Have hit head on that bar (in a different car), can confirm it sucks, even with a helmet. This car needs halo seats.

More likely this is the amount of cage that was required by the rules at the time

Not to be that guy (but totally being that guy), since it’s a rally car it was never not road legal, all rally cars are required to be road legal. I can even tell you this car’s original license plate number: R30 WRC

I realize you were pretty much using this as the vehicle for a pun (very nice by the way), but to give a serious answer, he does put one on a scale. It weighed in at about 50 kilos, or 110 lbs. Talk about unsprung weight

Short version: in 2004 Leno promised to give Conan the Tonight Show in five years (2009). Conan got the tonight show, Leno decided he still wanted his show. So first NBC gave Leno a show that was basically the Tonight Show with a different name at 10 PM (which hurt the ratings of both shows), then they moved Leno’s…

Depends on how populous an area we’re talking and what qualifies as racing on city streets. Various series such as IndyCar have their street circuits, like the Long Beach Grand Prix. But if you’re talking more open with fewer walls all I can think of in recent memory was the Empire State Performance Rally held in the…

The definition of a ghost town according to Merriam-Webster is “a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource.” It qualifies for ghost town status in regards to now being nearly deserted, but you still might be right. The definition says…

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20 mph was an exaggeration, but you’re right, I forgot how much bigger the Hot Wheels loop was, and how much faster that meant they had to go. Since it’s all about needing the G forces to hold you to the track, the larger the loop the higher the speed. The original loops (and the one Terry Grant uses for his traveling…

That negates the whole point of rally: drive flat out on real, unmodified roads. No prepared or artificial surfaces.

It certainly is if you want to compete at the top level. Here’s the beauty of rally though. At a lot of WRC events you can show up with an old $20k rally car, enter in the national category, and run the same race as the WRC drivers. It’s like getting to enter Le Mans in a ten year old SCCA track car.

Once you get the hang of initiating and maintaining AWD drifts (and especially when you start linking them together in opposing corners) AWD becomes incredibly fun in snow and ice.

The Red Bull TV app is available for most devices

Just go to the website (or the app) and you can watch it on demand. Here’s Mexico day 3 for example

Current spec WRC cars are about $700-800k

I love that these guys regularly carry full sofas into the forest

Instead of torrents you could just watch those highlights on Red Bull TV, which is also free

For free you can watch highlights plus 1-2 live stages on Red Bull TV. OR for about $10/month you can watch all the stages live on WRC+. If it helps, $10/month comes down to about 30¢ per hour of live coverage (there’s about 25 hours per rally), plus you get a library of onboards from every stage for all the WRC cars,…

I am thoroughly looking forward to the comments on this one