Not many racecars come with an 8 liter engine. In this cars class it's overkill, so it hardly needs to rev before it hits max regulation horsepower. And it will last fantastically long as an endurance engine. Same with the Corvette C5R with the 7 liters.
@@joe125ful The Zakspeed vipers that raced with the VLN/24h nurburgring races had that loud sound. but that viper engine had 2 cil cut off to give it that raw v8 sound.
Fun fact, my grandfather (head engineer of team viper and the one overseeing the Viper GTSR’s development) used to tell me how they’d hand the drivers wads of cash to keep with them just in case they went off track, particularly into one of the gravel traps, because back then you could sometimes “get a little extra help” back on track by paying off the marshals. Reason I always find that funny is because even in the late 90s, drivers/teams were paying off marshals to try and get back on track faster or even stay in the race. Also, the original GTSR was supposed to utilize a dual element rear wing to reduce drag for the top speed sections like the Mulsanne Straight, but the FIA banned it essentially straight away, so the original wing is now currently sitting in my grandfather's house autographed by the entire development team as essentially a mantlepiece lol.
I hope you understand that this is bullshit and that your grandfather was a liar who loved telling stories. Or you are the liar who likes telling stories....
That’s one of the few cars I recall growing up seeing where I always thought, “If I had a chance behind the wheel, I’d stuff it into the woods every single time.” To this day, its proportions still gives me that same discomfort. Hats off to anyone with a pair big enough to turn more than a lap in one.
Yeah the chassis layout reminds me of what a Caterham might be if it was fed a steady diet of steroids and cheeseburgers. I'd imagine it'd take some getting accustomed to moving that much hood/bonnet around.
Growing up watching this as the dream! Now owning a Gen 5 ACR with a 9L motor. The experience is priceless. This car was made to race from the start and that's why it made history back then! This makes me happy to watch in 2021!
I spent many hours on Gran Turismo 2 racing the Team Oreca Viper against the Venturi, GT40, NSX, Saleen Mustang, Supra and of course the Lister Storm that was always in last place 😂
Weirdly the Storm was actually a highly successful GT car! But the daddy on that game was the Speed 12. Nothing bar a well driven Escudo Pikes Peak could catch me with my dialled in 12 🤌🏼
Ahhh... the GTR2 nostalgia intensifies. It hit me hard especially when I saw the blue Force One Festina livery at 6:45 which I always drove in the game. The second gen Viper is still a beatiful supercar and the most favorite of mine even today.
Labre-competition Vipers… sooo much nostalgic livery for me. I saw that car with that livery in GTR2 when I was a kid, thinking when I grow up, I wanna buy and drive that masterpiece. Reality is too harsh…
@@jclafi I feel like… I'm so old… Everything was beautiful back than compared to these modern era of racing. Pure powerful cars blazing throughout circuits. I miss good old FIA GT1 class.
@@jclafi Yeah, they're true production based race cars compeared to older gen GT1 class cars. And GTR2 is one of favorite simulators that I've played. Think I played until assetto corsa released.
I remember being impressed with the in-game physics of Gran Turismo 2 back in the day. You could either buy (or was it win?) the Oreca Viper, or you could build up a street Viper. But if I tried them back-to-back I would notice the extra weight of the modified Viper under braking and in the turns, and I also noticed the additional downforce of the Oreca one. And then there was the obvious difference in lap time! It's impressive when I think about this now considering that this is just a Playstation 1 game. It also turned me away from other games e.g. Need For Speed because they just don't try to have the same accuracy in physics and suddenly they didn't feel like fun to me anymore. :)
Thank you for taking the time to put this together. As an American I love the fact that these cars raced and were successful. However, I never got used to the sound of the Viper. I prefer your Mercedes C11 vids for the sound. What a monster! But, the Viper is still an amazing machine.
It was great to see these, as I hadn’t seen one for a while. I Actually had the good fortune of driving a test vehicle of the GTS Road car, that happened to have GTS-R cams in it, for a Thanksgiving weekend, back in the 90s. It handled much better than I expected, at least on smooth surfaces 😉!
