Quick Apology! I believe I mispronounced "Napier" for the first half of this video and somehow switched halfway to the right pronunciation. I hope this does not affect any enjoyment in the viewing! I blame it on being American!

@ryklatortuga4146

3 жыл бұрын

James May (Top Gear presenter) did a TV show about Brooklands - and slot car racing (Toys of his Youth) - so he built a full lap of what is left of Brooklands with scalextric - many parts of the old oval are now houses and suchlike. Keep up the top drawer content.

@jamesbehra2690

3 жыл бұрын

No dont you worry ! 🏆

@acrock21

3 жыл бұрын

a lot of great info here i downloaded all the cars associated and tracks

@peterbeard5440

3 жыл бұрын

Nape as opposed to Napp?

@Toby_the_Glen

11 ай бұрын

Listening to Americans pronounce jaguar is hilariousl

Dude you are, without question, THE best thing to happen to the sim racing youtube community in a long time. There is no other channel like yours and to say I am thoroughly enjoying your videos, with the great presentation and the incredible yet educational information you're bringing to the genre, would be an understatement. Keep it up brother :)

This basically just a giant moving bullet. Built for speed and death.

The interwar period was insane for all kinds of speed records, I love this era. Seaplane races were very popular, pushing to 700kph in a level flight in early 30's with gorgeous designs. I think the piston-driven seaplane record from 1934 still stands today. Car races and speed record attempts were visited by tens or hundreds thousand people. Speed was everything, fastest ship to cross the Atlantic, fastest airship, fastest train, everything was being raced. Napier Railton is still a nimble and versatile car compered to some of the straight-line land speed record specials of the time. Drivers like Campbell, Segrave, Eyston or Cobb were celebrities. And the cars, Sunbeam 1000hp "Mystery", the various Blue Bird specials, Sunbeam Silver Bullet, Golden Arrow, Thunderbolt, Railton Special, are icons of early high-speed design (not to mention the German streamliner exploits, of course). These crazy people took the outright land speed record from 280kph in 1927 to 595kph in 1939. And all that still using the same type of engines, often the same Napier W12 (or two of them, and with forced induction) which powers the Napier Railton. The interwar era is very specific in that a lot of people still really believed that technology will solve all issues. Aerial and car technology was developing at a blistering pace, multiplying engine power in a span of a few years, aerodynamics, material science, manufacturing precision. Of course, this trust in technology was rattled a little bit by the WW1, where people got a first taste of the dire negative aspects of technology, but the trust revived for the interwar period, only to be completely destroyed by the WW2. I will claim that people never believed in technology this much again, and the broad population's general fascination with speed never really recovered.

Man, I'm really liking all the new content from you

@isamuu99

3 жыл бұрын

Facts

You know what I want a mod of? The 1911 Marmon Wasp. I'm surprised there aren't any out there already, seeing as it's such a historically significant car.

@GPLaps

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously! That would be amazing. I have seen some shots of some older Indycars that might be coming, but nothing older than the 1950s, still should be a blast

@dannycork423

3 жыл бұрын

I want the original Indianapolis paved with bricks

@polinaosipova1087

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see some of the really old cars. The earliest I've found were three GP cars from 1923.

@The52car

3 жыл бұрын

Are there any "vintage" variations of Indianapolis out there? If not, there should be!

@157RANDOM

3 жыл бұрын

That or a 1910 Mercer Raceabout

They still have one of these at the Brooklands museum, and I think they still run it out from time to time. Brooklands is definitely worth a visit, some sections of the old banking are accessible and you can walk along them, as well as visiting the museum. They made a one-off version called the 'Railton Special' with a full aero body, which John Cobb used to break the landspeed record in 1938 at 369.7mph (he also set the all-time lap record at Brooklands in the 'standard' Napier-Railton) and that used to be in the old Birmingham Science Museum (now the Thinktank), which I was lucky enough to visit many times when I was young.

There were pictures of that car on the internet, being driven 'round the Brooklands Outer Circuit by its original owner, John Cobb. In the picture, all four wheels were off the ground after driving through a particularly bumpy section of the banking!

@steveclews1818

3 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine is working on a colour painting of that photo. Looks amazing

@happy_camper

3 жыл бұрын

@@steveclews1818 i would love to have a print like that on my wall!

@steveclews1818

3 жыл бұрын

@@happy_camper facebook.com/ralphlouis.southerton I don't know where he is with it but give him a shout if you're interested

My dad took me to a lot of historic racing days when I was growing up. The Napier was a regular feature, although not on any of the circuits themselves. They still fire her engine up at the Brooklands museum sometimes.

