The Original LMP1 Audi R8 - Like You've Never Seen It Before!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- These days if you mention R8, people will almost certainly think of the Audi supercar. But that was named for another, earlier car. The one which went to Le Mans, and showed that Audi were a force to be reckoned with.
I'm finishing my mini series on Audi race cars with an in-depth look at a real, Le Mans campaigned race car. It's pretty cool, and we take the covers off!
#Audi #R8 #LMP1
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Could you do a comparison with this and my Dacia Sandero 1.5dCi (midnight blue)?
Well... I suppose pound for pound, you get more car with the Dacia.
Goid news! No
Did Dacia offer a racing stripe package?
If not, it's not even a real car.
If so - it's an absolute racing beast with at least 362hp.
If you don't think racing stripes add power, fight me.
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I saw the Veloqx R8’s at Sebring 2004, and saw all the various R8’s at Sebring and Road Atlanta. Wish they would have also raced at the Daytona Rolex 24 too. Gorgeous cars.
I remember watching the race when they changed the rear end... amazing to see the group do that! Truly spectacularly engineered!!
bustin 3 minutes for a transaxle? pfff....amazing!! the cockpit-front section piece of carbon seems super thick and solid. the rear of the car reflect fully how bright engineers and designers really are.the modularity of this car gives a clear advantage for such long distance races where anything can happen in a blink eye,then you have to be able to react in such manner too. this R8 is legend.
Awesome job. Your enthusiasm is great to see. I was there at Sebring in 2000 when the R8 won on its debut. At that time no one knew that we had witnessed the coronation of what would be the most significant prototype of the decade and would establish itself alongside the Porsche 962 as an all time great. All through the 2000's I was at every Sebring 12hour and petit Lemans. Every time the main question was, "Will anyone challenge the Audis". And generally speaking, at those two events, no one ever could.
It's not just "told" that Audi changed the entire rear of the car in 3 minutes - there's video proof of them doing it here on TH-cam.
It wasn't just the transaxle (transmission +differential combined)... It was the suspension mounting points and basically the entire rear of the car, minus the engine. I think it was a complete rear subframe.
Man this video is 3 hours to short, what a beautiful peace of engineering ❤
I just recently purchased my first old Audi project car and I am loving it. I admit that watching all your video content has certainly influenced my decision to become part of the Audi family
What an absolutely legendary machine
Great video, I’ve only seen it run in anger once in 2005 and it’s a properly special thing to see driven on the limit. The extra crash structure for the rollover protection was supposedly added after Michaele Alboretto was killed in a testing accident at the Lausitzring when the car rolled at high speed.
Most beautiful R8 ever Made. Love that livery!
Please please please keep doing more Audi content! The Audi content is why I keep coming back 👍🏻. Awesome video!!
Thank you, and Audi UK, very much for making this video (and the others) happen! To a racing enthusiast like me it is pure heaven to see a racing car as successful as this one in such detail.
ps:
Toyota found out things go wrong at Le Mans in pretty much every single year they tried; their history of losing Le Mans with the fastest car is nothing short of astonishing.
James thank you for the epic content! Please convey our deep gratitude to Audi for the exclusive access and allowing us to get a glimpse of such historic legends. Please keep up the AWESOME content. Hope to meet you if you ever come to Texas. Thank you again...
I am planning a trip to Texas for 2021
Email me or Instagram me perhaps
Great selection of Audi Sport vid's, pity none of them could be run.
Would have loved to hear that R8 cold start.
A "cold start" on a race-car like this isn't nearly as simple & quick as one might imagine
This is dream collection for me...all this Le mans cars with a4, 80... just perfect
Audi super tourer, grew up watching BTCC as a kid in the 90’s awesome cars. Great channel too
Well done Audi...you have gone up greatly in my estimation. James I just loved the R8...great week mate!
The true monster is just behind you : 3 Audi R15+ TDI finishing respectively with 397, 396 and 394 laps at Le Mans 2010 (397 laps being the Absolute record up to this).
This is definitely the best of the series!
Thx for doing this as always like to see race cars up close - but I gotta say I’m surprised that someone doing a car video like this wouldn’t know more about race cars to begin with. You thought that bodywork panels were part of the structure?! Lol
I was standing in the tribunes across from the pits at Le Mans in 2000 when they did that very gearbox change. The astonishment from the commentators and actually watching it unfold was incredible. Rules changed the next year to outlaw such major sub-assemblies being swapped out (needed to finish with the same gearbox case, engine block and other key components that you started with IIRC) but Audi made an overnight step-change in how to run an endurance outfit and prepare to win.
