Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago

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The 'old-man driver' is back in business for another boring and slow driving video. Jokes aside, I thought my 'water baptism' would have been worse but I went home quite satisfied of myself. If you remember I've already done a couple of 10-laps sessions with one of these rental Legend Cars in February, experiencing how fast and angry they are without any kind of restrictions. So just in time for Christmas I wanted to have another go and try to improve my skills and feeling with them. The only thing I haven't considered was the weather...

For this experience I went to Castelletto Circuit, a little race track in the North of Italy, which is the Italian headquarters of Legend Cars, little machines born in 1992 in the USA as a low budget series taking a cue from the motorcycle-engined dwarf cars, being manufactured in those years.
Until a few years ago all the Legend Cars were powered by a Yamaha FJ1250 4-cylinder engine able to produce around 140hp at 10,500 rpm. In 2018 US Legends Cars International, the company which builds all the Legends, announced a new water cooled, fuel injected engine for their cars, taken from the Yamaha MT-09 (or Yamaha FZ09 in North America) naked motorcycle. This is a 850 cc 4-stroke 12-valve DOHC inline-3 with crossplane crankshaft which weighs 30 kgs less than the previous inline-4 and it's still able to produce the same amount of power with a few mods. The gearbox is the 6-speed sequential of the MT-09. The total weight of the car is around 550 kgs with the driver.

Rental prices for a 10 laps session in Castelletto are:
– 100€ if you choose the de-powered version (called ‘Stock’)
– 150€ if you go for the full power one (called ‘Race’)
To obtain the power restricted 'Stock' version a simple bolt is screwed on the throttle pedal in order to reduce its range of motion (the bolt makes the throttle to hit the floor way before its actual 100%, leading you to think you're pressing it at 100% but you're actually at 60-70%). In addition to the very short throttle's travel (just 1.5 cm, which makes it like a 'on/off' button), you can clearly feel the difference while driving because the engine wants you to shift at around 8,000 rpm instead of the 10,500 of which it's capable. I tried to rev it higher at 1:46, in order to keep the pace of the other cream/red Legend Car which was in 'Race' version, but it was really struggling after the 8,500 to increase its revs.

Back to the actual day, I had booked a session with a full power version but as soon as I exited from the paddock I realized the car was restricted. After that acceleration on the main straight at 1:46 I was slightly disappointed about that, but at the same time I wasn't feeling very confident of myself given track's slippery conditions so I decided to go on with my session instead of stopping immediately in the paddock to have the bolt removed. To be honest I was kinda scared, having already too many things to think about (trying to understand the limit of the car, where I could push, which were the most slippery corners, avoid understeer and going into the gravel), so probably that further extra of managing the power out of corners it would have made me even more confused. Instead I felt at ease, lap after lap, with this Stock version.

Here you can read a brief blog article I wrote regarding my experience behind the wheel of the 'Race' version I rented last February: http://www.themarbles.it/2020/02/legend-cars/#page-content

#LegendCar #YamahaMT09 #CastellettoCircuit
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