The Napier did a kinda race at Goodwood some years ago (I'm not old!). In knowledgeable hands it went sorta fast believe it or not! Kudos for lapping Goodwood, it deserves every bit of love it gets. I grew up less than 15 miles from there and lap it regularly in the virtual world :)

I love the iconic photograph of this car at Brooklands, with all 4 wheels in the air on the banking...

I'm lucky enough to live a 10 minute drive from Goodwood. The events they hold there are amazing as well as track days where you can spectate for free.

Brooklands is a wonderful place - it's not there as a continuous loop anymore, but large sections of the members and Byfleet banking are still there, as are several buildings. Wonderful, atmospheric place. The driver of the Napier-Railton was John Cobb - who was the first person to drive a car at over 400 mph in the Railton Special in 1948 (the official record was 394, due to the 385 mph first run, but the second was recorded at 403). A fascinating man, a furs dealer from London, but almost cripplingly shy - and at 6' 5" was known as a gentle giant. Almost the polar opposite of his rival Malcolm Campbell in both physical nature and character.

There are still some sections of the Brooklands circuit left, I went there a few years ago and I remember what remained of the oval was incredibly steep

@MDDeGrande1994

2 жыл бұрын

Is the Campbell layout still there in one piece?

@kel7126

2 жыл бұрын

No it's not, funnily enough I went to the track recently and the inner circuit is mostly filled with hangars and museum pieces

Please, please, please can we have a Nascar Cup race on Brooklands? How much hilarity would that be??

I've seen this car racing in the flesh three times at Silverstone at the Bentley days they run every year, as well as the one off Napier-Bentley that was rebuilt on an 8 litre Bentley chassis. Incredibly loud when you're standing next to them in the paddock and they fire up to head out on track for a race. Absolute monsters

Loving the detailed historical introductions to each car mode. Great work mate 👍🏻

Sorry I am bit late to the party with this video. I live very close to Brooklands and so have see this beauty up close several times. I also saw her driving at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the sound is unbelievable. Interestingly, the driver that day was Rowan Atkinson, the comedian, who is also a very proficient amateur racer. Regarding Brooklands itself, part of the old banking is still there, and I actually drove along a tiny bit of it, though I was driving a minibus and doing about 5 mph. I was so thrilled though and somewhat emotional! I also got to talk to an old man some years ago who remembered seeing racing Bentleys there in the 1920s and did actually see one drive over the rim to it's destruction. Thanks for this video and if you ever this side of The Pond I highly recommend a visit to Brooklands as it's a wonderful museum for both racing and aircraft enthusiasts.

Your content is fantastic. I already loved the many vintage mods for AC, but you have opened up a whole new world for me. New sub, and well-earned. The Brooklands footage is amazing! Back in the late 1970s, I was on a train from London to Coventry. At one point in the journey, it went past the site of the Brooklands track, and I had a brief glimpse of a section of the banking that was still standing at that time. I remember it like it was yesterday. I am really looking forward to installing these mods and jumping back in time.

Gorgeous and insane. Give her two wings and it would take off right away. These speed records attempts reached their zenith late in the thirties with both Mercedes and auto union challenging for the 400 kmh barrier with their specially built cars. Bernd Rosemeyer lost his life in one of those due to cross winds. Ferdinand Porsche later stated he regreted himself for that the rest of his life. Asset corsa is turning into a history repository.

I love the context you give and all the research you put into your videos. Great history lessons.

I am outrageously late to the party here, but I just wanted to say thank you @GPLaps! You are the gift that keeps on giving. Is there any opportunity for an in period (or close to) live stream enduro on the Brooklands track? That would be truly epic

Loving this type of content! Keep it up mate ☺️

Really like your history on these cars. The sound and graphics are good. We appreciate your presentations.

Beautiful car, beautiful tracks and amazing video! Love your content, keep it up!

Love the exhaust, nice work all involved!

I've seen these race here in the UK. Along with cars powered by Hispano-Suiza aircraft engines, and some humongous Bentleys. This kind of car often races at Mallory Park, a track which suits them well.

That Goodwood mod is one of my favorites, especially for testing new car mods to see if they're worth keeping. The chicane always annoyed me, as I figured it was a modern disfigurmant to a classic track. After watching this video I read the Wikipedia entry and learned that it was added in 1953, making a proper vintage chicane (which, weirdly, looks like a blockhouse).

