Came back to say that JLOC and the #88 team just won the JGTC championship in GT300!!! They just achieved their fairytale ending. 31 years of dedication pays off at long last. So well deserved! 😊🏁🏆🎉
This is an underdog story that i wished had a happy ending, or as mildly succesful as goodsmile racing is nowadays, since the diablo GT is my favorite car.
Me, Nozomi Tojo, and Mayu Sagara also love this JLOC Diablo GT bro! Absolutely quick and glad that the NOMAD LAMBORGHINI GT500 appears in GT2 PROJECT A SPEC MOD.
"Achieved nothing, but loved by everyone." This is exactly why we built a rally jaguar. Let's see how it goes. Great video here, especially the GT clips as eye candy to help the story along.
sadly, we don't see as much iconic cars nowadays anymore due to most manufacturers not really being interested in building unique gt cars anymore or they simply can't due to way too tight restrictions holding them back
Another massive factor is cost as well as revenue and earnings. Much like Super GT the DTM ran very expensive purpose built cars from 2000 onward that were only used for the DTM, but as viewership revenue declined in the 2010s and development costs for the cars kept rising the Manufacturers and Organizer were looking to move the DTM into another Regulation, they chose Class 1 used in Super GT so DTM Cars could compete in Super GT and vice versa but sadly that never came to fruition. In 2018 Mercedes left and was replaced in 2019 by a Swiss Private Team fielding HWA (HWA normaly builds racecars and streetcars for Mercedes-AMG) built Aston Martins using 2.0L Turbo-Engines. They were not competitive however and the team was tighter on budget than Audi and BMW so when the Pandemic hit in 2020 they retired from the Series after just one season. Audi followed suit so only BMW was left and after a shortened 2020 Season the Decision was made to move to the GT3 Regulation for 2021.
@@l33tnobody1337 I remember when they joined with SuperGT. For a few years, it looked like we'd still get some interesting cars out of it. Ironically both series already had similar cars, so it felt natural. I personally think DTM joining GT3 is a terrible precedent that'll lead to SuperGT doing the same.
Ikr. It's not like they do it out of safety either. JGTC and SuperGT, much like early GT2/GT3 and modern day GT4, used to be whatever a Japanese team could get their hands on. Then they decided to ban limited production or concept cars (which was selectively enforced considering Honda had ran the HSV-010 and NSX Concept GT), effectively keeping a lot of interesting cars out of the mix. Sad to say, but modern SuperGT is very stagnant in diversity, much like modern GT3. GT500 has always been rather bland, but GT300 was once wildly unpredictable. Now GT300 is a bunch of GT3 and DTM cars with a few dedicated SuperGT cars. Quite sad too as electric cars are gaining a foothold. One would think these series would allow a wild west shootout before it inevitably goes all electric.
Sometimes the stories about the underdogs are the most interesting ones, as everyday people understand that often, no matter your effort, you'll still not reach the success others managed to achieve. That doesn't mean you do not deserve respect for trying over and over until you get at least something out of it. Great video, thanks for making it!
If you're looking for a lot of footage in general of the series, a creator by the name of Rocket Pencil has every single race (bar Round 2 of 1994 season for some reason) and a few special events that were held uploaded on their channel. On the other hand, if you're looking for a quicker 3hr recap of 1994 - 2003 seasons of JGTC, Alex Ring Driver has two videos covering that time period of races through highlights (not sure on the origins of the video content as I didn't even know SuperGT had an official year in review up on YT and found those two creators first).
I love history videos like this. It's just fun learning about some small part of something that may look like nothing but ends up being a being a deeper fuller story than most people give it credit for.
Please make more essays like this! As much as I love GT and your content on it, I think your passion in motorsport is shown in full color here and I'm all for it. On that mention of the Honda HSV-010, I'd very much like to see it next on your channel, one of my personal favorite Super GT cars (it's hard to choose though!)
I remember going through the struggle of trying to find photos of the '97 and '99 JLOC Diablos for my GT2 cut cars video. Like you, I found it very difficult! Like you say, the best chance of the car being featured on film was when it was involved in an accident, haha!
Back in the late 90's, early 00's I was an avid Minardi F1 fan, because they raced for the passion of racing and celebrated the smallest success as if it was the biggest win. If I'm ever able to watch Super GT, I already know what team I'm supporting, because there's no doubt in my mind that JLOC are the spiritual siblings of my beloved Minardi. Great video, genuinely enjoyed it.
Not going to lie, it really makes me chuckle how as soon as the Diablo made a surprisingly strong showing, it gets wrecked through no fault of its own. After all the work and dedication of the team racing it, against the odds. I swear, sometimes the universe just picks certain things and says "Screw you in particular"
Although I don't follow any racing series other than F1, and only stumbled upon this channel a few weeks ago from a random reddit link to the full GT7 critique video (which I watched in full, along with additionally watching some of the individual part videos), I must say this channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Very well researched, clearly and interestingly presented. Hopefully it stays this way. Very underrated channel when factoring in the effort surely needed to make this kind of content and the quality of the product. Mr. Roflwaffle, you have a sub and although I don't give out likes (or subs) easily, your videos deserve it. Well done!
the diablo didnt only race in japan though........john bowe drove one in austrailia but not sure about the category...i was searching for v8 supercar races in early 2000`s.........full respect to JLOC.....sometimes being an underdog means your a winner....especially with a car rarely seen or raced.
Amazing retrospective, I would absolutely love more like this! This video may have been a risk, but due to the research, effort & clear passion put into this project, I think it will pay off. The Honda HSV-010 GT you briefly mentioned in this would be an excellent future episode and I think that the last 100 years or so of Global Racing History contain more than enough interesting topics to discuss for years to come. Looking forward to the next one :D
the germans actually *tried* to make gt500 cars not too long ago, when dtm entered a joint venture with supergt to create the "class-1" category (which started in 2019 after *years* of tractations). engine regulations were still different between the two and gt500s ran rounds around the dtm cars in the measly two exhibition events they ran together, but there were genuine efforts on both parts to bring it all together (or at least, audi and bmw were very keen on racing in japan when the whole operation started in 2014 or 15). and then covid happened... dtm switched to gt3 because they just couldn't maintain class-1 cars and the astronomical costs attached to them (mercedes had withdrew from the project in 2018 just before they were fully introduced - replaced by aston martin, to *dismal* results - and audi and bmw said stop in late 2020, after only two years of the cars actually being run, the switch to gt3 being the only thing that saved dtm because the championship was itself about to go under after the health crisis). the class-1 rules stayed in gt500, though, and supergt teams now find themselves with cars developped to joint-european regulations that they never actually meant to run in europe (and that they never even called "class-1" to begin with), while the german cars that maybe could have run in japan just disappeared into thin air. because money and bad luck.
First time viewer (thanks, algorithm), really pleased I gave this vid a click. I especially enjoyed the way you covered off little side stories and examples that were relevant to the main theme. I find that the story of JLOC in GT500 is such a shining example of just how much work goes into running a racecar at the highest level. You really nailed it by mentioning JLOC running a single car all on their own compared to the many McLaren F1s out in the world. The data and knowledge gained by having multiple cars to lean on is massively valuable. It's things like being able to find optimal tyre pressures, getting an understanding of how the car behaves with different suspension alignments and spring weights, finding the brake configurations that work best, even simple stuff like driver comfort and ergonomics. And you being a Gran Turismo youtuber makes it all the more relevant - these are all things that we take for granted in the virtual world, but an actual race weekend is a very different beast as the opportunity to trial infinite combinations and variables just doesn't exist. Great video, looking forward to more in the future.
How cool would it have been to have a series back in the early to mid 90's with the top class consisting of the Lamborghini Diablo, Ferrari f50, McLaren F1, Jaguar XJ220, Honda / Acura NSX, Ford GT90(I remember prototype photos and playing it in need for speed 2), Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Dodge viper, Bugatti EB-10, Toyota Supra, Porsche 911 GT1, and others. That had been awesome. I know the f50 wasn't looked upon favorably, but I absolutely loved the design. But still the Diablo might just be my favorite car ever amongst all that I love. It was the one on my three-ring binder in elementary school and I just loved looking at that thing during class.
Well, if the idea is to tell the story of more obscure, rare race cars we may have some stuff to suggest from our side :P .. But tremendous work and great narration as usual 👌
This was a great video. As soon as you mentioned the win in GT300, I got genuinely happy. You got me so attached to this team I've NEVER HEARD OF until now. I am very happy to hear about them still competing, and I hope they continue to do so for the future. AND LOOKING INTO THEM, THEY WON THIS YEAR :D
Absolute banger vid. I hope you go on to make more videos about this kind of thing. Your GT content is great but this type of storytelling might just be your true calling. Phenomenal!
As much they tried so hard to get wins but yet they still failed to do so, one thing I love about them is that they never gave up to try to achieve something. That’s the real heart of Motorsport Racing right there~ ❤
Make more content like this, i love historical video essays about motorsport, and you made a great one! Love from Indonesia mate, hope you continue making these type of vids
I remember when I was like 13 or so I was watching GT3 videos on TH-cam and when I watched the Japanese intro I was so shocked and excited. I had no idea, after at the time, I think 6 or 7 years of playing it over and over again that there was a car that I had never seen before. I fell in love with it immediately and was obsessed about finding a way to play the Japanese version for years. About 10 or so years later, I finally got my wish and played the Japanese version. But I didn't know what fucking event you win it in. So after lots and lots of Googling, I found it! 1/4 chance of getting it in the 78 laps at Monaco Endurance race. Incredibly, I managed to get it on my first try! Yeah, that car wasn't that good aye. It was definitely the quickest but it didn't have the best handling. Although I don't hate the car, and actually had a lot of fun on the journey to get it, The Denso Sard Supra is still my number one.
Finally got around to watching this, and was not disappointed. That being said, I was always under the impression that the only reason the Ferrari F50 GTs that made it into private hands never raced was because Ferrari explicitly forbade it (as in they would have taken legal action).
Excellent stuff. Subbed. And man, that bit about sifting through several hours of footage just to try and spot that one car you're covering only to end up with like 34 seconds of footage. I know that feeling.
Youre the only youtuber I've ever seen (besides emplemon and slapshoes) that seems to hold the same amount of passion for motorsports and cars in general that I do. Definitely do more motorsports videos, this was riveting❤
If I had a cent every time “Lamborghini” and “due to financial difficulties” are in the same sentence, I would probably have at least a couple of cents lol Great video!
I watched this video from start to finish and as the Diablo has been my favorite Lamborghini since my childhood, I kid you not this was the best video documenting this car's motorsport history I have ever seen. The story of JLOC is amazing. No matter how much they came up short or failed completely, they never threw in the towel and gave up. They kept racing and racing and racing no matter what happened and had fun doing it. The JLOC Diablo's are my favorite non-Japanese manufacturer race cars to have raced in the JGTC and to see them get this kind of recognition is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for this video, you just earned a new sub from me!
Your videos are serious nostalgia bombs for me, the inclusion of "One more win" brough back countless hours of R4 for me. I miss those games so much. Awesome videos as always!
Absolutely fantastic video. Car and story I’ve never heard of before, told really well and love the editing. The Gran Turismo clips really make it too. Please make more like this!
I own a 1998 diablo. I bought it with a blown up engine for $4,100. I built a 2002 diablo SV engine with diamond forged pistons, titanium rods that took me a year to save for, custom ground cams, fully ported, port matched and polished heads shaved two thousandths of an inch. I built my own equal length headers and stainless 4 inch collectors to an oval 5 inch merge then out into dual 3 1/2 inch into a stock murcialago muffler i bought on ebay, out the center of the rear bumper. Custom, self built Reiger/KW coilovers that work better than both of them did combined before i did all the mods and made them into the priceless, frankenstien, one off units they are now. I had them powdercoated purple and the springs gold they look so sick. It runs on a haltech nexus g2, milspec wiring i did myself, the cage is completely seam welded to the unibody, a, and c pillars. I run it on ignite e90 and 3 stages of N2o that dont hit until wide open in 2nd gear. In third the 2nd kit comes on, 4th 5th and 6th its all 3 kits, all 300hp. In 5th gear it made 1091 wheel horsepower 622 tq. Its an absolute screaming menace of an automobile. Its completely blacked out with purple inners and black outers on the 19x10/20x12 3 piece wheels and gold lugs. It does 236mph on the limiter in 6th and gets there in just over 13 seconds. Its BLINDINGLY fast. But it doesnt really feel like armegeddon is happening like my 800whp b5 s4 does. That car is so violent i dont like to drive it with a passenger. It scared my wife so bad shell never ride in it again. It just hits THAT hard ya know? All wheel drive man.
This was a very well mad documentary. I knew nothing about the subject (well, other than knowing of the base Lamborghini models) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!
If u have more ideas of untold stories like this that u could make a video out of, u could easily make a sieries out of them. As a gran turismo fan it would be nice to learn the background of some of the cars which haven't got much recognition. Apart from that i must really admit that i slightly prefer your gt videos (with my favorite being the nostalgia one) the reason is that no matter how much i 've searched on yt u are the only channel that discusses deeper and more controversial topics than just the economics of gt7
That was the Volvo 850 Estate. The Volvo 850 (Class 2) Super Tourer was raced mainly in saloon form, in 1995 and 1996. so "The Volvo 850" doesn't mean the estate necessarily. The estate wasn't really under Super Touring rules tho, the rule change to the aero was what made the change to the saloon partly necessary, and was a lot more successful; tho the estate was damn rapid!
@@OsellaSquadraCorse oh I know the saloon was rapid. But I'm on about a car that wasn't so successful but was idolised by fans all the same. The one that Rickard Rydell and Jan Lammers drove in the BTCC 94 season(it was called a super touring because that was the class they participated in until the 95 season, the super touring was started in 93, the most iconic probably being the silver and red Audi A4 or the Renault laguna with that yellow and blue livery) switched to the saloon for the 95/96 season and rickard went to go on and win the championship in 98.
Please make more of Super GT coming from your story of Shingo Tachi and now to this. Your presentation of the topic is engaging. Super GT definitely needs to be covered more.
Ive always loved your content but these jgtc videos man they are amazing!!! Wish you do more of these in the future, theres so many interesting stories you could talk about, like for example the story of Schnell SDR, the team that entered for only one race in 97 and then vanished, or the story of the Advance Auto Camaro❤❤
This was so well done. I really appreciate the narrative. I think you did a great job making the case that not everything should be taken at face value, as their record would suggest. I'd love to see more like this!
Now i remember story of Minardi in F1, for long time they always got love from all F1 paddock even though they achieve only one or two point each season. In MotoGP i remember one name Paton GP
The Diablo Nomad (in GT2 version i played the heck with it), i do make that livery in any game wich is possible, and thanks for the tip on the Huracan Evo 2 JLOC will do that for sure, JLOC is a great team even with all issues they´ve, i´m a Lambo (car enthusiast since the 90´s) enthusiast but will never buy any irl, but in games for sure lol, another ace dude, keep up the great job.😀
Your videos really hit the spot for a motorsport obsessed, Gran Turismo fanboy like me. Thank you for the time spent researching and editing these masterpieces 🏁
Funnily enough, GT500 cars are closer to the Hypercar cars of the WEC than GT3 cars in terms of performance. Yes, I know they're technically closer to LMP2 cars, but I'm going more on the fact that the Hypercar could supposedly spawn road cars, which we all know ended up being kinda BS. What I'm saying, is that the Supra GT500 is closer to the GR010 than it is to the Lexus RC-F GT3, to put the example of Toyota.
Man this was such a great video about a topic I was always curious about but no one seemed to talk about it. It was really hype when you described their most successful race and Victory Road played in the background. I really wish the best for JLOC, they're such an awesome team!
Thank you for making this video. It's such a breath of fresh air to create lesser known stories around the world. This earned a full proper sub from me man.
Great video! More like this please, I havent followed motorsports beyond F1 in periods, however clearly there is much interesting history that deserve to be broadcasted.
Great video! I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while, it was enjoyable seeing you mix it up with this one. I hope to see you produce more this type of retrospective along with the GT series.
JLOC sounds like the epitome of "Win or lose, we're here to race and have fun with the cars we love."
didnt jloc also do the murcielago r gt
It also sounds like the epitome of *Japanese money from a mystery source*, which has funded many a wild project and laundered many a yen.
@@mediumsizedcalJapanese money from mystery source 😂😂😂
the Jappanese Laundering Of Currency @@mediumsizedcal
Ah the Diablo. Sometimes in racing, you may not win on the track, but you are a winner to the fans.
Correct and they look amazing
@@JNAMOTORSPORTS Facts (or fax if you're so that way inclined)
you sure? nobody seemed to know it existed until gran turismo.
@@MrYutoob How do you know no one knew about it?
Style, sound, character. You don't HAVE to win on the track to win hearts and minds
Nissan, Honda & Toyota: "We're faster than you."
JLOC: "But do you have guillotine doors?"
Came back to say that JLOC and the #88 team just won the JGTC championship in GT300!!! They just achieved their fairytale ending. 31 years of dedication pays off at long last. So well deserved! 😊🏁🏆🎉
This is an underdog story that i wished had a happy ending, or as mildly succesful as goodsmile racing is nowadays, since the diablo GT is my favorite car.
Me, Nozomi Tojo, and Mayu Sagara also love this JLOC Diablo GT bro! Absolutely quick and glad that the NOMAD LAMBORGHINI GT500 appears in GT2 PROJECT A SPEC MOD.
How? Why?
@@miskatonic6210ooooo i’ll oloo ok
"Achieved nothing, but loved by everyone." This is exactly why we built a rally jaguar. Let's see how it goes. Great video here, especially the GT clips as eye candy to help the story along.
Just came back from watching the final race of 2024.
JLOC first championship win, with the #88 Huracan GT3 Evo2.
Absolutely deserved.
Coming back to this video to say that JLOC are officially GT300 champions with their Huracan GT3!
How time flies
sadly, we don't see as much iconic cars nowadays anymore due to most manufacturers not really being interested in building unique gt cars anymore or they simply can't due to way too tight restrictions holding them back
Another massive factor is cost as well as revenue and earnings. Much like Super GT the DTM ran very expensive purpose built cars from 2000 onward that were only used for the DTM, but as viewership revenue declined in the 2010s and development costs for the cars kept rising the Manufacturers and Organizer were looking to move the DTM into another Regulation, they chose Class 1 used in Super GT so DTM Cars could compete in Super GT and vice versa but sadly that never came to fruition. In 2018 Mercedes left and was replaced in 2019 by a Swiss Private Team fielding HWA (HWA normaly builds racecars and streetcars for Mercedes-AMG) built Aston Martins using 2.0L Turbo-Engines. They were not competitive however and the team was tighter on budget than Audi and BMW so when the Pandemic hit in 2020 they retired from the Series after just one season. Audi followed suit so only BMW was left and after a shortened 2020 Season the Decision was made to move to the GT3 Regulation for 2021.
@@l33tnobody1337 I remember when they joined with SuperGT. For a few years, it looked like we'd still get some interesting cars out of it. Ironically both series already had similar cars, so it felt natural. I personally think DTM joining GT3 is a terrible precedent that'll lead to SuperGT doing the same.
Ikr. It's not like they do it out of safety either. JGTC and SuperGT, much like early GT2/GT3 and modern day GT4, used to be whatever a Japanese team could get their hands on. Then they decided to ban limited production or concept cars (which was selectively enforced considering Honda had ran the HSV-010 and NSX Concept GT), effectively keeping a lot of interesting cars out of the mix. Sad to say, but modern SuperGT is very stagnant in diversity, much like modern GT3. GT500 has always been rather bland, but GT300 was once wildly unpredictable. Now GT300 is a bunch of GT3 and DTM cars with a few dedicated SuperGT cars. Quite sad too as electric cars are gaining a foothold. One would think these series would allow a wild west shootout before it inevitably goes all electric.
@@l33tnobody1337the JLOC NOMAD Lamborghini Diablo in GT2 PROJECT A SPEC MOD has 509bhp. It is also Nozomi Tojo's favourite GT500 Race car.
@@SockyNoobmaybe 2025 we could see Super GT goes EV too. 😢
And now, JLOC are crowned GT300 champions!
Sometimes the stories about the underdogs are the most interesting ones, as everyday people understand that often, no matter your effort, you'll still not reach the success others managed to achieve. That doesn't mean you do not deserve respect for trying over and over until you get at least something out of it.
Great video, thanks for making it!
I still remembered that Marco Apicella ever appeared in Super GT in the past.
I would love more stories like this.
What about stories from GT500 cars that ONLY appeared in GT2 PROJECT A SPEC MOD?
The JLOC Murcielagos are another worth mentioning. I remember fondly driving them in GRID :,)
Funny how OP they are in that game too considering the real life ones were dogshit slow
@@Gerarghiniyep. In GRID 2008, those Lamborghini Murcielago cars can have 900bhp.
Looks alone they win
@@Gerarghini Slower then a 2CV ?
still a better game than the sequels LMAO
If you're looking for a lot of footage in general of the series, a creator by the name of Rocket Pencil has every single race (bar Round 2 of 1994 season for some reason) and a few special events that were held uploaded on their channel. On the other hand, if you're looking for a quicker 3hr recap of 1994 - 2003 seasons of JGTC, Alex Ring Driver has two videos covering that time period of races through highlights (not sure on the origins of the video content as I didn't even know SuperGT had an official year in review up on YT and found those two creators first).
The Diablo GT1 and 1997 Castrol Tom's Supra GT500 are GOATED.
Tysm
I love history videos like this. It's just fun learning about some small part of something that may look like nothing but ends up being a being a deeper fuller story than most people give it credit for.
Even Coco Hayashi also loved this JLOC Lamborghini Diablo surprisingly.
Just imagine this story from the teams perspective. I bet there are more memories, good or bad, than a lot of the stories today
Please make more essays like this! As much as I love GT and your content on it, I think your passion in motorsport is shown in full color here and I'm all for it. On that mention of the Honda HSV-010, I'd very much like to see it next on your channel, one of my personal favorite Super GT cars (it's hard to choose though!)
JLOC to racing is kind of what my summer car is to racing games
It's a good day when roflwaffle uploads.
that's what I commented last video xd
Finding a reason to be out of the house away from the wife can lead to amazing stories like this
I remember going through the struggle of trying to find photos of the '97 and '99 JLOC Diablos for my GT2 cut cars video. Like you, I found it very difficult! Like you say, the best chance of the car being featured on film was when it was involved in an accident, haha!
Back in the late 90's, early 00's I was an avid Minardi F1 fan, because they raced for the passion of racing and celebrated the smallest success as if it was the biggest win. If I'm ever able to watch Super GT, I already know what team I'm supporting, because there's no doubt in my mind that JLOC are the spiritual siblings of my beloved Minardi.
Great video, genuinely enjoyed it.
Not going to lie, it really makes me chuckle how as soon as the Diablo made a surprisingly strong showing, it gets wrecked through no fault of its own. After all the work and dedication of the team racing it, against the odds. I swear, sometimes the universe just picks certain things and says "Screw you in particular"
Although I don't follow any racing series other than F1, and only stumbled upon this channel a few weeks ago from a random reddit link to the full GT7 critique video (which I watched in full, along with additionally watching some of the individual part videos), I must say this channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Very well researched, clearly and interestingly presented. Hopefully it stays this way. Very underrated channel when factoring in the effort surely needed to make this kind of content and the quality of the product. Mr. Roflwaffle, you have a sub and although I don't give out likes (or subs) easily, your videos deserve it. Well done!
the diablo didnt only race in japan though........john bowe drove one in austrailia but not sure about the category...i was searching for v8 supercar races in early 2000`s.........full respect to JLOC.....sometimes being an underdog means your a winner....especially with a car rarely seen or raced.
What I love from JLOC
Diablo GT1
Their ambition
One of their driver is also a mangaka
And Nakahara Chie (current JLOC racing Queen)
JLOC finally win their first GT300 title!!!
their perseverance for 31 years finally pay off....
3:04 I remember the Pennzoil GT-R, but not the Castrol GT-R
It's definitely one of the cars that ever
It is definitely the car of all time
Real
Why are TH-cam commentators necroing an ancient meme?