I once saw an oreca painted viper roll in the streets of my small town. I was very surprised to see that and the thing that surprised the most is that the girl I was hanging out with really liked the car.
Classica auto americana con motore da truck: a detta di molti piloti permetteva di affrontare le curve con una marcia più alta rispetto alle altre GT. Me le ricordo a Vallelunga all'orecchio non erano fastidiose come volume, ma la tribuna vibrava al passaggio! 😲😁😉
That Viper was the car the FIA based themselves on in order to create the 2000s GT1 category, only major change was adding a bigger rear wing It's crazy to see that a vast majority of GT2 spec Vipers were upgraded to fit in GT1
Well they were originally for the BPR GT1 series, but the McLaren F1 was so ahead/ advanced of every car compared that they dumped all the other cars in gt2 including the vipers. Porsche and Mercedes would develop the clk and GT1 Porsche in response for the McLaren. That's why Porsche stoped development for the 993 gt2 evo to focus on the GT1. At first the vipers really weren't competitive But oreca kept on development each year.
I remember back in the late 90’s watching team ORECA crush everyone at LeMans back when Speedvision covered the races. So much nostalgia in this video!
Awesome. Really amazing to see back in action the cars from 2000s FIA GT Championships. I still love these cars better than modern Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Dodges ecc ecc.... the Viper is my favourite car in absolute. Luckily We still can play them on GTR 2 with mods.
That fucking Oreca livery from 1999... just gorgeous. Not a huge Viper guy (more of a Vette guy), but I can say that the Viper is one of my favorite American cars.
The Team-Oreca paint scheme screams nostalgia
I kinda like more the classic red with white stripes and the big logo of Play Station
Gran turismo 2!!!
Pretty sure a friend of mine still has an old RC car with that exact body shell.
Grand Turismo 2.
The candy red with the viper stripes.. pure porn for any racing fan.
The tricolore is rather common at Le Mans
That low-rev V10 is just.. unmistakably unique
Yep but i expect - better - sound???
Not many racecars come with an 8 liter engine. In this cars class it's overkill, so it hardly needs to rev before it hits max regulation horsepower. And it will last fantastically long as an endurance engine. Same with the Corvette C5R with the 7 liters.
@@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts Yep.
@@joe125ful The Zakspeed vipers that raced with the VLN/24h nurburgring races had that loud sound. but that viper engine had 2 cil cut off to give it that raw v8 sound.
@@zzr600cc and it sounds better
Fun fact, my grandfather (head engineer of team viper and the one overseeing the Viper GTSR’s development) used to tell me how they’d hand the drivers wads of cash to keep with them just in case they went off track, particularly into one of the gravel traps, because back then you could sometimes “get a little extra help” back on track by paying off the marshals. Reason I always find that funny is because even in the late 90s, drivers/teams were paying off marshals to try and get back on track faster or even stay in the race. Also, the original GTSR was supposed to utilize a dual element rear wing to reduce drag for the top speed sections like the Mulsanne Straight, but the FIA banned it essentially straight away, so the original wing is now currently sitting in my grandfather's house autographed by the entire development team as essentially a mantlepiece lol.
now that thing is one hell of a piece of history.
I hope you understand that this is bullshit and that your grandfather was a liar who loved telling stories. Or you are the liar who likes telling stories....
WOW. I want to see that wing!
@@chahahc 👍👍👍
Your grandpa is Roy Sjoberg?????
Ah yes, Gran Turismo 2 introduced me to this car. I'm still playing it today and never get bored.
GT2 is still the best racing game ever!
@@7plymaple124 Yup. It's a classic.
GT4 too
@@emekaasiegbu3697 And GT3.
Man of culture.
That's why the Dodge Viper still remains one of my personal favorite supercars.
Wow!
Although it is a GT or grand tourer dude..
@@mortenfrosthansen84 It's a GT car with supercar performance.
@@wyvern4588 yeah.. guess you could call it that..
