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For anyone wondering, this car is a replica of Kurt Busch's 2010 Penske Dodge. Specifically the version used for the first five races of the season before they switched back to the traditional spoiler. Glad to see the COT still getting some love after all this time!
as a college student who exclusively drinks Miller Lite, after calculating alcohol-per-dollar of various beers, it is the definitive budget beer brand lmao
This has to be one of the best sounding videos in the history of the internet. Just looking at Becky tremble from hearing this when previously she stood next to a straight piped Caterham with no reaction at all tells you enough about this engine. Imagine 40+ of these beasts at full race pace. What a beautiful thing.
It is a beautiful thing....especially at a Superspeedway like Talladega with the pack of 40 running 200+mph and the engines screaming at 9,000 rpm. It will raise the hair on your arms. The best music on earth
@@alanjohnson911I go to Bristol and the echo of the cars in the colosseum will leave your ears ringing for hours. Nothing against super speedways, but the sound is amplified in that place.
This is fantastic as it brings back memories of the early 2010's till 2014. Those engines were absolutely brutal. Too bad he barely got to 8k, those engines lived at 9500 -10300 RPM all day. But, given how wet the tunnel is, and it LOOKS like the show car is on slicks, it's no wonder he didn't push it that hard.
@@Fernandc.cand a lack of respect for everyone too?? you know what you did to theo 🤢 now your driver done lost his technical support 🤣 serves you fools right for acting so disgustingly
Awesome but a second series?! A Tatra 603 B2 La Route or something like a Chaparral 2C would sound ludicrous down here. This was great though. The Superbird was the iconic noise beater in classic Nascar however. Becky looks the nonsense as usual, all deeply toned on such racing pageantry. Would make a great sound tuner for the Stig!!
best thing that has happend to drifing in europe is that some skandinavian dudes bougth a containerload of 550-700hp nascar v8s and started throwing huge ammounts of nos at them. a true joy to witness. for example, check out lauri Hinonen´s s13
Also you all realize the "stig" in this video is probably someone who's driven a stock car a lot. They are the most slippery race car they aren't just throwing anyone in there. The point of the series is sound not speed anways...
Fun fact, it was never confirmed but it was strongly rumored that around the time of the gen 5 and Gen 6 nascar. A nascar team owned a tunnel and did outlawed aero dynaimics testing in them with their nascar
well yea, but this isn't a race environment, and the engine likely hasn't run much minus a few events here and there and some maintenance fires. Best to not take it to the the ragged edge so whoever has to keep that engine pristine doesn't have too big a tear-down job.
It's too bad there isn't enough grip down there to get the power down, sounds like it was using 1/3 of it's power, he only revved it out to about 7000 too. There are no words to describe how insane it is to witness these older NASCARS from before they were restricted and dialed back in 2015. 9000+ rpm at over 200 mph is UNREAL to experience in person.
This is correct, the stig said that he couldn't get the power down fully even in 3rd gear and was still struggling for grip with a big issue being tyre temps
This engine note sounds like the current NASCAR truck series engine. Still badass! I’d imagine it’s really hard to find the original +9000 RPM engine in one of these today, but I’d love to hear that engine rip down the tunnel!
@@Zippydippity yeah, if you listen to this car and the current NASCAR truck series engines, they sound the exact same. Watch any NASCAR cup series qualifying video from 2009-2010 (when this car was raced), you can definitely hear that engine go well over 9,000 rpm
Bring a gen 4 super speedway monte carlo cup car from 1998-2007 with the X-pipe and THEN you'll hear a scream like no other. That car was loud, but get a superspeedway gen 4 car? Itll sound like a dang FIGHTER JET roaring by.
From 5:10 - 5:40 with my blue tooth cranked up is why I'm here. What a brutal haunting muscular sound from beginning to end. Now I wish my Cherokee Limited had a nascar motor instead of my Penastar v6 motor.
So Top Gear finally decided to try somebody who can present and drive, and not make the viewer want to put them in a woodchipper, and paired her with the Stig. First bright idea in 9 years. Way to go!
