Walter Rohrl thinks you're a wuss

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Rohrl Pike's Peak Check out the button actuated clutch pedal!

There's something about bias-ply tires on a Porsche at Spa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ84Fa-AqXY

And why Group B drivers are the very best drivers in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UuZ5mauKk

81gtv6 wrote: If anyone is interested I recently found a way to download YouTube vids as an mp4. This one is on its way to my hard drive right now.

please share your knowledge on how to.

Stuc wrote: Thanks for sharing, glad I watched. I might share on another board but I'll quote you for some cross-board credit Also, is it just me or does that Porsche slide funny? Is it that way with most RRs? He seems to hold the oversteer corrections longer than I would think would be needed and obviously he's doing it right

may have something to do with the snow on the ground at the side of the track.

Also, was he going on the track backwards at one point?

In reply to Opus:

Very easy. Once you click the link to a vid and it starts playing, stop it and up in the address bar between the www. and youtube type kiss.

http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=U4UuZ5mauKk

Enjoy.

The guy in the vintage 911 on bias-ply tires at Spa is seriously gettin' it done. Passing the two 911s was sweet, but passing the Jag on the outside was incredible.

David

Opus wrote:

Stuc wrote: Thanks for sharing, glad I watched. I might share on another board but I'll quote you for some cross-board credit Also, is it just me or does that Porsche slide funny? Is it that way with most RRs? He seems to hold the oversteer corrections longer than I would think would be needed and obviously he's doing it right

may have something to do with the snow on the ground at the side of the track. Also, was he going on the track backwards at one point?

I thought that was the 911 handling characteristic of yore: throttle off- pig under steer, throttle on- sideways. All the 911 vids I saw in this thread exhibited that basic characteristic. I have never driven one, and after watching this stuff, I am not sure I ever should.

DWNSHFT wrote: The guy in the vintage 911 on bias-ply tires at Spa is seriously gettin' it done. Passing the two 911s was sweet, but passing the Jag on the outside was incredible. David

He was really really fast, and downright inpatient. He seemed to be way better than anyone else on the track. Great footage.

oldsaw wrote: Rohrl is genius behind the wheel. For a perspective from the opposite end - WRC champ Loeb honing his skills with FWD, but with a lot of tail wagging: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifawCXsYh0Q

Between that video and the fact that my region now has a FWD SM class, I really miss my little track GTI. Putting a FWD car in a four wheel drift is a lot of fun