The Greatest Racecar to Never Race

[@Shivsterr]

I knew it was an F50 from the thumbnail, Ask me how? It’s because I have two of them (models) Sitting on my table with the roof and the rear lid off.😀

[@Lego_Huracan_SuperTrofeo]

Got me in the first half 😂😂

[@UKBUILT]

😆 Nice I'd love to build one if I can find the parts 🤔

[@KootBear]

lol me too! one is red and one yellow

[@Shivsterr]

@@KootBear both of mine are red:)

[@BotulinSpikedMarzipan]

@@Shivsterr I thought it was the Cerbera

[@juim1j]

4:22 Thank you for including the credits for the article, I wrote that with Max a few years ago, and my eyes immediately lit up when I saw my name on the screen. To his credit, that particular part was written by Max. Thank you.

[@SpecMDriven]

The thanks goes to you guys. These older articles and videos are gold and deserve to be shared and appreciated. Thank you and Max

[@snuppssynthchannel]

F50 GT FTW, arguably the most extreme non F1 Ferrari alongside the Ferrari 612P and 712 can am. The Ferrari to crush McLaren there and then if there ever was one, a shame it never raced. Also got to love that Rom de prisco Remix music choise, Rom de Prisco set the perfect auditory example of the speed, the mystery and sleek beauty of the super car exotics of the era. Great video!

[@briangriffith3985]

i always liked the F50 more than the F40. that V12 sound👌🏾

[@UKBUILT]

V12 💪 I'm using the OG zonda v12 engine for my project 😎

[@NotABrake]

But what about the flip up headlights that never worked😂

[@igorbrezovic]

Well, everybody loves the beautiful one...even if it`s V8 biturbo...

[@fredericfuknchopin4552]

@@UKBUILT Don't be silly. You ned a 3 cylinder.

[@UKBUILT]

@@fredericfuknchopin4552 😂 I have four 3 cylinders just joined together 😉 Thanks 😎👍

[@benhodkinson6467]

I didn’t like the F50, the cabin shape and integrated spoiler made it look too soft. The GT however is absolutely perfect! What a treat your video was.

[@BRAINFxck10]

For me "the greatest race car to never race" was the Lancia ECV2, nearly 40 years later and it's still pretty fururistic

[@premonemo]

Füreristic 🫡

[@arjitagarwal007]

Lancia can never be a practical road car , but McLaren was design for roads not for tracks, with few modifications it's race ready GT Race car

[@Flying_Fetus]

​@@premonemo💀

[@kantina4765]

@@arjitagarwal007 What is this mentally ill comment supposed to mean

[@JewelzTheEmeraldGod]

​@@arjitagarwal007bro is onto nothing

[@aloniabasmerom8868]

This is by far the highest revving naturally aspirated V12 powered Ferrari ever with a roof

[@thctitan5041]

yeah it revs up to like 11 or 12 thousand right?

[@aloniabasmerom8868]

@@thctitan5041 you can see it in the thumbnail of the video

[@evulfuson]

Thank you for this video. I'm a 90s kid and I remember watching Schumacher fighting Villeneuve for the 97 championship, then Hakkinen for the 98 and 99 championships. The Ferrari F50 was (and still is) my favorite supercar, and it's all to do with those nostalgic childhood memories.

[@einautofan6685]

It's everytime the cars you grew up with...😉 As a Kid of the 80's I loved when they announced Bugatti was brought back to live in the end of 80's / early 90's with the amazing EB110! Also a new Supercar 1992 from UK: Mclaren F1! And then there was another Exotic Supercar from USA: The mysterious Vector W8 Twin-Turbo! That were my Halo Cars long before KZbin and the Internet...😉

[@einautofan6685]

It's everytime the cars you grew up with...😉 As a Kid of the 80's I loved when they announced Bugatti was brought back to live in the end of 80's / early 90's with the amazing EB110! Also a new Supercar 1992 from UK: Mclaren F1! And then there was another Exotic Supercar from USA: The mysterious Vector W8 Twin-Turbo! That were my Halo Cars long before KZbin and the Internet...😉

[@einautofan6685]

It's everytime the cars you grew up with...😉 As a Kid of the 80's I loved when they announced Bugatti was brought back to live in the end of 80's / early 90's with the amazing EB110! Also a new Supercar 1992 from UK: Mclaren F1! And then there was another Exotic Supercar from USA: The mysterious Vector W8 Twin-Turbo! That were my Halo Cars long before KZbin and the Internet...😉

[@einautofan6685]

It's everytime the cars you grew up with...😉 As a Kid of the 80's I loved when they announced Bugatti was brought back to live in the end of 80's / early 90's with the amazing EB110! Also a new Supercar 1992 from UK: Mclaren F1! And then there was another Exotic Supercar from USA: The mysterious Vector W8 Twin-Turbo! That were my Halo Cars long before KZbin and the Internet...😉

[@stefantsarev4442]

"Caution: loud V12 noises" Yeah, that's what we are here for 😂 Great video!