Mr Shug same with witnessing it on tv. Mind blowing 🤯
Joest deserve a LOT more credit than Audi do for that one.. Their role in understanding how to win Le Mans; how to run and how to beat works teams, and for the first time being able to work with a manufacturer in developing a car from scratch was invaluable. Joest designed that quick-change, not Audi, using the lessons learned from 20+ years of racing (or beating) Porsche.
OsellaSquadraCorse that is true, Team Joest is very smart and talented.
This channel is just getting better and better.
I saw the R8 racing in the states back in the day. I think it was ALMS at the time after IMSA imploded. One of my favorite sports car prototype race cars of all time. #1 has to be the 962. #2 is the Sauber C11. #3 and #4 are the Mercedes CLK-GTR and the Audi R8. Not sure which I like better.
In 2003 Audi was under strict orders not to push the Bentley's. It was clearly a marketing ploy and further reinforces the fact that they were really R8s under the skin.
Really enjoy the racing car content. Only thing I would say is more tech details and race stories if possible. Do Prodrive still have their museum? The JLR museum have a few interesting cars and prep customer cars, last time I was there an XJR-12 was in the garage. Could also reach out to Bicester heritage for old Bentley's and a few more modern Porsches.
Recently watched the Le Mans 66 movie, incredible that over 50 years ago they had card that could accelerate to 200mph+ 400 times in 24 hours without breaking 🤯 Also impression that they were only about 10% slower back then, I know that means being lapped 40 times but still
Don't forget the circuit was different too
JayEmm on Cars learn something new everyday
I saw them running here in Portland Oregon in the ALMS series, and they were not only blindingly fast, they were oddly VERY QUIET.
I would suggest that the grand-daddy of this level of enginnering care was the 1954-5 Mercedes W196 and 300 SLR.
Love the video, I just wish it was x2 as long. Please on the next video, at some point run the camera slowly and closely all around the engine/transaxle. You don’t even need to point anything out, I believe that the kind of audience that seeks out this kind of content knows what an intercooler or an exhaust manifold looks like. We want to see the way the engineers and designers packaged it all and made it all fit and work together.
Beautiful stuff, but I think the tourer was my favourite. Childhood memories
"You either get it or you don't". So true.
Naked LMP1 R8? _Oh my!_
Its a lmp900 actually ;)
Really cool to see the R8 without its clothes on.
Maybe you could get in contact with BBM Sport and see what they are working on at the moment?
ha, working in a pit team soon.....great video, thanks, looking forward to the next set of surprises.
VERY COOL hope you see a video when we hear it out on a track. would like to see a audi R8C GTP
I have thoroughly enjoyed the Audi secret garage visit. some great info on the cars, but i found the content void of something... so i rewatched all 4 videos. and 2 points began to show, when you spoke about the vehicles you gave some great details but at points it was crying out for some period race footage so we could see the cars moving.
and point number 2, you went into great detail telling us about the cars, but nothing of the people, the builders, the drivers, the team owner, the fans, to really complete the picture i'd have liked to have heard anecdotes of people who were involved in the cars in period. still though great series. and i hope to see more like this.
Fabulous video the all time best Audi race car period.... I don't care about the faster tech which came later, as James said "this is the real deal" .... makes me want to buy an R8 road car...
When @6:20 he refers to an "incident with other car" did the single-seater style roll-hoop actually snap when Michele Alboreto's car flipped over? 😰
What a car wow its amazing to see a car in so much detail 👍👍👍👍👍
is was a great series. hungry for info on these Audi lemans prototypes
Funny typo... The "Veloqx Partners" decals on the front bodywork... Velolqx... lol
How is that possible during a restoration like that? :D
The geek in me noticed the tyres are all placed with Michelin at top. Professional
It's built so well, that the modular design is actually banned. Having it built in 3 parts made it too easy for teams to basically rebuild the car from scratch while other teams struggled or just plain retired after a component failure. Audi was dominating on the track so well, that's why they were forced to change the nose on the R15, and still won anyway. Their foray into TDI warranted excellent reliability results, and set the pace for Diesel Hybrid technology that every hybrid road car should be using to this day. And the tech was already there with Volkswagen's Diesel electric hybrid concept car that was supposed to compete against the Prius. Elon Musk is an idiot for not realizing this.
So jealous of you lol.
I love the le-mans cars but for me has to be the Super Touring such an awesome car.
