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- Let's take a closer look at Aston Martin's LMP1 Attempt and why it failed so badly!
What was the background of this project?
Why was the car's design so special?
What exactly was the problem?
And how did Aston Martin continue afterwards?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
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Great as always. Please don't stop making videos on these older cars
Thanks! More to come!
Calling a car from 2011 old is very sad to me.
Everything build after 2005 still feels very new to me :(
@@rolux4853 I think we are getting old.....😂
@@rolux4853 I mean its 13 years old. It IS in fact, quite old. How on earth is it sad...?
@@Lego_Huracan_SuperTrofeo yep, that’s the problem 😅
Edit:
I just looked, even this throwaway TH-cam account is already 10 years old.
I only created it back then because I forgot the password of my then already 8 year old account and needed to ask an urgent question under a car repair video.
18 years on TH-cam.. damn that’s one fully grown up account by now, lol
I love these “old” endurance racing videos. I would love a video on the Bentley Speed 8 or Silk Cut XJR-9
Great suggestion!
Seeing the DBR9 always makes me happy, it is such a special thing, the sound will forever be burned into my memory
Let's hope that history doesn't repeat itself in 2025.
It looks like the Valkyrie project is receiving much more time and resources than aston's last prototype
Technically speaking, in some ways it’ll the oldest Hypercar on the grid (conceptually speaking, at least)
Well I mean. The Valkyrie LMH is being almost entirely funded privately instead of by Aston…
@@cademckee7276 Is it back by factory or not?
@@gerogyzurkov2259 Sorta? It has some factory backing in terms of engineers and supplying the car and designs etc, but afaik its almost entirely funded by heart of racing (Gabe Newell)
It has been tested a couple times on track and it didn't break every few laps so that already a plus. I doubt it will be competitive though.
The GT-R LM Nismo was slightly further off the pace, but not by much. This car is definitely on my list for cars to make a video on.
Yeah I feel like the Nissan was a more "noble failure" because it was trying new things but it was a waaayyyy bigger and more public failure. They had a damn superbowl ad.
When you make a video about the 2026 f1 regulations reveal, can you please go into detail what happened to the floor and diffuser. They seem to have shrunk the diffuser a lot but they're not releasing any pictures of the rear of the car.
Ironically now that the old Prodrive lead is working at Multimatic, which is helping build the Valkyrie LMH.
Awesome video, you also forgot to mention that the detuned DBR1-2 was multiple seconds a lap faster than the AMR-One AND was way more reliable at Le Mans 2011
Very nice and interesting video. 3 and 4 laps at Le Mans💀 I can see they stopped the program immediately. Next year Aston Martin is coming back to the WEC and Le Mans so we will hear the screaming V12 of the Valkyrie. Maybe the caddy finally has a rival for enigine sound👀
I had forgotten that there was a more ill fated LMP-1 than the Nissan...
Quality analysis as always.
Prodrive does have several failed projects too. But peope only think of rally.
I didn't rememeber it was an I6 engine.
i don't recall them, what did they butched?
@@vercingetorige400 BRX Hunter to name the most recent one
Prodrive are a great company, but even in rallying they were had plenty of blunders and produced the odd lemon.
@@abcdefgh-xf2th The MINI Countryman WRC comes to mind.
@@dylansmit3883 At least the countryman got podiums (somehow). It certainly wasn't the worst WRC car ever made
Have already seen some videos on this car, but not in that depth. Amazing content, as always.
Amazing insights and stories from “behind the curtains”! Absolutely love your work here. Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏁
Glad you enjoyed it!
Video request: aerodynamic explanation of the open type prototype cars. I would think the aerodynamics would be better then the closed version. due to no lift being generated due to the airplane wing shape in profile. Thanks
with a canopy you can at least try to guide the direction of the flow, with an open cockpit you have to surrernder to a messy flow on the rear and you're limiting the "easy" thing to adapt you aero balance. then with low rear downforce you have to compensate with lower downforce in the front, voilà a shit car
Absolutely loved it! Please make more videos about historic wins and failures
Very informative and well illustrated video on a fascinating car I have never been able to find out enough about. Many thanks for this piece of motor sport history.
Nice sound, poor design and execution
Great video, I am quite a recent racing fan, only got into it in 2020, so I LOVE these videos telling the story of somewhat old race cars like this, please make more of this type of video!!
Welcome and will do!
The good 'ol days of glorious Diesels at Le Mans 😍
As a diesel-head I sorely miss diesel LMP1 race cars.
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Would appreciate your tech analysis on F1's new details on 2026 regs.