[@mavr1ck_garage]

Using the need for speed music in the background was perfect for this video

[@dannymac6368]

I loved this car. Most memorable Hot Wheel I owned as a kid. I endeavored to learn everything I could about it, but was disappointed by the lack of readily available information out there in the mid 90’s. Awesome video.

[@mikeike6823]

Great film, you earned a subscriber! I miss informative car journalism like this, as most of the bigger channels either disappeared or sold out.

[@gabrace]

Such a cool stuff to learn about cars. Love the video and the NFS soundtrack on this documentary. Fits perfect for the era!

[@larquefausse3623]

14:52 There actually were some road-going versions of both the 911 GT1 and CLK GTR (eventually) which were built for homologation of the racecars. The regular 911/CLK were not the models used for the homologation process. Also, the 911 GT1 did not use the 962 engine (the Type-935*) but rather the Type-M96 which uses a simliar, but different F6T layout. Drivers of both engines have noted the Type-M96 for being "torque-ier" and less free-revving than the Type-935*. 15:13 The "Longtail" F1 GTR was actually VERY COMPETITIVE in the 1997 FIA GT season winning 5 of the 11 rounds being the only real competition for the CLK GTR while even the 911 GT1 factory team fell to the wayside to the other two. Even at Le Mans, the F1 GTR would win the GT1 class (beating the 911 GT1; Mercedes was a no-show) finishing 2nd overall just one lap down under the winning prototype car. *Edited for correction. The 962 and 956 used the Type-935 engine .

[@Hellisoy]

Good comment, I also found the quote about the 956 strange. But I was too lazy to research it

[@Redgrave-v2p]

Kills me when vids dont do basic due diligence

[@LSDdreams808]

They say the F50 GT is the fastest track focused car ferrari ever made that is not an F1 car. One of the F50 GTs is said make close to 1000hp after it was crashed an rebuilt by the owner.

[@florianhenry6698]

The f50 gt could destroy the fx so easily. You can find it on KZbin, f50 was playing with the fxx like it was a bycicle

[@DJTourniquet]

Oooooo, yeah there's only 3 of these. No crashy crashy lol

[@LSDdreams808]

@DJTourniquet one was crashed an rebuilt that is the 950hp+ version

[@DJTourniquet]

@@LSDdreams808 Yee, I saw that in your original post 🤙 There are actually only 2 left, one was completely destroyed during testing. 1 of the other 2 is in Ferrari hq, the last one is in a private collection. Guessing that's the rebuilt one, but I'm not sure.

[@rahulsudhir666]

Imagine the sheer amount of adrenaline pumping through your body while driving this beast: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haOaq6qfmbClpKssi=Qk4yVZN5IhHtmHUY

[@JeffreyYonng]

At that moment he wasn't listening to music, he was living an experience.

[@fabiocontrera559]

It seems to me the F80 will be similar to the F50 in the sense that many Will start to apreciate the car only after some years. People are clomplaining about the engine not being a V12, but the numbers of the F80 are just mind blowing. And also It looks amazing. At least for me

[@1erickf50]

Unless the engine actually does sound high pitched and nice, I don't see it happening. The F80's aesthetics aren't as well ordered as previous generations, not even a spec of harmony like that of the sensual F50. The proper revival of the V6 Dino has already happened with the 296 GTB. If anything, the F80 would either be considered a lesser sounding street legal FXX-K or a copy of the Mercedes One concept, unlike the miracle mix of technical novelty and manual purism that was the F50.

[@florianhenry6698]

No comparison possible

[@KimGee241]

​@@1erickf50 Wait for the xx version

[@1erickf50]

@@KimGee241 I'll believe you if they slap a V12 back in there. Otherwise, it'll just be another vacuum-cleaner F1.

