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Powershift posted:Who cares if you're fast when you're stylish. I dunno, those "tractor engines" have a certain appeal to 'em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHl24QynOM
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Tommychu posted:1920s-era tractors weren't known for their blistering speed in general though. Which got me thinking, it would be pretty neat if you could have screw propulsion with variable screw height.. Although that would remove one of the major advantages of screws - simplicity.
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Powershift posted:Who cares if you're fast when you're stylish. Walking tractors are alright, but I prefer walking draglines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4PuhywXm8
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I was just on the bus and this pulled up at a red light. There was also another heavily modified liveried BMW trailing behind, but I couldn't get a picture. That one was on its own wheels though, and it wasn't anywhere near as crazy.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I was just on the bus and this pulled up at a red light. i just can't hate it. It's too 3.0 CSL to hate.
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I liked it.  I live right next to an actual race track, for the record. Not the first time I see a non road-legal car with massive aero. Zeppelin Insanity fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I liked it. Looks a lot like the E36 based race car a guy from my cigar shop hang out has. I'd be very very surprised if that was anything but a full on race car. And that makes it god drat Awesome.
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I don't think this was ever posted in this thread, 1975 Corolla with a supercharged 1UZ-FE   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMAy7Z6zys
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Aureus posted:Looks a lot like the E36 based race car a guy from my cigar shop hang out has. I'd be very very surprised if that was anything but a full on race car. And that makes it god drat Awesome. I imagine if it wasn't a full on race car, it would not be on a trailer. You can't see it in the picture, but it was also missing one headlight, converted into an air intake tube. I somewhat regret not taking the picture of the car that was trailing behind it. Black body and bright pink window net is not a good look.
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neckbeard posted:I don't think this was ever posted in this thread, 1975 Corolla with a supercharged 1UZ-FE I remember watching that video, it has such a crazy exhaust note. Seriously cool.
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Hot Rod Magazine got a trophy truck driver to take his car out on the track. I can't figure out how to gank and rehost their images (they've done some hinky thing with div tags or backgrounds or something that's making it so right clicking doesn't give me a "view image" or "save image" option) or I'd put them here.http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1301_baja_trophy_truck_at_the_drags/ Worth every minute of reading. Oh and here's a video of it, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puD63EwwFqg 3 FEET of suspension travel. 4.6" diameter shock absorbers, multi bypass.  e: for a sense of scale - those are 40" tires. 40" tires that Yokohama literally made custom for him, and won't sell to anyone else. They bring 40 (IIRC, might have been 30) to every thousand mile race. It gets 2 to 2.5mpg on $14.5/gallon fuel. kastein fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Kastein-style porno is strange yet oddly stimulating.
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Eh, they're not the first to take an offroad truck and put it back on the street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yIQAvW7XnE
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I just love seeing a truck on 40" offroad tires with a suspension rather charitably described as "floaty" take a lap time only 5 seconds slower than a brand new Mustang Stadium Super Trucks is also the best thing. Here's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMuod2BaHQ8 Probably one of the only series that considers curbs to be optional shortcuts on this track
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The body roll on those stadium trucks is amazing.
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Five minutes into that video and theres at least one driver who has never sat in a stadium truck before the race, ramps that arent secured in place in any way, and a 15 year old who has never driven on asphalt. Stadium trucks sound awesome and terrifying.
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Tommychu posted:1920s-era tractors weren't known for their blistering speed in general though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP_i0lu700g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo31_3UzTTY
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Great Beer posted:Five minutes into that video and theres at least one driver who has never sat in a stadium truck before the race, ramps that arent secured in place in any way, and a 15 year old who has never driven on asphalt. Stadium trucks sound awesome and terrifying. Sounds fantastic. "Made this decision at 7pm last night did a few laps this morning and .... feels like 8 guys robbed a bank" "I haven't drove these things at all" <- first lap will be with all the other cars. This is gonna be good.
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The SSTs are amazing. Robby Gordon is the best kind of deranged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfG3KgSR7fU
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:The SSTs are amazing. Robby Gordon is the best kind of deranged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfG3KgSR7fU My dad was/is a huge NASCAR fan, doesn't Robby Gordon crash every race? IIRC every single weekend I was hearing about his latest attempt to create a new work of abstract art by smearing his car all over the rest of the field.