You're not alone. I love the diesel era in prototype racing and regard the 2011 R18 as pretty much peak performance diesel, as well as that year's Peugeot 908. It's such a good engine for long distance racing, and I'd like to see them come back. I also drive a diesel road car. You are obviously someone of taste and discretion. I salute you. Enjoy Le mans this year. 🫡 😁👍
@@paulreilly3904 Thanks 👍, and an enjoyable Le Mann to you too, hopefully it won't be interrupted like Nurburgring 2024.
I too daily drive diesels, an OM-646 CLK-220 CDi and an OM-601 190-D. How about Nurburgring 24h, it would also be great for diesels considering GT3 race cars burn 100 to 120 litres petrol per hour, a diesel would probably use half.
@@F14foreverF14. Yes, I really hope there's no shortening of Le mans. The track isn't in the mountains and so it's much less likely to be foggy. And I don't believe the race itself has ever been red flagged. Practice and qualifying yes, but not even the 1955 race was red flagged. I trust Eduardo Freitas, the race director, and his team, to keep the race going. I think he's the best in the business.
Yup, I also wanted diesel back given it is ideal for endurance racing, but in BoP world I guess it just too hard to BoPed gasoline and diesel I guess
007, classic move!
Most curious car with some unique ideas but over complex for a low-budget project.
The simple reasons is to show Aston Martin can swing with the giants.
Love the history lesson. Keep it up.
Very interesting story. Thank you.
On the wake of big failure series, it could be interesting your analysis of the "flying" Mercedes CLR at LeMans.
great video! when will you talk about BoP for le mans 2024?
Very well presented
Thank you 👍
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
How they cant do a 600 hp 2 liters???? Holy shit
well, koenigsegg has a 3 cilinder with that amouth of power
@@TheJosu145Yes but that is not a race car
It's Aston Martin. There's a lot they can't do.
Lack of time and money. Prodrive had to balance manpower to the design of the engine and chassis at the same time, on a budget, in a 6 month timespan. Dedicated racing firms like Prodrive and Oreca have surprisingly small manpower relative to their sucess in motorsport too.
The 600hp small engines you see of today, both street and race, benefitted from years (decades if you count lessons from past engines with similar designs) of R&D and incredible amounts of money.
Well super formula and super gt have 600hp 2 liter straight 6 as well
Why they didn’t „cut“ the V12 to make it a V6 is a mistery itself…
So all in all biggest problem was the engine. The chassis wasn’t even that bad.
Because that would just be a 3 litre Ford Duratec V6. The basic architecture of the Aston V12 is from the Ford Indigo concept car engine, which was basically two Duratec V6s
Fantastic video !
Thank you very much!
Great to see some le mans hiatory
when the Project Management Triangle is ignored...
Thank you for these awesome stories. Its like getting the inside scoop or a behind the scenes mini documentary. You do great work!
Glad you like them!
What about a video on the GT-R LM Nismo?
Pretty sure B Sport already has one.
I still think this car looks more like a sports racer than an LMP 1.
Also can’t help but think that given how laminar flow works that you can’t expect that sort of flow through tunnel to reduce drag that much.
Yeah, I had no idea what Aston was thinking with this vehicle 🤔
Let's go to Le Mans on an Aldi budget, what could possibly go wrong? -AM
Brilliant
That Nissan front engine LMP1 was a bigger disaster, no?
Actually not and as mentioned in the video about it. With more money and development time it could have even became a success.
The key was, Nissan's supplier for the mechanical hybrid system let them down. Without a hybrid system, the LM Nismo's concept didn't work. But they could still prove the low drag design worked pretty well on the straights - even without hybrid.
That car finished the whole race. The other couldn't pass the first 10 minutes
But they're coming back to the top class with the valkyrie
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Valkyrie enters LeMans next year.
Nissan GTR LM was even bigger fail... my opinion
They finished the whole race. The Aston couldn't even pass 10 minutes in Le Mans
That car finished the whole 24 hour race. The Aston couldn't get past 10 minutes
@@SynchLyOfthemgreat Technically it did not. Yes it did cross the finish line, but it finished to few laps to be classified so it dosen´t count, and the 2 other Nissans retired a long time before that.
@@gamefan56 a finish is still a finish. They've survived the whole day. It's still done over 200 laps compared to Aston's combined lap of 6.
@@SynchLyOfthemgreat It a finish with a massive asterisk. By that logic Aston could have tried and send the car out 5 minutes before the end of the race in order to claim they finished it when everyone knows that would not count.