This F1 Car Couldn't Do More Than 3 Laps Without Exploding

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[@CodenameDuchess1984]

this was why senna's technique was so OP/Necessary. In the slow speeds he would rev constantly to combat the turbo lag

[@sleepy450]

Yeah, great example of work smarter not harder 👍

[@loicalex]

He did that even with the atmo McLaren's. felt like a proto traction control his technique was. Incredible

[@ynk-4372]

@@loicalexhelps get the car to rotate, very risky though

[@EAGYSL]

Yes but I won't learn such a specific skill of throttle application just for those cars, that technique is not usable in modern F1 cars especially because of the hybrid system

[@russotusso1695]

​@@ynk-4372iirc I read he was doing that since go karting, it was something he figured out to help him turn the car around and it just so happened it was also very useful for turbo cars with huge lag

[@JibRule]

I love these historic Formula 1 videos

[@skraegorn7317]

Then you’d love GPLaps. Jimmy’s shouted him out but most of his content is historic sim racing.

[@swrt18]

Classic content with sandals😅

[@ferris5358]

@@swrt18 real men race with loafers

[@phillewis1749]

Jimmy, going back to his roots :) - Crazy car: Check - Hot lap of Nordschleife: Check - Lots of "Oh my God!": Check

[@iBeerus-]

ah the jimmer i miss

[@justinkrizenesky]

I'll say the same thing I said way back in the Senna Adelaide Pole Lap vid; the craziest thing is that these guys did this for real, with no regard for safety or fear of mistakes. Absolute madness.

[@peterensor9689]

Jimmy and a classic F1 car. Already know this is gonna be a banger!

[@damonkofman8856]

from 100 to 200kph before the first corner, tears in my eyes

[@codyC423]

I'm SO glad to see Jimmy back behind the wheel of a sim rig at the Norschleife. The commentary of the history of the car with this new editing was an awesome touch. This is one of his best videos ever

[@somebloke2238]

I want to see a VR race in this

[@stenovitz]

I just 'did' this RSS car in my Quest2 @ Adelaide, and just with my T300RS-GT/G27 pedals and T8HA H-stick. Reminds me of the old days, myself lucky to witness too ❤

[@adamhuss9417]

Can you post a vr pov video

[@robin_marriott]

As someone of 1986 vintage I am offended by the ‘old people’ comment. Or at least I would be if I wasn’t so tired.

[@andresilvasophisma]

Seeing this car brought me back memories. In 1988 my mother bought me a ZX Spectrum 48K with a bunch of games, one of them was Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix. I played that game a lot. Nigel ended up becoming my favorite F1 driver and Williams my favorite team up to this day. This car was on the cover of that game.

[@antmax]

Loved Nige. Used to watch the F1 with my dad in the late 80's early 90's. Miss the freedom with so few regulations compared to today.

[@lepone2317]

Holy shite, this was an amazing lap, Jimmer! Loved the extra ingame angles that show just how fast and on the ragged edge that car was going throughout the lap! Superb job, mate!

[@AagoMcFly]

Vids like this, where you truly do what you love are the best. Pure joy and excitement. Always tons of fun to watch this crazy combinations.

[@sturmthe9472]

What I love is the fact the most powerful f1 engine ever, was a 1.4l 4 cylinder, it's hilarious to me

[@erikheijden9828]

More cylinders would have made it weaker because the cylinders would be smaller.

[@AlexJeffDust-RenAzuma66]

@@erikheijden9828 Not necessarily. It would have less torque, but power could go up due to it being able to rev higher

[@sule.A]

​@@erikheijden9828????????????????

[@samacw]

Derived from a road car block too.

[@tygobermind3640]

@@AlexJeffDust-RenAzuma66 It was about strength. That's why they chose 4 cylinders.

