Middle Eastern Car Racing
Posted: 2007-01-22 04:33am
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I think you give the human race too much credit.weemadando wrote:Shep, once again you make me doubt that you are in fact a reasonable member of the human race. And not really a racist, psychotic non-entity.
It's worse than that. Rally cars have a tendency to go straight through the little plastic ropes they use to cordon off the track - there was one infamous case where a rally car jumped right into a supposedly "safe" spectator area, crushing a 14-year-old. The safest place to watch rally is still on TV.think of all the Europeans standing on or right next to the road during rally races.
Sometimes the course marshalls drop the ball when they're setting up. Other times crowd mentality is what gets people killed. A few foolhardy individuals standing at the edge of the road, like you tend to see in Greece and Spain, and suddenly everyone thinks it's safe to do the same thing.Bounty wrote:It's worse than that. Rally cars have a tendency to go straight through the little plastic ropes they use to cordon off the track - there was one infamous case where a rally car jumped right into a supposedly "safe" spectator area, crushing a 14-year-old. The safest place to watch rally is still on TV.
I think they were trying to do 360s or 180s.Meest wrote:Unlike rally racing this seemed to be the point is to try and fishtail and hold control over long straight stretches, which is retarded.
I was going to ask why they appeared to be deliberately forcing their cars horizontal to best smear the largest amount of people possible. I was looking for, like CG artifacting or something, wondering if it was a game spoof... but no, it's real.MKSheppard wrote:I think they were trying to do 360s or 180s.Meest wrote:Unlike rally racing this seemed to be the point is to try and fishtail and hold control over long straight stretches, which is retarded.
What I don't get are the endless crowds along the routes, PERFECTLY IN LINE TO BE SMACKED BY A CAR NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
untill they drive badly enough to break through the forth wall....Bounty wrote:It's worse than that. Rally cars have a tendency to go straight through the little plastic ropes they use to cordon off the track - there was one infamous case where a rally car jumped right into a supposedly "safe" spectator area, crushing a 14-year-old. The safest place to watch rally is still on TV.think of all the Europeans standing on or right next to the road during rally races.
Have you seen the crowds standing around Palestinian terrorists bringing the kids with them and then staying in the same place after the rockets are fired and they know that the IDF will fire on that location (Even in beaches they don't move).MKSheppard wrote: What I don't get are the endless crowds along the routes, PERFECTLY IN LINE TO BE SMACKED BY A CAR NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
Yeah... In front-wheel-drive Australian built Camrys.Dargos wrote:...from the description of the movie, it appears that the drivers are attempting perform the act of "Drifting". They are purposely attempting to "drive sideways" as far as possible. It is a rather popular (extremly dangerous) activity in Saudi.
It's a sport called "Drifting." As in, you know, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Someone has been watching way to many American movies.Covenant wrote:I was going to ask why they appeared to be deliberately forcing their cars horizontal to best smear the largest amount of people possible. I was looking for, like CG artifacting or something, wondering if it was a game spoof... but no, it's real.MKSheppard wrote:I think they were trying to do 360s or 180s.Meest wrote:Unlike rally racing this seemed to be the point is to try and fishtail and hold control over long straight stretches, which is retarded.
What I don't get are the endless crowds along the routes, PERFECTLY IN LINE TO BE SMACKED BY A CAR NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
That's just insanity. All aspects of it seem deranged and not even minutely thought out: the crowds, the sport, and the drivers, they all seem hellbent on a massacre. Does anyone know what they were really trying to do? Are they driving laps or something?
I thought do-rif-tu came out of Japan...fgalkin wrote: It's a sport called "Drifting." As in, you know, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Someone has been watching way to many American movies.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin