"sunday driving, not pushing too hard" *8000 RPM*

"I could set up my titles to be more clickbaity" "Is This The Hardest Track In The World?"

This is pretty much a driving podcast

Fun Fact! The roads were still open to the public during practice and qualifying for the Targa Florio. So imagine this with traffic.

As someone that dedicated his final years of simracing (more or less) to learning THE most challenging circuit out there, it's an honour to be mentioned & referenced in this video! For anyone that wants to learn Targa, know that it takes about 60 completed laps to know where you're going (I believe Vic Elford said that, and it was almost exact for me), but I promise the reward of knowing where you are and what's coming up is SO worth it. Thanks again, Jimmer, I love you :).

Jimmy for GT Academy. Soon be doing the 24h of Le Mans

"My life has been just a series of sheds" Jimmy Broadbent, 2019

Lap record was made by Leo Kinnunen in 1970 driving Porsche 908/03. His time was 33 minutes and 36 seconds.

Walter Röhrl would set a all time record on a bike by just pushing so hard.

Muh boi Bacho who drives this track better than me despite being legally blind - kzfaq.info

One name that should be remembered with regards to the Targa Florio - Vic Elford. This guy was a Targa specialist, and apparently he was blessed with a photographic memory. One time, when he had to drive a distinctly underpowered and outdated Porsche, he was as much as an hour behind the leaders when it came to his driving stint, and he used all that knowledge of the circuit to such a devastating effect that he actually ended up winning the thing. To commemorate their race wins, Porsche would usually issue special edition posters featuring a picture of the winning car of a race, but that time the poster didn't feature the car. Instead it consisted of Elford and a few Porsche mechanics just after completing the race, grinning from ear to ear. The reason given by Porsche why they featured Vic instead of the car was that it wasn't so much the car that won the race, but rather the driver.

Jimmer, you should do the Grande Circuit. That configuration is 144.8 kilometers long. Probably lucky if you can get around in under 100 minutes-2 hours. Another thing you should do, is do an 1886 Mercedes-Benz Patent Motor Wagen around the Norschleife in GT4. Oh yeah, love your stuff. You are the reason I am saving up to be a sim racer. Just watching you fly around the Nurburgring in a multitude of different vehicles, in a multitude of different respective categories of car, was so inspiring. You make great content, and deserve the 200,000 subscribers. Keep on going, Jimmer BoJack Horsemack BoBimmer.

this kinda track needs a co-driver with pace notes. Sheeeesh!

you're such a humble guy jimmer! thank you for your kindness! may i suggest a channel? It's called Alberto Naska, he's an Italian guy and last year he attempted a motorcycle championship and he filmed his experience! he's put English (so everybody ca follow) subtitles on his videos but he has a very different approach to racing, but if you want to see someone who tried such a thing here is an example! Cheers from Italy, we hope we can see you soon!

This should be a parallel series to the nordschleife series.

Jimmer you are an idol and the reason I started sim racing. Your channel deserves way more subs than it already has. Full steam shed BOI

It's mad watching this video again in 2021, hearing Jimmy talking about how "crazy" it is that he's up to 200k subs, and mentioning that he wants to do some 'real world' racing. Now he's at nearly 700k subs and has just had his first 'proper' race in the Britcar Championship. What a crazy 2 years it's been for Jimmer!

Do it with the Red Bull X2014! 😎

What I love about "The Broadbent" is how his intro's vary each time. My favourite so far "Hi Guys, very sweaty because I live in a shed with no real air con boy here" :)

So happy for you man, been going back through a bunch of your older vids, some I've already watched, some I havent. But to see how far you have come, not just in the growth of your channel but your personal growth. Obviously to an extent they go hand in hand, but seeing this as 200k sub celebration, only a year ago, and now being over 350k on your way to 400k, it's amazing. You deserve every bit of it man. I've been subscribed for a few years now and seeing the dedication you've put in over those years is astounding. You've helped not just myself but so many others with their own mental health by being so open about your own battles. I'm certainly still in struggle town, but having this channel to come to and being able to converse with the amazing community you've built definitely gets me through some rough times. Thank you, for everything you do. Regards, Loyal Shed Basement Dweller

I really like this video a lot :) you just talking about anything that comes to mind... like a ride-along in the country side. Really chill and mellow (apart of the 8000 rpm!) :)

This is the sim version of an afternoon blast at the weekend :) love it, love your thoughts and plans mate! I am watching this a year after it went up.. really cool to see the progression

Fantastic video! And this "ramble" Is great! It's fantastic to hear about your future plans, your thoughts about your subscribers and your channel growing. Keep up the great content!

