I still remember when they had a mix of old and new it was fun choosing a car too cheer for!

You are a true motorsport nerd to do that, I love it! haha. Yes obviously the ARC body won't admit that, but from my research, that's the generally accepted story of how the idea came to be before he began assembling his own cars!

same for me, but I'm from canada

as a kiwi we get it live on TV, watching the arc around Mt panorama is hilarious. I would love to own one of these for the laughs

They are brilliant. I love them in Adelaide because I think the track is perfect for them!

I've been wanting to import one of these things for years lol, unfortunately I'm not the kind of person able to import cars 😂 but yeah we have some tracks these things would be absolutely fantastic on, would be awesome to get a series of them going stateside

Sometimes you can find a Legends car or Thunder Roadster in the mid 4 digits price range. Thunder Roadsters race on road courses in SCCA and NASA.

​@davidnorman1415 this would turn into a 35k plus race car here in the US. Dirt track mod lites are already 20-25k

When you saying affordable? You're going to run a mini sprint/ formula 500 for a hell of a lot less with far more races

True but open wheel is a negative and a positive

And in the last say 7-10 year the cost has got out of hand on parts and engines for Legends. Thats why I sold mine.

@@djh3_88hinskey5 thats all racing tho look at what it cost to run a midget 20 years ago vs now

The Legend Midget cars are as a series in NASCAR or was on Paved as a series that mostly inexperienced drivers and kids ran so there were massive spinouts. Legend Dirt is its own series separate from any other race series and they take it seriously as its own thing.

Legends tends to be geared more towards young, learning drivers, and being forced to learn exactly where the bumpers and sides of their cars are by not being able to touch is a big positive in driver development so I get it. But I get what you're saying, doesn't always make for the most exciting racing as a viewer, especially in the ladder system of the top American full body stock car series. Would love to see a series of these cars pop up in America though!

WOAH no way! We need them in all games NOW

@@tanssi2145 They're fantastic in sim as well! I'm from Adelaide, and being able to drive these little weapons around my home circuit from the comfort of my own rig is an absolute delight that I wish everyone would try.

You already have it, it's just legends racing but on road courses and different bodies - The engine and chassis is the exact same! 🤦🏻‍♂️

​@@DanArnets1492yup and its fantastic

@@DanArnets1492not really we rebuilt them and extended length and made them wider

Some great races they've had are here on KZfaq. Look for the wet races in Tasmania Symmons Plains about 2017. Gold Coast had a huge crash some years ago. Bathurst always has tough racing.

Naw we would ruin it. Like the brink it on tv

For a few years they've been using the engine from the FJR1300

It also has the added benefit that it revs highly and doesn't sound like any other race car in person, so they definitely stand out! 😂

I was a bike mechanic from early eighties to early 2000,s and got to see that engine go through 1100 to 1200 to 1300 configs and it was a beast. Big torque, smooth and as reliable as a hammer.

@@watsisbuttndo829 - All "oversized" bike engines are the same way, the CB1300 is no different and I'm sure the 6-cylinder BMWs could also move a minicar like nothing

​@@DanArnets1492xjr not fjr

Fantastic operation you guys ran. Quinn keeps it going.

AMS2 has this (just the Chevy version AFAIK). When it gets the V1.5 update I bet it will be outstanding, as are the others already granted the upgrade.

Oh Australian motorsport is some of the best in the world! I was lucky enough to spend time over there and went to a fair few tracks in the process! Loved watching the cars fly into the Senna chicane in Adelaide watching from the inside of the track!

@@KieranMogg Hope you enjoyed your stay in Australia!

The MX-5 cup is a classic series! We have something similar in the UK, but I wish the ARC were more widespread!

@@KieranMogg We have a similar version of these for ovals, called American Cup Cars (quick Google should find them - accracing). 1300cc Yamaha sealed engines, spaceframe chassis, 5/8th scale. I've recently started watching them this year, and will be racing one in October! You can buy a full car, with spares for around £6-9k. I just wish they also went to circuits as well. Checking on KZfaq, it looks like they have been to Brands Hatch and Lydden Hill, but more for a one-off than for a season.

