Talk about commitment. IMHO after seeing this, there should be no question that real racing is very different than lapping. I have a few old style shots of me doing this at Tremplant in my old Suzuki Swift GTI back in 91.

 

That's my series Lime Rock Baby... Wolf Henzler is a madman, you should have seen these tequila promo girls he was chatting up in Cleveland...

 

lol, that is a great pic.

yeah, driving a high powered Porsche takes skill from what i have seen. definetly awesome road course machines, even stock.

i remember watching a video of a highly modified GT2 on Nurburgring. that **** is intense, always driving on a knife edge...

 

I noticed that on TV, but I wasn't sure if the cars were just getting light at the front or if they were actually pulling their wheels off the ground. You don't get rated the number one Posche driver in the world for no reason.

Here are some at the Nurbergring's famous jump:

Brian Redman '72 McLaren


Jochen Rindt Cooper T81 Maserati


Denny Hulme - '67 Brabham

 

Great Pic!

It's funny, pics like that used to be pretty commonplace (Hans Stuck comes to mind):



But as technology progressed, you hardely ever see the front of a car off the ground! When you do, it sometimes ends up like Mark Webber or Peter Dumbreck at LeMans!




Snrub - you a bigger man than I!
I don't know why, but I can't bring myself to subscribe to Autosport's website! After years of free news and columns, it pains me to spend those few pounds per month to read "Button Looking for point at Silverstone". I do miss Nigel Roebuck though....

 

Nick, thank for the complement, but I don't have a subscription to autosport. In the past I've seen some cool pics and video of air at the Nurbergring, so I thought I'd try to find some with google.

Actually we're overlooking the most wild airborn accident in recent memory. Mario Andretti during Indy practice in 2003 (yes Mario). I have the video saved on my computer. It's perhaps one of the most insain accidents I've ever seen, but like the Le Mans incident with Webber and Dumbreck he walked away completely unscaved. Actually a week after his accident he did a promo at Delaware minuites from my house. I didn't know about it, otherwise I would have gone.

 

Oh - I saw the path was autosport atlas and just figured you subscribed. That's ok - I'll still hold you up has a high moral/motorsport authority!


I'd forgotten about that! It was crazy! His car was even with the top of the catch fencing. I remember standing in the short chute between 2-3 at IMS and thinking how high Mario's car got - and just how lucky he was. Best of all - when he got out of the car, the fist thing he said was "We wont tell my wife about this". (Paraphrased of course)

IRL cars are fundamentally aerodynamically flawed, and have produced some of the most violent airborne accidents I have ever seen. All of which came from light contact with debris or another car. Just one more reason they suck.

 

Did anyone watch the San Jose Champ car race? The cars were getting air during the race on every lap on at least on the back going because there were railroad tracks crossing the road! They showed a chip of Nelson Philippe getting air with all four tires during practice! I wish I had a picture to post, but I can't find any on google and my connection is too slow to go rumaging through pics. They were hitting the tracks with some serious speed.

 

Seeing them all rip through there on the first lap was crazy! I'm actually surprised that there weren't more retirements attributed to those tracks, There will certainly e some serious modifications to that track for next year!

I haven't seen any still pictures of the cars off the ground, but I'll keep looking. As far as getting air in a Champ Car, PT in Surfer's Paradise certainly got "Air Time!"

 

wow that's crazyness!

I don't think I've even had 1 tire off the ground unless there was a jack involved

 

ill show you guys how we lift wheels off the ground in the country....
give me a bit to find my clip.......

 

Yay Mazda

 

here is the link to the clip of my buddy's field car, a former tempest that has been cut in hlaf, we drove it in the feild until we found out it could do sweet *** endos...

(not to hijack the thread, but it wasn't going much further anyway - lol)

http://video.google.com/videopreview...+6%3A26+AM+PDT

 

Try autocrossing! Front-wheel drivers routinely lift inside rear tires (VWs are famous for it - I've even felt it in hard cornering on the street in my GLI). Fox-body Mustangs will lift inside front tires, and I've seen 911's lift both front and back inside wheels.

 

those stupid pretty-much-stock civics that have a support race for F1 weekend in Montreal every year are hilarous for this!
sometimes they bump each other and get on one tire!

 

I used to jump my Thunderbird back when I lived in the country.