Love the video, really relaxing watching you drive around Targa Florio!

21:05 (ish) If you end up doing this, it would be absolutely bonkers cool if you could set up a camera and treat it like a normal live stream (even if it's only a recording) where you talk to the viewers/the camera as you go around, explain what you're doing, how you feel, why the pleb behind crashed into you, etc. I understand this would be difficult/impossible at first, but maybe after a while once you get comfortable in the seat. It would be an insight we don't really have in the racing world outside of sims.

Congrats on the sub count, epic! I'm sat here listening to your emotions that you experienced as the channel has grown, fixating on the analytics and absolutely realising I've been doing the same with my own channel. Its not a sim channel, its us in our 4x4s camping and off-roading. We just got over 2000 subs yesterday and it is such an exciting time even if it does pail in comparison to where you are. Keep it up Jimmy, its a really enjoyable channel and one I come back to every single time.

Great content as always and it's your mixture of serious trys at a lap and your being laid-back sense of feel towards it all that I think makes it amazing. And besides what you called mediocre driving in this is still leveled up quite a bit from having to do commentary on top of it lmao Keep it up man great work!!

Thicc brit makes a thicc video to celebrate his thicc subscriber count

Epic video. Jimmer targa florio ramble would be a great series! Really loving seeing the channel grow and you grow yourself. Looking forward to the future of the channel and seeing what 2019 brings for you!

"I know where i'm going" *GOES OFF TRACK*

Jimmy this Was an Outstanding video. Really shows what kind of a person you are and it's absolutely amazing, we need more like you! Very proud of you man.❤️

Mate watching this now and hearing you talk about your plans and how you would like to get into real life racing it’s mental. Been watching u for years and can remember saying “imagine he became a proper racing driver through this.” And look at ye now Well fuckin done mate living the dream!

This is the best 40 minutes you've done jimmy, your goals and insights with your "fame" etc. Helped me understand. Best of luck for the future. Keep up the amazing content. 👍

Great video as usual Jimmy, probably the most humble youtuber out there. I used to be an xbox sim racer but you honestly have re-ignited my passion for sim racing and I bought my self a pc and some pricey pedals.. but totally worth it. Anyway, I know a few people who do track days at Sebring, if you ever want to come join us please let me know! Congrats on your success and I wish you the very best🍻

I love the clock faces in those old 911s

Really loved this video layout, almost podcasty in a way. Stoked to see what opportunities arise in racing for you.

Addicted to this channel the last few days, awesome content and gameplay and quality commentary

I'm actually really a fan of the more casual and laid back feel of this video. It feels more like a chilled out road trip with a good friend rather than a racing video. You are a magnificent driver and it's always thrilling to watch your more intense content, but I think the reason we stick around for you is because you have a very good balance between inspiring driving skills and a genuine and inviting personality. You have very openly and honestly showed us your personal growth, and I think that has made sim racing feel more accessible and like it's something worth getting into. You may not see this, but if you do, I just want to say thank you, and that I look forward to the future of your channel! Keep up the good work!

Ahh man you got my subscribe after that convo. What a real content creator

Watching this in April 2020 and loving that the motorsport plans came together in a BIG way. So proud of you Jimmer, onwards and upwards!!

You´re such a big insparation

It's so nice to hear you ramble about real life racing at around 20 mins and knowing you have that stuff with praga going on right now :)

You should try the pescara circuit, it was considered so dangerously even Enzo Ferrari didn’t want to send his drivers there

Thanks Jimmy, was great to just chill out and listen to you unburden yourself and open up. You're a likeable guy, good lad.

Id say people relate to you, and i enjoy watching because you treat races seriously, you are also good when interacting with other youtubers/streamers, id imagine alot of people like me have enjoyed watching your channel grow over the last few years especially, keep up the good work, quater of a MILLION next

wish I could like more than once :) great work Jimmy! Love your videos

I enjoy you content more then others i watch, your a genuine bloke and hope you do get into some real racing I'll definitely watch it

Targa Florio! Jimmy, you're making us love you more each day...

