Finally ARC gets wider recognition The original versions of the cars were a 1940 Ford and a Holden FJ. It was only in around 2002/03 that they got the modern body shapes
I'm from the US but watch SuperCars on RUclips from the SuperCars Channel. I sit for 3 or 4 days glued to my computer and watch all of the support races and ALWAYS watch the Aussie Race Cars. They put on some of the best racing over the weekend. It's nice knowing now how they came to be, never would have thought they came from Legends Cars.
You are a true motorsport nerd to do that, I love it! haha. Yes obviously the ARC body won't admit that, but from my research, that's the generally accepted story of how the idea came to be before he began assembling his own cars!
I've been wanting to import one of these things for years lol, unfortunately I'm not the kind of person able to import cars 😂 but yeah we have some tracks these things would be absolutely fantastic on, would be awesome to get a series of them going stateside
I like it. The big problem with legend series is the fact that you can’t touch. The tires stick out so it’s like open wheel, and the front/rear bumpers stick out also and often get hooked together. These full bodied cars eliminate those issues. Id love to see them in the states.
The Legend Midget cars are as a series in NASCAR or was on Paved as a series that mostly inexperienced drivers and kids ran so there were massive spinouts. Legend Dirt is its own series separate from any other race series and they take it seriously as its own thing.
Legends tends to be geared more towards young, learning drivers, and being forced to learn exactly where the bumpers and sides of their cars are by not being able to touch is a big positive in driver development so I get it. But I get what you're saying, doesn't always make for the most exciting racing as a viewer, especially in the ladder system of the top American full body stock car series. Would love to see a series of these cars pop up in America though!
I first heard of the Aussie Race Cars thanks to the appearance of the ARC Camaro in Automobilista. AMS is great for covering niche racing categories; primarily Latin American championships but some others beyond that region do get love too.
@@tanssi2145 They're fantastic in sim as well! I'm from Adelaide, and being able to drive these little weapons around my home circuit from the comfort of my own rig is an absolute delight that I wish everyone would try.
Some great races they've had are here on RUclips. Look for the wet races in Tasmania Symmons Plains about 2017. Gold Coast had a huge crash some years ago. Bathurst always has tough racing.
Nicely covered. I've been a fan since it's inception. The genius of using Yamaha 1100cc engines and transmissions - essentully a fully developed race-ready component - is what first attracted me.
I was a bike mechanic from early eighties to early 2000,s and got to see that engine go through 1100 to 1200 to 1300 configs and it was a beast. Big torque, smooth and as reliable as a hammer.
@@watsisbuttndo829 - All "oversized" bike engines are the same way, the CB1300 is no different and I'm sure the 6-cylinder BMWs could also move a minicar like nothing
I’ve been watching these for years. I never thought about how other countries have never heard of this series. Australia has some of the best racing tracks / series! Much love from Australia
Oh Australian motorsport is some of the best in the world! I was lucky enough to spend time over there and went to a fair few tracks in the process! Loved watching the cars fly into the Senna chicane in Adelaide watching from the inside of the track!
I know about the Legends series from Alberto Naska's channel but I didn't know about these! I know iRacing struggles with an overabundance of slow cars, but I feel like these would be so fun and would breathe new life into circuits that no one races on like Knockhill.
AMS2 has this (just the Chevy version AFAIK). When it gets the V1.5 update I bet it will be outstanding, as are the others already granted the upgrade.
Love this series. It is so competitive. Always hard, clean racing. They are only small but hearing that 1200cc motorcycle engine scream past at full noise is not to be joked about. 🇦🇺
@@KieranMogg We have a similar version of these for ovals, called American Cup Cars (quick Google should find them - accracing). 1300cc Yamaha sealed engines, spaceframe chassis, 5/8th scale. I've recently started watching them this year, and will be racing one in October! You can buy a full car, with spares for around £6-9k. I just wish they also went to circuits as well. Checking on RUclips, it looks like they have been to Brands Hatch and Lydden Hill, but more for a one-off than for a season.
Thanks for this! It's become one of my favorite series in the world to watch and I feel like I never see anyone talk about it lol. Whenever I'm prepping for an Aussie V8 weekend(as an east coast American I have to plan out my sleep schedule and decide what to/not to watch lol) I absolutely keep an eye out for these guys when looking at the schedule for the weekend and make sure I'm tuned in when they're on track. Always delivers fantastic racing and I wish more people had the opportunity to see it
First time I saw them was in the big grandstand at Adelaide, I had to do a double take and didn't believe they were that small until I walked to the pits and literally they were only like waist height! 😂
Oh man these are awesome! Can't beleive this is the first I'm hearing about it! I hope these catch on in the US, they seem like a great low cost entry point into racing!
Thank you for this mate. This was a brilliant take on a perspective that I think too many take for granted. You are 100% bang on the money about how many sub categories are given almost main category type exposure through TV etc. I will give props to foxtel and the previous and current supercars management for ensuring all categories under Supercars gets this kind of limelight. Us Aussies are very lucky in this sense, and I hope more people realise this fact too, instead of being elite snobs and only following the top category and not giving a damn about the rest. You did a great job on this video, I only wish it lasted longer lol.
I could see a series like this that is team racing based, and the teams are location based like other sports. Due to the lower cost, the requirements could be 3-5 cars per team and building/using a city course or existing track as a "home venue". I would think there's enough interest and support to have 10 american cities to create a team and travel the country racing. A playoff season that features returning races to tracks where the leading teams are based and a neutral championship race sounds like a hell of a spectator sport.
Our Aussie racing scene is fantastic, a weekend spent at the races is fun and exciting from day till night and the accessibility really makes it even better because you can see regular people showcasing their talent!
