http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3279759
That's like a medium-sized country's GDP going around the track.
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March 15, 2010 6:12 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
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March 15, 2010 6:34 p.m. 3Door4G Reader
Whatever you want to call it, I'd sure like to have been there.
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March 15, 2010 6:43 p.m. motomoron Reader
I hate those guys.
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March 15, 2010 6:56 p.m. Josh Dork
motomoron wrote:
I hate those guys.
This is just plain wrong. I absolutely want to live in a world where cars like this exist. Given that they do exist, it makes me happier to see them in their rightful home on a track, instead of being fetishistically polished in a locked, climate controlled garage. Hate that guy instead.
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March 15, 2010 8:05 p.m. DirtyBird222 Dork
I hope I'm not the only person that notices something extremely funny in the second sentence.
Was just sitting in the parking lot. It's the same one from the supercar experience Pacific Rim Job posted. We were at Homestead raceway in Miami at this point and a SV is a nice car but you really want something nice for the track. That's when he showed us his new slab.
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March 15, 2010 8:09 p.m. Josh Dork
That's some guy's forum handle, I infer. The decency standards over at somethingawful are, ah, different than ours to say the least.
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March 15, 2010 8:12 p.m. Wally SuperDork
DirtyBird222 wrote:
I hope I'm not the only person that notices something extremely funny in the second sentence.
Was just sitting in the parking lot. It's the same one from the supercar experience Pacific Rim Job posted. We were at Homestead raceway in Miami at this point and a SV is a nice car but you really want something nice for the track. That's when he showed us his new slab.
I guess all the good names were taken
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March 15, 2010 8:20 p.m. Twin_Cam Dork
The video of the F1 car going by the stands and hearing it drop 4 gears (I think, might've been five, 196 mph to 50 mph according to the author of that post) in less than 2 seconds is my obsession with the automobile distilled down into five seconds of video.
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March 15, 2010 11:39 p.m. GI_Drewsifer Reader
I have been rendered incapable of thought at seeing that.
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March 16, 2010 12:35 a.m. neon4891 SuperDork
LOve the last pic, a red NSX slipped in with all the ferraris
It blends in too well
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March 16, 2010 12:45 a.m. MitchellC Dork
I am really unsure how one can legally make enough money to casually pilot and maintain a recently retired F1 car.
Maybe thinking in the constraints of legality is my shortcoming.
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March 16, 2010 9:25 a.m. alex Dork
legality ≠ morality ≠ normalcy
For the most part, people with that much money shake their heads and wonder how we can live like we do. Might was well be different species. Kinda cool, though, that for all our differences, we can often sit over a beer and dork out about cars.
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March 16, 2010 10:05 a.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork
Rat's, site is blocked from work
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March 16, 2010 12:44 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
alex wrote:
legality ≠ morality ≠ normalcy
D'oh, beaten.
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March 16, 2010 12:49 p.m. TJ Dork
Adrian_Thompson wrote:
Rat's, site is blocked from work
I can see the site, but not the pics or the videos - will check it out when I get home tonight.
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March 16, 2010 1:44 p.m. autoxrs New Reader
alex wrote:
For the most part, people with that much money shake their heads and wonder how we can live like we do. Might was well be different species. Kinda cool, though, that for all our differences, we can often sit over a beer and dork out about cars.
To most non racing people what we do is stupid, I mean how can we spend $1000 on tires that last 40 runs.
Whether you are racing a $100,000 Porsche or a $2010 beater doesn't matter, we all put on our pants the same way and at the end of the day its the passion for motor racing that unites us.
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March 16, 2010 1:49 p.m. EastCoastMojo SuperDork
autoxrs wrote:
So you do a headstand and have your pants lowered down from the ceiling too?Whether you are racing a $100,000 Porsche or a $2010 beater doesn't matter, we all put on our pants the same way and at the end of the day its the passion for motor racing that unites us.
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March 16, 2010 3:12 p.m. paulmpetrun New Reader
note to self, play powerball!!!!
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March 16, 2010 3:55 p.m. alex Dork
I pay someone to put my pants on me one leg at a time.
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March 16, 2010 6:25 p.m. Josh Dork
My guy does 'em both at once, but you gotta pay top dollar for that kind of skill.
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March 16, 2010 6:52 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork
I avoid putting on pants by wearing a kilt
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March 16, 2010 7:20 p.m. 3Door4G Reader
I just avoid anything on my lower body at all.
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March 16, 2010 7:40 p.m. autoxrs New Reader
Speaking of pants...
So the new PhD dude is from Turkey... he tells me that he spent all day in his "panties". I was like WTF dude, then I realized he meant sweat pants.
Amusing guy really, he asks for beer that the barkeep has never of and I have to remind him that this is 'merica we drink E36 M3ty beer.
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March 16, 2010 9:22 p.m. Wally SuperDork
I get dropped into mine through a complex system of pulleys and chutes
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March 16, 2010 10:50 p.m. friedgreencorrado Dork
GameboyRMH wrote:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3279759
That's like a medium-sized country's GDP going around the track.
Eh, I'd rather see those guys taking them on track instead of the street..
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-10-05/sports/0310050134_1_dany-heatley-all-s...
Just a thought..
