Oops, hadn't seen your post until I posted mine.

Cool comment!!!

good one

That was my first thought. Fully analog😅

extremely dangerous privilege ( ;

At that race, we initially were not using the chicane at the top of the uphill. It was created because Morton flew a 962 over the guard rail into the trees. But at this race we were not using it. Then the Brumos 962 went up the hill with some steering input (you turn into that hill), and he didn’t unwind the steering input fast enough. When the car settled it obviously went right immediately. Car sustained major damage hitting the tire wall on the right. So then the race stewards made us use the chicane, which is what you see with Derek in this video.

yeah, LRP has an epic history and memories for many, many. It's one of the only tracks where you can easily see everything. And, it's extremely intimate. The 962 was a handful there as the track was not smooth at all. It felt like a stone skipping across the water. You can see / hear it in Derek's drive. Brian Redman, in the Group-C Jägermeister 962, passed me on the front straight like I wasn't there. I told him afterwards, and he asked why was that. I said, cause you did that downhill flat like a proper Englishman. Totally Love him!

It is his G meter.

@@testpilot2184 And it only cost 10 cents. The cheapest instrument ever put in a Porsche.

Senna used the throttle blipping too

The 962 is based on the 956 as everyone knows. The IMSA variant, as this car is, uses an all air cooled engine. IMSA didn't want the twin turbo Group C 956 coming to the USA. So they banned it. So Porsche lengthened the chassis to get the driver's feet in back of the front axle, and came up with this engine, which had more power and more turbo lag than the 956. The rest was history. Little known is that the 956 was designed in only 9 months from start to running car, for LeMans. That was back in 1981/82. That basic design won world championships into the 1990's.

@@bill9626 The differences between the 956 and the 962 were 1) the 962 had a longer chassis to put the driver's feet behind the front axle line and 2) it had a single turbo, compared with the 956 which had 2.

@@thethirdman225 Yes. The 962 chassis was lengthened to move the driver feet back behind the front axle. It's easy to spot a 956 by looking at the distance from the front edge of the door to the rear edge of the front wheel opening. It's only about 2 to 3 inches. However, on a 962 that distance is notably larger. I owned a 956 and the difference was something you were somewhat aware of when on track. It had twin turbos with water cooled heads. The 962 also had twin turbos with water cooled heads. When they made the IMSA variant of the 962 (as this car is), they based the motor on a derivative of the 935 motor. It is single turbo, and all air cooled. The European variant of the 962 continued to evolve until it had water cooled heads and cylinders.

@@bill9626 They were probably still traumatized by Walter Röhrl lapping the whole field at Niagara Falls, driving 3+ seconds faster per lap. Which is when Trans AM banned the Audi after the reeeeeeeeee of American teams how "unfair" the Audi was (they were most certainly rules compliant, Americans are just angry that they can only build flying bricks, that are "good" at going fast in a straight line and that they were beaten by 2.2/2.3 liter engine car, driving 5 6 and even 7 liters themselves)... It's the same thing (essentially) that killed CART Championship (Indy's predecessor). American whining over the field being dominated by European and other foreign drivers, European and Japanese manufacturers outdoing the Americans, and the president of IMS (Indianopolis Motorspeedway) making his own series and going to court to stop CART from using the Indy name. They even make their own LeMans, just so they can win at anything kek

@@bill9626 the 962 isn't an aluminium chassis death trap either. Better handling, more power but a little bit heavier.

You bet it man.

Sorry but video appears to show otherwise.

@@wschell4023 Lol.

Love limerock

Brilliant cockpit,like an aeroplane,and very useful fuel management systems etc.

Yeah. For sure! That old track was super bumpy in a ground effects car like the 962. We had very stiff springs in that setup

That's what I thought as well, great memories of that event!

OK, that explains the fact that there never were any Jagermeister liveried Porsche 962s in IMSA in the 1990s, as far as I can recall.

1985 1000km driving to a win in one of the three Rothmans liveried 962s.

hahahahaha true. funny

the 911 was almost run off the track as you can see he was up on the curb, no doubt seeing Derek fill is rear view mirror and the train bearing down

Any time you strap one of those on your back the adrenaline rush MAKES you drive like that. 61 second laps

I sometimes wonder why more people don't have the balls to do shit like this. It's so much damn fun.

@@WaRLoKWYATT it’s not for everyone. In those days, every race could have been your last🤷🏼‍♂️

@@WaRLoKWYATT it's obviously money and free time.

@@WaRLoKWYATT And it's really fucking expensive too$$$ LOL

The appearance of getting on the throttle late is due to the large turbo spool up lag from the single turbo. From the data logging recordings, he’s on full throttle early in the turn, timing the spool up to reach power as he crosses from apex to track out.

2001 Porsche Rennsport Reunion - as mentioned elsewhere in this thread

Remember when John Morton literally flew off the top of the rising turn in 1988?

The Brumos 962 was crashed at that turn in this race, without the chicane. He had steering input to the right when the car settled after traversing the hill. Immediately went right and collected the tire wall. They. Add us use the chicane after that.

could be a break bias adjustment too

@@arfshesaid4325 Dampfrad=Turbo!

That's the G-Force gauge...

@@BossaNossa1 That's exactly what I was gonna say.

Looks like early to mid nineties since Derek passed a 993 GT2 Evo?

Rennsport Reunion in 2001, I think.

@@dudley7540 thanks Dudley...you’re probably right. He doesn’t mention this car racing at Lime Rock in his book.😉

I recall he got about 49 or 50 sec in that race. They did get to around 46 sec’s sometimes, before track was so bumpy with the concrete in the turns.

The chicane after the uphill is costing him 2 sec (and the track is a few sec faster now after the repave) but I thought the same thing. I have been in the low 59s with a 2006 Cayman S. And today’s tires are much better.

@@craigmahon1303 I guess you're a good driver then, lol. Trying to get there myself. my best time is a 1:08 in an '86 Porsche 928.

I think his best lap that day was about a 0:50.0. Maybe a 0:51. I’d have to look it up. That circuit was fairly easy to learn, but tricky to get incrementally faster at the limit. I think with that uphill chicane it slows you a LOT. It was put in after Morton flew the prototype over the guardrail on the uphill. I recall they were down to 0:49 lap times back then in that car. It’s a long way from a 0:59 to a 0:49 or 0:50

John DePietro - also of note on this circuit, also in an IMSA spec Porsche 962, in the 1985 IMSA race Holbert & Bell lap time 0:47.6

Interesting that the grass is yellow and the trees largely bare. Could this have been very early/late in the season and therefore fairly cold track temp? 2 takeaways for me: he takes big bend tighter than the other drivers and his exit from the left hander looked better than everyone else as well. Nice recovery after being skunked by traffic early in the video. John, 60 year old Alfa's with pea-shooter 1.3L engines and skinny 5.5" vintage race tires do 1:07's at LRP these days, but to be fair that's without the back chicane. Seriously, you guys who do 1:00's in street cars are clearly very good drivers.

Hell yeah, I feel the same way about Big Rigs with manual gear boxes!!!

It's not rev-limited. Shift light was set at 7,000 RPM. So shifting is a little higher. In this IMSA car we don't go above 7,300 RPM. Group-C 962's would shift limit at 8,400 RPM.

I'm glad you noticed that too. Posted three years ago but shot in the 80's I think. GS and TCR cars still get air at the top of that hill.