Ferrari 308 GTB Battles Alfettas at Bathurst

This is a very well done amateur video, featuring multiple camera angles. The car sounds fantastic, and Mount Panorama is probably one of my favorite tracks in the world, but I really love the battles this guy is having with a gaggle of 4-cylinder Alfetta GTs!  He obviously has the horsepower advantage on the long back straight, with the V8 in his car. But the Alfetta's superior chassis (and possibly aerodynamics as well) allows them to hang on for lap after lap! Fantastic stuff!

Video of the Week: Brass Balls at Bathurst

I've seen a lot of great in-car videos, but this one really takes my breath away. Watch as Ozzie auto journalist Dean Evans cuts through traffic in this single-make Lotus Elise race at Australia's Mount Panorama Circuit. It's remarkable how tightly packed the cars are, yet nobody seems to touch, even at 4 abreast into a corner!  Evans manages to knife his way through the dense and frenzied traffic from mid-pack to the lead --in less than one lap! 

Check out the epic triple-overtake under braking, on the outside of one of circuit's hairiest corners at 1:42. Truly brass balls.

News Flash: F1 Car Runs on REAL racetrack!

I've been turned off of F1 for years because of the increasing number of Mickey Mouse expansion circuits with acres of gravel traps and no elevation change that have become so prevalent, combined with the neutering of formerly great circuits like Monza, Silverstone, and Spa.  Let's not even dwell on the elimination of places like Zandvoort, Brands Hatch, and the Osterreichring from the calendar entirely many years ago.  But this video was a true breath of fresh air! Here we see Jenson Button driving his McLaren F1 car on Australia's immortal Mount Panorama circuit--the first time a GP car has turned a wheel on this legendary course.  Naturally, he shattered the lap record.  Enjoy the sight so rare these days of an F1 car going over crests of hills, hitting actual bumps, all with real trees nearby the circuit. It almost recalls a bygone era...

via Motorsport Retro

Update on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 11:34AM by Bradley Price

Thanks to commenter "Ben," here is the entire Jenson Button lap in-car! It'll make your eyeballs sweat!