Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Misha Charoudin" channel.

  1. This car picks up speed so rapidly that it would be scary to drive it without seeing the speedometer because you could end up with insane speeds to familiar corners. For example, not many cars can do ~270 km/h to the first compression on tourist lap around 7:15.
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  2. 5:10 I cannot understand running this kind of car without an air filter for the engine but if you want to make the engine loose and increase oil consumption, it sure increases intake noises.
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  3. He didn't recoginize Misha so he goes with the basic instructions. And the reason for those instructions is that somebody previously failed to stay on the right while driving a slow car and caused additional incident.
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  4. The car went so smoothly around the corners that it took me a while to notice that the speedo was actually in MPH instead of km/h.
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  5. This is a good reminder for everybody tuning their cars: make sure all your bushings, including stabilizers and dogbones (if your car has those) are perfectly good. It doesn't make any sense to invest on better springs and shocks if any of the bushings are bad.
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  6. Yeah, and you don't need to worry about overheating either because the engine doesn't have enough power to boil the water.
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  7. This really shows how good F1 drivers are. He used every millimeter of the track and seemed to be in control all the time. And in typical F1 driver style he brakes sooner before corners and goes to accelerator much earlier than many people.
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  8. This message deserves to be pinned!
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  9. Nürburgring doesn't have true competition so the fact that they don't hike prices more in this monopoly situation is actually pretty nice. It would be nice to have cheaper prices that that's not required. The only issue I have is only having the option to get a single lap ticket vs full season pass. How about single weekend unlimited laps pass or single week unlimited laps pass?
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  10. Really nice car and I definitely liked the "seriously used" looks. Much more interesting than the polished paint jobs this kind of cars usually have. With improved suspension it will be great!
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  11. I love that you focused on cornering first and increase engine power only after getting the basics right! Way too many try to increase engine power first and never get proper cornering.
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  12. I was about to write about the same thing. That VW Scirocco with the Nürnburgring sticker in the rear seemed like it got traffic compared to this car. In reality it was accelerating with full throttle.
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  13. If you watch the first incident around 6:00, you'll notice that RPM wasn't even 6000 when it failed. I would guess some wiring is a bit loose and with G-forces combined with suspension shock, some electronics gets unhappy. If you scan the control units, you'll probably find which part is have intermittent short to ground or open circuit.
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  14. 13:23 The approach to foxhole looks insane with this dim lights! Hopefully you could see more while driving the car.
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  15. 4:53 The way this car picks up speed around 250 km/h shows that 300 km/h is not even close the limit but the traction and the length of the straight are getting the limiting factor really fast.
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  16. Whatever tuner you used for that "500 hp" initial state should be avoided like plague. I wouldn't drive even 100 hp engine with an incorrectly adjusted turbo actuator.
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  17. And holding the steering stable while going over all those bumps on the track! Normally gravity pulls your both hands with the same force but in opposite rotation which cancels out. This time it's all gravity vs muscle.
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  18.  @ArosaMike  The problem is that if you make it totally safe in car like this, you'll end up with really boring videos. The behavior of that driver was really surprising because he was going so slowly there was absolutely no reason to cut the corner like that. Any rustbox could have easily done the corner driving on the right.
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  19. ... and also get pizza and tiramisu for everybody and celebrate the P3 on the same day.
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  20. The owner seemed to think "man, I really need to learn to drive like this" in every corner.
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  21. We need a followup video for this one. Was the brake fluid bad or too low, or what happened? It's definitely not expected to fully lose the brakes even when heated up. In addition, the warning for "assist for low brake performance" come up with THE FIRST TIME you applied heavy braking at 5:35 so it was definitely caused by something else but heating up.
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  22. I guess he considers himself a racecar driver once racing makes majority of his income. Before that he's a vlogger that just doesn't have to pay for driving a race car.
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  23. That car was very fast for having "only" 260 hp. Can somebody explain what happened 4:24? It sounded like DSG released the clutch to change gears but then engaged the same gear again?
