In the 1980s, Porsche created a machine that would take on Le Mans and completely obliterate the competition. The Porsche 962 is a true motorsport legend, and Mike Fernie has been lucky enough to be thrown the keys to one of the twin turbo, ground effects monsters.
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Mike defiantly wearing his vintage Silk Cut Jag Le Mans sweater. That purple, with the gold, is still one of the best livery colour combos in my opinion.
This is a rocket and as amazing as anything new!
Nice car! What a rocket! Keep it in this condition. Don't let Hammond drive it!
Went for the 2nd time this year and it was unreal. The atmosphere, the cars in the camp site. . The cars driving around. I saw a carrera GT. . .just cruzing around by the porsche curves. Its unreal. Drive to it though. . . Ask me how I know 😉
I have a framed poster of that car in my man cave.
0:03 That turbo flutter 😍😍
Mike's a right toucher
Dude I’m so happy for you!! What a magnificent experience 🙌🏼 getting into a Porsche race car is def life goals 💙🤙🏼
All this for 6 minutes of you driving it 🙄
My favourite era of racing cars though..
The porsche 956 was a single turbo , 962 twin turbo
Along with the legendary 917, the Porsche 956/962 were the iconic sports cars of my generation. Impossibly beautiful
@1:16 and when the opportunity to raid your sisters closet for pants comes knocking you say "no"…
Love the emotion
Anyone else recognise Hydro Aluminium from an original Lotus Elise documentary?
10:38 – watch/listen to pure utter joy
That car should have been disqualified since it used non German parts.
Everyone knows that putting British Leyland components on a race car gives it an unfair advantage. Remember what happened when we put non standard light bulbs in the Original Mini Cooper S at the Montecarlo Rally. It made that car so fast the French had to disqualify it !
I put it to you Sir that the inclusion of Austin tail lights gives this machine the dominant edge it held for all the years this cheating was overlooked. 😮
Audi builds great cars but they still haven’t figured this segment of cars out. Compared with the competition from Mercedes and BMW the Audi S6 is less powerful than the equivalent competition. The S6 should have at least 500 horsepower to compete with cars like the BMW M550i with 523 horsepower. Instead you get 80 horsepower less or have to pay up and get the RS6 with roughly 80 horsepower more. Audi should have kept the twin turbo 4.0 liter V8 which is used in this previous generation.
Mate aint got words that can explain the smile and emotion i felt once uz got gears despite clutch dramas. Loved it. 😎😎✌✌👌👌👍👍
Great video!
The StarWars references were absolutely perfect.
Doggo!
Drive of a lifetime, what a machine. One of my favorite race cars.
Lucky man
917 still my favorite but the 956 and 962 were what I grew up watching their dominance in IMSA!!
The screaming was over the top.
No doubt one of the most beautiful looking race cars I have ever seen! Down to the blue and yellow and short tail.
The emotions on boost was so fun to hear!
I was at Le Mans from 1987 till the end of Group C in 92. Heady days ☺
Those BBS wheels are timeless
I could feel your joy Mike! I'm sure you had dreams of it that night.
Engine sounds like a Honda CBX
What an incredible experience. I'm wondering how fast you pushed it…
Amazing
That sense of overwhelming emotion from driving such an incredible car is totally normal. Alex had the same, after driving Lambos in Italy, I had the same after driving a McLaren 570. The sheer joy can't really be expressed in any more pure way. 🥹
You are one lucky man. I have been driving my Porsche 74' 911 since 92'. Driving a 962 would be my greatest dream. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Amazing video! Really enjoyed it! What kind of microphones/lavaliers do you use? Thank you!
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night after a run like that. Cheers Mike!
EVERY race car post 1986 had to have the pedals behind the front axle, not just Group C, even down to Formula Ford. Before that the driver's feet and ankles were the first to arrive at the scene a frontal accident. After that there were several years trying to balance the cars again with the driver mass moved back. That's why FFord van Dieman RF86 were beating the later RF87 and RF88 and why driver like me (almost 180cm) got more uncomfortable.
Somebody photo shop a flux capacitor into some of the shots! as it would just fit! (off topic but would be epic)
You are one of the lucky few who have now driven a Machine like that. I was rooting for you Mike.
It is time for you guys to build an Ultima GTR.
Love your work 👍
Finally, some real racing car coverage out of you low rent petroheads.