Showing posts with label Isle of Man TT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isle of Man TT. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

On The Limit

There are those who think F1 tracks and IndyCar non-ovals are 'road courses', which hold 'road races'. These are not road races. In Europe these are just called race tracks.

No.

This is a road race:


[note - this is quite long, over 10 mins]

The Isle of Man TT races. Insane isn't it?! And that's just the production class! The top race-spec Superbikes go even faster, unfortunately the only vids I can find are crappy home-video ones.

They also race sidecars, not your ordinary Wallace & Gromit affair either (keep watching through 8 minutes for the superb helicopter shots):