@@SplozyBecause it funny
@@SplozyCan't necro something that never died.
ah the diablo jgtc, the car that quallified behind almost all of the cars from a class lower
God, it's absolutely painful to see the Raybrig NSX slide into the Diablo. Imagine how well they could've finished if that not happened.
Exactly. I felt the pain just watching it happen. Damn.
Absolutely incredible and impeccable work on this video. Was a blast to watch. Poor Diablo, tho lol
Nozomi Tojo also crying when seeing the Diablo JLOC GT-1 like that... 😢
Great video. Made me realize how much I miss interesting car designs like scissor doors and retractable headlights that the road version had.
Amazing retrospective, I would absolutely love more like this!
This video may have been a risk, but due to the research, effort & clear passion put into this project, I think it will pay off.
The Honda HSV-010 GT you briefly mentioned in this would be an excellent future episode and I think that the last 100 years or so of Global Racing History contain more than enough interesting topics to discuss for years to come.
Looking forward to the next one :D
That shot of Brad still gives me goosebumps
the germans actually *tried* to make gt500 cars not too long ago, when dtm entered a joint venture with supergt to create the "class-1" category (which started in 2019 after *years* of tractations).
engine regulations were still different between the two and gt500s ran rounds around the dtm cars in the measly two exhibition events they ran together, but there were genuine efforts on both parts to bring it all together (or at least, audi and bmw were very keen on racing in japan when the whole operation started in 2014 or 15). and then covid happened... dtm switched to gt3 because they just couldn't maintain class-1 cars and the astronomical costs attached to them (mercedes had withdrew from the project in 2018 just before they were fully introduced - replaced by aston martin, to *dismal* results - and audi and bmw said stop in late 2020, after only two years of the cars actually being run, the switch to gt3 being the only thing that saved dtm because the championship was itself about to go under after the health crisis). the class-1 rules stayed in gt500, though, and supergt teams now find themselves with cars developped to joint-european regulations that they never actually meant to run in europe (and that they never even called "class-1" to begin with), while the german cars that maybe could have run in japan just disappeared into thin air. because money and bad luck.
35:45 the miata running from the raging bull behind him😂😂
First time viewer (thanks, algorithm), really pleased I gave this vid a click. I especially enjoyed the way you covered off little side stories and examples that were relevant to the main theme.
I find that the story of JLOC in GT500 is such a shining example of just how much work goes into running a racecar at the highest level. You really nailed it by mentioning JLOC running a single car all on their own compared to the many McLaren F1s out in the world. The data and knowledge gained by having multiple cars to lean on is massively valuable.
It's things like being able to find optimal tyre pressures, getting an understanding of how the car behaves with different suspension alignments and spring weights, finding the brake configurations that work best, even simple stuff like driver comfort and ergonomics. And you being a Gran Turismo youtuber makes it all the more relevant - these are all things that we take for granted in the virtual world, but an actual race weekend is a very different beast as the opportunity to trial infinite combinations and variables just doesn't exist.
Great video, looking forward to more in the future.
How cool would it have been to have a series back in the early to mid 90's with the top class consisting of the Lamborghini Diablo, Ferrari f50, McLaren F1, Jaguar XJ220, Honda / Acura NSX, Ford GT90(I remember prototype photos and playing it in need for speed 2), Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Dodge viper, Bugatti EB-10, Toyota Supra, Porsche 911 GT1, and others. That had been awesome. I know the f50 wasn't looked upon favorably, but I absolutely loved the design. But still the Diablo might just be my favorite car ever amongst all that I love. It was the one on my three-ring binder in elementary school and I just loved looking at that thing during class.
Well, if the idea is to tell the story of more obscure, rare race cars we may have some stuff to suggest from our side :P ..
But tremendous work and great narration as usual 👌
That blue Calsonic GTR with the side port exhaust literally lives rent free in my noggin
guess you gotta make a follow up to this one
This was a great video. As soon as you mentioned the win in GT300, I got genuinely happy.
You got me so attached to this team I've NEVER HEARD OF until now. I am very happy to hear about them still competing, and I hope they continue to do so for the future. AND LOOKING INTO THEM, THEY WON THIS YEAR :D
Absolute banger vid. I hope you go on to make more videos about this kind of thing. Your GT content is great but this type of storytelling might just be your true calling. Phenomenal!
I definitely want to see more motorsport videos from you. This was a great video👍
As much they tried so hard to get wins but yet they still failed to do so, one thing I love about them is that they never gave up to try to achieve something. That’s the real heart of Motorsport Racing right there~ ❤
Make more content like this, i love historical video essays about motorsport, and you made a great one! Love from Indonesia mate, hope you continue making these type of vids
I remember when I was like 13 or so I was watching GT3 videos on TH-cam and when I watched the Japanese intro I was so shocked and excited. I had no idea, after at the time, I think 6 or 7 years of playing it over and over again that there was a car that I had never seen before. I fell in love with it immediately and was obsessed about finding a way to play the Japanese version for years. About 10 or so years later, I finally got my wish and played the Japanese version. But I didn't know what fucking event you win it in. So after lots and lots of Googling, I found it! 1/4 chance of getting it in the 78 laps at Monaco Endurance race. Incredibly, I managed to get it on my first try!
