Grand Prix Rejects

Pieman wrote:Just how fantastic do those Mercs sound?

Very fantastic. It's why I quite like seeing the safety car on track, because there's bound to be a camera shot from inside it, where the screaming soprano of the F1 engines is temporarily replaces by the loud "GRRRRRRRR" of an AMG-tuned Merc.

See, this is what DTM should be. I've checked the regulations, they allow for "V8 engines with a 90° V angle, producing about 470 hp" - but the end product just doesn't sound right. (Evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEwbicpzhXw - Gary Paffett's 2009 season review). If, instead, there was some kind of "production class" of AMG C63s, then we're talking. The medical car is a previous-model C55 estate (no need to copy Volvo's BTCC experiment from the mid-90s, mind...), the safety car is a CLK55 (the CLK63 didn't appear until 2007); and here's what the C63 sounds like at 200-and-something km/h before the engine note mysteriously disappears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKEGFUWBekA

Better still: one of the perks of the Red Baron signing for Merc is that he gets to drive the SLS, which has an engine note to die for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48errZPPa4 - even though there's all that music over it (STOP IT, YOU BATHPLUGS) you can still hear it. Imagine an SLS-based racing series. It'd sound brilliant, and it'd look brilliant, because the SLS isn't exactly built for racing and it kicks its arse out at the slightest provocation. Although, given that it's the latest incarnation of the saftety car (which needs to be driven fast, even in treacherous condition) it must be possible to tweak it into a racer. Now we need some fearless drivers... Takuma Sato, can you hear us?

More Petrov action:

Here's Petrov nearly running into the back of Di Grassi, here's Petrov doing a mindless half-spin in Korea and here's Petrov finding a gravel trap at the Barcelona test.

dinizintheoven wrote:Better still: one of the perks of the Red Baron signing for Merc is that he gets to drive the SLS, which has an engine note to die for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48errZPPa4 - even though there's all that music over it (STOP IT, YOU BATHPLUGS) you can still hear it. Imagine an SLS-based racing series. It'd sound brilliant, and it'd look brilliant, because the SLS isn't exactly built for racing and it kicks its arse out at the slightest provocation. Although, given that it's the latest incarnation of the saftety car (which needs to be driven fast, even in treacherous condition) it must be possible to tweak it into a racer. Now we need some fearless drivers... Takuma Sato, can you hear us?

Agree with every word here. I've listened to an SLS being fired up at a Mercedes dealership near my place and it sounded absolutely fapping gorgeous. If a race series for them was created, tail-slides akin to those on display from the Porsche 917s and Ferrari flat-12s in the Steve McQueen film Le Mans would be on display (along with a similarly epic soundtrack).

Also, it now seems to be the law that just about every car-related video on YouTube must have godawful music dubbed over the top of it!

SEAT toring car driver Jordi Gene takes his grandmother for a spin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrVbg9x ... re=related

jpm wrote:SEAT toring car driver Jordi Gene takes his grandmother for a spin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrVbg9x ... re=related

At least she didn't puke like that journalist with Damon Hill!!

Quite possibly the best start of the year.

Pieman wrote:

Wizzie wrote:Meanwhile this is quite possibly one of the coolest things ever.

Just how fantastic do those Mercs sound?

this would be much cooler if it were still like in the late 80ies (btw, what wouldn't?) and the Safety Cars would still be Renault 9, Fiat Ritmos and the likes.

I went onto the internet the other day and I found this.

Wizzie wrote:I went onto the internet the other day and I found this.

Ah, Narain's first ever F1 serious effort. What has changed in those 6 years?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg7E0O9Fsu8

It's hard to imagine that this wasn't all that long ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYQKXNSHXg
It lives!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9hBtG7dVg
Never mind.

Reverie Planetarian wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYQKXNSHXg
It lives!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9hBtG7dVg
Never mind.

Well it's important that Goodwood is an authentic experience..,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 9wRxyZjSF4

From another of my favourite podcasts....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pRRJPfWLt0

Awesome.

i never saw this before Deletraz is just doing something in his car ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toy75AmsAEQ

Or this one Lavaggi is out but he's driving !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvWzY70Ogk

Between look how terrible the brabham car looked where Damon drove with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFo_TG8YkEQ
No safety at all you see hills nek

f1-gast wrote:Or this one Lavaggi is out but he's driving !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvWzY70Ogk

Add this one to Lavaggi's profile!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3oWoS9vDyk

Starting at 0:09

golic_2004 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3oWoS9vDyk

Starting at 0:09

Best part of this is that Bruno Giacomelli didn't even have his own Life driving suit. It looks like he's in March/Leyton House overalls in the picture.

