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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.
Oh and thanks shep, for saying there was yucky violence and everything.
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I watched it without sound, was there any reason given for why the Saudis drive like it's stolen? A mate of mine's mother worked as a nurse in Saudi for a year recently... The mortality rate from vehicular accidents is off the scale, and it's easy to see why.
Reminded me of the Group B rally tragedies of the 80's.
Reminded me of the Group B rally tragedies of the 80's.
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I'd ask the obvious question of why exactly this is considered fun, but the presence of too much money and free time pretty much answers it for me. Plus, it's not like the Saudis have a monopoly on stupidity when racing and watching cars race - think of all the Europeans standing on or right next to the road during rally races.
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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.
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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.
We have a Targa event in this state which attracts drivers from around the world every year. Last year people were up in arms blaming drivers and officials after a car hit a tree on a popular spectator stage and speared into the crowd. The driver reacted well and the people he hit sustained broken bones and concussion, but I don't have too much sympathy for anyone who sits in a deckchair behind a piece of vinyl ribbon, confident that no driver will make a mistake.
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Unlike rally racing this seemed to be the point is to try and fishtail and hold control over long straight stretches, which is retarded. Rally cars at least have a course and mapped out routes. This reminds me more of dirttrack racing that isn't an oval track and no retaining wall, just retarded.
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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.
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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?
Iam unable to access the movie at this time (damn web sense) I will look at it at home. But 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. Here is a link about drifting
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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.
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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.
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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.
Drifting is popular in a lot of other countries too, but even the people dumb enough to do it in the street generally do it at night and in places where there aren't people lining the streets, except in Japan, where spectators of street dori are sensibly behind barriers.
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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?
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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.
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