Speaking of Bullrun......
 

Mark & Steve, here's a link to one of the more infamous video clips from last year's Bullrun that I was telling you about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLw_Y-WuuI


But as they say, its not a race, its a rally.


Not condoning this kind of action....I was just telling Mark (Mean69) and Steve (Mr. Bad Penny) about this one and since other Steve (Twist Machine) may be going and a few board members are on the TV version I thought everybody would be interested in having a look.

That's just a normal drive to work for me..

Seriously, I love driving fast but now days, our cities are getting too crowded and I would be pissed if these guys were driving like that with my wife or daughter on the highway..

SW

that is not to bright.
rick k:wow:

230 KPH (142MPH) in traffic! Reminds me the the "High Rollers Club" here in Orlando. To be in the high rollers, you have to average more then 100MPH in traffic, on the interstate through downtown Orlando from point A to Point B, About 15 miles. Mostly imports, 4 dr Hondas do it. There was a story on the news about a police task force to bust the high rollers. They need it.

I could drive fast and risk my own life. If I screwed up and died it would suck, but that's the chance taken.

But to drive fast and kill some innocent bystander, that's just not acceptable on any level. It's why I'm so dead set against street racing.

However, I would love to do something like Bullrun or one of the Nevada open road deals.

Since I have sped on public roads in my past I won't play the hypocrite and judge others. I just try to behave these days.

I used to do that for fun. Pretty stupid, actually. It takes some balls to do that. Unfortunately though, the balls replaces your brains.

If that's what it takes to win, then I guess we won't be coming in first.

Yeah, if I remeber right, didn't you catch a little Sheot for your paddle shifter drive video on backroads? And all you did was grab a few gears (or should I say push a couple buttons)?

Not quite. I illegally crosed a double yellow line to avoid junk falling off the back of a rack truck. It was like a pro-touring meets Sanford & Son nightmare.

And I'd do it again to protect my car.

I wonder what Ford management had to say about their designer driving the GT? I've watched a lot of these vids, and all of the rallys- Gumball, Bullrun, Players Run, Cannonball Europe, Carbon Black, etc. all are based around high speed driving and pushing the boundaries of what's socially acceptable driving.
The Great American Run is trying to reign this in and time checks are going to be based on a 61mph average speed with the winner from East Coast to Vegas to LA winning a new Saleen Mustang.

There are individuals in all of these rallys that push this more than others as evidence by the video above. Do a search for "Lonman" on YouTube to see one of the more notorious Gumball drivers. Quite a few of the Gumball drivers are using police sirens and LED strobes to clear a path and to be "safer". One of the more famous Gumballers Alex Roy actually dressed his M5 up as a police car each year to justify the lights, police scanners etc. Here he even gets a police escort through a city in Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dqKskoTyc *** contains some adult language***

It is going to be interesting to see how as these events become more mainstreem how the less experienced "Fast & Furious" croud tries to emulate these events. I can only imagine how the shmucks who pay to watch the movie "RedLine" will want to go out and reinact the film.

Having said that, these high-dollar rallys across the US and Europe would be a blast to be part of, its just up to you how hard you want to push. Oh yea and where to find the $10,000-45,000 entry fee for one of these one week events :wow: