Hillclimb videos thread

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Surprised nobody's mentioned this. Multiple champion taking to the hill in his 700bhp single seater. View is from a camera between his eyes!

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Climb Dance is one of my all time favorite videos.

Ari Vatanen is a beast!!

Kind of a shame that the route is fully paved now... :roll:

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Guy Martin’s Pikes Peak effort

more http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-new ... 25197.html

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More than 2G of lateral acceleration with peaks to 3G!


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MadMatt wrote:More than 2G of lateral acceleration with peaks to 3G!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSy9JS ... e=youtu.be
Wow!
Thanks for the video!

From that perspective and with the speeds shown that gives a whole different picture than from the regular videos taken from outside.
With 120+mph through the village and with 150+mph over twisty rural roads. With rocks and walls on the left and on the right. And no run-off areas, no ARMCOs. Nothing. Oh, I forgot they put some cute Hay bales in the most dangerous turns. :mrgreen:
After seeing that I don't wonder for a second anymore why there are fatal accidents in Hillclimbing now and then. I never fully appreciated what they are doing there. From a risk perspective you cannot even start to compare modern F1 or any other of the Circuit events to this here.
Again: Wow!

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andylaurence wrote:Surprised nobody's mentioned this. Multiple champion taking to the hill in his 700bhp single seater. View is from a camera between his eyes!
Cool viewpoint, but that single seater barely gets to stretch its legs at Harewood.... I may be slightly biased... But I think a Westfield having its neck wrung at the same track is far more exciting to watch...

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S8whbtAW1KI[/youtube]

I've only been once but I did manage to win in my class in the Westfield championship that day... I think my fastest time came on a run where I span the car across the finish line.. Oops! (The video above isn't me BTW; I was nowhere near that good!)
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