very good story!

Every human has an innate desire to be remembered after they're gone? I'm not human

I always wonder if the Nissan R90CK would of broke the speed record on the Mulsanne straight. 230 mph on the mulsanne WITH chicanes is just insane.

This is a bit ridiculous ... what if Porsche took one var and designed it for fastest top speed ( before the chicanes ) they may have been in the 260’s.

This car was actually one of the reasons that the bugatti veyron even exists. The bugattis top speed of 407 miles per hour was specifically chosen to beat the peugot, because the peugot took the record from the Porsche 917, which was developed by the (at the time) VW Group CEO Ferdinand Piech. Because bugatti belonged to VW at that time, the target was to hit over 407 kmh with the VW designed W16 engine. Also, really good video! 👍

The 787 is the classic case of you should never meet your heroes!it was a cool car just only in our heads!

This Peugeot record was a reason to build Bugatti Veyron

To paraphrase Norbert Singer: We were worried when we first saw that Peugeot was breaking 400kph on the straight with their car. When soon after we read the actual laptime, we stopped worrying.

Pls don't only use mph, at least write the kph on the screen when talking about miles

Why don't I ever come across videos of this car, even if I search for them

The 787 wasn‘t too fast and got banned because of that. It also wasn‘t as dominant as people think. The car won, because it didn‘t break down like most favorits..

That car is - without any doubt - very fast and impressive. But in '87 one of those cars made 13 laps, the other broke after 3.5 hours, less than 1/3 of the race duration. It was a dang fast car, but it couldn't really compete. Le Mans is not about top Speed, it's about driving fast for 24 hours and not break the car.

fantastic video.

I love that audi had a petrol and diesel car at the same time/race and made a bet intern which car will win. They didn‘t even think about ANY other would win. 😂

This is why Veyron does 407

What can be defined as " fastest" in Le Mans history?? Highest top speed or average speed or maybe the vehicle traveled longest in 24 hrs?? IMHO I think its the Audi R15 since it covered the most distance in 24 hrs. A car is not fast if it has to stop every 30 mins for refuling, or breaks down after 20 laps.

Really well done piece about an amazing car. But is the “fastest sports car in the world” hyperbole needed? It’s not a true statement (and any knowledgeable car fan will know that) and I think undermines credibility in the viewers eyes. There’s so many amazing facts about the 2000gt that exaggeration isn’t needed. This channel is great and I really hope it becomes more popular. I hope the constructive criticism is well… constructive.

> starts talking about group C > shows footage of touring cars at bathurst

It's like winning a traffic light race without the other car knowing. Speed ​​and cornering ability are always a compromise. They won a competition without rivals. I think the car has to go at least the distance for it to count.

The Porsche family wanted their record back so Ferdinand Piëch requested that the Bugatti Veyron must have a top speed of 407 km/h!

A record that will never fall.

Good video. Very informative. Did not know that WM held the top speed record. Always thought it was a 917LH. Thanks for posting.

Why do english speaking people allways call it mulsanne straight? The correct name is hunaudieres straight. Mulsanne is only the corner at the end of the straight.

Always loved this story, no fucks given, just going straight for the top speed record, an underdog effort, and a forever French king of speed at LeMans, unlikely to ever be beaten. The C9 Sauber got up to 400 kph, the Jags did 395, and some sketchy "~1100hp faulty" Nissan fell just short (after the chicanes were set), but none could do it, magical.

You should have more subscribers

Great Video :)

It's pronounced coo-pay

That was the final nail in the coffin of the uninterrupted run from Tertre Rouge to Mulsanne Corner.

Shame we don't see private teams like this make their way into the big leagues. Just a couple of guys making a car out of passion. Mostly because its impossible to develop something like a sports prototype unless you're a huge manufacturer with hundreds of millions in budget and hundreds or thousands of employees.

Thank You for another mgnificent production. I still have not worked out what was more awe-inspiring: the horsepower ratings of these small European engines or the intriguing shape of the wheel arches, (or lack of) on the P88. Also thanks for a fresh pronunciation of the name Peugeot. As a child I might have read it before hearing anyone speak it aloud, and so I always called them PIEw-joe, as in Pepe le Pew, with the emphasis on the first syllable. Then in high school ensued prolonged arguments with friends who pronounced it PURR-joe, as in purring kittens, again with the emphasis on syllable #1. Now hearing the name pronounced purr-JOE, with the emphasis on the second syllable, I concede that my childish phoenetic pronunciation, based on reading the name in a book without ever having heard it spoken, was err, well, inaccurate to put it gently. Which of the other two is correct; which syllable to emphasise? I'll leave that between you and my high school mates. (who would agree with me that Porsche has one syllable - silent E)

Cool😊

So TIL Peugeot was actually a back seat driver on this record, as I had (wrongfully) assumed it was a factory team, considering all the shameless plugs they did during the era (I briefly owned a 405 MI16).