Beautiful sounds, my favorite was the Quattro by far. I think people would agree with me when I say we need a Calvo Motorsport dodge viper through this tunnel
not the full 900-950hp since they reach peak power at about 9000 and max at 10000, here he shifted at 7000-8000 but still cool to see and she actually got the facts right. You rarely see people get their facts rightr about NASCAR and the cars
It wouldn't Grip! It was spinning the Wheels up into a near Burnout at 7,000 in Third! , if Stig had used full Power it would have thrown itself into the wall, just no Grip, Catesby is cold and damp, and Slicks *hate* cold and damp..
@@simeonyves5940 he hit the limiter at 8000 in the video. Im not tryna be cocky but i have studied the engines enough to know when its an unrestricted and when its a restricted engine. Just saying👍
@@dibarel Yes, during a flare of Wheelspin that snapped the Car Sideways, even Restricted it was too Powerful for the Available Grip, which goes a long way to Explain why NASCAR events are Red Flagged when it Rains.
@@simeonyves5940 yes! During 2014 when the cars were making close to 1000 horsepower (Hendrick engine bullder told me) they would wheelspin in 3rd gear on restarts on a dry track. Insane cars and insane power
@@dibarel Goodness, if they could not grip even in the Dry... That is mental given the LA Block motor basically dates back to the '60's! Seems TCOT was a Wilder Formula than many give it Credit for being!
That's the "afreid" cousin of STIG, he gently accellerate and changed gears at 7000, those beasts handled over 9000rpm back in the days, but I got it, it scares me a hell of with a beast like that at over 300 km/h in a tiny tunnel😂😂
Considering he was snapping the tires loose every time he goosed it in second gear, I don't really blame him for being a little conservative with it. Even only pulling to 7000 got the point across, although it sounded more like a restrictor-plate motor at those RPMs than the howling beast you would've heard on an intermediate track.
@@simon196941 If that's a show car instead of an actual raced car, I wonder if they build those with non-staggered setups so they track straighter? Or maybe they put one in afterward since even if it was once raced, it's clearly a show car now.
Dear Top Gear editorial staff, NASCAR is the name of a sanctioning body. It is not the name of the cars that compete in the races run by the sanctioning body. Nobdy from the sanctioning body itself, from TV broadcasts of the races, or American motorsport and automotive-specific media referrs to the cars as NASCARs. You wouldn't say "The current FIAs are too big for Monaco” or “I'm going to see the TOCAs at Brands this weekend” would you? Same situation here with NASCAR.
You seem to be the only other person here besides me who knows that. Clutch is only used to start and to get rolling. But every video I see of someone driving a stock car, they use the clutch...
@@theoriginalshew Honestly, I think it's just that they don't know. They see an H-pattern shifter and a clutch pedal and immediately drive it like you would drive a regular road car with a stick shift.
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Bring a gen 4 x pipe and it'll sound like a screeching demon in that tunnel
Bring one of the ECR cars
PLEASE!!! We need the boom tubes back, I'm so nostalgic for the early 2000's era. They sounded so gooood
@@faolan73 Boom tubes didn't create the sound. It was purely the X Pipe.
@@cbr3220bring the DEI cars and they will RIP
900 hp with x pipe boom tubes is the best man made sound ever
For anyone wondering, this car is a replica of Kurt Busch's 2010 Penske Dodge. Specifically the version used for the first five races of the season before they switched back to the traditional spoiler. Glad to see the COT still getting some love after all this time!
I wonder if Kurt was the Stig
I dont think its a replica
@@RAID3R63 I think some parts aren't from Penske. You can see a Petty logo on the floor.
@@bungieman2810looks like it’s avenger cot with sticker from the charger
@@RAID3R63It's a solid replica but it is an avenger body with a charger sticker on the front
As an Nascar fan, this brings me joy
Would have been better if it was Jezza, Hamster, and Captain Slow in the Chip Ganassi tunnel
Me are not a Nascar fan exctly, but these sounds makes me happy!
