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Crazy speed!! Made me realize that compared to this, Nascar is kinda boring.

That's Insanity defined!

When you sign up to race, you have to take a medical exam, just to make sure that you've got sufficiently solid iron balls...

(PS. Also, Isle of Man isn't Irish, they're different countries. >.<)

The adrenaline being generated here must be incredible. I'm in awe of these skills.

wiki says

"In the early 21st century, the premier TT racing bikes complete the Snaefell course at an average speed exceeding 120 mph (190 km/h). Record holders include David Jefferies who set a lap record of 127.29 mph (204.85 km/h) in 2002. This was surpassed by John McGuinness during the 2004 TT on a Yamaha R1 setting a time of 17 min 43.8 s; an average lap speed of 127.68 mph (205.48 km/h). McGuinness lowered this even further at the 2007 TT, setting a time of 17:21.99 for an average speed of 130.354 mph (209.784 km/h) becoming the first rider to break the 130 mph limit on the Snaefell Mountain circuit. The most successful rider was Joey Dunlop who won 26 times in various classes from 1977 to 2000. For 2009, the Manx government added a new event to the June race schedule. The Time Trial eXtreme Grand Prix (TTXGP) was billed as the first zero-emissions motorcycle race. While any technology could enter, as a practical matter zero emissions means electric.[34]"

THAT made you realize nascar is "kinda" boring? Watching paint dry gave it away for me. Any race, including potato sack races and three legged races are more exciting than nascar IMO. Huge waste of fuel and quality engineers.

This video is insane, these guys must know this course really well not to die on every corner.

Now who can be against that?

What's even more insane is "Mad Sunday" where any member of the public can ride the mountain section of the course. It used to be that there were no speed limits enforced for this, and I personally know someone who was nearly killed doing it...


btw, as @d00kie said, the Isle of Man isn't Irish

To those saying Isle of Man isn't Irish. This isn't all footage of the TT. Its also footage of the Ulster GP.

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Balls. Of. Steel.

I'd still give it a go though...

Did he just say, "... as he goes down towards the bum hole" ?

3:44.

*eia no matter where he was going.

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These races always remind me of the raw adrenaline of group B rally cars.

Both are just spectacular.

*nuts

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Wow, those are some impressive athletes.

Am I the only one who can't help but think of the game Road Rash on Sega Genesis as I watch this? Hell, I never thought anything in real life could get so close to my all time favorite racing game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimhxCE0hhA

Yea that's the way it is. Europe has all the awesome open road racing and we have fucking nascar. Nothing like watching 100 advertisements race around a circle at 160mph for 5 hours strait.

Our racing sports are so boring.

Can anyone tell me who performs this version of Radioactive? I haven't been able to track it down, and I think it's a helluva lot better than the original.

SoundHound can't identify it !

Similar here, though it hearkens me back to Road Rash on 3DO (yeah, I'm one of the few people who had one of those overpriced systems):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuX6D-gY5VY

That and the 3DO release of Star Control 2 (which the relatively recent remastered version released for free as The Ur-Quan Masters borrowed a lot from) redeemed the system.

nascar IS boring.

Within Temptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDxvVom64c