I actually was hired to film the Deltawing so many years ago. Some of this footage may have come from my camera! Such a mind blowingly weird car, awesome to see you cover it.

I'll never forget the Deltawing leading for HOURS at the 24h of Daytona going into the night, before unfortunately crashing in Turn 1 into a stranded car on the racing line. RIP Deltawing, a little jewel of engineering that will be missed by fans

For real, I don't know what to say, the video is online for less than an hour and you've already showed an amazing support here on the comments! Thank you for real, you are the best and i'm not joking when i say that!

has someone ever been this underrated

Satoshi Motoyama desperately spending HOURS to attempt to fix the deltawing enough to make it to the pits after the 2012 crash at Le Mans is still one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever watched unfold in a motor race.

Thank you and yes we all miss Deltawing. The problem is not the lack of innovation. The problem is the resistance to innovation.

I fail to see why this guy doesn't have at *minimum* 500k subs. You're doing this because you have passion and I appreciate the hell out of it.

Most underrated channel on youtube

You’re like this car Half the audience Half the recognition deserved All in quality Hope sincerely you’ll make it You got my sub and my like

Your documentaries are incredibly underrated. Absolutely love your style and emphasis on concise and entertaining looks at the oddities of motorsport history. Can't wait to see where you go from here.

"Half the weight, half the fuel, all the speed" F1: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that

Yep, that pretty much motorsport in a nutshell. I've experienced it with my work at Praga cars. Rules and regulations always get in the way.

the gran turismo soundtracks !! Awsome video thank you

I heard 2 sec of the video and that music......I knew it was going to be a good video. keep the good work!

I'm a die hard petrol head, and I own a BMW E31 850i, but I find this car to be drop dead gorgeous for some reason.

I loved following the fortunes of this car when it was around. Far from being a failure it got up to third place for a while during Petit Le Mans and led the Daytona 24 hours for many laps before colliding with a car that had spun. I naively hoped it would open the door to more experimental vehicles being tried. It never ever reached its full potential because it was never allowed to. Thanks for doing this video. It made motorsport more enjoyable for me while it was around. I lost interest in the sport after it went. It was an opportunity for motorsport to progress in a more planet friendly direction and to be really interesting while it did so.

definitely one of the most amazing channels in yt now. Keep pushin'!

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the channel Mustard on KZfaq, but your videos give me the same feel as theirs. Such great and concise information with deep dives, great storytelling and amazing production. I hope this channel blows up as you deserve it and we’re all so grateful for your efforts.

Man, these rules applied on the deltawing reminded me of chaparral 2J, not a fan of them, would have loved to see cars unique like that in races, It would have made racing more entertaining, I think. Either way this was a great video, easy to understand, the overall quality is great and keep up the good work! So glad I found this channel and I hope to see more content like this!

The aesthetics of this channel are amazing and I love how you document stuff, keep this up, subscribed! ❤️

Man shi got me sad at the end the delta wing project deserved more

It was an honest attempt based on sound engineering concepts, and the lead engineer was cool AF - watch Leon’s interview with him and there’s no way you’ll come away with anything but admiration for this project, regardless of its ultimate record.

my favourite KZfaqr so far ❤️🔥

I loved watching the little deltawing do its thing. Such a different design concept and it worked! It sucks that the Nissan GTR LM they made did not work. If I recall it quali'd back of LMP1 and even LMP2 beat them for a few cars. But still, they made a FWD, front engine LMP1, which is such a long shot but they did it.

That was an amazing project! I have been part of the team at the 24h LeMans (short seen at 5:58) and was impressed about the efficency ! Without that crash, the result would be really good!

Oh I know this car! I remember I saw a mod for it in assetto Corsa a while back thinking that it's a peculiar design. That's amazing now I know the history of it

The most intriguing race car of the past few decades

I like how there's a videogame vibe going on in these videos. As someone who spent the time in racing games from year 2000's and even to this day, I'd say love your content. 😬

Incredible story, narration, and editing. The world needs more of this. How can we fund you?