[@botzachary9891]

driving this insane formula 1 car while wearing grandpa slippers, never change jimmer

[@ValentineC137]

rotard spotted

[@LotusBoi1989]

so, technically. what jimmy showed in the beginning is turbo dwell. when the engine isn't moving enough air to get the turbo spooled up, because of being at too low of RPM. lag is the time it takes to build boost once you're up in the power band

[@DjDolHaus86]

I've always heard it described as spool and lag, spool being the time it takes for the exhaust gasses to overcome the mass of the turbine and get it spooled up and lag being the time it takes to pressurise the intake piping.

[@Jimmy_Broadbent]

It's one of those technicalities that requires more explain than simply just saying "turbo lag"

[@arg8763]

Not sure where you are, but in the U.S. it is boost threshold, and turbo lag. If you are below the boost threshold you will never build boost, but once over it the amount of time to go from positive boost to max boost is turbo lag.

[@Erik_The_Viking]

They were also using exotic fuels back in the day as well, which also added to engines blowing up.

[@samacw]

Those fuels got banned because they literally gave people cancer

[@shaggy5561]

Ah yes Brabham "illegal fuel" that costed Prost his first championship. (Well to be fair engine reliability and Renault management did not help)

[@KrozMcD]

Love this! The editing, seeing you drive, the fly by clips, the added music, I was really drawn in to watching the whole way. Great video!

[@giovannieusebi955]

I don't know if you care about DTM (deutsche tourenwagen meisterschaft), but there is a mod that someone made that is the 1991 season. Absolutely amazing. recommend. Love the videos Jimmy

[@shaggy5561]

Tommy 78 mod ? Physics are so bad that someone had to release a fix on racedepartement.

[@K0r0n1s]

I have to stress again: I LOVE the editing in this vid, again. All the small sound details, the jokes in between, the mini-YTP elements here and there: just *click* noice ❤🎉

[@Quasimo.]

Many thanks😁

[@stenovitz]

Glad I was able to witness those times on location when they were. But just even so happy that newer generations find interest in those eras, too. Thanks, Mr. Broadbent ❤

[@laurenmp7486]

With that drag race, it's not just the turbo lag that's an issue, it's that those old F1 cars had almost comically anemic levels of torque, like you could go buy a nice every day four door car with more torque. And oh god I am so happy someone recreated one of those old F1 cars properly.

[@jonnyj.]

Um what? Thats not true... like, at all. This is only true for the recent v8's and v10's. Hp is torque x rpm. They have similar rev limits and the 86 car has more hp. Its just due to turbo lag and the manual trans at launch

[@joelambert7128]

Wikipedia claims peak torque for the M12/13/1 as roughly 900 lb.ft in qualifying trim.

[@RealJeiku]

Love every video you make Jimmer keep up the great work!

[@piereligio_mods]

This era was really so wild ahaha RSS do a great job, and this seems like another confirm of that. I'd love you to check out a mod I'm making from earlier than January, full time. It's a kart from sodikart, the rs4. I'm the guy who created formula DS BTW, this time for making the first well made simulation of a rental kart

[@Glock4495]

Absolutely love the classic cars and even more when Jimmy takes one for a spin 🔥🔥

[@akil.2839]

Highly recommended Race Sim Studio cars to anyone looking for mods for Assetto Corsa. The quality, sound, textures and details are all insanely well built. The mods are occasionally on sale too and are pretty cheap.

[@tonyyimbo]

Vids like this are why I started watching your channel in 2017 . I think you and the hoonigans are my sim racing influences !

[@NoName-cu4gr]

Inner racing line on the carousel would likely smash the real thing to pieces. You'd have to run the outside line. Enjoyed the video thanks.

[@Wyd4]

Jimmy's concerned face reminds me of the Lotus 98T on 100% boost at Bathurst. So much fun, into a tension migraine afterwards :P

[@jameskubica5463]

I'd love to see RSS do a mod for some older Le Mans cars, like the Porsche 917 LH. I saw that car at the Porsche Museum and damn I fell in love with it, want to drive on so bad.