A bit of classic to me to you at the end
I need ur Quattro, B5 RS4, and C5 RS6 videos, love the channel 🍺
What are the rods above the shock springs? Are these transducers to record wheel travel? I appreciate nice closeups of the suspension.
thank you
I believe the reinforced roll hoop was added after Michele Alboreto's testing crash that claimed his life. Rip.
I believe he was the only person to die in an R8 (racecar).
I think Alboreto is the only one who died behind the wheel of an LMP car. No one actually fatally injured with a Daytona Prototype
Jay the R8 was my favourite followed by the A4 touring car. keep it up
OMG you touch it. I don't think I could afford to replace a bolt on that thing .
Could we have some spotlight on the Audi 002 perhaps
A quality item thanks
The famous and legendary gearbox change he's referring to: th-cam.com/video/sKjVQbYcTiY/w-d-xo.html
and here: th-cam.com/video/lgl9y7jmdxE/w-d-xo.html
I'm still trying to figure out that rear suspension.. That's a real mind bender
Looks like pretty standard pushrod setup. What are you seeing that's odd?
@@bradarsenault6984 go to 6:56 see the two shiny looking rods that run lengthwise with the car? They connect to the gold colored brace at the rear?@the front they connect to the pivot arms/ or cantalevers what ever you want to call them lol. Is that the swaybar setup? That gold brace must pivot when the suspension cycles. Otherwise it just it would just keep everything locked up , unable to cycle.
@@joedmac78 joedmac78 yes, that is a sort of like a sway bar, they are more commonly referred to as anti roll bars in this application but basically the same thing. instead of being attached to the lower control arm, like on a typical road car, it's attached to the bellcrank. If one wheel is pushed up, like what happens when weight is shifter in a corner and the body rolls, the other wheel will also be pushed up, to resist the body roll. If you look at the link that attaches the two sides you will notice there are 3 holes to attach the rod end to, allowing more it less leverage over the pivot. Those rod ends are usually adjustable as well, either to allow for or influence ride height. The details of it are beyond my knowledge of the overall adjustment lengths of the individual links, though.
A4 is still my fav.
Fastest pit crew in the world in action at the end of video 🤣
It isn't told.
It was done....
"Vorsprung durch Technik"
Formula E needs such tech. And to begin with, such wheels
Bodywork to make the car more slick AND add huge downforce needs not weigh much. No need for FE to be this slow, even with its puny restricted unswappable battery used for a longish race.
I've got 3 of these...in 1/18 scale.😞
Sadly, the highly modular design used by the R8 is no longer allowed by the regulations.
You need to hit the gym jay, you are out of breath just standing up bro!
Nathan Withrington Ouch
What’s up with your voice?? Sounds put on.
It's my voice
OK, let's dream.
Within this decade, Audi is going to come back to endurance racing again with a bang, but this time with a fully electric powertrain instead of Diesel... The R10 paved the way for Diesel, why not an E10 in, say, 2024? Given that the VW group as a whole decided to retire all its sport involvements "because fossil fuels", one can dream, right? Audi and Porsche in endurance racing, VW in rallying... All gone. For now?
VW retired all it's Combustion-only motorsport involvement; and only for VW, not VAG.
Though they have scaled back, they are still involved as factory teams in GT3 racing (Audi, Bentley, Porsche and Lamborghini), MotoGP & WSBK (Ducati), TCR (domestic-only), IMSA/WEC (Porsche), DTM (Audi), SuperGT (factory loan drivers); so not all gone, at all.
That would be some feat of engineering to come back to Le Mans with an electric only drive train. Le Mans is around 60 times longer than an average Formula-E race distance, and a Formula-E car is about the third of the power of a Porsche 919 hybrd. So battery tech for racing at Le Mans would need to be massively better than today and there would need to be a huge breakthrough in recharging tech. Cars would almost certainly need a swap-able battery pack, that would need to be done in the same time or less it would take to refuel a normal car, or have enough range to allow fewer but longer changes. Weight would be the enemy I expect, again current formula E is only a 54 kWh battery and these cars don't spend large amounts of time flat out at 200mph down the Mulsanne, instead running on city tracks so they are not at full chat all the time.
There are over 30 pit stops for fuel in a winning Le Mans car, and on F-E tech, we'd need over 60 battery swaps that are likely to take longer than a fuel stop. So to make an electric car competitive we'd need 3 times the power, and if it takes twice as long to swap a battery than refuel, around 4 times more battery capacity than F-E for around the same weight to be in the same ball park. So around 12x better battery tech than today.
However, there was something a bit special hearing a Panoz charging round La Sarthe, a sound we are never likely to hear again. Electric cars do lose some of the visceral quality of motorsport, even if for mass transport they have more upsides.
