6:42 Wow impressive handling!

Most endurance races tend to spread out quite a lot as the hours wear on, but on the Nurburg 24h there's just SO many cars and they're all so different in terms of pace that it's got to be constantly fighting through traffic... absolutely nuts

best onboard ive seen!!!!

Incredible how far away the others were after the Mini-Gandalf blocked the passage.

The SLS, the FIA GT1 Corvette's and the JUDD v8 are theeee best sounding v8's ever!!!!! NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

Thank you so much for posting this video on youtube. This really does show how frantic racing at this level can be.

Probably the best in-car footage I have ever seen

5:15 Project Cars online

Thanks for the ride !!!

That crash clearly put him off his stride. 06:42 when he lost control and shaked his head proves it. Anyway, sick driving, great driver, awesome race, intense video!!!

I love watching Lance Arnold. So sharp but as calm as if this is just a sim race.

One of the best cockpit views i've ever seen! Best track in the world with the best cars in the world! I think every car in this video is a german car except for 4 or 5 cars wasn't (peugot, Mazda, Renault...) Many BMW.

great video. not only is there a major difference in the capabilities of the car, there is also a major difference in the capabilities and skill level of the drivers which may be more important than the differences in the cars.

the lap time for this lap is around 8mins 30 seconds.....and yes, I do believe the speed is REAL. The race SLS is not a slow race car! The traffic is really bad......on a track this narrow! Racing here would be my dream, as a race car driver myself. Good video, no need bother about ppl who question if the speeds are real...

6:41 Holy fuck what a recovery!

awesome. thanks for the upload.

If you need to synthetize what a VLN race is, This video is perfect. I mean, lapping or being lapped is the key. Tight road, a lot of very different cars. Is tough, expecially in a slower car, a lot of time watching mirrors. It's very easy to made a mistake but that's racing. Thanks for the video, it's spectacular.

Video still doesn't give justice to the speed at which these guys drive... Trust me, these are only GT3 cars but they would absolutely blow the mind of half of you if you got a chance to drive one... The camera also doesn't relay the speed that these cars dive into corners, modern aerodynamics are unbelievable even at this level! I hope one day I get the opportunity to have a go in a DTM, GT1 or GT500 car as I've heard (and watched them) they are absolutely outrageous through the corners!

lovely cars...effective downforce and brilliant engines and transmissions

Most beautiful race track in the world.

And to think that was just one lap, can you imagine this insanity for 24 hrs???

Extremely good video! Very good driver as well!

awesome vid.. he knows this track well

@agent47racing : Laptime is aprox. 8'40" in this video. Pole position for this car during this race was 8'14"961. The video is definitely not sped up. The cars move a lot on their suspension because the Nürburgring is very bumpy.

Absolutely right - he did well to go off to the right you could tell the steering was completely shot.

Balls of steel!

unglaubiches Können! einfach unglaublich!

Superb driving!!!

That looks like a lot of fun!

thats some amazing pro stuff, i like video because it show a drivers point of view sort of

What a wild ride.

Awesome driving

That Mini guy and agent47racing are both epic morans.

That SOUND SO GOOD

i've watched an eduro gt3 at nurburg the cylinders of the amg pump through your body as they go past its insane

nice onboard view

Am Anfang ne richtig geiler Formations-Run bevor es auf Start/Ziel geht! Und der Mini-Crash, zum Glück nichts passiert, aber für den Zuschauer nette Action ;)

What an insane battle.

Great driving. This track is so unforgiving.

What's the name of the intro music playing at 0:19 PLEASE !!!! Love that wing shake on the Porsche !!!

Now that is how racing should be.

Bravo!

With that long long front, how did the driver not bump into the front car?? Genuinely curious.

Nice driving

Sounds sick, wish i could be that good.

awesome

can you upload setup pls?

Indeed, but what was the mini doing there anyway when there are GT3 cars flying around the track?

music for my earssssss

6:40 Nice Control !!

The lap time for this particular lap would be roughly 8:20 min., which would still be 20 slower than the best lap times these SLS have posted last season. Although I understand your considerations there is little reason to doubt that this is the correct video speed.

Lance David Arnold und Kenneth Heyer sind die Besten!

Oh Mann .. Schade für das Illbruck Team, aber starkes Video wie immer !

Huge moment at 6:41!!! Nice skill!

very stressfull to deal with traffic, very good driving

How do Porsche race teams counter the continuous weight loss from the emptying fuel tank? To they relocate the tank?

Welche Assistenzsysteme sind denn beim SLS AMG GT3 noch aktiviert (Traktionskontrolle, ABS?)? Und ist das iwie durch das Reglement beschränkt?