[@Clubpenguin64]

Bought this the day it came out and out of 3000 mods, this is easily top 5 for me. Absolutely blast to drive and a fantastic mod. I’ve also been putting in laps here too, as long as you keep off the curbs it’s not bad 😂

[@youtubasoarus]

Brilliant! This is what I wanna see! 🤘👍

[@TCSRL-Cato96]

Just seen all the historic F1 cars around Silverstone the weekend, unbelievable 👌🏻

[@turbo_marc]

f1 cars really had a severe boost addiction back then

[@DjDolHaus86]

Every racing series in the 80s had an unquenchable thirst for spooly bois

[@youtubasoarus]

What's one more bar really? 🤣

[@jacksmith4460]

The physics of this Car look spot on, really well captured, it moves from the track side perspective exactly how they used to move when you watched them on TV, really captures the squirm and rattle of this era

[@benmarron2545]

you must take a trip to santa pod jimmy. They bring some crazy quick fast cars up there

[@AnyaKittyMeow]

that split screen view was AMAZING! also in the description, project cars? lol

[@Fergy00000]

Good on you Jimmy. You're like a fine bottle of red wine.. you just keep getting better.

[@cel3bi634]

Love these sim vids

[@joshcaminski]

This is mod review is an instant classic, amazing video.

[@timschuh6524]

Ah, the good old days when a quali engine has as much chance of blowing up as it did finishing three laps, four at most. Add manual boost control for each bank of the engine adjusted by hand wheels in the cockpit at 100mph exiting Stowe. You should get Nigel's son to run that sim then have a sit down chat with him about how MENTAL his dad had to have been to drive that thing!

[@raydelarge2357]

Wow Jimmer. 0 to Jesusssss in 6 seconds. Mansell, Schuie, Damon and all the rest 'raced' these wheel to wheel! They say Mansell could drive up the wall and along the ceiling of a tunnel, upside down, it had so much downforce. I remember and love those races. Thanks so much for this nostalgia. No punterino Jimmer.

[@tygobermind3640]

Tunnel myth has been debunked so many times already. It's impossible for the engine to keep running when it's upside down.

[@raydelarge2357]

@@tygobermind3640 haha, It's just a hypothetical scenario to do with the downforce! You didn't think that the real car woul . . . .oh my God, you did ! Please go away.

[@tygobermind3640]

@@raydelarge2357 No shit

[@SPITFIYAHproductions]

I missed your quick and easy prerolls!

[@ronholmesuk825]

Jimmy, I loved this! These pre-recorded things are (I believe) the way best forward mate. The long live streams were perhaps for a different time, and a different Jimmer - he was stuck in a shed 24/7, so live streaming 24 hours races was a wonderful and fun escape for him, but you've moved on since then. I'd love to see more of this, and recorded races you decide to do with your friends that you comment over at a later point - allowing you to focus on the racing as you do it. You've got so much happening at once mate - live races, team 87, the Billstein racing... maybe dropping the really long live stream races - which don't seem to be a whole lot of fun for you sometimes anyway - is the way to go? Either way, I loved loved loved this - you're at your best when you're doing bonkers crazy shit like this and you big silly grin while you do it really shows through in the end result 10/10 mate!

[@adammodan8030]

I tell you what we need more in sim racing. Sheer TT servers for these things around a circuit like this or classic Adelaide. THAT is peak simracing.

[@LIKWID]

How dare you say sorry old people? I'm 36 not 37 lmao! Always enjoy these videos when you pull out some motorsport legends Jimmer!

[@reldwob22]

I'm 54 and not old! ;) The mid eighties turbos were.... sublime. Watch full race reruns. OMG. The best era of F1? Maybe its just about what you watched as you grew up. But Senna, Prost, Mansell and Piquet in these monsters? Just the best.

[@Pig_Man06]

And imagine the lunacy required to pilot these things in real life at full pelt while having to dance with death every time you made a mistake or a mechanic stuffed up. The gonads on those lads must have been ginormus!