[@thctitan5041]

what??? idk what the f80 ill look it up in a second but why would they complain about it not being a v12? ferrari v8's are fuckin awesome

[@carjourney5157]

Man am I glad that I stumbled onto your channel. What a great video about an obscure Ferrari, not many people would even think such a thing would exist. I'm very excited to see what will come next for this channel. If you keep this up, a KZbin play button will be coming to you very soon I think👍

[@95mushroom]

Great vid. Ultimate fantasy; F50 GT #001 and Toyota un-mothballs the TS020 road car, and we have a lap time battle. Easily my two choices "if you could have any car in the world" that I bounce around between.

[@rogerpayne5336]

Dam shame the F50 GT got canned as it was a beautiful race car and fast as f with a glorious sound track. The fans would have loved it.

[@Scoobywrox]

That NFS music in the background really takes me back to NFS High Stakes and the F50 being my favourite car to use

[@carsstuffchannel8576]

THIS IS WHY I HAVE ASSETTO CORSA TO RACE 90S GT1s

[@nicolascalandruccio]

The best car and race car era, ever

[@TheElement911]

I’ve been in love with the F1s and the F50s since I was a kid. I’ve spent my life seeing people go crazy for the F40 while I’m here thinking why can’t they see the F50 is freaking art on wheels.

[@duomaxwell5807]

Thanks for letting the world know how awesome this car is I had the poster up on my wall from all these years ago.. also S.O gran turismo for including it in GT7 .

[@georgehugo561]

This man knows how to end a video about a V12 engine car!! Bravo!

[@Understeerking]

I was lucky enough to see 2 of theses F50 GT's at Road Atlanta in 1998. I was 10 years old, and the team let me start one of them!!! I will always remember that.

[@ripptorr]

That footage of it being driven on the Abu Dhabi race track can be played to a man in a coma to wake him up

[@polaxis842]

The subtle Need for Speed soundtrack in the background is gold!

[@musicaFrancesco]

Beautiful documentary, bravo.

[@idreessahadat3002]

Ferrari was always masters of strategy. The F50 was never meant to be a le mans racer. It was just ferraris flagship model at the time representing the pinnacle of its f1 efforts at the time. Today the decision is different as is evidenced by its le mans efforts.

[@bigl3885]

I just subscribed because of this BRILLIANT video! Well done.❤

[@VictorPeg-x6z]

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

[@kmatcyk]

Amazing work. Thank you

[@LsnakeM]

Still one of the craziest cars out there. The mystery it carries makes it even more special!

[@PhilipTamorria]

Awesome content! Very underrated channel. Keep up the great work!

[@TheWolfMatt]

Great video bud. Really enjoyed that one.

[@Double_E_1298]

this honestly deserves more views

[@UKBUILT]

Nice 😍 I would like an F50 tub🤔 I'm using a Mercedes M120 V12 for my current project 😎

[@seanc6754]

You make rly good videos bro..keep up the good work

[@featherfinfilms]

SARD mentioned Anyway, I think the 333SP's existence is the main reason this car never got off the ground as GT cars are reportedly a bit more expensive to buy and run than a prototype. At the time of the F50's eventual debut, sportscar racing was in a precarious spot and the road-based F50 could've been hopeless against the German cars. As advanced as the F50 may have been, it was still a road car at heart. The reported laptimes were probably run with an unrestricted car. With restrictions the F50 was probably about as fast as the 333SP. American racing was slightly more stable, guaranteeing a market for the 333SP since it ran in the top class in both major American series. The F50 could've been hit with further restrictions across the pond and/or cannibalized each other's sales like you mentioned in the video. Why build a more expensive car that does the same thing with the same badge as the cheaper, slightly outsourced 333SP?

[@benhodkinson6467]

Thank you. 🙏

[@disciplinedev]

him : caution- loud v12 noises me, turning up the volume for the v12: iNtErEsTiNg

[@Arceusmemesidk-zk7tm]

I think "The best race car to never race" is a bit of an overstatement, although not by much. For me, it'd have to be the Konegsegg CCGT.

[@GraveUypo]

i like that but it probably gets smoked by the f50gt despite being newer

[@AltTab2193]

It was really nice to see this car covered in a video. There are not many others about it. Could you make a similar video about the Ferrari 288 GTO Evoluzione? The situation is similar with that car. Barely any videos about it, most of the information people can find about it is scattered in various articles online. It would be cool to see it covered.

[@AugusSara]

Don't wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.

[@rancon265]

The first CLK GTR was a McLaren F1. The body even looked the same. There's a pic of it wrecked.

