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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBOKD6fGu0&fea...
It took me about a minute of thinking "man, that guy can drive!" before I noticed who posted the video...
It took me about a minute of thinking "man, that guy can drive!" before I noticed who posted the video...
Some gratuitous footage of me trying to chase a V8 supertourer around Hampton Downs.
Not my fastest laps around there but it was fun trying to keep yp with a faster car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGwrz1b2YWk&hd=...
Not my fastest laps around there but it was fun trying to keep yp with a faster car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGwrz1b2YWk&hd=...
Oscar the Grouch said:
Hi George. Good to hear it up and running well on the track finally. Yours sounds amazing the way it revs, mine just seems to sound like some noise.
Cheers Aaron, and fear not... an Elise with a Larini exhaust can sound very nice indeed! This is my old one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXsDdqt0bA
And yeah, the Exige isn't doing too bad for itself now. Seems to have most of the niggles sorted out and runs very strongly. It's running Hampton Downs in 1:13.5 now, which is about the quickest street-legal car around there that I know of. There will be a few quicker, but not many. The only cars I've seen running similar times are generally roll-caged race cars running slicks... which ain't too bad for a little Rover K engine.
Twizel 250 - bad weekend. A tonne of peat in the side pods meant no air to the intercoolers, oil and trans coolers. Well down on power we ended up toasting the Albins sequential trans.
http://youtu.be/Ox1n2r7ttxU
Nelson 500 enduro championship - Mixed bag. An alignment two days before the event showed 5.5degrees of toe out in the rear. I couldn't see any damage, or how it could have shifted so didn't believe it... bad move. The car was all over the place. Ended up with a severely curtailed top speed and fighting the rear end all weekend. Still managed a strategic overall win by keeping it clean. Now the NZ enduro champion.
www.youtube.com/embed/xUWYIy5iPbQ
http://youtu.be/Ox1n2r7ttxU
Nelson 500 enduro championship - Mixed bag. An alignment two days before the event showed 5.5degrees of toe out in the rear. I couldn't see any damage, or how it could have shifted so didn't believe it... bad move. The car was all over the place. Ended up with a severely curtailed top speed and fighting the rear end all weekend. Still managed a strategic overall win by keeping it clean. Now the NZ enduro champion.
www.youtube.com/embed/xUWYIy5iPbQ
Great British Car Rally 2013, Auckland to Christchurch in February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtm2HTwMxc4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtm2HTwMxc4
Lap of Highlands Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbSe29Jjto
Fraster said:
Lap of Highlands Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbSe29Jjto
WOW - blown away with that!!Makes Hampton Downs - or any other NZ track for that matter - look 2nd rate.
Shades of Spa Francorchamps and even Monza's Curve Parabolica.
Agreed with youtube poster that some of those concrete abutments look very dangerous.
Thanks Fraster, great post
And theres lots more vids of cars hooning around Highlands during the opening weekend on my page below. Ford GT's, McLaren-Mercedes SLR, Porsche 911 GT3 RS (and race car GT3s), Aston Martin GT3, McLaren MP4-12C GT3, V8 Supertourers, NZV8, whole lotta classics, R35 GT-R and more.
http://www.youtube.com/SkylineObsession
http://www.youtube.com/SkylineObsession
More (all right, it was probably 5 years ago) bonkers Euro hill-climb footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJGiB5KWY3M
It has probably appeared on this video link at some point before but in case you haven't seen this, it's a great piece of cinema verite. A car racing through Pairs in the early hours of the morning. Lots of fun facts about this movie, but best to first just watch it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw4SU2JcnqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw4SU2JcnqM
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