[thechat] Car/Racing Nerds (was Gas Prices)
Bob Davis
bobd at members.evolt.org
Fri Apr 13 12:09:38 CDT 2001
On Friday, April 13, 2001, at 12:23 PM, Judah McAuley wrote:
> I've got to say that this year the Brits really showed us how Rally is
> run. Brits finished 1-2 this year (2001 Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi EVO
> IV). Previously the Tiburons were the hot cars on the block. Parity
> was reached this year with Mitsubishi and Subaru taking the top 6 and 4
> of the top 10 spots respectively. This year also marks the US entrance
> of the European ProDrive group and also brought the US it's first
> official FIA sanctioned Rally.
>
Yeah! I love rally!
The brits are doing a great job here. Millen's son too (not a brit -
from NZ, I think).
The new WRX is cool. I'm glad we are seeing them here. Fast little car
too. One of my friends here is Tim O'Neil, who was a national rally
champ (drove this *sick* all wheel drive, supercharged VW Golf. You may
have seen it - it lives in OR now).
It's getting a lot more professional here. Seeing ProDrive participate
is great. I'd love to see Ford bring a WRC Focus here.
The Mitsu's are cool (Buffum's shop up in VT has a couple of them), but
getting long in the tooth. I'd really love to see VW get into it more
here.
> Ok, I'm just about done being a rally nerd for the morning. And for
> any of you with high bandwidth connections, here is a pretty good
> RealVideo file of some of the action. It includes a nice rollover
> around a corner. http://www.subiegal.com/images/Movie/SCCA2001.ram
Check this one out too:
http://movies.taner.net/
it seems to be down atm, but it's got loads of cool movies.
Check out the RS4 stuff - I love that little station wagon. 380hp and
all wheel drive - yummy.
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bob davis
bobd at members.evolt.org
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