Se é loco.o bagulho anda d mais

@cruncher2- What I'm seeing is not so much in the GT-3 cars as it is in the behavior of the slower cars that are being passed and track marshals with the flags.

waw great driver !!!

great engine sound 6.2 AMG FTW

i love to mix w music

amazing hit @ 5:17

actually it does look a bit sped up 5:24 his head movement is extremely fast... but either way dam this guy follows super close mad skills

Was it Schumi in the Mini?

good driver!! he knows the pretty good

@Raceboy911- When it comes to video and race cars, I know what I'm looking at. The video looks different and faster than what is normal. It's most likely due to it being shot at a frame rate of 60 FPS. It's obvious to me that it looks unusually fast compared to what I normally see on KZfaq and other video sites. I shoot and edit video of cars every day with over 8TB of footage on my drives. It may not be sped up intentionally but to my eyes, it looks faster than normal.

@K1llY0u why they are leaving VLN??

It is the Nürburgring Nordschliefe, but not the 24 hour race. x)

I always wish we could here what the driver is saying to himself at points like that. I'm assuming a noise of some description will come out when two cars in front of you collide.

This is the normal speed, if the movement seems to be unnatural, it's because the car move and vibrate a lot.

Great video, shows how much you have to concentrate all the time to get through the traffic. Oh and that Mini driver was erm, lets say out of his depth...

Man that car has some front grip!

@DeathEaterCobra- I've been too busy to address all of the sharp replies to my statement but this is what I have been thinking. 60 FPS will make a video with lots of action seem cartoonishly quick and makes sense to me when watching this video. Thanks for replying with creative criticism : )

5:17 Nice capture 0:42 Love seeing Manthey Porsche, but how did they manage to be champion when they are so slow in this video. Doesn't look promising for next year when Benz SLS AMG and Audi R8 are around..

Track day?

Die blinken nicht das liegt nur an der Kamera, hab ich bei eigenen Kameraaufnahmen auch schon bemerkt, dass die Lichter manchmal so blinken obwohl sie es in wirklichkeit nicht taten.

this is all I want in life. If i cant have this, I dont want anything.

@agent47racing @agent47racing Easy to prove that there is no speed up: the lap starts at 1:32 and ends at 10:10. So it takes him 518 Seconds (8min 38s) to go round the Nürburgring. And now take a look at the results of VLN #4 here: www_vln_de/ergebnisse/2011-05-28r_html ( use "." instead of "_") The Heico SLS is P7, and by clicking on the number (19) you can see every laptime of this car. Here it is Lap 3 - surprise - 8:37,824 :)

THE BEST SLS

good pilot

i wish i could join with one of these on the norshliefe

what an amazing fuckin race track

what is the mini doing?!!!

@agent47racing that could be but i swear that this is the real speed, there is no speed up in the video!

PRO Driver PRO Car PRO Team

Awsome race... Awsome driver... Can anyone tell me the intro music playing at 0:19 PLEASE !!!!

@agent47racing no no, that is the real speed, no speed up!

DAT WING SHAKE

@rowanrobinson- True. You never know who is behind the keyboard. I have no motivation to discredit the poster. It just looks a few % faster than reality. (A reality that I am very familiar with)...If you look at another video of this SLS on the same channel with the same angle, you will see that this definitely looks just a tad faster. Look at how the slower cars move. They seem to be cornering cartoon-ishly quick, and the body roll doesn't match the speed that they appear to be travelling.

That porsche lift oft at 4:00 :O

asdakjawofij!! i had no idea of the cornering speeds of these GT cars, holy crap

ist eine Eigenart der LEDS auf Filmmaterial

5:15 here we go

Sind die Paddels einfach nur so flach oder sind da tatsächlich keine?!

That zig-zag overtaking from 6:04 is incredible... in such speeds... 6:42 ok i give up... i would stop my car right there and walk away becoming christian :D

that was a forza moment when that mini hit that porsche.i know he was pissed

Good driver, better video

LAWL at the Mini.

Der Unfall mit dem Mini und dem Pinta Porsche zeigt eindeutig, wie rau es inzwischen in der VLN zugeht, obwohl hier der Schuld eindeutig beim Minifahrer zu sehen ist. Zur Thematik mit Team Manthey, der 911 GT3R wurde in diesem Jahr echt bescheiden eingestuft, Restriktoren, Gewichte etc. Auch in den GT-Masters und anderen Rennserien konnte der GT3R zu Beginn der Saison nichts reißen. Erst zum Ende. Außerdem hatte das Taem Manthey in diesem Jahr auch so ne Menge Pech.