Anything from NASCAR just has such a Dirty, DIRTY sound... Love it XD
"Budget Beer Brand"
Miller Lite out here catching strays, lol.
as a college student who exclusively drinks Miller Lite, after calculating alcohol-per-dollar of various beers, it is the definitive budget beer brand lmao
american beer sucks
@@ZoMTDU Macro breweries yes but you got try some of the thousands of craft brews. Much better than what you can find for $20 a case.
@ZoMTDU while i agree, i also agree with the other guy.
A Kurt Bush #2 Dodge COT.
RAISE HELL PRAISE DALE, SEND IT STIG! 🗣🗣🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🔥🔥
3 👌
@@k1llf4nt4I’m the 3rd like. Love you Dale 🔥🔥 🦅
Kurt was the last driver who Dale flipped the finger LOL
The one I've been waiting for. As Elanor Roosevelt said, America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
All hail the glorious V8
I wanna go fast
@@carlospacheco8640 it's a quote from Talladega nights
It’s the corners we forgot about.
This has to be one of the best sounding videos in the history of the internet. Just looking at Becky tremble from hearing this when previously she stood next to a straight piped Caterham with no reaction at all tells you enough about this engine. Imagine 40+ of these beasts at full race pace. What a beautiful thing.
It is a beautiful thing....especially at a Superspeedway like Talladega with the pack of 40 running 200+mph and the engines screaming at 9,000 rpm. It will raise the hair on your arms. The best music on earth
“Are you freaked out yet?”
@@alanjohnson911I go to Bristol and the echo of the cars in the colosseum will leave your ears ringing for hours. Nothing against super speedways, but the sound is amplified in that place.
@@Mr.Daddy1990 I've been to Bristol, if you don't have ear protection on there, your hearing is in trouble lol.
A single nascar racecar literally rumbles the ground and you feel it in your soul
now go watch a top fuel race...
@@677453 There's nothing louder than 20 NASCAR screaming by you at 200mph my man
long live the V8!
This is fantastic as it brings back memories of the early 2010's till 2014. Those engines were absolutely brutal. Too bad he barely got to 8k, those engines lived at 9500 -10300 RPM all day. But, given how wet the tunnel is, and it LOOKS like the show car is on slicks, it's no wonder he didn't push it that hard.
Bring the LFA
Agree
Still louder bro
No
Oh hell yeah
Agreed
Thought that was LOUD? Check out the last episode's Mercedes S600 AMG - th-cam.com/video/EsaYy2-jzPQ/w-d-xo.html
Falta turismo carretera de argentina 🇦🇷
@@Fernandc.cand a lack of respect for everyone too?? you know what you did to theo 🤢 now your driver done lost his technical support 🤣 serves you fools right for acting so disgustingly
Awesome but a second series?! A Tatra 603 B2 La Route or something like a Chaparral 2C would sound ludicrous down here. This was great though. The Superbird was the iconic noise beater in classic Nascar however. Becky looks the nonsense as usual, all deeply toned on such racing pageantry. Would make a great sound tuner for the Stig!!
Do the Pagani Zonda R.
Mike is amazing ♥️
900 horses and 5.9L OF FREEDOM 🦅🦅🦅
If you really want to confuse the Europeans tell them it’s 358 cubic inches
5.9 what???
Sir, this is America.
Unlike palestine
as somebody from europe that knows the imperial system that didn't work@@bob8776
@@bob8776Your mom likes that one
best thing that has happend to drifing in europe is that some skandinavian dudes bougth a containerload of 550-700hp nascar v8s and started throwing huge ammounts of nos at them. a true joy to witness. for example, check out lauri Hinonen´s s13
Penske car in an old tunnel. Old girl must have felt right at home.
Woooow first time I see the stig chickening out !! He downshift and desacelérate a lot
Very observant, the stig was super respectful and in no way balls out whatsoever due to the conditions, zero room for error
Well it’s to give us different sounds
@@Zippydippityeven in ideal conditions that car is still as much of a handful
It mostly to show the sound of the car. That's the entire point of the show. You expect him to go 200 down a wet 2 lane tunnel in an old stock car?😂
Also you all realize the "stig" in this video is probably someone who's driven a stock car a lot. They are the most slippery race car they aren't just throwing anyone in there. The point of the series is sound not speed anways...