What a great car , I have the famous picture of it hitting a high speed with all the wheels in the air , Brooklands is now a museum and very near London , The Napier Railton is There as well as Concorde

Outside view makes this classic.."Classic" enjoying your narrative. I'm on😊

Coming year will be awesome to this channel

Brooklands isn't around as a racetrack these days for two reasons. Firstly competition for space with the aircraft factory, which expanded during WWII. Secondly the condition of the track, which had been deteriorating over time and was finished off by the fact that heavy tracked vehicles were driven over it, for warfighting purposes, during WWII. The track basically needed a complete rebuild and with the site involved in post-war work considered vital, such as the V-Bomber programme, the entire site was sold to Vickers. Eventually the aircraft factory closed, in 1989, being fragmented into the various uses seen today.

I really wish someone would bumpify the Brooklands mod. Cars shouldn't be like hoverboards

@mkilner

3 жыл бұрын

yeah i played this version in rFactor, was just textures making the panels of concrete, they could fairly easily add physical polygons to represent the seams and randomize the heights fractionally to make the car shift and jolt...surely the modeler of this track could do it?

@HazewinDog

2 ай бұрын

@@mkilner Lilski has videos exactly on how to do that

What an awesome vehicle! The sound when it's going flat out is amazing. Would be a great candidate to mod with modern-ish tires, brakes and aero like you did with the Type C and others.

Love ur videos!

First, a note on Goodwood. That chicane is where Bruce McLaren had his crash, testing a Can-Am car in 1970. Yeah, this car was not meant to run against standard GP machinery of the day. Now, what this car needs to play with is something like the Mormon Meteor. This version of the Napier Railton would be good against the Mormon Meteor I with the Curtiss Conqueror engine fitted. The Railton Special with its streamlined body would be good to face the Mormon Meteor III. As for the Mormon Meteor III, take a look: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jI1oz6p_pLSTe8Y.html Maybe one of the truly insane things is that the standard GP cars got to the point in 1937 of lapping the Mellaha Lake circuit near Tripoli at a higher average speed than the Napier Railton went around Brooklands.

@jcgabriel1569

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the chicane is placed in the winter of 1951-52 for safety reasons. Before the chicane is installed, that corner is a fast left-hander leading to the start-finish line. After Giuseppe Farina demolished the lap record in a race there in 1951 (racing a single works Alfetta), people realized how close the cars were to the pitlane at the exit of the left-hander, and they feared that sooner or later, someone's going to make a mistake there, which would send a fast, out of control car into the pit buildings. So the erection of the chicane slowed the cars down and altered the exit in such ways that the pitlane is more secure. Bruce McLaren crashed somewhere at the Lavant straight. A rear bodywork malfunction caused a loss of rear downforce while at speed, destabilizing the car and sending it into a marshall's post (according to other sources the marshall's post is a reused old WW2-era pillbox), which, is due to be demolished, but hadn't been carried out at that point (the race track closed for racing in 1966) The thing is, the Napier-Railton could have some number of rather interesting competition. At Brooklands it used to compete against rather eclectic machineries, mostly racing specials, old Formula Libre machines and even old Land Speed Record cars, like racing specials based on Bentleys, and the Land Speed Record holder Delage DH V12.

Hilariously brilliant. Thanks.

After the circuit closed the car was purchased by the baker parachute company where it was used to test landing parachutes and ejector seat parachutes, it was fitted with disc brakes at this point, before this its only brakes were two small-ish drums on the rear wheels and nothing on the front! She still has no brakes on the front wheels and is a regular sight at brooklands museum and also attends goodwood yearly.

I saw this car on a trip to the UK a few years ago in one of the museums, cant remember which one. It was quite a site! Has quite a presence!

Love the sound!😍👌

I saw it at the brooklands museum in England and it is a sight to behold

Yeah I live kinda near Brooklands. Theres about 100 meters of the track left, all overgrown with weeds, and the rest of the surrounding area is a roundabout and a Tescos car park. It always makes me glum to see it. Something so sad about an abandoned racetrack.

You know it may be down to the AI, but when I do 1930s style races in Forza the Napier Radillon is always in the last 2 spots

GT cars + brooklands ... = fun time

Reminds me of that helicopter engined motorbike the silver one in terms of an aero thing squashed into a car/bike thing. Great sound bet it handles like a brick but a fun brick.

