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Regardless of what you think of Kim Schmitz, if I had the sort of money he has, I'd be doing stuff like this all the time. 3 CLK DTMs at the Nurburgring. Oh, and Kimi Raikkonen. Awesome video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3bjKwwlMM
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VolumeOverTalent posted:Regardless of what you think of Kim Schmitz, if I had the sort of money he has, I'd be doing stuff like this all the time. 3 CLK DTMs at the Nurburgring. Oh, and Kimi Raikkonen. Awesome video. Just a bit of advise to anyone with functional hearing, you should probably mute the video, due to awful German Eurodance.
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VolumeOverTalent posted:Regardless of what you think of Kim Schmitz, if I had the sort of money he has, I'd be doing stuff like this all the time. 3 CLK DTMs at the Nurburgring. Oh, and Kimi Raikkonen. Awesome video. His name is KIM DOTCOM ok, get it right
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May 2, 2012 16:41
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Dude doing 300kph on the Autobahn almost rear-ends a Pug that pulls out without looking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZCCcX7A_Vg
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Dude doing 300kph on the Autobahn almost rear-ends a Pug that pulls out without looking.
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real_scud posted:It's also amazing that he's doing the rate of speed he's doing and absolutely nothing seems out of the norm in the cabin. Noone even says a WORD. not a drat peep.
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They did, its just that they were going so fast the sound hasn't caught up to them. I'd be screaming like a banshee if that happened to me.
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angryhampster posted:Swiss time attack/slalom pure sounds: As an  all those Kadetts hooning past as serious competition drives blows my mind, and then a random Senator screams by.Mental.
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Someone has been pulling out old footage of local amateur racing and shoving it up on YouTube. This just got posted. It's an old Audi Quattro coupe menacing some bystanders to shore up its Group B credentials before it continues its run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzDoVY-cT0 Here's another rally in '94: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxNbuz-VjU The entire account is basically full of nostalgia since you get to see kinds of street cars that never show up to events anymore (because they're either rusted away to nothing, completely obsoleted or become prized collectors' items). I had to do a double take the first time I saw a turbo K-car doing something that isn't a dragstrip run. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 15:31 on May 3, 2012 |
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For some reason this was incredibly mesmerizing. Parking brake laughs @ 2:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPfi-ZeQRM 3 rotor ae86 also, the carbon fiber wrapped video buffering bar made me laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPfi-ZeQRM
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Dogs in cars, the two best things in the world, combined: http://vimeo.com/41325185 The Miata in particular seems to have been made for this, as dangerous as that is.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Someone has been pulling out old footage of local amateur racing and shoving it up on YouTube. This just got posted. It's an old Audi Quattro coupe menacing some bystanders to shore up its Group B credentials before it continues its run. I can't believe how much of the local stuff he's got on there that I've seen firsthand. Regarding that Audi video, I was at the RMR special stage in Bearspaw that year! I remember my dad taking my younger brother and I to the rally in his old Porsche 911, and I also remember just how wet and rainy it was that morning; I was miserable, at least until the first cars came by. Watching rallies is so much better when you're not eight years old; you can drink until you just don't give a poo poo that it's raining and cold. Also, watching his hill climb video at COP makes me sad once again that they put speed bumps all up and down that road.
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Everyone has heard of the Pike's Peak hill climb where flashy Red Bull cars and wannabe rally WRX drivers go up a now largely paved track. When I grew up in Colorado I always went to the Colorado hill climb races that weren't so well known but are, in my opinion, as exciting. The tracks are mostly all dirt and instead of fancy team sponsored Subarus the cars were/are mostly domestic junk hammered together by people in their garages and maybe sponsored by the local auto parts store. My brother was on the team of a bright red Jeep CJ7 that always fought bitterly with a fancier Ford Explorer owned by a guy from Colorado Springs (which seemed like a big city to me, so we were the underdogs). With that being said, here are some examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EOb_7rJFc8 I actually recognize some of these cars still. The guy who runs the #18 Mustang is the aforementioned big city Ford Explorer guy. He used to take a 4 wheeler down to the bottom of the track after racing one so he could race the other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z5afwiQ1KE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LaCN7G1kBA There's nothing like bringing a cooler up into the hills and sitting in the sun of the high desert hearing cars coming from several hills over before they burst around the corner in front of you. edit: Added a video from the race I went to most. 7of7 fucked around with this message at 04:57 on May 5, 2012 |
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Time lapse drawing of one of the greatest drivers to have ever lived: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ibr5i7cPo4
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angor posted:Time lapse drawing of a helmet:
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A nice look at the Lingenfelter collection, and a little bit of automotive history. http://youtu.be/TkI6Mx7DAwY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqjfT60DQM An E21 BMW getting a workout, then BLAMMO!
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kimbo305 posted:Wouldn't that wear the track more than it was designed for? Actually proper racing karts hurt pavement more than nearly all race cars. The soft rubber compounds you can use on a vehicle that weighs only 350-400 lbs tend to warp pavement.
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kartracer88f posted:Actually proper racing karts hurt pavement more than nearly all race cars. The soft rubber compounds you can use on a vehicle that weighs only 350-400 lbs tend to warp pavement. What about the relatively heavier pounding 2-3000lb cars would do to the presumably lightly built kart track?