You mixed up Australian "Group C" touringcar regulations with FIA´s prototype "Group C" regulations. Two totally different things... Otherwise a really nice video!

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That Top Gear bit on Peugeot was bloody hilarious....

Another top quality video and love it. This channel is definitely one of the best car channel I knew. Keep up I love all your videos 💪🏻

Quattro in Le Mans? Permanent awd is not permitted in the endurance racing. Btw it’s Blomqvist not Blooomqvist, and Piëch not Peach and many more. Google can help with pronounciation either. These guys deserves it, they’re just legends in motorsport history.

It's Lemooon not lemow

Fot those whom don’t know,they used that engine in the Audi Q7😮😮😮Best car ever made by them.

23k psi driving a bomb incredible

To be honest, to me it made sense from the beginning to use a Diesel car in an endurance race with the layout LeMans has. (back then, not just in hindsight) It's about how far you can go in 24 hours and the fewer times you need to stop for fuel, the more you increase your average speed. Stopping for fuel decreases the average way more than being a little bit slower in topseed or accelleration. And by the time Audi did that, Mercedes even sold a Diesel AMG car. So much for the european knowing that a Diesel can be fast. As for common rail: Common RAil Diesels were also not invented by Audi. The VW conglomerate (Which included Audi) did what they called "Pumpe-Düse" ="Pump-injectornozzle" Meaning they didn't use Common rail at first but had a pump for each direct injecting injector. Other (european) manufacturers instead chose common rail technology to match VW's power output and fuel efficiency. (the c in Mercedes cdi stands for common rail, and they started selling those in 2000 or 2001. (just to name one user of common rail Diesel technology) Thing is, the VW solution became a dead end, and so they switched to common rail too.

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this feels like bootleg the squidd but hey good work

I went to this race. I’d say at the time no one thought pescarolo had a chance, there was no huge shock that Audi kicked ass as their cars had been raced in the LeMans series earlier that year. The big question was if the injectors would fail (and issue the car had been having) and the gearbox which got hammered by the torque as other posters have mentioned. It sounded so strange, other cars you could hear coming almost a mile away. The R10 you heard a whistle from the turbos and the squeal of wheels but the engine itself was really quiet.

This was such a good video

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So interesting, thanks for a great channel! I’d love to know more about the European Fords too 👌🙏

1100 newton meters is 811 foot-pounds of torque, btw.

All Le Mans engines of the time, since there were radical differences in engine size, aspiration, cylinder count etc, had air restrictors on them to try and equalize performance, subject to ongoing tweaks in restrictor size to maintain parity. I asked one of the Audi mechanics at an ALMS race the car was at back then "If you guys took the air restrictor off, how much power could it make?" The mechanic replied "Well, I did ask one of the German engineers a similar question, and he gave me a little bit of a round about answer. He said with the air restrictors removed, they would reprofile the camshafts, re-map the engine at a minimum to get the most out of not having the restrictors. So, I asked him "1,000 hp?" and he pointed his thumb up and waved it as if to say it could easily do more than that, but also have to consider that the engine needs to last for a 24 hour endurance race. As you get way above the current power levels, the immense pressures generated at such power levels will have a negative impact on reliability." Audi's LMP cars were always technological marvels, and even cooler than that is their race cars often acted as test beds for technology that were soon to make it into production cars. The R8 began using (T)FSI in 2000, by 2004 that injection technology would be in their production gasoline cars. Commonrail injection had been used by Audi in V8s since about 1999, but it was really limited to that one engine for a number of years until the mid 2000s. The VW Pumpe Duse injection technology could actually obtain higher injection pressures than those early commonrail systems. The R10 was their test bed for significantly higher injection pressures with commonrail engines PLUS they put particulate traps on the race car, both because those were something that would be globally required on production cars soon, but also because the rules stated the cars could not emit visible smoke. This is a big part of the reason why the cars were so quiet as well, closed-cell particulate traps are some of the most effective mufflers out there. In a time where other racing series were either stuck in the past or in tightly controlled formulas where minimal innovation was happening (IndyCar) and F1 had wild engine technology that had very little practical use cases in a production car (expensive, exotic materials, insanely high revs with pneumatic valve closure), Le Mans prototypes were in the middle allowing very innovative engine technology that did indeed go onto be implemented into production cars. FSI (aka GDI) was not practical in F1 because the engines revved too fast to accurately meter fuel with direct injection. They were fueled via individual throttle body injectors that could operate without pulsing the injectors at wide open loads... But clearly for lower-revving Le Mans prototypes and road cars, there is a huge advantage to direct injection: you can run substantially higher compression ratios and boost levels without pre-detonation. And it gives higher volumetric efficiency, as the engine can injest 100% air, close the intake valves and begin compressing just air prior to injecting the fuel directly into the combustion chamber.

I wonder if the BLM and the DEI Woke pack can achieve something like that?.