[@Joopyter724]

i love how the boost gauge and rev counter are for the race spec car so they're just maxxed out all the time

[@misterdog7]

Nice lap!

[@martinsoder9536]

Loving the "racing-slippers"!! 😎

[@ShoalVideoSolutions]

This looks like so much fun

[@minipaintingforyou]

„Sorry old people“ I felt that 😂

[@willemzuidersma4357]

A Williams FW15 with the experimental CVT gearbox would be interesting in the sim

[@brettneale]

3:00 Jimmer with the Todd Rogers Human Element (TM) strats

[@JamesClarkyt18]

Love your stuff Jimmy 😂😅 you the reason I got acc ❤

[@h0002]

great video jimmer

[@stevecleaver8933]

Yet another brilliant video Jimmy, love the way you referred to the F1 engines as "hand grenades" ..... very true of the time, though were you aware that in actual fact the YAMAHA F1 engines used by the 1989 Zakspeed team WERE ACTUALLY hand grenades !!! And were often referred to as exactly that because of the regularity (even when turned down for the race) with which they BLEW UP !!!

[@SommerAdric]

I saw these Race in 1986 Adelaide. I was 4 years old. Still remember the noise, my Dad made me use ear plugs all day 😅 You could even hear these cars racing 20km away in the nearby hills. Not even joking!

[@Adarisa]

One big difference of this compared to archive footage of the FW12 it's made to look like is this thing is absolutely stuck to the ground everywhere whereas if you look and Mansell and Piquet the car is bouncing around all over the place. So either you have way too much downforce on or (much more likely) the track isn't bumpy enough...still looks great though!

[@Yobleck]

Hey editor is 7:02 the first time we've seen that dual camera view? I like it!

[@nigeldepledge3790]

This was the era of F1 when I was just getting into motorsports . . . IIUC, some of those Quali engines were knocking on the door of 1500 hp at full song.

[@Thunderbolt3019]

god damn videos like this make me miss eras of formula one that where gone before i was even born

[@monk3yface99]

jimmys casually sliding the most powerful f1 car around the most dangerous racetrack in grandad slippers, love it jimmy ;D

[@MeriaDuck]

I remember the days of those quali engines and entire spare cars. Used more engines in one weekend than in half a season nowadays.

[@sambrown6426]

So today was my first day (Not including last summer) of me working at an auto shop, and one of the guys there gave me a freakin' WELDER as a gift. And the cool thing about this welder in particular is that instead of needing a big oxygen tank, it includes like 2 pounds of solid oxygen pellets, and you literally set one on fire, then put it in this canister, which releases the oxygen this welder needs. It's absolutely bizarre, but it's so cool at the same time.

[@DankeSeb5]

We should bring these engines back.

[@felixculpa6240]

we should bring 1986 back!

[@pluemas]

These engines were stupid and dangerous, let alone wasteful and typical of idiotic 80s excess. I'm glad they were banned.

[@TheExitKerb]

@@pluemas I see you are a modern f1 fan then

[@pluemas]

@@TheExitKerb No, my favourite era was the 60s. I'm more of a DTM Touring car fan, but F1 is pretty good. I've not been particularly interested in modern F1 since Vettel was in the red bull. I catch some races now and then.

[@youtubasoarus]

@@pluemas I disagree. These engines prove they were pushing the limit. What is F1 today but a bunch of predictable podium finishes and boring bullshit?

[@Jak_White38]

Jimmer, ur lap started for some reason when u loaded in so by the time u started the lap it was 1 minute and 8 seconds into the lap so the lap should be in the 5:17’s

[@glenncampbell6253]

I worked at the USGP in Detroit in the 80's and the bigger teams would literally throw away the qualifying engines after the session as there were no useable parts left in them. Those things were beasts!

[@patrickwilliams6143]

Just because I remember these cars doesn't make me old. It makes me classic.

[@lemonboy3197]

Jimmer banger video epic

[@HATECELL]

I kinda miss these "money isn't an issue" times in racing. Nowadays they have tons of budget restrictions and limited testing hours to ensure that there isn't just one guy who wins every race

[@M1ggins]

Yeah, but that clearly isn't working.

