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Compared to the Isle of Man TT any and all other sports are a yawn fest.
Five deaths this year....think I prefer yawning.
Compared to the Isle of Man TT any and all other sports are a yawn fest.
Five deaths this year....think I prefer yawning.
Compared to the Isle of Man TT any and all other sports are a yawn fest.
Which sports do you participate in?
Rollerball.That's kinda the point... Which other sporting event is that dangerous and requires that much commitment? Have you seen the bike cam footage of them going through town centre etc at like 150MPH with houses on each side!? I'm surprised the bikes can move under the weight of balls that size!
You really are a disagreeable person.Death crochet mainly. Any more stupid questions?
Hungry Hippos?Squid game..?
Some of us can appreciate many sorts of motorsport, even if mixed up a bit
Sound, in a valley, echoing.
I've been to Shelsley Walsh many, many times over the years, it's a very special hillclimb venue - short, steep, technical, even more than most UK hillclimbs it requires ungodly commitment from the start for a 1000yd course. I was there last year with @stevied - and witnessed the long-standing course record fall four times - in four successive runs. Utterly, utterly amazing; not likely to happen again.
However - it's the little things about the UK Hillclimb culture. One of the first times I attended, 12-15 years ago - a young girl who'd been helping on timing was leaving to go to Uni. So the site team as a send-off, equipped/set her up/sent her on a couple of timed runs in front of everyone one BHC weekend - in a 1958 Morris Minor lent by another. It was a hoot - and a good time for such a car!
Simple joys, eh.
(For everyone else here - UK hillclimb is a wonderfully- direct / close-up-enjoyable, pure and broad-church of 'motorsport'. Go watch some & support!)
I've been to Shelsley Walsh many, many times over the years, it's a very special hillclimb venue - short, steep, technical, even more than most UK hillclimbs it requires ungodly commitment from the start for a 1000yd course. I was there last year with @stevied - and witnessed the long-standing course record fall four times - in four successive runs. Utterly, utterly amazing; not likely to happen again.
However - it's the little things about the UK Hillclimb culture. One of the first times I attended, 12-15 years ago - a young girl who'd been helping on timing was leaving to go to Uni. So the site team as a send-off, equipped/set her up/sent her on a couple of timed runs in front of everyone one BHC weekend - in a 1958 Morris Minor lent by another. It was a hoot - and a good time for such a car!
Simple joys, eh.
(For everyone else here - UK hillclimb is a wonderfully- direct / close-up-enjoyable, pure and broad-church of 'motorsport'. Go watch some & support!)
You really are a disagreeable person.
I did a fair amount of track stuff in the early 2000s, something called "street car cup" here in Swissieland - not really racing, but time trials around a race track or airport (tracks banned here in Switzerland) for street legal (supposedly, LOL!) cars. We got real popular, into the press here and then started getting invited to hillclimbs (only motorsport still legal in CH). It was at hillclimbs I realised my limitation - I did not have that ungodly commitment from the start...on a track I could slowly build up speed over 20-30 laps and then be at the front, scoring fastest time of day. On a hillclimb you get 3, maybe 4 runs if you're lucky - I was never quick enough, too cautious...not enough balls A good friend was outstandingly intuitive - we were guests at Reitnau one year, climb in middle of day had chicanes added to keep us safe in our own class, but shared with proper hillclimb machinery with 550hp plus. Last run of day he and I were 4th and 5th behind the proper race only cars who were a few seconds ahead (we were running around 330hp Imprezas back then). It started raining before our runs - I was 2 seconds slower....he was 2 seconds faster (Reitnau is just over a minute I think), and took fastest run of day in class OK, we were running street legal semi-slicks, proper racers on slicks only, but in that last run he really showed that ungodly commitment from the start necessary to win hillclimbs! It was all shown on TV and superstars were made that day...not me, I slipped off unnoticed into the distance
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