Building and racing a 1964 Ford GT40 Le Mans replica at Spa 6 Hours with Alex Brundle

Join Alex Brundle as he along with a group of engineers create a replica of the 1964 Le Mans 24hours Ford GT40, before racing it at the historic Spa 6 hours race. Watch as the team overcome several obstacles to make the chassis race ready, before Alex and co-driver Harrison Newey compete at the iconic event.
Read more about Alex's story here: www.adrianflux.co.uk/motorspo...

[@SykesAJ]

Alex has a terrific presentation style. Takes real skill to communicate complex subjects so clearly and with just the right level of enthusiasm. As good in front of the camera as behind the wheel.

[@ceesklumper]

Moves his hands waaaaay too much

[@har234908234]

@@ceesklumper If you're looking at his hands, then the thing the rest of us are looking at isn't interesting enough for you... Too bad, I guess.

[@dalton-at-work]

Alex is great for this. dispite a lifetime of access to the most prestigeous and expensive racing and vehicles, he's not jaded and remains enthusiastic about even the little things like innovative upright assemblies, lol. Makes him a truly relatable presenter

[@ecom-santiago]

This should be on Netflix !

[@robtullius7540]

Your Dad is one of the great road racing drivers of all time .I have been watching your Dad for many many years. Really nice video

[@scoresandflames]

Always great to see the GT40 cars out on track. I hope Jimmer will be able to provide some great racing in the Mustang :)

[@FrankB1110]

Time machine through and through. What a glorious film.

[@itempany]

Great insight to the ups and downs of having a GT40

[@diiaa366]

Living the dream! I wish I could watch this in person.

[@Follett2121]

Beautifully done video!

[@rockets4kids]

Great video, great story. Well done! It's not often I say that.

[@toddsavetodd736]

Never really understood why so many choose to build the MK1 over the MK2, when it was indeed the MK2 that won to begin with.

[@hotyacht88]

Pretty simple I think......aside from a lack of historical knowledge.......largely I think because the MkI is a prettier car.

[@diiaa366]

@@hotyacht88 agreed mk1 over mk2 everyday

[@jase6370]

The mk1 looks much nicer, and won more lemans and World championships than the mk2

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

I am building one. RCR made a bunch for the movie. LS3 and Porsche transaxle. Can’t wait to take it to the track.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

The last two winners was a hybrid. Same car/chassis. MKII front with the big scoop and the back was a modified MKI. It didn’t have the intake scoops of the MKII but had wider flared jowls for the wider tires that were being made by then.

[@kevg1915]

can we get a more in depth video with pictures of the process? It'd be awesome!!! like this so Alex sees this!

[@jamesstraub4981]

Nicely done guys. Amazing car.

[@abbeyhall4624]

This is one of those rare well made videos. Well done on it video production team. And well achieved with the build itself. It was very informative abut the historical development of the original cars. Sorry that you didn't get to finish the race, but at least you got the car in one piece... no accidents etc.

[@randr10]

You forgot to mention how much of the aero development that went into it the Shelby/Brock collaboration on the Daytona Coupe was carried over to this car. It was the first body designed in a wind tunnel from my understanding and they incorporated some groundbreaking design elements that solved a lot of the problems with high speed stability at tracks like Le Mans where cars can see upwards of 200 mph with the power numbers cars started seeing in the '60s. Most of the cars would begin generating lift at some point over 130-140 mph and were nearly impossible to control at speed, including the iconic AC Cobra cars. The Shelby Daytona Coupe solved that with the boat-tail rear with the little spoiler kick up at the end of the fastback roof, along with the air ducting that forced air over the hood instead of under the car like with most cars designed before that. I think the best one could hope for up to that point would be hood and fender louvers, which were probably designed more for cooling than aero. This caused the Daytona to legitimately generate downforce at both the front and rear of the car at Le Mans type speeds while remaining relatively slippery. Every one of those design elements made it into the GT40 in some form. Obviously the major differences being attributable to the underlying chassis design (front mid-engine vs. rear mid-engine), so you see the longer hood and shorter tail on the Daytona. I'd be thrilled to own either or both but for some reason the Daytona just tickles my fancy just a bit more. It's like an American e-type jag design-wise and there's not a whole lot of cars out there that are sexier than that. The GT40 is just in your face crazy looking. It still looks wild even by today's standards.

[@dalton-at-work]

covered it pretty well at about 13:00

[@nils2875]

how does this not have more views?!

[@geoffmcwiggan2814]

You sound so much like your old man..... same voice tone. Great video mate. Ya dad should be very proud of you. All the best .👍🇦🇺🥃

[@johnhyde8892]

My uncle is Jim rose apart of Alan Mann racing. He even built his own GT40, now owned by Henry Mann.

[@rozzville]

Great video. Great story.

[@mrseaweed5587]

You the 88 Capri!!!! what a car.

[@sspeed30043]

I probably saw this car at the last Spa 6 hour... was the first time I visited Spa last year.

