Welcome to “Fun Times” – the final episode of the best wake tour on the planet, O’Neill’s Hit the Road road-trip. After 10-days of bussin’, winchin’ and wakin’ the crew takes over Aurich Wakepark with a shed load of new challenges, including of bangers, back to back box and rail tricks, T-Rex slides, inflatable jibbery and budgie smuggler party rides. The ender features a serious search and destroy winch mission with stops in Paderborn and Essen. In the words of Nico von Lerchenfeld: “It was one hell of a ride!”
When the guys began designing the new track, they wanted a super fun trail that anyone could ride, and that everyone could progress on. They wanted to build a line on which riders can test themselves and improve, but that is still on a track that is built for incremental progress. You don’t have to go from the little table straight to the road gap. They also wanted to build a trail that tweaked some familiar features and might give riders a fresh perspective. Take for example our humble bermed turn. While, it’s true, some of the turns on the Vink line fulfill all of the speed scrubbing re-directing duties of any normal berm in the world, some of these berms are wall-riding monsters with near pants-shitting g-outs. Even the expected features are delightfully maniacal on this family-friendly/test-pilot worthy adventure.
The cars that escaped from the racetrack to invade the public roads
Ford’s new GT was built to win the GTE Pro class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In order for it to qualify under Le Mans rules, Ford had to build a £420,000, 647bhp road car version. Manufacturers have been building these ‘homologation specials’ for years. Basically they’re racing cars that have to be brought back into a state of road legality.
Some of them have been pretty radical. Here are our favourites … More