@@naturshoot8448 I disagree with a battery swap replacement being a necessity, even with the current technology.
If you look at what is currently available, what I call the "power to capacity" ratio (ie, the power in kW versus the capacity of the battery in kWh) is already 3.25 to 1 if you look at the Tesla Model 3 (250 kW peak charge for a 75 kWh battery). Volume being no object, and assuming you have a capacious enough supercapacitor as a buffer, you can count on a sustained 200 kW charging curve.
Now imagine is the battery were not 75 kWh but 250 kWh... The gravimetric capacity of the battery would be lower (because you could bathe the battery cells in coolant) although the volumetric capacity would drop, but who cares? This is a racing application.
My guess is that you can do a 250 kWh battery with a 1 MW charge rate without a problem. Maybe even more than that.
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Designed in the uk by british engineers
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Looks like Audi racing has a new pit crew, they are doomed.
Wonderful car. shame the rulemakers got to it
One of the greatest race cars ever? It never won a race
The R8 won loads
jordan9318 the R8 won Le Mans all years OVERALL apart from 2003. You’re meaning the R8C lmao. It’s won races outside of Le Mans. Sebring, Petit Le Mans and championships too. It’s a real legend of racing
Hope AUDI give you more access to their race cars and lift the frock as it were on them, seeing the mechanics and engineering is awesome. If they could through them on a lift so we can see under neath would be even better!
Great content.
it's probably a flat shaped pannel for aerodynamic purpose.
Nearly no contend
Just a great car and talking
I hope Audi gives us all access to their Heritage collection including these!
The R8 is more beautiful and special. Thank you for the close look at this legendary car👍
My pleasure! Until the next time.
Looking at that car especially the internal components makes me want to say, "I've got to get me one of these!!!!"
JayEmm is one of the last true car fanatics on TH-cam
I'm incurable
@@JayEmmOnCars You have the sharpness of an Aventador
I do wish consumer cars were built with the same ease and speed of replacement in mind!!
Buy a bug. 7 minute engine swap.
Oh, so you want us to change a lightbulb for 5 Euro? Fine, but first we have to take off the Frontbumper and take out the headlight, that makes it 505 Euros...
@Mark Chippendale.....Wish all you want; but you'd refuse to pay for the upfront costs
Quick exchangeable modular component parts costs money. If you look at desktop PC vs. an enterprise server. The server has redundancy in mind with hot-swappable hard drives, fans & power supplies. So in case a component breaks there’s fall over backup that won’t completely shutdown the computer. You could replace the broken hard drive, fan or power supply and the server without shutting down the computer. Sort of like endurance racing in Le Mans. Your domestic car or PC doesn’t really need quick service repairability. Since your domestic car isn’t racing and your PC doesn’t need 24/7 uptime availability. So all those modular components isn’t necessary and will just drive up costs. Domestic cars are also engineered and optimized for quick factory production line assembly.
@@Massegainer I think there is a Renault where one has to remove the wheel and inner fender to get at the light bulb. The "worse" one I have come in contact with was an Corsa, on that one had to remove the air box to change the head light bulb (I can not remember if it was the left or the right side).
Great video. I was at Le Mans in 2002 and 2003 so witnessed what you said. The Bentley sounded like a hoover in comparison to everything else.
Can you do a similar feature on the Porsche 917? For me, it is arguably the greatest race car ever made.
Keep up the excellent content. 👏
Don't expect Porsche to be as kind as Audi are ! The R8 video is one rare moment to be sipped slowly
Amazing video, gave me chills watching it just thinking of the heritage/history of these r8s. When people mention audi r8 to me i picture one of these, not the more modern road car! Thanks for the excellent video
Glad I'm not the only one.Almost everytime someone mentions the R8,I had to ask "the proto car or the road car?"
Great Car and great Video! I loved the more technical bit. If there is time later it would be great if you could explain the suspension on the car in detail. Besides the Engine a very interesting bit of the car.
This guy sounds out of breath, and he does not know enough about what a race is. All his videos I can only listen to for a couple of minuets before his voice gets to me.
Indeed, his voice and breathless timbre is irritating. I quit watching at 3 minutes
6:06 "I s'pose it's an intercooler" :-0
Excellant reveal.👍🏎🏎🏎👍
Cheers!
There is something about these cars that just tickles a special part of my brain. It's the shire simplistic nature of the goal of being the fastest combined with the hugely complex task of getting there. There is pragmatism combined with huge human and mechanical effort. It's beauty for the needs sake not for the beauty sake. Simple yet complex. Brute force and elegance in one. Power and balance in an incredible harmony just for the simple task of arriving faster or going further than the competition. No BS, no show just GO! And that's beautiful.
