Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => Photos & Videos => Topic started by: JohnN on October 23, 2010, 08:05:43 AM
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Not much to say... watch this and enjoy.....
Ken Block's Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TshFWSsrn8#ws)
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After watching this video i am speechless. He is an amazine driver with massive balls.
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He has insane driving skills.
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(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f349/msmola2002/STPR%202010/block1.jpg)
From the susquehannock trail performance rally, Wellsboro PA, earlier this year. He can punt that thing round no worries :) He is doing an amazing job of bringing awareness of a discipline of motorsport to the masses that doesn't have much of a following in the US. As a frustrated rallyist, I do endorse :)
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It has been said, though, that Ken Block's brand of "rally" sport can have a bit of a distracting influence. Although he is using a rally car in his Gymkhana videos, and he does go sideways a lot, it's not exactly rally racing. And as far as I know, when Block has entered into actual rally competition, he's not been able to really take the world by storm. Although there can be no absolutely denying by anyone that Ken Block is an unbelievable driver, I think more respect goes to the madmen who raced the Group B cars. After all, when they were driving, they didn't get to do turns individually with multiple takes to make a movie, they just went onto roads they'd never seen before, and did it. Gymkhana is like a great hollywood movie, true rally racing is like Whose Line. The special effects are better in the former, but it's much more difficult to perform well in the latter. Most importantly, though, is the takes. If Ken screws up, he hits a wall, totals his car, and maybe gets injured very badly. If one of the ye olde rally drivers goes off the course, the car will either mow down 150 spectators and spew blood and guts out the exhaust, or it will careen off the edge of an unbelievable cliff to certain death. That's why Group B was around for such a short period of time.
Group B Rally Cars Sound (1983-1986) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UYUP4U3L6U#)
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I cant believe how close those people get to the cars as they pass by. :o
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I know! I think the spectators seriously have about as much balls as the drivers!
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I have a friend who many years ago was a navigator in a rally car. They were up very late one Friday night prepping the car, the plan was to go for a quick test spin Saturday morning, drive, and race Sunday. So Saturday morning they are out, the 510 wailing side ways down the mountain dirt roads, and the driver is quizzing my friend.At the exact moment he asked my friend about the shift linkage, the linkage comes loose, a shift is missed and off the corner they go. The car turns upside down in the air and my friend distinctly remembers the tops of trees hitting the windshield. What he remembered next was waking up in the hospital. They were both o.k..
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he has amaizing skills.
but
how about travis pastrana wining the championship?
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Didn't Antoine L'estage win this year? Goes to show you can't win a championship if you are in australia playing sillybuggers on a dirtbike and that you have to finish more than one event :D
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i dont know about this year
but what about the year before that?
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Haha yeah Paul Sanders linked me to this a bit ago. SICK video!
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Wow, that is the only Fiesta I have ever seen that I'd like to have. :)
He can drive thats for sure.
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I have always loved the early Quattro's.
A local farmer Malcom Stewert had a factory works Quattro that was raced locally for years.
It was a 83 works car that won the rally of Portugal with Stig Blomquist driving and was raced in rally NZ by Hannu Mikkola.
They were awsome sounding cars with a decent turbo crack and plenty of flames.
I have seen the car plenty of times over the years and was lucky enough to sit in it once.
Sadly Malcom passed away last july.
The Audi factory had been trying to buy the car back for years but Malcom would never sell.
It was bought buy a group of rally fans after his death and taken to the south island to keep it in the country. It was sold for well over 1m
There is only a couple left in existence.
PS most of jetzs video is from rally NZ
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If anyone's interested in driving one of these things virtually, I have to put a plug in here for the game (or sim, really) Richard Burns Rally. It's something like 6 or 7 years old now, but it is still absolutely bar-none the best rally sim on the market today. The physics are really just perfect, which is why it has the reputation for being the second-hardest racing sim to learn. Motocross simulator is more difficult, which actually tells you something about our sport! ;D
RBR - Group B Audi Quattro S1 Sound Test (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AqOsT09Gs8#)