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Here are two clowns who think they are Rally drivers.

Car vs Bus

This should get Anders going.
PS Shield your eyes from the naughty ads. Sorry I don't have a site to host videos.

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George Bright Member # 141
One of the youngest of the old farts.
Yes I voted against you joining the club.

Ditto the pop-up ads for Porn.

George, please post the actual URL text that you're referencing. I will be staying away from the steakandcheese links from now on.

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Mike Whitney
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First, a word of warning to those who haven't seen the above-linked video- there's not much "playful" about it. It shows fairly graphic footage of someone being seriously injured in a car crash.

Second, I don't think the video is at all remarkable. Kids get themselves killed behind the wheel all the time, whether they're playing rally, F1, or NASCAR. It's something kids do. There's nothing to be learned here, nor gained, beyond a morbid frisson.

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Carl Fisher

Be Cool to the Pizza Dude:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4651531

Yeah, I sent this to the NC-Rally list back in March. At that time, the original was posted on http://www.duen.hu/ . It's from Hungary. It's no longer hosted there in it's original location.

Some exploration of their site will show you the cars that they use there are really dicey. Some are proper rally cars, but they also rally Trabants (those plastic/fiberglass Eastern block cars) that don't seem to have any cages.

I would imagine that this guy in the video was competing on some kind of "underground rally" where they don't bother to close the roads. All that stuff takes money, time, and fear of litigation. Same with building safe cars.

Take home lesson: The "rally in Europe is way ahead of America" idea is very much an oversimplification. We are fortunate here to have the economy for the competitors to afford to build good safe cars.

Sad about the folks on the video, they look pretty messed up. I suppose it emphasizes that rally is pretty serious, like any other high speed driving.

Anders

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