Wild Video

[mcmopar]

I just got this from a freind of mine. Yeah, it's a Phord but it is a pretty awesome video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4T ... dium#t=183
Check out his fade onto the track - he gets a bit of the wall with the right rear fender.

 

[sixgunrunner68]

I was wondering when he was going to run out of rubber.
That was awesome!

 

[69hemibeep]

I'm exhausted

 

[solid gold]

Pretty neat for a Ford! Thanks!

 

[Roadcuda]

That makes Joey Chitwood's old show look like they were amateurs! :drive:

 

[sixgunrunner68]

That makes Joey Chitwood's old show look like they were amateurs! :drive:

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I saw him at the Orange County Fair about thirty years ago.

 

[droptop]

That is one bad a** car....the driver isn't to shabby either. I got the shift paddles on the wheel, but what was the lever? Changing from all wheel drive to front or rear wheel drive?

 

[ACME A12]

I got the shift paddles on the wheel, but what was the lever? Changing from all wheel drive to front or rear wheel drive?

I was wondering the same thing...


Reminds me of some of the Rally Cars I was around back in the mid to late nineties. My buddy Rob (and his friend Sam) up in Seattle were hand selected by SAAB to be their factory-backed U.S. Rally team. It's a very long story so I'll cut to the chase. I frequently drove the service truck, meeting them at the beginning and end of each stage (the Lake Superior and Chillicothe races for instance - I was living in Ohio at the time) and servicing the car for them; tire changes, refueling, any suspension changes - whatever the car needed to prep it for the next stage. As such I was around a bunch of the race cars. Some of the upper end - read that all-wheel-drive and not normally aspirated - cars were just works of art. $20K+ titanium diffs and transaxles were the norm. It was otherworldly and this little phord immediately took me back to my time there...

 

[Roadcuda]

That is one bad a** car....the driver isn't to shabby either. I got the shift paddles on the wheel, but what was the lever? Changing from all wheel drive to front or rear wheel drive?

I could be wrong, but from seeing some interior views of stunt drivers, I think he was pulling up the emergency brake which I believe helps make the rear end come around in tight turns.

 

[mcmopar]

That is one bad a** car....the driver isn't to shabby either. I got the shift paddles on the wheel, but what was the lever? Changing from all wheel drive to front or rear wheel drive?

I could be wrong, but from seeing some interior views of stunt drivers, I think he was pulling up the emergency brake which I believe helps make the rear end come around in tight turns.

Bingo - we have a winner. It is a brake of some kind .

 

[mannye]

With the Ebrake handle up there it's a lot easier to pull those J turns! That guy is a badass! Ford is very popular in europe. Just look at how the guys on Top Gear get all hot and bothered when they talk about Escorts and Cortinas. Of course, the USA has never seen the likes of those cars here... I guess they figure no one wants a hot hatch here (Honda Civic) right?

600hp and that thing must weigh less than a ton!

 

[ACME A12]

Of course, the USA has never seen the likes of those cars here...

Not entirely true...although they haven't been made available to the general public (to the best of my knowledge), they are around if you know where to look. Here's a shot of the late Carl Merrill's Ford Escort Cosworth competing in a rally in Mt. Washington circa 1997. Also an interior shot from 1998. Nasty little race car; it and Carl were both mainstays on the rally circuit back then. Tragically, Carl was killed during a rally in '98.

 

[69hemibeep]

It is a brake handle, some of the 4-wheelers do a similar thing so the locked up differentials don't push them past a tight corner but this is at low speeds.

 

[roadrunnerh]

That car is very impressive, and that driver is amazing! Thanks for sharing the video!

 

[moparchris]

Its a hydraulic hand operated master cylinder for the rear brakes to whip it into the turns. I used to drift a Mazda Rx7, that is until I killed the rotary motor, and putting that brake in made a huge difference! That is so fun but really hard. Think he spends a little time in that car?

 

[mannye]

Of course, the USA has never seen the likes of those cars here...

Not entirely true...although they haven't been made available to the general public (to the best of my knowledge), they are around if you know where to look. Here's a shot of the late Carl Merrill's Ford Escort Cosworth competing in a rally in Mt. Washington circa 1997. Also an interior shot from 1998. Nasty little race car; it and Carl were both mainstays on the rally circuit back then. Tragically, Carl was killed during a rally in '98.

Well yeah, but I was talking about the kind of cars you can walk into a dealership and buy. I don't think that we could have gone into a Ford dealer and purchased a Capri or Escort like the ones available in Europe or Down Under. Look what they did to the Holden when they brought it stateside! Made it look like a bar of soap!

I don't think it's as bad as it was in the past, but Europe and Australia have been getting much better GM and Ford cars than we have. How cool would it be to be able to have a ute (I forget the model) or a Holden HSV W27?

 

[chapdog105]

That driver is a guy named Ken Block.
Ken Block is a multimillionaire that started and owned a very popular skateboarding shoe company called DC Shoes.
He got into rally cars with his money and is now one of the best rally drivers in the world.
He's got a ton of cool videos on youtube just like that one...pretty crazy stuff. Motocrosser Travis Pastrana does some pretty neat stuff in a rally car too.

 

[mannye]

That driver is a guy named Ken Block.
Ken Block is a multimillionaire that started and owned a very popular skateboarding shoe company called DC Shoes.
He got into rally cars with his money and is now one of the best rally drivers in the world.
He's got a ton of cool videos on youtube just like that one...pretty crazy stuff. Motocrosser Travis Pastrana does some pretty neat stuff in a rally car too.

Talk about cool! The guy starts a pretty cool business, and then becomes a professional race car driver which also brings it's own crazy money! Although, he probably pays himself and the race team, so it might cancel...

But I can only imagine how much poon this guy gets!