range screaming engines and then the Panoz would come through - all bass and anger. It was ace. We nicknamed it the Batmobile.
So glad this car is alive and well.
Much respect to this man for treating it the way it should be treated.
Looks and sounds as amazing as I remember
One of my absolute favorite Race Cars. You are really lucky to own one of these things. Very nice to see it running. Keep on doing that!
You know you have something special when you like to get it out in front of people but the car is awesome brings back memories of playing Gran Turismo and Le Mans 24 hours on the PlayStation those were the days I was untouchable😂
I miss the '90s and early '00s before the massive intricacies of aerodynamics really stepped up. The shapes these cars made were so pretty.
When I first saw this beast at Road Atlanta, it's home turf, it gave me chills. That sound!
Not to mention it looks like a Batmobile.
my cousin and I saw it the first time it raced at Road Atlanta Petit LeMan, looked at each other and said "Batmobile!"
I saw these run in person at few times at Road Atlanta, I also got to do one lap in the passenger seat of the Esperante GT-R in Raod Atlanta that same race weekend. They were selling hot seat tickets with the VIP passes for the Petit Le Mans so I grabbed the opportunity. This was back in 2003. I also saw them run at the one and only race held at the D.C. armory for the 2002 AMLS season. This was such a fantastic car to be the ambassador of the AMLS series.
interesting car
and ofc props to the owner to running it and let it be pushed by other race drivers as it is meant to be, rather then let it sit at somewhere as a old relic
Went year after year with a group of mates to Le Mans and we cheered this car on we just loved it , the look and the sound of it and you could always tell when it was on track whilst we were on the ale on the camp site during practice, as Simon said it just had this sound that hit you in the guts. Great to see this clip look after that beast.
So cool! If this is the only running one it has been to Road America for the big July vintage event? Hope it's there again this year. One of my favorite cars!!
I was at the petit lemans that year. I still remember hearing these beasts do their thing. I've always loved these cars.
One of my favorite sounding race cars. Watch runway footage of it running at least once a year for the past decade or more just to hear it. Nice to see it at Goodwood and a proper feature in 4K
I remember this car well, as I worked the main sponsor Visteon at the time.
GT3 taught me to love this car...
My first race was when this won at Sonoma. My dad pointed out how it was front-engined. I have a diecast.
I've always thought this was one of the coolest LMP cars of all time. Glad to see it still running
seeing one of these, raced in anger at mid-ohio is one of my most cherished memories
Where were you watching? I would imagine this thing would make some serious noise in Thunder Valley.
Remember seeing a very early Panoz back in the 70's. Even considered buying it. If only! Right:) 👍 🏎🏎🏎👍
Lovely to have David Brabham and the great E Pirro drive this for him
Lots of good memories about this car (Le Mans 1999)...👍💪💯❗🏎️🏁🤓🇨🇵
This is the last beautiful racecar ever built.
There’s something romantic about using a front engines setup.
I saw them run at Road Atlanta, it sounded as good as it looked.
I have a scale version of that car from when it won.
Fond memories of the American Le Mans series and these beasts.
I remember 'driving' those with a mod for Race 07 - those were the days...
Someone can correct me. But, did NASCAR engine builder Robert Yates supply the Ford engines ( or were bought from? ) for the ALMS? I remember watching this awesome series back then, just loving the Panoz Ford.
My favourite car in Midtown Madness 2
To me, it looks like a roofless Esperante and I do love the Esperante. 😍
It pretty much is...
Lovely, lovely, lovely, thank you so much for this upload!
Amazing ! My favorite Le Mans car !
The LMP is brutal beauty. But the Batmobile is as vicious as magnificent can get. I saw David Brabham race the roadster up close and personal at Trois-Rivières. In the later red livery but, alas, quite unsuccessful still against the Audi R8s. One of the highlights of a long, long life. (As was Donahue and Jones and all the legendary rest at the Bryar Motorsport Park Trans Am.)
Good to see, although not sure about it being the 'only' Panoz LMP being actively driven.. The predecessors of this car have been on track a few times at Le Mans Classic.
Hard to believe this is the only actively running Panoz LMP1 in the World - how depressing :(
Was that you running this car at the BRIC vintage racing at Road America a few years ago? There was one there. My all time favorite prototype.
Probably, Road America 2018 was the car first run since Daytona 2014
That sound!
Built and made in Georgia Baby!!!
Sounds great
That's odd. Butch drove for Dyson in 1999 IMSA. I guess not for Le Mans. Jan Magnussen drove one of the Panoz cars in IMSA.
What a sound 🤩
If I remember well, was a Panoz team, what sponzored by the US navy, and the cars was painted to khaki, and had a lot of special aircraft details...so, for me, that was the most cool looking racecar ever. ...ok, the pink pig Porsche 917 also a badass 😃
Magnifique quelle passion en français ça m'aiderait plus a quand une petite vidéo sur la 250 swb 2649 du collectionneur lepeltierferrari il est 20.55 a Genève beau temps amicalement en Angleterre bonne nuit Patrick Genève
I likes these a lot! Great cars, nice old school set up
Finally a panoz
Wow thanks certainly is unique 👍👍😎😎
I first saw the Panoz LMPs at the then new Texas Motor Speedway roval layout in August 2000. Video does not get across the sheer visceral power pulses of that flat plane crankshaft Ford based engine.
Amazing LMP car!!! And loud as hell!
Such a shame that there's not any good out of car sound of it at full chat. We all knew exactly where it was in '99 at Le Man's, could hear it all around the track.
Be nice if endurance racing had a class for front engine prototypes.
Must be a joy to drive.
The Biggest Caterham ...:D
As it should be, engine in front of the driver.
I wish their electric attack on WEC would have panned out. I think the technology is there to make it happen! Swappable batteries are the key.
I preferred the red livery more.
meu Deus battel spec kkkk
🤘!!
How can this be the craziest lm car when the front wheel drive nissan gtr lm exists?
Because Panoz was actually successful! From 1999-2003, NO car beat the legendary Audi R8 more times than this Panoz.
Чертовски круто!
Holy shiet the owner doesn't even know the name of the car lol $$$
i want one
w/panoz gone, there is no more front-motor racing cars at that level, lower-levels there are SOME, but not at top tier sports car international racing
We Americans keep the engine in the front, like God intended
Front engine is one of the worst designs for racing tho 🤷♂️
And I guess this is why karting isn't as big here as it is in Europe.
the fastest FR car ever and it’s american powered 🦅
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