There is quite a couple if you search deeply. And let me tell you, the 3.5 V8 sounds leagues crazier than the Chevy LS lotus stuffed in the last car here
What an amazing looking and sounding car. Always liked this one. I stil have a 1/43th scale model of it. Lets hope that they will race it at Spa one day.
Just beautiful! I always loved the Elise GT1 and finally a high quality video of it with onboard and external scenes. Hopefully you'll be able to record a Mercedes-CLK-GTR from 1997 one day, because there aren't very good videos of it. I watched the whole 1997 FIA T season a few months ago on another channel on TH-cam, but you mostly hear the beautiful screaming F1 GTR's because they're louder.
@@henrikeriksson8330Sadly they're only summaries, every Race is cut down to 25 - 30 minutes, but it's still worth to watch them, way better racing than nowadays. You can find them on the channel MontyMotorsport
There's nothing to "miss" about GT1 cause they're still around and still racing today. It would be very nice to have a new GT1 class with new cars though. That's what everyone wants and it might happen one day.
@@fyfyi6053modern GT1 class would mean LaFerrari and that kind of car .. as equivalents of what the GT1 class meant back in the day of BPR and FIA-GT 1 .. the supercars of yesteryears is what the so called HyperCar is if today ..and today those are the ones with electric hybrid drives and fully stuffed with electronics .. and I see this not as "cool" as it was for me as a young guy back in the 1990 years .. as those modern cars are powerful, no doubt ..but in the same time so "synthetic" and computerised that from my viewpoint it lacks this raw character. And I say this even as someone who actually has an automotive engineering M. Eng. graduation ..
If I owned Lotus (or any of the GT1 manufacturers), I'd pull a page out of Panoz's book and make it a special order car. Panoz is the only one who still builds the GTR-1, for about 900k. My dream garage is to own every gt1 road car from each manufacturer.
Wow, this driver is EXCELLENT! What incredible left foot braking and throttle technique. Even does the "brake test" slight depression before the braking zone after the main straight. Dont see that too often.
Fun fact (and correct me if i'm wrong): The Bitter GT1 car is stored / shown at an indoor kart track in Eindhoven in the Netherlands! The track is called 'Hezemans Indoor Karting' and I believe it (still) is owned by Hezemans. Terrific video of an awesome car! For me growing up with GT2 on the PS1 it was so cool to see the car in real life, standing still non the less. This video brings back some great memories.
Yep, it used to be shown in the hairpin on the 1st floor. They also had an Esprit GT1 hanging on the wall if i remember correctly. Not sure if they are still there since they renovated the whole place.
Brings back memories from "good ol times" .. as a youngster strolling around in LeMans pits and backstage .. were an "mysterious" not so lucky yellow car was parked on a shabby fence, without its front clam .. back then I would not have believed that years later I will drive an Esprit V8GT, one that is actually my own, on the factory track in Hethel ..and that I will meet one of the Elise GT 1 cars again (it was the road car for press in this case) on a private Lotus owners community event.
A lot of stories and love in the comment section. Grew up on forza and this car is a very good car on pretty much every one it’s in. I did research on the not so successful history of it but insane car and footage🔥
YES your first video on the Dix Mille Tours 2023! I hope there will be many more to come 😊 This year I couldn't go to the circuit despite being at 30min may to august 31 😢 so great videos like this are a great medicine for my disappointment 😁
In the words of James May... "This is _great news_ , since I've been reading/watching a lot more content about Le Mans cars lately...and now this video comes out. Excellent!"
One of the most pretty race cars of 1997. Great to finally see some youtube video of the car in action sound and inside nice. Shame lotus could not use the lotus v8 in this but the lotus elise gt1 did not meet it's full potential due to lotus not having the money lotus should reuse the lotus elise gt1 platform for a new race car someday its got life yet
This is an amazing video the car is awesome. I've always loved Lotus cars and the Lotus Elise GT1 is one of my faves from them. This car was a monster in Gran Turismo 2. It had glitched stabilizers but once you could manage to handle the car you could do 56 second laps at Red Rock Valley raceway.