Yeah, that car wasn't that good aye. It was definitely the quickest but it didn't have the best handling. Although I don't hate the car, and actually had a lot of fun on the journey to get it, The Denso Sard Supra is still my number one.
Great video! You definitely should continue to make more stuff like this, its almost like you have a natural talent for it.
Finally got around to watching this, and was not disappointed.
That being said, I was always under the impression that the only reason the Ferrari F50 GTs that made it into private hands never raced was because Ferrari explicitly forbade it (as in they would have taken legal action).
Excellent stuff. Subbed. And man, that bit about sifting through several hours of footage just to try and spot that one car you're covering only to end up with like 34 seconds of footage. I know that feeling.
Ah, the first Tony Hawk menu music in the background. One of the tastiest jams ever recorded.
Youre the only youtuber I've ever seen (besides emplemon and slapshoes) that seems to hold the same amount of passion for motorsports and cars in general that I do. Definitely do more motorsports videos, this was riveting❤
Malaysian JGTC in Fuji Speedway, same energy as Tokyo Auto Salon in Kuala Lumpur that was held in June 2023.
Been binging car documentaries recently so glad to see you give it a go.
If I had a cent every time “Lamborghini” and “due to financial difficulties” are in the same sentence, I would probably have at least a couple of cents lol Great video!
Oh the Diablo. My first love. Best looking car Lamborghini ever made.
Dude in all honesty, this is at the same level as Squidd! And Squidd does masterpieces! This video deservers much more views!
Your editing style goes super good with motorsport history! I loved every bit of that video :D
You’re good at story telling, and I think you’ll go far, and if you refine your craft, you’ll grow even faster!!
You’ve got another sub 😊
Hey beamng boy
Sup bearded man!
I watched this video from start to finish and as the Diablo has been my favorite Lamborghini since my childhood, I kid you not this was the best video documenting this car's motorsport history I have ever seen. The story of JLOC is amazing. No matter how much they came up short or failed completely, they never threw in the towel and gave up. They kept racing and racing and racing no matter what happened and had fun doing it. The JLOC Diablo's are my favorite non-Japanese manufacturer race cars to have raced in the JGTC and to see them get this kind of recognition is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for this video, you just earned a new sub from me!
Your videos are serious nostalgia bombs for me, the inclusion of "One more win" brough back countless hours of R4 for me. I miss those games so much. Awesome videos as always!
The good o JLOC Lamborghini. They did what Lamborghini wouldn’t do itself, went racing
Love the frequent usage of R4 soundtrack. Sure it's a distant memory but still so beautiful after all these years.
Great vid, fantastic research. Hope you do more of these in the future
Absolutely fantastic video. Car and story I’ve never heard of before, told really well and love the editing. The Gran Turismo clips really make it too. Please make more like this!
Another amazing video! You clearly work hard on this channel and I am seeing it grow which is great. I hope your audience will only keep growing!
I own a 1998 diablo. I bought it with a blown up engine for $4,100. I built a 2002 diablo SV engine with diamond forged pistons, titanium rods that took me a year to save for, custom ground cams, fully ported, port matched and polished heads shaved two thousandths of an inch. I built my own equal length headers and stainless 4 inch collectors to an oval 5 inch merge then out into dual 3 1/2 inch into a stock murcialago muffler i bought on ebay, out the center of the rear bumper. Custom, self built Reiger/KW coilovers that work better than both of them did combined before i did all the mods and made them into the priceless, frankenstien, one off units they are now. I had them powdercoated purple and the springs gold they look so sick. It runs on a haltech nexus g2, milspec wiring i did myself, the cage is completely seam welded to the unibody, a, and c pillars. I run it on ignite e90 and 3 stages of N2o that dont hit until wide open in 2nd gear. In third the 2nd kit comes on, 4th 5th and 6th its all 3 kits, all 300hp. In 5th gear it made 1091 wheel horsepower 622 tq. Its an absolute screaming menace of an automobile. Its completely blacked out with purple inners and black outers on the 19x10/20x12 3 piece wheels and gold lugs. It does 236mph on the limiter in 6th and gets there in just over 13 seconds. Its BLINDINGLY fast. But it doesnt really feel like armegeddon is happening like my 800whp b5 s4 does. That car is so violent i dont like to drive it with a passenger. It scared my wife so bad shell never ride in it again. It just hits THAT hard ya know? All wheel drive man.
This video is gonna blow up! 💣 I love this shit man.
I have nothing but respect for a group that loses consistently for decades and still keeps going out there.
The title gives me "Luigi wins by doing absolutly nothing" vibes, and I like it.
@pellet-st6nj No thanks. Glad you proposed.
car go vroom vroom and sometimes crash or takeoff
This was a very well mad documentary. I knew nothing about the subject (well, other than knowing of the base Lamborghini models) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!