Crazy idea actually. A V10 in a modern hotrod
@@mortenfrosthansen84 It was the late 80's early 90's, The designer probably did a fat line and said "now picture this..." and the rest was history.
That’s one of the few cars I recall growing up seeing where I always thought, “If I had a chance behind the wheel, I’d stuff it into the woods every single time.” To this day, its proportions still gives me that same discomfort. Hats off to anyone with a pair big enough to turn more than a lap in one.
Yeah the chassis layout reminds me of what a Caterham might be if it was fed a steady diet of steroids and cheeseburgers. I'd imagine it'd take some getting accustomed to moving that much hood/bonnet around.
Goood memories come up again !
The iconic Viper, the Ferrari 550 and 575, Corvette C5, Lister Storm etc etc
Saleen S7 😍
Panoz too
Growing up watching this as the dream! Now owning a Gen 5 ACR with a 9L motor. The experience is priceless. This car was made to race from the start and that's why it made history back then! This makes me happy to watch in 2021!
congrats on your purchase
Bozzy - are you trying to kill us with nostalgia overload !? 🤣
Honoka Kousaka approved this.
I spent many hours on Gran Turismo 2 racing the Team Oreca Viper against the Venturi, GT40, NSX, Saleen Mustang, Supra and of course the Lister Storm that was always in last place 😂
Lmao the Lister was always last place
The Lister is such a badass car too i wish it had better performance.
@@DoctorTauri yep. Guess what, it was Asuna Yuuki drove that Lister Storm V12 Race Car man. Lol.
@@MassiveBig yep. It performed best in Super GT300 Championship and Grand Touring Car Trophy Race 3 tho.
Weirdly the Storm was actually a highly successful GT car! But the daddy on that game was the Speed 12. Nothing bar a well driven Escudo Pikes Peak could catch me with my dialled in 12 🤌🏼
I remember this Viper Team Oreca from the Test Drive Le Mans for PS1, so nostalgic!
I have the ps2 version and it is such a good game! Great soundtrack and vehicle selection. Gem of a game.
@@MassiveBig I've never played the PS2 version, must be even better than the psone! I just think Test Drive LeMans is kinda underrated
Love those Vipers, especially the first and second generation in blue with white stripes. Huge V10 engine with lots of torque.
This is still one of my favorite cars of all time. This livery as well as the red/white look so amazing.
Ahhh... the GTR2 nostalgia intensifies. It hit me hard especially when I saw the blue Force One Festina livery at 6:45 which I always drove in the game.
The second gen Viper is still a beatiful supercar and the most favorite of mine even today.
I love how the driver is sitting on the rear axle.
if you lov that, try out a Caterham. An experience everybody should do.
I'm amazed at all the ways they try to cool the car.
Btw, the redhead leaning in, is an awesome photo.
One of the best looking racecars ever with that unmistakable silhouette, poetry in motion!
Well design is more or less ok.
God I love Vipers. Miss them!
Just those exhaust manifolds alone may just be the most exquisite afterthought since the entire R&D of the Ford Bronco
That sounds incredible 😳
Kinda i mean its not bad but not insane too.
Corvetter C5.R V8 sounds much more better for example.
th-cam.com/video/7rofyfD68mc/w-d-xo.html
Omg after all these years it still makes mi jimmies tingle 🤤
Bruh
@@paccin339 😅😂 just sayin
Thanks for this. Still remember going to the ALMS series and watching Team Oreca race the C5R's. Great memories and fantastic machine.
Labre-competition Vipers… sooo much nostalgic livery for me. I saw that car with that livery in GTR2 when I was a kid, thinking when I grow up, I wanna buy and drive that masterpiece. Reality is too harsh…
Labre won several races w/ the Viper !
@@jclafi I feel like… I'm so old…
Everything was beautiful back than compared to these modern era of racing.
Pure powerful cars blazing throughout circuits. I miss good old FIA GT1 class.
@@ViperGTS_R I have GTR2 too. Such good simulator. The cars of that era where the best GT1 ever made !