I saw it in Le Mans 1997, the engine wasn't the V8 Corvette I think (the sound wasn't the same and more aggressive...). I think it was the 3,5 Lotus twin-turbo (???). One of the two cars didn't run the race because the body wasn't "straight" (after a crash...). 💯🛢️🔥🏁🏎️🤓🇨🇵
One thing that makes me sad is that THIS CAR was supposed to be participating to Le Mans Classic 2023. It was clearly showed in the entry list. But when I was here... it never happened 😔
Ok fine, british car, your sitting on the right site. BUT! Gearstick also on the right site 😲 Isn't that a problem at entering the car? Driver change is tricky 😄
I'm wondering what engine they've put in this. They originally had either a flat plane crank Chevy LT5 or a Lotus 3.5 turbo depending on the team, but this sounds like a cross plane crank V8. Maybe they've substituted it for a different Chevy engine for reliability, as the original was anything but reliable.
Definitely not the V10 described in the video description either! I'd vote some kind of race prepped / crate US flavour of crossplane V8, only because the intake note gives the impression of a large displacment
The original version of this car, has a Lotus Turbo engine, which was hopeless. The Chevy V8 was much better, but performance in GT1 wasnt up to par. Great looking car though
@@NubletPie278 I mostly like the LT5 because it's not another of the seemingly infinite twin turbo V8s we have these days, and the sheer incongruity of the thing in a _Lotus_ of all cars. Seriously, the last thing you'd expect is this massive DOHC V8 screaming out to 7.5k+ RPM.
I used to own a 1998 Elise. How on earth did they shoehorn an 8 litre V10 out of a Viper into this thing?!?! The boot space next to the motor which they would have utilised was barely big enough to take your toothbrush away for the weekend! 😂
Everything behind the rear firewall is 100% new. The Viper engine version was stretched even further. The Hennessey Venom GT was basically a twin turbo take on this same idea.
6 liter Chevy LT5 ( C4 ZR1 engine ) this engine was developed and designed by Lotus for the C4 Corvette ZR1, and therefore allowed Lotus to use this engine in this very special Gt1 version. Earlier versions of this car had a 3.5 liter v8 from the Esprit road car, but it did not meet expectations, so they used this bigger v8 instead :)
Crazy how there has been no real sound video for this car until now. Bozzy never disappoints
There is quite a couple if you search deeply. And let me tell you, the 3.5 V8 sounds leagues crazier than the Chevy LS lotus stuffed in the last car here
@@chrischarizard4067 I only ever found 1 video with potato quality sound and capture
@@MJY5drives the one on what looks like a small disused airfield sounds pretty good to me
/watch?v=992H0Q8tDKA
There was one 16 years ago: th-cam.com/video/gvj74DcKMOI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=NyMm1KRWiAvtPHye but it sounds different.
It's great to see the driver giving it a proper go and not just out for a cruise
You do know this is a race. Not a track day.
@@autoworld9681 Weird how my statement still applies.
I love Lotus, from the legendary F1 cars to road cars!
What an amazing looking and sounding car. Always liked this one. I stil have a 1/43th scale model of it. Lets hope that they will race it at Spa one day.
Once Great channel commenting on another Great one. 👏👏
I'm so jealous of ppl who could afford to buy tickets and see this thing in action. I can't even put it in words.
It's too bad Peter Auto doesn't upload this event on youtube.
@@fyfyi6053 They do have highlight video's of all the series. And some onboards.
@@Belgian-Motorsport Watching on TH-cam and seeing the cars live is very different.
Just beautiful! I always loved the Elise GT1 and finally a high quality video of it with onboard and external scenes. Hopefully you'll be able to record a Mercedes-CLK-GTR from 1997 one day, because there aren't very good videos of it. I watched the whole 1997 FIA T season a few months ago on another channel on TH-cam, but you mostly hear the beautiful screaming F1 GTR's because they're louder.
