RE: PH Heroes: The Human Edition

[mikee boy]

I can't believe they don't run with 2 throttle cables as standard. I do!

[JB Rugby]

Steamer said:

Very brave...


...however, my first thought: They had 4 shoes laces in that car probably? a slightly safer option than a human throttle cable?

what!!! Common sense! Are you mad???!

[TOENHEEL]

AngryS3Owner said:

TOENHEEL said:

Spotted you mate at the nurburgring few weeks ago! wandered around the car park to say hello but couldnt find you! i was in the yellow exige s if you spotted it.

think I saw your car either driving past the Am Tiergarden or somewhere around the town. Great trip but didn't even manage to make it on the ring as we were only there for Sunday, will be going back again though!

Yeah will of been me, there was 3 of us in Exiges my yellow one and 2 orange. Spent about 4 days there absolutely brilliant trip. Nice to see a fellow PHer

[AngryS3Owner]

You hopefully saw a few of the cerberas and others, there were loads of PHers there that weekend!

[TOENHEEL]

AngryS3Owner said:

You hopefully saw a few of the cerberas and others, there were loads of PHers there that weekend!

Saw quite a few Tivs but none on track although the sunday was a bit mental traffic wise.

[deviant]

Brilliant!! The stuff of motorsport legend.

[coleo]

Brilliant stuff

[Steamer]

JB Rugby said:

Steamer said:

Very brave...


...however, my first thought: They had 4 shoes laces in that car probably? a slightly safer option than a human throttle cable?

what!!! Common sense! Are you mad???!

To be honest having seen how quick these guys got their acts together, sitting there stringing shoe laces together would have just wasted time.

[matt uk]

Seemed like the logical thing to do to me

[toohuge]

Now that's rock 'n' rock

[anonymous-user]

lol my throttle cable snapped last night so i tied a piece of string to the throttle under the bonnet, threaded the string up under the bonnet - through the passenger window and into my left hand.

changing gear was a small issue but managed to get home alrite luckily its all wide country roads on the way home lol

[mneame]

i've used molegrips to steer a car in the absense of a steering wheel when moving a project around the drive before but doing what he done, legend. lol.

[Sivraj]

Would have been safer and quicker if they just wedge the throttle open at about 3000rpm to make it to the end of the stage(didn't look that far!!).
Hats off the achieved what they set of to do!!

Edited by Sivraj on Friday 14th November 13:12

[ih8thisname]

Well done that man!!

[xiphias]

That's inspired.

[M15ley]

I have a professional photo of my father doing exactly the same thing during a stage of the 'RAC Rally of Great Britain' over 30 years ago!!!

[hornetrider]

Quality stuff.

A mate of mine snapped the throttle cable on his old mini. He rigged up some bailing twine from the engine, under the bonnet and through the drivers window to get himself home. Seriously.

[Ken555]

At time like that, you wish you still had a choke cable

[slikrs]

I guess they couldn't find a length of string like my wee sis did when she had teh same trouble a couple of eyars ago on one of the Scottish forrest stages. She operated the throttle with the string held otu of the window while the driver steered and changed gear..

But hey, I guess it takes a Frenchman to simply jump on the engine, not somewhere I would have been very happy without some heat protection......

[pits]

Beats me driving my mates golf up the road with a bit of wire wrapped around the throttle bracket and using my hand to accelerate by pulling the wire