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  24. It seems that this speedometer runs at 20-25 fps which is obviously much better than 1-2 fps speedometers for many other car manufacturers. I think some manufacturers think that the speedometer is hard to read if the numbers change fast but you can easily keep the numbers readable with fast enough display (you need maybe 20 ms pixel response time or less for a crisp 25 fps display so that's should be easily doable even in cold temperatures with a good LCD and obviously OLED would be always fast enough). I find slow speedometer response hard to use even for normal passanger cars if you try to accurately match the highest allowed speed on road. I think using tabular font for the numbers would have been even better. For example, when speed went from 172 to 171 the number 7 shifted a bit towards to right because "2" was taking more space than "1". Some fonts have very nice numbers with regular widths and do not require such shifts. And I loved the tachometer implementation even more here.
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  25.  @someguyprobably  It's more like +1 dB increase means amplitude of sound waves have ~26% more power. That means that the sound power is doubled for every 3 dB (if you run two cars side by side, the sound is +3 dB above the single car sound output) and humans usually interpret +6 dB as twice as loud. This is why people damage their hearing with too loud music.
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  26.  @jeeewhyyypheee  Maybe this car only allows taking traction control off but never the stability control?
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  27. Misha must have driven pretty many cars with broken clutch to be ready to do that so fast. I would have figured out the same maybe 10 seconds slower.
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  28. It's also worth mentioning that many cars with drive-by-wire accelerator pedal have stock configuration to ignore accelerator pedal if pressed at the same time with brake pedal. This is designed for fault safety in case the accelerator pedal position sensor fails floored, you can always get the car to idle simply pressing the brake pedal. For this kind of setup, left foot braking doesn't work because every time you touch the brake, the accelerator pedal stops working until you fully lift it and then re-press it.
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  29.  @ArosaMike  I totally agree that doing this kind of driving during TF is definitely a big risk. However, Misha has been doing thousands of laps and as far as I know, has grand total of 2 crashes. And at least one of those crashes was caused by a technical failure. Seems pretty good track record for me when it cames to accidents per kilometer while driving fast, so Misha seems to have pretty acceptable risk level for his skills. No matter how you drive, once you go above 200 km/h, the driving is no longer totally safe on the ring.
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  30. That engine runs really nice for having over 300 000 km on the clock already!
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  31. According to other comments it was probably turbo intercooler getting too hot and computer delaying timing to protect the engine because intake air was getting too hot. It's interesting that there were no warnings or indicators in the dash about this, though.
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  32. It seems that the logic for the beeps could be "rear tyres are rotating at least 5% slower than the front tyres". That way you get beeps if the rear slides around even if you don't touch the brakes.
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  33.  @MuppetsSh0w  Do you really think that ad hominem is a good argument in a discussion?
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  34. It's not about how many minutes it takes to make a lap, it's about driving every car as fast as possible.
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  35.  @racker5108  The engine was turned off and on before reversing. I'm not sure if that was on purpose or by accident. The usual logic of displaying the oil pressure warning indicator to "test the bulb" applied here.
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  36. Is this one of the BMW opt-in subscription extras?
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  37. Great two first laps. I'm looking forward for a lap with paddle shifters.
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  38.  @antoine78150  Sometimes you actually press both (partially), especially with FWD cars if you want the car to oversteer a bit. But yes, you're right in general that left foot breaking doesn't mean that you hold both pedals down.
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  39.  @kevindoran4336 What are you talking about? Misha didn't even drive during the RCN5 which should be clear if you watched the video by Super GT to the end. Do you have a reliable source for your claims or are you just spreading some rumours?
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  40.  @konradkubala51  Exactly! And the reason this works is that (most) cars have higher performance brakes than the engine power so you should optimize the acceleration, not the braking. Even F1 cars have better brakes than engine power so they brake as late as possible without sacrificing the acceleration after the corner.
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  41. 4:51 Very good deal from a friend: free repair!
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  42. That Golf mk1 did really well indeed! Those old cars had very good feedback from tires to steering wheel. I remember driving a Passat from similar era and when it was about to lose traction, you could always tell which tire was about to slide! More modern cars can go faster around the corners thanks to better suspension but the feedback is much worse. It was quite surprising that the limiting factor was engine cooling instead of brakes or suspension!
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  43. The headlights of modern cars are ridiculously expensive! This car had 1800 EUR headlight (each) and some BMW models have headlights that cost 3000+ EUR each.