Felice di aver trovato un canale come il vostro! storie pazzesche, da questo della Deltawing a quello della Toyota 7!

The fact there's no place for an experimental car like this leaves me with the feeling that the world of motorsports is fundamentally broken...

On top of how great this video is, the music makes it so comfy. That old gran turismo feel. Keep up the great work!

Production is top notch. Why this channel don't have 10M subs?

I love your content so much. Its like going back in time with these banging sound tracks and visuals! Thank you for your knowledge and entertainment my friend, cheers!

That Nissan looks like a moving missle

I've got this hunch the car got booted from the tracks is because it doesn't look carlike. Win on sunday sell on monday is an impossibility with this thing cause nothing on the showroom floors even vaguely resembles it. Big motor money is what's been driving racing for the longest time banking on a return on investment in sales so if the deltawing concept would have been competitive more teams would have shown up with their variations of this, but big motocorp money would have dried up. Also, Great video on a very interesting topic. Well done Project Dream!

Love the gran turismo music that you featured in the video!

Due to the unique concept virtually all rollmoment had to be supported by the rear axis. the delta-wing team came up with quite an ingenius way to cope with that. unlike with heave-roll-systems used in f1 the delta wing still had one spring-damper unit for each wheel (like in traditional independent suspension systems). of course it was pushrod/bellcrank-driven, but the trick was that they put a so called T-lever in between the bellcranks and the spring-damper-units (similar to how a third-spring-damper system is connected). they connected to spring-dampers right at the ends of the T-lever and the bellcranks further inward. in heave the whole T could rock forward and the displacement at the spring-dampers was the same as on the bellcranks. in roll however the T-lever could rotate about its 'leg' and because the bellcranks are connected further inward towards that rotation axis, each spring damper unit is compressed more than how much the bellcrank moved. this way they could achieve two different motion-ratios for heave and roll with just a smart arrangement of the spring-dampers. they did not have to any fancy rolldampers or heavesprings, they where abled to use of the shelf dampers simply and tune them to their needs.

Son of Don Panoz, Dan, designed some very fast (conventional), competitive race cars of his own - Panoz Esperante GTR-1. I met Katherine Legge at COTA (2013 I believe) when she drove the Delta Wing (I have a scale model of it). It is/was a great "out-of-the-box" design that was very fast. People (other competitors) were threatened by it, and it is unfortunate. It deserves it's won series. Very nice story on the history of the Deltawing.

We had this car at Lotus pre LeMans 2012, doing shakedowns and endurance testing. It held the track record until Kimi took the F1 around there.

Love the grand tourismo soundtrack. Best part.

Great video content, and quality. Subbed. I hope to see this channel get more traction than the Deltawing, and last much longer.

This is fantastic! Always saw this around at the time and never knew its story until now!

I've never heard of this car before but I'm grateful that I've learned about it in such a well put video ! I hope the best for your channel !

The Gran Turismo music is the cheery on top of this delicious videographic pastry

Love the gran turismo vibe to your video’s, popped up a few times in my recommended and really deserves more views! Great content keep it up! 🙌

Haha Gran Turismo 5 music in the background... nice touch👍

So underrated love the videos keep up the good work 👍

Oh man I'm sold with the Gran Turismo-esque jazz and great presentation!

My dude. You the most amazing car channel. I love it.

First time seeing your video pop up in my feed, so thankful that it did. Loved the video, didn’t skip a second of it.

i love how gran turismo your channel has become, the intros the musics you use are bang on amazing, only channel like it, wonderful video what an amazing vehicle it is, its a shame it was never used...

so thats why ive only heard of it once, seemed revolutionary and interesting when I first saw it on magazines

This video is awesome. Well done whoever made it.

I remember seeing this thing at the Petit Le Mans and loving it!

The Gran Turismo 3 main menu music for the 2nd chapter and then the Gran Turismo 4 background music before you start a race or driving license mission is just so classic and timeless. I love your videos so much

Thought I was watching a production from a massive channel. This video is so well done!

