Posts Tagged “Video”
The guys over at Jalopnik discovered this crazy video of a 200-ton locomotive dropping 20 feet after a support cable used to unload the train from a ship snapped. The train was a brand new American-made Downer EDI Rail GT46C ACe, which, in train speak, translates to “expensive new diesel-electric locomotive that shouldn’t be dropped”. [...]
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. 156 turns, 4720 ft of elevation change, and 12.42 miles of grueling uphill racing finishing at 14,110 ft up leaving cars struggling for air while wrestling their way to the top in the shortest time possible. Last year’s race marked the final race up the mountain with half the track [...]
Wrecks have and always will be a part of motorsports. It is usually the result of two drivers trying to be in the same place at the same time. That isn’t the case with this uber-rare Pagani Zonda GR. Antonin Herbeck was driving the Zonda in a race in the Czech Republic and was on [...]
Probably one of the weirdest side effects from the extreme heat waves melting half of the United States this summer are massive sections or road succumbing to heat buckling. Under the right circumstances, excessive heat can cause asphalt to slightly expand and buckle under the pressure. Generally, these buckled sections of road are only raised [...]
Video: Driver Catches 178MPH Golf Ball In Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
By Chad Waite | June 21, 2012
Guinness World Records has set the bar for countless “accomplishments” that are about as useful as the comments on a Carly Rae Jepsen YouTube video. Today we add to that list by looking at a black Mercedes-Bens SLS AMG Roadster driven by Formula 1′s David Coulthard catching a golf ball hit by pro-golfer Jake Shepherd after a [...]
Everyone knows F1 is the pinnacle of technology in motorsport. Even the guy from the Sauber F1 team in the video below even says just that as his opening line. So to demonstrate this statement, Sauber has quite literally cut one of their F1 cars in half to show what exactly is going on underneath [...]
