8 Year Old Rally Driver

dewolf · 04-25-2010, 04:52 AM

This kid is a born natural. Dad of course used to rally as well.

YouTube - Kalle Rovanpera.mp4

Zeke · 04-25-2010, 10:09 AM

You know one day he will be the champ!
They ought to get him a smaller wheel.

Gogar · 04-25-2010, 10:26 AM

yeah, but the smaller wheel might require too much arm strength. Unless it's got power steering, I guess!!

David McLaughlin · David McLaughlin's Garage

that is pretty amazing.

onlycafe · 04-25-2010, 03:55 PM

ok. that may be one of the coolest kids i ever have seen.

BGCarrera32 · 04-25-2010, 04:30 PM

I dunno- check out this 4 year old on the drums.

YouTube - Igor Falecki drummer - 4 years old

DanielDudley · 04-25-2010, 04:52 PM

Wow, just Wow.

Normy · 04-25-2010, 05:01 PM

The car he was driving doesn't have all that much horsepower. As such, it can't really get into a very dangerous situation in snow even at high speeds.

[I have a slight problem with this though. Wi'll pretty safe, it wasn't exactly filmed in a farm field now was it? When I was 16, I used to take my dad's 1980 Opel Kadet hatch and do donuts and fishtails and all sorts of crazy manuevers in parking lots around Temperance, Michigan, where I grew up. the funny thing was...just as the 8 year old in the picture was doing, I was starting to learn from the crazy turns and the drifting rear end how to control a car without traction. I actually started to get pretty good. I suspect that this is where this little boy is right now.

The question: In order to get to this level of sophistication at driving an automobile when you are 8 years old...do you think that this is just a bit too much? I frankly worry about an 8 year old boy who currently drives a 2600 pound 200 hp race car, and might be handed the keys:

[Think about this now: HANDED the KEYS to what is right next to a full blown race car that has 550 hp and drives all the wheels!]

Just because some of his drunken Finnish relatives have done it?

I'm sorry, but this one is SCARY. Promise as much as they will, the parents in this one are STUPID. I'd never allow my child to do this thing!

N!

onlycafe · 04-25-2010, 05:32 PM

well that tears it normy!
i don't want to be your kid!

dewolf · 04-26-2010, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Normy

I'm sorry, but this one is SCARY. Promise as much as they will, the parents in this one are STUPID. I'd never allow my child to do this thing!

N!

Oh bullsh$t. I'd sooner have my kid in that car with that driver at 16 than some other loser 16 year old who thinks he can drive.

Geronimo '74 · 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Normy

The car he was driving doesn't have all that much horsepower. As such, it can't really get into a very dangerous situation in snow even at high speeds.
N!

So, because it does not have much HP, it can not get into trouble at high speeds??
Sorry, that does not make the least bit of sense. (I would say 200 HP is more than adequate to let shidt hit the fan)
What are you saying really, that if 2 identical cars get into idenitical trouble at identical high speeds, that one with the most HP will get into more trouble?????
I must be stupid or something, please enlighten me....

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Originally Posted by Normy

...Just because some of his drunken Finnish relatives have done it?
N!

Do you know his family personally?
Do you have beaf with his relatives or with Finnish people in general??