Really glad I got to see this car run in person in 2013, it's definitely my favorite hero card I own. I cannot believe this was nearly 10 years ago

I absolutely love your choice for the music. The Grand Tourismo music is perfect. Had to rewatch the video because it was a vibe!

This is one of my favorites channels from now on.

Such a gem of a channel!

Like everyone else, the retro GT feel to this video and the content within it was reason enough to subscribe to this quality channel, however the use of Euphoria by Kohta really sealed the deal for me! Consider my serotonin boosted! :)

The music you're playing around the 9:20 marks reminds so much of the menu music in Sega GT 2002. Brings me back.

I remember seeing it race at Road Atlanta in 2012. It was SO cool and the talk of the paddock. Hopefully somebody takes inspiration from it and we see parts of its design incorporated into future concepts and series.

The production level of this video is insane! I got autoplay on and when this video came on I thought it was from a hundred-thousands subs car youtuber, I hope that will be the case in the near future

the nostalgia of the GT music hit me hard. nice video

i love when u put many aspect of gran turismo bgm and background menu in this video....

On March 10th 2012 I was invited to AAR for a private unveiling of the Deltawing a week before it was shown at Sebring for the first time. It was a special gathering with Dan Gurney saying a short speech and with champagne being served (rather than sprayed). I later went to LeMans that year to see it run. It was cool to be in the Nissan hospitality area above the pit box where the silhouette of the car (shaped like an arrow) was marked in tape on the concrete. It was certainly a distinctive detail and seeing the Deltawing on track was incredibly innovative looking.

Amazing video guys, like the history of DeltaWing. ❤️

I just watched this video, really good quality. I didnt lose any of my interest at all while watching. But then I realized that you have 10k subscribers... You are seriously underrated, for the quality of just this video, you deserve upwards of 1 million subscribers, I wish you all the best for the future.

Love it never even heard of this car and definitely would have paid to see it race!

you are a wonderful storyteller. please keep growing and continuing to bring us such beautiful videos.

Lol. Thanks for the Gran Turismo music in the background 😂 Memories!

I love the Gran Turismo BGM

Like many motorsports enthusiasts, I shy away from radical design concepts. I find a shape that I like and I hang on for dear life. But there have been exceptions - the six-wheeled car and the fan car. These vehicles integrated amazing technology without tremendous changes in the core body sculpture. But the DeltaWing? Wow. It broke all the rules and yes, I thought it was just short of unsightly. But it grew on me. And I certainly appreciated the technological advancements. So while the DeltaWing was rejected by the motorsports family, I truly believe that the tech changes that are coming in the future - and electrifying the vehicles will demand them - will find their way back to this remarkable endeavor to borrow new ideas and, above all, inspiration.

The bane of existence for every engineer: bureaucracy

Dear god I love your use of some of the GT soundtrack. something I really miss in GT7. Dude keep up the amazing work if you have some! I really enjoy it!!

You’re on to something here - head down push push!

Your videos are AMAZING!

Fucking OUTSTANDING video and channel, severely underrated. You're gonna blow tf up in no time.

