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Amazing Porsche on Pikes Peak
What kind of shifter does this guy have?
If you have about 12 minutes to spare, this is some of the finest in car camera I have ever seen. It is thanks to Jeff Zwart as he attacks Pikes Peak with his Porsche 2009 911 GT3...and breaks the existing class record. Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/13014363 |
Really cool video.
the people that stand on the curves scare the heck out of me. You couldn't pay me to stand there. |
Good video, thanks for posting.
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The change in technique on the transition from pavement to dirt sections is incredible! Short shifting, skipped shifts going up through the gear box, counter-steering (seemingly to the limits of lock to lock)...and dodging spectators from time to time. Excellent video. The shifter is called a sequential box (like a motorcycle transmission) and the computer probably does the rev-matching on the down shifts. Push forward for down shift, pull backward for up shift; no gate to negotiate.
When I see a driver with that level of talent, I reassess my own abilities...downward :) Terry |
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DANG..that was so awsume I had to watch it twice
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The level of effort sure changes once he gets into those dirt sections! Fun to see how he pushes it just a tad more any time there are people on the sidelines. :)
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Thanks for posting ,what a ride, if you have ever been up that road you know what is all about, very narrow and rocky, not many guardrails , and look out below.
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While I've never been anywhere near PP, I've watched varouis races on the tv many times and have always come away with one major thought and that is:
One would have to be 100% grade A,USDA certified,bonafided totally insane,crazy,or just plain stupid to do the PP hill climb, all of course in MHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :LOL:;):):D David |
Y'all should see the roads down here. I do that all the time driving my wife to work!:3DSMILE:
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Then you also are 100% grade A,USDA certified,bonafided totally insane,crazy, cause I know your not stupid!!!!!!!!!!!:LOL::LOL::););) David |
Gee thanks Dave!:JEKYLHYDE:3DSMILE:
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SCARY!! I'm an old SCCA corner worker, did it for about 15 years. Those people standing there unprotected are amazingly Stooopid! The words to 'stay alive by' in corner safety were, "There are only 2 places on a race track, places a race car has been and places a race car will someday go!"
Also used to go to the Mint 400 off road race in the desert outside LV. Same lack of safety. Choppers came and went "Dusting off" the wounded all day. Saw 2 guys drinking canned Buds and arguing nose to nose about something. ON THE COURSE! A race car came and they stepped back only enough to let the car pass between them. The car had to be doing 70 to 80 mph!! Of course we had coolers full of beer bungeed on the ATV's, so we weren't exactly role models either. Hey, it's hot out there!!:eek::MECOOL::D |
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