[@evansmith2279]

I remember seeing it in magazines and so wished it’d race - it was so awesome!

[@B__L]

The F1 was so impressive compared to most of the other GT1 cars. It was ridiculously competitive whilst essentially being a road going F1 with no more modification than your average car at a trackday. Racing against full blown race cars that merely shared the name with their roadgoing counterparts.

[@HoveringSombrero964]

Finally. Thank you

[@Domi39]

NFS 3 and 4 music is the perfect companion for this video.

[@neddy1287]

I like the GT version of the F40 and the F50 I love the back and side view but hated the headlights as it makes it look like it have fish eyes but the sound of the V12 it eargasm by a long shot

[@Herman-zc7te]

Enjoyed this video 👏

[@patrickcorcoran1718]

Chassis 001 is a unique car, and the one that apparently makes 900 horsepower. This car was the only true development prototype, apparently has a unique engine and was rebuilt by the factory after a crash. It’s been owned by the same guy in California since Ferrari sold it. Everything I’ve read indicates 5 tubs were built. When two more cars were completed for collectors, the owner of 001 sued as he was apparently told he would have the only one. As a result the remaining tubs were allegedly destroyed.

[@Setbaxs]

Awesome video! And the music towards the end tho

[@Schnitzer325ci]

Wow. Some of these numbers are now street power.

[@LukeCannotSkate]

Which mostly make up for excessive weight 🥲

[@spreilly71]

Can-am cars were making 1200hp back in the 60s. Horsepower has never been the limiting factor, maximizing grip has.

[@patrickwallace6972]

The nostalgia hit at 14:33... Need for Speed 3 was my childhood. Still my favorite need for speed.

[@davidpedwardsiii5581]

Yoooo that was the ZL1 LM Car! The C8 makes perfect sense now.

[@steffenreimann2854]

Greatest race car that never raced was the Peugeot 905 EVO 2 "Supercopter"!

[@EltonArmstrong]

The balloons floated away along with all my hopes and dreams.

[@peterbarkley8296]

You sound like a more serious videogamedunkey. Great video and content btw

[@andrewbilly]

Loud V12 noises? No man, it should be “Magnificent V12 songs”.

[@MonaCharley]

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

[@prorez-retrofit]

F40 is already awesome, but F50 is a legend in different dimensions!

[@tturi2]

10:20 that bump in compression sounds like they shaved the cylinder head on an angle

[@ronin6116]

One of the modern racecars to never race has to be the Lamborghini Essenza SCV12, the car's track only, yet it never participated in any Lamborghini race events or championships. It should've been the one to enter WEC

[@AirtonCosta-b3k]

Correndo ou não,a F50 e na verdade todos os bólidos mostrados no vídeo são verdadeiras obras de arte sobre 4 rodas.

[@MignonBentham-h3e]

I thought red would have felt warmer in summer but I didn't think about the equator.

[@bastianarnhardt1069]

3:25 911 Labre fight against the McLaren😃

[@priztucker]

I reckon that F50 GT might be the best looking Ferrari of All time.

[@SpecMDriven]

I agree!

[@johnbecker70]

Always thought the F50 GT had the right look compared to the street version. Sure wish it had raced. Would have been fun to watch.

[@Leto_II]

I knew it was a F50 GT from that iconic image of an open F50, the GT was faster than the 333SP in testing at Ferrari’s test track and the 333SP had 4 years of dominance in it’s racing series…. I know why Ferrari didn’t put in the GT1 class but at the same time I don’t understand it, I think this really could have beaten the CLK GTR and GT1 let alone the F1 GT. Shame they never raced, and only 3 existing today. A true unicorn.

[@EduSanjuan777]

Those cars aero was more advanced. It would have beaten them on the straights but not on the curves. And the engine consumed way more fuel. This is why Ferrari never took It to Le Mans. The F50 GT was the pinacle of real gt1s. The mercedes and Porsche that came after were prototypes on disguise. And the Toyota GT Ones was an homologated prototypes. They had less HP but were superior on all the rest because They were designes as race cars not a GT.

[@Leto_II]

@@EduSanjuan777 I know but outside of Le Mans the F50 GT would be in with a shout of winning, we can never really know as they never raced.

[@Redgrave-v2p]

Prototypes never went away, gt1 was just a rare occasion when the rules allowed gt to be faster. Courage was 2nd in 1995

[@badmontad]

That noise. I can only imagine 😩

[@aloniabasmerom8868]

18:21: A 992 GT3R on steroids

[@JonnyOpinionated]

I noticed some footage borrowed from Need for Speed II there - only a proper old geek like myself would notice that.