I have an overfixation with cars of cartoon-ish dimensions but more down-to-earth like these (think ChoroQ but with less exaggerated wheels meets go-karts), especially when they are ran on full circuits and have a packed grid. I am thankful to be introduced with this race series even though I haven't been able to watch a full race yet, just the snippets of it.
I was already convinced, but that last section was incredible. Such tight, fierce racing, but I didn't see a bit of contact. Good, hard, clean racing. Don't get much of that in full-sized cars, unless they're open wheeled. Really, even then...
It’s funny that you say that tho as I’m Aussie and these are my favourite, if you watch any season there’s bound to be a massive crash, these are like wingless sprints which when the roll it’s just a ride you can’t stop, they are incredible and hold some of the best racing even when they crash
These look great! They remind me of the American Baby Grands which are IIRC 2/3 scale NASCAR-style stock cars with fibre-glass body shells over a tubular space-frame chassis with a motorbike engine. Some were imported into the UK back in the early 2000s and I drove a couple of them at test days at Arena Essex in about 2003. They ran a demonstration on the full Rockingham oval around that time at a V8Thunder/ASCAR/SCSA (whatever they called it at the time) event. I believe a series still exists in the UK but not called Baby Grands, running on short ovals.
Always wanted to race one of these. 2003 Sandown race Paul Kemal won in one of the old models where half the bodywork flew off the front and he still held on. Good times.
In France/Belgium they have another racing series called Mitjet, everybody races with the same body+engine and chassis anly the "paint" and drivers are different :)
I first saw them in the Sim Automobilista 2 and thought it was another touring car spec series. After I loaded it I thought there was something wrong with the rendering because the proportions of the car looked way of on a regular racetrack. Then I finished looking around the car and put it into cockpit cam to drive and it clicked. Ooohh those are single seaters with an incredibly cool shell! I would love if there’s something like this in Germany, I would buy a car and go training on the Oschersleben track that’s only an hour away from me every weekend it’s possible!
@@steveo1964 yes it’s really a fun track :) It doesn’t have a huge age old history like the Nürburgring or Hockenheim has, but it has enough great racing series have legendary races there that are nowadays already considered legends, like the amazing DTM cars of the late 80s and early 90s and then the monstrous technical high end machines of the later DTM/ITC Series as the 90s advanced and roled over into the early 2000s. Great races to watch live! And nowadays there are many races going on there, GT classes, prototypes, lower level formula classes and of course a lot of motorcycle classes too! I can consider myself very fortunate that I did quite a few laps on that track in real live already with different cars. My biggest highlight was when I was selected for a training weekend by BMW (I have four BMWs, a daily 5 series with a 3 liter inline six turbo automatic , two e36 a compact with the 2.5 liter inline six manual and a touring with the 2.8 liter inline six automatic and the original e8x 1 series as a cabriolet with the 3 liter inline six manual). You could write a little bit about yourself, register through your dealer for this program and I got lucky that I was one of the 30 people who got selected. They rented the track a full weekend for us, starting Friday morning ending Sunday evening with paid hotel stay, catering etc. It was such an amazing experience! We started out with a few briefings and then got racing overalls and helmets and a track prepared M4 (carbon intake open snorkel, carbon ceramic brakes, stripped interior and light cage and big pedal shifts. Then we trained for a few hours with a pacecar in front of us at racepace to learn the limits of Tue track and have a pack racing experience. 15 people on the track, we were split in two groups. The other group got to drive bmw classic cars in the wonderfully sunny, a bit mountainous countryside at the time the others where on the track. This was also such a great experience, we had cars like the e30 M3, the 850 CSI (manual high reving V12, it is the base engine for the McLaren F1!!)the 635 CSL, the 2002 turbo, the legendary Batmobile and many more cars going from the early 90s backwards right to the legendary BMW 507! This was the first day, on the second it got really special! Everybody in the group got a Formula BMW car and racing training! Full carbon monocoque single seater with amazing aero! Driving those where completely different from everything I ever did and so much cooler (but also much harder and really exhausting) I ever did with cars! The other group enjoyed switching around tue Oldtimers during that time. On the third day we got a qualifying and a little race for everybody but of course had to keep it safe. Those 30 laps where extremely hard and those cars aren’t even near formula 4 level! And then after lunch we got taxi laps with full blown racecars driven by full blown BMW racedrivers like Bruno Spengler, Sheldon van der Linde and one amazing young woman who is extremely fast but unfortunately I forget her name.. It was unreal we where taxied around in the M6 GTE, the M4 GT3 and the highlight, the old V8 naturally aspirated DTM car! The forces you felt while in those cars where unbelievable and how those drivers flung them around the track was just insane! It was unbelievable how hard they pushed the cars and how late they braked! It was such an unbelievable experience that you never could buy with money (maybe if you are a billionaire) and I’m so grateful I got to experience this as a normal working guy who likes driving cool cars. Yes I’m fortunate enough to afford my vehicles etc but I’m by no means rich. I’m just a regular working engineer in the automobile industry who develops cars for a living. I can’t complain about my income, but it’s nothing you could even reasonably justify buying a Porsche with so this experience is very very special for me and I’ll forever have a really deep connection with the Motopark Oschersleben due to that! I would’ve never been able to drive any of those amazing vehicles if they didn’t invite me to that legendary event. Sorry for spamming you with such a long story without knowing you at all, I was just very happy about your comment, being a non German liking the track in AC :)
Between ARC, S5000, Touring Car Masters and Improved Production (pretty mild spec cars, although vastly different to each other which makes for amazing racing), often the support races are twice as good as the main feature on Aussie race days. There are some great battles of Improved Production on RUclips.