Can you watch the full races of that season somewhere?
@@henrikeriksson8330Sadly they're only summaries, every Race is cut down to 25 - 30 minutes, but it's still worth to watch them, way better racing than nowadays. You can find them on the channel MontyMotorsport
I miss the GT1 class, crazy how fast are they still compared to even later GT2/GT3 classes from even a decade later
There's nothing to "miss" about GT1 cause they're still around and still racing today.
It would be very nice to have a new GT1 class with new cars though. That's what everyone wants and it might happen one day.
@@fyfyi6053 that's what I meant, there's no gt1 class with new cars and races today , proper gt1 like up to the early 2000s
@@fyfyi6053modern GT1 class would mean LaFerrari and that kind of car .. as equivalents of what the GT1 class meant back in the day of BPR and FIA-GT 1 .. the supercars of yesteryears is what the so called HyperCar is if today ..and today those are the ones with electric hybrid drives and fully stuffed with electronics .. and I see this not as "cool" as it was for me as a young guy back in the 1990 years .. as those modern cars are powerful, no doubt ..but in the same time so "synthetic" and computerised that from my viewpoint it lacks this raw character.
And I say this even as someone who actually has an automotive engineering M. Eng. graduation ..
@@gunterweniger8019 What if... Valkyrie AMR PRO comes to LMH 😉 ?
Would that be cool?
@@gunterweniger8019 To be honest I don't think it will.
I bet they will make just another LMP1 car named Valkyrie LMH or something like that.
If I owned Lotus (or any of the GT1 manufacturers), I'd pull a page out of Panoz's book and make it a special order car. Panoz is the only one who still builds the GTR-1, for about 900k.
My dream garage is to own every gt1 road car from each manufacturer.
I LOVE this car, finally a good video about it !! :D Now i'm waiting for a high quality video for the Lotus Esprit GT1 ^^
Very rare find and beautifully captured!
Wow, this driver is EXCELLENT! What incredible left foot braking and throttle technique. Even does the "brake test" slight depression before the braking zone after the main straight. Dont see that too often.
What a thing. Just lovely.
Rare racecar with a unique history. Amazing ! Thx Bozzy !
Grazie mille Bozzy, questa era la mia auto preferita in assoluto su granturismo 2 .
La GT1 più bella di sempre (secondo me!)
Un mostro puro sport !! Ottimo Bozzy vero professionista 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome footage! Don’t think I’ve ever seen the Elise GT1 go that fast!
Amazing
beast!!!, Thanks to all involved in creating this footage
Fun fact (and correct me if i'm wrong): The Bitter GT1 car is stored / shown at an indoor kart track in Eindhoven in the Netherlands! The track is called 'Hezemans Indoor Karting' and I believe it (still) is owned by Hezemans. Terrific video of an awesome car! For me growing up with GT2 on the PS1 it was so cool to see the car in real life, standing still non the less. This video brings back some great memories.
Yep, it used to be shown in the hairpin on the 1st floor. They also had an Esprit GT1 hanging on the wall if i remember correctly. Not sure if they are still there since they renovated the whole place.
Gran Turismo 2 memories
NFS 2 SE too
Sounds great. Some fantastic footage.
What an amazing car
Brings back memories from "good ol times" .. as a youngster strolling around in LeMans pits and backstage .. were an "mysterious" not so lucky yellow car was parked on a shabby fence, without its front clam .. back then I would not have believed that years later I will drive an Esprit V8GT, one that is actually my own, on the factory track in Hethel ..and that I will meet one of the Elise GT 1 cars again (it was the road car for press in this case) on a private Lotus owners community event.
Been loving this beauty since Gran Turismo 2. To finally be able to hear her sing is just icing on the cake!
Nice to see it on track and not a talking piece in some rich guys garage. Hats off to the owner for sharing it with us.
