GT Racing was flipped on its head in the mid to late 1990s...literally. This is a story about one of the most iconic classes to ever grace the Circuit de la Sarthe, GT1.
It seems like a large part of modern le mans history can be summed up in on sentence: "it went really well for [manufacturer] in [class], but then porsche happened and eventually everything became too expensive"
All of these highlights & drama I've seen brings me back memories when I was a child loving for motorsports, & up to this day competing in E-Sports (Gran Turismo). 👍🥰😍👌
These old GT cars fills me with such nostalgia... Had a Le Mans game on PS1 I played a whole lot, everytime I see them I can't help but smile. Good vid!
41 subscribers? That's too low considering this content! Really good video about a very interesting class. Its weakness was that the rules allowed one-off homologation specials that had little to do with road cars and that kept elevating costs (you've probably heard the story of the GT-One's luggage compartment). Even then, that's also the reason we got those crazy cars so hey, can't complain. It's 42 subscribers now.
BPR came about as a result of a No. of competitors wanting to continue racing their cars. The FIA forcefully took over the running of the series changing its name to the FIA GT world championship. Untill GT3 became the ubiquitous category, GT racing had been in retreat since the demise of BPR, 30 odd years ago.
@@ShortTrackUpdate As DTM became a type of super saloon series, its costs became unviable, as with super tourers suffering the same fait. Personally I don't miss many of the HT classes, reasoning being; there were to many classes for the man in the street to understand
@@gothicpagan.666funny how views differ. In my opinion the current GT3 overtake with its stupid BOP is what killed racing and makes it unbelievably boring. No need for good engineering and good drivers anymore. Just choose the cheapest car, the BOP will be adjusted accordingly and you’re able to win. I grew up on the sportscar racing of the 90s and it was so much more interesting! The number of fans left says everything, these days almost nobody attends the races anymore, even Le Mans is a shadow of itself. Back then the people sat in every tree possible to get a glimpse of what’s going on! The atmosphere was unbelievable!
Great video! The audio still needs a bit of tweaking, at times it sounds like you might be too close to the mic. Other than that no complaints at all! Delivery, storytelling and the background footage was all perfect.
One little thing, other than minimum production numbers, GT1 and GT2 in this era pretty much had the exact same rules other than tire and engine restrictor sizes, an example of that being the 1996 Viper GTS-Rs pretty much acting as a test bed for the 97 GT2 cars
Yeah I couldn’t find enough reliable information on this when I was doing my research. Most websites just mentioned the homologation and how it allowed the 962 to compete
I appreciate you watching! I chose to exclude this category because it existed as GT1 in name alone, and not by the actual regulations of car. I wanted to focus on the vehicles themselves, and their changes into prototypes due to the lax nature of the homologation rules
Are you gonna do video about GT3? Because, duh ITS LITERALLY EVERY FREAKING WHERE! From GT World Challenge to DTM to IMSA under the name GT Daytona (GTD) to obviously, WEC and Le Mans with the modified variant of GT3 AKA LMGT3 (which is basically a modified GT3 category with all of that torque sensors and aero kit).
Love how much love sportscar/endurance racing has been getting lately.
Imsa, Wec, and Gt challenge have been on another level this year
@@ShortTrackUpdate Technically the last GT1 car was the 2003 Bentley Speed 8.
It seems like a large part of modern le mans history can be summed up in on sentence: "it went really well for [manufacturer] in [class], but then porsche happened and eventually everything became too expensive"
The perfect summary for pretty much every era of sports car racing. Nowadays in prototypes, Toyota has that honor
@@ShortTrackUpdate as a swabian (meaning I'm from the same region as porsche) and a no 7 Toyota fan i see this as an absolute win😂
How tf does this only have 650 views? This is great content dude. First one of your videos I’ve seen, but you’ve totally won a subscriber 💪🏻
I greatly appreciate that! This is my best performing video so far. Hopefully the future ones do even better
The algorithm really blessed me with this one. Excellent Video dude, liked and subscribed! :DDD
I greatly appreciate the support!
All of these highlights & drama I've seen brings me back memories when I was a child loving for motorsports, & up to this day competing in E-Sports (Gran Turismo). 👍🥰😍👌
Exactly my inspiration for making this video!
These old GT cars fills me with such nostalgia... Had a Le Mans game on PS1 I played a whole lot, everytime I see them I can't help but smile.
Good vid!
Thank you so much! Test drive Le Mans and gran turismo were my introductions to these behemoths as well
41 subscribers? That's too low considering this content!
Really good video about a very interesting class. Its weakness was that the rules allowed one-off homologation specials that had little to do with road cars and that kept elevating costs (you've probably heard the story of the GT-One's luggage compartment). Even then, that's also the reason we got those crazy cars so hey, can't complain.
It's 42 subscribers now.
Thank you so much that means a lot! It’s kind of poetic that the 962 won the classes first outing, and the 911 technically won the classes final one
It's 222 now xD
i hope your channel will grow up faster, this is what i’ve been looking for a while
Thank you so much! I have more videos planned for the future. Currently finishing school and moving, so I’m a bit behind on uploads sadly
Great work, what an amazing era of motorsport. 😊
Thank you so much I hope you enjoyed!