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  44. I think Audi Pre Sense should automatically disable itself when it sees combination of Performance mode and ESC off.
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  45. The most important mod would be to keep system less hot. However, I'm not sure if that's doable with any sensible amount of work. Tyres with more sidewall and more grip would be a second best option to try next.
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  46. Most people running M4 around the ring would be overtaken by Porsches but not Robert.
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  47.  @reefhog  That's right. And it also has clear km/h numeric output in the middle. However, if you just gimpse it and look at the dial pointing the numbers with most emphasis, you're looking at MPH display. That's the mistake I first made.
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  48. ​ @Alex-hv3ir  Unfortunately, I think white smoke from diesel engine means a crack in cylinder head unless you're hearing engine obviously missing power from one cylinder (which would cause diesel to go through the cylinder without ignition, probably because of a broken valve). If you're losing any coolant, it's the cause of white smoke because coolant is leaking through the cylinder head.
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  49. If you use high quality oil and do the official maintenance, doing 338000 should be easy. I'd doubt he's still running the original clutch, though.
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  50. I hope these misleading clickbaits in the title do not become the norm. If you really want to go with clickbait style, at least keep it honest. "I broke the owners brain" would have been fine.
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  51. Interesting car. It definitely requires sturdier aftermarket clutch cylinder to not fail too often.
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  52. I think TC might have triggered the situation in first place but it probably limited how much the car got sideways after that. From my experience driving during the Winter here in Finland, I would say that you should have pressed the clutch fully down around 5:58 when the engine sounds like it could be already braking. When it's very slippery and you're going even a little bit sideways in RWD car (or a 4WD car with majority of the torque going to back), you definitely don't want any engine braking unless you're intentionally drifting with engine braking (which I guess is possible but very very hard). As traction control / stability control typically cannot increase the spin of the wheels, when the rear starts to slip because of engine braking, it's going to keep sliding unless you press clutch to release the engine braking ...or press slightly more gas if you're feeling lucky enough.
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  53.  @frodo4087  "Having fun" on public road is fun until somebody crashes. Then it gets hilarious.
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  54.  @hcoll  See the part close the timestamp 5:00 – he already did over 10k miles without any kind of filter!
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  55.  @itshappening100  When you have more money than brains, you don't need air filter.
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  56. I think changing the gearing was the worst part. You could increase boost with ECU programming only so one could argue that the expected user base of Type R might be doing that. However, replacing gears for a gear or two would require custom built precision machined parts to be swapped inside the gearbox. That's not going to happen by the real world customers.
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  57. 10:28 Pro tip: the small arrow next to the fuel icon in the dashboard always shows where your filling cap is. Not all cars have that the arrow, though.
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  58. Great driving and the car is awesome. It was at times hard to notice that the 5th gear was missing because the gearing was tight enough. Imagine if the original Golf GTI would have been this car without a splitter and the spoiler!
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  59. 4:50 It's interesting to see how little did he lift for the dirt on track.
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  60. I would say this counts as clickbait because you used the crying emoji (😭). If you had used something like 😉 or 😲 or no emoji of any kind, I would say it's legitbait.
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  61. 11:55 The view would bounce quite a lot without video stabilization here! (Or was this simply neck stabilization?)
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  62. 5:45 Seeing how long the indicator was to the right, I would assume that the driver has accidentally left the indicator on has already forgotten about it. You should never trust other drivers to do the sane thing when anybody can enter the track.
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  63. The director seemed to be superstitious and that very rarely results in sensible actions.
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  64. Great info about HANS devices. I wasn't aware that any product would have been classified for standard/basic 3 point harness in normal cars.
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  65. It almost seemed from the video that front and rear dampeners were not a good pair. It seemed that rear hopped up much faster than the front after compression which upset the balance of the car many times during the lap.
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  66. It's a damn shame that VW doesn't have any way to fully disable ESC from the standard cockpit.
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  67. GR86 was going very nicely around the track. Once you get improved brakes, the limiting factor is lack of engine power.
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  68.  @nathannsxmarques9110  Well spotted! You can see a disconnected wire hanging by the shoe on accelerator pedal at 6:46.