[@ValentineC137]

actually it's to ensure that it's atleast remotely possible for manufacturers to enter the sport and stay in it, it doesn't have much to do with the on-track fairness

[@themindgarage8938]

Budgets were probably far smaller back then. They used multiple engines per weekend but they were cheap. Now they're only allowed 3 per season which is meant to cut costs but all it did was make engines cost $10 million apiece.

[@MySimRacer]

Classic Jimmer content, what's not to like!

[@bringlebork]

nice racing shoes jimmer❤❤

[@dav9911]

I've been into F1 racing since Geoff Crammond was a virgin and I have never seen any drive as insane as this legendary James

[@vbladeful]

try it ayrton senna style gas tapping to keep the turbo going

[@Scoots1994]

One of the main reasons the cars didn't finish is because the rules were much more open so every team was pushing the limits far more. Now there is an emphasis on the cost and that means durability and standardized parts and a much more strict rulebook. When there are very few rules every boundary is pushed to the extreme.

[@johndrippert3289]

First place I took this car after I bought it was Nords. I was also surprised when it turned what it called a 6:57 lap. 5:57 sounds much more like it to me from what I experienced.

[@RacingRef]

Love the fact you smashed a lap out in your slippers 😂

[@hughstark4882]

Are you gonna be at Goodwood this weekend jimmer?

[@gordo5863]

Please, Jimmer I want a cinema video of this lap.

[@maxfoster8445]

Would love to see you host online race with this car. Not when you just race AI but actually get your community involved in a short 25 min race with this car

[@DoctorUmbraTV]

I'm 38. This car is nearly as old as me and yeah, they made everything absolutely fucking bonkers back in the day. Just look at Senna and his black and gold Lotus 98T. Stupidly mad car. Same era.

[@kingkaliber49]

I think he summed up the draw of simracing pretty neatly, "Drive mad cars in places I've never been"

[@waynec3563]

It would be interesting to see what that motor could do in a modern F1 car with 8 speeds and DRS!

[@jamieoconnor1916]

Great work jimmy 😊, thanks for another historic F1 car 🏎 lap respect 🙏 🫡 😊

[@seanonraet8327]

My glorious kia rio with a broken EGR valve had similar turbo lag but with not quite as much power

[@LordInter]

that Williams was and is the most advanced car I've ever seen

[@PaulChay1983]

Rss smashed it out the park again with this❤

[@damarfadlan9251]

I wanna see a VR race in this classic F1 car from F1 2013.

[@Freeze014]

1986 was my first year of watching, i have severely rose tinted glasses for those cars.

[@wolffpackracing]

Lol. The JB reaction video face 😲

[@Montyman053]

Jimmer with the slippers though 👀

[@quattropower_]

Jimmer: fast asf The "stronk demo man from gt3": bro thought he's him

[@potatogirlcultist19]

1:18 Dammit Jimmy why did you have to leak the SF-24 like that. NOW OUR SECRET FOR ETERNAL SUCCESS IS GOING TO SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE ACCROSS THE WORLD!

[@quality_kontent8669]

Someone needs to mod in the 93 Williams prototype with the CVT so this guy can hot lap that time bomb of a drivetrain

[@robin_holden]

Emblematic of the 80s push for unsustainability. Absolute madness, in the best way. I think this car is actually my first memory of F1. I was 5 years old, watching Our Nige win the British Grand Prix.

[@adamplace1414]

This video better do well, because my goodness. The sound of that tiny, tortured engine screaming around the Nordschleife, with Jimmy's commentary, is like ASMR for F1 fans.

[@scottnorman4334]

Ah the legendary 'Red 21'.

[@hadorstapa]

Great value at £4. And kind of appropriate. Computer games on cassette tape in that era were typically £3.99

[@user-rq8me2ys6z]

What a rush, now that's how it should be