Dani Sordo, WRC driver, meets up with Andreu Lacondeguy, professional mountain biker in Portugal. This only means... a race is about to take place! Place your bets! Will the MTB get down faster, or will the Rally Car get to ring the bell first?
One odd thing that struck me was how obnoxious the car was compared to the bike. I speak as a WRC and a racing fan, I just love fast cars in general, but this really demonstrated to me how little we humans value the environment, myself included. Racing is so incredibly wasteful it is almost funny, just examining the tires alone for instance.
Take the example of the WRC in Monte Carlo, teams are allowed 80 tires for the event with 43 used, each tire uses about one barrel of oil to produce. There were 119 cars at the race so about 9500 tires for one event with around 5000 actually used. Plus fuel, support vehicles, media, blah blah blah, say roughly 10 to 15,000 barrels of oil for one weekend!
Wow, you care about the abstract idea of the environment! How virtuous of you!
If the environment is so important, why are you polluting it by using the internet? Imagine all those plastics and metals used to create your computer.. So wasteful. I surely hope you've reduced your pollution before you start micromanaging what other people do!
And if you can agree that spending more = polluting more, then you can surely agree that we need to cut down government spending which is outrageous!
Or are you one of those "do as I say, not as I do" kinda people?
@theminsta: Did you read the post? I was making an observation, and included myself in the group of humans that don't respect the environment. Make sure you read AND understand a post before commenting. Remember what Abe Lincoln said, "Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and prove it."
I think we need the speed police in for some of those clips...
Why would you speed up one of the best rally drivers in the world and one of the best free riders in the world!
Have to say the rally car looks about right. The mtb, ehh...
BTW if you get a chance to see a WRC rally in person by all means go. Watching a car do 80 mph through a gate that is only 12 inches wider than the car itself, standing as close as you dare, is by far one of the coolest things you will ever get to see.
That was fun, half expecting Clarkson, May and Hammond to appear at the end.You don’t know how realistic these races really are. Do they just time an actual race with no filming and then go back to shoot each scene, i’m pretty sure it would be impossible to shoot and time at the same time.
I don't drive a car. I don't like cars.
That's not a car. It's an angry hornet that shoots gravel out the back like a machine gun.
Just like a Hope free wheel sounds like sweet music to me.
Nice to see that newer isn't always better @YT. And would love to see a pov of the now non existent track, since I'm from near there and saw part of the construction and so the whole track must have been a 15 to 25min descent (around 15km full length).
It was not a full track. They used some of the trevim, then DH2, and some of the other tracks on the hill. Plus some amazing specially built jumps. Stoked to call Lousã home
@Wheelersmtbholidays: Though it would be nice to see a full run, and some jumps were levelled out like the road gap and the left berm near terreiro das bruxas.
loved watching this but clearly a true all out race isn't going to get perfect overlapped jump timings on two different courses in multiple locations throughout the race... #topgearstylefilming
Man a $250,000 car vs a $10,000 mtb starting at the same spot and that’s all you beat him buy?? Makes you wonder which vehicle is really worth their money LOL. They should’ve had the mountain bike launch over the car at the end and ring the bell to win LOL.
If the environment is so important, why are you polluting it by using the internet? Imagine all those plastics and metals used to create your computer.. So wasteful. I surely hope you've reduced your pollution before you start micromanaging what other people do!
And if you can agree that spending more = polluting more, then you can surely agree that we need to cut down government spending which is outrageous!
Or are you one of those "do as I say, not as I do" kinda people?
And would love to see a pov of the now non existent track, since I'm from near there and saw part of the construction and so the whole track must have been a 15 to 25min descent (around 15km full length).
And who remembers Gee racing against a Renault in Lisbon from the castle down to the riverside?!