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  69. I see front wheels were getting a lot hotter than rear tires. Do you think it was because of understeering or could you balance the temperatures more by changing tyre pressures only?
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  70. It's incredible how much better tires and brakes make a difference! And I guess that little wing in the rear might have helped, too, but I'm always a bit sceptical about such small wings doing much.
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  71. And obviously with all the lights turned off and no blinkers because that's the BMW style. If I had been in that car, every light of that car would be flashing and I'd be honking the horn while pulling the seatbelts tighter. The most insane part was that they were exiting the car while three cars were approaching the corner!
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  72.  @keidicko  I think oil lowering the octane rating is not an issue here because the engine was burning oil during braking only (that is, definitely not burning lots of gasoline at the same time). The biggest risk was lowering oil level so much that oil pump could catch air during high-g corners + causing oil mist on the track. This car would deserve an oil cooler and modified PCV system to avoid the smoke in the first place.
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  73.  @Verybadbiker  The E46 did what he could when the car in front of him went to the left side of the road without any signaling.
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  74. Now that's a proper sleeper car! All you need is fake "ABC Plumbers" or "Rapid Pizza" ads on the sides and rear to really blow minds. If that was my car, I would glue "TDI" badge at the rear to make it even more hilarious.
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  75. You should try to get official live onboard for #503. Looking at the live viewer counts, it appears clear the live feed for #503 would get more viewers than the all the other official live streams combined.
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  76. There's no need for V6 when you already lose wheel traction with turbo combined with 4 cylinder 2.0 16V. And 2.0 litre engine weights a lot less.
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  77. Nah, the cars were slowing down from 65 km/h to 40 km/h. Even a 30 year VW Golf could have decelerated fast enough with those speeds.
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  78.  @zerooneonetwothree1872  Sure, he activated brakes way too late. Hopefully he wasn't looking at the phone or something similar...
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  79. Did the cars around you have cameras recording by any change? If the steering column failed during the corner, the resulting left front wheel movement might have caught on camera and would definitely explain why the car went nearly straight (and probably also explain ABS action).
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  80. 100% agree. Counting frames from the start of the slide it appears that Misha was able to rotate about 300 degrees counter-steering in about 320 ms. Most people will not have that fast reactions, or at least fail to catch the car after wheels re-gain the traction.
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  81.  @mattmorris2867  It's 50 fps video and when you count 18 frames from the slide to the steering wheel rotation you can count the time difference as 18/50 seconds or 0.36 seconds. And on desktop computer you can press K to pause the video and then comma or period to go one frame backward or forward. And to get the framerate for the video, right click above the video and select Stats for nerds: the framerate is after the @-sign.
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  82.  @mattmorris2867  Definitely. Misha was barely able to avoid the crash so it was definitely poor driving for that moment.
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  83. The suspension seems to be really good! This would be really good stock setup for any car manufacturer and for American can manufacturer, this is superb work. And it seemed that there was no cooling down between the laps (the temperatures were nearly the same as and the end of the first lap) and the car coped with it without any problems.
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  84. Great driving!
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  85. 7:28 It seems that the uphill segment was too short for this car.
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  86. This is closest to SpaceX in the Europe!
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  87. He seems to drive way out of the true limits of the car and still the rears of the other cars come up pretty fast.
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  88. The car is very nice and that was good driving but you guys have way more trust to the other drivers than I would have.
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  89. I think it's okay to allow repairs. The race is for most distance within 24 hours, not 24 hours of driving on the track. If your car is broken and weather causes red flag, consider yourself very lucky but keep repairing the car. The major problem with this race was that there was no clear decision made early enough about what's going to happen in case of weather. Just make rules clear! For example: - If track is partially covered by fog, there will be double yellows for those parts if that makes continuing race safe enough. - If race is red flagged, you can do repairs to your car. - If race is red flagged, it can be restarted at minutes :00, :15: 30 or :45. - The race will not be prematurely stopped but obviously a red flag within the last 15 minutes is going to prevent the race from restarting anymore because of previous rule.
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  90. I think this kind of car deserves a highly progressive suspension so that it's comfy to drive as a daily but it's strong enough to keep the suspension from bottoming out. And super high quality adjustable dampeners to make it go nicely with progressive springs.
