Skill or luck? I vote luck.
Certainly luck was involved but notice the steering inputs as the car leans over one way and then the next...the perfect input to make the front wheels catch and stop the roll. And then he has the discipline to not fix on the ledge and drive out of it rather than going over the edge.
MFE has it right. Even after the huge corrections to get the car off the sidewalls, he has the wheel set damn near perfectly to catch it when the opposite side comes down.
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Not to mention this is a truck! I say skill and luck played a role, but skill being the dominating factor that saved the day.
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You see monster truck drivers do that alot when they get those trucks up on two whheels.
Skill or no, somebody in that truck shit their pants.
As somebody who's bicycled a car like that (gotta love having a dirt setup on an asphalt track!) your first reaction is to steer into the bicycle.
That, and lean over.
I would say a little bit of skill on the first one and a whole lot of luck on the second one.
Ok, ignorant question here. How the hell did the tires not blow out?
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He's on dirt, and they're obviously in a rally, so the tires probably have megatough sidewalls.
I like the guy running for his life...talk about wrong place, wrong time. That thing was inches away, maybe a mousefart of a wind gust away from being on its side. Unreal.
Talk about a near-miss for Chucky D. What the hell was that moron doing on the outside of a turn? Trying to get killed? Then why the hell did he run?Originally posted by Helmetcase
I like the guy running for his life...talk about wrong place, wrong time. That thing was inches away, maybe a mousefart of a wind gust away from being on its side. Unreal.
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I've often wondered, while watching the WRC rally video compilations that float through here, just what sort of anti-Darwin lotion rally fans rub on themselves before they head out into the woods. It makes me think that rallying just isn't big in America because there's no way the lawyers would let it happen....What the hell was that moron doing on the outside of a turn?
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