RE: Chris Harris video: Audi R8 LMS

[goron59]

I'm not too bothered about lack of tech specs in the video. I can google that, but the opinion and thoughts of someone driving them both back-to-back is quite nice.

A little "pick me!" but understandable.

I'd like to see the same in the dry though, so yea, pick Monkey, and let him do another /drive vid of it.

[Mark Wibble]

Kenny Powers said:

Konan said:

I'm not sure I'm any the wiser about either car. See the difference between the two? How? A few long shots and some engine noise?

Were you not listening to the dialogue?

Edited by Kenny Powers on Thursday 16th January 10:23

The dialogue is one thing, but we're all used to seeing the tail of cars being hung out and basically being driven on the limit... so we've been spoiled with other videos; but I suspect that Audi would have placed pretty restrictive limits on what was permitted which I'm guessing it would have been future experience-limiting to exceed. Still fascinating though.

What made me laugh was the required attire for both cars. Jeans & T-shirt in the road car, race suit & helmet for the race car... but doing the same thing in both!

[Kenny Powers]

Yeah for sure

[e21Mark]

I'm not really a fan of Audi, but I though that looked like a great race car and the noise is sublime. Although I enjoyed the video, this and the DTM M3 vid weren't as enjoyable as the others I've seen. As I say, enjoyable all the same though.

[stats007]

I'm a huge fan of Chris Harris' work (he should do Top Gear instead of the 3 Stooges) however this is verging on an Audi advertisement...

[Dave Hedgehog]

stats007 said:

I'm a huge fan of Chris Harris' work (he should do Top Gear instead of the 3 Stooges) however this is verging on an Audi advertisement...

He would make an excellent Stig.

[elephantstone]

Hmm i found that vid a little boring, this may have something to do with me not being overly interested in racing cars. There wasn't much visual stimulation either ie. powerslides.

[arkenphel]

What's with the giant air vent sticking out of the dash?

[drakart]

I would be interested to know the lap time difference. Clearly the race wets are on another planet in terms of grip compared to the road car, but still interesting to see the differences. (I know Chris didn't set a timed lap, so it's metaphorical)

[BBS-LM]

Hahahah, not too sure if it's me, but the video just come across as, Chris Harris would like a works drive in a GT3 R8 please.

[stanza]

Fantuzzi said:

Well the FIA GT series is just that, and you can watch it online for free.

The racings rather good, mix of pros and pro ams.

Although I disagree with your ideas on the future of endurance racing, it just needs streamlining, and hopefully give the LMP some more flexibility with design.

I agree, F1 and Le Mans bored me last year. Both the GT Series and the BlancPain endurance had me hooked.
BlancPain had 50 to 60 GT's at Silverstone and Nurburgring this year. The racing was frentic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvfC1V0ipLI&lis...
Watch the first 2 minutes of racing and you'll be hooked.

[loudlashadjuster]

arkenphel said:

What's with the giant air vent sticking out of the dash?

How warm do you think it gets in there in mid-summer after an hour of driving with a stonking great V10 inches behind you?

[dxbtiger]

Mark Wibble said:

What made me laugh was the required attire for both cars. Jeans & T-shirt in the road car, race suit & helmet for the race car... but doing the same thing in both!

Pretty sure he had the same white race suit on in both?

Just lacked the helmet in the road car.

[Bionic Billy Nav]

stanza said:

Fantuzzi said:

Well the FIA GT series is just that, and you can watch it online for free.

The racings rather good, mix of pros and pro ams.

Although I disagree with your ideas on the future of endurance racing, it just needs streamlining, and hopefully give the LMP some more flexibility with design.

I agree, F1 and Le Mans bored me last year. Both the GT Series and the BlancPain endurance had me hooked.
BlancPain had 50 to 60 GT's at Silverstone and Nurburgring this year. The racing was frentic.

The Blancpain series is at Brands Hatch this year instead of Silverstone, I for one can't wait as I think Brands is a much better spectator circuit the racing should be good!

[RobM77]

Dave Hedgehog said:

stats007 said:

I'm a huge fan of Chris Harris' work (he should do Top Gear instead of the 3 Stooges) however this is verging on an Audi advertisement...

