I'm speechless
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Impressively skilful. I still hate Subaru Imprezzas and the horrible noise they make, though.
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Impressively skilful.
Yes, but also impressively brutal and wasteful. How much were the tyres? How many miles of ordinary very fast road did that display mean to the engine - heavily tweaked - and transmission?
'I love a guy who lays rubber!' (cried the moronic 17-year-old American highschool parade queen).
I liked the noise though SS. Enough gonads to stir the soul...
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Go on Lud, you know you would love to be able to do this, ( i definitely would ), i am sure that Subaru can afford a set of tyres, ( and next year the highschool queen will be 18, which gives you another year of practice ! ! ... ;)
Think of this as your weekend relaxation, and go back to reality on ,monday morning ?
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you would love to be able to do this,
Yes, I would like to be able to do it. But I wouldn't want to make a habit of it.
It's cruel. And don't tell me the car loves it, like a fox being hunted or a horse in the Grand National.
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Impressively skilful. Yes but also impressively brutal and wasteful. How much were the tyres? How many miles of ordinary very fast road did that display mean to the engine - heavily tweaked - and transmission?
They were rubbish tyres anyway. I mean, all he did was drive into a hangar and it spun round 360 degrees. It's put me off Subarus as they are clearly impossible to control.
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It's put me off Subarus as they are clearly impossible to control.
Quite the opposite I would have thought.
Amazing skill from that driver, the guy on the Segway must really trust him.
I'd love to be a passenger although I expect I'd meet my breakfast again.
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>> It's put me off Subarus as they are clearly impossible to control. Quite the opposite I would have thought.
Irony is wasted on the Internet.
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It certainly is! It's difficult to judge a tone of voice or facial expression when viewing typing.
Edited by nick on 14/11/2008 at 15:46
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>> >> It's put me off Subarus as they are clearly impossible to control. >> >> Quite the opposite I would have thought. Irony is wasted on the Internet.
Tell me about it - I am deeply misunderstood. I told my wife her Irony was wasted on me. I have worn crumpled shirts ever since.
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Makes me think about the difference between the real world, and the media publicity machine.
If i was this guy, and someone talked about ...
Nigel Mansell
Ayrton Senna
Michael Schumacher
Lewis Hamilton
I would say, with total confidence, ................ "who" ?
Doesn't it make you wonder just who really is the greatest ..
chef / footballer / pilot / golfer / guitarist / ... etc, etc.
I just know that, if i could drive like this, i hope i would never have to work for a living again !
Thanks for the link gb, i have forwarded it to half-a-dozen friends i know will enjoy it as much as i did.
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Brilliant Clip! - just fwd it to a mate who has bought one this last w/e, (in part ex for a Rover 620) and spent saturday and sunday makin it howl up and down the road outside our local. Unfortunately for him, he loves his bikes as well (has a thingymajig 1000) and went back to work on Monday on it, leaving the car at home, (works away all week an a bit in Dumfries).
Should make him suitably anxious to get home home again next thursday, especially as I captioned it with, "Think you you were cool an trendy? - look what Sophies (his g/f's name changed) been upto" - Sometimes, I 've a WKD side - have you? ;-)
Billy
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We have a UPS driver round here who sometimes seems to be trying to do that when he's running a bit late......
;-)
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Very impressive.
But judging by the amount of rubber already on the road, I wonder if the Segway rider has ever been 'clipped' during practice sessions..
I would think though that any WRC driver would be able to do the same with a little practice. This Ken Block bloke is a newcomer to rallying.
;o)
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Am I the only one who's not impressed by a driver skidding around in a ludicrously fast car , showing off to his mates? Oh, sorry, of course, it's 'motorsport' isn't it.
I'd would have been more impressed if he managed the course without using up the yearly output of a Hevea Brasiliensis. I'm yet to be convinced that skidding around corners in clouds of smoke is the fastest way through.
I did notice he had to doughnut in the enclosure to gain his 'points' & conventional wheel-twirling would have been slower, but this species of motorsport is obviously constructed so that a histrionic style is necessary - looked almost as pointless & childish as Japanese drifting.
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Am I the only one who's not impressed ??
No you aren't woodbines, but that sort of thing isn't as easy as good practitioners make it look, and does take considerable discipline and delicacy in the feet among other parts...
Who was that Dutch racing driver who used to drive down a runway in a fifties GP car in a continuous 360-degree spin, whose direction he could change at will, now this way, now that? And the other chap who could drive a specially-fettled Eurobox everywhere on two wheels?
Circus stuff really. One would like to see that Subaru driven in anger on a circuit, without all that speed-sapping smoke. Tyre smoke is one of the more tiresome things about TG.
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>>And the other chap who could drive a specially-fettled Eurobox everywhere on two wheels?
Probably Russell Swift
www.russswift.co.uk/
also responsible for the extraordinary parallel parking manouvre featured in a TV advert years ago.
ISTR his skill is the result of an enormous ammount of practice, and a big hammer to keep it driveable during the inevitable learning curve errors.
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Saw him and his sons doing the Mini show at the NEC years ago. Very impressive. Skill and lots of practice I think.
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>>One would like to see that Subaru driven in anger on a circuit
Here you go then Lud, not the same car but one like wot I own:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YtEITy6CA
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Thanks nick, that's a bit more like it... standard road car too I think, not one that had been weightlifting...
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Good video. The chase car was quicker and smoother.
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Good video. The chase car was quicker and smoother.
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Agreed... I was waiting for the Impreza to move over, and let the chase car off the leash.....
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I presume that it was an Evo??
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Yes I think so. A better driver in the second car.
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The Subaru driver is a bit sudden with his steering inputs and not very precise. Uses different lines, perhaps because learning the circuit. He isn't tidy or quick, but the car obviously is, as well as having sweet forgiving handling.
I believe an Evo is quicker round a circuit than a Subaru (both off-the-shelf), but less forgiving pedal to metal. Don't really know though.
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Not that impressive, C15 goes around corners like that in the wet without me even trying, and the engine sounds, well, similar.
CBG
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Very impressive, but:
I reckon the scooby could've done the course quicker with less flair.
I also reckon he probably lost a considerable chunk of rear bodywork at the 2.20 mark!
The spin-in-a-box looked to me like it was well edited.
I've never seen Russ Swift live in action, but I've been a marshall when one of his sons has been competing. They don't need to put it on you tube, they make it look like they can produce it all the time!
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I enjoyed Nick's link to the chase round Cadwell Park, i'm no racer but did the Subaru seem too quick to oversteer compared to the chase car which didn't move once i think.
Having said that he was going for it pretty well, i'm not sure i'd want to risk my own road car in the same way.
The Ken Block videos were enjoyable, i particularly liked the way he set the vehicle into drifts well before the end of the building, no doubt practiced and rehearsed to perfection but superb execution of the art, good fun in the snow with the crazy snowboarders too.
I couldn't do it, well i'd have a go but expect much bent metal.
Can see why those Subaru's are so popular, you'd have a job to get a more competent, reliable, easily and cheaply maintained all rounder for the same money.
It made me have another look on the trader to see whats for sale..;)
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