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mobby_6kl posted:David Tracy went to Australia to get a rusted-out UTE running and drive it to a meet, it's pretty AI: Cool old VF ute with a hemi six in it
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"both incredible acceleration and erratic handling" Great combination, that. Olympic Mathlete posted:Remember when Mercedes made really great looking vehicles? Vaguely. Feels like it was decades ago. ...oh.
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Man those SECs, the 500E and the early 90s SL/S class were just the absolute peak of Mercedes.
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Holy crap I want to see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up2EXiwjXxk Dale Jr approves  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmVUoMnTQ1A
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Holy crap I want to see this MX-5 cup was one of the support races for IMSA this year, my friend said the racing was amazing.
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Yeah I've seen some of the road course races, very good racing. On a short oval it sounds like a blast. Bristol would be even better, Id drive up to Tennessee to see that [e] Dale Jr is a great ambassador for motorsports, he loves all of it Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Aug 25, 2023 |
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Aug 25, 2023 20:53
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Applebees Appetizer posted:[e] Dale Jr is a great ambassador for motorsports, he loves all of it The rare combination of someone with some unique privilege, and the drive to use it. Dude literally showed up at North Wilkesboro with the keys to the track and all manner of cleaning implements to restore it into condition good enough for iRacing to scan, and now, for NASCAR to go back to. He just wants to go fast.
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Did he say the cars are only 1 second slower a lap than the actual cup cars? That's surprising to me.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Did he say the cars are only 1 second slower a lap than the actual cup cars? That's surprising to me. The cup car lap record is only 18.845 seconds, so a full second slower is a pretty significant gap.
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Today's tex talks battle tech has a special guest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9tgyAwuVk at 1:35:17 in one of his most tame presentation.
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MrYenko posted:The cup car lap record is only 18.845 seconds, so a full second slower is a pretty significant gap. Ah, that makes sense, I didn't pay attention long enough to catch that figure. That's a huge number on something that short, I was thinking of longer ovals laptimes when I said 'huh' about that.
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SlowBloke posted:Today's tex talks battle tech has a special guest LOL you gotta be in the wrong thread! But I clicked and like it. That intro like an old Bond movie was cool.
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From the Cup race in Daytona last night, scary but incredible at the same time, never seen anything like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOuVPKNkYA [e] The slow motion shot makes it look very surreal, "looks like a toy car" is pretty accurate. Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Aug 27, 2023 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:From the Cup race in Daytona last night, scary but incredible at the same time, never seen anything like it All those flips and only hit the roof the once! Those anti-flip air brakes didn't really do poo poo, did they.
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Fuuuuuuck. Reminds me of Fabian Coulthard at Bathurst 2010, would be approaching similar speeds at around 290k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjoTTf1E_DY
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   quote:So this is the experiment that diehard Motorsport fans tried on a kei car while they’re thinking about the iconic Porsche 935 and Tyrrell P34. https://www.instagram.com/p/CwM6Wd0SW5- https://twitter.com/ryo_michigami/status/1691782982498123825?s=46&t=z0-RJAi4SIv3XTlpIBFQpg razorscooter fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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razorscooter posted:Lostmans Holy poo poo thats a great name  From one 'Porsche' to another, Harris drives the Tuthill 911K. 846kg wet, carbon (including the Fuchs replica wheels) or titanium everything, 350hp aircooled, 11,000rpm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndH7Xm3ds0
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Scripps 302, 894 Cid, 316 hp @ 2600 rpm 316hp v12 dual plug flathead 4.25″ bore and a 5.25″ stroke, weighs 1,885 pounds 
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IOwnCalculus posted:The rare combination of someone with some unique privilege, and the drive to use it. Dude literally showed up at North Wilkesboro with the keys to the track and all manner of cleaning implements to restore it into condition good enough for iRacing to scan, and now, for NASCAR to go back to. I was actually gonna comment, I was surprised he seemed so familiar with sim racing. But huh! Hell yeah, glad he seems to be a decent dude. Humphreys posted:LOL you gotta be in the wrong thread! But I clicked and like it. That intro like an old Bond movie was cool. Mr. Regular pops in at the timestamp they mentioned 
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Hadlock posted:Scripps 302, 894 Cid, 316 hp @ 2600 rpm 316hp That's gorgeous. Looks like a Chriscraft or similar wood boat? edit: BuckyDoneGun posted:From one 'Porsche' to another, Harris drives the Tuthill 911K. 846kg wet, carbon (including the Fuchs replica wheels) or titanium everything, 350hp aircooled, 11,000rpm. Christ almighty.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Holy poo poo thats a great name I'd give myself 45 seconds before accidentally killing myself in a fun and exciting way.
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Darchangel posted:Christ almighty. Okay I just watched that too. Lawdy lawdy.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:11,000rpm. 
