Insanely Fast on an Insanely Narrow Road

Hillclimb footage from Scotland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJ-Y-9otO8

I'm not sure if this requires raising the pint before or after, but it deserves at least one.

Daaaaaaaamn!

holy flocknard

That's pretty much a standard issue hill climb in the UK. They're almost always that narrow as a lot of them are on private property like driveways to stately homes (it's pretty much impossible to get any road closed for motorsports in the UK, a feat that other countries in Europe manage without issue). The guard rails are a nice touch - a lot of them still use the landscape features to slow errant vehicles down.

Nice! That looks like fun! It also makes the ones I have run look like they were done on an Interstate.

BoxheadTim wrote: That's pretty much a standard issue hill climb in the UK. They're almost always that narrow as a lot of them are on private property like driveways to stately homes (it's pretty much impossible to get any road closed for motorsports in the UK, a feat that other countries in Europe manage without issue). The guard rails are a nice touch - a lot of them still use the landscape features to slow errant vehicles down.

Shelsey-Walsh is a good example; steep hill on one side, deep ravine on the other.

That is memorizing the route with superb car control. New drivers should be made to simply drive down the road at half that speed and stay on the black top.

That was incredible.

Man that boy is good!

Wow. That was flippin amazing.

I wonder how he sits in that car with the massive steel nuts between his legs.

Did anyone feel like they were watching a souped up version of an Atari game?

Or was it just my computer that made it sound like that..

That really looked like it was 2x speed to me. The driver's hand movements to the shifter and the tone of the engine, really sounded like it was more than single speed.

I counted at least 14 different gear changes, start to finish.

oldsaw wrote:

BoxheadTim wrote: That's pretty much a standard issue hill climb in the UK. They're almost always that narrow as a lot of them are on private property like driveways to stately homes (it's pretty much impossible to get any road closed for motorsports in the UK, a feat that other countries in Europe manage without issue). The guard rails are a nice touch - a lot of them still use the landscape features to slow errant vehicles down.

Shelsey-Walsh is a good example; steep hill on one side, deep ravine on the other.

Yeah, I had been told about these hill climb circuits when I was over there. Cool vidoe.

Sonic wrote: That really looked like it was 2x speed to me. The driver's hand movements to the shifter and the tone of the engine, really sounded like it was more than single speed.

It did sound weird, but it sounded the same when people were walking in view, and they were moving normally.

Joey

Holy E36 M3!!!!!

That was awesome! I got a semi just watching it!

Drewsifer wrote: That was awesome! I got a semi just watching it!

What? A Peterbilt?

nice run, awesome vid

I'm impressed with how he placed it at the start line, of all things. He didn't exactly creep up to it, and it appears he nailed it perfectly - the starter who tried to adjust his position ended up with the car in exactly the same place.

He did that run in about 37-38 seconds in the video. The course record is just over 36 seconds, so that's not a sped up video. I'm impressed !!!!

WOW

Toyman01 wrote: I wonder how he sits in that car with the massive steel nuts between his legs.

No doubt he bolts himself into the car with it. That was awesome and made me feel like a noob driver all over again

Sonic wrote: That really looked like it was 2x speed to me. The driver's hand movements to the shifter and the tone of the engine, really sounded like it was more than single speed.

The video time and the finish time says its 1x.