RE: TT Tank Slapper - What A Save!
Discussion
MC Bodge said:
Charge99 said:
The save was good but the passengers complete lack of reaction was better! "Hey American dude, your whole family just died in an towering inferno, you are going to die a slow and painful death from a tropical disease and your dog Buster just got run over".... "We're good" !!!
The passenger looked almost as calm as the flight instructor who demonstrated how to recover from a flat stall spin in a Phantom(?) trainer on "Speed" with Jeremy Clarkson ....who wasn't quite as calm http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3023624...
...or the passenger had shat himself and was just pretending that he was "good to go".
Edited by MC Bodge on Friday 10th June 20:56
I put a CRX sideways at a little over 130mph on Castle Combe. That was scary enough and that was on a race track with run off - I still hit the barrier! To do that on a normal road with no run off is uncomprehendable... At 20 mph less and with more room you still don't have time to think. From someone who's been there that was pure instinct!
y2blade said:
Now that is a proper tank slapper 
Had me shouting at the TV even more! How he hung on to that I do not know. Both are incredible bits or driving/riding to be fair.
mcrdave said:
Amazing.
Here are 2 fine examples of the opposite of that passenger:
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=28197
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=28129
They are proper funny; thank you for brightening up my day with a few tears of laughter!Here are 2 fine examples of the opposite of that passenger:
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=28197
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=28129
Actually this thread reminded me of a little tank slapped i got into on my first trackday.
Too much speed into the corner (or infact misjudgement of how fast the car in front wasn't going) meant a large dose of sideways on the way out.
I think i did quite well to catch it and keep it straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIScJ0E4YY
Big difference though between 2nd gear flat out with lots of run off and 6th gear flat with no run off!
Too much speed into the corner (or infact misjudgement of how fast the car in front wasn't going) meant a large dose of sideways on the way out.
I think i did quite well to catch it and keep it straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIScJ0E4YY
Big difference though between 2nd gear flat out with lots of run off and 6th gear flat with no run off!
m3jappa said:
Actually this thread reminded me of a little tank slapped i got into on my first trackday.
Too much speed into the corner (or infact misjudgement of how fast the car in front wasn't going) meant a large dose of sideways on the way out.
I think i did quite well to catch it and keep it straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIScJ0E4YY
Big difference though between 2nd gear flat out with lots of run off and 6th gear flat with no run off!
All that was missing was some high-fives Too much speed into the corner (or infact misjudgement of how fast the car in front wasn't going) meant a large dose of sideways on the way out.
I think i did quite well to catch it and keep it straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIScJ0E4YY
Big difference though between 2nd gear flat out with lots of run off and 6th gear flat with no run off!
If you look, he created the situation if you ask me.56 to 57 seconds, it looks like he realises he is too close to the walls on the left hand side due to entry speed and gives the wheel a proper yank to the right.That's where the fun begins it seems.It was a good save all the same, but to me, that's all it was.Nothing Godlike really.Just another decent driver doing the right thing to get out of a messy situation. (I am prepared for the upset that may cause) 
m3jappa said:
Actually this thread reminded me of a little tank slapped i got into on my first trackday.
Too much speed into the corner (or infact misjudgement of how fast the car in front wasn't going) meant a large dose of sideways on the way out.
I think i did quite well to catch it and keep it straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIScJ0E4YY
Big difference though between 2nd gear flat out with lots of run off and 6th gear flat with no run off!
That must have looked great in the caterfield's rear mirrorToo much speed into the corner (or infact misjudgement of how fast the car in front wasn't going) meant a large dose of sideways on the way out.
I think i did quite well to catch it and keep it straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIScJ0E4YY
Big difference though between 2nd gear flat out with lots of run off and 6th gear flat with no run off!
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