My most favorite car when that was in need for speed 2. Glad to see that masterpiece is running again!❤
Its funny that this car steered worst of all in that game
A lot of stories and love in the comment section. Grew up on forza and this car is a very good car on pretty much every one it’s in. I did research on the not so successful history of it but insane car and footage🔥
Beautiful the Lotus Elise, an almost forgotten legendary machine.
It comes out in the game of Gran Turismo 1 ❤❤❤❤
lol It comes out in GT 1 ?
Che figata assurda😍😍😍 grande zio Bozzy😎💪🏻
Senza parole! spettacolo! TOP
YES your first video on the Dix Mille Tours 2023! I hope there will be many more to come 😊
This year I couldn't go to the circuit despite being at 30min may to august 31 😢 so great videos like this are a great medicine for my disappointment 😁
Awesome!
During my childhood, this is the car that gave me the dream to own an Exige one day ! Thanks for this awesome clip!
The car still visually so brutal 😅
I used to race with this car on Forza Horizon 4. Good times.
What a gift of a video thanks man, this car is very special.
I remember one of these was entered in the 12 hours Sebring 2005. Obviously it went as expected but I love it just for how different it is.
In the words of James May...
"This is _great news_ , since I've been reading/watching a lot more content about Le Mans cars lately...and now this video comes out. Excellent!"
IMO the most beautiful GT1 car.
I remember this car in Need for Speed II: SE
Timeless
Beautiful
Cool car!
“There’s never been a bad looking Lotus.” -Jeremy Clarkson
One of the most pretty race cars of 1997. Great to finally see some youtube video of the car in action sound and inside nice. Shame lotus could not use the lotus v8 in this but the lotus elise gt1 did not meet it's full potential due to lotus not having the money lotus should reuse the lotus elise gt1 platform for a new race car someday its got life yet
Thanks a lot for this video❤
First time I know about this car from Need for Speed II SE
This was always a favorite of mine
Fantastic!
So cool to see the car being driven hard!
Most beautifull GT1 car ❤
This is an amazing video the car is awesome. I've always loved Lotus cars and the Lotus Elise GT1 is one of my faves from them. This car was a monster in Gran Turismo 2. It had glitched stabilizers but once you could manage to handle the car you could do 56 second laps at Red Rock Valley raceway.
Not the Aston Martin’s ego being bruised 😂😭
Carro incrível, me fez lembrar quando jogava Gran Turismo ll, 👍🏻👍🏻
The Elise GT1 walked so the Venom GT could run! Interesting they share they same basic concept but to completely different objectives.
The 90s Hennessey Venom GT
I saw it in Le Mans 1997, the engine wasn't the V8 Corvette I think (the sound wasn't the same and more aggressive...). I think it was the 3,5 Lotus twin-turbo (???). One of the two cars didn't run the race because the body wasn't "straight" (after a crash...). 💯🛢️🔥🏁🏎️🤓🇨🇵
Amazing😍
I want Esprit GT1 to run on the circuit again.
Beastly.
What an absolute beast of a Lotus race car this is. The LT5 actually kind of sounds like a Roush Yates 410, not going to like.
Fantastic to see this car getting used again. Anyone know what was highest speed for that car was on this track day?
I have to ask Bozzy, how do you get all the onboards?
And great stuff as always!
edit: And please tell me you have more stuff of that DBR9 at 11:25!
Search for "Onboard: The Le Mans winning Aston Martin DBR9 - HQ V12 sound"
I wish they had the early version with no spoiler or roof scoop and different body panels
Holy whatzits what a thing!
Love the sound. It sounds like a Koenigsegg Agera R.
Realmente espectacular como suena ese lotus gt1 si no mal recuerdo llevaba un v8 twin turbo
The twin turbo V8 was replaced by an enlarged 6 liter LT5 V8 due to a lack of performance.
Bozzy, is there playlist of onboard videos only? I would love to see one brother
My favourite car in forza horizon 4, suits the british countryside well
whats the wheelbase of this thing?
