Matt Farah drives ridiculous $1.5m LeMans race car through LA traffic TheSmokingTire\/YouTubeCar journalist and YouTuber Matt Farah received an offer to drive a street-legal LeMans racer through LA to make a video, and he couldn\u2019t say no. Farah picked up the Koenig-Specials C62, which is made from what was originally a LeMans race car, to drive it into storage. \u201cIn the early 1990s, \u201891, there was a LeMans class called group C racing, this was a Porche 962 raced in that class,\u201d Farah explained. \u201cWhen that class was disassembled \u2026 that left a bunch of Porche 962 customer chassis around and nothing to do with them.\u201d \u201cSo this psycho Willy Konig bought a couple of them and this is their first one, this is the Koenig C62,\u201d he continued happily. \u201cIt is a LeMans car that somehow, you can drive on the street.\u201d The differences between something like the C62 and a normal car became clear even before Farah took the monster out of the parking lot. \u201cYou have to rev the snot out of it to get it to move, because it\u2019s not meant to be in a stop and go situation,\u201d Farah said as he got used to the car. \u201cYou gotta understand, this thing is 800 horsepower and it\u2019s 3100 and change pounds, so that\u2019s how you get it to go.\u201d At first, Farah ran into some trouble with the car and even stalled out briefly, but it probably didn\u2019t help that the hand brake was on for the first few minutes of the drive either. \u201cDriving something like this on a public road is honestly an absurd proposition,\u201d he thought aloud as he bravely headed towards LA\u2019s 405 freeway. \u201cOnce you\u2019re moving it\u2019s ok, it\u2019s just the stopping and starting is such a nightmare.\u201d After he got into the (relatively) open space of the freeway, the C62 reminded Farah that it was still a race car in spirit with more than a few sketchy moments. Ultimately, Farah and the car made it safely to their destination practically unscathed, except for a little scrape when the car was entering the garage. \u201cI\u2019m just glad it\u2019s here in one piece and I avoided an aneurism,\u201d a relieved Farah said as he finally parked the car. The C62 is definitely an awesome car, but it certainly doesn\u2019t seem practical at all once you get it off of the race track (which it was designed for) and onto the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matt Farah drives ridiculous $1.5m LeMans race car through LA traffic TheSmokingTire\/YouTubeCar journalist and YouTuber Matt Farah received an offer to drive a street-legal LeMans racer through LA to make a video, and he couldn\u2019t say no. Farah picked up the Koenig-Specials C62, which is made from what was originally a LeMans race car, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}