Keep making the content Jimmer, I love it all!

I have watched this video more times than I can remember. Perfect when I feel a but down and need some Jimmer to cheers me up! Thanks Jimmer for all your efforts!

When u were talking about people wanting to watch u drive. I subbed to u for the same reason as I subbed to supergt, the banter. That's the entertaining part.

Recently found your videos. Love them. Keep them up please

Jimmer you realise that now you have the double of what you had doing this video ? Really I'm so happy to see you grow like that! I just can't wait to see the million on your channel as I'm pretty sure it is going to happen. Wouldn't be amazing to see the Jimmer in an F3 ? Anyway I wish the best for you and your channel !

I used to be subscribed to FailRace for my gaming motoring content, was never a huge follower of sim racing, he happened to mention you in one of his videos so i checked you out and i fell in love with your personality and sense of humour. Keep up the good work my man you are one of a kind.

I love that less than a year later, from 207k to 352k subs. I don't even know how I found your channel, but I'm glad I did

Jimmy. I’ve heard from May different sources that you are the biggest sim racer on KZfaq. That sort of news gets out. You have worked yourself up to be a star amongst the YT-nation. Well done brother! You will exceed your wildest dreams before you even know it

Watching this in 2022 and hearing Jimmy planning to get into real racing is so crazy. Imagine how mind blown he would have been to know he'd be driving a Praga professionally in the not so distant future 😁

Great vid! Thanks for sharing your plans!

We watch because you're you, Jimmy. Don't ever change the gut feeling decisions. You got a decent moral center, and are good at bein free with info on your experience with gaining 200k subscribers, and the issues that can come with it. On the right track mate. This is a good channel. Keep up the good work and thanks again 👍🏻

Old video to give you a taste of what the Targa was like back in the day kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqyPoqlev7PMdGQ.html Also the car to do this in is a Porsche 908/3 in Gulf livery

Targa Florio

Thank you for showing this track it sure look to be a challenge and I love a good challenge and long tracks.. :D

oh wow it's an honor that you chose this track for your 200k subs video. If only I found out sooner, I would've sent you the latest test build with all the trees and 3D cerda -___- anyway, congratz Jimmer! always knew you were gonna go big!

Bwoah Livestream + Video, I like it.

Hey Jimmer! Been here since fake 30k, and just wanted to let you know that you are my favorite British shed man on KZfaq! Congrats on 200k, you definitely deserve it! Love you long time, and I wish you all the best!

Happy that You went for a spin in Sicily for Targa Florio. That island has quite some really great roads, almost allover it. The one I grew up with was a good one. I always start from Palazzolo Acreide and go towards Noto, or better towards Modica. Crazy, expecially at night

Keep doing you Jimmy! Appreciate whatever the content as always! Cheers mate👑👑👑👑👑

watching this video has the same terrifying vibe as sitting in the car with that mate who drives like an absolute maniac while chatting naturally to you at the same time.

Your a proper dude! Love your work

No thank you for the awesome content!!! watching you is making me get into sim racing again!

7:45 that's what Alex (failrace) calls "commentators curse" haha

Congrats on the subs mate. Btw imagine Sir Sterling Moss doing his thing back in the day on this monstrosity.

I think you are an above average driver which is good. It's nice to watch someone drive who you can learn from since they aren't lightyears ahead of you. I like sitting here and trying to watch every corner and try to see how I would take them.

Jimmy, have you seen the 1986 F1 cars for RF2? Literally the most powerful cars ever made. And they took them around Detroit, Monaco, Paul Ricard.... so so many places

Here I am, watching your video a little over a year later with 545K subscribers. You've done well. Rock on.

I'll tell you how you've done it Jimmy...because you are a nice guy we seem to connect with.will let you off with the ed China voice though😁.thank you for you're decent vids and good luck for the future m8.keep up the good work and things can only get better and bigger from here

Rolling back to this video 2 years down the road it is great to see how many of your dreams came to become reality, and also that no one has had to tell you "F*** Off you shallow KZfaqr". Kept it real, and and keep it spinning in circles whilst laughing.

Late to the vid but I hope you see this. Ayrton senna said something along the lines of “go karts are the purest form of racing”, although cars would be fun you get more a bang for your buck racing karts. You get wheel to wheel with other drivers and although it is perceived as basic they allow you to fully comprehend set up/race mechanics and physics. I’ve been racing karts for 10 years now and I can say it has given me some of my greatest memories and friends and I would love to see you create a series showing your Journey.

hey Jimmer, been a fan since you took the NASCAR around the green hell! I used to be a sole NASCAR fan, but now i have broadened my love to almost all forms of mortorsport... especially anything astin martin. sexy cars those. but yea, love me some racing

I really like the casual format Jimmy, it's almost like a podcast with racing sounds

watching this video today hearing him talk about his 207k subs, he's doubled that now! Amazing and deserved!!!! Top lad!

I think it's your enthusiasm for racing which brings people to your channel as well as your down to earth personality.

Jimmy, the reason why your channel struck a cord in me is the place where you come from. No, not physically, I mean mentally. Mental issues are somewhat frowned upon in my family. Growing up, if you had something wrong in your head, it was all just in your head, just make the bad demons go away and you'll be fine. Obviously, it doesn't work that way, and I learned it first-hand, I didn't have any really bad mental issues, but I can relate to you. Obviously, Jimmy doesn't show all the stuff in his life, but the things he has talked about having anxiety in public and depression have been fairly relatable, and i have went through the same things, albeit, at a less severe way. I love his passion for motorsport, and the genuinity he has in his videos, there are no fake personas, no fake emotions, no fake feelings. He's just a regular lad living in his moms shed sharing his passion of motorsport and actually succeeding at it, because guess what, he has a great personality. I found his channel at around 10k subs, I remember all the GT1-5 streams he did, I remember him hitting first 1000 livestream viewers on one of his GT videos and him going absolutely bonkers. I remember that and it inspires me that there are people who can get up from the very bottom and make a name of themselves in this world. I don't believe in miracles, but this certainly gets close to it.

really felt like a live stream - loved it :)

If I could fall into the sky Do you think time would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd drive fourty five miles If I could just see you tonight

You deserve all the subs you get man.

watching in almost 2021, and youre almost at 3 quarters of a million, congrats dude

@21:50 "Transported into that... wall. Also this world." nice recovery jimmer, been here since the SROL F1 days, here's to a few more years yet.

207k subscribers.... Now at 467k.. Good on ya mate. This track is pretty awesome to watch.

This reminds me of the Isle of Man's TT mountain circuit in terms of length (37.73 miles - not as long as Targa Florio) , scenery and going through narrow villages and stuff, Kirk Michael being one of them and Parliament Square in Ramsey being another, hitting the houses or coming off your bike in those sections of the circuit often resulted in death or serious injury, so yeah this circuit is similar even though you have 4 wheels as opposed to 2.

I'm from Sicily and makes a odd effect to me to see roads and mountains i see sometimes (i live about 60 km from where the Targa Florio was held) on a sim racing video from a British youtuber XD CIAO JIMMY :) you made a great drive in the Melbourne virtual GP!

Watched this because of the title but man, I really liked what you had tell and I'm pretty much certain that I'm not the only one ;)

3 months later you are almost to 300K!!! Keep up the great videos “slightly high in his chair because he’s on a cushion boi”!!

If there is a day i wake up and there’s not a Jimmy Broadbent video i know its gonna be a bad day. I don’t have many friends and watching your videos and streams and interacting with chato fills that gap and it makes things better. Keep doing what your doing jimmy you deserve all the good coming your way.

16:00 Listing to this video now, after watching Jimmy build a Lego car for 2 hours for his 726k subs makes me love this guy even more, so humble and he has never let his massive audience change how he is. I'm so glad your doing well man, keep up the amazing videos

I think you get people like is cos of the way you act with us. You are nice and cheerful. Also you are fun to listen. Sometimes I can just listen to you talking without watching a video :D

I don't think anyone else could make me watch an unknown track with a boring landscape in the background, love your style of videos!

Cool that someone is making this track for AC. I did a video of driving this in GT Legends about 5 years ago. I almost completed a lap but the last straight didn't have a barricade at where I was supposed to turn off and just looked like it kept going straight so I hit an invisible wall and totaled my Ferrari 365. The best thing about the circuit is the scenery though so without that it's not so great.

I come back for you Jim, enjoy watching you have fun. You should commentate the F1 you've got the voice.

This was so awesome to see, I can remember playing 80s games that were supposed to be this car, and now it's like, wow, look at what we're doing with simulators you can have in your home.