Elise GT1 a beautiful car!! but i would be the happiest man, if someone reconstructs the TVR Cerbera Speed 12 GT of 2002.
Anyone knows what top speed it reaches on the back straight?
Rare
One thing that makes me sad is that THIS CAR was supposed to be participating to Le Mans Classic 2023. It was clearly showed in the entry list. But when I was here... it never happened 😔
Sounds just like a typical Lotus story 😅 .. it will work, sure .. maybe .. not.
Lotus fanboys rejoice, our moment has come
I pray it's added to GT7
And thats a lt5 same engine thats in the c4 corvette zr1👍
Ok fine, british car, your sitting on the right site. BUT! Gearstick also on the right site 😲 Isn't that a problem at entering the car? Driver change is tricky 😄
I'm wondering what engine they've put in this. They originally had either a flat plane crank Chevy LT5 or a Lotus 3.5 turbo depending on the team, but this sounds like a cross plane crank V8. Maybe they've substituted it for a different Chevy engine for reliability, as the original was anything but reliable.
Definitely not the V10 described in the video description either! I'd vote some kind of race prepped / crate US flavour of crossplane V8, only because the intake note gives the impression of a large displacment
The LT5 they swapped in didn't have a flat plane crank.
Company i worked for machined the cranks for those cars.
Anyone knows what's the red car at 10:52?
might be MC12
@@RikuroWasHerecorrect
Awesome video! What engine does the car have in this video? Zr-1 lt5?
It's in the description.
@Terraceview I'm not too bright.
😍😌👍👍
This thing was a beast in forza horizon 4
most beautiful car
The original version of this car, has a Lotus Turbo engine, which was hopeless. The Chevy V8 was much better, but performance in GT1 wasnt up to par. Great looking car though
What chassis did they use for this ?
GTI Racing Ltd. (reworked)
@@k-mc94 never heard of it
Looks and sounds like a Hennessy venom
Just imagine if there was a replica built with a Chevrolet LT6 5.5 liter naturally aspirated flat plane crank V8.
🤤🤤🤤😍😍😍😍😍
Oh man I wanted to go to this event and wish I had. What a legend car, and nicely driven too. It sounds quite different to watch?v=gvj74DcKMOI though
That's probably the earlier 3.5L TT version, this one has the 6L LT5 that replaced it.
@@griffinfaulkner3514 Oh right, I kinda prefer the original sound :(
@@NubletPie278 I mostly like the LT5 because it's not another of the seemingly infinite twin turbo V8s we have these days, and the sheer incongruity of the thing in a _Lotus_ of all cars. Seriously, the last thing you'd expect is this massive DOHC V8 screaming out to 7.5k+ RPM.
I used to own a 1998 Elise. How on earth did they shoehorn an 8 litre V10 out of a Viper into this thing?!?! The boot space next to the motor which they would have utilised was barely big enough to take your toothbrush away for the weekend! 😂
Everything behind the rear firewall is 100% new. The Viper engine version was stretched even further. The Hennessey Venom GT was basically a twin turbo take on this same idea.
V 8...???😮
6 liter Chevy LT5 ( C4 ZR1 engine ) this engine was developed and designed by Lotus for the C4 Corvette ZR1, and therefore allowed Lotus to use this engine in this very special Gt1 version. Earlier versions of this car had a 3.5 liter v8 from the Esprit road car, but it did not meet expectations, so they used this bigger v8 instead :)
Doesn't sound like mine.
Video not normal speed
Sorry sir, the compound says no .
NFS II😂
If you can have more fun with your pants on.... then i dont know about it!
Bellissima!! Per me l'auto da corsa più bella di sempre!!!
Lotus forever. ❤️🏁❤️
I hope it has no lotus engine, no lotus transmission, no lotus suspension, no lotus steering, no lotus anything.
Here's a guy that has never owned a Lotus.
@@stillious Rattling planels of furniture.
chimera
I want this car back in gran turismo 7