"Nappy-er? I approve." -Napoleon Bonaparte

that was epic

When you rev it you have to give it the beans!

the car sounds like a calm summer sunday afternoon in my backyard and all you hear is smaller planes and birds

@21:20 It has a 24L W12 aircarft engine and tops out at 168 mph.

The sheer physical effort of driving cars like this can be summed up by John Cobb's literal inability to let go of the steering wheel after he broke the outer course lap record at Brooklands. He was unable to shake hands with those who wished to congratulate him.

Very nice car and great video! I wanted to start playing Assetto Corsa and would like to know, what are some of your favorite tracks to drive these classic cars on? I have a few car mods I want to test out but would like some tracks to compliment them.

@Villoresi

3 жыл бұрын

I can't speak for GPLaps, but some of his recent videos do give an idea on the matter. Tracks he's run at and/or mentioned include Fonteny, the Nurburgring Sudschleife, Goodwood, and Donington '38. It's going to depend some on what cars you're looking at as to what the best track selection is. Classic F1 and post-War sportscars will go pretty well on a lot of the classic road courses (Bridgehampton, Riverside, VIR) or classic layouts of road courses ('60s Hockenheim, Imola '72, Zandvoort '67). You can probably put the less powerful pre-War cars like the 1923 machines featured recently or the 1930s Voiturettes (ERA Type B, Maserati 6CM) in that camp as well. For the more powerful pre-War cars (Mercedes SSK, W125, and W154; Auto Union Type C and D; Maserati 8CTF; Alfa Romeo 12C-36 and 158), you're likely going to want a circuit with more space and/or high-speed corners. So the Monza road course or combined circuit with no chicanes, one of the longer Montlhery layouts with no chicanes, the Nurburgring (Nordschleife, Sudschleife, Gesamtstrecke), Tripoli, Bremgarten, or the Duetschlandring are pretty good options. I think the Targa Florio may be a bit on the tight side for these cars to be as much fun there. And then you have some circuits that should be rather enjoyable for a range of vintage and classic cars. Several of the aforementioned could probably be included here, but you also have Reims, Rouen, Feldbergring, Battenbergring (coming soon), and a number of others. Admittedly, for the less powerful cars, the old ovals like Brooklands, Montlhery, and Monza may not be as exciting, as well as a circuit such as Reims. Likewise, a circuit along the lines of Tripoli isn't going to be as challenging in the less powerful or post-War machines. In terms of tracks specifically for the smaller cars, like the Voiturettes or F3 and FJ, there are some smaller tracks like Elaintarharata, Ring Djursland, Roskilde Ring, and Ahvenisto. Finally, this is just a small sampling. There are simply so many tracks available for AC that compiling a comprehensive list is impractical.

Hello ! Have a link of this updated cars ? I haven’t the steering wheel and hands synchronized. By the way, your videos are awesome !! 👍🏻

Great video ! Very interesting. I think you should hide the driver when you present the car, maybe with more close up shots 😉

I’ve seen this car for real a couple of times, great vid by the way 👌👌👌. You should check BRUTUS out, a 47 litre 750hp BMW engined car built by American LaFrance in 1907 🤘🤘🤘.

Would love to see this at AVUS

Imagine driving any fast car at speed around the Brooklands "Death Bowl." If you were to drive the high line and understeer the beast off of the lip not only would that be terrifying (and nearly assure the driver a certain death) but as you fly off the track at speeds of 150mph+ the next moment would surely be "the end of your racing career" but then you would be treated to a mid-air 140mph+ to sudden stop (0mph) as you collide with one of the many scenic trees (YIKES) which ring the periphery of this diabolical concrete bowl. I would hazard a guess that many of these brave dare devils had already risked their very lives in air to air combat in a rickety canvas over wooden framed biplane. So this must have been a "fun" exercise in satisfying "The need for speed."

I've actually seen this car running at what's left of Brooklands.

Very cool.......... in a very old fashioned way.

after watchin this Video i thought ill give this mod ago after my first flying lap i did 1:05 then on the next lap i pulled out a 1:04.5 then went the way of a few drivers and went over the banking grrrrrr

I so want to take this out on Old Le Mans or Daytona.

Your channel is gonna blow up soon I can feel it

Napier Railton laps the Avus Circuit when?

You'v got the Union Flages upside down.!

That wacky arm action drives me crazy. I wish there was a mod that reduced it.

The one I downloaded doesn't sound nearly half as good as yours. Is it another version of the mod?