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Dude was nuts and did wreck a lot, he doesn't race in NASCAR anymore. Runs basically just Dakar now. He was AJ Foyt if AJ Foyt never won any races really, but came close! Ran Indy, NASCAR, off road, sports cars, everything more or less. Not very many drivers are like that anymore, and only Tony Stewart has actually had success doing that. 
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How are those stadium truck races not more popular than Nascar?? That poo poo is amazing! Those things don't "corner" as much as "drift and straighten out through copious application of power".
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VikingSkull posted:Dude was nuts and did wreck a lot, he doesn't race in NASCAR anymore. Runs basically just Dakar now. I would also consider Juan Pablo Montoya here, but he's never done anything off-raod that I know of.
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Yeah Montoya is in the picture, too. F1, sports cars, Indy and NASCAR. Even did a dirt late model race a few times. SST's, like anything not oval or drag racing, won't have the same kind of national presence. There's road courses all over, but not many compared to strips and ovals, and off road/desert racing is gonna stay a geographically limited thing. West of the Mississippi it flies, east, not so much. Basically drag strips can be built anywhere, and straight line speed contests are going to be popular at the grassroots all over. Oval racing, specifically dirt oval racing, has its roots in county fairgrounds and horse tracks, and that's why there's dirt ovals loving everywhere in the US. My local track is the oldest operating dirt oval in the world, first auto race in 1919, first horse race in 1847. If it isn't drag or oval racing, it's gonna be niche.
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Which is really quit sad, considering how big the US is you'd think we'd have a Nurburgring or two laying around waiting for someone to do something legendary on it. There's certainly some really great road courses here but I think only CoTA satisfies modern safety standards. And conveniently wikipedia has a nice list of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_auto_racing_tracks_in_the_United_States#Road_courses
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It's just a natural progression thing. When cars first appeared in the US and people wanted to race, they went to the horse track. When the same happened to Europe, they ran road rallies. IIRC only England had numerous horse tracks at the time. Our extra large 'Ring style courses are Bonneville and the old Daytona Beach land speed contests. e- and Pikes Peak
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angryhampster posted:I would also consider Juan Pablo Montoya here, but he's never done anything off-raod that I know of. I'd add Loeb to the mix as well, WRC, LeMans, WEC, Pikes Peak, Touring Cars, F1 (does running tests count?)
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Couldn't get a photo of the car this was on, so I put this together: Yes, it was on a (NC) Miata. Without a HOOSIER in sight.
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Aargh posted:I'd add Loeb to the mix as well, WRC, LeMans, WEC, Pikes Peak, Touring Cars, F1 (does running tests count?) Loeb falls into the same category as Gordon and Montoya....they've run a ton of stuff, but really only win in one thing (WRC, off road trucks and Indy respectively). The only guy that fits the AJ Foyt/Mario Andretti mold today is Tony Stewart, he has multiple wins and championships in karts, midgets, sprint cars, Silver Crown, Indycar, IROC and NASCAR. It's a whole other level of talent.
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Valentino rossi tested for Ferrari F1 at one point didn't he?
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VikingSkull posted:The only guy that fits the AJ Foyt/Mario Andretti mold today is Tony Stewart, he has multiple wins and championships in karts, midgets, sprint cars, Silver Crown, Indycar, IROC and NASCAR. It's a whole other level of talent. Denny Hulme won races in trucks, dominated CAN-AM and would have won Le Mans if it weren't for the French being pricks. He's not all-conquering but the dude basically raced and won until he literally died. Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Slavvy posted:Valentino rossi tested for Ferrari F1 at one point didn't he? He's also dabbled in WRC and said that once he feels he's done with MotoGP he'd like to get into rallying.
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Butt Wizard posted:Denny Hulme won races in trucks, dominated CAN-AM and would have won Le Mans if it weren't for the French being pricks. He's not all-conquering but the dude basically raced and won until he literally died. You forgot f1. WDC, with wins at Monaco and Nurburgring 
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Fo3 posted:You forgot f1. WDC, with wins at Monaco and Nurburgring He also ran Indycars with Smokey Yunick, Hulme was the real deal. As was John Surtees, only dude to win a world championship on both two and four wheels. Here's Hulme's Yunick prepped Eagle/Ford 
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Butt Wizard posted:Denny Hulme won races in trucks, dominated CAN-AM and would have won Le Mans if it weren't for the French being pricks. He's not all-conquering but the dude basically raced and won until he literally died. not to take anything away from the fella, but I don't know if I'd say his E30 was in a winning position when he had a heart attack.
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