http://www.planetminis.com/roost-area/41219-rallycar-goes-134-feet-pics.htm
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yeah i expect that when that car landed that it got pretty fucked up.
you gotta figure that suspension is gonna bottom out under a shit-ton of force. not to mention if it comes down slightly leaning to front/back thats pretty much gonna fuck up either side of the car.
EDIT: apparently they did it 5 times or so with no damage at all. im shocked
mannie frsh says:
That’s big. REAL BIG.
that is nuts
So that’s 68 feet behind Bigfoot’s record from 7 years ago
thats nothing, my saab is born from jets…it flies…
thats fuckin insane. i want to see the vid!
Sweet edit
Block is fucking nuts
i dont think Ken Block owns dc anymore. I thought he sold it last year
I think it has been longer than that but he sold it for eleventy billion dollars im sure. Mustt be nice to pretty much retire and have nothing better to do than drive a rally car.
i now have new respect for ken block. then again his wife just had a baby so maybe this is his attempt at killing himself after ruining a perfectly good shot at the best bachelors life ever.
now we need to get jon bottoms to do the same thing except twice as far…we just need taller gearing and to take the restrictor out
I jumped 140 feet in my regular old WRX on stock struts with lowering springs. How is this a big deal? It’s a rally car and they cut out the ground in the middle of the jump to make it look like he’s 15 feet in the air. It looks like he’s not more than 4-5 feet over the top of the ramp/tabletop.
A rally car should take that jump like it’s nothing. They do it regularly during events.
That’s pretty damn sweet.
Minus the photoshop that looks like an 8 year old with MS Paint started playing around.
This is exactly what I’m thinking. they jump even further than that on some WRC stages. The differences here are that it’s a controlled environment and the ground has been cut out between the launch and landing.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/8c33b85e-2e03-484d-9a1c-98090155f4d4.htm
vid of that jump. looks shorter but IMO a lil cooler since it is during a rally and risking damage to the car in a race is way cooler than side shows.