How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers
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How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers
http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-to-win-a-p...-with-a-500-car
- Guy buys 500$ E30
- Swaps in M3 motor
- Welds Cage
- Gets 3rd place in WRC event
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- Guy buys 500$ E30
- Swaps in M3 motor
- Welds Cage
- Gets 3rd place in WRC event
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Four events later, he found a loophole in the FIA rules that let him enter a twenty-year-old car in the same event as guys like Ken Block and former F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen.
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Most of the time, we hang out in weird bars and at race tracks and talk about the cool things that I want to do but never find time for,
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still covered in dirt from the previous season's rallies ("I'd wash it, but I gotta fix stuff instead
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His co-driver, a Rally America genius named Ben Slocum, had not spent more than five minutes in a car with him prior to the event
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Got there too late to do reconnaissance and had to mooch stage notes from the Peruvian rally champion. Dude is cool but notes are in Spanish or something.
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Parked the crapcan with Loeb, Hirvonen, the whole crew. I can only imagine what the other drivers where thinking when they strapped in: "WTF? I wasn't even born when that model came out."
someone tell me that's not absolutely bad f***g ass. thanks for sharing that! he's got to be some driver! stuff like this is impossible on tarmac. but on gravel and snow it's alright.
my favorite one:
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I once asked Bill why he insisted on going through every spectator section crossed up and with the engine banging off the limiter. "Dude," he said, "I don't care if it costs me a couple of tenths. It makes the fans go nuts."
wrc is sucking nowadays. drivers use cautious tactics instead of going flat out like in the 90's. even petter solberg says after 2010, he's going to retire because it's not worth the effort.
