How a $500 craigslist car beat 400k rally racers - Lateral-g Forums

Bow Tie 67 · #1 03-25-2010, 11:34 AM

Great story:

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-50...k-rally-racers

whiplash911 · #2 03-25-2010, 08:36 PM

agreed on the must read .... kudos ..... am i alone in thinking this would be a perfect plot for a national lampoons racing movie .... not to mention a BMW tv spot

rwhite692 · #3 03-26-2010, 12:54 AM

That is a great read...epic stuff.

Bow Tie 67 · #4 03-26-2010, 07:22 AM

I loved the response on why he was on the rev-limiter past every crowd.

**XcYZ** · #5 03-26-2010, 07:29 AM

That's a great read.

Out of curiosity, I wonder what the loophole was?

Quote:

...he found a loophole in the FIA rules that let him enter a twenty-year-old car...

zcrz · #6 03-26-2010, 03:35 PM

great read

70rs · #7 03-26-2010, 11:00 PM

Just awesome. I love it!

MtotheIKEo · #8 03-27-2010, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XcYZ

That's a great read.

Out of curiosity, I wonder what the loophole was?

It was also a Rally America event. Any car with an RA logbook could enter the rally. He wasn't in the top WRC class. He also beat 400k rally cars that broke or crashed out.

It's a really cool story but the author is pretty vague about the circumstances.