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how the hell did you manage to find an 'a' in Elan???

Listening to this guy pronounce Peugeot is grating.

ONE lap, it's a DRAG CAR, not a racing car. PFFT ...

I miss that old mulsanne straight. Wish I got a chance to see it since I was born after it was chanced

that is most impressive - V-max!!!

No, it was the 2 cars, 1 Mercedes and 1 Porsche, that took off at around 400km/h and somersaulted into the woods that brought about the chiquaines on the mulsane straight.

2:00 That is the same Gumpert that later on, founded Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur

Message to P88: "Bring the noise."

whats crazy is the porsche 917 record was from 1971 in a car that was normally aspirated

I could break that record. Give me an underground racing 3000 whp V10 and a Porsche 919 and we can hit 430 kph even with the reduced Mulsanne

It would have been awesome to be standing next to the fence seeing blast by at that speed!!

That's just too cool!

1:35 the cars shown here are not Ferraris, but Alfa Romeo 33/2.

Freakin french sed ey take that....in a frenchy akcent of course....and made future attempts null and void....like snails and frog legs ....

In fact it is the fastest racing vehicle period.

bmw won the 24 hours at nurburgring with a diesel in 2000 i believe ;)

I hope Audi will be just as successful in Formula One in the distant future.

A movie about this story would be amazing

And 30 years before an MG EX181, with a Supercharger 1500cc 4 Cylinder, and only 300hp went 400kph at Bonneville.

There's still one place that you can see cars going 240 mph. Indianapolis.

The car was a mechanical joke that wasted a lot of money.

Hideously fast! And…well…hideous!

why do people love this car . all it did was get in other teams way . could not go around corners at any speed with out going of track. did not take to the track for 3 hours. did not even have a go of even finishing

And we say thank you to Sylvain Lyve for the subject 🙃

What is miles per hour?! Is this video dedicated to be viewed by viewers from one country only? So be it.

that record pissed-off Ferdinand Piëch so much that he told his engineers that the Bugatti veron must be street legal, a daily driver and must go reliably min 407kmh !!! in my eyes the ultimate F#$!YOU to peugeot

Let me see... it wasn't banned but was the only car in the category that could not race anymore? Yeah, clear to me. It was banned. Just like the stupid rule that forced circuits to have straights no longer than a million kms, yeah sure, just say "LeMans", we all understood.

I thought the C9 did 413kmh, but maybe that's an "unofficial" record?

Amazing story.

Still the 037 beat this “unbeatable car”

very good story!

Every human has an innate desire to be remembered after they're gone? I'm not human

I always wonder if the Nissan R90CK would of broke the speed record on the Mulsanne straight. 230 mph on the mulsanne WITH chicanes is just insane.

This is a bit ridiculous ... what if Porsche took one var and designed it for fastest top speed ( before the chicanes ) they may have been in the 260’s.

This car was actually one of the reasons that the bugatti veyron even exists. The bugattis top speed of 407 miles per hour was specifically chosen to beat the peugot, because the peugot took the record from the Porsche 917, which was developed by the (at the time) VW Group CEO Ferdinand Piech. Because bugatti belonged to VW at that time, the target was to hit over 407 kmh with the VW designed W16 engine. Also, really good video! 👍

The 787 is the classic case of you should never meet your heroes!it was a cool car just only in our heads!

This Peugeot record was a reason to build Bugatti Veyron

To paraphrase Norbert Singer: We were worried when we first saw that Peugeot was breaking 400kph on the straight with their car. When soon after we read the actual laptime, we stopped worrying.

Pls don't only use mph, at least write the kph on the screen when talking about miles

Why don't I ever come across videos of this car, even if I search for them

The 787 wasn‘t too fast and got banned because of that. It also wasn‘t as dominant as people think. The car won, because it didn‘t break down like most favorits..

That car is - without any doubt - very fast and impressive. But in '87 one of those cars made 13 laps, the other broke after 3.5 hours, less than 1/3 of the race duration. It was a dang fast car, but it couldn't really compete. Le Mans is not about top Speed, it's about driving fast for 24 hours and not break the car.

fantastic video.

I love that audi had a petrol and diesel car at the same time/race and made a bet intern which car will win. They didn‘t even think about ANY other would win. 😂

This is why Veyron does 407

What can be defined as " fastest" in Le Mans history?? Highest top speed or average speed or maybe the vehicle traveled longest in 24 hrs?? IMHO I think its the Audi R15 since it covered the most distance in 24 hrs. A car is not fast if it has to stop every 30 mins for refuling, or breaks down after 20 laps.

Really well done piece about an amazing car. But is the “fastest sports car in the world” hyperbole needed? It’s not a true statement (and any knowledgeable car fan will know that) and I think undermines credibility in the viewers eyes. There’s so many amazing facts about the 2000gt that exaggeration isn’t needed. This channel is great and I really hope it becomes more popular. I hope the constructive criticism is well… constructive.

> starts talking about group C > shows footage of touring cars at bathurst

It's like winning a traffic light race without the other car knowing. Speed ​​and cornering ability are always a compromise. They won a competition without rivals. I think the car has to go at least the distance for it to count.