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I am gonna be there for the race!

Lets hope so. Apparently there have been some construction delays on the track.

Construction on F1 track resumes

I hope they can pull it off, because I desperately want to go.

That was pretty cool. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Awesome! Thanks Glen...

I guess I saw that on another forum last week. Shame to put a car through that punishment. That dust cloud alone was distressing to me.

The US and F1 seem to have problems with syncopation. I sorta wish the track was being built for another thrust.

no mention if maybe all the fires in the area might have delayed construction?

that sunken track will be hard to see any action on
maybe a tv show but will suckkkk live

^It's far from completed. That grade will change radically as construction proceeds.

Should have hand grooved the tires for the dirt. The horses were faster through the turns.

I'll have to save up so I can afford a ticket. F1 is something I'd like to see in person.

My son was one of the camera operators for that shoot. They used 19 cameras over 4 days, one of which was a 4000 FPS unit for the super slow-mo.

The car was prior season tub with a mule motor. They even had electric fans mounted for the radiators and oil coolers.

He had a lot of the raw footage on his computer and it was wild. The guys in the helicopter felt like they were taking fire form all the rocks.



I was out at the track a couple of weeks ago and took some pics, this is turn 1 and the track grade will be where the base of the orange barrier with the flag mounted, on the far right. This shows how deep the track bed will be.



http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1317850027.jpg

The camera work was really incredible. I absolutely loved the slow-motion smoke off the tires during the "doughnut". Very, very cool!!!

angela

Are K&N filters any good? :)

Sherwood

Sweet ride. I enjoyed the vid.

Very, very good video.

While I'm disappointed that F1 is not returning to the northeast - I watched them at the Glen lots of years ago - I'm happy they will be back in the US. And hopefully not repeating the Indy fiasco.

Thank you VERY much for posting the video.

So what do tickets usually run? I need to start saving up!

Depends on your expected level of comfort, vantage point and your bank account. See if you can get to a website listing ticket prices for the 2011 Canadian GP. Might be in the same ballpark. Here you go:
Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix Tickets 2012 | Canadian F1 Tickets, Canadian Grand Prix Tickets, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve Tickets

Compare with the upcoming Korean F1 race:
Korean Formula 1 Grand Prix Tickets 2011 | Korean F1 Tickets, Korean Grand Prix Tickets, Korea International Circuit Tickets

I'd suggest going in a wheelchair. :)

Don't forget parking, food, lodging and transportation. Austin hasn't published prices yet.

Sherwood

I somehow doubt that Offroad F1 car had and F1 engine in it.

My bet is, they stuck a small, relatively low power production car engine in it with in a reinforced frame (F1 engine is normally load bearing part of the chassis) and then over dubbed the F1 car engine noise.


Because if you think about it, F1 cars can spin their tires on tarmac, so on dirt, you'de hear some pretty funky revving and bouncing on the limiter..it would never be fluent...They could never hope to transfer power with such a light car, at such low speeds with so much power.

That picture brings up the a off topic question. How in the heck can Infiniti stick their name on a Renault? I guess cubic dollars will overcome anything. I wonder if Infiniti is giving any technical advise?

Sure thing, but did you see that car go offroad, or one they rigged up to look just like it?

It's reasonable to believe they used the real one for the tarmac parts of the vid.
I just don't buy they took the same car in the dirt.

For one thing those engines are to delicate , they are not designed with air filters that can cope with all the dust... And like i said, there is NO way in hell they can get the power down on dirt. And there is NO way a driver can make the engine sound so smooth on dirt as it did in the video.

Dirt will give them less traction then driving around in the wet, with rain tires.
look up some wet F1 video's , listen to the engine when they aquaplane... It is not a smooth sound

I did not see it myself, as I said above my son was one of the camera operators for the 4 day shoot. I have seen quite a bit of the raw footage shot.

They, Red Bull, brought one car. It was a prior year tub with prior year spec motor. Yes, I am sure the motor was toast after the 4 days but since it was prior spec it had no significant value to the team. My son said that after every shot the crew guys were all over the car working on it.