Nic Case & AE and their new 200mph quest

[drbelleville]

Thought you guys may like this a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwF1jTJOi8

[Charlie don't surf]

2 Years ago a buddy was contacted by Nic and he was hunting for sponsors my buddy asked me what I thought of him etc.......and unfortunatle......I called it wrong

[drbelleville]

I remember a while back he was affiliated with Schumacher.

[PBR Allstar]

Didn't Nic set some records with a custom works GBX?

as far as that video I like the part with that thing going airborne at the end, looked like some old Mulsanne footage a'la CLK, or the GT1 incident at Road Atlanta.

[Erich Reichert]

Pretty cool stuff, with that said... is it just me or is anyone else relatively less impressed about going that fast in a straight line. I guess I just look at the old days of Thunderdrome and Cliff Lett's Guinness Book of World Records runs and think that "speed runs" should be done on a track. To me going in a straight line like they do these days is just a matter of downforce, gearing and getting tires that won't expand or shred. I know there's more to it than that but its just the car doing the speeding not the driver. Ask Cliff how much he had to DRIVE that car to 111mph. That's what's impressive to me, not only the car going that fast, which by today's technology is actually pretty easy, but also the drivers that could wheel them at those speeds. Yes we're talking 200+ mph but on the ground in the endless miles of salt flat or desert or whatever... ehhhh it's cool but its just like the video says... its all physics.