What a great channel I discovered today, cool video! I hope this gets the recognition it deserves
Thank you so much! This video is already well outperforming the rest of my content, so I’m very happy with it
BPR came about as a result of a No. of competitors wanting to continue racing their cars. The FIA forcefully took over the running of the series changing its name to the FIA GT world championship.
Untill GT3 became the ubiquitous category, GT racing had been in retreat since the demise of BPR, 30 odd years ago.
As sad as it was to see groups like DTM and GTE move to the GT3 platform, it is nice to have stability in sports car racing today
@@ShortTrackUpdate As DTM became a type of super saloon series, its costs became unviable, as with super tourers suffering the same fait.
Personally I don't miss many of the HT classes, reasoning being; there were to many classes for the man in the street to understand
That’s a valid take. I don’t think the racing quality has suffered much if at all. Current gt cars are very fun to watch, regardless of track or event
@@gothicpagan.666funny how views differ.
In my opinion the current GT3 overtake with its stupid BOP is what killed racing and makes it unbelievably boring.
No need for good engineering and good drivers anymore.
Just choose the cheapest car, the BOP will be adjusted accordingly and you’re able to win.
I grew up on the sportscar racing of the 90s and it was so much more interesting!
The number of fans left says everything, these days almost nobody attends the races anymore, even Le Mans is a shadow of itself.
Back then the people sat in every tree possible to get a glimpse of what’s going on!
The atmosphere was unbelievable!
Great video! The audio still needs a bit of tweaking, at times it sounds like you might be too close to the mic. Other than that no complaints at all! Delivery, storytelling and the background footage was all perfect.
Thanks for the tips! I’m glad you enjoyed
Yay another new car channel! Can't get enough of this kind of content so subbed 😄👍
Welcome aboard I hope you enjoy
One little thing, other than minimum production numbers, GT1 and GT2 in this era pretty much had the exact same rules other than tire and engine restrictor sizes, an example of that being the 1996 Viper GTS-Rs pretty much acting as a test bed for the 97 GT2 cars
not so sure about that, a 911 gt1 isnt quite the same as a gt2 ;)
Yeah I couldn’t find enough reliable information on this when I was doing my research. Most websites just mentioned the homologation and how it allowed the 962 to compete
@@clicheguevara9917 But the 993 GT2 Evo was a GT1 before the 911 GT1 :^)
Make a video about the GT2/LM GTE class
Don’t worry that one’s in the plans as well
@@ShortTrackUpdate RIP 2011-23, in other words; Au revoir LMGTE Bonjour LMGT3.
Really good video, glad youtube decided to throw this in my recommendations.
Glad you liked it!
YES LOVE FOR GT1!!! ❤
Only the greatest gt class of all time
Great overview of the category
Thank you so much!
That was a fucking great video! Hats off, mate!
Thank you so much I’m glad you enjoyed
I enjoyed the story..... I only wish you would have touched on how GT2 became GT1 in the 2000s
I appreciate you watching! I chose to exclude this category because it existed as GT1 in name alone, and not by the actual regulations of car. I wanted to focus on the vehicles themselves, and their changes into prototypes due to the lax nature of the homologation rules
Thanks for putting this together! Where do you find all this footage?
I searched for race replayed on TH-cam. 1998 is on there. 1999 Le Mans is on there, and a handful of other moments
@@ShortTrackUpdate oh awesome! Thanks for your reply :)
Le Mans was the end of GT1, in November 1999 the ‘Le Mans Fuji 1000km” which had a Toyota in it but as ever it didn’t win that either
Yeah eventually those cars just weren’t able to compete with the lmp1. Hopefully after hypercar has run it’s course we see a gt1 revival
someone give this man a Oscar
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Great music
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You’ll like this weeks vid then
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Thank you!
Are you gonna do video about GT3? Because, duh ITS LITERALLY EVERY FREAKING WHERE! From GT World Challenge to DTM to IMSA under the name GT Daytona (GTD) to obviously, WEC and Le Mans with the modified variant of GT3 AKA LMGT3 (which is basically a modified GT3 category with all of that torque sensors and aero kit).
Yeah gt3 is definitely in the cards, I’m currently working on a video about a specific gt manufacturer
you've got legs
Thank you I really appreciate that!
Why no acknowledgement of the class called GT1 that raced until 2010?
Mainly because while it was GT1 by name, isn’t wasn’t the same formula
Yeah you heard him right, "By name", not 'literally'.
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Thank you so much for the kind words!
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My time playing gran turismo was the ultimate inspiration for this vid😭
TS020 the best
Personally I’m partial to the clk. It was the first model car I ever had
can anyone like the video before me? I don't want to ruin the 420 thumbs up. the date of the comment 4/20 2024
Aw man i think someone beat you to It
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Summary: Mark Webber killed GT1.
Ill insert this 😃 because people are idiots these days...
Well you could argue that Porsche and Merc funneling a ton of money into it was the real cause of death here
Love the video! Well put together
Thank you so much I’m glad you enjoyed!