@@jclafi Yeah, they're true production based race cars compeared to older gen GT1 class cars.
And GTR2 is one of favorite simulators that I've played. Think I played until assetto corsa released.
One of the most beautiful cars ever!
that paint livery is just exquisite :D
This car.. Never,ever get old.
Those warm ups were absolutely brilliant thank you
I remember being impressed with the in-game physics of Gran Turismo 2 back in the day. You could either buy (or was it win?) the Oreca Viper, or you could build up a street Viper. But if I tried them back-to-back I would notice the extra weight of the modified Viper under braking and in the turns, and I also noticed the additional downforce of the Oreca one. And then there was the obvious difference in lap time! It's impressive when I think about this now considering that this is just a Playstation 1 game. It also turned me away from other games e.g. Need For Speed because they just don't try to have the same accuracy in physics and suddenly they didn't feel like fun to me anymore. :)
i remember you could buy the oreca viper out of the showroom for £250k. awesome game
One of my all time favorites, blessed to have grown up around Vipers. Thanks for sharing.
Your visuals and audio are just as poised and spot on as this Beauty & Beast 👌
Those times in our life that most of us today didn't know what truly happiness is... 😌
Thank you for this video, it's one of my favorite GT race cars, especially the Team Oreca!!!
Gran turismo memory’s right there
My absolute and utter dream car. Thank you for this. And thank you for all the high quality content over all these years - you never disappoint.
Dream car?Viper?You must have really low standards...
@@joe125ful Thanks for judging me :)
@@theeeMitchi Well i was kinda surprised you really want this car.
@@joe125ful The GTS-R is something I've dreamed of ever since I first saw them racing when I was a very little kid
@@theeeMitchi I hope you can buy one in future.
Maybe this can help you.
th-cam.com/video/3E_5R1lNCiY/w-d-xo.html
Ahhh brings back fond memories of my first time at the 24 Hr of Le Mans in 98
This is EXACTLY what I've been waiting for
Thank you for taking the time to put this together. As an American I love the fact that these cars raced and were successful. However, I never got used to the sound of the Viper. I prefer your Mercedes C11 vids for the sound. What a monster! But, the Viper is still an amazing machine.
I love that smooth sound and the shape of them
It was great to see these, as I hadn’t seen one for a while. I Actually had the good fortune of driving a test vehicle of the GTS Road car, that happened to have GTS-R cams in it, for a Thanksgiving weekend, back in the 90s. It handled much better than I expected, at least on smooth surfaces 😉!
Absolutely love this video, no talking, just the sound and those sexy cars eating up the track. My ultimate dream is to run one of those on a track.
Wow the sound is really awesome!
Thank you so much for this video. Huge Viper fan.
A pleasure! Thanks for watching
I once saw an oreca painted viper roll in the streets of my small town. I was very surprised to see that and the thing that surprised the most is that the girl I was hanging out with really liked the car.
Cam-in-block, pushrods, etc... what an epic dinosaur of a racecar. The street going versions sounded more like a Grumman milk truck...
Thanks for this, Luv the vipers ✌👍
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
I've been lucky enough to see all these in person!
Great video 👍👍
Thanks!
Classica auto americana con motore da truck: a detta di molti piloti permetteva di affrontare le curve con una marcia più alta rispetto alle altre GT. Me le ricordo a Vallelunga all'orecchio non erano fastidiose come volume, ma la tribuna vibrava al passaggio! 😲😁😉
amazing video i like
I bought an RC car with this body (HPI Nitro RS4 RTR) in 1999 because of this car. Such an iconic machine.
One of my favorite racecars
Bellissimo video, grazie per la condivisione, mi saranno molto utili.
Di nulla!
V10 😍😍
That Viper was the car the FIA based themselves on in order to create the 2000s GT1 category, only major change was adding a bigger rear wing
It's crazy to see that a vast majority of GT2 spec Vipers were upgraded to fit in GT1
Well they were originally for the BPR GT1 series, but the McLaren F1 was so ahead/ advanced of every car compared that they dumped all the other cars in gt2 including the vipers. Porsche and Mercedes would develop the clk and GT1 Porsche in response for the McLaren. That's why Porsche stoped development for the 993 gt2 evo to focus on the GT1. At first the vipers really weren't competitive But oreca kept on development each year.
