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Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Pictures here: http://www.foltyn.cz/car/lambo.htm

Also worth noting the guy that hopped over the pit wall was just a random aston martin engineer. Nothing to do with the team, just a decent guy. No safety gear or nothing on. Legend.

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Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

oxbrain posted:

1. What happened to his restraints?

2. Why are they hosing down the back of the car while the guy is still on fire and in the car?

3. Aren't race cars supposed to have automatic fire suppression?

teh jhey
May 23, 2004

Kitty needs more souls.

A5H posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oLVxSwhyzo&feature=player_embedded

Seems like pretty bad marshalling. Dude survived though :)



My two new least favorite people in the world. For gently caress's sake, the fire is on the other side of the car.

wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?

teh jhey posted:



My two new least favorite people in the world. For gently caress's sake, the fire is on the other side of the car.

Very rarely do I think it's appropriate to claim criminal negligence against emergency first responders, but in this case there is just such an abundance of stupid which did result in severe injuries. If you know you can't put the fire out (which anyone holding an extinguisher at a track should be expected to know), your concern should be solely keeping it away from the driver until those who can put it out arrive.

Ziploc
Sep 19, 2006
MX-5
Wow, I too thought he was still in there somewhere. Since I thought I could see a helmet silhouette in there. Then I realized he was right loving there.

deviant. posted:

3. Aren't race cars supposed to have automatic fire suppression?

It had it. And the tank was ripped off along with the front of the car and bounced down the track.

teh jhey
May 23, 2004

Kitty needs more souls.
http://jalopnik.com/5546461/race-car-driver-barely-survives-horrific-fiery-crash-worse-response

Here's another angle that shows less of the actual rescue, and more of the idiocy. It looks like the car they dragged him to didn't have the parking brake on, and almost rolled over him.

AnomalousBoners
Dec 22, 2007

by Ozma
Ouch...

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Ziploc
Sep 19, 2006
MX-5

RealKyleH posted:

Ouch...



That ended up being a best case for that guy.

He was quite far away and almost out of the oven that was his car. I'd hate to still be strapped to the loving seat with those marshals.

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

teh jhey posted:

http://jalopnik.com/5546461/race-car-driver-barely-survives-horrific-fiery-crash-worse-response

Here's another angle that shows less of the actual rescue, and more of the idiocy. It looks like the car they dragged him to didn't have the parking brake on, and almost rolled over him.

Jesus. It's like an episode of the Simpsons.

oxbrain
Aug 18, 2005

Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership.

Ziploc posted:

That ended up being a best case for that guy.

He was quite far away and almost out of the oven that was his car. I'd hate to still be strapped to the loving seat with those marshals.

LACK OF SEATBELT SAVES LIFE

I bet there are some engineers at LamborghiniVAG looking into why the restraints failed, why the door flew open, and if they should find a better place to mount the extinguisher bottle(s).

mutt2jeff
Oct 2, 2004
The one, the only....

real_scud posted:

Yeah, it's also like everyone simply has blinders on and only ever looks straight ahead and never to the left or right when coming into an intersection.

I have never seen such lousy accident avoidance, and its the same thing happening over and over again.

Nuevo
May 23, 2006

:eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop:
Fun Shoe

mutt2jeff posted:

I have never seen such lousy accident avoidance, and its the same thing happening over and over again.

I think my favorite is the car that drives, at all of 2 mph, into the guy, standing still in the middle of the road, who has been there the whole time. How does that happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESfEd180rQ#t=2m0s

I think she's even looking right at him? :psyduck:

Also, 2 crashes later, I knew it was going to be bad when there were two families just dawdling in the middle of the intersection, but even I didn't see that coming. What the hell was that guy even doing?

