Show us your animated GIFs... [Volume 4]

[durbster]

Horsey McHorseface said:

For someone who’s never attended the FOS: does anyone else question the safety of this event? Cars doing 2023 speeds vs 1960/70’s straw bail safety. A car tumbling into the crowd, is the scenario I’m most concerned about.

I haven't been for a good 20 years but even back then I was quite conscious of this, and I do squirm a bit whenever I see the clips from the ones who are pressing on.

That said, the vast majority of cars that go up are just driving and aren't anywhere near their limit. Some will stop and do a burnout or some doughnuts but it's all quit safe.

It's mainly the ones going for a time that are the danger and I'm not sure they should be timing them at all. At the speed that McMurty was going last year it'd travel a very, very long way into the crowd.

[thenetwork]

[nobrakes]

^ 911 gets a few mentions!

[RumbleOfThunder]

durbster said:

Horsey McHorseface said:

For someone who’s never attended the FOS: does anyone else question the safety of this event? Cars doing 2023 speeds vs 1960/70’s straw bail safety. A car tumbling into the crowd, is the scenario I’m most concerned about.

I haven't been for a good 20 years but even back then I was quite conscious of this, and I do squirm a bit whenever I see the clips from the ones who are pressing on.

That said, the vast majority of cars that go up are just driving and aren't anywhere near their limit. Some will stop and do a burnout or some doughnuts but it's all quit safe.

It's mainly the ones going for a time that are the danger and I'm not sure they should be timing them at all. At the speed that McMurty was going last year it'd travel a very, very long way into the crowd.

It bothers me too. We already had a wheel fly into the crowd this year since there was no catch fencing. I do think there will be a serious accident in the near future.

[thenetwork]

[thenetwork]

[Stan the Bat]

thenetwork said:

Whassat ?

[Nova Gyna]

Stan the Bat said:

thenetwork said:

Whassat ?

An escaped lioness filling its boots on wild boar in Germany.

[Stan the Bat]

Thanks, difficult to make it out.

[CoolC]

thenetwork said:

This was running at Le Mans classic this year.

Hilariously ugly thing 😁

[bongtom]

Baron Greenback said:

"The “one-stroke” is in quotes as the engine is actually a two stroke (by definition), in that it has two movements (strokes) in its combustion process. Unlike most conventional two-stroke engines, however, the INNengine e-Rex doesn’t burn oil or even use one of those strokes to lubricate or cool itself"

That's an awful lot of heat (friction and detonations) to disperse.
I saw something similar using gearing. Looked beautiful but would never work.

May have some applications with fluid though.

Not sure why people are bothering redesigning the engine when everything will be electric/fuel cell.

[bongtom]

Don't know why it does not self load. Clicky.

[Mannginger]

Woah that's a lot of energy right there!

[Baron Greenback]

Mannginger said:

Woah that's a lot of energy right there!

I was concentrating on the guy with white square, wrong, atleast they get new road surface.

[Pitre]

bongtom said:

Don't know why it does not self load. Clicky.

[DodgyGeezer]

that's not what I was expecting!!

[thenetwork]

[GliderRider]

thenetwork said:

Scooby Doo needs a change of diet.

[Horsey McHorseface]

Overstayed welcome in a Disabled Bay

[NDA]

CoolC said:

thenetwork said:

This was running at Le Mans classic this year.

Hilariously ugly thing ??

I remember first time I saw that a few years - sitting having a pint near Chiddingfold. Wondered what the hell it was when it drove past (I know now).