1960s F1 car sound! Classic Lotus race car & more at an Oulton Park Testing Day
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- Historic racing cars and much more feature in this visit to a varied Testday at Oulton Park circuit - ranging from a thunderous Lola racing car to an eventually straight-piped early 1960s Lotus F1 car!
Expect a walk around the busy paddock of Oulton Park where a variety of racing cars both modern and classic could be spotted, with many BMWs old & new, Ginettas, Porsche Caymans and F1000 cars featuring.
After a quick look at the paddock I wandered over to the fantastic vantage point of Lodge corner which is the last corner of a lap of the Cheshire circuit where tyres are overheating and grip is low - which you can certainly see in the footage!
Luckily, I also was lucky to get a seat in one of the many Formula 1000 cars attending this particular race car testing session, with drivers practising for the next day's race.
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Which car would you have taken for a lap - let me know in the comments below!
Thanks for watching!
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Great video Harley.
Good one Harley very enjoyable thanks
Gear change in the Healey 100 you were looking at is correct for a right hand drive car, the only difference with the left-hand drive is it’s slightly shorter. The gearbox was originally for a column shift car so that’s how they had to do it. Cheers, Trevor.
Another wonderful video thankyou Harley. That F5000 is a Lola T330 / T332 variant (not sure which). When I was your age these were very popular cars in Australia. They were so LOUD!!!’nnn you can imagine the noise when 20 of these lined up on a grid ready to race! They would make the earth vibrate!
Wonderful old memories you have brought back for me, thanks once again.
Yep, I think the Lola in this video was probably silenced a bit more than back in the day to comply with the sound regulations of the circuit - which contrasts how the Lotus did several laps with its silencer removed!
@@CarTractionvids makes a difference, doesn’t it! This was the sound of motor racing when I was your age…. Which may account for why I wear hearing aids now!!!!
Harley's dad probably told him already that the Yamaha badge is three tuning forks, because of Yamaha making musical instruments (the motor bike bit being a kind of spin-off from the music company part). If you're lucky enough to have a Yamaha piano you can find the same logo on the frame.
Thanks for another great video! I had a job once that on occasion allowed me to be around a lot of race cars. I never even tried to get into one.😮
It's a surprisingly tight fit!
Excellent work, young man. Great coverage of behind the scenes in the pits. You look good in the cockpit, was the note on the panel to you? 🙂
It must have been planted! 😂
Never knew much about F1000. One litre superbike engine. Way back when I was your age we had F5000 in Oz. It was all about Cubic inches in the '70s. MAPing engines i suppose was all about grinding a good cam and more CFMs in the carb. Will we be sitting around in the future discussing kilowatt hours, listening to almost silent cars with 10 thousand torques? I hope not.
I remember seeing a couple of F5000 cars at Oulton Park a while ago, in fact the Lola in this video may be F5000 - they sound awesome!
I'm sorry Harley but I won't be viewing your channel anymore. Your father seemed to take offense about my saying you are photogenic . I was complimenting you that's all. All the best with your channel and in the future with what you do. From Carl in New Zealand.