[@SonicPoetryIII]

Now I wanna play Need For Speed : High Stakes.

[@davidpedwardsiii5581]

To this day, what happens to the F50 at birth, is tragic.

[@DroTheWhale]

F50 is probably the best car ever honestly…

[@YvesHutt]

He had concluded that pigs must be able to fly in Hog Heaven.

[@ericcarabetta1161]

The F50 is the best looking Ferrari, ever.

[@GraveUypo]

from the title i knew it was the f50GT. because there is no other choice.

[@NklovesMurcielagos]

Without even watching i already know its the F50 GT. It is my favourite Ferrari to date, and yes it is a shame that it never raced. I'm very sure it would have dominated.

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

I think the F50 GT actually is what the F50 should have been since the beginning, straight out the production line. That would have been a truly epic successor to the F40.

[@cbarronie2361]

Madness how much F50's are going for today. Know somebody who bought 1 after a troubled ownership of a Diablo SV. Turned out to be worse, spending more time at the dealer than on his drive. When he did have it he couldn't live with it's awful road menners. Guy literally lost his house over it.

[@Crusher103]

Only Ferrari would make their individual throttle plates look like a cigar cutters.

[@MyrnaEip]

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

[@NIAJN2000]

I love this car.

[@detgoat]

curated just sold the yellow f50 for 6m.

[@pistonfury]

you from new york????

[@AnshYadav-mj2xh]

Koenigsegg CCGT could've been great too but we would never know.

[@MR-06]

“Holy Trinity of Hypercars: McLaren, Ferrari, & Porsche”…what happened too Lamborghini, Rimac, & Koenigsegg? (no racing heritage perhaps?)

[@GraveUypo]

that was because of them releasing similar hybrid cars at around the same time back in 2013 with the p1, laf and 918. kinda overrated cars to be honest. people talked like they wouldn't be surpassed even in a decade, but 2 years later a 911 gt3 rs was faster than them already.

[@idriveastationwagon1534]

We could've had a mclaren ferrari rivalry at lemans

[@melderosa656]

XJ13 was the best car never to race. Would have been a game changer

[@k-dog7013]

I wish they would have raced it. With how fast it theoretically was maybe it could have kept up with the Porsche and Mercedes?

[@griffinfaulkner3514]

Probably not. By that point GT1 cars had evolved into prototypes in all but name, nothing that was truly production-based would've stood a chance. It might've had the power and weight of the later GT1 cars, but I guarantee it wasn't even close in terms of center of gravity or aerodynamic efficiency. It would've done well against the earlier F1 GTR, even the Longtail version, but the 911 GT1 (the Evo in particular), CLK GTR, R390, and TS020 would've eaten it alive. Even the Elise GT1 would likely beat it on pure pace.

[@1erickf50]

Nah, it was still a curbstomp in favor of the F50 GT, at least in terms of lap times. Have you seen the Ciao Italia where it could overlap a FXX with ease? In fact, Art-Z's actually overlapped a F1 GTR while in reverse... *If anything, the real problem Ferrari wasn't able to overcome without sacrificing its F1 budget would the related to the endurace itself.* Ferrari wasn't really known for reliability and there were still too few F50 GTs built to replace to compensate for any accidents happenind during the races.

[@hausmeisterengineering5952]

remixes of nfs high stakes music ftw

[@DM-wp9vq]

Who cares what engine powers the car (cylinder count wise)? Some of the coolest sounding cars I've ever seen were 5cyl, V4's, and of course V6's like the Busso. Then of course there are a myriad of 8's, 10's, 12's, and a few insane 16's.

[@senna6547]

288 wasnt built for group b rally. it was for group b road-racing in the WEC.

[@kirisaki.777]

you're wrong

[@adrianzanoli]

@@kirisaki.777 no he is right, the 288 GTO Evoluzione that exists have the CK engine designed for endurance and they are all 5 with endurance specs, there was a CR engine developed for rally but they never built a 288 rally specs for it bcs the 288 program was halted in 1986.

[@jorhop4005]

​@@kirisaki.777 You know Group B wasn't just for rallying right?

[@12onin_Gypsy]

69mm stroke should have hit 11000rpm reliably

[@MyNameishidden-l2f]

V12s

[@UKBUILT]

😍

[@AdairRobin-s8h]

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.