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And then there's this. https://bangshift.com/general-news/powered-street-luge-is-not-for-wimps/If you think that looks insane, look up the Jade Warrior. Its a whole different level of nope.
The "I can't believe they raced it!" Thread.
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Are these guys TRYING to get themselves killed?? 
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David Horsey / David Williamson, Peugeot 504 Pick-up, Rally da Costa do Marfim, Ivory Coast, 1984
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Hasn't raced yet, but this livery is insane.
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Anyone remember Hugo Spowers and his Prowess Formula Ford car?
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I'm torn between "Peugeot pickup truck" and surprisingly straight use of duct tape.David Horsey / David Williamson, Peugeot 504 Pick-up, Rally da Costa do Marfim, Ivory Coast, 1984
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Skoda Octavia Estate Super Touring, only got as far as hillclimbing events in Italy but still...
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The unicorn Skoda Octavia Estate Super Touring – TouringCarTimes
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The VW Up! A typical European drivers first car transformed into a 600hp 4WD monster.
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Not so much a 'I can't believe they raced that' but '....will race', the Citroen 2CV8, with a front-mounted 4.6l Rover V8:
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Club racer building V8-powered Citroen 2CV Special Saloon
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Stirling Moss drove an Audi 80 too in the BTCC in '80 & '81.
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As a teammate of Martin Brundle, no less. It's a great shortcut in the old era to now teammate tracer.
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Skimmed through the thread, and uh...
WHAT IN THE EVER-LOVING GOD ARE THESE?
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This makes me wonder if there was ever a downright bizarre or highly unusual design that actually proved successful (and I'm not talking about clever innovation like Brawn's double diffuser or McLaren's rear brake pedal).
Tyrrell P34 did enjoy some success, but I'm talking a design that beat literally everyone else. The Brabham fan car also succeeded, but was banned immediately after.
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2J was not successful, it was very unreliable.
I was gonna mention the car, but it didn't enjoy the ultimate success, more or less the same as P34.
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Kenny Reece's "3 to 1" Supermodified was was banned before it got to the race track. Tim Richmond tested it at Sandusky Speedway and beat the track record by a full second without any tuning. It was going to debut at Oswego Speedway but when the officials got wind of it they changed the rules to specify where each tire had to be located. It's difficult to see in this pic, but there is a 4th wheel on the left side. It and the middle wheel on the right are connected by the diff while the other two right wheels both steer.
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I saw this car at Sandown Historics last yearIt ran in the Australian Sports Sedan series, and it was mid-engine. A lot of it was Lola T-332. There was also Bryan Thomson's VW fastback. Mid-engine Chev V8 with a lot of McLaren M-10 under the body. One cannot imagine the handful these were. Check out the short wheelbase on this one:
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Unlike the Brabham fan car, the P34 wasn't prohibited from further success. As best as I can recall, Goodyear didn't want to continue making the custom front tyres as a special request.
It could have been a lot more successful had it been given more development time but yeah, it wasn't so it didn't.
Maybe the Dauer 962? It paved the way for road-legal prototypes that became a thing in the late 90s. Those prototypes themselves fed back into the creation of LMP1.
It could have been a lot more successful had it been given more development time but yeah, it wasn't so it didn't.
Maybe the Dauer 962? It paved the way for road-legal prototypes that became a thing in the late 90s. Those prototypes themselves fed back into the creation of LMP1.
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Well that’s cool.
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