On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:18 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
>Stumbled over this yesterday thanks to my noisy neighbour. If he hadn't
>been attempting open-heart surgery on his girlfriend (sounded like it) I'd
>have been sleeping soundly.
>Anyway... these Icelandic blokes are *nuts*! 4-wheel drive vehicles (like
>the SODA cars on enough steroids to keep the entire Soviet Block in gold
>medals until the next Millennium) running up to and over 1000bhp,
>basically trying to climb muddy quarries/mountains/anything steep that
>doesn't get out of the way fast.
>I'm not a big fan of "gimmicky" motorsport, but these guys are mental, and
>it had me grinning from ear to ear. When they get things wrong the "cars"
>don't just fall off the slope they're climbing, they take off...often
>vertically. Amazing to watch. Amazing power. Amazingly broken machines
>when they land.
>I'm doing a lousy job of explaining this. It's not exactly racing, more
>like trials biking where, one at a time, they try to get bikes into places
>where even mountain goats get vertigo.
>Series started this week and continues at about 12noon C4 on Saturdays if
>anyone in the Yook's interested. At the very least it'll keep the kids
>quiet for a while... after which they'll try to drive their trikes up the
>nearest garden wall. Don't blame me if you spend next weekend in casualty
>:-)
>Andrew McP
>PS Apologies to anyone who's now read this several times. Accidentally
>poked it down the wrong internet 'ole.
I saw someone interviewing an Icelandic _female_ driver. She was
driving one of those 600 hp 4WD monsters across the rough volcanic
icelandic surface at speeds I don't even do on the motorway. She
commented it with the words "it sure beats knitting".
No shit?
/petern
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