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Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: FUNKED1 on January 12, 2005, 10:18:16 AM
http://www.cruiseculture.net/videos/solberg_crash.wmv

Those stones were designed to keep tanks on the road.  When a rally car hits them it's game over.  I doubt they will use those roads again.  Solberg and Mills were lucky to survive that unhurt.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 12, 2005, 10:23:52 AM
I'm not familiar with this sport, why the two drivers?
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Sandman on January 12, 2005, 10:26:38 AM
I think I saw an SRV photo on the dash.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: FUNKED1 on January 12, 2005, 10:32:43 AM
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
I'm not familiar with this sport, why the two drivers?


They race on public roads.  Each event is several hundred miles, so they can't memorize the whole course.  They get to drive it once in a road car, aka "recce", and take pace notes.  The co-driver reads back the notes.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Monk on January 12, 2005, 10:36:12 AM
Yup, the best racing........EVAR.....is that the way you say it?
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Post by: GtoRA2 on January 12, 2005, 10:45:39 AM
LoL Sandy!


It looks super fun to do I could get into this kinda racing. (like watching, who has the money to do it for real?)
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Monk on January 12, 2005, 10:56:04 AM
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
LoL Sandy!


(like watching, who has the money to do it for real?)

It's one the cheapest racing around.
Title: Re: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: straffo on January 12, 2005, 10:56:34 AM
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
http://www.cruiseculture.net/videos/solberg_crash.wmv

Those stones were designed to keep tanks on the road.  When a rally car hits them it's game over.  I doubt they will use those roads again.  Solberg and Mills were lucky to survive that unhurt.


I don't remember of this crash ,wich track is it ? Germany ?
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: SOB on January 12, 2005, 11:05:01 AM
Earned his pay?  He ran into a concrete block off on the side of the road...sounds like something my sister would do.  Maybe she should be a rally driver!
Title: Re: Re: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Monk on January 12, 2005, 11:08:57 AM
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Originally posted by straffo
I don't remember of this crash ,wich track is it ? Germany ?
I think it is germany.

Grun,
Here is the official WRC site  (http://www.wrc.com/page/Home/0,,10111,00.html)
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: DiabloTX on January 12, 2005, 11:09:55 AM
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
They race on public roads.  Each event is several hundred miles, so they can't memorize the whole course.  They get to drive it once in a road car, aka "recce", and take pace notes.  The co-driver reads back the notes.


He crashed, what, 10 seconds after the start of that link?  He needs better notes.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Glas on January 12, 2005, 11:17:22 AM
I woulda preferred an external view, it looked pretty spectacular.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: FUNKED1 on January 12, 2005, 12:52:52 PM
Diablo it was wet and he was on worn tires.  He just overcooked it.  With those stones if you go an inch off line it's over.
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Post by: Gunslinger on January 12, 2005, 01:32:24 PM
DeJaVu......there must be a glitch in the matrix
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Post by: BUG_EAF322 on January 12, 2005, 02:29:19 PM
rally is the eurotard version of the less boring USA oval racing.

:D
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Furball on January 12, 2005, 04:30:58 PM
Rally drivers gotta be the most skilled in the world.  Its amazing what those guys can do.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: Pei on January 12, 2005, 07:56:18 PM
I remember Carlos Saintz in New Zealand a few years ago. He was halfway up a mountain on a gravel track with an almost sheer drop on one side and no barrier. He goes round a curve in the mountain side (at some ridiculous speed) and there is a sheep stood in the road. He can't do anything but hit it as the track is too narrow and if he swerved he would have bene off down the mountain. He made it to the end of the course (which wasn't far luckily) with a large lump of bloody fur where most of his radiator should have been. The commentary didn't say if he had mutton for dinner that night.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: wombatt on January 12, 2005, 08:06:07 PM
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Originally posted by Furball
Rally drivers gotta be the most skilled in the world.  Its amazing what those guys can do.



I agree I think they must have the reactions of a cat.
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: SOB on January 12, 2005, 08:53:57 PM
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Originally posted by wombatt
I agree I think they must have the reactions of a cat.

Nah, cats don't drive that well.
(http://www.matthoffman.us/dl/toonces.jpg)
Title: These Guys Earn Their Pay
Post by: wombatt on January 12, 2005, 08:56:24 PM
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Originally posted by SOB
Nah, cats don't drive that well.
(http://www.matthoffman.us/dl/toonces.jpg)



Over the legal limit for cat nip?