How all the tire marks got onto Ascutney last summer

[W.Vaillancourt]

Looks like Ryan Tuerck did the dead over the summer. Some impressive driving for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_HtCz ... iIrghA26OA

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[sdwarf36]

Some impressive driving for sure.

You ever see Uriah run?
"finish-are you ready for a start on car 76?"
"Ready."
"Workers-please move back 20 ft from where you are. 3...2...1..."

[KevinGale]

I still remember seeing Uriah leave the road at finish, and I mean completely off the road at speed, go over a ditch, up a ledge, launch the car through the air back over the ditch, crash back down into the grass, and keep going. He never lifted!

[Chief Geek]

I don't get drifting. I'm pretty sure, driving like that, that guy is slower than our #33 & #72. I'm guessing the drift car has "somewhat" more horsepower than Walter or Chris.

If their video wasn't edited so heavily, it would be awesome to overlay in-car video from a production bodied NEHA car like #395, #5 (pre-Ascutney 2), #202, or #168 to show the 14-year-olds what fast is.

What sort of times did that blue and white, friend-of-DSG Nissan 240 run? Seems like a similar style of car to the video.

[sachilles]

They actually ran at Ascutney with us one event as an exhibition. Need to figure out which one and it will show the times. It's good driving, but the emphasis is on style and control rather than being fastest from point A to B. If I remember correctly one of them went off just past check 4 into the rock ledge rear end first in a rather nice supra. Hard enough to dent, but not enough to keep the car from driving.

[sachilles]

Spring ascutney 2008
240sx drift car 3:20.23 18th overall
Supra drift 3:56.65 best sunday time 36th which was last for anyone with a timed run. but had a 3:29.40 on saturday.

Walter had a 3:17.80 that same weekend for reference for 17th overall.

They were nice folks, and their cars had the potential to be fast if they went with a more traditional route up the hill.

[Chief Geek]

So... Walter beat the 900 hp Nissan in a straight fight? Or was the 240 drifting when Walter wasn't?

[W.Vaillancourt]

The two guys that ran with use that one time were good but this guy is on another level. He drove for Red Bull for a few years and now drives in Formula D for a smaller team because he missed driving nissans. I have talked to him a bunch of times. Very cool dude. Actually the front fenders on my car were his spares lol.

[walterclark]

They were doing their drifting thing... I dont know what I was doing other than being paranoid after my little "incident" the previous fall, I have since beat that time by 12 seconds.

[Chief Geek]

I was wondering. I know #33 is pretty quick and you pedal it well, but that would be a pretty massive tire and power deficit to overcome.