RE: Time For Tea: Mini does a backflip

[Cotty]

Garlick said:

Hoygo said:

It has nothing "Mini" about it,it's just some jump rally or whatever they're called type of car with a shell to resemble a "Mini".

The same could be said of any racing/ rally/ drag car though, couldn't it? Loeb doesn't win rallies in a showroom fresh car.

In that case its not "the world’s first backflip in a car" as monster trucks have been doing them for years.

[graeme172]

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Super Slo Mo said:
The wheels are fairly heavy in a car, obviously not as great a proportion of the overall weight (I'm assuming, MX bike wheels are not heavy), and the bike wheels are of fairly large diameter, so amplify the effect.

There will have to be some effect though, otherwise we've figured out how to break the laws of physics.

In terms of 4WD, it'll have a bigger effect, all four wheels have a significant amount of inertia, and the car will want to rotate around each wheel in the same direction. I suspect in terms of the engine, it's the rotational inertia of the flywheel that will have the effect, as the engine will want to rotate in the engine bay in any case.
Didn't Peugeot have this problem in the eighties with the Group B 205 T16? I think the engine was transversely mid-mounted, so whenever it left the ground and the revs rose, the momentum of the crankshaft could upset trajectory of the car. If memory serves me well, they enlisted the help of Aerospatiale to correct this using aerodynamics.



i was going to say this too, i think that ari vatanen discovered this trait , which ultimately resulted in a large accident in one of the early t16's. every thing spinning in the same direction was what i understood to be the issue.

[williredale]

My daughters, age 6 and 4 approve!

They also like the Hayabusa powered Mini which came up in the suggested videos after.

[Dirty]

skyrover said:

this was more impressive IMO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCc0MAWL4tY

each wheel probably weighs more than that "mini"

hornet said:

This is the craziest one I've found :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-l-hvIJEYE

Suspect the second was accident rather than design, but even so!

Now those are proper backflips!

Have to say my all time favourite is this though. A double flip with twist and a backwards landing!

http://youtu.be/TtV1DZ3imW0

[MonkeySpanker]

Dirty said:

Have to say my all time favourite is this though. A double flip with twist and a backwards landing!

http://youtu.be/TtV1DZ3imW0

If you look close enough you can see brown streaks

[Cable]

Travis Pastrana has been trying it for a while. Apologies for the quality, it's the only one I can find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2KEUV25kz0

[filski666]

Wammer said:

PascalBuyens said:

filski666 said:

Didn't Rhys Millen do a backflip in car a couple of years ago?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDsdhUesC2I

He failed on his actual run though...

But if you read the article this was the first flip to be done unassisted so without a special ramp also Rhys Millen couldn't of driven away afterwards as he landed in some Boxes

ok, I checked - he did do the backflip - but didn't land too well - although no worse than Carey Hart's first FMX backflip - and he is still credited with pulling off the first backflip on a motorbike.

no cardboard boxes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaaFYLevKM

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Cotty said:

In that case its not "the world’s first backflip in a car" as monster trucks have been doing them for years.

But this is the first monster truck with a MINI badge on it. Hence it is a car. And a Mini. Apparently.

Yeah I'm not convinced either.