911 GT1: The Only Car That Killed McLaren F1

[@AutoSapienYT]

Correction: 4:48 on the left is Ratel, on the right is Alex Zanardi I still think that the F1 is the Greatest car ever made!! what do you y'all think?

[@abhinavprasanth2109]

I like the Bugatti EB110 a bit more

[@AutoSapienYT]

there is already a video on my channel about the eb110 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXa6lmmMpbxsm9U

[@franlygomez7379]

And the Mercedes clk gtr killed both McLaren and Porsche

[@AutoSapienYT]

@@franlygomez7379 yessir, btw would you like to watch a video on that too?

[@studid55]

@abhinavprasanth2109 Man I like the bugatti but that ones is not nearly as beautiful as an F1 or GT1 tbh... all about the proportion

[@larquefausse3623]

This video skips over the fact that the 911 GT1 was getting destroyed in FIA GT by McLaren and Mercedes and that McLaren pulled factory support after 1997. By 1998, the only McLarens that the Porsche factory team were racing against were privateers with no factory support. In the '98 FIA GT was a lot like the prior season in that no Porsche won any of the races. In fact, after McLaren pulled factory support, Mercedes was allowed to run rampant and Porsche followed McLaren's lead by closing their GT1 program as well and the GT1 category was pretty much finished at the global level.

[@evog35viii]

I miss Speedvision😢

[@FlashoftheBlades]

The 911 GT1 may have dethroned the F1 GTR, but it was the CLK-GTR’s successor, the CLK-LM, that ended the original GT1 class by absolutely obliterating the opposition in the shorter FIA GT races after its unsuccessful maiden outing at Le Mans.

[@larquefausse3623]

LM24 wasn't part of the FIA GT calendar so Mercedes went undefeated for 12 races straight from the 1997 Sebring race to the end of the series itself. In fact, between the two seasons of FIA GT, Mercedes won 16 of the 21 races held all victories with either Bernd Schnieder or Klaus Ludwig winning it.

[@WyldStallion-bs9oo]

GT1 and WSC died after 1999 and Audi was there to clean up the mess for the next decade.

[@anshujaat7188]

The intro man, specially when the beat drops at 0:43 i hooked to the video

[@BrotherJP333SP]

The real killer was the CLK-GTR and and it's brother the CLK-LM.

[@Andrew9565-AD]

And the CLR was their flyer

[@AutoSapienYT]

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[@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo]

Which was still a McLaren F1 underneath it all...... It takes a F1 to beat a F1...... That first of fia Gt1 season was a very close race between Mercedes and schritnzer bmw. It came down to the last race, with schnitzer breaking down and Mercedes winning with like 1. Point. Same happened with the Oreca vipers vs the gt2 evos.....

[@susssybaka4342]

Here we go

[@963robo]

4:48 on the left is Ratel, on the right is Alex Zanardi

[@AutoSapienYT]

ooh i see, thanks for pointing out!

[@glasair38sr]

Murray states repeatedly he’d never intended to take it racing…

[@bestopinion9257]

Yeah, he want to be a chef cook, but ended up as F1 engineer.

[@donQpublic]

Let’s not forget the F1 was based on a street car that wasn’t supposed to be a race car and the 911 GT1 was a race car that wasn’t ever going to be a street car…

[@M-PASTA]

So Porsche and Mercedes struggle to beat a road car that didn’t have factory support, designed 7+ years before, with dedicated their race cars and we’re calling that a kill?

[@grdixon83]

The car only won Le Mans by reliability, the Mercedes Benz CLK GTR beat it 10-0 in the FIA GT1 Championship with the older V12 & then V8 version, even it's predecessor in 1996/7 was comfortably beaten by both Mclaren & Mercedes. It was a bang average GT1 car!!

[@bobrockmann7521]

The guy at 1:04 is "Ferry" Porsche. Yes, his name is also Ferdinand, but it was his father, Ferdinand Sen., who invented the brand. He also constructed a lot of other things, like tanks for WW2. Porsche startet as "Konstruktionsbüro", which roughly translates to engineering office.

