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Good documentary about the Viper ! But just a few thoughts: Instead of portraying the Viper as a victim of regulations, you can turn the whole thing around - and maybe still be right. The Viper with its 8 litre engine was wrongly designed from the start to take part in races outside the USA - where a large displacement is considered good form. The Viper had no chance against the real FIA GT GT1s that ran from 1996 onwards - why should it ? From then on it consistently drove in the GT2 outside of real competition. With Oreca's million-dollar budget, the matter was clear in the FIA ​​GT 1997/1998 and in the ALMS 1999/2000. When other bigger displacement cars - Lister, Marcos in FIA GT and Corvette in the ALMS - joined in 2000/2001, things got more interesting again. At the Nürburgring, the Viper was simply tolerated for too long because Zakowski is a clever man and has a good reputation and influence. And the fans loved the Viper. But in fact, the Viper had no business being there. Good races are always built around good regulations. That's why today's GT3 races are so good. Different teams, driving cars from different manufacturers, keep winning. Dodge/Chrysler didn't get this from the start, or rather benefited from the fact that there was practically no BOP before 2006. The "Viper Competition Coupe" that took part in the GT3 back then was a good car, but not a high-flyer, which proves my point - or not?

A lot of inaccurate information here. Firstly, it was Bob Forbes that was behind the whole thing. The car was never built, however a lightweight shell was. When the Lemans deal never got the money needed, Bob Forbes completed the build of the shell and the car was raced in the Australian Group C category. Although the Commodore rated in the Australian Group C category fitted with a 308- 5 litre Holden V8, it was proposed at Lemans it would run a twin turbo 253- 4.2 litre Holden V8 as this placed the car in category with similar cars. The engine was being developed by Normalair-Garret and illustrations and mock-up photos as shown were designed by Leo Pruneau who was head designer at Holden at the time.

Been a while dude, bet you're cooking up a banger eh?

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TBH, after being ferried around in an R5 for many years in my youth, I'm not surprised that it made a successful RallyRaid car. The suspension on those things was legendarily strong and compliant, and the R5 was damn reliable too. My mother's example ran over several concrete blocks (deposited on the road from a skip of construction debris) at speed, and the only damage to the car was a destroyed front fog light and a dented rim. The tire didn't even lose air. The R5 may not've looked like much, but it was a tough little b4$t4rd!

A 45 minute penalty! TWICE! that is just ridiculous.

Just wow 500kg of ballast? Hey that car of yours.... Its just too fast we need you to carry around.... where did I put it?.... Ah there! that cow over there.

Does anyone know the songs playing in the background?

That c11 is beautiful

4:30 it is Panizzi the God of Tarmac showing donuts on the 4wd Peugeot just to entertain the crowd. He won the race anyway eventually

the AC5 Briefing's song :D nice video!

I noticed Holden, HDT and hsv have some similar designs for some parts on this car. Vl Walkenshaw fenders Vl Walkenshaw rear window cover Vl Walkenshaw side skirts VK cakais looking wheels VK letterbox grill Vl ss group a bonnet scoop Vn ss group a splitter

I think it had a 4cylinder Daewoo engine it couldn't pass gas 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤠🐨🐨🦘🦘🐊🐊

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Thank you for teaching me about my people.

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Awesome analysis of the design, rare attention to detail. You got a subscriber.

A unique 1 off body kit, its given me ideas for my build as I'm at a bare shell, ex race car, so has all the goodies.

German bias in the NLS is still going on today

The trio of cars that won everything even when officials tried every trick in the book to stop them but failed. Audi Quattro. Nissan Skyline R-32. Dodge Viper.

GOOD NEWS. IN 2024 THEY FINISHED AND WERE CLASSIFIED WITH NEXT TO NO MECHANICAL ISSUES. A little slower than the other cars in the class but eh.

I only went to the 24 hours once, 1989. Merc finished 1, 2 &5 overall, Mazda 1,2, 3 in class, the only 2 teams to bring all their cars to the finish.

8:26 I wished they would have added 2 4l egines or some loop hole

This is a fascinating story, the 935 is very unique with all of its iterations. Pretty popular in that usa era with the bizarre modified longtails, JLP and so on... thanks so much for the video, im collecting model cars of various eras and motorsports, just love the background and history behind them..new subscriber

NASCAR does not use track limits on their roadcourses. It works great!

is that a Group A Holden Commodore at 3:14 or an Opel/Vauxhall equivalent? never knew it raced at Spa, that's pretty neat

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I think this was awesome. Using any and all parts of available circuit to find time.

grandpa wake up there's a new stijn paspont video

#bringbackgt1 #makelemanshypercargreatagain We got screwed when dayton/lemans prototype class got pushed into lemans hyper car class. We almost got a modern low restriction gt1 class. Been amazing with Valkyrie blondie etc.

If it’s gray, it’s okay. Track limits are for squares.

nice, finally a new video after 9 months. Hope everything is good now, whatever the reason is.

Look who's back. Slim Shady AND Stijn Paspont!!

Please don’t remind me of 2020..

I initially thought it was going to talk about the virtual endurance 24 hours race during Covid that Verstappen took part in. They forgot to turn on penalty limits, so drivers didn't bother taking a single corner correctly all race lol.

Anything mentioned after 787B in this video is just enough to defeat the "rotaries are banned" allegations thrown by... well, some "mainstream". Kinda sad that Mazda didn't capitalize off of the LMDh regulations, they exited IMSA when this ruleset is being introduced, but I just hope that they would cook once more especially knowing that rotary engines are referenced in the sporting regulations, though I wonder which team would be interested in running it...

Desperate times create desperate measures, but I did not expect that the measures these drivers had would be _this_ desperate (thankfully not for very long).

You play the audio of the clip without the video to avoid copyright strikes?

Guess who's back, back again

Finally, you are back!

Damn i don't remember Ie mans 2023 having that ruleset

Oh my god! He’s back!

John Watson telling it like it is as always! Legend! "The race looked like an actual professional event and not a racing game open lobby" hahah! Excellent as always! Thank you!

You're back! That's great! You do the best motorsport story vids on yt!

I love this guy

Finally, the way I play Gran Turismo is presented in real life.

Your 1923 clip says 2023

It's such a shame that touring car racing isn't bigger.

Who would have guessed that the FIA's obsession with paved runoffs would come back to bite them?