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Comments: 17 (Read/Post) Favorites: 1 (View) |
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on: 07-11-2006
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Suzuki Escudo |
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#2 |
7-12-2006 @ 12:10:45 AM |
Posted By : Lemming |
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I'm still amazed that they can even find people to drive these suicide machines. |
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#4 |
7-12-2006 @ 12:15:31 AM |
Posted By : UFO |
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#2, it's just the one madman, isn't it? Monster Tajima. Seen him, and the Escudo at the Race to the Sky a couple of times, pretty insane. And the car is mental too. |
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#6 |
7-12-2006 @ 12:24:25 AM |
Posted By : UFO |
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and on roads with NO room for error, at all. You don't hit a wall, you plummet thousands of feet down. Tajima has cojones that make steel look weak. |
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#8 |
7-12-2006 @ 12:27:06 AM |
Posted By : Lemming |
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#6, Exactly. I mean, heck, they stopped doing Group B rally for a reason, and those cars had less power. Of course, they also had less downforce, but at least they weren't constantly in danger of shooting off a cliff at 100+ MPH.
[Edited by Lemming on 7-12-2006 @ 12:27:35 AM] |
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#9 |
7-12-2006 @ 12:32:14 AM |
Posted By : 89Rettagt |
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car with similar power to wight ratios. 2000 midland F1 racer. lol |
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#10 |
7-12-2006 @ 04:26:48 AM |
Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#9, Midland wasn't in F1 in 2000: Jordan was.
And I don't know about Tajima driving this, he's the boss of Suzuki rally dept (Ignis/Swift S1600, now WRC car) for some time... but I guess he can still leave the office once a year ;)
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#11 |
7-12-2006 @ 04:37:10 AM |
Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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How many people died in Race to the Sky over the years? Nordschleife claimed 150 lives until 1975... and still counting... (several people a year, almost exclusively "civilians" nowadays). |
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#12 |
7-12-2006 @ 07:07:24 AM |
Posted By : UFO |
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#11, Not that many. Possum Bourne is the only big name I can think of (Australasian rally legend). But that was a freak accident, he had a head on collision with a car coming the other way during recce. It's not actually that old an event, 11 or 12 years maybe.
And Tajima does drive this thing. And well. Trust me. |
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#13 |
7-12-2006 @ 08:14:46 AM |
Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#12, On Pikes Peak:
-first attemp by a motor car: 1901 (Locomobile Steamer)
-first race: 1916
-this year's race was the 84th Pikes Peak hillclimb
-track record: Rod Millan (Toyota Celica) 10:4,06, Toyota Celica.
"Monster" Tajima has problems with the reliability of his, er... monsters and has failed to beat Millan's record.
[Edited by Sensekhmet on 7-12-2006 @ 08:15:11 AM] |
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#16 |
7-13-2006 @ 05:00:56 AM |
Posted By : UFO |
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#13, Just to clarify, the race to the sky is a local New Zealand event. And Tajima has won the last few years. Not to be confused with Pikes Peak, not that I'm saying you did. |
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#17 |
7-13-2006 @ 10:21:20 AM |
Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#16, I did confuse it. Somewhere I found this name being used for Pikes Peak. Don't know why. |
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