*promote in memoriam
Sadly he never competed for time because Hoonipigasus blew its motor in 2022.

Edit: https://www.hooniganracing.com/blogs/news/introducing-the-hoonipigasus-ken-blocks-all-new-insane-1-400hp-awd-porsche-racecar-built-for-pikes-peak

IMO, As someone who is successful at life with little to no effort, I'll say luck plays a HUGE part in my success, way more than working hard if that's even a factor.

I own my nice home and 3/4 acre yard outright, and 4 cars, a racecar, a pond I can swim in, solar power, orchard, etc.
Most of the money that bought these things came from the luck of being born into a fairly wealthy family and outliving a few. I broke my back at 31 and essentially retired.
I feel like I'm more successful than most Americans financially and elsewise, with zero debt, multiple assets, a long and stable marriage, etc....and I feel I've put less effort into achieving these things than most people. The only logical explanation I can come up with is luck, including the luck of my birth with decent genes and money for nothing.

It could be, although it's exceedingly difficult to find any meaningful numbers for distances that aren't terribly vague, and what you do find is almost always for something other than karts (semis, F1 racecars and bikes).

I still think that the open, small, only semi-streamlined form of the karts would tend to make the effective distance less than what we saw in most of this video. The lower speeds than F1 cars would tend to improve the slingshot tactic, since the effect of wind resistance increases with the cube of velocity. Which again, doesn't seem to explain the drastic slowdowns when they're not at top speed anyway.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Racecar Crash Escape. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

*promote. Because racecar.

Just have the magnet under the track moving along with the superconductor-racecar locked in place above it. EZ.

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Clearly not of the same mindset as Mitch Hedberg...



(re wanting to be a racecar passenger)

I too took note of their racecar voices. They kept changing gears.

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^Gallowflak:
Why are they imitating racecars?

They're different to you and make different noises when they're scared for their lives and the lives of all of their loved ones when something unstoppable hangs over their heads.
LOL DAT FUNNY!?!?


Well, when I'm scared for my life I imitate rare, exotic tropical birds. I just figured that was the norm.

>> ^Gallowflak:

Why are they imitating racecars?


They're different to you and make different noises when they're scared for their lives and the lives of all of their loved ones when something unstoppable hangs over their heads.

LOL DAT FUNNY!?!?

Why are they imitating racecars?

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The command for merging dupes is *dupeof=http://www.theoriginalvideo.com.

In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
So how do we merge them?

*discuss

I only do this because I'm too lazy to find out for myself.

>> ^grahamslam:
I agree about it not being as radical an innovation as a hydrofoil...however from a physics point of view, it does give you more traction in cornering as your weight will be shifted in line with the wheels to the ground. Without being able to draw you a pic, just think racecar oval tracks. They are banked, not flat. Why is this? For traction so the cars don't slide off the tracks in cornering.

Banking the track makes its reaction force nearer to perpendicular from the track's surface, which lowers the tendency to slide sideways. Just tilting the wheels while on a flat track won't make any difference to the sideways forces between the wheels and track. It may add stability, but not more traction. You're right though that it brings the force in line with the wheels -- that would allow the wheels to be lighter weight which probably would help corner slightly faster.