For anyone looking to try these cars in a Racing Sim, Automobilista 2 has them. Thats how I learned of these cars. Super fun to drive. Thanks for the Video.
How would you guys compare this to IPRA? I think Supercars is the best spec/spec-adjacent series on the planet, but IPRA is great for seeing the widest possible assortment of cars go head to head. Shoutout to Jordan Cox ofc.
Goes without saying with Jordan Cox. I remember watching him in Adelaide racing that Civic against an American muscle car (can't quite remember which one) and just being in awe of the way he was able to take that thing round corners. I think IPRA is a fantastic series once viewers get off their high horses to watch it. So many people left the stands when improved production came on, and to be honest I did too the first time. But I think the thing with IPRA is that you can get that racing anywhere. In terms of multiple different types of cars all on track together, that's not unusual. Just look at like likes of CSCC in UK. So I'd say the ARC's are more of a spectacle because it's limited to one country/continent and plus, the racing is some of the best you'll see. Just my personal opinion but you're definitely right, IPRA is incredible! Supercars is fantastic, no denying that. It's not quite as good as it used to be, I'm glad it's not just Van Gisbergen winning all the time now, especially with Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown fighting at the front now so it's definitely on the up but I'd also say it's difficult to look past indycar as a brilliant spec series just due to the sheer diversity of tracks and drivers.
@@gusdrivinginaustralia6168 Adelaide International Raceway has one as well if you look at google earth, except that's primarily a dragstrip now... but yeah, I'd love to see short track at least, maybe on dirt even.
I've not actually tried it, I've seen a few people commenting on it though! Didn't even know it was on a sim until people said about Automobilista! haha
Every country has their own great series, it’s just Australian motorsport isn’t really broadcast internationally and other than V8’s, nobody really knows the other series!
@KieranMogg have you ever seen the V8 Utes series? It was called V8 Brutes in the early days, a fantastic series that unfortunately doesn't exist anymore.
We are soooo lucky to have to categories we do in Australian. Aussie racers are always a favourite. Sadly the S5000s don't have enough drivers anymore.
It's a shame you didn't show any crashes. Not only are they extremely spectacular, but they also show the strength and safety of these motorcyle driven, motorcycle sequential gear box running pocket rockets.
There's one series that no one talks about, but it's really nice to watch: Brazilian stock car. Just to mention some names that races there: Rubens Barrichello, Felipe Massa, Nelson Piquet Jr, Lucas di Grassi, Toni Kanaan. It's Very nice to watch
There's a few people commented about that, I know of the series and have seen some races but pretty unfamiliar with it. I will definitely look deeper into it!
Oh they are incredible! I'm thinking of doing a video on that series as I saw them in Adelaide 2017 for first time and I couldn't pick my jaw up from the floor for a week! Just simply the height they jump at is insane!
Aussie Racing Cars is such a fun series to watch. It's the race I look forward to the most other than the V8 Supercars race on a race weekend. And yes coverage for that series and other supporting categories for Supercars is included if you are a member of the Supercars RUclips channel, which is where I first saw this series.
Well that looks like a super cool series. Thank you for sharing and now I'm going to be looking for videos of some of the races to watch. I'm a big fan of the V8 Supercars from over here in the US (love that Shane Van Gisbergen won the NASCAR race in Chicago) and these rocket ships look amazing!
It really is, thank you for watching! There's loads on RUclips, especially of the 2017 season I found when I was finding clips for the video!! But definitely good that some of the drivers are getting international chances. Most notably Scott Mclaughlin!
the MOST fun cars to drive in ams2 and AC. the series evens out the driver's skillset to a level where beginners and pros can have strong competition. There's nothing more fun than sending it 4 wide in ARC cars with your buddies
I think it highly depends on the tracks, the ARC's have some really good tracks to race on fortunately, but I suppose NASCAR is a very different style of racing on the whole so difficult to compare!
think there is international series that is based in Europe which is very similar to this series called mitjet international, meaning it's not just Australia have them, Europe has them as well
I think the whole Australian motor racing scene is quite underrated: here in Europe, not even the V8 Supercars is very well-known, but I think if more of us would know what's going on down under, we'd love it - It practically is a blend of the best both sides of the Atlantic can offer, American affordability on European-style road and city courses.
NASCAR even got in on a legends series starting in the 2000's that is racing on 99% of paved tracks with a single dirt race at Oswego speedway. Not sure if it is still going on or not as last that I had heard of the NASCAR series was in 2014 or so on TV.
We have been watching the Australian Supercars Championship and the S5000 Australian Drivers Championship for a couple of years now here in Oregon, USA. It has sometimes been a bit of a challenge to find a stream. It has been great fun watching Scott McLaughlin and Oscar Piastri moving to F1 and Indy Car series. And it goes without saying but ...Daniel Ricciardo is a favorite. I'm hoping that sometime in the next 114 days I will be able to find an Aussie Racing Cars stream. I'm thinking my best bet is to use my VPN to log into an Australian Server and find a stream. Any suggestions?
if you do use a VPN, it's usually broadcast on the FOX network. I can't remember which one the motorsport channel is of the Fox stations though, maybe an Aussie can help out here? 😂
I will give you another racing series most fans do not know about. The TC Series run by the Argentinian CATA sanctioning body. The longest running race series under one sanctioning body on the planet. Dating back to pre WWII. Engines based on US OHV inline sixes with extensive modifications including DOHC 24 Valve heads on top of the OHV blocks.
3:58 Others may have said this already but Formula E is not a spec series. In it’s first year it was spec but now the teams develop the power train and transmission.
I didn't see them at Winton unfortunately, I've seen them at Adelaide a few times and they never fail to put on a show! Especially through the Senna chicane bouncing over those massive curbs!!
