are overpowered front wheel drives a good thing?
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by Adamal » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:46 pm
Almost blocked him off. But the rex driver decided to go offroad 
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by vvega » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:34 am
Erelyes wrote:LoL... remember Justin in his cefiro on high octane nearly creaming that wrx that was trying to pass him....
mate he had no chance
had he of attually grip raced he might have had a chance of holding him out
but simply put he desided to drift and payed the penalty
drift is not fast its art
the fact that the guy driving the rex has more racing taltent in his little finger might had something to do with it
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by Adamal » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:41 am
Didn't Justin say that he didn't really decide to drift that last corner, his shitty tyres lost their grip?
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by Adamal » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:31 am
No way dude! He went into the corner, then about 2/3rds of the way in, it started to power oversteer! I just went back and had another look 
But I do agree with you. That guy in the Rex has a lot under belt. He gets a blistering time of 40.91 seconds (Better than anyone else on the day by miles and the record is ~38 seconds). When asked if he was happy with that time, he said "No.", then said that it wasn't correctly setup for the track suspension-wise.
Not only that, but just watching his driving from third person and onboard camera. Takes a special talent to control a huge HP track car and use its full potential like that.
But I do agree with you. That guy in the Rex has a lot under belt. He gets a blistering time of 40.91 seconds (Better than anyone else on the day by miles and the record is ~38 seconds). When asked if he was happy with that time, he said "No.", then said that it wasn't correctly setup for the track suspension-wise.
Not only that, but just watching his driving from third person and onboard camera. Takes a special talent to control a huge HP track car and use its full potential like that.
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by Erelyes » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:40 am
Whoa, didn't mean to start a ruckus, lol, was just a comment.
It was a comment on a drift driver being able to handle oversteer better than understeer in a grip race.
He 'handled' it, although he was still all over the place, a little dangerously, lol.
It was a comment on a drift driver being able to handle oversteer better than understeer in a grip race.
He 'handled' it, although he was still all over the place, a little dangerously, lol.
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by flygt4 » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:23 pm
haha on that topic...the car ive got now which made me start this topic in the first place is actually in that race 
tho it has a completely diff bottom end and turbo setup there.
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by vvega » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:57 pm
and you think you could get in it and have evena shit show or driving near its limit ...even halfway
ross rutherford is a talented driver and you can see the focus as he passes on the final corner a guy that ethier out of control of whatever
that takes commint as you risk your own saftey and that of your very expensive race car
id like to see anyone here do that with a $250k plus car that they then have to fix afterwards
remeber how far laps he started behind them
remeber how consistantly he would have to do fast laps
remeber the pressure that comes with that
its a comon falicy that hp wins races
that was a handicap race so hp had nothing to do with it at all
just my 2 cents
ross rutherford is a talented driver and you can see the focus as he passes on the final corner a guy that ethier out of control of whatever
that takes commint as you risk your own saftey and that of your very expensive race car
id like to see anyone here do that with a $250k plus car that they then have to fix afterwards
remeber how far laps he started behind them
remeber how consistantly he would have to do fast laps
remeber the pressure that comes with that
its a comon falicy that hp wins races
that was a handicap race so hp had nothing to do with it at all
just my 2 cents
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by flygt4 » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:09 pm
hahaha how did vvega get angry old man under his name.... 
that wrx looked pretty loose tho , i wouldnt wanna try tame it.and taupo is a pretty twisty circuit as it is , it can be hard to use extreme power there, ive seen well set up smaller cars embarrass some pretty impressive highpowered whales there
that wrx looked pretty loose tho , i wouldnt wanna try tame it.and taupo is a pretty twisty circuit as it is , it can be hard to use extreme power there, ive seen well set up smaller cars embarrass some pretty impressive highpowered whales there
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by Mr Revhead » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:43 pm
yeap taupo is a skill/handling track.
a 700hp car is a handful there, even a 4wd one
a 700hp car is a handful there, even a 4wd one
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by Adamal » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:39 am
vvega is right. Any schmuck can have a 700hp car as long as they've got the money to back it. Using its full potential is another thing.
Not forgetting that 700hp in a 2 litre engine (Even if it were stroked to 2.2l) would have a narrow powerband, meaning there would be a lot of chopping the gears up and down. Getting your timing right for that before corners would be incredibly fine.
Not ONLY that, but he has the balls to change from tarmac to grass right after a corner without even thinking about it!
"I like you. You have big balls."
Not forgetting that 700hp in a 2 litre engine (Even if it were stroked to 2.2l) would have a narrow powerband, meaning there would be a lot of chopping the gears up and down. Getting your timing right for that before corners would be incredibly fine.
Not ONLY that, but he has the balls to change from tarmac to grass right after a corner without even thinking about it!
"I like you. You have big balls."
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