Take a ride with Ron Capps in this video of the in-car camera at the moment his engine explodes at the 2014 Circle K Winternationals. Thankfully Ron was uninjured in the incident.
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The best of extreme motor sport from all around the world! A compilation with only the best of all the crazy things what we filmed in 2013!
Including:
Formula Offroad, Bålstad, Sweden
Torc series, MI
Huck Fest, Pismo Beach, CA
Rock Bouncing, Gray Rock Cable Hill, AL
Formula Offroad, Ler, Norway
Drag Racing, US 131 Motorsport Park, MI
Mud Race, MI
Formula Offroad, Skien, Norway
Sand Dunes, Silver Lake, MI
Sand Dunes, Glamis, CA
The more you learn about race cars, the more you see the same names pop up when it comes to engines. For instance, just one man headed Porsche’s race engine development from the late 1950s through the 1990s.P
This man is Hans Mezger. Sometimes you hear Porsche afficionados talk about a ‘Mezger engine’ – this refers to the water-cooled flat six that started in the 1990s Porsche GT1 Le Mans prototypes and then was adapted into the 911 GT3 road cars, up until the current 991 generation. Truth is, that was pretty much the last … More
Rob, Cris, Mark and myself having a buggy/landboard at Cape Bridgewater on the SW coast of Victoria. The beach is very flat and wide, about 3.5km long with carparking right at the edge of the beach. A really pretty spot too. It would be very busy in the summer holiday season – we were there just after school holidays had finished. Quite a good cafe on the edge of the beach too