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December 6, 2022 9:54 AM

Gymkhana 2022 (previously) features a crazy guy doing crazy things in a crazy car.

(One of the sponsors is Black Rifle Coffee (previously), which isn't great.)

posted by box (21 comments total)

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I clicked on that, but dang. That is pretty crazy driving.
posted by fimbulvetr at 10:18 AM on December 6, 2022

Vrooom!

Those videos keep getting more and more ridiculous. I love it!
posted by sacrifix at 11:02 AM on December 6, 2022

I certainly hope that young man is wearing ear protection
posted by gottabefunky at 11:11 AM on December 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

The "active aero" flaps are cool as hell.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 11:35 AM on December 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

I mis-remembered the title and, for a moment, thought this was a remake of Gymkata, and was very confused.
posted by xedrik at 12:34 PM on December 6, 2022 [7 favorites]

imagine the smell
posted by scruss at 1:36 PM on December 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

All those cops around, I mean one them really should have pulled him over...
posted by Naberius at 1:36 PM on December 6, 2022 [3 favorites]

I'm really in awe of the engineering in these cars, more so than the driving. I mean the driving is impressive (although the video 'enhances' it), but the ability to design and build a car that has so much capability is really something else.
posted by dg at 2:08 PM on December 6, 2022

I’m assuming that the car was basically taken apart and put back together after each jump, right?

Also, how many sets of tires would they have gone through in such a production?
posted by rockindata at 3:09 PM on December 6, 2022 [3 favorites]

I’m assuming that the car was basically taken apart and put back together after each jump, right? Also, how many sets of tires would they have gone through in such a production?

Yeah, the video is edited to suggest one continuous run, but it can't possibly be. If nothing else there are places where the road shows clear signs of previous runs.
posted by Naberius at 3:49 PM on December 6, 2022

Dirt 3, an old-ish racing game, has a load of gymkhana-mode games. I remember it being a lot of fun - the controls are pretty nice.
posted by pipeski at 3:51 PM on December 6, 2022

This was immensely entertaining to watch.
posted by Thistledown at 4:29 PM on December 6, 2022

Using a car to pull a skateboard trick (at 1:10) is a helluva thing.
posted by MarchHare at 4:50 PM on December 6, 2022 [3 favorites]

I'm actually finding the video about the car more interesting than the video of the driving (which like always is somewhere between ridiculous and nuts). I like that they took their aesthetic starting point the early 1980s Subaru wagons, since that was what I learned to drive in (many years before I was legal to learn how to drive).
posted by Dip Flash at 5:50 PM on December 6, 2022

I’m assuming that the car was basically taken apart and put back together after each jump, right?
Also, how many sets of tires would they have gone through in such a production?
The car is purpose-built for this so, as long as nothing went wrong (eg hitting something hard), it would be perfectly capable of doing the whole run without repair. If they had done the whole run in one go (which they clearly didn't), a set of tyres would probably make it through. No doubt they replaced tyres somewhere during filming, if only to maintain the predictability of the car and minimise the changes in behaviour as the tyres wore.

I'm guessing they would have filmed all the lower-risk segments first and the highest-risk ones last to give themselves the best chance of finishing without having to close all the streets etc a second or third time.
posted by dg at 5:53 PM on December 6, 2022

One of the sponsors is Black Rifle Coffee Company. It took me a moment to recognize the logo on the black helicopter as the same one worn by Kyle Rittenhouse or the zip tie guy at the capital insurrection
posted by zenon at 7:14 PM on December 6, 2022 [7 favorites]

Excuse me but did that fucking maniac just 5-0 a handrail in a rally car? DUDE.
posted by loquacious at 7:15 PM on December 6, 2022 [3 favorites]

One of the sponsors is Black Rifle Coffee Company. It took me a moment to recognize the logo on the black helicopter as the same one worn by Kyle Rittenhouse or the zip tie guy at the capital insurrection

ugh. Hoon responsibly, indeed.
posted by loquacious at 7:25 PM on December 6, 2022

from as deep in my gut as I can muster: 'MERICA.
also fuck brcc
posted by Baby_Balrog at 8:32 AM on December 7, 2022

"Cars With the Boom" has been a playlist staple of mine for decades and I love that it's gotten a good highlight
posted by FatherDagon at 11:58 AM on December 7, 2022 [1 favorite]

Ken Block --- rally racer, X Games champion, co-founder of DC Shoes and Hoonigan Industries, and star of the Gymkhana video series --- Killed in Snowmobile Crash.

(not the driver in this video)
posted by scruss at 9:07 AM on January 3, 2023 [1 favorite]