I don't know if I'm hijacking this thread or not, because I'm on dialup and I don't want to spend the time right now to dl the videos. I'm pretty sure this is a hijack though, so I apologize, but this needs to be posted and I think here is better than a new post.
I used to race small road racing cars and I was pretty good at it. The video I'm going to post is the single best in car camera video I have ever seen. Period.
If anyone reading this is a road racing fan, especially a serious one, you need to see this video. I don't know how well known it is outside the online car world, so maybe everyone that wants to here has seen it, but I don't think so.
It's some kind of European sedan race. I don't follow the racing world enough anymore to tell you what series it is, but there are obviously multiple classes competing. The fastest ones are quite fast, and the car you are in is
very fast for a sedan.
He starts from the back, literally, and the video ends as he completes the pass for the lead after several laps. This is brilliant. Whoever cut it knew racing because he knew that a pass isn't complete until the car is stabilized on the proper line for whatever's next, and that's just where it ends. It needs to be watched several times, so that you can learn the track and feel comfortable with knowing exactly what's coming next. Then you go back to paying attention to what the driver's doing, and it's just remarkable. Sure the slower cars are dead meat to him, but it's still a remarkable drive.
One thing - the sound is atrocious and will actually hurt your ears, so be careful with the volume, I'm not kidding.
This is a direct download link to the 19MB wmv ---
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This is the only working dl I could find in about half an hour of looking. I dl'd enough to know it's the right one, but I have no idea how fast or capable the server is.