First time I saw them was in the big grandstand at Adelaide, I had to do a double take and didn't believe they were that small until I walked to the pits and literally they were only like waist height! 😂

SAme here! When they first came out I was sitting there in front of my old 34cm tv trying to adjust the screen. 😁

I remember the racing at the bend last year was batshit insane last year

@@Anon24052 bro that rollover where the bonnet was right aide up but the car was upsidedown 🤣

Agreed! I saw them first time Clipsal 500 2017, absolutely loved them and couldn't believe that such a series even existed!

They are incredible! I couldn’t believe it when I saw them for the first time!

I never got to see them at winton unfortunately! Only saw them at Adelaide! I bet winton was great for them though!

Thank you for watching and commenting! Really appreciate it!

It is indeed part of the Superview broadcast on YT

It really is, thank you for watching! There's loads on KZfaq, especially of the 2017 season I found when I was finding clips for the video!! But definitely good that some of the drivers are getting international chances. Most notably Scott Mclaughlin!

It’s funny that you say that tho as I’m Aussie and these are my favourite, if you watch any season there’s bound to be a massive crash, these are like wingless sprints which when the roll it’s just a ride you can’t stop, they are incredible and hold some of the best racing even when they crash

Just yesterday, I had an awesome fun race with those in our simracing community. Total fun fest on Bathurst. Such an exciting car to drive in the sim.

@@derhasi is the game playable on controller how hard is it to find a lobby nowadays

Hell yeah Automobilista 2! Reiza introduced me to these in AMS1. :)

I will check it out! Thank you! 😊

Well i'm glad i was able to educate and entertain! 🤣 Aussies do it so well, i'm from UK and our health and safety regulations prevent the cool stuff!

I've not actually tried it, I've seen a few people commenting on it though! Didn't even know it was on a sim until people said about Automobilista! haha

Oh they are incredible! I'm thinking of doing a video on that series as I saw them in Adelaide 2017 for first time and I couldn't pick my jaw up from the floor for a week! Just simply the height they jump at is insane!

First time I stood next to one, I was so confused because it just didn’t add up! 😂 they are so good though!

same bro. that looks so fun!

ahah thank you! I'm glad I was able to show you something new then! Thank you for watching!

Thank you! Yes it's a great series. Glad you were able to learn something new!

You have so much more space than other cars, just imagine that run down the mountain from Skyline to Forest Elbow, must be incredible in an ARC!

I lived over there for a little while which is how I learnt about them, you guys have some seriously good series over there!

The current bodies used are Camaro and Mustang, but the only oval we have is the dead Calder Park Thunderdome.

@@gusdrivinginaustralia6168 Adelaide International Raceway has one as well if you look at google earth, except that's primarily a dragstrip now... but yeah, I'd love to see short track at least, maybe on dirt even.