Not F1, but this is (another) reason why they changed the Osterreichring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr1plnY80VI

Interview with Huub Rothengatter, sorry its dutch with no subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8a-djPe4_c

Andrea moda pre qualifying Beglium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAp7t-L6Qw

Nicolas Kiesa testing the minardi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-qdqi-uzEo

And once agian Kiesa but now in a Jordan in 2005 i never know he drove it in a free practice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEy5lKXHkpQ

Mazzacane hits his pitcrew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLiIA4e3jSU

The last weapon fact of simtek...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP2Lj-_4fQg

f1-gast wrote:Andrea moda pre qualifying Beglium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAp7t-L6Qw

I didn't think any film existed of that thing! Great find!

It even looks painfully slow, and I love the way that the commentators don't even mention it.

Pieman wrote:

f1-gast wrote:Andrea moda pre qualifying Beglium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAp7t-L6Qw

I didn't think any film existed of that thing! Great find!

It even looks painfully slow, and I love the way that the commentators don't even mention it.

Wasnt that when Perry McCarthys steering column flexed through Eau Rouge?

watka wrote:Not F1, but this is (another) reason why they changed the Osterreichring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr1plnY80VI

That is MENTAL!

Barbazza wrote:

watka wrote:Not F1, but this is (another) reason why they changed the Osterreichring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr1plnY80VI

That is MENTAL!

thats absolute carnage.......

It's your average Saturday lunchtime at the bottom of Cascades at Oulton Park

Overly excited Japanese commentators? Check. Mid 2000's reject crashing out? Check. Yuji Ide driving for Aguri? Check.
It could only be one series....

...Super GT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5VtlHd_cOg

Alessandro Zampedri Manages to Cause Two Pileups Before One Lap of Green Flag Racing (I uploaded that to my second Youtube account)

Cynon wrote:Alessandro Zampedri Manages to Cause Two Pileups Before One Lap of Green Flag Racing (I uploaded that to my second Youtube account)

"Well that's the tricky thing about driving on wet tires on dry pavement!" Btw: Why ARE they doing that?

Thanks - the other videos are great, too, by the way! Although I have to say these old CART videos always make me really scared for poor Ben Edward's health... What a great commentator!

P_Friesacher wrote:

Cynon wrote:Alessandro Zampedri Manages to Cause Two Pileups Before One Lap of Green Flag Racing (I uploaded that to my second Youtube account)

"Well that's the tricky thing about driving on wet tires on dry pavement!" Btw: Why ARE they doing that?

Thanks - the other videos are great, too, by the way! Although I have to say these old CART videos always make me really scared for poor Ben Edward's health... What a great commentator!

Why are they doing that? CART made everyone start on them because it rained prior to the start of the race, after the first two yellows, everyone pulled in and switched to dry tires.

Zampedri later noobed Willy T. Ribbs out of the race, thus ending his... EVENTFUL... run down under. Granted, that's Euromotorsport he drove for, and all you need to know about Euromotorsport is that at one point they were powered by Chevrolet (Reject Strike One), sponsored by Andrea Moda (Reject Strike Two) and hired Dave Kudrave (Reject Strike Three!) as the driver!

Cynon wrote:Alessandro Zampedri Manages to Cause Two Pileups Before One Lap of Green Flag Racing (I uploaded that to my second Youtube account)

Eat your heart out De Cesaris!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP174I2S ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP174I2S ... re=related
Warm up belgium GP 1992

V8 Supercars around Bathurst is insane enough but this is taking it to a whole new level.

Wizzie wrote:V8 Supercars around Bathurst is insane enough but this is taking it to a whole new level.

I wouldn't file that as rejectful in any way ...

Scott Speed, showing everyone his class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WePGY5-P ... re=related

madmark1974 wrote:

Wizzie wrote:V8 Supercars around Bathurst is insane enough but this is taking it to a whole new level.

I wouldn't file that as rejectful in any way ...

I know but still I just HAD to post it.

If anyone is questioning the caliber of the NASCAR truck series...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDQLL_V5 ... ture=feedu

^ Let that say enough.

MinardiFan95 wrote:Overly excited Japanese commentators? Check. Mid 2000's reject crashing out? Check. Yuji Ide driving for Aguri? Check.
It could only be one series....

...Super GT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5VtlHd_cOg

Looked like Firman crashed rather than Ide, but he's still an F1 Reject!

Some more goodness from Japan:

1997 Argentine GP start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIKX1SCaS4g
1995 Portuguese GP, Coulthard wins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZKKpYMe ... re=related

I love how back in the day the Safety Car was just a regular Merc saloon

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