J turn

[Dizeee]

LINK AT FOOT OF POST!


I have been discussing this in my own forum, and we have come so far to a bit of a universal conclusion.

1) Yes, it is executed well and is what would be expected of a manouvre carried out in such circumstances

BUT

2) It's on "youtube", with not only a gaggle of "students" in the danger area ( all be it to the opposite momentum path) but it just seems this was all "for fun". Driving manouvres such as these are carried out in strict training enviroments. I'm not saying the enviroment is wrong but the overall interpretation of the video, for me, bears a question mark.

The clinch for me is the giggling instructor (or so it seems) in uniform as the car rectifies itself. It just appears to me - like a jolly.

Would be very interested how you precieve it...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=9PAmfb53hxg

[Ben-san]

Very nicely executed though it was :D, as you say, that shouldn't have made it onto YouTube unless it was a viable training excercise in a controlled environment. I have absolute respect for the job that they do, and appreciate that most of them are Petrolheads, and humans like the rest of us. They're allowed to have fun too, but if it wasn't a real training exercise, that's government property and possibly an open public road.

We've all seen how little videos and photos can take down entire careers - but before jumping to conclusions, we may all be looking at this out of context.

[Harsh]

actually, i think the video has been messed with.

It's been sped up while the car is driving and then slowed to normal speed as the people come into view after the J-turn.

look at the speed of the car at that point and it doesn't correspond with the earlier footage.

[Dizeee]

But thats normal, the velocity lost during the execution would amount to about the ending speed. It looks to me to be a mobile phone capture, I would be very surprised if it has been interefered with.

Have you seen Tiff Needells demo if a 360 degree moving turn? He goes from around 60mph to around 20mph during the manouvre.