I saw these a couple of years ago at Simmons Plains Raceway, Tasmania (AUS) and thought they were amazing. I'd never heard of nor seen them before, so to see these 1/3 sized cars ripping around the track was quite entertaining. Definitely keen to go see them again sometime. I'd like to see one up close just to grasp the size of these cause TV doesn't do it justice.
Ah it's a shame you didn't manage to get up close to one! I think most of the rounds they attend have open paddocks, they did when I saw them at the Adelaide 500. Definitely worth having a wander round the paddock if you get chance, TV really doesn't do it justice I agree!
@@KieranMogg not sure it was possible at Simmons Plains. I would have loved to have gotten an up close look at the Stadium Trucks when they took them to Tassie. Those things were beasts out on the track! I hope they bring them back to Aus again in the future.
Finally ARC gets wider recognition
The original versions of the cars were a 1940 Ford and a Holden FJ. It was only in around 2002/03 that they got the modern body shapes
I still remember when they had a mix of old and new it was fun choosing a car too cheer for!
I'm from the US but watch SuperCars on RUclips from the SuperCars Channel. I sit for 3 or 4 days glued to my computer and watch all of the support races and ALWAYS watch the Aussie Race Cars. They put on some of the best racing over the weekend. It's nice knowing now how they came to be, never would have thought they came from Legends Cars.
You are a true motorsport nerd to do that, I love it! haha. Yes obviously the ARC body won't admit that, but from my research, that's the generally accepted story of how the idea came to be before he began assembling his own cars!
same for me, but I'm from canada
as a kiwi we get it live on TV, watching the arc around Mt panorama is hilarious.
I would love to own one of these for the laughs
this series is the most fun to watch over a race weekend.
They are brilliant. I love them in Adelaide because I think the track is perfect for them!
I would 200% do this if we had the series in the US and it was kept affordable.
I've been wanting to import one of these things for years lol, unfortunately I'm not the kind of person able to import cars 😂 but yeah we have some tracks these things would be absolutely fantastic on, would be awesome to get a series of them going stateside
Sometimes you can find a Legends car or Thunder Roadster in the mid 4 digits price range. Thunder Roadsters race on road courses in SCCA and NASA.
@davidnorman1415 this would turn into a 35k plus race car here in the US. Dirt track mod lites are already 20-25k
When you saying affordable? You're going to run a mini sprint/ formula 500 for a hell of a lot less with far more races
I like it. The big problem with legend series is the fact that you can’t touch. The tires stick out so it’s like open wheel, and the front/rear bumpers stick out also and often get hooked together. These full bodied cars eliminate those issues. Id love to see them in the states.
True but open wheel is a negative and a positive
And in the last say 7-10 year the cost has got out of hand on parts and engines for Legends. Thats why I sold mine.
@@djh3_88hinskey5 thats all racing tho look at what it cost to run a midget 20 years ago vs now
The Legend Midget cars are as a series in NASCAR or was on Paved as a series that mostly inexperienced drivers and kids ran so there were massive spinouts. Legend Dirt is its own series separate from any other race series and they take it seriously as its own thing.
Legends tends to be geared more towards young, learning drivers, and being forced to learn exactly where the bumpers and sides of their cars are by not being able to touch is a big positive in driver development so I get it. But I get what you're saying, doesn't always make for the most exciting racing as a viewer, especially in the ladder system of the top American full body stock car series. Would love to see a series of these cars pop up in America though!
I first heard of the Aussie Race Cars thanks to the appearance of the ARC Camaro in Automobilista. AMS is great for covering niche racing categories; primarily Latin American championships but some others beyond that region do get love too.
WOAH no way! We need them in all games NOW
@@tanssi2145 They're fantastic in sim as well! I'm from Adelaide, and being able to drive these little weapons around my home circuit from the comfort of my own rig is an absolute delight that I wish everyone would try.
Awesome, bring it to America, at least on tv.
You already have it, it's just legends racing but on road courses and different bodies - The engine and chassis is the exact same! 🤦🏻♂️
@@DanArnets1492yup and its fantastic
@@DanArnets1492not really we rebuilt them and extended length and made them wider
Some great races they've had are here on RUclips. Look for the wet races in Tasmania Symmons Plains about 2017.
Gold Coast had a huge crash some years ago. Bathurst always has tough racing.
Naw we would ruin it. Like the brink it on tv
Happy to have a chat about the category with you if you’d like!
I am the unfortunate looking guy that is the title page of the drivers section 😂
Fantastic operation you guys ran. Quinn keeps it going.
Nicely covered. I've been a fan since it's inception. The genius of using Yamaha 1100cc engines and transmissions - essentully a fully developed race-ready component - is what first attracted me.
For a few years they've been using the engine from the FJR1300
It also has the added benefit that it revs highly and doesn't sound like any other race car in person, so they definitely stand out! 😂
I was a bike mechanic from early eighties to early 2000,s and got to see that engine go through 1100 to 1200 to 1300 configs and it was a beast. Big torque, smooth and as reliable as a hammer.
@@watsisbuttndo829 - All "oversized" bike engines are the same way, the CB1300 is no different and I'm sure the 6-cylinder BMWs could also move a minicar like nothing
@@DanArnets1492xjr not fjr
I’ve been watching these for years. I never thought about how other countries have never heard of this series. Australia has some of the best racing tracks / series! Much love from Australia
Oh Australian motorsport is some of the best in the world! I was lucky enough to spend time over there and went to a fair few tracks in the process! Loved watching the cars fly into the Senna chicane in Adelaide watching from the inside of the track!
@@KieranMogg Hope you enjoyed your stay in Australia!
