Gymkhana 7 dropped today

bentwrench wrote:

Ian F wrote: One of my friends from the MINI world (now drives a Focus ST) is really into the "Hoonigan" thing. He actually has big "Hoonigan" decals on the side of his car. Not a kid either - late 30's.

So where did the term hooning or hoonigan originate? First I saw it was on this board quite some time ago.

The first popular reference to hooning that I can recall is when Lewis Hamilton got a car impounded in 2010 in Austrailia for hooning (yes, the ticket actaully cited that). Shortly after that Brian Scotto and Ken Block turned it into a noun and a brand.

yeah so I grew up with "hooning" and "hoonigan"

as well as "hooligan"

british english peoples...

personally i think gymkhana 3 is my favorite

T.J. wrote: I guess it is just another sign that I need to do something to stop my slide into being the get off my lawn guy, but the term "dropped" used in the context of a youtube video or mp3 is something I find very silly. I wanted to simply post, "well, then tell ken Block to pick it up" in response to hearing he dropped something. Why can't things be released? Where did it drop from? Maybe it fell out of the cloud? I may occasionally say I'm going to drop a deuce, but that act involves an actual dropping. Don't get it. I guess I'll go sign up for a twitter account so I can announce I just dropped my new post on the GRM forum!?!?

I am going to go release a duece.

Also, for everybody else...

If drifting was faster, F1 cars would do it, LeMans cars would do it, etc.... I assure you, they do not do it on purpose.

edizzle89 wrote: personally i think gymkhana 3 is my favorite

Agree, I'd say the one in SF and the one in Universal Studios are the next best. Worst has to be the previous "back to basics" one with the containers and locked camera angles.

I still don't think anything will capture the magic.of the original, before Kenny from the block became a brand. I watched that video a ton.

Personally, I think my favorite was the short he did on Top Gear with James May riding along.

In reply to wvumtnbkr:

Oddly enough, one technique I have to learn for DH racing next year is kind of likedrifting - sliding the back wheel out into a corner to set up for the exit. It goes against every fiber of my being to do this, but apparently it's faster in many situations. The hard part is doing it without using the rear brake to initiate the slide.

After I get that down, I'll move to two-wheel sliding... I see my knee pads getting a lot of use...

The physics gets a little weird on soft surfaces, but a big part of the reason for flicks and tail-out turns is that in general really cars on rally tires don't have a tremendous amount of lateral grip available, whereas they do have an extreme amount of longitudinal thrust available. The driving style is simply trying to keep the car in an attitude where it's using its greatest possible asset to produce speed. When the surface is better and the tires are more road-raced, the fast lines look more like what we're used to. See Pikes Peak for great examples.

JG Pasterjak wrote: See Pikes Peak for great examples.

It gives good examples for both.

Climb Dance in the dirt.

Loeb destroys the mountain on pavement.

Kind of like ice racing.

Drift a FWD car ? QED