:psyboom:

Nuevo fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jun 30, 2010

Hypnolobster
Apr 12, 2007

What this sausage party needs is a big dollop of ketchup! Too bad I didn't make any. :(

I was wandering through youtube favorites trying to find something and rediscovered this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfCqYsV1_o
detroit:allears:

D C
Jun 20, 2004

1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING

oxbrain posted:

LACK OF SEATBELT SAVES LIFE

I bet there are some engineers at LamborghiniVAG looking into why the restraints failed, why the door flew open, and if they should find a better place to mount the extinguisher bottle(s).

Not sure if they make those cars turnkey for the racing series...

D C
Jun 20, 2004

1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING
Deserves its own post damnit.

Dippin In My Tesla, hottest song of the summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UzElNUrKU

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

D C posted:

Deserves its own post damnit.

Dippin In My Tesla, hottest song of the summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UzElNUrKU


It deserved to be taken out back and knifed to death.

Wandering Idiot
Jul 22, 2003

by Ozma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk0e1VL80o

I can't decide if Dodge is pandering to southerners or trolling them. Probably both.

Number_6
Jul 23, 2006

BAN ALL GAS GUZZLERS

(except for mine)
Pillbug

Wandering Idiot posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk0e1VL80o

I can't decide if Dodge is pandering to southerners or trolling them. Probably both.

You... you know that's not the Civil War, right?

frozenphil
Mar 13, 2003

YOU CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE SO BIG THAT 80 GRIT CAN'T FIX IT!
:smug:

Wandering Idiot posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk0e1VL80o

I can't decide if Dodge is pandering to southerners or trolling them. Probably both.

I'm pretty sure northerners had a fairly big stake in the Revolutionary War as well.

AnomalousBoners
Dec 22, 2007

by Ozma

Wandering Idiot posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk0e1VL80o

I can't decide if Dodge is pandering to southerners or trolling them. Probably both.

Look at how dumb you are, dummy!

Muffinpox
Sep 7, 2004
Your GT3 Cup has how many turns lock to lock?

http://vimeo.com/12837998
2:31 is where he decides to find out :swoon:

a real chump
Jul 30, 2003

noice
Nap Ghost

Muffinpox posted:

Your GT3 Cup has how many turns lock to lock?

http://vimeo.com/12837998
2:31 is where he decides to find out :swoon:

Was going to post this. He gets crossed up over the bumpiest part of the track and his arms are going nuts, its great.

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Some serious brown shorts moments in there.

thealphabetsez
Jun 1, 2004

Wandering Idiot posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezk0e1VL80o

I can't decide if Dodge is pandering to southerners or trolling them. Probably both.

While it has been posted already, I can't help but get a good swelling of excitement, etc. I love that commercial.

MonkeyNutZ
Dec 26, 2008

"A cave isn't gonna cut it, we're going to have to use Beebo"

Muffinpox posted:

Your GT3 Cup has how many turns lock to lock?

http://vimeo.com/12837998
2:31 is where he decides to find out :swoon:
I think I actually like the camera focused on the interior like that for some reason.

D C
Jun 20, 2004

1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING

MonkeyNutZ posted:

I think I actually like the camera focused on the interior like that for some reason.

Yeah I kept trying to watch outside but ended up looking at the steering wheel or dash like 2 seconds later, couldn't figure out why at first.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wdQGqxVEk

Old school rally sprint

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

RealKyleH posted:

Look at how dumb you are, dummy!

Probably went to public school in the south. ZING

Readheaded
Dec 22, 2004
Tish and piffle, I cannot conceive how that car with the performance of a car twice its price hasn't even got a teak glovebox or swan skin seatbelts. Inferior rubbish from the colonies, m

-Spiffy- posted:

Was going to post this. He gets crossed up over the bumpiest part of the track and his arms are going nuts, its great.

Holy cow. What a video. Had some moments that reminded me of the M3 GTR vid with that Hans guy who runs through the whole field and the various Lotus racing vids, as well.

I want to marry straight gears.

