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[derpherbert]

Hey there,
I sure seem to be leaving very elaborate comments under your videos. Hope you enjoyed this one and the background info helps appreciate it more! Here's some tidbits on the different stuff you had questions for:

-The F1 race was Hamilton & Verstappen battling for the championship on the very last lap of the last race of the season. After a late caution, Hamilton stayed out on very old tires while Max had just pitted under the safety car ending up in P2 right behind Hamilton, poised to go for the win after a backmarker (believe it was Latifi) put his car in the wall triggering the caution. Hamilton was left hung out to dry by his Team strategy, which must have told him "it's over, you'll win under yellows", since he took track position over pace. Typical case of "one late caution turns everything on it's head" you already know and love from Nascar. In F1 there apparently is a rule on how many laps the safety car has to be out once it's called, I believe it's 3 laps at minimum but that would have ended the final championship deciding race under yellow flags which would have been even more controversial and imo damaging the prestige of the sport... So the footage you saw was indeed just after a shortened safety car period (no one had ever seen that before) and a very shakey-cam rendition of the last lap, last race deciding the championship and the few deciding moves that led up to it. Max knocked off the 7 time champion, who is also arguably top 5 of the best drivers ever, driving the unquestionably best car that season. It was an epic moment that had built up to this for years, the venerated old guard vs. the young gun out to prove himself and all came down to the last lap of the last race. In case you want to understand overtaking advantages better, may I recommend "Sergio Perez Minister of defense". It shows the reason why Verstappen even got close enough to mount his final attack against Hamilton, his team-mate did outstanding work that day,

-The jump drift Initiation is absolutely legendary and I'm really happy it makes an impact on you! First of all: Japanese announcers are ALWAYS this... animated (lol). At first it's a bit of a love-hate relationship but eventually you'll learn to ignore them/see them as acoustic accompaniment to the action on track. I'm sure you know how drifting works and you can tell the jumped Initiation was actually sweet as F*** and whenever someone initiates a drift halfway in the air, it's mandatory to imitate the Japanese commentary from this video :) About that contest: we saw a qualifying run which decides your position in a bracket style k.o. tournament. Here's how the US version of this event works: there are a maximum of 64 drivers doing their qualifying, each gets 2 tries to get as close to certain points on track like the apex, entry and exit of a corner while also getting marks on fluidity/style and angle of the dangle. The resulting performance is measured in points between 0 and 100, which determines how easy your first bracket opponent is going to be. Tandem drifting competitions are a thing to behold, the car control on display is out of this world. First time you actually go against someone else is the round of 32, after that top 16 etc until you've found a winner. As many competitors have said over the years: "It's figure skating with cars". If you have a moment spare, may I introduce Chelsea Denofa into your life? A 2200ish pound black, purple and gold Mustang chassis with 75° of steering angle in both directions, sticky road legal tires (dot legal), a dog-box 4 speed, pretty good suspension and last but certainly not least: a 9k rpm Nascar V8 stroked close to 440 cui with a 200 shot of nitrous making 900hp off the bottle and somewhere over 1100 with it. I live in Europe and if there's an event on I regularly stay up past 3am to watch him specifically on the Formuladrift YT stream..

Phew, this got longer than anticipated..

-The LeMans clip is iconic, too. It's like watching the unstoppable force vs the immovable object. The Porsche was better under brakes and in the corners while the McLaren was no match on the straights. The cars in question are the N/A V12 McLaren F1 and the Porsche 911 based prototype called GT1, which is iconic in Germany. The McLaren had been designed by a former Formula1 car designer called Gordon Murray and he came up with a bunch of things that make that car much closer to a mechanical piece of art than a production run of a few hundred cars might have you expect. The slick body lines, the lack of a huge rear wing and the integration of an electric fan in the diffuser meant the McLaren had the measure of every car on the grid in terms of straight-line speed bc it didn't compromise any top speed for cornering ability. Brilliant car, probably the most iconic supercar for me. Gordon Murray has to be one of the best car designers EVER. N/A 6Liter V12 made by BMW, 3(!) seats with a central driving position(!!!!), practically no downforce so topspeed is somewhere around 240mph on the road going version, the intake is an oval tube right above the driver, made of kevlar composite that had been tuned&shaped to reverberate in the frequency on the intake valves so between 4k and 8k that thing makes a noise inside the cabin like you're in the intake yourself. It has gold foil in the engine bay to isolate heat coming from the titanium exhaust system so the engine bay doesn't melt the kevlar body panels. Quick aside: I'm sure you're familiar with the BMW M3 and their N/A inline-6 E36 and E46 in the mid-90s up to the mid 2000s? The E46 was on the box of Need for speed Most Wanted back in the day and made me fall in love with it. That engine is basically just one cylinder bank of the McLaren's V12, making their investment into this race engine pay off ludicrously well, it's nuts. As a former Honda owner you're sure to be familiar with VTec. BMW came up with their own variable valve timing for the engine in the F1, which then paved the way for their 'Vtec' (called VANOS) making it's way over to the M3 S54 (I believe that's the engine code) and produces that iconic BMW raspiness M3s are (in)famous for.
The Porsche GT1 is nuts but slightly more conventional that the McLaren. As you surely know, 911s have their engines behind the rear axle, giving them their very characteristic handling. The GT1 is basically a 911 with an extended wheelbase, an engine on the rear axle instead of behind it (might be wrong here) and a 550ish hp turbo boxer engine. It was a much more typical, oldschool approach to a racecar: road car has too much power? Build a chassis loosely based on the road car but let's go as far as the regs allow and maximize our advantages (chassis roll & flex, aero, cooling etc.). In that sense, the Porsche is conventional but modern for the times while the McLaren is old-school and brute-ish. I love them both to bits, this got very long and elaborate. Hope there were interesting things somewhere in there :)

