Bentleys making booty calls in public-housing projects? General Motors sucking on the public teat like a corporate version of Marilyn Chambers and receiving a billion-dollar money shot in return? Sex bloggers turning the walls of the Seattle W’s finest rooms into something that, when viewed with ultraviolet light, looks uncannily like a Jackson Pollock painting? It’s all too much!
Let’s scrub our minds clean with just under three minutes of great footage from last weekend’s SCCA National Tour autocross, complete with a top-notch video course description from one of the best technical drivers out there. Seriously. This is one to watch, if only to see the absolute truth with which every cone in every slalom is properly anticipated and pre-dialed.
Now, if we can just keep Bertel from putting any more big-eared auto show girls above the proverbial fold, we might all keep our jobs until tomorrow afternoon…
++ re: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/05/jen-friel-sam-the-eagle-ttacs-disinvitation-to-the-dodge-dart-and-the-slut-event-horizon/
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What is my reaction,
what should it be?,
Confronted by this latest atrocity,
[…]
Hide my face in my hands,
shame wells in my throat,
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party,
[…]
Driven To Tears
Check out the race prepped Lotus Elan in Gulf Oil livery @ 2:16. I wonder what it’s time was vs the Miatas.
Wait…so now Jack’s responsible for the CLEANEST post of the day on TTAC?
The only Elan ran in D – Modified (on slicks) and in Super Street Prepared (which would run on DOT R-Compound rubber) Neither class had a Miata. Trying to compare across classes doesn’t yield much because of different prep allowances.
Chinese side 80085 > big ear girls. I for instance don’t have problems at all with BS embellishing my screen. The IT guys “might”, but then IT guys are always more amused at what they find hidden in other people’s hard drives.
Awesome video!
End of vid there was a passing commentary on a “2 tenth pick up by ” Heitkotter”, I wonder if that was the GT Academy winning Brian Heitkotter…
Yes, the Solo community as a whole is pretty proud that a ‘parking lot racer’ did so well.
Here is a link to the results
http://scca.cdn.racersites.com/prod/assets/2012%20San%20Diego%20National%20Tour%20Final%20Results.pdf
You see? When I last time argued (posting the Smoking Tire Camaro SS review + lap on a tight racetrack) that there is no race circuit too small and a true sports car is capable of putting its power down well anywhere anytime, no one agreed.
There comes a beautiful confirmation. The cars in the video are based on well acclaimed best handling vehicles known. Their common denominator? They can use all their horses in filmed conditions, not only a fraction of them.
I didn’t know you could run a Solstice through the cones that fast.
Impressive driving, that Solstice was hauling!
Ford has a 412 HP V-* for the Mustang. Why not put it into the Lincoln Town Car too? Doesn’t it get better mileage than the old 2 valve 4.6. It would sure get more attention.