1989 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 ONBOARD with GIANFRANCO BRANCATELLI!!

Here is an onboard video recorded last week-end during the Spa Summer Classic. Gianfranco Bracantelli was back behind the wheel of the 1989 24 Hours of Spa winning car: Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 Group A. At the time, he won the race with Bernd Schneider and Win Peacy. Bracantelli had also made a second place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on a Mercedes C9 in 1989 too. Let's enjoy the (very fast) ride.
Full onboard race here: • Full onboard race (second place overall).
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[@inquisitor229]

Lovely to see 'Branca' is still driving and is still fast. During the group A era he drove Alfas, BMW's, Rovers, Volvos and Fords. This RS500 is the one he drove (with the other drivers listed on the front wing) to win the 1989 Spa 24 hours race. Fast in just about everything he drove. A true legend.

[@RacingMedia]

inquisitor229 Yes this guy is very fast! A legend!

[@gaz10182]

Yes yes yes thumbs up great track legendary cosworth blasting hard around spa francochamps

[@RacingMedia]

Thank you Gary! Bring on 2019!

[@johntomas5170]

Pure class ,a real car and real driving !

[@MiniOne82]

Meet Gianfranco last year at Oulton Park Gold Cup and hes such a nice guy and by the look of it, the car still has the dent in the door from when he hit Jason Minshaw in his Volvo S40 ST

[@chunder27]

This is what ALL modern historic racing should be about, a proper driver, pushing a car close to its limits, not the parade garbage so much historic racing s there days, rich men driving around slower than I drive to work

[@RacingMedia]

100%

[@ravenmaster6364]

delightful! thank you for uploading this. what a car, what a driver and what a sound! the way he covers the ground is superb, using all the track and hes really pushing it in places 👍. I saw this car at oulton park about 2 years ago, beautiful machine and great to see them being used properly.

[@RacingMedia]

Raven master thank you so much ! It was such a fun video to do

[@equipejaronn]

Beautifull car, great team and Gianfranco really nice man and still fast driver. Loved every minute of it

[@RacingMedia]

Thank you! Yeah really really fast! Impressive!

[@gavinivers8941]

More power that grip, and very little aero....sorts the men from the boys!

[@HappyDayGarage]

I'm in love! I'd be happy if our Sierra Coupe went half as well! ❤

[@alextripp1230]

Brilliant video, loved it.. Alex.

[@FocusWRC8]

One of Rudi’s cars doing what it does best

[@mrfrdman]

Fantastic :)

[@RacingMedia]

Thank you !

[@jondrizzle4554]

Bloody fantastic

[@paulsoames7980]

EXCELLENT

[@Barrick_Creative_Media]

Great video - just needs the camera to be a tad lower to get a better view of the track

[@noroardanto]

Lovely beast. I hope the camera was lower so we can see the track ahead

[@luizalmeida9399]

'87 ford sierra cosworth

[@degu5249]

F O R D The Best

[@TheRoadster82]

greatest touring car of all times +500bhp

[@kikiautorcman787B]

Elle "marche du feu de Dieu" cette Sierra Cosworth ❗👍🔥🏎️🏁🤓🇫🇷

[@JaredR1996]

Awesome drive 👏👏👏

[@RacingMedia]

Jared Richardson Still fast!

[@JaredR1996]

Racing Media 👍. Will u do more of these?

[@RacingMedia]

Jared Richardson Onboard ? Yes sure and others videos 👍🏼

[@JaredR1996]

Racing Media awesome. I can’t wait to see more. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍

[@RacingMedia]

Jared Richardson thank you !👋🏼

[@timruddell125]

100% of the horsepower of a GT3, 10% of the downforce. Beautiful driving. It would be amazing to see it and an R32 GTR battling at Spa.

[@EugVR6]

timruddell125 The GTR is what retired the RS500 from being king, especially at Bathurst, the GTRs made the RS500s look slow and Im a Ford fan but that's the truth.

[@doncikutas4393]

For me the RS500 is still the king of Gr. A. The R32 came too late but in Australia they battled against. And these "old" RS500's sometimes kicked in the ass of Godzilla thanks to the well designed basic and the continous development. But really hard to compare an RWD 2.0 turbo turbo car and an AWD 2.6 TT racecar. They are not in the same league...

[@thefastandthedead1769]

That was the beauty of the group A rules. You could have such a wide range of cars taking part. There was a sliding scale relating engine size, weight and tyre width. The R32 never lost a Group A race in Japan. It won the SPA 24h outright, upsetting Porsche, Ford, BMW along the way. It won the Spanish Touring Car championship outright. It took the collusion of other manufacturers threatening to pull out to kill the Group A rules. Nobody had a car to answer R32.

[@feydespiel.]

@@EugVR6 well I don't know about slow...dick Johnson may have something to say on that...on many occasions DJ was as fast and sometimes faster.....unfortunately the gtr was too strong....still...I took 4wd..2 turbos.. 2.6ltr and 4wheel steer to beat the cozzie...it was already an old car by the time of the r32... but theres no shame in losing to godzilla.

[@EugVR6]

@@feydespiel. Definitely no shame in losing to Godzilla and those two cars delivered great battles. I'm not saying the RS500 was slow because it wasn't by a long shot but the RS500 was old tech by the 90s, Subaru and Mitsibushi were killing the Escort Cosworth in rallying and when the Mondeo v6 BTCC car came out, it had 320hp and fwd but Ford said it was 4 seconds a lap faster around Brands Hatch GP circuit in testing against the Cosworth.

[@johnstonbrianronald9388]

The wiper blade central windscreen was annoying!

[@nick-andre08]

Its a 87 not a 89

[@paullinfoot6017]

its an 88 built car chassis number ( 99268 ) the 2nd car from 1988