I know about the Legends series from Alberto Naska's channel but I didn't know about these! I know iRacing struggles with an overabundance of slow cars, but I feel like these would be so fun and would breathe new life into circuits that no one races on like Knockhill.
AMS2 has this (just the Chevy version AFAIK). When it gets the V1.5 update I bet it will be outstanding, as are the others already granted the upgrade.
Love this series. It is so competitive. Always hard, clean racing. They are only small but hearing that 1200cc motorcycle engine scream past at full noise is not to be joked about. 🇦🇺
Hell yeah, more racing to watch. The racing and low cost concept reminds me a lot of the MX-5 Cup over here in the States. I'll check this out!
The MX-5 cup is a classic series! We have something similar in the UK, but I wish the ARC were more widespread!
@@KieranMogg We have a similar version of these for ovals, called American Cup Cars (quick Google should find them - accracing). 1300cc Yamaha sealed engines, spaceframe chassis, 5/8th scale. I've recently started watching them this year, and will be racing one in October! You can buy a full car, with spares for around £6-9k. I just wish they also went to circuits as well. Checking on RUclips, it looks like they have been to Brands Hatch and Lydden Hill, but more for a one-off than for a season.
Thanks for this! It's become one of my favorite series in the world to watch and I feel like I never see anyone talk about it lol. Whenever I'm prepping for an Aussie V8 weekend(as an east coast American I have to plan out my sleep schedule and decide what to/not to watch lol) I absolutely keep an eye out for these guys when looking at the schedule for the weekend and make sure I'm tuned in when they're on track. Always delivers fantastic racing and I wish more people had the opportunity to see it
When I first saw this race series, I thought there was something wrong with the vertical aspect of my monitor.😆 It is fun to watch.
First time I saw them was in the big grandstand at Adelaide, I had to do a double take and didn't believe they were that small until I walked to the pits and literally they were only like waist height! 😂
SAme here! When they first came out I was sitting there in front of my old 34cm tv trying to adjust the screen. 😁
First saw them as a support category more than 10 years ago and fell in love with the series! Always plenty of action and thrills!!
Agreed! I saw them first time Clipsal 500 2017, absolutely loved them and couldn't believe that such a series even existed!
Oh man these are awesome! Can't beleive this is the first I'm hearing about it! I hope these catch on in the US, they seem like a great low cost entry point into racing!
Thank you for this mate. This was a brilliant take on a perspective that I think too many take for granted. You are 100% bang on the money about how many sub categories are given almost main category type exposure through TV etc. I will give props to foxtel and the previous and current supercars management for ensuring all categories under Supercars gets this kind of limelight. Us Aussies are very lucky in this sense, and I hope more people realise this fact too, instead of being elite snobs and only following the top category and not giving a damn about the rest. You did a great job on this video, I only wish it lasted longer lol.
Being Aussie and seeing these cars live, I'm in heaven
I remember the racing at the bend last year was batshit insane last year
@@Anon24052 bro that rollover where the bonnet was right aide up but the car was upsidedown 🤣
I'd also love to see these with NASCAR style bodies, on banked 1/8, 1/4, and 1/3 of a mile ovals...
First time hearing about ARC. It looks like a blast. Wish we had a series like that, here.
I could see a series like this that is team racing based, and the teams are location based like other sports. Due to the lower cost, the requirements could be 3-5 cars per team and building/using a city course or existing track as a "home venue". I would think there's enough interest and support to have 10 american cities to create a team and travel the country racing.
A playoff season that features returning races to tracks where the leading teams are based and a neutral championship race sounds like a hell of a spectator sport.
I love watching these at Winton . I wish they would race them on the old short circuit which was much like a cart track.
I never got to see them at winton unfortunately! Only saw them at Adelaide! I bet winton was great for them though!
For anyone interested, you can buy a new Aussie Racing Car for around $65,000 AUD (~$43,000 USD)
Our Aussie racing scene is fantastic, a weekend spent at the races is fun and exciting from day till night and the accessibility really makes it even better because you can see regular people showcasing their talent!
Pleasure to have seen these things at races, so entertaining to watch in real life
They are incredible! I couldn’t believe it when I saw them for the first time!
I have an overfixation with cars of cartoon-ish dimensions but more down-to-earth like these (think ChoroQ but with less exaggerated wheels meets go-karts), especially when they are ran on full circuits and have a packed grid.
I am thankful to be introduced with this race series even though I haven't been able to watch a full race yet, just the snippets of it.
I was already convinced, but that last section was incredible. Such tight, fierce racing, but I didn't see a bit of contact. Good, hard, clean racing. Don't get much of that in full-sized cars, unless they're open wheeled. Really, even then...
It’s funny that you say that tho as I’m Aussie and these are my favourite, if you watch any season there’s bound to be a massive crash, these are like wingless sprints which when the roll it’s just a ride you can’t stop, they are incredible and hold some of the best racing even when they crash
These look great! They remind me of the American Baby Grands which are IIRC 2/3 scale NASCAR-style stock cars with fibre-glass body shells over a tubular space-frame chassis with a motorbike engine. Some were imported into the UK back in the early 2000s and I drove a couple of them at test days at Arena Essex in about 2003. They ran a demonstration on the full Rockingham oval around that time at a V8Thunder/ASCAR/SCSA (whatever they called it at the time) event. I believe a series still exists in the UK but not called Baby Grands, running on short ovals.
I'd totally watch this series. Saw my first Legends race recently - it was fantastic
Guess you never heard of AMS2 has these car's in it :D great video BTW (Aussie here)
Just yesterday, I had an awesome fun race with those in our simracing community. Total fun fest on Bathurst. Such an exciting car to drive in the sim.