[@AutoSapienYT]

yeah !

[@sammy4538]

A race version of McLaren F1 GTR... lol can only imagine how good it must've been back then

[@AutoSapienYT]

The F1 GTR Was TIMELESS.

[@sammy4538]

@@AutoSapienYT Timeless for sure... easily one of the greatest supercars ever, propably my favourite one - even if faster ones exist. Hard to name just one above others though...

[@AutoSapienYT]

@sammy4538 bro that car has a internal soul, man i love it soo much!

[@sammy4538]

@@AutoSapienYT Aye for that part it's almost unmatched... with maybe (literally) one exception: The only road-legal and registered TVR Cerbera Speed 12 that exists - well two exist, but the other one is rotting in museum. For me, that gives equally strong chills - if not more. Still, calling the McLaren GTR a masterpiece, isn't enough to describe it!

[@DBerwick]

It also had the front subframe out of the 911 993 street car.

[@jotighe2]

Correction: 8:00 these are 996.1 headlights, not 993.

[@sparrowrr]

In the name of all Germans: its Porsche with an e at the end!!!!

[@victory128100]

It won by copying the f1, f1 still is the best

[@bobrockmann7521]

Exactly. In fact, Porsche bought an F1 through some middlemen and cut it to pieces to see how it was constructed.

[@ethanv3502]

The amount of miss information in this video is insane

[@jansedlak8505]

CLK LM destroyed everything.

[@larquefausse3623]

@@jansedlak8505 Everything except for the "LM" part.

[@Inazuma68]

The 98 GT1 is probably the most beautiful race car ever made

[@AutoSapienYT]

100%

[@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo]

Martini, martini hippie, and gulf 917s are better looking..... 330sp Ferrari is either a tie for 1st or 2nd......

[@Penguin_of_Death]

The Porsche 911GT1 definitely didn’t make the McLaren F1 look slow, it got bested by the F1s and Mercedes CLKs at nearly every event Whoever dreamed up the title for the video clearly hasn’t got a clue, so I won’t waste my time watching it

[@carsstuffchannel8576]

can somebody pls list the exact music used in this vid thanks

[@att3732]

??? McLaren F1 was not even a major competitor in 1998 Le Mans or FIA GT, what are you talking about? In 1998 Le Mans, the real major competitors were CLK LM and TS020... MF1 didn't even have any factory support team in 1998... and 911 GT1-98 basically won by consistency. It was not even close to Merc and Toyota in terms of raw performance. The car that actually killed MF1 was BMW V12 LM. All factory support for MF1 pulled out after 1997 in favor of the BMW V12 LM project. 911 GT1 has never played any part in killing the MF1. MF1 was actually very competitive even in its last factory supported year 1997. CLK GTR had really competitive fights with MF1 in 1997 FIA GT, with it won over MF1 by just 1 race. Also, MF1 was the 1997 Le Mans GT1 Champion, beating the factory 911 GT1-97 by 29 laps...

[@Mr037rally]

The TWR Jaguarsport XJR15 was the first fully carbon road car, carbon tub with a carbon body in 1990.

[@larquefausse3623]

@Mr037rally XJR-15 had just a carbon-fiber tub. The F1 had a carbon-fiber monocoque.

[@mikepokorny2835]

Mercedes killed the F1 and the GT1 (not to mention but AMG bought a F1, made it a testbed for Mercedes, later put it back together and sold it off in silence). The '98 model followed the "evolution" rule - one road going chassis had to be build with it's improved parts. Please do some more research, the videos are great but they lack information.

[@LowBattery10Percent]

THE SQUIDD

[@D3Vlicious]

Wanted to point out that "FIA" isn't pronounced "feeya" but rather "ef-eye-aye."

[@rocketman1058]

this is absolute BS, Mercedes CLK-GTR and CLK-LM were the reason everyone was F-ed and FIA GT was dismissed, absolute, total German DOMINATION, but not Porsche, GT1 won only one race: Le Mans, cos both Mercs quit, Mercedes won everything else, basically humiliated them. So, there were no factory entries for 1999, but Mercedes, and FIA GT was dismissed in its most epic version.

