I rode in a friend’s Ferrari (1978 308) recently and while I love how it sounds… I often can not get enough of the turbocharged sound. So if you love the sound of turbochargers doing work here you go:
Link for you RSS peeps.
It may be an older video of ours, but I love it and cannot get enough.
Update: Apparently I decided to post this exactly two years after uploading it to YouTube. Odd.
Because of WRC Japan Loeb finalized his place as World Rally Champion for 2008!
Many congratulations are in order for, what some consider, the best Rallyer of all time. This is his fifth championship win…in a row. He came close to winning in 2003 to make it 6 but was beat out by one of my favorites: Petter Solberg.
What still has to be determined with the upcoming Rally Great Britain is who will come out on top in the Manufacturer’s Championship? Loeb’s Citroen or Hirvonen’s BP Ford? Being American I must root for…you were thinking Ford because it is American right? WRONG! Ford because it is the underdog in the competition. American’s always love the underdog, and Ford is behind in the standings (plus they have to go up against Loeb who will be competiting for the Manufacturer’s Championship).
Rally Great Britain starts on December 5th and is the final round of the WRC this season. One famous person from the motorcycling world who will continue his push into the WRC is, you guessed it…Wait! You thought I was going to say Travis Pastrana because I’m American didn’t you? WRONG! Valentino Rossi will be taking a go at the WRC once again. He has competed in the WRC before (against the likes of Colin McRae) and has had some good showings. ‘The Doctor’ is just one more reason to watch Rally Great Britain.
SO GET EXCITED, there is still much to be won in the WRC.
Something slightly different this time around! Hirvonen stayed in first place from the start to the final stage of the rally. This bumps his overall score up to 102. Latvala came very close to taking the lead by the 25th stage, but stayed in second place. Loeb, the current points leader at 112, took third.
Hirvonen is catching up to Loeb, however, with one race left, there is no way that Hirvonen can pass Loeb to take the lead, so congratulations to Loeb for being the only one to win 5 championships! So, the battle is going to be for the 4th place position between Latvala and Atkinson, both with 50 points, and potentially 3rd, currently held by Sordo with a 9 point lead over 4th and 5th.
As always, WRC.com has their own highlights video that sums it up pretty well:
I also found a video of Solberg driving the shakedown run in the stadium. The concrete floor looks like a lot of fun to drive on! Quick warning, it’s much louder than the previous video.
NASA’s championship rally was this weekend in the towns of Callicoon, Wawarsing, Narrowsburg and Walton, NY. Only the top racers from each class in the USRC (NASA) were invited for the Halloween event. Unfortunately a five hour drive from Rochester was a bit prohibitive for me and Mark.
Anyhoo, a deserving couple of Kris and Christine Marciniak won their class (Production 2WD). We’ve mentioned their blog on here before as inspiration for TwoGuysRally. Either way, congrats are in order for them. Here is a video of them tearing it up: (Link for you RSS Peeps)
While Kris and Christine won their class they came in 7th overall behind 6 AWD cars. First went to Seamus Burke/Eddie Fries. Second went to Joseph Burke/Ole Holter and third went to Brian Scott/John Dillon. Congrats to them.
That wraps up the year for US Rally (RA and USRC), now hopefully those class winners can get some more sponsor money and fully prep those cars for next season. Congrats to all those who competed!
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So Obama is being projected as the next President of the United States of America. Congrats are in order to him. Both PA and VA voted for Obama, which happen to be our home states (NY is where we go to school). So do we get some sort of prize for that? That would be nice.
I wonder what four years of Obama will be like. We shall see!
I watch movies occasionally and I’ve just noticed something. Cars in movies either have the worst brakes or some of the highest performance brakes. They squeal constantly, or at least they do when coming to stops in frame. I get that it is a formalist approach (rather than realist), but I don’t think adding a brake squeal sound helps the viewer understand a car is stopping.
This happens in most movies and shows, even the nicest of cars with the richest of owners have squealing brakes (whose owners would probably not tolerate an annoyance like that). Just now while writing this post up I am watching an episode of Californication and as Hank stops his older Porsche the brakes squeal. While it might be understandable that his car would have squealing brakes (he does not take care of it), it still serves as an example.
Hopefully the brake sounds won’t annoy you as much as it annoys me, but I bet you’ll notice it. I should compile some clips of cars stopping in movies. It could be the most annoying YouTube video ever!
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