If u have more ideas of untold stories like this that u could make a video out of, u could easily make a sieries out of them. As a gran turismo fan it would be nice to learn the background of some of the cars which haven't got much recognition. Apart from that i must really admit that i slightly prefer your gt videos (with my favorite being the nostalgia one) the reason is that no matter how much i 've searched on yt u are the only channel that discusses deeper and more controversial topics than just the economics of gt7
The Volvo 850 Super Touring Car (an estate car) from 1994 is one of my favourite cars with a story like this.
That was the Volvo 850 Estate. The Volvo 850 (Class 2) Super Tourer was raced mainly in saloon form, in 1995 and 1996. so "The Volvo 850" doesn't mean the estate necessarily.
The estate wasn't really under Super Touring rules tho, the rule change to the aero was what made the change to the saloon partly necessary, and was a lot more successful; tho the estate was damn rapid!
@@OsellaSquadraCorse oh I know the saloon was rapid. But I'm on about a car that wasn't so successful but was idolised by fans all the same. The one that Rickard Rydell and Jan Lammers drove in the BTCC 94 season(it was called a super touring because that was the class they participated in until the 95 season, the super touring was started in 93, the most iconic probably being the silver and red Audi A4 or the Renault laguna with that yellow and blue livery) switched to the saloon for the 95/96 season and rickard went to go on and win the championship in 98.
Please make more of Super GT coming from your story of Shingo Tachi and now to this. Your presentation of the topic is engaging. Super GT definitely needs to be covered more.
Ive always loved your content but these jgtc videos man they are amazing!!!
Wish you do more of these in the future, theres so many interesting stories you could talk about, like for example the story of Schnell SDR, the team that entered for only one race in 97 and then vanished, or the story of the Advance Auto Camaro❤❤
That RR4 was TOP.
Lambo = Assoluto
JLOC = PRC
Everything comes full circle.
This was so well done. I really appreciate the narrative. I think you did a great job making the case that not everything should be taken at face value, as their record would suggest. I'd love to see more like this!
That was fun to watch! I knew there were some European cars that competed in Japan, but never heard this story before
came here to say JLOC won the championship!!! 🤩 GT300
Thank-you Rolfwaffle for doing the work and investigation in this video. I learned a lot in this video, including that only 3 Ferrari F50 GT's exist.
I like the switch up from Gran Turismo videos to these, you did a very good job, keep going 👍
Now i remember story of Minardi in F1, for long time they always got love from all F1 paddock even though they achieve only one or two point each season. In MotoGP i remember one name Paton GP
I just discovered this channel and already love it! I grew up playing Gran Turismo. Seeing those cars from Gran Turismo 2 is such a nostalgic feeling.
It would be really cool to see some more little documentaries like this from you. Very interesting!
The Diablo Nomad (in GT2 version i played the heck with it), i do make that livery in any game wich is possible, and thanks for the tip on the Huracan Evo 2 JLOC will do that for sure, JLOC is a great team even with all issues they´ve, i´m a Lambo (car enthusiast since the 90´s) enthusiast but will never buy any irl, but in games for sure lol, another ace dude, keep up the great job.😀
It may not be a winner on track, but to us, it's a winner of our hearts and a hero of GT.
Your videos really hit the spot for a motorsport obsessed, Gran Turismo fanboy like me.
Thank you for the time spent researching and editing these masterpieces 🏁
Funnily enough, GT500 cars are closer to the Hypercar cars of the WEC than GT3 cars in terms of performance. Yes, I know they're technically closer to LMP2 cars, but I'm going more on the fact that the Hypercar could supposedly spawn road cars, which we all know ended up being kinda BS.
What I'm saying, is that the Supra GT500 is closer to the GR010 than it is to the Lexus RC-F GT3, to put the example of Toyota.
Man this was such a great video about a topic I was always curious about but no one seemed to talk about it. It was really hype when you described their most successful race and Victory Road played in the background. I really wish the best for JLOC, they're such an awesome team!
Thank you for this! This car was always such an oddity to me growing up and seeing it in the early gran turismo games
Thank you for making this video. It's such a breath of fresh air to create lesser known stories around the world. This earned a full proper sub from me man.
"You will be aware of Super GT" - There was me thinking Steve was about to get the Roflwaffle treatment 😅
Great video! More like this please, I havent followed motorsports beyond F1 in periods, however clearly there is much interesting history that deserve to be broadcasted.
Would love to see more stories of forgotten cars like this!!!
I really enjoyed this video ! Thank you for this. Motorsport history channels are so fun to watch & learn.
This made me subscribe. Fullstop.
I know so very little about racing but this was SUPER interesting and I’d love to see more like this!
Great video! I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while, it was enjoyable seeing you mix it up with this one. I hope to see you produce more this type of retrospective along with the GT series.
I'm surprised you didn't talked about the blue "countach" with a V8
The "countach" was named RGS Mirage GT-1