Why is he not going through 8 gears all the time like on the movies ?

Anyone else wait with bated breath for 20 plus minutes to hear it swing past 5,500 rpm or so and come on cam?!!

Pretty relaxed, but starts getting it on near the end.

how many cc's is the engine,and is it air cooled?

Sounds terrible in the cockpit?

I was in Monza in 1970 and - as an italian and Ferrari fan - I *hated* this car beating the Ferrari 512S of Giunti and Vaccarella!

ROOOAARRRRRRRRR...........................ROOOOOAAARRRRRrrrr......... 🤯

!!! ...I can hardly believe this video is posted as a Rennsport Reunion! I knew instantly being its my home track, but idling under the start-finish bridge sign it's very clear... Laguna Seca👍🏽🇺🇸

That thing on the windscreen isnt a wiper. Its an overpass to allow spectators to get from one side of the car to the other.

IMSA stang had some POWER

Big block Chevrolet 👍

My brother raced a lotus 23 back in the 70s. He had good battles with the chevron b8 as it was the same engine. (Both 2valve/cyl engines) The B16 was a higher class 4valve/cyl engine much more power. So I’m guessing the b8 running in this video has a 16valve engine in it

That chevron b8 ahead of it must have a 16valve engine in it also.

My brother raced his lotus 23b with a chevron b16 back in the 70s, both were cosworth engines but the lotus was a 1600cc two valve/cyl engine and the chevron was 2liter 4valve/cyl engine. Different class obviously. Under braking and cornering my brother was actually a bit faster than the chevron. Only 1000lb car and it was modified to run the big fat racing slicks that formula Atlantic cars ran. But come the straight, man that chevron moved!

1970 or 1971 are probably my favorite years for innovation, competitors do anything to gain even the slightest advantage, the Porsche 917 being the #1 most innovative obviously, some might yell at me for this but I would say #2 is the Matra simca ms670 longtail with its iconic pontoon rear

Painful.. keep hands on wheel unless you are shifting, no toe/heel, sloppy..

I wonder if that’s Redman driving the 908?

Hard to believe that that car is 55 years old!

THANK YOU FOR NOT ADDING ANY STUPID MUSIC!!!!! That engine sound is beautiful. Thank you for posting this video.

I think he can push this car even more actually….

One minute 30 seconds… not too bad😊

Would have like to see him really wind the 917 out. Just playing follow the leader boring.

Very cool. I sat in this car as a kid when Gerry owned it! At Watkins Glen around 1978.

All Hellzapoppin right behind you.

Notice the little corrections on the warm up lap

I’m enjoying my second cigarette after my eargasm.

You got one spot on the track to pass only if you're on the rear of the car ahead... totally dangerous..i notice morons on the hiway drive this way..too bad their not professional drivers

Ohh boyy.. this is going to be fun

Awesome

What’s up with that brake pedal?

Alex, thanks for posting. Always enjoy watching the cars back on the track where they belong.

Driving this car in assetto is such a pain but worth when you Finnaly put a lap down

Raw, simple, nice and crude wheel !!! No fly by wire !!!!

Divertidísimo!!!

This track is probably too tight but you can still see and hear the raw power of this classic racing machine. Timeless.

This is wonderful. But I can't see the driver's name anywhere. Can someone please tell me who that is?

Fantastic to see these cars out there and real video of them racing. More of it please. un-mistakable engine noise (music).

I like the old course where you could fly over the hump into a fast left hander up to the bridge. This new course stinks.

Is this car fitted with the cosworth 1600??

I try to imagine what the inside of one of these smelled like brand new! Paint, glue, fiberglass, rubber, etc., along with the smell of race gas, oil................

Wow. Get me in that car! What a machine

Awesome video, what an amazing sound and such a great car, this deserves many more views.

Laguna Seca is too short and tight for these monsters. Andrew, our driver, is stymied by amateurs in the cars ahead. But even so, we are given an insight into a motorsport experience that prompted Steve McQueen to put his production company on the line. This era of racing asks for no quarter and gives none. The stakes could not be higher - a mistake could be fatal. The power of these cars was unheard of. Only a handful of the very best drivers were willing to be put to the ultimate test. Because they were racers and could not say no.

The engine sounds SO happy when accelerating hard in the upper half of the rev band.

Keeping the cool down lap in the video was a nice touch - just out for a relaxing Sunday drive!

Thanks! Took me back to my youth, racing in A Production in the 60s and 70s, first in a 427 Cobra, later an L-88 Corvette. Loved watching it get a little loose in some of the tighter turns, right on the edge. That us what the cars were built for! Too bad you can't feel the g forces in the curves and on acceleration.

Note the 1970 braking points. Instead of the driver feeling 4 G’s, you can almost hear him screaming woooooe baby.

basically an endurance vehicle not particularly suited to this type of circuit. so it's painful to watch it being throttled down.

What a waste putting these cars onto a parade, sounds like a two cycle punches like a two cycle not enough gears to select😅

Such wonderful sound - did not disappoint! Stacatto vibrato forever!