Yeah those Pikes Peak hill climb cars were utter madness, running about 800bhp at the bottom, losing about 200 by the time they got to the top due to the thin air! Plus, you've gotta love that the Hill Climb was predominantly won by American Indy 500 drivers (going in circles again) until 85 when sexy little French Michelle Mouton came along in a German car and beat the track record :-)
I think I remember one of them getting rather upset about it, Michelle jesting 'well, if you have the balls for it you can race me back down again?'... he declined lol -----Original Message----- From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] Sent: 27 April 2009 19:23 To: cf-community Subject: Re: THIS is why I watch NASCAR... Ari on Pikes Peak, my favourite course to run in RallySport Challenge 2 for the xbox. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKgeCQGu_ug On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue < robert.rawl...@thinkbluemedia.co.uk> wrote: > > Walter Rohl in an S1 spec Quattro is just about as good as Rally gets... > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts29KKhKXds > > :-D > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] > Sent: 27 April 2009 18:11 > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: THIS is why I watch NASCAR... > > > Rally is the stuff that gets my blood pumping. > Old logging roads, mountains, city streets, deserts... > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Grant wrote: > > > > > > Nascar in a nutshell: > > > > > > GO GO GO! Turn left! GO GO GO! Turn left! GO GO GO! Turn Left! > > > > > > > Exactly. And the turns are super banked so there's no skill needed > > there either. > > > > Seriously - a 14 year old who's never driven before could drive at > > 200mph on a NASCAR track within an hour. > > > > This what this really is, is a sport of logistics: when to take pit > > stops, how to manage your fuel, etc. > > > > And, yes, there is some strategy involved of when to pass, etc but > > that's really also tied to fuel management. > > > > In other words, this is like calling daily FedEx operations a sport. > > > > If you take a look at european tracks like in Monaco, Nurburing, etc > > there are hills, hairpin turns, switchbacks and with very little bank. > > > > As a driver you need to be an expert at actually driving to be good. > > Not so in NASCAR. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296193 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
