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Toyota FT-86 G’s Sports – Gran Turismo 5

TheDeadBandit — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:54:35 +0000

Great video of Toyota’s FT-86 G’s Sports Concept in all of it’s GT5 glory. While GT5′s release date keeps changing, it means more chances to put in nice gems like this. Maybe I’ll get a PS3 for this…

[Download 720P .mp4 format 16.8MB from YouTube]

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Corvette Z06 Burnout

TheDeadBandit — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:46:59 +0000

A great way to “burnout”… your car?

Nature rewards the rest of us with this hilarious video. At least he’s famous for something. Sorry for your clutch.

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Travis Pastrana’s 2010 New Year Rally Jump

TheDeadBandit — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:38:15 +0000

Sweet.

Travis Pastrana’s Practice New Year Rally Jump

Travis Pastrana’s Practice New Year Rally Jump

TheDeadBandit — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:10:21 +0000

Dude has got a big pair of cahjones. The actual jump is going to be epic.

First Attempt:

More after the jump.

Second Attempt:

Travis Pastrana’s 2010 New Year Rally Jump

Porsche GT3 Rallye

TheDeadBandit — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:55:13 +0000

The sound coming out of these GT3 rally cars are perversely delightful. Nothing like it. To be there in person to experience this would be a dream, but unfortunately we’ll have to settle for this which isn’t bad by the way. Close to 9 minutes of some pretty sweet driving. The rally takes place in Germany, Spain and Belgium.

Goodbye WRC… ?

Goodbye WRC… ?

TheDeadBandit — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:39:32 +0000

I’m a big fan of rally and always watched the World Rally Championship (WRC) religiously until this 2009 season. This was after the announcement that the WRC would be be moving to a new Super 2000 (S2000) car specification requirements for the coming 2010 season.

Some of the S2000 pertinent specs:

Max 2L displacement engines with max 8500 rpm
3rd party supplied gearboxes and drivetrains
No excessive modification

Basically, no fun.

A lot of manufacturers who have participated in WRC would have to pretty much have to redesign their rally winning cars to fit a more strict and standardized bastardized criterion. Which is why they have left.

Give the finger to this weak organization. Don’t they know by now that viewers and fans want to feel and be excited? Not bored to death with cars meandering through a forest stage participating in a “race,” where the only difference between this car and the last is the drivers and their livery?

What happened to the true spirit of rally?

All this fan wants is to bring back Group B!