> flinging that Porsche around with total
> abandon and sliding through almost every corner, he's not
> wearing a helmet.
not only that, hes doing it in his stocking feet. =) personally, i think
the porsche dude does awesome cool driving.
-james
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group <haggart@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
To: <BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Great vid clip
> > ...about 13 minutes of incredible racing between a street
> > prepped Corvette, and a race prepped Lotus Elise.
>
> Man, that's one long track. The entire clip is just one lap!
>
> I was impressed with how smoothly that guy drove. If you want
> to compare his performance with a guy driving a Ruff Porsche on
> the same track, go to www.sjrixon.clara.net/ and download the
> file lap1.zip (about 13MB; takes a while). It seems pretty
> clear that the Porsche has street tires, and for all I know the
> guy might be actually turning in a faster lap than the Elise,
> but the Porsche guy sure is a lot busier than the Lotus guy.
> He's making constant (sometimes very large) steering inputs,
> and he seems to be spending an awful lot of time recovering
> from being sideways.
>
> There is little doubt about his cojones, though. Not only is
> he going all-out, flinging that Porsche around with total
> abandon and sliding through almost every corner, he's not
> wearing a helmet. Sacre bleu!
>
> There's an additional file of that Porsche, lap2.zip, with a
> number of outside-the-car shots. A couple of them were taken
> from a helicopter as the Porsche goes sliding through some
> corners. It's pretty cool.
>
> --
> -Craig Haggart
> haggart@slac.stanford.edu
> Sunnyvale, California
> '96 Miata M Edition
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