The Dodge Charger was raced from 2005 through 2012 . Loved the video though brought back so many good memories seeing this car again.😊
Fun fact, it was never confirmed but it was strongly rumored that around the time of the gen 5 and Gen 6 nascar. A nascar team owned a tunnel and did outlawed aero dynaimics testing in them with their nascar
yes it was CGR and they also used indycar’s in it as well 😅
it was actually an old abandoned railway tunnel
its in pennsylvania an is a former interstate tunnel if i remember right
@@AutoRacingNR2003 yup, the Laurel Hill Tunnel
@sundaxe10 it's chip ganassi and its called the laurel hill tunnel
Rev limit at 8000 rpm LOL. Those cars used to rev to 9500 rpm
well yea, but this isn't a race environment, and the engine likely hasn't run much minus a few events here and there and some maintenance fires.
Best to not take it to the the ragged edge so whoever has to keep that engine pristine doesn't have too big a tear-down job.
He was shifting at 7000 still enough to give a thunder down a tunnel
It does Rev to 9500 the car has just been limited to 8k to help the engine last longer for events
Unfortunately due to the dampness in the tunnel and slicks, no way did the Stig ever get wide open 👍
10,700 rpm in 2007
It's too bad there isn't enough grip down there to get the power down, sounds like it was using 1/3 of it's power, he only revved it out to about 7000 too.
There are no words to describe how insane it is to witness these older NASCARS from before they were restricted and dialed back in 2015. 9000+ rpm at over 200 mph is UNREAL to experience in person.
This is correct, the stig said that he couldn't get the power down fully even in 3rd gear and was still struggling for grip with a big issue being tyre temps
Definitely need more Nascar content!!! Americans want the sport to grow and this video definitely helps
This engine note sounds like the current NASCAR truck series engine. Still badass! I’d imagine it’s really hard to find the original +9000 RPM engine in one of these today, but I’d love to hear that engine rip down the tunnel!
@@Zippydippity yeah, if you listen to this car and the current NASCAR truck series engines, they sound the exact same. Watch any NASCAR cup series qualifying video from 2009-2010 (when this car was raced), you can definitely hear that engine go well over 9,000 rpm
It’s running an open R5P7 flat tappet cup motor, 862hp at 9100 rpm
Damp conditions kept the throttle trace way off 100%
When car shows understood their assignment. Love it
Some say he has a chair in his home.
Some say he can't be two feet away from the nearest wheel.
All we know is HE'S CALLED THE STIG.
Some say he once punched a horse to the ground...and that he only eats cheese...🤔
Bring a gen 4 super speedway monte carlo cup car from 1998-2007 with the X-pipe and THEN you'll hear a scream like no other.
That car was loud, but get a superspeedway gen 4 car? Itll sound like a dang FIGHTER JET roaring by.
YES TO THIS!!
The SB2 engines from that era were some of the best sounding NASCAR ever had!
Bring Sterlings car with that X pipe ...
Thank you so much for doing this! This is one of the best presentations of the sport I have ever seen. You guys did a great job!
Chip ganassi's Laurel Tunnel vibe right here, Imagine hours and hours off this noise when they were testing. 😁
That's an Avenger nose with Charger decals. LOL
Good eye ;)
Yep! Knew something looked odd there. Shame they didn't use the correct decals on it!
as a massive nascar fan I smiled the whole time thanks top gear
Imagine if it had the full beans tuned NASCAR Cup Series engine howling in there!
I can tell you that IS a cup motor. He just never took it to redline. R5P7 motor.
@@richscrinsonphonegg8842just out of interest how could you tell?
@@richscrinsonphonegg8842 we have the car limited to 8000 rpm atm to retain the long term safety of the engine 👌
6500? Pffft!
At 8200 - 8300, they sing a lot sweeter than that!
They run 9000+ rpm down the long straights now.
From 5:10 - 5:40 with my blue tooth cranked up is why I'm here. What a brutal haunting muscular sound from beginning to end. Now I wish my Cherokee Limited had a nascar motor instead of my Penastar v6 motor.
Good too hear a Charger Cup car again!!!
