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08-05-2010, 05:01 AM
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This is just crazy driving. Vid is 11 minutes long, watch it from about 7 minutes in for the scary stuff. Pikes Peak 2010 - Jeff Zwart In Car on Vimeo
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08-05-2010, 05:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Houston (right now: RIT) | | Driving a 2wd Porsche on a dirt road has to be one of the scariest things ever. Never mind the drops 
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08-05-2010, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Almere, The Netherlands | | That guy made it look soo easy
...even though he almost lost it a couple of times..dang, that was scary.
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08-05-2010, 06:24 AM
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08-05-2010, 12:09 PM
|  | I play the electric tuba. | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cleveland | | | He sounded like he shredded the transmission a few times during that run.
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08-05-2010, 12:26 PM
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I realize that NASCAR is a different type of race and requires different strategies but I find hill climb and rallye to be infinitely more entertaining to watch than NASCAR and I say that having been to a few Winston Cup races in my lifetime (back when beer and cigarettes still sponsored the sport). |
08-05-2010, 01:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Helsinki, Finland | | Nice one. Although I do kind of prefer the 1990 hill dance video from that climb. Doing the same run in a now 22 year old french lunchbox that has a 650 hp engine in it is just a fun idea. It was the world record too back then.
Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsHlugRls4 Gotta love the quick scene at around 3:30.
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08-05-2010, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Kipaste Nice one. Although I do kind of prefer the 1990 hill dance video from that climb. Doing the same run in a now 22 year old french lunchbox that has a 650 hp engine in it is just a fun idea. It was the world record too back then.
Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsHlugRls4 Gotta love the quick scene at around 3:30. | Haha, i watched that one right after the 2010 one..4wd or not, that was absolutely jawdropping!
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08-05-2010, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Kawai-chang He sounded like he shredded the transmission a few times during that run. | They are using what I think are called "straight-cut" gears in the transmission. Those make that somewhat unusual whining sound. And then he hit the rev limiter a couple of times where he didn't want to shift up right before breaking again for a corner.
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08-05-2010, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Kipaste Nice one. Although I do kind of prefer the 1990 hill dance video from that climb. Doing the same run in a now 22 year old french lunchbox that has a 650 hp engine in it is just a fun idea. It was the world record too back then.
Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsHlugRls4 Gotta love the quick scene at around 3:30. | That's insane! I'd be terrified for my life driving up that road at 15mph!
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08-09-2010, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | I'm wondering how fast the European rally drivers could pull that off. Then again, use of flying cars is probably considered cheating  
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08-09-2010, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Frederick, Maryland | | After watching that video i almost got a speeding ticket on the way home on Friday... 
A carnival fortune teller once told me that i was a rally car driver in my former life. 
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08-09-2010, 01:45 PM
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08-09-2010, 01:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | | I always love that camera angle in race cars, makes you really appreciate the fact those guys are insane & very talented.
I once saw a camera placed where you could see the feet of a rally driver champion, INSANE ....looked like the guy was dancing.
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08-09-2010, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill That's insane! I'd be terrified for my life driving up that road at 15mph! | Believe me...it IS a white-knuckle drive at 15mph IMO. I had to drive down it in a snow storm once too and that didn't help.
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