What a treat to see a legend like Mika having fun driving this car on this track. I always suspected his talents ranged wider than F1 and he’s a dry intelligent and expressive individual. One of my favorite personalities of F1 and a guy who must be hard to root against.

Okay...neat car, no doubt. But...."what this car did to the other cars at Willow"....come on! It's struggling to pass glorified street sedans. Turning lap times 10 seconds slower than a Club Formula Ford and even slower than a Sport Renault. Neat, yes. Fast, no.

A Mclaren M12 was racing at Mikas hometrack Keimola 1970 Interseries race by Leo Kinnunen... I bet Mikas Dad took him to that race. Ja terkkuja Kaimalle.

I really like the audio track sync and mixing with the camera transitions on this vid!!👏

10 of 10! Thanks for sharing with us ! Sounds fenomenal!

Early 90s at the Historic GP Nurburgring . I sat on the Muhlenbach tribune where these beauty's came thundering past .......I still feel that thunder in my breast ......awesome ! ❤

So was he ever near close to the lap times for those cars the those times? Or was this just a corporate joy ride? This is not to put down Mika - a great F1 champion.

He used the right speed here considering all factors. Sounds like the car was just getting into the power curve though.

A besutiful car with pure Power.What is the highest speed? What displacement has the engine?

"spectacular torque" that's a big block, mika

Great insight into the sport. Thanks.

Had the pleasure of watching a little Can Am at Laguna Seca in the early 60's !! Love the sound !

We picked the wrong car to watch. Not very exciting driving from 1 White.

I loved watching and hearing that class at Riverside Raceway

Road America or watkins glen is a true test

Luguna Secca -whatever sucks

what a SHIT race track

I got to see that car race as a kid.

I don't understand why more supercar designs don't copy the centered driver position of the F1. It's the most ergonomically ideal... seriously, who would get into that cockpit and wish to be somewhere else?

Thank you Brian.

Great car, great era of racing. Porsche 917/30 still swamped McLaren and other cars, with over 300 to 500 horsepower more. McLaren had 800, Porsche had 1100 to 1500, depending on boost

That has to be the most fun to drive!!! One of my favorite sounding motors !!!

Beautiful Driver!! Crazy Race Car! American Style!

The masterful Mr Redman at play.

You needed gale banks. The Porsche teams funded by …, well who else??? Penske. The turbo v12 finally overtook the N/A big block Chevrolet and ruined the series

This is an amazing video. Such beautiful cars, such a raw and primal era of racing.

Laguna Seca

Next time build a real rollbar

Back in 1965, I lived in England and we'd go to Mallory Park to watch 2 and 4 wheel races. Mallory has a track option of using (or not using) a tight hairpin. A popular place at which to spectate. At one meeting there was a race that included Mustangs. Our first site of what was a much hyped car. It also included Minis. That hairpin was not kind to the Mustangs. By the mid 70's I lived in Southern California and owned both a K series Mustang and an early 1960's Mini. The Mustang was horrible on a rainy day. The heater core was in the dash, a nightmare to access, and mine leaked. It was therefore disconnected. If it rained it completely fogged up inside and anytime it rains in SoCal the roads were slicker than banana skins. So I'd drive the Mini on those days (with a plastic sheet over the distributor. My work commute was only a few miles but I'd have to drive thru a sunken tunnel below Van Nuys airport. During a typical California "cow on a flat rock" rain storm the tunnel would flood and traffic would be stop and go. The first time I drove the MIni to work I discovered that a prior owner had apparently mounted speakers on the front wheel wells using sheet metal screws. Got to work that morning with soggy socks . . . Weekends were spent working on one or the other . . . I sold the two of them in mid 1978 for something like $2200 (tops) and bought a used 1974 Saab 99 with the cash so that I'd have something 'reliable'.

How about a classic Porsche?

Unbelievable, one of the best cars from the can-am series with one of the best driver in the world. Worked as a pit marshall for the SCCA and was at the 71 race at Laguna Seca when Peter Revson won the 71 title .

good driver and commentator

Really a great insight in your testing and prep-work. Thank you for sharing

The Ferrari's at the Long Beach GP in 1977 and 1979 sounded just like this T33.

He whooped those 917's...thats the difference between a race car driver and a race car owner 😂.

Strapping in to a Big Block Go Kart like this for the first time would be massively intimidating to a regular guy like me. Hakkinen does it and hammers the throttle with a smile.

This was very cool to see $ Thx #Mika & #ZackBrown

what a pleasure to watch Mika in a McLaren! Such a great driver in such an iconic car!!

What a privilege to get to see the Targa Florio winning car driven at speed.. Love it.

It would have been nice to see Mika's foot work too!

Way back in the 80s, I was into 1:12 scale electric RC car racing. We all ran clear Lexan bodies on our chassis, most of them being CanAm bodies because they had the best aerodynamics. My favorite was the Frisbee body. It was the coolest looking!

As a child in the late 60s and early 70s, I attended several Can-Am races at the late, great Riverside raceway. My enduring memory is the visceral sensing of those cars when underway, even before you could see them. You felt vibration in your gut while Dad was still looking for a parking spot. The roars of engines penetrated all other sounds, and you’d have sworn they were driving right up on you instead of being clear on the other side of the course. To a kid’s mind, it seemed like they were alive, not machines.

A Legend driving a Legend.

This is such a great great group of historically important cars and wonderful people.

Brian redman taking it much more seriously than anyone here 👍👍👍👍😀😀😀😀 Oh I would love to drive that car… it and the 906 are my favorite Porsche racers ! Small light nimble, Piechs first was the 906… Imagine an onboard of the temporary targa florio that this participated in !! Ahhh - through all the small villages, on the narrow Italian roads. Much more dangerous but so great !!

Always nice to see and hear these old race cars in action.

Finally!!! After watching some of these videos as the owner of M8F -1-72 for several years its nice to hear someone actually drive one of these cars like it was meant to. You never forget the sound and its true what Mika said they just keep accelerating no matter what gear you have them in if your on the power band. The M8F had a 4sp Hewland gear box and the 5 spd would be better on such a tight course. Brings back so many wonderful memories, the challenge of going faster each and every lap listening to the what the engine rpm is telling you, sliding across the track on turn 9 under the bridge at Brainerd. Such an amazing experience that I could never share with anyone because today's small format camera's didn't exist back when I drove my car. You could feel the rubber peeling off the rear tires like someone was slipping a piece of paper under your ass, an experience only driving the actual car will give you. Great job on the camera and especially the sound.

800 hp; fuel injected?

😝 *Promo SM*

The most beautiful and fast car ever created