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Posted by: boxstr Nov 15 2004, 05:20 PM

http://www.exbyte.net/showit.php?videoid=283

CCLINLOTUSFUN

Posted by: 736conver Nov 15 2004, 05:29 PM

That is pretty sweet

Posted by: dheinz Nov 15 2004, 05:37 PM

Great video. I wish I had half as much control over my car as was exhibited in that video.

Posted by: michel richard Nov 15 2004, 07:11 PM

Some of the judges seem to be pretty casual about letting a car speed by mere inches from them.

Still, cool driving.

Michel Richard

Posted by: double-a Nov 15 2004, 07:22 PM

wow

~a

Posted by: bryanthompson Nov 15 2004, 07:30 PM

wow! That's as good as the mini video.

Posted by: mharrison Nov 15 2004, 08:58 PM

I'll bet he would do better if he didn't have the steering wheel on the wrong side!!!

Posted by: ppickerell Nov 15 2004, 10:55 PM

Between this caterham? and the mini video, it certainly raises the bar some! Don't these people have jobs? I would like to see a GT2 run this course. Do you think that entering a gate backwards is required? Let's try that next spring.

Posted by: boxstr Nov 15 2004, 11:01 PM

I have got to find out more about what kind of event this is.

Patrick thanks for the tour of your plant and the goodies. I hope you found the sign and are able to get it to Brad.
CCLINLOTUSPOSITION

Posted by: airsix Nov 15 2004, 11:44 PM

I'm not sure what I just watched. Look! It's an autocross! No... It's a drifting competition! No... It's a school bus rodeo...with a Lotus?

-Ben M.

Posted by: tesserra Nov 16 2004, 12:22 AM

I don.t understand how they rotate the car so easily.
How do you get a car to slide the rear so much at such low speeds?
They seem to have e-brakes for individual rear tires or some sort of wild brake bias system with a joystick or something.
It would take a 914 as the same amount of time to shift into reverse twice as it took this car to finish the course.

Cool driving, but it must be a very specialized setup.

George

Posted by: J P Stein Nov 16 2004, 02:09 AM

Good power, an LSD with not much grip in the back.....the guy could prolly do doughnuts ....till he ran outta gas.....maybe no rear brakes.

Gymkanna?....whatever, great car control.

Posted by: SpecialK Nov 16 2004, 02:20 AM

Reminds me of Mall traffic during Xmas shopping Can't wait!

Posted by: redshift Nov 16 2004, 05:55 AM

Kevin, is that your avatar I am staring at?



what?



m

Posted by: qa1142 Nov 16 2004, 08:18 AM

looks tough on tires

Posted by: itsa914 Nov 16 2004, 09:06 AM

Looks my neighbor's kid practicing his parallel parking.

I wish I had the video camera rolling, it was great fun to watch. Poor kid.

Posted by: Quebecer Nov 16 2004, 09:49 AM

I only got sound, no video...

I tried downloading it, but still no video, is it my Windows Media Viewer version?

Posted by: ppickerell Nov 16 2004, 09:52 AM

Craig, Nice to have met you. I will get the sign to B this week.

Posted by: dan10101 Nov 16 2004, 10:06 AM

Yup, Gymkanna.

The top picture shows the guy looking over his shoulder. They are required to back into several spots. Sometimes parallel park..
http://www.190slgroup.com/convention_pictures.htm

Saw it at a Street Rod event. Lots of fun with tire smoke everywhere!

Posted by: Rough_Rider Nov 16 2004, 10:28 AM

Thats what i knew as Autocross back in the UK.

The car park their playing is in front of Goodwood house, which is about 40feet away from the famous Goodwood circuit. You know the one from the original GrandPrix movie. Where Steve McQueen was flying around the banking.

They use caterhams & seriously cut-up mini's to run backwards & forwards through extremly tight courses. The marshals have to be up close to check both wheels go into a box & stop. Funnily enough its a very low speed motorsport which is why there's no helmets required.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 16 2004, 12:25 PM

simple answer:

NO REAR BRAKES


no brakes to the rear tires, rear tires are the driving tires, so, to get your ass around on the spot, hit the brakes and hit the gas.
the front sticks, the rear moves ...

nothing you want to do to a street car ...
Andy