A Top Fuel dragster is an odd beast. They cover 1000 feet (305 meters) in about 3.7 seconds, reaching 335 mph (539 km/hour)--they don't do a quarter mile anymore because: they are so fast and so out of... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 8 years 4 weeks ago • 1,282 views • 1:22Videos (32) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
From YT: Vaughn Gittin Jr. heads to Niigata, Japan in his 550 HP 5.0L V-8 Mustang RTR to take on Daigo Saito’s 650 HP V-12 Drift Lamborghini. Built by Liberty Walk and Phat Five racing, Saito's AWD... continue reading
posted by blutruth 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 20 views • 5:47This is just glorious :) I loved watching the old F1 cars most of all, even though they weren't the fastest. Jalopnik liked the sound of the 8.5 liter V8. (via Jalopnik) YouTube Description: ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 400 views • 13:06YouTube Description: Many are familiar with New Zealand's famous road, the Crown Range Pass. This public road climbs to 1,100 meters above sea level by the way of fast twisty corners and steep uphill... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 191 views • 11:15YouTube Description: Jeff Zwart in the Porsche GT3 Cup Turbo Hill Climb Special, during Pikes Peak 2014. Soon after leaving the starting line, one of the fuel pumps begins to fail, only to get worse... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 716 views • 11:46YouTube Description: '08 Smart Car with a 1.5 Liter Toyota Paseo Sprintex Blown engine give the Shelby a run for the money and barely loses as he sheared the cogs off the blower belt after the wheelstand... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 4 weeks ago • 1,168 views • 43 secsSébastien Loeb's record Pike's Peak run, 8m13.878s in a Peugeot Sport 208 T16. This is over two minutes quicker than Ari Vatanen's time in the classic film "Climb Dance" from 1989 (when the course was... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 5 months 4 weeks ago • 403 views • 9:11YouTube Description: We take you behind the scenes at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth, UK for the sign-off of the last ever Formula 1 V8 engine to leave the factory: unit FF73. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 7 months 3 weeks ago • 690 views • 5:30YouTube Description: We're vlogging from inside the Caterham F1 Team throughout our 2013 season. Episode 20: Heikki Kovalainen is back! Join him for a session in the simulator ahead of his run in FP1 at Monza ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 9 months 3 weeks ago • 89 views • 7:26This is a POV video of Federico Liber's 2:06.231 run in race 3 at Rampa da Falperra 2013 Portugal Hillclimb in his Gloria C8F. He ended up coming 7th in his class over the three races... but never mind... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 718 views • 5:05BBC F1 video explaining the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) unit used in Formula 1 since 2009 (except 2010 when, by agreement, no team ran it even though it was still legal that year). In the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 262 views • 2:02Pastor Maldonado crashes a Williams F1 car during a 12 lap demonstration run around Los Proceres in Venezuela. Fortunately for the crowds GP2 driver Rodolfo Gonzalez put in a few laps before rain prevented... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 627 views • 36 secs