This car looks fast standing still

How to calculate lap mph: (3600 ÷ lap time) × track length. Example: Daytona would be (3600 ÷ 48.000) x 2.5 = 187.50 mph.

The driver arms are buggy. He grabs the wheel wrong and shifts on the wrong site into nothing. Any fixes?

My only knowledge of Napier comes from their Marine opposed piston engines, as well as the Deltic engine used in Motor Torpedo boats as well as the British Rail Class 55 locomotive. So more Napier history is always cool to learn!

I think you should drive this at Monza with oval

It looks like the front wheels have positive camber? How come?

i downloaded this from your link , the car does not sound like yours and the tyres always seem to wheelspin

I tried downloading this and the session won't boot with the railton, but I can load another car on Brooklands and it's fine, any idea why?

Time for an AI Race with this and the auto union cars around donington 1938 :D

@GPLaps

3 жыл бұрын

The Auto Union would do laps around this thing! The Napier was built to go in a straight line. The Auto Union doesnt love turning either, but it does it a whole lot better than the Napier!

@SOIBand

3 жыл бұрын

@@GPLaps its true haha. I enjoy your content, dude. love it

Sadly, the Brooklands link no longer works, anybody have a copy of the track? Thanks.

So, how about we come back to this aero car thingy and we stick a jet engine in a car? I'll gladly accept my Nobel prize in a couple of years.

Looks fast when put at 3x xD

Search for an app named sim dashboard on the app store/play store it should work well

Doesnt that car use the heinkel HE111 bomber engine?

This is the car that achieved an average speed of 143.44 mph at Brooklands.

Hey... I recpgnize this intro XD

Is Miscellaneous Minutiae a good sites for mods? I found it some times ago, but was dubious of the quality of the mods...

@GPLaps

3 жыл бұрын

They're all over the place. Some are very good, some are very poor. Its fun to tool around with but its not the same quality as some of the first party mods at say racedepartment.

@mondodimotori

3 жыл бұрын

@@GPLaps thanks for the heads up. I had put my eyes on several mods hosted there, but I don't have the necessary know how to understand if a mod is good enough or just a mediocre approximation of the real car.

@Logan912

3 жыл бұрын

Their more recent mods and updates are good, and they’ve even added windshield wiper animations to the GT cars for rain. The older mods feel like rush jobs though.

@mondodimotori

3 жыл бұрын

@@Logan912 But all the mods on that blog are made by them? Or they use assets from other sources?

How do u get those glothes

This thing pumps out 580-600hp at like 2600RPM or so I think, with only rear brakes too, basically a demon Kart! Sure it is 100% cool but a 23.9L W12 can only be so cool. The Fiat S76 on the other hand, has a 300hp 28.4L Inline 4 which is easily way cooler!

This car was designed to be fast in a straight line, back when cars that were designed to go fast around corners were still only good in a straight line lol!

This car was built for racing on the Outer Circuit at Brooklands. It's not a Grand Prix car. Would be great if you could get it running on the Brookland model shown in Spirit of Speed '37.

@GPLaps

3 жыл бұрын

@GracieVision Yes indeed! Stick around for the end, I take the beast on the old Brooklands oval. Definitely better suited for that type of circuit.

@Gracievision

3 жыл бұрын

@@GPLaps I'm sorry, I didn't have time to watch the whole thing earlier. I do think the Brooklands track sim is taken from Spirit of Speed 37 after all, as I recognise that rather inauthentic train on the Railway Straight. The bump where the cars took off does seem to be in that sim though. Just after you go under the green footbridge the track goes over the River Wey, and by the 30s the foundations had subsided a little. If you go to the track now you can walk as far as the river, but you meet a fence. The part of the track that formed the bridge was demolished at outbreak of war to remove a potential river crossing for invading Nazi tanks.

Sound Sharp

"Napier" in chilean slang means "pretty woman"

Why do i feel like 170 might be possible on Talladega because its better for something like that

It’s a shame that the colour is wrong, the real one is polished aluminium so it’s a mirror finish.

Nappyer 🙄🙄

Airplanes build their engines for torque not hp.

Wow old cars REALLYYYY sucked

5.85k subs but no likes

Geez. Sort the pronunciation! You yanks! 😅

If I wanted to watch a cartoon show, that is what I would look for. This SUCKS!

the Napier Railton was never the fastest car in the world, it sent a record at Brooklands but was never the fastest car in the world, furthermore Napier isn't say NAP EER it said NAPIER mong.

Why can’t Americans pronounce words properly 🙄🙄