just downloaded that track for A.C and WOW

@@steveo1964 yes it’s really a fun track :) It doesn’t have a huge age old history like the Nürburgring or Hockenheim has, but it has enough great racing series have legendary races there that are nowadays already considered legends, like the amazing DTM cars of the late 80s and early 90s and then the monstrous technical high end machines of the later DTM/ITC Series as the 90s advanced and roled over into the early 2000s. Great races to watch live! And nowadays there are many races going on there, GT classes, prototypes, lower level formula classes and of course a lot of motorcycle classes too! I can consider myself very fortunate that I did quite a few laps on that track in real live already with different cars. My biggest highlight was when I was selected for a training weekend by BMW (I have four BMWs, a daily 5 series with a 3 liter inline six turbo automatic , two e36 a compact with the 2.5 liter inline six manual and a touring with the 2.8 liter inline six automatic and the original e8x 1 series as a cabriolet with the 3 liter inline six manual). You could write a little bit about yourself, register through your dealer for this program and I got lucky that I was one of the 30 people who got selected. They rented the track a full weekend for us, starting Friday morning ending Sunday evening with paid hotel stay, catering etc. It was such an amazing experience! We started out with a few briefings and then got racing overalls and helmets and a track prepared M4 (carbon intake open snorkel, carbon ceramic brakes, stripped interior and light cage and big pedal shifts. Then we trained for a few hours with a pacecar in front of us at racepace to learn the limits of Tue track and have a pack racing experience. 15 people on the track, we were split in two groups. The other group got to drive bmw classic cars in the wonderfully sunny, a bit mountainous countryside at the time the others where on the track. This was also such a great experience, we had cars like the e30 M3, the 850 CSI (manual high reving V12, it is the base engine for the McLaren F1!!)the 635 CSL, the 2002 turbo, the legendary Batmobile and many more cars going from the early 90s backwards right to the legendary BMW 507! This was the first day, on the second it got really special! Everybody in the group got a Formula BMW car and racing training! Full carbon monocoque single seater with amazing aero! Driving those where completely different from everything I ever did and so much cooler (but also much harder and really exhausting) I ever did with cars! The other group enjoyed switching around tue Oldtimers during that time. On the third day we got a qualifying and a little race for everybody but of course had to keep it safe. Those 30 laps where extremely hard and those cars aren’t even near formula 4 level! And then after lunch we got taxi laps with full blown racecars driven by full blown BMW racedrivers like Bruno Spengler, Sheldon van der Linde and one amazing young woman who is extremely fast but unfortunately I forget her name.. It was unreal we where taxied around in the M6 GTE, the M4 GT3 and the highlight, the old V8 naturally aspirated DTM car! The forces you felt while in those cars where unbelievable and how those drivers flung them around the track was just insane! It was unbelievable how hard they pushed the cars and how late they braked! It was such an unbelievable experience that you never could buy with money (maybe if you are a billionaire) and I’m so grateful I got to experience this as a normal working guy who likes driving cool cars. Yes I’m fortunate enough to afford my vehicles etc but I’m by no means rich. I’m just a regular working engineer in the automobile industry who develops cars for a living. I can’t complain about my income, but it’s nothing you could even reasonably justify buying a Porsche with so this experience is very very special for me and I’ll forever have a really deep connection with the Motopark Oschersleben due to that! I would’ve never been able to drive any of those amazing vehicles if they didn’t invite me to that legendary event. Sorry for spamming you with such a long story without knowing you at all, I was just very happy about your comment, being a non German liking the track in AC :)

50 new cars were actually sent to N.Z when Quinny built Highlands, i made a bunch of stuff for those.

Every country has their own great series, it’s just Australian motorsport isn’t really broadcast internationally and other than V8’s, nobody really knows the other series!

​@KieranMogg have you ever seen the V8 Utes series? It was called V8 Brutes in the early days, a fantastic series that unfortunately doesn't exist anymore.

@@Freddyfartbox yes I have seen them. I never saw them in person unfortunately but Jesus Christ they looked insane!

Ah it's a shame you didn't manage to get up close to one! I think most of the rounds they attend have open paddocks, they did when I saw them at the Adelaide 500. Definitely worth having a wander round the paddock if you get chance, TV really doesn't do it justice I agree!

@@KieranMogg not sure it was possible at Simmons Plains. I would have loved to have gotten an up close look at the Stadium Trucks when they took them to Tassie. Those things were beasts out on the track! I hope they bring them back to Aus again in the future.

They really do look awesome! No driver aids so they just are constantly moving!

I didn't see them at Winton unfortunately, I've seen them at Adelaide a few times and they never fail to put on a show! Especially through the Senna chicane bouncing over those massive curbs!!

I think more people just need to pay attention to Aussie motorsports in general....cause they're brilliant!

There's a few people commented about that, I know of the series and have seen some races but pretty unfamiliar with it. I will definitely look deeper into it!

They really are! Oh trust me, I'm very aware of Jordan Cox and that Civic. Coming over skyline and that move, up on two wheels round Adelaide. Just awesome stuff! I was there in 2019 when he got the chance at TCR Australia and he was such a nice guy!

It's amazing, I'm always glued to the screen when they're on! Neons definitely had some close racing tbf!

I think it highly depends on the tracks, the ARC's have some really good tracks to race on fortunately, but I suppose NASCAR is a very different style of racing on the whole so difficult to compare!