This was awesome. Hopefully you can do more of these under the skin looks of these crazy cars. Keep up the good work.
Some really nice videos, I’ve seen the cars close up at classic events and they are truly works of art with incredible attention to detail. Couple of points which people may find interesting. The whole modular approach was kind of stopped by the ACO to some extent. They didn’t like the rear axle change system as they felt changing that much of the car was a bit too much of an advantage. The rule was changed in that you can not replace the gearbox casing anymore. Secondly with regards to aero. For sure if anyone has seen the latest LMP2’s or LMP1’s naked they are very much like a single seater underneath now. Just incredible. The air is channeled so much now through the body rather than over it. Lastly I could be wrong but maybe the rollover hoop modification was due to the accident with Michele Alboreto. During testing the first version of the car it took off and landed on its roof. The impact just crushed the roll hoop and he didn’t survive. I think the car landed on a guard rail but I could be wrong. Very sad and a tragic loss. Still a pretty safe race car though. I’ve seen some huge accidents recorded in the R8 and the driver walked away, that flat bottom though was always a danger. However you’ll notice on the R15 the regulations were changed and the cars were mandated to have two roll over structures.
Sadly, Michele went over the guardrail at the Lausitzring. The first impact took off the rollhoop, so it wasn't there when it hit again on the guardrail, before landing on the access road around the oval.
Sad day, Michele was SUCH a nutcase off the track, and a great driver on it; really in his element in sportscars. I'm always reminded of him when I see Patrese return to historic and GT racing: Michele tried to persuade Riccardo to 'un-retire' and join him at Le Mans in the late 90's, but Riccardo said he was finished with competitive racing.
Great detail and a fantastic car! and yes, I get it ;)
Don't like to nit pic as your content is always great and I look forward to seeing you next up load every day however you could have mentioned Audi's success a bit better just for 30 seconds. Still was only a google search to see all there wins.
Look forward to your next lot :)
p.s. do a Jag week with the XJ220 (get it out again) and XJR15 pleeeeeease! O and a C-Type and D-type 😁😁😁
Biela running out of fuel was actually part of an Audi own DVD...Followed the R8s right back to 1999 when they ran R8R and R8C's. A great era (esp battling with the Toyotas and Peugeots) which we thought would go on for ever. Feel priviledged to have been part of it looking back...BTW who gives a thumbs down on this? If you dont like, dont watch...
I didn't like the presentation, Very boring presentation,
Keep braking your sentences and not fluently describing it...
Oom,. Baa, aaah,. Yeee,.
I have two wrecked Champion racing Nr. 38 noses. One wrecked by JJ Lheto on the first lap of the 10 hour at Road Atlanta and the other wrecked by Johnny Herbert at the only race at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C.
It's not just "told" that they replaced the rear end in minutes, you can still find the original TV coverage on TH-cam of them doing it for the first time at Le Mans. If you like seeing these cars up close, you should definitely attend the races. I'm not sure if it's different in Europe, but in the IMSA series in North America, every ticket counts as a paddock pass, and it's not hard to get up pretty close with the cars and drivers.
I can get so much power out of the S4 engine with a cheap tune and goes like a race car with very high torque even at low rpms and top speed like a supercar. My favourite brand. I can't do anything with a 9114s to get more power cheaply.
Super cool, i enjoyed all 4, but liked the r8, and the A4 the most. Kind of defeats the purpose of showing off a scale model of a race car, when we all want to see the engine and all the components, whether its a rep or the real deal. Awesome content!!
I did not like this car when it was racing, because it won ALL THE TIME and
Because I was a Panoz fan
But I believe this is the best race car ever constructed.
when a story about the Famous AUDI R 10, seen it race at Road America , and won all , then it was BANNED!
to fast for the competiton!
probably a noob question but what happens to the water being sucked in by those intakes that feed the air filters and the turbo? I imagine that at 200mph a lot of water enters if it's raining!
Many thanks to you and Audi UK for this video. Here's a back end change at Le Mans: th-cam.com/video/lgl9y7jmdxE/w-d-xo.html
Great stuff, epic car - thanks JayEmm, keep it up :)
He's out of breath 😆 he got tired just of moving his hands. I guess doing some cardio is out of the question.
i wish that i sit in the cockpit from the audi
Nice look at a great race machine. Used to be amazed watching them dominate at road atlanta Petit Lemans
The key at winning Le Mans is simple...run Porsche's top dog!
why would anyone downvote this ?