@@derhasi is the game playable on controller how hard is it to find a lobby nowadays
Hell yeah Automobilista 2! Reiza introduced me to these in AMS1. :)
Excellent video… I just had to subscribe. Thanks, mate!
Always wanted to race one of these. 2003 Sandown race Paul Kemal won in one of the old models where half the bodywork flew off the front and he still held on.
Good times.
I’ve gone to every adelaide supercars event since 2005 and these are the best racing to watch every single year they have them
That racing reminds me of what we get with the MX-5 Cup that travels around with IMSA here in the US
I work on Legends in Ireland, great series.
So happy you've introduced me to these beautiful nuggets.
I'm an Aussie honestly this is right up there for me personally as a series to watch. I actully like in more than the Supercars.
4:23 the normal size car against the race cars is fun to see
In France/Belgium they have another racing series called Mitjet, everybody races with the same body+engine and chassis anly the "paint" and drivers are different :)
I will check it out! Thank you! 😊
Great video, really looks like a fun series. Do you know if the races are streamed to Europe somewhere. Is it part of the Supercars RUclips offering?
It is indeed part of the Superview broadcast on YT
I first saw them in the Sim Automobilista 2 and thought it was another touring car spec series.
After I loaded it I thought there was something wrong with the rendering because the proportions of the car looked way of on a regular racetrack.
Then I finished looking around the car and put it into cockpit cam to drive and it clicked.
Ooohh those are single seaters with an incredibly cool shell!
I would love if there’s something like this in Germany, I would buy a car and go training on the Oschersleben track that’s only an hour away from me every weekend it’s possible!
just downloaded that track for A.C and WOW
@@steveo1964 yes it’s really a fun track :)
It doesn’t have a huge age old history like the Nürburgring or Hockenheim has, but it has enough great racing series have legendary races there that are nowadays already considered legends, like the amazing DTM cars of the late 80s and early 90s and then the monstrous technical high end machines of the later DTM/ITC Series as the 90s advanced and roled over into the early 2000s.
Great races to watch live!
And nowadays there are many races going on there, GT classes, prototypes, lower level formula classes and of course a lot of motorcycle classes too!
I can consider myself very fortunate that I did quite a few laps on that track in real live already with different cars.
My biggest highlight was when I was selected for a training weekend by BMW (I have four BMWs, a daily 5 series with a 3 liter inline six turbo automatic , two e36 a compact with the 2.5 liter inline six manual and a touring with the 2.8 liter inline six automatic and the original e8x 1 series as a cabriolet with the 3 liter inline six manual).
You could write a little bit about yourself, register through your dealer for this program and I got lucky that I was one of the 30 people who got selected.
They rented the track a full weekend for us, starting Friday morning ending Sunday evening with paid hotel stay, catering etc.
It was such an amazing experience!
We started out with a few briefings and then got racing overalls and helmets and a track prepared M4 (carbon intake open snorkel, carbon ceramic brakes, stripped interior and light cage and big pedal shifts.
Then we trained for a few hours with a pacecar in front of us at racepace to learn the limits of Tue track and have a pack racing experience.
15 people on the track, we were split in two groups.
The other group got to drive bmw classic cars in the wonderfully sunny, a bit mountainous countryside at the time the others where on the track.
This was also such a great experience, we had cars like the e30 M3, the 850 CSI (manual high reving V12, it is the base engine for the McLaren F1!!)the 635 CSL, the 2002 turbo, the legendary Batmobile and many more cars going from the early 90s backwards right to the legendary BMW 507!
This was the first day, on the second it got really special!
Everybody in the group got a Formula BMW car and racing training!
Full carbon monocoque single seater with amazing aero!
Driving those where completely different from everything I ever did and so much cooler (but also much harder and really exhausting) I ever did with cars!
The other group enjoyed switching around tue Oldtimers during that time.
On the third day we got a qualifying and a little race for everybody but of course had to keep it safe.
Those 30 laps where extremely hard and those cars aren’t even near formula 4 level!
And then after lunch we got taxi laps with full blown racecars driven by full blown BMW racedrivers like Bruno Spengler, Sheldon van der Linde and one amazing young woman who is extremely fast but unfortunately I forget her name..
It was unreal we where taxied around in the M6 GTE, the M4 GT3 and the highlight, the old V8 naturally aspirated DTM car!
The forces you felt while in those cars where unbelievable and how those drivers flung them around the track was just insane!
It was unbelievable how hard they pushed the cars and how late they braked!
It was such an unbelievable experience that you never could buy with money (maybe if you are a billionaire) and I’m so grateful I got to experience this as a normal working guy who likes driving cool cars.
Yes I’m fortunate enough to afford my vehicles etc but I’m by no means rich.
I’m just a regular working engineer in the automobile industry who develops cars for a living.
I can’t complain about my income, but it’s nothing you could even reasonably justify buying a Porsche with so this experience is very very special for me and I’ll forever have a really deep connection with the Motopark Oschersleben due to that!
I would’ve never been able to drive any of those amazing vehicles if they didn’t invite me to that legendary event.
Sorry for spamming you with such a long story without knowing you at all, I was just very happy about your comment, being a non German liking the track in AC :)
I thought there is something wrong with the aspect ratio, when I first time saw this race on screen
That's understandable! They are funny looking from certain angles!
Between ARC, S5000, Touring Car Masters and Improved Production (pretty mild spec cars, although vastly different to each other which makes for amazing racing), often the support races are twice as good as the main feature on Aussie race days.
There are some great battles of Improved Production on RUclips.
For anyone looking to try these cars in a Racing Sim, Automobilista 2 has them. Thats how I learned of these cars. Super fun to drive. Thanks for the Video.
