The YooToob thread

Bigus wrote: »

12 mins long make yourself a cuppa before you watch this.
This is some mad fecker, how he finds the gaps is amazing , don't know the back story.

But I doubt it's his own V8 M3.

Yet for all his crazy antics he seems to stop for red lights !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YUBjJiF0tE

The back story is everyone wanted his head after the video went live - including the News etc. Nothing happened, his lawyer did good job. They couldn't prove it was dangerous:D

He also owns a GTR and crashed an M3 before. He owns a car rental business in Poland iirc. He was into drifting but wasn't good enough to make it.

Wetbench4 wrote: »

Jaysus, I wouldn't even drive like that on a video game

I know. I mean, who stops at the traffic lights in a video game? :pac:

You could never do that in Dublin, everyone tailgates t'fcuk so there'd be no gaps to squeeze through.

Had a laugh at the guy in the 106 who did a 180 and still wasn't going fast enough to hit the barrier...

flyingsnail wrote: »

Last minute lane changes not such a good idea:eek:

That was vicious, you could see what looked like schoolbags rolling on the ground.

Lag Lag Lag Lag Lag...Fuuuuucccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

YbFocus wrote: »

Lag Lag Lag Lag Lag...Fuuuuucccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

The noise of the vvt and turbo coming on song is just epic!

wonski wrote: »

Is this how they re-thread the tires these days:eek:

I don't know if it was ever done in Ireland but back in Central / East Europe rethreading was quite popular. Never had a chance to see how it is done, though.

It's not retreading.
It's just cutting tread to make it deeper.
Indeed that was practised in Central / Eastern Europe a while ago.
F.e. I remember my grandfather used to do it himself.
And not because he couldn't afford new tyres.
It was because new tyres were not available on the market, so he could either do that, or drive on bald tyres.

Retreading is still happening, and I don't think there's anything illegal about it in the EU. Plenty of truck tyres are retreaded, and some car ones available as well, even for sale in UK or Ireland.
Retreading though is about putting new layer of tread onto the tyre - not like what you can see on the video.

Last year I rented a car in Poland with retreaded winter tyres, and I must say while they weren't top of the class, they were surely much better than most chineese stuff.

Pique wrote: »

Adding a layer of rubber and cutting treads into it is bad, as there's no guarantee that the new treads will adhere to the old rubber.

Cutting into the minimum rubber depth that major companies deem as a safe minimum, as a result of massive R&D, on the other hand is insane.

We see this a lot in drifting, an original will always hold longer but the odd re-threaded tyre we came across will tear to bits.
We never get all the thread used, they always come apart, the new ply lifts off the original surface every time so they definitely aren't as strong.

And now I want a GTR.

YbFocus wrote: »

Did you not always want one like me

Well yeah but when you see that it just makes you depressed because you can't afford one.

Macau F3 Crash almost takes out entire grid

Ken Block is back.
845WHP 4wd '67 Mustang.

Hal1 wrote: »

Hats off to that guy and the shear amount of effort involved, it's an absolutely flawless job, but a poxy mazda 6? I'd have left it in that ditch.

The point (which went over your head) was that he did it for 1/3rd of the price of a Genuine mazda replacement panel...

And whats poxy about a Mazda 6?
For instance in it class the Mondeo for example had such a shítty 1.8 petrol engine that Ford replaced it with another
manufacturers engine instead....Yep you guessed it...

a poxy Mazda 6 wan

I appreciate Ken Block's amazing skill but am I the only one who finds those Gymkhana videos over produced and boring?