Great video, as usually

Panoz refusing to chose between owning the series and owning a team is the one and only person responsible for the DeltaWing failure. Everything in endurance racing all over the world revolves around the BOP (Balance Of Performance). This is the heart of the concept. All participating cars must have their performance assessed as fairly as possible and various parameters adjusted (weight, power, fuel tank capacity, fuel pump speed) with the goal to even out performance as fairly as possible so that cars are compared on their reliability. The BOP is a hard battleground. All manufacturers continuously track, report and discuss any performance parameter they consider uneven. And the owner of the series who is responsible for the BOP has an immense power. A slight tweak one way or an other could give a huge advantage to one team over the others. It is obvious and accepted by everyone that a completely new design needs a test period to assess its actual performances before including it to the BOP and making the right adjustments. That's what the special Team 56 is designed for. Most often the concepts don't survive the reality check because they can't reach minimal requirements and they are abandoned. Sometimes they have actually good performance like the DeltaWing. And obviously since they are not restricted by the BOP they outperform the cars that are restricted during that test period. When the DeltaWing did just that it was something uncommon but not revolutionary. The truth is endurance racing is a long run. Passing the test period is only the prerequisite to be allowed to participate in the actual race. Which starts when the car is included into the BOP. And that is when the problems started for the DeltaWing, because of the conflicting interests of Panoz being both series owner and team owner. It's obvious that other participants started to openly accuse him of trying to cheat the BOP to his advantage. In other series where all cars have the same common specs, having the series owner being also a participant team owner is no issue because all rules apply the same to all teams. But endurance being all about comparing cars with different specs evened out by the BOP, having this situation is simply not acceptable. As long as Panoz insisted on holding both roles of series owner and team owner the DeltaWing was doomed because the only way for him to prove to other team owner that he wasn't trying to cheat the BOP to his own advantage was to cheat the BOP against himself. Other manufacturers where not afraid of having a fair race against the DeltaWing concept. They were afraid of having an unfair race against the guy who had control over the BOP. So Ben had no other choice than make the decision himself and separate from Panoz to get out of the conflict of interest. But Panoz greed didn't let go. He kept on engaging his own DeltaWing team. And obviously other participants united in protest against every single bit of BOP ruling that seemed to give an advantage to Panoz himself. The DeltaWing was only collateral victim of the conflict of interest Panoz had created. Any other concept put in the same situation would have suffered the same consequences. There was also a serious safety issue because the DeltaWing was so low that other car drivers had difficulties seeing it in their mirrors and it also had difficulties to turn at low speed forcing it to take different trajectories than other cars under yellow flags. Combining a different trajectory and being hard to see in a packed group stacked behind a safety car resulted in the DeltaWing being involved in several accidents under yellows. That was a serious incompatibility that put the life of the pilots at risk. And that was the reason for forcing the DeltaWing to return to the pits each time there was a yellow flag until they could find a suitable solution. I have confidence with time they would have found a solution to that safety issue. But the main issue of having the BOP owner being also participant was resolved the hard way, so the safety issue became irrelevant.

Just found this channel, love it

Bro awesome video, just found out your channel and man your "menus" really look like Ridge Racer Type 4 inspiration

Loving Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer Type IV vibes that are present in the video.

I remember watching this at LM24H years ago - it was super intriguing but I remember it wobbling through the Esses and chicanes and it didn't survive the night. Still a super fascinating car to watch race

Love the Grab Turismo soundtrack in the background

I wish i could work on Italian subtitles for those videos - since you guys are Italian and this content deserves to be as fruible as it can get in our homeland :))

Fantastic video! Really happy to see this channel getting more recognition

Loved it, thank you 🙏🏻

bro, amazing video!!!

Love your video and editing man👍

okay...i see the R4 references. Liked! edit: and the GT music. Now subbed! great content.

Felt like a Gran Turismo intro with the music. Good job

Fantastic video for a very beautiful but sad story...

Saw one burn to the ground at CTMP in Ontario. Aside from that part, it was really fascinating to watch in highly variable elevation on track with blind turn ins.

I've always wished someone would start a racing series where there was only safety rules enforced. Let engineers come to with what is the fastest way to get around the track. No rules on car design, motors, tires, fuel etc. That's how we'd see some amazing innovation. The spirit of racing has been lost to big money companies who tell the series the rules they want. Someone put up a million dollars and say meet at Lemans on a certain date 2 years from now and see what people can come up with!

nice gran turismo music, loving these soundtracks

This car reminds me of the GM Firebird 1 concept from the 1950s, which was directly inspired by rockets and fighter jets. But unlike the Firebird, the jet-like design actually serves a proper performance application. I'm also digging the Ridge Racer 4 and Gran Turismo-based aesthetic of the video, so give yourself a pat on the back.

Loved this car!!! Was at the 24 Daytona to see it