HFS's cool YouTube vids thread - 30/9 - Merc W123 diesel drifting

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Rather than starting a thread about a single video and then a month later starting another thread about another vid I've found, I'm going to use this thread to post any vids that I've found and want to share with GTP and update the title as and when I need to.

Classic Daihatsu Midget video

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Great little video showing the car we're all familiar with from Gran Turismo 4. It's been filmed really well to show lots of little details about the car, including the driver needing to double de-clutch for each gearchange.

Some of the "related videos" are worth a watch too if you like your classics and microcars like I do.
 
Awww, double-clutching. How cute!
 
That is awesome, I loved driving it in GT4. Hope to see more quality videos like this.
 
I'll try! I always keep my eyes peeled for something a bit out of the ordinary and the Midget vid seemed like a perfect start. I'd love to drive one myself, like you I really enjoy the car in GT4 but watching that vid makes it seem so much more of an experience - you just don't get the noise in GT4!
 
Toyota Team Europe Corolla G6

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Unfortunately you can't hear the car in this vid as it has a soundtrack, but "Bombtrack" by RATM seems to go fairly well anyway so I won't complain too much! Looks like a fair bit of work has been done to this Euro-market Corolla and the test driver is certainly giving it a workout.
 
Wow, that 'Rolla is turning like it's on rails! 👍
The rear is as steady as it can be, following the front wheels perfectly. Excellent work on that car, and a good driver to boot.

Great vid to watch, and yeah, RATM always goes with these things so well. :D
 
It does look very well set up. It's a pity there aren't more vids of it about - it'd be nice to hear it and have a bit more on-board action too.
 
That's a very pretty motion. Hard to believe it's an FF, both composed and in a mild, mild state of steady oversteer.
 
Lotus Elise Cup @ Bathurst

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Dean Evans in this Lotus Elise has rather spoiled motor racing for me now. Short of Ayrton Senna at Donington in 1993 I don't think I've ever seen such a display of opportunistic passing, late braking and scything through traffic. I want whatever he was on that day...
 
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Lotus Elise Cup @ Bathurst

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Dean Evans in this Lotus Elise has rather spoiled motor racing for me now. Short of Ayrton Senna at Donington in 1993 I don't think I've ever seen such a display of opportunistic passing, late braking and scything through traffic. I want whatever he was on that day...
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That is amazing. That squeezing through pass on the right... thought he'd get crunched. GT really needs Bathurst.
 
Amazing driving (especially for a journalist and especially considering it's Bathurst!), it's hard to believe Evans didn't put the car in the wall. The Elise Trophy was a great series, not quite sure what happened to it, it just seemed to disappear.
 
If these aren't actually your videos, why not put them in the cool video thread?
 
Omnis
If these aren't actually your videos, why not put them in the cool video thread?
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Because I feel like it. Essentially. And I can keep tabs on the videos I'm uploading just like I can by uploading photos of my car into my own thread rather than the two or three general ones. Does it bother you?

Jackington
Amazing driving (especially for a journalist and especially considering it's Bathurst!), it's hard to believe Evans didn't put the car in the wall. The Elise Trophy was a great series, not quite sure what happened to it, it just seemed to disappear.
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There's never been an official Elise trophy in the UK either surprisingly, given that you'd think it's almost the perfect car for a single make series, not to mention it'd probably make Lotus a fair bit of extra money in spare parts and the like!
 
:lol: Probably. Either that or every other driver on the track had got out on the wrong side of bed.
 
homeforsummer
Because I feel like it. Essentially. And I can keep tabs on the videos I'm uploading just like I can by uploading photos of my car into my own thread rather than the two or three general ones. Does it bother you?
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No, I was just saying. I appreciate the ones you've posted though. 👍
 
How not to drive the 'Ring

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Was searching to see if anyone had videoed themselves driving a ForTwo around the ring, and turned up nothing. Saw this though and thought "hmm, should be cool".

Unfortunately, I was wrong. The fool behind the wheel is doing no justice to one of my favourite cars. One hand only on the wheel for most of the circuit, short, jabbing inputs to the steering, squealing the tyres everywhere from the induced understeer - it's like a "how to drive badly on track 101".

The spin around 7:40 was only a matter of time. Ironically if he'd had both hands on the wheel he might not have spun in the first place, and even if he had started to slide he would have had a better chance of correcting it with his right hand rather than just his left...
 
What an idiot.
 
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Lotus Elise Cup @ Bathurst

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Dean Evans in this Lotus Elise has rather spoiled motor racing for me now. Short of Ayrton Senna at Donington in 1993 I don't think I've ever seen such a display of opportunistic passing, late braking and scything through traffic. I want whatever he was on that day...
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If that's the same Dean Evans I think it is, he was the former editor of Fast Fours Magazine back in the 1990's, and owned one of the first, if not the first but one of the sweetest Nissan Pulsar GTi-R's in town while doing so, his family owns RMA imports in QLD aswell. Damn he's improved his driving skill since those days....he was already good but DAAAAAAAAAMN that run in the Elise was 🤬 nuts!! :D

I'll find a pic of the GTi-R if I can.

Can't find the pic, but found something even better.....I've just found his profile, IT IS THE SAME DEAN!! :D He's now the editor of Tarmac Magazine.

Source!
 
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Lotus Elise Cup @ Bathurst

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Dean Evans in this Lotus Elise has rather spoiled motor racing for me now. Short of Ayrton Senna at Donington in 1993 I don't think I've ever seen such a display of opportunistic passing, late braking and scything through traffic. I want whatever he was on that day...
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I had a dream about this once.

Well... no, I didn't, but I will now.

That is some fantastic racing.
 
Heh I had some cool hot wheels afterwards I had then gave it away to one of my cousins I think?
 
lordalucard
Heh I had some cool hot wheels afterwards I had then gave it away to one of my cousins I think?
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Methinks you're in the wrong thread.
 
Classic Porsche 911 at Spa

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Now this is pretty special. In contrast to the appalling control in the last vid, this is just masterful. Any driver who holds a classic 911 sideways through Eau Rouge gets a thumbs-up from me.
 
Good grief! Passing the Cortina on the fastest part of the circuit, opposite locking all the way... superb.

That E type wasn't watching his mirrors.
 
There appeared to be a few people not watching their mirrors. Though to be fair to them, that Porsche was hammering on somewhat. The way it came up to those other two 911s was ridiculously quick.
 
Well... the E-Type was passing... he wasn't expecting someone else to double-dip.

Countersteer what? No, my steering wheel is on crooked. :lol: Beautiful driving.
 
Drifting Diesel Mercedes W123 Wagon with Scania turbo

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All you pansies with your Nissan Silvias can go as sideways as you like but you'll never be as cool as this chap who fit a lorry turbocharger to an old diesel Merceces family wagon and goes sideways kicking out two kinds of smoke...
 
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