Short video of almost losing it at the track...

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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 07:01 AM
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Default Short video of almost losing it at the track...

about 11 guys and 1 lady rented out SMMP on Monday.

It was mostly a German collection, with one "pure" Japanese car. There were 6 Porsches (944, 964, 2 993, 996, Boxster S), 2 other german roadsters (Benz CLK Compressor? & Audi TT vert), 2 brits (2 111s Elises) and me... in my CRX.

Yep, the only FWD car... again.

anyways, we had timers out and I was turning a decent 1:57.xxx around the course (John Morris in his SR3 radical turns 1:47s?).

My friend Fabrizio corded a few tyres on his 944 and I let him take my car out for a session. I had my camera turned on facing forward, while another friend, Jim, was in his Elise with his camera facing rearward.

Unfortunately, my camera died on the first lap, turn 4. eek.
His camera was on the entire time. Both drivers are exceptional. Jim has managed to turn 1:50s in his '03 996 x-50, his sport packaged Elise has turned 1:55s.
Fabrizio has turned 2:00s in his stock MR2, his relatively stock 944 matched that.

During lap 8 or 9, Fabrizio pushed it a bit too hard into turn 7 (2nd gear, hard braking into a long straight) and got it a bit loose. Here's the video, from the camera mounted on the elise:
2megs - 15secs


Nothing was damaged (luckily, cause runoff on SMMP blows chunks), he drove the car straight off, rather than fighting it.


Thought it'd be interesting to share. Enjoy.
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 07:10 AM
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Damn that was wild!

Glad you survived, and nice soundtrack. mmmmkaay.
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 07:13 AM
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Nice vid. Glad to see the car and the driver made it out of it ok.
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 07:17 AM
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*cough* We already have a video thread, some jerk started it.
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 09:33 AM
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it looks like he could have keept goin, a nice little drift action. but what do I know, my CRX is still broken!
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 09:33 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">*cough* We already have a video thread, some jerk started it.</TD></TR></TABLE>
thanks, i love you

I'm just trying to get some excitement in road racing/time trials
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 09:44 AM
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Kam that was hot. looks like me 2 weeks ago at autox.
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 11:02 AM
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Rockies jk.
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Old Jan 26, 2005 | 12:23 PM
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Holy crap!!! That look hella scary. Glad to hear the car came away from that just fine.
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