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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 06:10 PM
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Taken at the 2008 ADAC 3 Stage Rally. Just sit back and enjoy the engine notes.


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=agMRsPb1Zto

Strange choice of cars for rallying though!
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 06:35 PM
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What is strange about the car choice then? The Lambo is a "00" pacecar!
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 09:00 PM
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The germans actually use supercars in a seperate class. They ran at the back of the WRC round last year.
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 09:11 PM
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The GT class is normal in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy.

Special cars are developed for this, the most popular is the one we see here - the 911 GT3 road challenge, which is basically GT3 Cup car with different suspension, hydraulic handbrake and equipment for co-driver.
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 09:17 PM
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ex european rally champion patrick snijers now rallys a porsh 911 gt3, i myself think they are better suited to circuits than tarmac lanes but hey ho what ever
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 09:18 PM
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nice cars but i reckon this vid sounds better.

properly quick he is too

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d01VBR5nKPw
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 09:23 PM
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Porsche only for circuit? Check this out http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=lOpk_LvKlqQ


The guy was in top 10 among strong competion of all wheel drive cars!


By the way - before the revolution of Audi Quattro the 911 won multiple rally championships including sucess in Dakar.
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 10:01 PM
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when i say better suited what i really mean is i can't be bothered watching them, i get no pleasure from watching them rallying
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 10:04 PM
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Strange for me, but then many people like S1600's and similar cars and I think watching them is quite boring. So probably there are different tastes to it.

The driver of this Porsche on snow really impressed me.
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 10:10 PM
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marc duez is a great driver mate, he drove some fantastic cars on the european rally championship and the wrc iirc, i get absolutley no pleasure watching land rovers rallying at the tail end of our british rallys, they should get their own series.

theres some front wheel drive cars i can watch rallying, theres very few drivers that can drive a front wheel drive car well enough to impress me.
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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 10:14 PM
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I know he is! Ardennes 2005 was very funny rally as they didn't have snow there for many years and as far as I remember it was eventually won by grp.N car of relatively unknown Polish driver who happened to have snow-tyres on his Impreza road car in which he came there for the rally
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