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Message started by Stimpy - FSO on 04/15/11 at 06:23:11

Title: Gymkhana ...say what?! (a new motorsport is born)
Post by Stimpy - FSO on 04/15/11 at 06:23:11

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/6785/wtfisthisl.jpg

Still not quite sure what to make of this
silly "new" motor "sport" but the tech,
engineering and skills behind it are
insane, check it out.

** video: With a 650HP / 0-60 in 1.9sec / Ford advertismentmobile

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xetwxr_ken-block-gymkhana-edition-3_auto

** video: With an Aprilia Sxv 450 somewhere in japan
http://www.gaskrank.tv/tv/racing/zaubern-mit-aprilia-sxv-gymkha-8319.htm

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/479/6465.jpg

Title: Re: Gymkhana ...say what?! (a new motorsport is b
Post by Serowbot on 04/15/11 at 10:12:42

That's some amazing stuff!... but, racing for times seldom catches on. People like to see passing...

I can't figure out how they know which way to go... pylons all over the place!...
:-?...

Title: Re: Gymkhana ...say what?! (a new motorsport is b
Post by Jerry Eichenberger on 04/15/11 at 10:41:21

These events were quite popular when I was racing back in the late 1960s. Those of us who raced raod courses would do a "gym" now and then. It was fun, and really safe. It was also in the era of the Detroit Whale, when sports cars were the only things on the road, besides motorcycles, that had any semblance of good handling.

They were almost exclusively the venue of the sports car puritsts in old MGs, Triumphs, Alfa, etc. We "foreign car" nuts of that era all marched to a different drummer when it came to our transportation and sport.

Title: Re: Gymkhana ...say what?! (a new motorsport is b
Post by Stimpy - FSO on 04/17/11 at 05:26:04

wow, just wow.

Unreal Control On Honda CBR600 [VIDEO]

http://www.dump.com/2011/02/24/unreal-control-on-honda-cbr600-video/

Title: Re: Gymkhana ...say what?! (a new motorsport is b
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 04/18/11 at 08:28:02

Shazzam! Looks like a potential X-Games competition..