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Motronic posted:Okay I just watched that too. Lawdy lawdy. Some lovely noises in there. I'm not a Porsche enthusiast particularly, but, man.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Holy poo poo thats a great name goodness gracious
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ishikabibble posted:I was actually gonna comment, I was surprised he seemed so familiar with sim racing. But huh! Hell yeah, glad he seems to be a decent dude. He's tied in enough with iRacing that they've literally hidden him somewhere in the spectator areas of every track on the service. Pro racers have been increasingly sim-friendly over the years but I think 2020 pushed a lot of them over. I would expect that at this point more pro drivers also sim race than not.
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ishikabibble posted:I was actually gonna comment, I was surprised he seemed so familiar with sim racing. But huh! Hell yeah, glad he seems to be a decent dude. He's one of those guys that no one has a bad thing to say about. I did sports photography for awhile, shot lots of NASCAR races and never heard a story about him being a dick unlike some other drivers LOL. He was the only driver that took a group shot with the photographers in victory lane and I always appreciated that, everyone in the media and garage area loved the guy.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Holy poo poo thats a great name The man has invented a ₤1,000,000 GT86 that has the rightest engine in it, but in the absolute wrongest spot. Amazing car.
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Very cool car. However I will always  when people describe a car as a "four-wheeled motorbike." No it isn't. No matter how light and high-revving it is, a car still leans the wrong way in turns. It's nothing like a motorcycle and nobody who has any experience with bikes would describe a car that way. Just don't
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Yeah, if you hit a small pebble in that it won't immediately kill you at 120mph. Very unrealistic.
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Just seen a video about this guy's (Dieter Hartmann-Wirthwein) V8 Ducati motor which has but 2 connecting rods and a bunch of incredibly weird looking rocker arms to move them all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E6KglXPmTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYYGju5F8oE    His prototype for this engine was a 4 cylinder Honda Monkey  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zaGaFTjFYg
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Mcqueen posted:I'd give myself 45 seconds before accidentally killing myself in a fun and exciting way. Like the pair of sheep around the blind corner at 9:08.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Just seen a video about this guy's (Dieter Hartmann-Wirthwein) V8 Ducati motor which has but 2 connecting rods and a bunch of incredibly weird looking rocker arms to move them all. I too love blasting a V8 out of my window directly at a neighbour's home
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Ether Frenzy posted:Yeah, if you hit a small pebble in that it won't immediately kill you at 120mph. Very unrealistic. It wont on a bike either, unless you're riding naked
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Olympic Mathlete posted:
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armpit_enjoyer posted:I too love blasting a V8 out of my window directly at a neighbour's home Yeah right, my neighbor cranks his built 351 '69 Mustang now and then just to rev it cuz he never drives the drat thing, might as well have the motor on a stand like that cuz all he does make noise lol
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah right, my neighbor cranks his built 351 '69 Mustang now and then just to rev it cuz he never drives the drat thing, might as well have the motor on a stand like that cuz all he does make noise lol Let he is without sin. When my Fiat was waiting on brake parts, it felt good to hear the engine going. I loved getting the revs as high as I felt safe with that old thing, just to know that it wasn't all for nothing I sold it without a title because of poo poo with the state. It was all for nothing
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah right, my neighbor cranks his built 351 '69 Mustang now and then just to rev it cuz he never drives the drat thing, might as well have the motor on a stand like that cuz all he does make noise lol There's a dude with a LOUD bike round here and he sits with it running for like half an hour early Sunday mornings, blips it a bunch, goes for a 10 minute ride and then puts it back in the garage for another week.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:There's a dude with a LOUD bike round here and he sits with it running for like half an hour early Sunday mornings, blips it a bunch, goes for a 10 minute ride and then puts it back in the garage for another week. I remember two separate people at my apartment complex who did similar things. Guy 1 was back in the pre-covid times, had a H1 Hummer (actual surplus from what I could tell), who would start it up Sunday mornings and let it idle for awhile, take in on a 10-20 minute drive, then come back and shut it off. It sat under his covered parking spot the rest of the time, slightly overflowing the width of the actual spot. I eventually figured out that what he was doing was taking his kids/grandkids/some other small children of his acquaintance for rides every Sunday so I really couldn't dislike him for that, despite the absurdity of owning a HMMWV and living in an apartment in the suburbs. Second guy had a mid-90's Dodge Ram that parks about 20 feet from my front door and would just sit with it idling for 20-40 minutes every other day, and maybe go for a five minute drive. The truck itself never moved much so I never did figure out what the hell he was up to, other than just sitting in it and enjoying his I GOT ME A TRUCK vibes.
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Time to repost this gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/anqk5v/aita_for_blasting_my_subwoofers_in_my_own_parking/ quote:AITA for blasting my subwoofers in my own parking spot during non quiet hours at my apartment complex?
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