This race series looks brilliant. I'd love to see these cars race over here in Britain.
Those look awesome! Another Aussie series I really like is the Touring Car Masters. Australians do cars right!
These guys are awesome... and nuts.
Brilliant racing
How would you guys compare this to IPRA? I think Supercars is the best spec/spec-adjacent series on the planet, but IPRA is great for seeing the widest possible assortment of cars go head to head. Shoutout to Jordan Cox ofc.
Goes without saying with Jordan Cox. I remember watching him in Adelaide racing that Civic against an American muscle car (can't quite remember which one) and just being in awe of the way he was able to take that thing round corners. I think IPRA is a fantastic series once viewers get off their high horses to watch it. So many people left the stands when improved production came on, and to be honest I did too the first time. But I think the thing with IPRA is that you can get that racing anywhere. In terms of multiple different types of cars all on track together, that's not unusual. Just look at like likes of CSCC in UK. So I'd say the ARC's are more of a spectacle because it's limited to one country/continent and plus, the racing is some of the best you'll see. Just my personal opinion but you're definitely right, IPRA is incredible! Supercars is fantastic, no denying that. It's not quite as good as it used to be, I'm glad it's not just Van Gisbergen winning all the time now, especially with Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown fighting at the front now so it's definitely on the up but I'd also say it's difficult to look past indycar as a brilliant spec series just due to the sheer diversity of tracks and drivers.
I had heard of them. But I hadn't realized those cars were so small. In hindsight though, something always seemed off when watching them race...
First time I stood next to one, I was so confused because it just didn’t add up! 😂 they are so good though!
Love Aussie Racing Cars and Legends. Have driven a Legend at Knockhill a few times and it's just so much fun.
Man I would love to see these guys in NASCAR kits, on ovals... in Australia preferably.
The current bodies used are Camaro and Mustang, but the only oval we have is the dead Calder Park Thunderdome.
@@gusdrivinginaustralia6168 Adelaide International Raceway has one as well if you look at google earth, except that's primarily a dragstrip now... but yeah, I'd love to see short track at least, maybe on dirt even.
This is a super fun series to race in Automobilista 2
I've not actually tried it, I've seen a few people commenting on it though! Didn't even know it was on a sim until people said about Automobilista! haha
I think I found my new favorite racing series. These and Supercars... I love them both. We Americans should learn a thing or two
Every country has their own great series, it’s just Australian motorsport isn’t really broadcast internationally and other than V8’s, nobody really knows the other series!
@KieranMogg have you ever seen the V8 Utes series? It was called V8 Brutes in the early days, a fantastic series that unfortunately doesn't exist anymore.
@@Freddyfartbox yes I have seen them. I never saw them in person unfortunately but Jesus Christ they looked insane!
We are soooo lucky to have to categories we do in Australian. Aussie racers are always a favourite. Sadly the S5000s don't have enough drivers anymore.
Makes me want to move down under and start a racing career haha
same bro. that looks so fun!
I've been a fan sinse 2012, when I saw clips on RUclips. So yes, I have heard of it. I try to watch them whenever I can.
Damn... These things must fun af to run laps around Mt. Panorama
You have so much more space than other cars, just imagine that run down the mountain from Skyline to Forest Elbow, must be incredible in an ARC!
THIS. LOOKS. BLINDING!!! How can we get to see this in the UK?
It's a shame you didn't show any crashes. Not only are they extremely spectacular, but they also show the strength and safety of these motorcyle driven, motorcycle sequential gear box running pocket rockets.
I remember that one crash where the car flips I don't know how many times in only a few seconds and it makes you dizzy but the chassis is bulletproof.
There's one series that no one talks about, but it's really nice to watch: Brazilian stock car.
Just to mention some names that races there: Rubens Barrichello, Felipe Massa, Nelson Piquet Jr, Lucas di Grassi, Toni Kanaan.
It's Very nice to watch
There's a few people commented about that, I know of the series and have seen some races but pretty unfamiliar with it. I will definitely look deeper into it!
Well that was educational as well as entertaining…..
I will say, you aussies do motorsports like no one else!!
Well i'm glad i was able to educate and entertain! 🤣 Aussies do it so well, i'm from UK and our health and safety regulations prevent the cool stuff!
I love the super truck stadium thing with the jumps too!
Oh they are incredible! I'm thinking of doing a video on that series as I saw them in Adelaide 2017 for first time and I couldn't pick my jaw up from the floor for a week! Just simply the height they jump at is insane!
Aussie Racing Cars is such a fun series to watch. It's the race I look forward to the most other than the V8 Supercars race on a race weekend. And yes coverage for that series and other supporting categories for Supercars is included if you are a member of the Supercars RUclips channel, which is where I first saw this series.
2:13 Knockhill looking lovely in the sun.
This series sure looks like a bunch of life-size Choro-Q cars race together, which is quite cute honestly.
Well that looks like a super cool series. Thank you for sharing and now I'm going to be looking for videos of some of the races to watch. I'm a big fan of the V8 Supercars from over here in the US (love that Shane Van Gisbergen won the NASCAR race in Chicago) and these rocket ships look amazing!
It really is, thank you for watching! There's loads on RUclips, especially of the 2017 season I found when I was finding clips for the video!! But definitely good that some of the drivers are getting international chances. Most notably Scott Mclaughlin!
My college ( 60 miles from the Charlotte Motor Speedway) had a Legends car...the team started in 1996. These look like they'd be fun to drive.
I think in Europe these are considered a "dangerous distraction" from "proper racing" in which manufacturers push cup series.
