Comments on: Ask the Best and Brightest: So, Does It Appeal?

By: njgreene

njgreene — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:39:45 +0000

Didn’t actually hear any commentary, just wind/motor noise. Not that I’m complaining. It did appeal, either way.

By: dolo54

dolo54 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:16:32 +0000

veddy nice.

By: elloh7

elloh7 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:21:53 +0000

Very nice. When the driver got the tail to step out.. expert control. Absolutely beautiful camera angle on that portion too.

By: Qwerty

Qwerty — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:04:41 +0000

More of this, less bailout, please.

By: puppyknuckles

puppyknuckles — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:44:54 +0000

Oh Hell Yes.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:27:45 +0000

Well, maybe if they installed a few cupholders…

///Complete Sarcasm///

By: JEC

JEC — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:17:05 +0000

I have a friend who used to work for Lotus. Lucky bugger got to play with cars on that track. If I remember correctly, he said they had a day each week where employees could go blow off steam on the track.

By: Jeff Puthuff

Jeff Puthuff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:16:29 +0000

Yes, it appeals! Silly question. Just need to get an external mike and attach it out of the wind (on the firewall would be a good place).

By: HarveyBirdman

HarveyBirdman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:55:20 +0000

GREAT video, and I usually don’t like those sorts of things. This one, however, really gives a sense of how hair-raising it must be to drive one of those cars around that track (though I agree I’d rather hear more of the engine and less wind; maybe that’s how it sounds to the driver in that cockpit). The DR write-up is quite good, too. Keep posts from them coming, RF.

By: Antone

Antone — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:36:18 +0000

Yes please! DR is a great site. Cool to see TTAC teaming-up with DR.

By: Stu Sidoti

Stu Sidoti — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:36:06 +0000

Stuff like that is pretty much automotive pron…so yes it appeals.
No wonder Loti are so tidy and nimble-that track is narrooooow.

By: N85523

N85523 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:31:43 +0000

I love the over-the-shoulder shots. For those of us who do not frequent tracks, it is a good look at what it takes to handle such a car on such a track.

By: willman

willman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:02:59 +0000

Kind of.

Properly miked, Appeal == yes.

I’d really love to hear the Engine Working instead of PHHWWPWHWWPPPHHWWPWHWWPPPHHWWPWHWWPPPHHWWPWHWWPP!!!, rev, downshift, PHHWWPWHWWPPPHHWWPWHWWPPPHHWWPWHWWPPPHHWWPWHWWPP!!!

-irregardless of how very cool the almost-no-windshield-bugs-in-teeth vibe is.

By: Porsche986

Porsche986 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:01:56 +0000

WOW!

By: tulsa_97sr5

tulsa_97sr5 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:52:47 +0000

Wonderful. One stretch of that track looked like they stole a section of road from here in Oklahoma though. I think I might even know where they took it from, hasn’t been fixed yet.

That looks like so much fun.

By: oboylepr

oboylepr — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:51:21 +0000

YYYYYYYYYYYYYess! Wow!

By: David Holzman

David Holzman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:35:32 +0000

Yup!

By: Jordan Tenenbaum

Jordan Tenenbaum — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:30:22 +0000

Yes, it absolutely does!