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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
No, he is right. Buffum never made more than 2 WRC events in a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
You can see here:
John Buffum on Rallybase database
Block also made 2 WRC events in 2007.
Absolute gold and agree 100% ... One of the things holding rallying back is the narrow minded living in the past mentalities ..... Pastrana, Block, RedBull, Monster, gymkhana video's, big jumps - awesome stuff !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally_Rocks
Haha, pretty much the point people are trying to get across is that - "Pastrana, Block, RedBull, Monster, gymkhana video's, big jumps - awesome stuff!!" - is narrow minded.Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalo
Also, present WRC is nothing like that either.
Don't know if it's online, but today's Motorsport News dedicates the cover and first two inside pages to Pastrana's jump. It's also worth reading the comments of MSN editor Matt Burt who is a very experienced and well respected motorsport journalist. He very very neatly expresses the same view as myself and a number of other contributors in this thread.
Thank you but I have followed Buffum since I came into the sport in 1983-84Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
Very few people did, indeed many works drivers then only did selected events.
But he drove and did very well, especially well when you consider the level of the sport in USA at the time on the one hand and the always huge difficulties of dropping into an event for the first or maybe at most second time.
And if memeory serves me correctly he stuffed on the first or second stage on each and finished under the "Super rally" rules far far down in the results in very thin fields.Quote:
Block also made 2 WRC events in 2007.
Buffum did "multiple events".
You try to change that to "multiple events in one year".
Sorry but his statement must be what we discuss.
I am referring not to you but to the very agressive "Anthonyvop" who in this forum's Chit chat section has described everybody who doesn't live in the fantasy world of Cuban Revanchism as he does as "Communists-nazis" and conversely or interchangeably "Nazi-communists", and that includes everybody from me to Barak Obama.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
As I said it seems in his world he is the only non-Nazi-Commie.
or Commie-Nazi.
It seems it is an all-purpose dirty word that he uses.
He has zero involvement in rally (aside from rephrasing other reports for some obscure web site) and yet he feels free to ridicule people who work everyday to make the sport in USA available and affordable to more people.
In short he is a classic internet keyboard er who tries to make arguments about things he has no connection to, and that is called a "troll".
Relax, with you I am just explaining what the conditions from our US perspective from normal rally competitors looks like.
Wow......You are so wrong on so many points it isn't worth the effort to point each out individually.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Now if you want to discuss how to increase participation of low-budget Club Rally competitors so you can sell more Dampers I am game but if you just want to hurl personal insults then this conversation is over.
Sorry dudes, but this new thingie you are describing is not Rally! It is just some show-off thing, which is not bad, but do not get confused and start to think that this is rallying. Only thing that connects these publicity stunts is that US publicity guys have used Subaru rallycar.
If You want spectate something new and "spectacular" showoff thingies, give it a name and start a championship or a series. At the moment it seems that some of the guys here do not know the real meaning or spirit of rallying.
You can call me oled fashioned or narrowminded - no problems - but then again, You seem to live in a video game or in Youtube world :D
Because Pastrana is not a full time rally driver. He does appearances for DC shoes, makes Nitro Circus TV shows and DVDs, is contracted with Suzuki in regards to the odd AMA Supercross event, as well as freestyle motocross appearances (X-Games etc...). Then couple Red Bull promo work onto that. This is why he cannot come over to WRC and focus all his energy into rally...he is first and foremost a motorcross rider, thrill seeking adrenaline junkie. Rally is 2nd for Travis, however he has a massive passion towards it.Quote:
If Pastrana wants to trie to put rallying on the map in the USA, why doesn't he take his Red Bull millions to contest in the WRC?
yes yes...all these sponsor kids of various motorsports have insane passion for rally....
From where come these "broad minded" experts to rally forums?Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalo
From nowhere I suspect.
Playing Colin McRae Dirt 2 on the xbox must be the key to broad mindedness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mauri A
O.K., but I´d like to spell it mindlessness!Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Now look Mauri, You are too old and narrowminded, because of guys like You we have the WRC in the current state : sarcasm :Quote:
Originally Posted by Mauri A
We need more 275+ feet jumps and more donuts in WRC series. Judges will give points for each jump and donut and the driver with a best score wins!!!
:D :D :D
tsot, tsot, poika ;) , very much thanks to Mauri and others like him, we here have to day the best rally in the world, Thank's Mauri.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Hei Tomi, vähän sarkasmia vaan. Terveisin!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
Your rally needs more show jumps and gymkhana elements, this will add more Youtube clicks :D = publicity :D :D
Pity I can't be there, the weather and starting looks very nice indeed.
Offcourse, click, clickQuote:
Originally Posted by cali
Not everyone, just Block and Pastrana at this point...have to respect them for that, at the end of the day they have done a hell of a lot more with their lives than yourself, bitter, twisted and moaning about their endeavours on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Before pastrana was jumping rally cars he was doing FMX (freestyle Motorcross) and he has always been crazy. I watched a documentary on the xgames and pastrana had broken so many bones, had internal bleeding a few times and some other stuff.
Have a look at the movie 199lives. A documentary film about his life, beginning until now. Fascinating.
and kimi and kubica and the italian sponsor kid and and and.....Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCfan
As well as them, can only do good for the sport. If there is really a total lack of talent on their part then in the 2011 championship they likely wont be around...have to give them a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Oh, is that what you call it?Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Never heard of that.....8)
Never before seen crash on practice at 1:40min ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AyvKF0QodY
He tore that Impreza up pretty good!
shhhh, don't tell anyone, but I'm actually starting to warm to the guy.
Neat stunt even though I’m in no way a fan of his, they could have laid off the hype a little though. The only question I have about the whole thing is. Does Vermont Sports Car not know of a little thing known to the world of Rally called Tarmac Tires? He might have stopped the car if he had something besides gravel tires… Just a thought.
Even with tarmac tires I doubt he could have stopped in time... and I don't think he even intended to.
I don't think they were worried about getting it to a complete stop ether, they would have needed to line up another barge. I don't think they thought he was going to hit the wall as hard as he did ether. I don't know what kind of brakes Vermont Sports Car puts on the SRTUSA cars but most of the top cars in the US use brakes comparable to what you would find on a WRC car. If he had tarmac tires, the surface of the barge was abrasive enough and he kept it straight I think he could have gotten his speed down enough to keep from doing major damage to the car when it hit the tire wall at the end. However what they should have done and would have been really cool is put a hook underneath the car and put a series of five or so cables across the barge with 100lbs weights tied to ether end and had him come in like a jet landing on an Aircraft carrier. They could have used water troughs running down each side of the barge with a sled in each one and run a cable up to the bottom of the landing ramp and have it go across with a couple of pulleys. That would have been really cool and easy to do! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by serial jeff
Tarmac tyres aren't very good for jumping.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Saabaru
And the ramp got damp from the water, it stoped in time on testing.
I think its good publicity, and an awesome sight.
Almost three weeks since Pastrana took the jump and people are still interested. [sarcasm]Yes, well I guess that's a bad thing for rallying and autosports in general.[/sarcasm]
Amazing stunt, :eek:
I am suprised the car slammed into the wall though, maybe they should have stopped it propeley, how badly damaged is the car?
For more insane action, check out Ken Blok...
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Great video Langdale! Never seen that before i have to say. Thanks for sharing this, can't wait to see more from your "new videos" folder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Langdale Forest
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