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I remember drooling over the Lingenfelter ZR1 when I was growing up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkI6Mx7DAwY Glad to see that drool was well placed (that exhaust cut-out rules). Bonus history lesson regarding the Duntov small block prototype as well.
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kimbo305 posted:What about the relatively heavier pounding 2-3000lb cars would do to the presumably lightly built kart track? As far as racing pavement goes, its not the weight that tends to kill it (assuming it was done properly) it's heat and tire compound. Race car tires (let alone street tires) are much harder due to the vehicle weight. This combined with the lower g load that production cars produce is actually easier on pavement. Kart tracks (once again done correctly) are often paved closer to a runway standard than an average road due to the load that kart tires produce. Very very soft sticky rubber (try picking a kart on soft compounds after a race. It's stuck to the track and has to be rolled as you pick it up) tends to eat the pavement. If its hot and an asphalt track, it will literally peel it up. Cars being harder slide over the surface of the pavement, don't dig into it as hard (laterally) and are not running sticky enough tires to pick up the actual pavement. In fact many kart tracks think karts will be easier on their surface when the uneducated build a track and end up having to do multiple repaves to fix it. When you see a car track (I've moved to racing cars for a living from karts long ago) it's usually improper curing, or the actual ground underneath the track moving about.
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What happens when you try eat two different ice creams while doing 110mph... in a KTM X-bow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFe-LLqXFSM
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I wish I lived closer to cool street events like Long Beach. http://youtu.be/RZAcGbqSTpk
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I know you guys like engine sound racing porn so here's a crosspost from SAS. Big block dirt modified feature at Orange County Fair Speedway. The camera work isn't that great, but it's ok. Basically, this is my local track, I grew up out there. My first race there was when I was three months old. My dad used to build cars with a guy back in the coupe days, through to the Vega/Pinto style cars of the 70's. Where the tires are buried in turn one is where the guy my dad was with eventually lost his life, right in front of us. Anyways, this is from this year, and it gives a nice taste of what American local racing is like. OCFS is one of the largest dirt tracks in the US, at 5/8ths of a mile, and the cars in this video are basically unique to New York state. It's also the oldest operating dirt track in America, and probably the world. The first race was in 1919, and it was one of five tracks allowed by the US government to hold a race in 1945. If you've never been to a dirt track, this is about as close to being there you can get. All that's missing is the smell of fried dough, cigar smoke, and gear oil. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 19:33 on May 6, 2012 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I remember drooling over the Lingenfelter ZR1 when I was growing up. so THATS the famed sultan of Michigan garage. interesting.
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http://vimeo.com/39226105 Complete teardown / refresh of a Group N Rally Lancer Evolution X.
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"Hey, lets blow up the engine in this old car!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGasx3DwoVM Aftermath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgnXdreXcmc
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^^^Ha, that is awesome. Craziest drag racing win I have even seen. http://youtu.be/JKRJqiS2sx4
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mutt2jeff posted:^^^Ha, that is awesome. My face actually did this watching that video 
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mutt2jeff posted:^^^Ha, that is awesome. Don't you get dq'ed for crossing the center line? Related drag video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLBhGXUUEW8
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jamal posted:Don't you get dq'ed for crossing the center line? hey look, a 9 second Supra. My personal favorite Supra video of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmNy-ajRV0U
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jamal posted:Don't you get dq'ed for crossing the center line? That's what I thought. So I kept watching. A fat guy in an orange shirt said, "If you cross the center in front of your opponent, your out. If you cross the center line after your opponent, your not out. THAT'S HOW WE DO IT AT KOT'S."
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One of MIA's newest music videos has some pretty crazy jeddah boy poo poo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yuqxl284cg
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jamal posted:Don't you get dq'ed for crossing the center line? Probably would have been DQ'd under NHRA rules, but for King of the Streets or whatever who knows. According to the comments, you get DQ'd for crossing the center line in front of the other car, which makes sense as I'd shut the gently caress down in a hurry if the other car ended up in front of me in my lane. e:f,b
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Hey let's get out and stand here in the middle of the highway. this couldn't possibly end poorly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq5kXiLkNLU
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Hey let's get out and stand here in the middle of the highway. That was a bit much to see the backflip  Did he get up? Edit: correction, front flip 
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Hey let's get out and stand here in the middle of the highway. What a goddamn horrible idea, Jesus gently caress. Did the first dude get pinned between the two cars or what? Argh.
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After watching it a couple times, it looks like the one dude just barely manages to jump in to the back of the van without getting squished. I wouldn't be surprised if the other guy is dead though.
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What the hell was wrong with the guy driving the car that hit them? He could see them forever, and he waits until the last minute to hit the brakes... Edit: Oh, right. Russia. Ridge_Runner_5 fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 9, 2012 |
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Lowclock posted:After watching it a couple times, it looks like the one dude just barely manages to jump in to the back of the van without getting squished. I wouldn't be surprised if the other guy is dead though. This video was posted somewhere else on the forums with the info that the one guy did avoid injury by hopping into the back, but the guy that got hit had his legs broken. Relatively lucky, if that was indeed the case.
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