I call it damn lucky. He does handle the wet bits pretty well though:P

It does look a bit mad but then, we don't know the circumstances this vid was taken in: we don't see opposing traffic on all the roads and there are a few different roads in the vid. With that amount of cars at the start is it not possible the really dodgy looking stuff was done on a closed road? Or maybe even a road with a spotter ahead(like the silver Scooby)???

Who knows.

But I do know one thing:

That would NOT be me in the passenger seat!!!

 

O/T.

Horza, have you fitted a Z4 body-kit to your S2000?

 

He didn't crash, he was Bangled

 

 

This thread is pretty funny...

I have been on a few driving meets, and on most if not all, there are a lot of people (including me) driving very quickly towards blind bends / crests with no idea of what is on the other side.

This guy does take it too far, but he is pushing the back end out on purpose... "getting on the power to early" errr that's how you get the backend out... I am sure that this guy is a very good driver, even though I do not condone driving like that... bit too risky for me.

Also, fairly sure the guy was probably on winter tyres too.

Any vid's of him beating the scoobs at Magny Cours? That would be good to watch.

 

I suppose it depends what you mean by a blind bend

Most bends are blind (as in you can't see around them) but provided you remain on your side of the road, you have to accept some risk is inevitable when driving fast

This is rather different from taking a blind bend on the opposite side of the road, as recorded on the video in question

It will all come into focus sharply enough once a fatality occurs on a meet - as it surely will

I too have seen people make truly crazy moves on meets (hopefully no-one has seen me make one!) and these people can be very dangerous

It's one of the reasons I avoid meets (a deep fear and mistrust of aniorak wearers being another)

Irrespective of slow/medium/fast groups etc, someone will feel that they have to prove something or will make a silly move to keep up

otoh, if you drive with people you know and trust, who don't equate 'dangerous' with 'masculinity' (it is more of a boy thing, still), you can have some good, high speed fun, without recklessly endangering yourself - or anyone else



ps if I drove like the guy in the video, I think I would be getting some lessons, fast

 

rofl


ouch


it still hurts a bit when I laugh

 

This is generally how it works with the jockmeets - relatively small numbers of cars, driven by people who know each other fairly well.

I agree though, it is suprising there have been no serious incidents on meets given the way the cars are pushed.

The most common problem is if you carry out an apprpriate overtake with enough space for you, and perhaps only safely you, but 2 folk follow in the same place. Only they can assess properly if it is also safe for them. If you drive with a regular bunch (and everyone knows the roads a little) they won't feel the same pressure to follow inappropriately as they know where the next safe overtake opportunity is, and know you will wait for them anyway.

In theory the blind bend issue should not be a problem if you are driving using limit points correctly - although on the driving course I did, I was not entirely comfortable that I could stop in the same distance, on a corner, that the police driving instructor seemed to think I could. I don't know how many people understand the limit/vanishing point issue and put it into practice properly though.

 

Euan I find the solution to that problem is for the first person to overtake to remain in the 'wrong' lane longer than he/she normally would to act as a safe reference point for those behind. I've seen a few of the Jocks do this - I'm sure Billy does. I use this technique for overtaking when you are in a line of cars and you see someone at the front pull out but the road is still blind to you. You know that if he has time to pull out you have time to take a few cars as well. Obviously when he moves back in you have to as well unless you can now see.

 

I don't subscribe to that one, myself. Call me paranoid but the only person I trust enough to guage whether my car's in a safe position for overtaking....is me.