Top fuel dragster. Yes 11,000hp even if down tuned or short bursts. I know the tunnel might collapse but Bring it!!!
Now we're talking. 4 seconds of pure hell is what it'd be! Imagine throttle whacking in that tunnel!
There's one word that describes the sound of NASCAR: Carnivorous.
I mean they didn't chose the next gen nascar for a reason😂
So Top Gear finally decided to try somebody who can present and drive, and not make the viewer want to put them in a woodchipper, and paired her with the Stig. First bright idea in 9 years. Way to go!
A F1 V10, the Porsche Carrera GT, the Mazda 787B, the LFA thats all we need
OH GOD now the 787B #55 the car that won now God all mighty that would be Nuts down the tunnel
Racing means a lot to me so getting this experience was extraordinary
Cranked my sound settings to max at 8:02.
I was thoroughly pleased. Love that HEMI V8!
The R5P7 is a wedge motor.
NASCAR fans been missing this for a longggg time
I love how the Stig is just something they throw a car at and tell them to have fun and they do
4:51🔥
This gives me flashbacks to GT5 when I'd race on Special Stage Route 7 with rain with the Juan Pablo Montoya 2011 Impala😂😊
Nascar fans be like: What are ear protection and noise restrictions???? RAAAHHHH 🦅
Driving a these cars through a tunnel for the purpose of enjoying the sound is poetic and should be considered art. Man basking in their creation.
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. As a big fan of NASCAR, HELL YEAHHH!
Boogity! Boogity! Boogity! United Kingdom, Let's go racing!
This is the best exposure to europe for nascar ive seen besides hammond going to america for nascar or nascar euro league
Please do the 100th episode with a horse and carriage 🤙
Love you guys to put a Drayster down the tunnel, maybe not a Top Fuel Nitro machine but a Super Comp..!
This has to be the best thing top gear has produced in years
Beautiful sounds, my favorite was the Quattro by far. I think people would agree with me when I say we need a Calvo Motorsport dodge viper through this tunnel
Love these tunnel run videos!!
as a nascar fan this is the best gift you could give me and its not even my birthday🔥🔥
I love the Talladega Nights reference!!
1.2 Vauxhall Nova with a cheery bomb exhaust 👍
One of the last generations of NASCAR with more than 800HP at race.
Just a detail at 1:25 mark... it's not a "NASCAR". It's a Cup car from NASCAR. Calling it a NASCAR, is the same as calling a F1 car, a FIA
This can’t be the same stig UK top gear used for years! That man was insane!
Saw the cup car run at Le Mans last year. Was very memorable hearing it come around Dunlop!
Now that’s American muscle!!! Even stig has issues with no traction control. Pure raw American Muscle!!!! 0:06
I would be so scared driving that car in a tunnel. Fast, Heavy, no brakes and the walls all around you.
that's one saad looking charger. Nice Motor sound
900 HP no traction control 🇺🇸💀🏁
Finally the return of NASCAR on top gear
Definitely should bring a 2014 Gen 6 or a 2000s Gen 4 x pipe and let them rev to redline (10000rpm).
not the full 900-950hp since they reach peak power at about 9000 and max at 10000, here he shifted at 7000-8000 but still cool to see and she actually got the facts right. You rarely see people get their facts rightr about NASCAR and the cars
It wouldn't Grip! It was spinning the Wheels up into a near Burnout at 7,000 in Third! , if Stig had used full Power it would have thrown itself into the wall, just no Grip, Catesby is cold and damp, and Slicks *hate* cold and damp..
@@simeonyves5940 he hit the limiter at 8000 in the video. Im not tryna be cocky but i have studied the engines enough to know when its an unrestricted and when its a restricted engine. Just saying👍
@@dibarel Yes, during a flare of Wheelspin that snapped the Car Sideways, even Restricted it was too Powerful for the Available Grip, which goes a long way to Explain why NASCAR events are Red Flagged when it Rains.