[airsonurram]

the F1 one you were confused about was the final race of last year, Max and Lewis went into that race completely tied on points, so that battle was Max overtaking for the championship on the last lap.

[MGAFFY]

Minami jump is legendary. Unfortunately no longer exists as a drift track.

[jeremeh]

that moment determined the championship. last lap, last race, head to head on tied points. hamilton v verstappen. it was wild.

[corzahazard]

Daigo Saito is a beast behind the wheel, that drift jump video is a classic

[fragiquerence]

The fact, that Daigo initiates that crazy with a jump hits more if you know that he jumps basically into the wall there. That configuration destroyed many drift cars from all around the world :D

[coastallab]

03:56 the co-driver says in italian "holy shit!.... ooooh you're the number one ahahah, great job, that was lucky" and then he proceeds with the usual indications like nothing happened

[GreyFox]

Maybe it's only me, but Touring car series are the most exiting for me. Modified production cars are awesome. NASCAR was one as well until the 70's or 80's.

[dimitri]

Always love it when a(n) (American) motorsport enthusiast reacts to motorsports events from across the world (especially as a European). I'd advise you to watch some Nürnberg Nordschleife action. Anyone with a(ny) car or bike can have a go there. I've had some fun on my ZZR 600 there and didn't wreck anything, but some are less lucky..

[eastsidedrifto]

That drift jump was Daigo Saito. Dude is a boss in drifting. He is the reason why all the pro drift cars in the USA Fornula D circuit are 1000hp+. He came to the Usa in 2012 with high hp Lexus and dominanted for the few years he competed. Dude is sick and builds so bad ass cars with his company Fat Five Racing in Japan. Check him out.

[grishemall]

I remember watching the first one live, it was in 2016, and in the final race on top of things! I was like "Waaat?! What on earth did I just witness?!?" 😁 The driver is Kevin Eriksson, and that move is named one of the best, if not THE best ever overtake in rallycross 😁

[philiprowney]

5:45 - "go back out and hit the safety car, you've hit everything else!!!!" - Days of Thunder lol

[TheGoodChap]

You might actually really like the ken block onboard rally with hoonigan. There's a decent amount of American rally circuits in Pennsylvania and Maine they go to. You get to hear all the onboard and its very exciting

[noahhoffman]

i love seeing a nascar fan being so open to all different kinds of motorsport

[VampyrMygg]

Fun tidbit on the very first clip, one of the guys who got passed in the Rallycross race by the guy drifting by them, was Petter Solberg, a former WRC world champion, so the dude almost casually drifted past a world champion rally driver. :P

[tristanmeadows]

Epic thumbnail Minami jump is sooo good nostalgia watching drift monkey rip his 4door r34 over it in comp. soooo good.

[BradGryphonn]

Yeah, that hairpin pass is bloody brilliant! I've seen it before and never tire of watching it. I hadn't seen the back side view before though. Yeah, legend status pass that. I really hope he waved at them as he was sideways in front of them.

[-sandman]

That drift car getting front end airborne in a drift
🤣🤣 👍🤠

[Perra]

You should check out the early 90s to 98s BTCC best touring car race.
And the battle between BMWs Joakim Winkelhock and AUDIs Frank Biela was insane duels back then.

[TimJacksonOriginal]

Look up Ginetta Juniors. Full-on foot to the floor racing from start to finish in equally matched cars so it's about pure driver skill and race craft. Then check out the post race interviews - you'll be amazed how young they are!