In Utah

Guard rails are optional

Imagine granny forgetting it was race day and backing out of the driveway.

Guard rails!? We don’t need no stinkin’ guard rails 😳

What does right 5+ and left 3 minus mean? Is that like whey Peyton used to yell "Omaha!!!"?

Ken Block is a funny guy.

Navigator is reading off pace notes, which are verbal shorthand to tell the driver all about the road ahead (distances, turns, flat out, jumps, bends, etc.). He's driving faster than he can see ahead, he couldn't do that without the pace notes being read to him. Notice that he blows through some blind splits in the road - incredible.

Last fall my boys and I came across footage of crashes at the Nurburgring track in Germany. It's fun to watch some of the civilian cars and bad driving. I'd love to drive the track. Rally Crash videos were suggested by the youtube so we started watching those also. It seems that most are from all over Europe and some from Argentina.

Some of the crashes that they walk away from are pretty intense. It's pretty amazing to see what these drivers and navigators do. I'd probably stroke out if I were in the passengers seat.

We rented a MH back in the 90’s and dropped down into Yellowstone from Montana. On the way out we went thru Utah and I agree about the guard rails.

However, whenever there was a sign in Wyoming for 45 mph for a curve ahead - that meant it might keep 2 tires on the payment at that speed!

The scary ride would be in the navigator's seat, watching stuff fly by at insane speeds and having no control whatever.

Yep. Ken scared him one time around the top of the mountain... he let out a screamy gasp, then went back to navigating.

The description of the road, makes me think of my first time across Red Mountain Pass in Kolorado! Lots of wrecked autos off the road, 100’s of feet down, and a memorial to a snow plow that lost his life trying to open the road! Pretty intimidating but beautiful drive for a boy from Louisiana ! memtb

CW McCall wrote a song about that one.

Ben, I believe that was Wolfcreek Pass. Red Mountain Pass is between Silverton and Ouray! I never got to drive the old road across Wolfcreek Pass......the new road is a pussy cat! memtb

Anybody know what that purple lever does? I see it puts the car into a broad slide but how? Front brakes only?

I assume that it applies the rear brakes, to set the car for a “power slide” through the corner! It is very beneficial with an all wheel drive or front wheel drive vehicle! memtb

Never have figured out how that doesn't bind up everything in those AWD cars????

Block plays second fiddle to
masters like Sébastien Loeb.
Look at Loeb's times in WRC
compared to Block...

To get from A to B in the Fastest time
and win world championships it's Loeb , if
all ya want is stunt driving entertainment
keep with Block.

Loeb will give you a more scary ride as a
passenger , but you still be in better safer
hands.

Loeb goes to X games rally X in LA to win
and naturally collects Gold like child's play.

Then there's Loeb's first stab at Pikes Peak
obliterating the ‘unlimited class’ record of
9min 46.164sec. with 8min 13.878sec.

Loeb doesn't have a 1965 Hoonicorn Mustang:

Close. “Riveside Slide” is the one I’m referring to:

“One cold, black night of a colorado winter
It snowed on red mountain pass
We warned ev'rybody that the slide was runnin'
An' 5-5-oh was a mess
But outta the plowshed, south a' town
Come a blade with a flashin' blue light
We told that boy: whatever you do,
Beware of the riverslide slide.
. . .”

Loeb could have anything he wants
but he got better things to do than
lower himself to Block standards.
If Block wants to see the true limits of that
Stang he just need hand the keys to Séb

When you look at Loeb you see the butcher
not just the butcher's block., nuff said ..

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not real optional in Oregon... they usually don't have any... in most places they need them...

and slick wet roads in Western Oregon ALL winter, on foggy roads...

eastern Oregon, slick icy roads....

then to add to the fun, we have more than our share of Mexicans and Californians passing thru at unsafe speeds for the road conditions...

that along with a safe distance behind you is about 5 yards on Interstate 5... hence why we end up with multi car pileups the closer you get to Potlandia...

can't leave out the Washington Plate Cars contributions either... nor many of our local Oregonian Beavis and Buttheads....

you don't have to slow down too much and stay in the right lane, to avoid most of the Kamikaze Pilots in the left lane....

Those passes and some of those roads can be a bit dicey, especially with a ton of traffic. I got this weird request from the Sheriffs office many years ago to rappel into Gore canyon off of Trough road,ircc. A state trooper met me at the curve and I needed to get to the bottom and get the vin off of some vehicles. It wasn't brutally steep by I belayed 600' of rope down anyway for the climb up, probably 1200 feet or so.. A whole slew of cars and trucks at the bottom, many has been covered with weeds. It was a known dumping site for criminals and probably a few unexpectant drivers!