If it wasn't for Automobilista I would not have known of these little gems,
These appeared on the BTCC billing at Brands Hatch, they were phenomenal.
the MOST fun cars to drive in ams2 and AC. the series evens out the driver's skillset to a level where beginners and pros can have strong competition. There's nothing more fun than sending it 4 wide in ARC cars with your buddies
Aussies seem to make race cars and series that are about the fun, and not just winning at the expense of fun.
We kind of have this in oval racing over where I am in Canada it’s called jr. Late models
I am pretty certain these raced around the Calder Park Thunder dome in the late '90s or early 2000's?
I remember at the Adelaide VALO 500 (2023), Pt Adelaide AFL Star Charlie Dixion wanted to race these lil things but was too tall to fit in
Someone tell me where I can watch this up here. We don’t really get much coverage of series like this or even Supercars in the states.
Part of the Supercars Superview broadcast :)
More people need to be aware of this awesomeness
I think more people just need to pay attention to Aussie motorsports in general....cause they're brilliant!
For once, a thing that I actually have never heard of. Bravo!
ahah thank you! I'm glad I was able to show you something new then! Thank you for watching!
That would be more fun than the novice NASCAR series my father used to race in back in the 90s
I think it highly depends on the tracks, the ARC's have some really good tracks to race on fortunately, but I suppose NASCAR is a very different style of racing on the whole so difficult to compare!
think there is international series that is based in Europe which is very similar to this series called mitjet international, meaning it's not just Australia have them, Europe has them as well
I think the whole Australian motor racing scene is quite underrated: here in Europe, not even the V8 Supercars is very well-known, but I think if more of us would know what's going on down under, we'd love it - It practically is a blend of the best both sides of the Atlantic can offer, American affordability on European-style road and city courses.
Oh 100% agree with you. We have some good stuff over here, but the Aussies do it better and the Americans do it larger!
I seen these in track test days they are really fast and as loud as other race cars
Sometimes they go 4 wide into corners
NASCAR even got in on a legends series starting in the 2000's that is racing on 99% of paved tracks with a single dirt race at Oswego speedway. Not sure if it is still going on or not as last that I had heard of the NASCAR series was in 2014 or so on TV.
Thanks to Automobilista 2, the ARC is one of my favorites underrated racing series
I love this series. I always watch them via Superview on RUclips.
Honestly, Stadium supertrucks looks the most insane support series i think i've ever seen!
Oh 100%. That is incredible! It's on my list of topics to make a video on, so hopefully soon! :)
I've actually seen a couple of these in NZ! Now I finally know what the heck they are, was puzzling over them the entire track day
50 new cars were actually sent to N.Z when Quinny built Highlands, i made a bunch of stuff for those.
How do i watch this from the States? Cant find anything online be it highlights or replays
We have been watching the Australian Supercars Championship and the S5000 Australian Drivers Championship for a couple of years now here in Oregon, USA. It has sometimes been a bit of a challenge to find a stream. It has been great fun watching Scott McLaughlin and Oscar Piastri moving to F1 and Indy Car series. And it goes without saying but ...Daniel Ricciardo is a favorite. I'm hoping that sometime in the next 114 days I will be able to find an Aussie Racing Cars stream. I'm thinking my best bet is to use my VPN to log into an Australian Server and find a stream. Any suggestions?
Superview you get all supports as well as live supercars races, you have to pay for a subscription though
if you do use a VPN, it's usually broadcast on the FOX network. I can't remember which one the motorsport channel is of the Fox stations though, maybe an Aussie can help out here? 😂
In Oz it's on Foxtel either fox sports 506 or fox sports more+
These cars are fantastic. Seen them live many times. Stand next to them and they are tiny.
First time I stood next to one, my brain was so confused with it! They are so good to watch though!
I will give you another racing series most fans do not know about. The TC Series run by the Argentinian CATA sanctioning body. The longest running race series under one sanctioning body on the planet. Dating back to pre WWII. Engines based on US OHV inline sixes with extensive modifications including DOHC 24 Valve heads on top of the OHV blocks.
I will definitely check it out. Sounds interesting and I always love finding new series! Thank you!
You deserve so many more subs my guy, keep it up!
Awesome series. Thanks!
3:58 Others may have said this already but Formula E is not a spec series. In it’s first year it was spec but now the teams develop the power train and transmission.
Having seen this I now think it's criminal we don't have a fully-fledged version in the UK.
Can you imagine one of these trying to get round the last sector at Caldwell in the wet? It would be entertaining to say the least!
I love this series. More entertaining then the supercars honestly. Watched them at Winton & Adelaide last year they were amazing
I didn't see them at Winton unfortunately, I've seen them at Adelaide a few times and they never fail to put on a show! Especially through the Senna chicane bouncing over those massive curbs!!
I saw these a couple of years ago at Simmons Plains Raceway, Tasmania (AUS) and thought they were amazing. I'd never heard of nor seen them before, so to see these 1/3 sized cars ripping around the track was quite entertaining. Definitely keen to go see them again sometime. I'd like to see one up close just to grasp the size of these cause TV doesn't do it justice.
Ah it's a shame you didn't manage to get up close to one! I think most of the rounds they attend have open paddocks, they did when I saw them at the Adelaide 500. Definitely worth having a wander round the paddock if you get chance, TV really doesn't do it justice I agree!
@@KieranMogg not sure it was possible at Simmons Plains. I would have loved to have gotten an up close look at the Stadium Trucks when they took them to Tassie. Those things were beasts out on the track!
I hope they bring them back to Aus again in the future.
Regarding the Legends in the UK they do run dedicated Championship on 1/4 mile ovals.
Thank you for showing us!
Thank you for watching and commenting! Really appreciate it!
i got to sit in one of the first prototypes in australia on its way to tony quin at vip pet foods back in the day, very cool cars