Time was when car companies would celebrate important motorsport achievements, or production milestones. But this is the 21st century, and social media is king. So when car companies want to shout about something, they increasingly like to crow about just how many people like them in a virtual sense.
Ferrari, meanwhile, is presumably sniggering at the thought of AMG marking a 'mere' two million YouTube views, while it's celebrating a whole eight million Facebook fans.
But while the Mercedes video is a spot of genuinely artful sliding, around one of the most dramatic and challenging corners in global motorsport, the Ferrari video is, not to put too fine a point on it, a chap c*cking about on some Tarmac at Fiorano. Worst of all is the cringeworthy pay-off at the end that the driver has created '8,000,000' written in burned rubber. Not sure we believe that. (Riggers could have done a better job in Photoshop - Ed.) Mind you, racer Dindo Capello's antics in an R8 V10 to celebrate 500,000 Facebook fans doesn't seem quite right, either...
Its much easier to do that down the corkscrew than drive it fast. No idea what the ferrari vid is suppoed to be about, any idiot can plant their foot and spin round in circles.
No idea what the ferrari vid is suppoed to be about, any idiot can plant their foot and spin round in circles.
Perhaps it's just showing that once you've turned the lever to ESC OFF (effectively disabling all the traction and stability control system) you can't possibly drive the thing in a straight line
I thought it was called the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca? ;-)
Good spot :-)) - I was in SFR for NY and drove out to Laguna Seca - no-one around so the shop girl said go walk the track - I headed off UP the corkscrew - it is unbelivable steep and looking back made me think about actually driving down it - was steeper than the dipper at Bathhurst and that is saying something...
