Worksop bypass racing

[nick heppinstall]

A mate just sent me a link to this. Looks pretty old. Some pretty risky overtakes !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8awCKYYwgU

[Geekman]

According to the MID, the car's still on the road, which is surprising given some of those overtakes!

[Buff Mchugelarge]

That's some of the most insane driving I've ever seen on a public road. Unbelievable.

They do seem to know what they're doing, although with all the other drivers on the road I can't help thinking they were extremely lucky.

[Dalto123]

Awful driving. Very surprised that car is on the road still given the driving!

[PaulG40]

I thought at the start the bike was being somewhat sensible and respecting other road users unlike the porsche driver. I was wrong. Both absolutely disgraceful!

[VinceFox]

Convictions?

[juice]

Unbelievably dangerous driving

[StefanVXR8]

1m 50s - Farkin hell, what a complete and utter wker!

Stef

[VinceFox]

Are these sort of videos ever actually followed up?

[themanwithnoname]

Quite an old video by some of the vehicles passed - Nissan Bluebirds, Austin Metros, Ford Orion, various Sierras, K10 Micras etc.

A few more moderns, but would put the video at 1998-2002 sort of area?

Driver and rider needed bringing before a magistrate for all that.

[Sonic]

Some pretty darn close moments there. Not quite sure how the 911 managed to avoid a few other road users!

[P I Staker]

That looks awfully exciting.

[400SE Dave]

175mph on a busy Public road, lunacy

[rouge59]

Nice to see a 993 being properly driven.

Edited by rouge59 on Wednesday 30th April 20:20

[Mastodon2]

Christ, that 911 driver had something to prove. At 1:50 it was nearly over for him, then at 2:50 when he is overtaking at 140 - did he really think he'd be able to shed 80mph and slot into one of those gaps on his left if something appeared coming the other way? The R1 rider looked a lot safer, but still very fast, but was riding in the boot of the 911 towards the end.

As for bringing anyone before a magistrate, good luck with that. You'd need a tardis, at the least.

[J4CKO]

themanwithnoname said:

Quite an old video by some of the vehicles passed - Nissan Bluebirds, Austin Metros, Ford Orion, various Sierras, K10 Micras etc.

A few more moderns, but would put the video at 1998-2002 sort of area?

Driver and rider needed bringing before a magistrate for all that.

Might be Norfolk fairly recently though.

How fast is that 911 ? jesus, what engine is it in a 993 that keeps an R1 fairly honest ?

Driver obviously a dick.

[ModernAndy]

That driving, no matter how well judged, is absolutely atrocious.

[Sensibleboy]

I do hope driving like that is a thing of the past...

[Mastodon2]

J4CKO said:

Might be Norfolk fairly recently though.

How fast is that 911 ? jesus, what engine is it in a 993 that keeps an R1 fairly honest ?

Driver obviously a dick.

Probably just the standard 911 Turbo engine of the era I'd guess, the R1 wasn't using full throttle very often or shifting up at the redline, and was braking on approach to the car at times, so I'm not sure the R1 was kept "honest" - if the R1 had been taking the same level of risks as the 911 I imagine the R1 would have been past and away very early in the video. 911s hold up better in a crash though!

[J4CKO]

Mastodon2 said:

J4CKO said:

Might be Norfolk fairly recently though.

How fast is that 911 ? jesus, what engine is it in a 993 that keeps an R1 fairly honest ?

Driver obviously a dick.

Probably just the standard 911 Turbo engine of the era I'd guess, the R1 wasn't using full throttle very often or shifting up at the redline, and was braking on approach to the car at times, so I'm not sure the R1 was kept "honest" - if the R1 had been taking the same level of risks as the 911 I imagine the R1 would have been past and away very early in the video. 911s hold up better in a crash though!

Yeah, hence the "Fairly", usually an R1 streaks past anything, it had to be a 911 turbo to accelerate like that over 100 mph