He would make an excellent Stig.

I've always reckoned that Chris woul make an excellent presenter for a 'Final Gear' on late at night on BBC for car enthusiasts - he's not just a stig contender, his opinions are very well formed and he comes across really well on camera. So Chris Harris for sure, and from the world of journos Jethro and Henry from Evo are pretty good on camera, and from the world of racing Tim Harvey, Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert are all very good on camera as well. There are so many interesting features they could do, and no doubt they've all got loads of great contacts to make them all happen.

Perhaps Chris will eventualy go it alone on You Tube and create his own channel?

I've always felt that people who are accomplished drivers first and journos/presenters second do far better and more insightful reviews of performance cars than people who are the other way round. The reason Chris is so good is that he combines both of these talents equally.

Edited by RobM77 on Thursday 16th January 15:42

[Cheib]

stats007 said:

I'm a huge fan of Chris Harris' work (he should do Top Gear instead of the 3 Stooges) however this is verging on an Audi advertisement...

The Drive channel has a new video series on the quattro of which there is an introductory video on the Youtube channel "INSIDE QUATTRO"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyS9_QYskk&lis...

Hopefully that means we're going to see some footage of Mr Harris hooning around in some Group B cars from Audi's collection. This video would be a small price to pay for that

[Kenny Powers]

RobM77 said:

I've always reckoned that Chris woul make an excellent presenter for a 'Final Gear' on late at night on BBC for car enthusiasts - he's not just a stig contender, his opinions are very well formed and he comes across really well on camera. So Chris Harris for sure, and from the world of journos Jethro and Henry from Evo are pretty good on camera, and from the world of racing Tim Harvey, Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert are all very good on camera as well. There are so many interesting features they could do, and no doubt they've all got loads of great contacts to make them all happen.

Perhaps Chris will eventualy go it alone on You Tube and create his own channel?

I've always felt that people who are accomplished drivers first and journos/presenters second do far better and more insightful reviews of performance cars than people who are the other way round. The reason Chris is so good is that he combines both of these talents equally.

Edited by RobM77 on Thursday 16th January 15:42

Drivers Republic was excellent. I was genuinely sorry to see it disappear. I'd like to see Monkey doing something similar again. I'm not sure a TV show would ever happen though. The general public don't really care about cars. Which is exactly why Top Gear is so successful.

[RobM77]

Kenny Powers said:

RobM77 said:

I've always reckoned that Chris woul make an excellent presenter for a 'Final Gear' on late at night on BBC for car enthusiasts - he's not just a stig contender, his opinions are very well formed and he comes across really well on camera. So Chris Harris for sure, and from the world of journos Jethro and Henry from Evo are pretty good on camera, and from the world of racing Tim Harvey, Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert are all very good on camera as well. There are so many interesting features they could do, and no doubt they've all got loads of great contacts to make them all happen.

Perhaps Chris will eventualy go it alone on You Tube and create his own channel?

I've always felt that people who are accomplished drivers first and journos/presenters second do far better and more insightful reviews of performance cars than people who are the other way round. The reason Chris is so good is that he combines both of these talents equally.

Edited by RobM77 on Thursday 16th January 15:42

Drivers Republic was excellent. I was genuinely sorry to see it disappear. I'd like to see Monkey doing something similar again. I'm not sure a TV show would ever happen though. The general public don't really care about cars. Which is exactly why Top Gear is so successful.

I'd like to think there are enough car enthusiasts out there for a show on at a more obscure time of day. I think the problem with DR was that a) plenty of magazines already do well stocked free YT channels b) in terms of magazines, most people still like to read an actual magazine rather than an iPad edition.

[PaulG40]

Good Vid, I liked it. The LMS sounds great!!!

[Cheib]

Kenny Powers said:

Drivers Republic was excellent. I was genuinely sorry to see it disappear. I'd like to see Monkey doing something similar again. I'm not sure a TV show would ever happen though. The general public don't really care about cars. Which is exactly why Top Gear is so successful.

You would think the Discovery Channel would be interested....if there's a budget for programmes like Chasing Classic Cars and some of the other stuff that's on there you would think there's an audience.