Video: Great Car Control at Montlhery Autodrome

[2volvos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TshFWSsrn8

Don't much care for his dress sense, but he can't half drive. The new Stig maybe?

[StuartMcKay]

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a... Block's Gymkhana Three l'Autodrome, France

Edited by StuartMcKay on Thursday 23 September 16:09

[Eric Mc]

Nice to see the circuit is still useable. It would be great to see some of the restored pre-war Mercedes and Auto Union cars running on it.

[308mate]

Seen one donut, youve seen them all. But his car control is second to none. The banked stuff is particularly impressive as its a whole new set of rules to work with for the car and driver. As soon as he hit the brakes it was trying to slide down the banking. Its didnt look like there were tyre marks there from 30+ practice runs too which is nicer to watch and blowing the rears was a nice touch at the end. Bit of closure.

I wonder how much harder it would be in a car with half the HP of that one? You cant do much of what he does without an excess of HP on tap to steer the car with.

[Simon Mason]

Most of that is car not driver (diff, dampers and power). Lighting the touch paper, I would argue some top WRC and many other top series drivers would actually do it with more style and less car abuse knowing the diff can do some pretty amazing stuff.