Thank you. IDK What to say. This car is freaking incredible!!!!!!!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Real sounds and real cars!!💪💪💪
What expect?:):)
@@joe125ful nothing of course💪😎
@@UnknownArtist994 ...sometimes there is really low IQ comments,nothing personal.
(or strange)
One of the most quiet racecars in racing history. Always loved the Viper, always will. But, the thundering roar of the C5R was something else.
Sound of raw power 🔥🔥🔥
Oreca did such a good job with this car. Timeless superfast beauty
I kinda wish Dodge kept the viper in production. Would’ve been so cool to see it race again
What an Icon
Sick spec 😫
Legendary piece of machinery
I remember back in the late 90’s watching team ORECA crush everyone at LeMans back when Speedvision covered the races. So much nostalgia in this video!
:-O
Awesome video dude!!!
Thanks!
Legendary classic Vipers 😍😘
The good old Team Oreca paint scheme is so iconic. Makes me miss Gran Turismo 2. One added note: IT IS ALSO HONOKA KOUSAKA'S FAVOURITE CAR!
If ever Iwas given the change to choose a race car to drive, in 2021 I would still choose the retro 90's GT cars to bang around a track in.
Love this machine 😍
Incredible that this GT1/GTS beast used a coil pack in it's day 😮
Awesome. Really amazing to see back in action the cars from 2000s FIA GT Championships. I still love these cars better than modern Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Dodges ecc ecc.... the Viper is my favourite car in absolute. Luckily We still can play them on GTR 2 with mods.
my whole body froze for a split second when the first engine started up. never happened to me before. Goodness gracious
Bel video!
That raw v10 sounds so subtle compared to other car at the track
Yeah sounds nearly weak:)
My childhood dream car ❤️ Viper and Koenigsegg and im all happy!
A guy that lives around me has a GTS with Team Oreca wrap scheme, it's looks soo good.
Now thats a nice v10 sound
one of my all time favs! Daytona livery
0:01 I thought this was Gran Turismo 7 footage
That fucking Oreca livery from 1999... just gorgeous. Not a huge Viper guy (more of a Vette guy), but I can say that the Viper is one of my favorite American cars.
Mythique dans la saga Gran Turismo ! 😍
I'd love to see the black with yellow stripes viper from chaimberlain engineering team.
Isso que é carro de verdade, um verdadeiro monstro
The huge cross Monte Carlo bar, tells me that without it, the SRT10 flexes like Lex Luger on Monday Nitro when given promo time...😎
I've seen the Team-Oreca car up close, it was in the basement of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills.
Old School Gran Turismo vibes!
Damn... Flashbacks of the arcade game Scud Race / Sega Super GT...
Pure Monsters...
The Oreca livery is way too remarkable. Probably the most special V10 engine ever, roaring like an apex predator.
Just like the GULF GT40... just legendary.
I’d have this car exactly the way it is on street lol . Perfect spec
my lovely Viper from GT2, angry sound!. ps. 04:02 that V12 Ferrari tho
I edited my video from old VHS casettes I had... It s great to see good quality videos of these!
Best Miata generation ever
will electric cars bring the same emotion of hearing and feeling as gasoline cars? I think not
they will just be stupidly fast, and hopefully look like racecars in the 90/2000s
10 years from now we'll really see
do you have clips of those ferraris going round? they sounded insane
Do you mean the one at 10:43? Only old videos, this one is the more recent one: th-cam.com/video/_2F8R098A9g/w-d-xo.html
monster...
Now I know where they took the sounds of the Podracer in Star Wars Episode 1 :)
These cars were so perfect they were practically banned. Not just the OG Vipers but every generation of Viper.
🐐
This channel is so underated 😢
Underrated how?
Lol why?:)