Tommi Makinen at the Ring

This is awesome. He's driving like it's a rally course--cutting corners and early apexing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hyATjjajPg&feature=player_embedded

How much cooler/faster would it be with a co-driver?

Durn near money shifted at 1:34. I want his jorb.

enh, kinda going against the grain driving the sti though. He looked like he's really hard on cars, maybe its just me though. I'd like to see an overlay of his route through the ring in that sti, then in an evo. check out the time's and line, see if he'll finesse a evo the way he used to.

Andrew

I was really surprised the car didn't break. Anyway, I thought his legend was that he didn't finesse the evo, just drove it balls-out. Supposedly this worked because the car had a relatively primitive 4wd system.

I watched a show on the greatest rally cars last night and they were talking about this very thing, Tommy being hard on cars and that he was the only person who could really drive the EVO to its full potential.

The consensus was it was the right person in the right car that got him his championships.

Even cooler. Radical SR-8 at mindboggling speed.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Even cooler. Radical SR-8 at mindboggling speed.

Thanks for that, GPS!

Watched some others while I was there; you reckon Heidfield knows his way around that track?

Day-um!

Looked/sounded like the car had a TON of understeer......Oh to have Tommi's problems....GRIN

Rog

In reply to emodspitfire:

Agreed.... either lots of understeer, or they installed a manual steering rack, with an anti-quickener.

so it hits the aerodynamic brick wall at 244 km/h or about 150mph...

and yes.. I have seen videos of Porsche, BMW, and even EVO drivers on the ring... it seemed like he was making a lot of hard work out of it