[syadasti]

142 feet, 22 feet further than the Wrightbrothers...

Photos

Here is a

for good measure.

 

[fluff]

I was in the grandstand at Le Mans when that Merc took off and disappeared into the trees (big screen opposite). The whole place went deathly quiet as you could not imagine the driver surviving. Happily he was fine (Peter Dumbreck iirc). Merc withdrew their remaining cars shortly after (one had done something similar but less catastrophic in practice).

 

[manhattanprjkt83]

My dad and I were supposed to go to this race, im pissed we didnt...

 

[Tame Ape]

Wow, thats pretty amazing.

It looks like the brake trouble put him into a slide which pushed him off the side of the track. The 'superior' aerodynamics of the car frisbeed him, this was helped by the dropping run-off area letting the car go as far as it did.

 

[Smelly]

I think that dude just pulled the biggest 180 in the history of cars. Too bad he didn't throw in an cross up or a no footer for good measure.

 

[brungeman]

I think that dude just pulled the biggest 180 in the history of cars. Too bad he didn't throw in an cross up or a no footer for good measure.

he did throw a no footer, you just couldn't see with the car around him!

 

[valve bouncer]

Lets see ya stinkin' Corvette do that Shirley.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Lets see ya stinkin' Corvette do that Shirley.

Im pretty sure Evel Kneivel jumped further than that in a Grand Torino before. OVER other cars. Like a real man, not some faggy james bond fag.

 

[Echo]

Stupid firewall.

 

[valve bouncer]

Im pretty sure Evel Kneivel jumped further than that in a Grand Torino before. OVER other cars. Like a real man, not some faggy james bond fag.

You can't play the Evel Knievel card. That's not fair. He's not like other humans.

 

[BurlyShirley]

You can't play the Evel Knievel card. That's not fair. He's not like other humans.

How bout the General Lee then? Surely the Duke boys have that record beat...

 

[jacksonpt]

the video is terribly anticlimactic. Echo, you're not missing anything.

 

[syadasti]

the video is terribly anticlimactic. Echo, you're not missing anything.

Guess you failed to watch the Mercedes video below

Yah jimbob, it also sucks cause they weren't turning left, driving like asshats and colliding with each other causing some major damage

 

[jacksonpt]

yea, the mercedes one was pretty spectacular, but if memory serves, your thread is about an aston martin... and that vid was disappointing at best.

God forbid anyone ever disagree with you...

 

[Ridemonkey]

It's awesome how perfectly weighted it is. It stays perfectly parellel to the ground for the whole "flight".

 

[fluff]

It's awesome how perfectly weighted it is. It stays perfectly parellel to the ground for the whole "flight".

That's the thing - a Corvette would nosedive...

 

[syadasti]

That's the thing - a Corvette would nosedive...

And a Honda would explode like in a cheesy American action movie...

 

[fluff]

And a Honda would explode like in a cheesy American action movie...

He must have been trying to hit that tree surely. That was as near as dammit to a straight road and only one tree next to it...