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:
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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.
France. Well known for the “finer things”, wine, cheese, gourmet food, long life spans with ‘terrible’ diets, etc… But an oh so famous French car company Renault has just made me jealous of Europeans. They’ve started selling a ready to race, from factory, Rally car that includes an Electro-hydraulic(maybe mechanical) sequential transmission: The Clio Renault Sport R3.
This machine comes in two kits (really kits). One for 32,600 Euros and one for 53,000 Euros (only sold in Europe ~ $44,000 - $70,000). The latter of which has parts that are designed to handle gravel stages. Oh how I wish Renault would sell at least a few of these in the US. I think they would dominate FWD Rally in the country (given a decent driver).
I wonder if they would be legal in Rally America? Hrmm…
Rally France (Corsica) was this weekend. Results were not too surprising (with one exception). Sebastian Loeb continued his domination with a podium finish over the weekend. However his teammate Sordo decided to ruin Citroen’s chances of yet another 1-2 finish by crashing. Sordo took a corner not so correctly and ended up in a rock wall. Taking Sordo’s place was Mikko Hirvonen giving him much needed points in the race for the championship (14 points off of Loeb overall). However his second place was a team effort as Francois Duval checked into the time control early, on purpose, in order to take a 2 minute penalty to push Hirvonen into 2nd, while taking 3rd for himself.
Petter Solberg, one of my favorite drivers, placed fifth in this event. He earned himself some much needed points to pull in Latvala for 5th overall (2 point difference). Here is a video of some of the highlights (wow they pump these videos out quick):
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