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TankRS

1,458 posts

24 months

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Thursday 12th July 2012 quote quote all
BlackPrince said:
It would be absolutely ridiculous to say that and its equally silly to criticize Block for not being some amazing Finnish driver that drove before I was born!
Juha Kankkunen was active in the WRC until 2002 and made a guest appearance on WRC Finland in 2010. So unless your 8 or 2, if its the latter bloody good work on learning to use a PC and doing it so well so quickly, i’d imagine he’s been active for a good part of your life. Being recognised and well documented he probably wasnt as it was towards the tail end of his career and in the middle of a great battle between McRae/Burns/Gronholm/Martin/Panizzi etc

tongue out

vxah

75 posts

69 months

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Thursday 12th July 2012 quote quote all
just me said:
Good point. To each his own. I never understood people who did nothing but store and polish their cars and brag about the low mileage. I am not in that camp, and I wouldn't be one of those protesting. I guess people protest anything. All I can do is state what I like or love. I like this video ok, I don't love it. Certainly I don't dislike it or hate it. It's a fun thing even though it doesn't hold my interest for more than a couple of minutes. The San Fran setting is interesting too, especially since I live nearby and have many shots of exotic car drives on the same bridge, streets and exit ramps (some are in even better SF locations). I guess the Golden Gate bridge and Marina Green were fogged in on the day he filmed there...
Would be hard to see him through this...!thumbup

Edited by just me on Wednesday 11th July 20:37
So am i correct in thinking that was the twisty Lombard street he smoked up the wrong way? I was there driving it last week! Awesome!!

just me

5,905 posts

90 months

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Friday 13th July 2012 quote quote all
Yes, looked like it. I think they blocked traffic up top, let him go up and down for a couple of takes.
Early Saturday morning almost at first light.

Did you drift your rental car at all? I tried it today in a friend's old Caddillac today. Ended up in a hedge but couple more takes and I should have it down hehe.

BlackPrince

785 posts

39 months

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Friday 13th July 2012 quote quote all
TankRS said:
Juha Kankkunen was active in the WRC until 2002 and made a guest appearance on WRC Finland in 2010. So unless your 8 or 2, if its the latter bloody good work on learning to use a PC and doing it so well so quickly, i’d imagine he’s been active for a good part of your life. Being recognised and well documented he probably wasnt as it was towards the tail end of his career and in the middle of a great battle between McRae/Burns/Gronholm/Martin/Panizzi etc

tongue out
I meant that derisively towards the iconoclastic-for-the-sake-of-it numpties on this thread :P

and for the record, I used to watch every WRC race from the late 90s until the early 2000s when Speedvision in Canada stopped televising the races and started showing bloody NASCAR 24/7, so am intimately familiar with Kankunnen's accomplishments, though I really only started watching WRC when he drove with Sainz for Ford and w/ Burns for Subaru, and then he retired after that IIRC

Rallyz

5 posts

40 months

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Saturday 14th July 2012 quote quote all
vxah said:
So am i correct in thinking that was the twisty Lombard street he smoked up the wrong way? I was there driving it last week! Awesome!!
It was Vermont Street, see http://jalopnik.com/5925769/ask-gymkhana-5-star-ke...

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chris116

517 posts

38 months

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Thursday 19th July 2012 quote quote all
Brilliant, always enjoy these. cool



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