[@barryfoster6265]

Great video, and really good job on the car….. 30th back up to 6th…… guys were MOVING!!! truly impressive driving. I always wanted to know how the replicas would hold up, they seem real popular in the classic series. I wanted to get a superformance GT40, rumor is they have and use the same tooling as the original cars. I need to go look at one in person in LA.

[@BrundleBTW]

SO this is a Gelscoe, and it is literally the same to the cm as the originals

[@dalton-at-work]

@@BrundleBTW cool! thanks for the in depth vid

[@plantfeeder6677]

You could have added about the brakes that all of todays modern cars use full floating rotors on their brakes. I believe it was Honda that was one of the last to use hub bolted rotors in the '80s Thank you Ford. You made brake jobs easy and inexpensive. The rotors on my Miata cost $15 NEW! Or use to before bitemenomics took over

[@paulconetta8792]

How about some pictures of the suspension failure?

[@razghost2]

Interesting to hear you talking about how the brake discs were changed during pitstops. However it does make me wonder how they went about pushing the brake caliper pistons back for the new disc as that seems to be the most time consuming part of changing discs IMO

[@Andrew-vx2ls]

I believe the calipers had a special hinge allowing the discs to be swapped. This presumably also helped pad changes. I was also waiting to hear this little gem of information. Perhaps Mr Brundle will cover some more nerdy subjects of this type as he has a good, enthusiastic delivery?

[@BrundleBTW]

@@Andrew-vx2ls Might do another video just on this

[@hockeymann88]

Great content! Subscribed.

[@giveUup1921]

Alex sounds so similar to his dad when he shout lol

[@cesarefiderio1634]

Grande marchio Ford.

[@mattwilson3244]

This ; Well Done ! Want to know what ,why ,How ? About GT40 ? Guy knows a lot !

[@danielduncan1280]

" If oooonly iiinnn my Dreeeeaaammmsss"

[@Docdug]

How many GT-40’s were competing?

[@BrundleBTW]

Around 10

[@TheUsmc0802]

What kit did they use? Which is the more accurate build? A RCR or superformance? I wish FFR would make one!

[@BrundleBTW]

the Superformance is more accurate of those two but this is a gelscoe.

[@cameronmmj9291]

My absolute dream car. I'll have one in 25-30 years

[@doogalmall7087]

I thought that 30 years ago, still waiting, but it will come.

[@edwarddemas5685]

Your concentric clutch cylinder is a clever package for the ZF. Do you offer a kit?

[@Andrew-vx2ls]

🤣

[@robertlloyd7493]

👍

[@johngibson3837]

I don't think you said which engine is in this car

[@phillipalder9045]

Does anyone know what brand replica this is?

[@LBNMKRS]

Is that a Gelscoe gt40?

[@beemweh]

at 7:59 rear calipers are mounted upsidedown????

[@guypehaim1080]

Was it a flaw in a casting or a weld that ended your effort? What suspension part did break? If I had the fortune to put into a car for this kind of event, I would do it. I believe that people should be permitted to see racing as it was in the apex of competition in the 1960's. My favorite car was the Ferrari 250LM. That was the last car Ferrari built that was intended for both the street and the track.

[@BrundleBTW]

It was the top ball joint pin, which was broken is it was (incorrectly, now remedied), becoming the limit of droop and suffering the full impact of the spring.

[@robklein1674]

what color is that green???

[@BrundleBTW]

tanzanite blue

[@hotyacht88]

What is the replica that has been built up? Looks like a steel spider....is it a SPF, or a Gelscoe? Or something else?

[@BrundleBTW]

It’s a gelscoe

[@hotyacht88]

@@BrundleBTW Nice! Top shelf, and it looks great. It would be really interesting to see more of the build and technical side of the car . Your brief history of the car development was interesting and you have clearly inherited your Dad's comms skills as well as driving talent.

[@davicci975]

is that a Superformance GT40?

[@montycrain5783]

What Size and make of tires were used,modern radials or bias Vintage?

[@BrundleBTW]

It’s an Avon vintage radial

[@jackredman469]

Better Luck Next Time

[@dalton-at-work]

so basically the enginners for the gt40 invented floating rotors? which is how 99% of all cars are built today!

[@TheXJRMAN]

Do Flux insure track cars? Green hell here I go...

[@JeepCherokeeful]

I’m no expert but two passenger racing mid engine cars and mid engine cars in general are the least comfortable configuration for occupants. Other than that this seems to be an excellent video!

[@arkhsm]

Throw some GT40s' into slower traffic, and things get hairy REAL QUICK !!

[@jouhannaudjeanfrancois891]

Absolutely great, really! except one insufferable detail... YOU DON'T USE THE FONT BRUSHSCRIPT ON A GT40 (or anywhere as far as i am concerned) 🤮🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬

[@stephenwilliams4583]

Disapoi ted thatyou used brundles name . And showed stuff all of your team mate, pretty narcissistic