911 gt3 rally action

[dawp]

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/12/video-gratuitous-porsche-911-gt3-action/

nice little suprise at the end.

vid is almost 16 and 1/2 minutes long.

 

[RichUK]

The GT3 never really struck me as a rally car. Cool vid, though. :thumbsup:

 

[MrWizzard]

The GT3 never really struck me as a rally car. Cool vid, though. :thumbsup:

There are some Porsches that do some pretty crazy stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNlhUWpBFY

OP that has got to be one rough ride with those tires lol

 

[Aharami]

awesome vid!
@15:21 - just blew my mind!

 

[Zap]

Really nice! Love that they left the original audio instead of covering up the sweet sounds with some lame music.

What's up with doing donuts? Is it just the rear engine spinning it around? I think the first one (early in vid) the driver did a second spin before taking off.

Interesting that in some areas you can see the counter steer going into the turn (twitch steering opposite direction of turn right before turn).

@15:21 - just blew my mind!

Was that the co-driver?

 

[alkalinetaupehat]

Really nice! Love that they left the original audio instead of covering up the sweet sounds with some lame music.

What's up with doing donuts? Is it just the rear engine spinning it around? I think the first one (early in vid) the driver did a second spin before taking off.

Interesting that in some areas you can see the counter steer going into the turn (twitch steering opposite direction of turn right before turn).

Was that the co-driver?

To the first question, I would say that the driver was a touch too hot coming in to jump on the throttle that early. It was power-oversteer and my guess is that the donuts were the fastest way to correct while fulfilling Subsection C of being a badass rally driver .

As for the second question, that was indeed the co-driver at 15:21.

 

[MotF Bane]

0:39 and 1:24, the sharp 180 turn. Can someone explain what/how he did that? It looks like he somehow locked just the front tires, sweet-talked the rear end into sliding out away from the turn, and then let the fronts roll again.

 

[Demo24]

0:39 and 1:24, the sharp 180 turn. Can someone explain what/how he did that? It looks like he somehow locked just the front tires, sweet-talked the rear end into sliding out away from the turn, and then let the fronts roll again.

Probably just looks that way. The car probably doesn't have ABS engaged so possible to lock the wheels, but of course no ideal so he'd be 'pumping' the brakes so to speak to try and find that threshold. He was at times using handbrake to initiate some nice rear end swing-arounds.