@@simeonyves5940 yes! During 2014 when the cars were making close to 1000 horsepower (Hendrick engine bullder told me) they would wheelspin in 3rd gear on restarts on a dry track. Insane cars and insane power
@@dibarel Goodness, if they could not grip even in the Dry... That is mental given the LA Block motor basically dates back to the '60's! Seems TCOT was a Wilder Formula than many give it Credit for being!
Man this just makes me want nascars added back into gran turismo
Ah finally. Pure V8 sound from the finest....😌
Just came through the West Virginia turnpike tunnel with a Mustang behind me and I thought I was in the barrel of a gun;)
A bot coppied your comment and now is at the top this is truly sadaning 😢
I friking hate them
@@Dacar173 doesn’t surprise me;(
These American V8s are the only sounds that gives me goosebumps 😍
The Outlaw's Blue Deuce!!! Crispy
RAISE HELL AND PRAISE DALE
Only 1 engine I would love to hear in this tunnel
V12 Matra
Best part of these Cup Engines, is when they lift in a shift, how quickly the engine drops revs.
I missed dodge in NASCAR 😢 hopefully they come back 😞.
Imagine Having 40 Of Those 900 HP Monsters Tear down this Tunnel apart at Full Throttle. The speed,The power, Would have been amazing
It's got vibes of the BRM V16 to be honest. I think this is now my second fav in the series.
That's the "afreid" cousin of STIG, he gently accellerate and changed gears at 7000, those beasts handled over 9000rpm back in the days, but I got it, it scares me a hell of with a beast like that at over 300 km/h in a tiny tunnel😂😂
pretty sure Nascar not designed to go flat out and straight, the asymmetric aero doesnt help
Considering he was snapping the tires loose every time he goosed it in second gear, I don't really blame him for being a little conservative with it. Even only pulling to 7000 got the point across, although it sounded more like a restrictor-plate motor at those RPMs than the howling beast you would've heard on an intermediate track.
@@simon196941 If that's a show car instead of an actual raced car, I wonder if they build those with non-staggered setups so they track straighter? Or maybe they put one in afterward since even if it was once raced, it's clearly a show car now.
this isnt a race prepped engine. probably some other sbc for track day use.
@@Moose6340hi this isn't a show car, and is an actual NASCAR
There are some great articles about chip gennassi’s top secret test tunnel in PA. It’s brilliant
Mazda like hold my beer.😂
Imagine seeing a monster truck going down there if it was able to fit I don’t know if it will though, but the noise that it will make in there lol😂
Kurt Busch MENTIONED
The best sound I’ve heard all day
Get a unrestricted generation 6 nascar in there that tunnel will crumble
I love NASCAR sound
the only thing that could top that is either a v8 or v10 f1 car or the mazda 787b!
I love these tunnel videos
Yall search Ganassi Racing’s secret aero testing tunnel. Same type shit 🔥
Dear Top Gear editorial staff, NASCAR is the name of a sanctioning body. It is not the name of the cars that compete in the races run by the sanctioning body. Nobdy from the sanctioning body itself, from TV broadcasts of the races, or American motorsport and automotive-specific media referrs to the cars as NASCARs.
You wouldn't say "The current FIAs are too big for Monaco” or “I'm going to see the TOCAs at Brands this weekend” would you? Same situation here with NASCAR.
Dodge always
Thats a "Nascar". I thought that it is a stock car in the Nascar series. But what do I know. 😆😁
It IS a stock car in NASCAR
@ 2:47
She really said....."a budget beer brand" 😂😂😂😂 lol tourist.
Why did he use the clutch to shift? It has straight cut gears and only needs a lift off the gas to shift
You seem to be the only other person here besides me who knows that. Clutch is only used to start and to get rolling. But every video I see of someone driving a stock car, they use the clutch...
@@troyandrade615 I'm guessing they swapped the transmission, that's the only reason I can think of. Other than ignorance. Or maybe it's a skill issue.
@@theoriginalshew Honestly, I think it's just that they don't know. They see an H-pattern shifter and a clutch pedal and immediately drive it like you would drive a regular road car with a stick shift.
Oh hey, I recognize that sad Charger after seeing it from the Goodwood streams 😅
It was amazing! Can't wait for the Aston too!
I LOVE THIS SERIES !!!!!!!!!!