Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "DRIVETRIBE" channel.

  1. The original 962 had a single turbo. The 962C was basically the IMSA car with a 956 engine in it.
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  2. Obviously they raced at a lot of other places besides Le Mans. The point I'm making is that for all the high speeds they reached there, they still had to be able to race competitively on circuits like Brands Hatch or Dijon to Spa to Fuji and Sandown. Think for a minute about the differences and yet the car needed to be able to be adapted to all of them. For sure the power and speed of the thing is probably the most impressive aspect but the agility and the fact that Southgate was able to design such a small chassis around such a huge engine will always amaze me.
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  3. MrSisterfister100 You’re pretty brave with someone else’s skin, aren’t you?
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  4.  MrSisterfister100  Yes it is.
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  5.  @mrebear9758  I agree. I also had the same thought about the resale value of the paddle shift model. If there are only a handful of them, they should hold their value, even if they are seen as ‘less desirable’ than H pattern versions.
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  6. Webber and Alonso.
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  7. An engine like that wouldn’t work without paddle shift. It’s just too peaky.
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  8. 4:22 He's a happy chappie...!!
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  9. The reason Porsche dominated for so long is slightly unclear. The brochure things like power and aerodynamics hide something that a lot of people who are new to Group C either don’t understand or have missed altogether. That reason is fuel economy. It’s easy to build an engine that will make 1,000 hp. It’s even possible to build an engine that will make 1,000 hp for 24 hours. But the goal of Group C was something different: to extract the maximum amount of power from a given amount of fuel. Group C mandated 100 litre fuel tanks from the start. In 1,000 km and 6 hour races, you were allowed to refuel 5 or 6 times (someone will clear this up, I’m sure) and for the Le Mans 24 hr race, there was a fuel allocation of 2,500 litres per car for C1 cars. These figures were reduced over the lifetime of the formula. These rules were strictly enforced. I remember Sauber having one of their cars disqualified for being 100ml over the limit for a 1000km race. Have a think about that for a second. 100ml is barely a half a small cup of coffee. Porsche were among the first to introduce computer mapped EFI and electronic ignition and it took the other teams a while to catch up with that technology. By the time they had, Porsche had moved further ahead anyway. The object was the most favourable compromise between power and economy. The drivers had something to do with this too. The idea was to run out of fuel as you crossed the finish line. To do this required a lot of patience and keeping one’s hand away from the boost dial.
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  10. Finally someone said it. For too long this car has existed in the shadow of cult cars like the Sauber C9 - undoubtedly a great car - and - inexplicably - the Mazda 787B. And while making customer cars undoubtedly improves the odds, few other manufacturers even attempted it. Spice tried and succeeded but sportscar racing in the 1980s was totally dominated by the 956 and 962.
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  11. MrSisterfister100 You’d be too scared to do this yourself, which is why you’re so brave with other people’s skin so I’m hardly likely to be intimidated by you. That’s a great contribution you’re making to the world. Very admirable. Not. I’ll leave you with the last word. Do your worst. It’ll give everyone else here a pretty good idea of the sort of individual you are.
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  12. MrSisterfister100 Nope. I just think you’re a dickhead. I’m sure I’m not alone. Bye, bye loser.
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  13.  @yes9421  Don't be silly. Everyone knows Ayrton Senna was shot.
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  14. J G 🤮
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  15. J G What are you telling me for? I couldn’t give a fuck. I’m just sick of hearing people abusing other people because they don’t share their personal prejudices.
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  16. No, you’re not going to sleep at all!!😂
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  17. Oh shut up.
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  18.  @thesoberdrunkman9845  No it isn’t.
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  19. Correction: Richard Hammond gets back into the car he nearly killed himself in.
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  20.  @porschecollector727  No, that’s not accurate. The new Grand Prix track _was still under construction _ when that record was set and they used only the old Nordschleife. The start-finish section was at the Nord Kurve, as it is for public days.
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  21. The current record is about 5.20 by a Porsche 919 demo car that had all the restrictions turned off.
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  22. The rear wing on the Le Mans version was set the way it was so that it could interact with the flow of air from under the car. In this position, it almost worked like a two element wing with the flow of air over the bodywork and under the wing causing undertray to become more efficient and improving the L/D. It was basically a different way of making a low drag package for Le Mans. Others like Porsche and Sauber used longer tails with less wing camber to achieve that. It was an extremely clever piece of design.
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  23. How the blazes does Gordon Murray fit in a Honda S800?
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  24. It sounded great too.
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  25. 9:30 Well, what was it?
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  26. Google S5000
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