What is "The very definition of on it"?

[vtgts300kw]

Sprint Rich said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVXc29ZgutI&fea...

Has any computer/ console game recreated the IOM?

[BelperJim]

vtgts300kw said:

Has any computer/ console game recreated the IOM?

[stew-S160]

Whilst some of these videos are showing what those guys do every week, come rain or shine, being 'on it' is more a state of mind.

I will however enjoy today at work, watching all those clips.

[stew-S160]

zeb said:

rix said:

GreigM said:

Jurgen Alzen at the 'ring....some of the closing speeds on the other "competitors" are scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7N7Lw_yzOQ&fea...

The initial section on the Nordschleife at around 1.50 almost looks like the video is speeded up - brilliant stuff

Probably the best video I've ever watched, absolutely mesmerized! The noise, the power! Oh. My.

Jesus wept he doesn't take any prisioners in traffic now does he?!!!

Nice video, but nothing really exceptional. Much faster car passing slower cars.

[Vocal Minority]

Allyc85 said:

Petter Solberg setting the fastest ever time on the WRC's fastest stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I_EHrDZRvQ

Petter Solberg is epic there, but a definate honourable mention for Phil Mills. Epic concentration - top quote 'it gets fast now' half way through.

What a good thread....

[MrKipling43]

Being on it, or just getting away with it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtjQ4SK4GXk

[chrisobrien54]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZBJCFS_Ng&fea...

Oh is it wet?

[Edmundo2]

Nothing but man and machine pushing it to the limit, no one else involved, big risk factor, no shaky cameras - just well and truly "on it"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIle3tjMdiY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZikkxieZMHc

[kiteless]

Looks a little.....wide for a hill climb course, that does.

Here's Scott Moran going up Loton Park:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU48phqBmQ

[DJRC]

Gilles.

Anytime. Anywhere.

[Reardy Mister]

rix said:

GreigM said:

Jurgen Alzen at the 'ring....some of the closing speeds on the other "competitors" are scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7N7Lw_yzOQ&fea...

The initial section on the Nordschleife at around 1.50 almost looks like the video is speeded up - brilliant stuff

Probably the best video I've ever watched, absolutely mesmerized! The noise, the power! Oh. My.

That thing is other-worldly.

[John D.]

James B said:

I'm a big fan of this drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM_1KP24T-A&fea...

I love this too. Most definately on it!!

[Edmundo2]

kiteless said:

Looks a little.....wide for a hill climb course, that does.

Here's Scott Moran going up Loton Park:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU48phqBmQ

No doubt Scott is great and I always marvel when watching the top guys in uk hillclimbing but to suggest the on the two german clips that the tracks are too wide...? Clearly both guys are gunning it and using every inch of the track in front of them. Both clips show cars drifting/sliding to the outer extremities of the surface whilst never dropping a wheel an inch too far. Brave when going through tight turns at high speed with rock faces etc

[John D.]

Gille Panizzi on tarmac. Usually pretty on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7_yffggBMk

[MissChief]

Thing that gets me about Panizzi when he's driving is the eyes. he never blinks and always has these eyes on stalks!

[RB Will]

BelperJim said:

Another good example - Lancia Hill Climb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SKRZj-ffTY&lis...

It's probably a combination of the two but either that car has biblical power or the shortest ratio gearbox known to man!

[GravelBen]

RB Will said:

It's probably a combination of the two but either that car has biblical power or the shortest ratio gearbox known to man!

Old Group B car, probably both!

[Vocal Minority]

Edmundo2 said:

kiteless said:

Looks a little.....wide for a hill climb course, that does.

Here's Scott Moran going up Loton Park:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRU48phqBmQ

No doubt Scott is great and I always marvel when watching the top guys in uk hillclimbing but to suggest the on the two german clips that the tracks are too wide...? Clearly both guys are gunning it and using every inch of the track in front of them. Both clips show cars drifting/sliding to the outer extremities of the surface whilst never dropping a wheel an inch too far. Brave when going through tight turns at high speed with rock faces etc

Think he may have been being a shade tongue cheek there

[dtrump]

John D. said:

Gille Panizzi on tarmac. Usually pretty on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7_yffggBMk

WOW

enjoyed that a lot

[John D.]

MissChief said:

Thing that gets me about Panizzi when he's driving is the eyes. he never blinks and always has these eyes on stalks!

I tried to find a clip I can recall watching back in the day of him in the 206WRC which really illustrates that! Search only found umpteen clips of him pulling a doughnut for the crowd halfway through a stage in Corsica he was leading by a country mile. Legend