I sifted this a while back. My link has been killed by the DMCA Gestapo though...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fifth-Gear-Dunlop-Toyota-Loop

Now if only real racers had balls enough to do stuff like this. It's not as exciting when it's happening only in Trackmania.

I'm quite surprised that the perfect speed was only 36 MPH. I would have figured that it would be notably faster. Also, I assumed that there wouldn't be much downside to going "too fast"; clearly the g-forces would increase, but I thought the increase wouldn't be overly fast with respect to increased speed. Also, momentary exposure to g-force would be a lot less likely to black you out than a very prolonged pull.

So very cool to have my assumptions be proven wrong, and lots of fun to watch!

>> ^Payback:
I sifted this a while back. My link has been killed by the DMCA Gestapo though...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fifth-Gear-Dunlop-Toyota-Loop


Fix your video and I can call a dupeof

Yeah, I'll call bullshit as well on "he couldn't have gone any faster". I bet he could have gone even 10MPH faster. At some point, it becomes difficult to control, but the g-forces aren't much of an issue because it's very brief.

I think that physicist nearly screwed them. What did he calculate, some minimum acceleration trajectory? Because the car was pretty much off the track at the top of the loop which is very dangerous. Maybe they should have paired that physicist with an engineer and made sure they were optimizing the right thing.

I think you're missing one of the points they briefly mention about not being able to go faster. It was actually down to the fact that if he went much faster, the force on the metal loop structure would have been too much in this particular case. Sure if they had built a stronger loop, then you could go faster, if you could withstand the increased g force.

O_O

Meh, thanks, but obviously I didn't describe it as well as deano. Doesn't bug me.

>> ^cybrbeast:
>> ^Payback:
I sifted this a while back. My link has been killed by the DMCA Gestapo though...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fifth-Gear-Dunlop-Toyota-Loop

Fix your video and I can call a dupeof

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
O_O


Wouldn't this be _O_ ?

:evilgrin:

I can't believe people call the Prius ugly when cars like that exist.

why didn't they beef up the springs so the car body wouldn't break when bottoming out? These guys clearly didn't think things through enough to only have a 3.5mph window between complete disaster.

All that crap aside, that was pretty cool. Reminds me of my Super Duper Double Looper I had back in the day.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'car, loop the loop, stunt' to 'car, loop the loop, stunt, fifth gear, loop, looping, 6g, speed, world record' - edited by Eklek

*promote, rock-n-roll mother fucker.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, November 28th, 2009 4:54pm PST - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.

I didn't realise that Fifth Gear had turned itself into Top Gear while nobody was watching.

^ I didn't know Fifth Gear was ever anything BUT a complete rip off of Top Gear, and a piss poor one at that.

The thing that makes Top Gear fascinating for me is the hosts by and large. The challenges are pretty cool (The Shuttle one still ranks as one of my favourite moments on tv), but it's the hosts that make them entertaining.

Having said that... this was pretty awesome

Fifth Gear is actually a continuation of the old Top Gear. They wanted to keep the name "Top Gear" but BBC did not allow this so they used the name Fifth Gear.
The new format Top Gear was launched later in 2002 and has been a blessing to all of mankind ever since.

>> ^spoco2:
^ I didn't know Fifth Gear was ever anything BUT a complete rip off of Top Gear, and a piss poor one at that.
The thing that makes Top Gear fascinating for me is the hosts by and large. The challenges are pretty cool (The Shuttle one still ranks as one of my favourite moments on tv), but it's the hosts that make them entertaining.
Having said that... this was pretty awesome


We are talking about Channel Five here, a channel whose sister station was named 'Fiver' because that's how much its television shows cost to make. Or that's what one of the Spice Girls told me.