I spent half the vid looking at the dash to try to get an idea of how fast he was going. Also found some of the really silent parts where you just hear the interior shaking around when he was off the power to be somewhat eerie.

Sockington
Jul 26, 2003
A comparison of how all-time-AWD works in different models when put in a lab setting (Subaru, Honda, Toyota, VW..)

wwqd1123
Mar 3, 2003

Sockington posted:

A comparison of how all-time-AWD works in different models when put in a lab setting (Subaru, Honda, Toyota, VW..)

I wouldn't exactly call some random dude's garage a lab setting, but interesting non the less. Subaru always seems to nail it with their AWD system where other larger manufactures fail.

MonkeyNutZ
Dec 26, 2008

"A cave isn't gonna cut it, we're going to have to use Beebo"
I think that's a Subaru dealership.

AnomalousBoners
Dec 22, 2007

by Ozma

Sockington posted:

A comparison of how all-time-AWD works in different models when put in a lab setting (Subaru, Honda, Toyota, VW..)

That video came out a few years ago and I still feel the same way about it. It seems like they make conclusions that aren't supported by the data they provided. This leaves us to take their word for it which, is they are a Subaru dealer, means nothing. First they could setup this test in a way that does not mimic the real world traction superiority of the Subarus vs the others. (Even if it is unintentional) In the first test with the CR-V they come to the conclusion that it cannot transfer enough power to go up the ramp. They don't say however if they are they flooring it up the ramp or if they're just not giving it enough gas such that if the system only transmits a maximum of [X%] to the rear and the loss in the drivetrain takes up most of that.

Sockington
Jul 26, 2003

RealKyleH posted:

That video came out a few years ago and I still feel the same way about it....

It's not perfect, but it's interesting. The lab setting bit was more to say they weren't trying to ram the vehicles up a ski hill or something.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

RealKyleH posted:

That video came out a few years ago and I still feel the same way about it. It seems like they make conclusions that aren't supported by the data they provided. This leaves us to take their word for it which, is they are a Subaru dealer, means nothing. First they could setup this test in a way that does not mimic the real world traction superiority of the Subarus vs the others. (Even if it is unintentional) In the first test with the CR-V they come to the conclusion that it cannot transfer enough power to go up the ramp. They don't say however if they are they flooring it up the ramp or if they're just not giving it enough gas such that if the system only transmits a maximum of [X%] to the rear and the loss in the drivetrain takes up most of that.


Except in real life, the Honda's AWD is a truly a turd, the Toyota one is only fair at best, the VW isnt flash either. The Subaru one is well known to be more than just average.

So I'm quite sure you can replicate the results.

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
Just going for a ride with gramps in the bed.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/73af61f53a/lazyboy-grandpa?rel=player

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

Number_6 posted:

You... you know that's not the Civil War, right?
apparently 26% of americans wouldn't be able to decipher this cryptic ad... if that many don't know who you guys fought, knowing what a redcoat is might be pushing it.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/07/03/2010-07-03_26_of_us_dont_know_who_we_declared_indepence_from_marist_poll.html

Qmass fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jul 5, 2010

amenenema
Feb 10, 2003

D C posted:

Deserves its own post damnit.

Dippin In My Tesla, hottest song of the summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UzElNUrKU

Did anyone else catch the shot of a Ford GT in there?

EDIT: At 1:11

AnomalousBoners
Dec 22, 2007

by Ozma
Are rap songs by unpopular groups really a great way to get people familiar with your brand? That Tesla song isn't good at all.

MTV told Vans and The Pack they wouldnt play commercials for free about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fR2OgGbKds

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kill me now
Sep 14, 2003

Why's Hank crying?

'CUZ HE JUST GOT DUNKED ON!
Challenger sliding around some wet corners at a track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLJHCddZ9Y&feature=player_embedded

Lou G taking the LG motorsports ZR1 up the virginia city hill climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IHI8P_LXao
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2nret7a&s=6

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