[@trance9158]

Too late to the party Bubba J

[@TexasRiverRat31254]

Those mid engine 911's were more like Caymans...but don't tell the 911 posers...you'll hurt their egos.😂🤣

[@trance9158]

Go play in the road and make yourself useful for once in your life

[@Jojo_Bee]

The fact that the 911 GT1 is NOT rear engined is proof it is not a true 911. It was made to order to compete with the McLaren F1 GTR. The McLaren F1 GTR was designed outright as a road legal supercar from the start with the idea of turning it into a race car afterwards. This is the opposite of the 911 GT1, proof that rear engine rear wheel drive was at a diasadvantage. The 911 GT1 needed to be mid engine to keep up with the fight. That philosophy came back to Porsche in 2018 when the Porsche RSR was made mid engine just to be able to compete effectively with its rivals, particularly allowing it to improve its aerodynamic performance. Unlike the 911 GT1, the 2018 RSR maintained her 911 shape but internally, the engine is in the middle.

[@chilliwilli4971]

It's Por-sha..video is good, except you need to fix your pronunciation and fact check narration with regard to models,years, and FIA rule changes in the time period..

[@AceleraSENNinhA]

Some say 'posh', some others say 'posha'. Both are ridiculous. That man called Porsche, with E at the end. E like mEn. Some say Jay-Jay Lako about Jaeger-LeCoultre.

[@kevinwho.]

@@AceleraSENNinhANot “some”. Porsche themselves call themselves that way. They even made and posted a pronunciation video right here on KZbin

[@kevinwho.]

@@AceleraSENNinhA”Posha” kzbin.info/www/bejne/f56VloyrfMmgnLs

[@mingholeung2170]

​@@AceleraSENNinhA The founder's surname is Porsche and he's a German. German pronunciation of Porsche is like "Por-sha". Simple as that.

[@AceleraSENNinhA]

@@kevinwho. ​ @mingholeung2170 The creator of the carwow channel used to say 'posha'. The old man, who helped him with the SUV tests said 'Posha is a girl's name'. Maybe, but the correct pronunciation is not 'posha', but 'porshe'. Native English speakers can hear and tell the difference between the pronunciation of man and men. The E sound in 'men' is closer to the E sound at the end of Porsche. I know that the English pronounce the letters 'a' and 'e' differently than I do as a Hungarian. But trust me, I (who had a German grandfather) pronounce the name Porsche much better than any native English speaker.

[@marklangren3142]

Por-sha

[@markusjuenemann]

All your video footage is totally mixed up... Visually, your video doesn't make any sense at all.

[@BlueOval02]

F1McLaren was a street car 😂

[@trance9158]

So is this

[@daviddrew4082]

This video is wrong, Mercedes dominated 97 which led McLaren to drop out….

[@larquefausse3623]

@daviddrew4082 McLaren pulled support because the rules changed allowing for these pseudo-prototypes in a GT class and then later changed the homologation rules to only needing one certified road car. The F1 GTR, still based on a true road car, would not have been competitive so they pulled factory support after 1997.

[@daviddrew4082]

@ amg won 6/11 races in 97. McLaren winning only 5. This video makes no sense because Porsche wasn’t even a major competitor compared to McLaren so ain’t no way you can say the 98 Porsche dethroned McLaren. It was a year too late.

[@larquefausse3623]

@daviddrew4082 Losing half the races to one other team and having the championship forced into the last round hardly counts as "dominition" by traditional definition in motorsport.

[@daviddrew4082]

@ when it’s 6 in a row? I think different

[@larquefausse3623]

@@daviddrew4082 : Who told you that it was 6 in a row? You may want to check yourself on that one.

[@s2korpionic]

Looks like a lot of butthurt McLaren fans in the comments hahahaha.

[@mohamedalmahdi9175]

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