thanks for uploading! been watching a bunch of old 80's and 90's TA and IMSA GTO/GTU races lately. a few years ago i saw the Cougar XR7 in a racing game and fell in love with it, but only recently started getting really deep into this amazing era of racing. It boggles my mind how many different makes and models competed in those series, and each one as gorgeous in looks and sound as the others. I'm glad the current TA2 Trans Am class is trying to recapture the old TA magic, but i wish we could see some really wild stuff like AMG or Aston Martin since they also have V8 racecars in GT3. it'd just be nice to see european cars taking on North American sensibilities in road racing like they did for the glory days of IMSA and Trans Am sportscar racing. cheers!
20:13 Interesting to see them running some version of the Pinto SOHC engine in the Merkur XR4Ti, while in the European and Australian Touring Car Championship, the sister car to the Merkur XR4Ti, the Ford Sierra Cosworth, was running a Cosworth YB engine with DOHC and 16 valves. This was allowed because Ford had built 5000 Sierra Cosworths and another 500 of the RS500 model with the big turbo. I'm guessing this wasn't allowed in Trans Am, although for some reason a Merkur XR4Ti V8 was fine.
I need you to close your eyes an imagine. You’re driving the 88 cutlass at Lime Rock and are battling to get your position back. All is going well and you hear it, the sound that you’ve dreaded all year long. The high pitched tweeting of the Audi Quattro.
That's an 8 million dollar Full Factory ex-Group B Audi car/tech budget racing against $80,000 dollar rwd Camaros that Americans build literally in their garages. It puts the US in perspective if you actually know what's going on. It takes a massive European effort to run with basic American rednecks and that's just the truth.
Pruitt saying he is surprised the Audi driver Walter Röhrl is as good as he is and as fast and how he caught on to road racing so fast ..... Walter Röhrl is a bloody racing legend , as is Hans-Joachim Stuck ....... two of the best drivers in racing history ...... both race on the world stage , not their own backyard .....
SCCA trying to protect their US made cars from the superior Audi. Audi sitll won the series and drivers championship resulting banning the Audi 200 from the Trans Am.
Have you forgotten how Porsche protested against AAGT? Have you forgotten how Ford was banned in Germany? Have you forgotten how scca banned C4? Have you forgotten how Porsche bought 2 C4s? Have you forgotten how ZR1 and Mosler got +500lbs? Do you know that Porsches also participated in trans am and they are much worse? You know, if the last stages of IMSA and Trans Am didn't cross, then Scott Pruett would be the champion (if he crossed the line). Are you saying that the Americans are bad and banned AWD in Trans Am? Do you know how many AWD cars have been approved by the FIA? Actualy you haven't forgotten, you don't know about it.
I've heard so many people complain about how the FIA allegedly changed the rules to ban the Ford GT40 from Le Mans, when they actually ran from 1964-1969 with four straight wins from 1966-1969. Here they changed to rules during the season and ban Audi from coming back for a second season.
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thanks for uploading! been watching a bunch of old 80's and 90's TA and IMSA GTO/GTU races lately. a few years ago i saw the Cougar XR7 in a racing game and fell in love with it, but only recently started getting really deep into this amazing era of racing. It boggles my mind how many different makes and models competed in those series, and each one as gorgeous in looks and sound as the others. I'm glad the current TA2 Trans Am class is trying to recapture the old TA magic, but i wish we could see some really wild stuff like AMG or Aston Martin since they also have V8 racecars in GT3. it'd just be nice to see european cars taking on North American sensibilities in road racing like they did for the glory days of IMSA and Trans Am sportscar racing. cheers!
Europe killed GTE, LMP, DTM. European green boys are not interested in performance racing. Now we have a fucking GT3. It's so slow...
Excellent, thanks
This is great! Thank you for posting this!
Great race. Thank you so much for uploading this.
3:04 LOLZ at Roehrl's accent! And everybody said that Hans Stuck had a unique German accent.....
Do you happen to have the 1987 Trans-Am race to post?
20:13 Interesting to see them running some version of the Pinto SOHC engine in the Merkur XR4Ti, while in the European and Australian Touring Car Championship, the sister car to the Merkur XR4Ti, the Ford Sierra Cosworth, was running a Cosworth YB engine with DOHC and 16 valves. This was allowed because Ford had built 5000 Sierra Cosworths and another 500 of the RS500 model with the big turbo. I'm guessing this wasn't allowed in Trans Am, although for some reason a Merkur XR4Ti V8 was fine.
I need you to close your eyes an imagine. You’re driving the 88 cutlass at Lime Rock and are battling to get your position back. All is going well and you hear it, the sound that you’ve dreaded all year long. The high pitched tweeting of the Audi Quattro.
they are " dead even..." . Sure, when you put some hundred pounds, a smaler air restricter and smaler tires on the Audi ;-)
the Audi was down 100hps but able to win bcs of less tyrewear
That's an 8 million dollar Full Factory ex-Group B Audi car/tech budget racing against $80,000 dollar rwd Camaros that Americans build literally in their garages. It puts the US in perspective if you actually know what's going on. It takes a massive European effort to run with basic American rednecks and that's just the truth.
Pruitt saying he is surprised the Audi driver Walter Röhrl is as good as he is and as fast and how he caught on to road racing so fast ..... Walter Röhrl is a bloody racing legend , as is Hans-Joachim Stuck ....... two of the best drivers in racing history ...... both race on the world stage , not their own backyard .....
Imsa 24 hours of daytona 1988 please thank you
When ze Germans show up and show you how poorly you have designed your vehicle 🚗 😂
SCCA trying to protect their US made cars from the superior Audi. Audi sitll won the series and drivers championship resulting banning the Audi 200 from the Trans Am.
Yankees with their superiority complex most likely found their prides hurt big time.
SCCA showed how salty they are about something els then V8 and rwd.
Have you forgotten how Porsche protested against AAGT? Have you forgotten how Ford was banned in Germany? Have you forgotten how scca banned C4? Have you forgotten how Porsche bought 2 C4s? Have you forgotten how ZR1 and Mosler got +500lbs? Do you know that Porsches also participated in trans am and they are much worse? You know, if the last stages of IMSA and Trans Am didn't cross, then Scott Pruett would be the champion (if he crossed the line). Are you saying that the Americans are bad and banned AWD in Trans Am? Do you know how many AWD cars have been approved by the FIA?
Actualy you haven't forgotten, you don't know about it.
I've heard so many people complain about how the FIA allegedly changed the rules to ban the Ford GT40 from Le Mans, when they actually ran from 1964-1969 with four straight wins from 1966-1969. Here they changed to rules during the season and ban Audi from coming back for a second season.