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  91.  @gianlucamoretti9564  Consider this as the minimum amount of details in memory to drive on that track fast.
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  92. Here's the link in case YouTube allows it: Bending Physics: Nevera Nürburgring lap record onboard | 7:05.298 on the Nordschleife! https://youtu.be/6Y2zZlXmcU8
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  93.  @darekmistrz4364  Open diff + selective braking + so much power that you can lose traction even with the partial braking applied is as good as a real LSD if you don't mind the brakes heating pretty fast. A well implemented LSD can simply do the same thing with smaller losses (which means less heat, too).
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  94. I would say if you think that it's just a normal road where you have to stay within your own lane at all time, you can drive as fast as you would normally like on any other public road without speed limits. That includes going really slow if that's what you want.
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  95. So this is the brake setup this car should come from the factory?
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  96. 7:15 GPS goes to forest...
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  97. That was some great driving!
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  98. I did notice it and I think the system was probably running with too little water because the temps got lower so fast. If you have system full of water, the total energy in the water prevents that quick cooling but if your system is not pressurized, boiling water into steam could explain rapid temperature drop to 100 °C.
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  99. VAG cars can activate mechanical steering lock only if you remove the key from the lock. Just turning it to off and on cannot activate steering lock.
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  100. That car was really thirsty! Assuming the fuel cauge was accurate, it was taking nearly 70 liters/100 km which is in the same class as Bugatti Veyron doing 400 km/h on straight. The engine sounds nice and there's no visible smoke in the rear view so it's hard to tell where the fuel is going.
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  101. Another interesting take to the traction is to pretend that the tires have exactly as much grip sideways as forward and back. Therefore for maximum cornering performance you cannot apply any brakes and for maximum braking you cannot apply any steering wheel. And for situations where you need to brake and steer at the same time, performance of braking and steering are both limited because the sum vector exceeds the limit. This is not exactly true in real world but close enough to make it worthwhile to pretend it's true.
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  102. Great video as usual. The rear view camera was positioned exactly horizontal to the rear wing so all the distant cars were blocked by the wing. Future videos should probably put the camera intentionally above or below the wing horizontal level.
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  103. 13:56 It's a shame that neither of you noticed the chime for low tire pressure.
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  104. A minimum, the dude getting out of the car would have had both of his legs crushed by the door if Misha had failed to avoid the collision. With modern cars, just sit in the car and keep the seatbelt tight if you cannot safely exit the area. And I fail to understand how they couldn't get the car to move downhill even with a broken tyre.
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  105.  @_clutch_3634  That works until you get any mechnical malfunction. Blow a tire or snap any control arm in the car and the wheel will spin rapidly if you don't hold it.
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  106. It seems that he was checking tire pressure and temperature before the hot lap. If you don't check those, it may be even more dangerous than releasing the steering wheel for a short time on straight section. Of course, optimal solution would be to have another display or some buttons wired for the left foot so you don't need to be pressing buttons with the same hand you use for steering.
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  107. It seems that the hood popped open already around 2:50. Interestingly the warning about it came up at the end only.
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  108. 7:20 Wow! The mechanical traction of this car is insane!
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  109. If the ECU is not fast enough to handle the boost pressure, maybe go with analog limiter for boost pressure and add Dawes Device to the system? I used one in an old turbo diesel that had a bit sticky VNT mechanism and Dawes Device was able to reduce the boost whenever the ECU wasn't fast enough because of a bit sticky VNT mechanism. Of course, Dawes Device only works with vacuum controlled turbo.
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  110. Great to see a car with focus on suspension and brakes for a while. This car was properly fast, BTG around 8 minutes with the yellow flags.
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  111. I would love to see how blinkers work in modern BMW cars. I guess they have some kind of turn indicators both in the instrument cluster and outside but I haven't ever seen one in action. From this video I could figure out that there are two stalks behind the steering wheel but what's the purpose of the left one is still unclear to me.
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  112. Walter Röhrl was truly a legendary rally driver because he didn't want to win the championship even though he obviously had the skills for it: https://youtu.be/6lo4dGTrzr8?t=365
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  113. From the video, the snapped rear suspension rod had such a clean cut that it seemed more like a fatigue fracture instead of impact fracture so that's definitely suspicious. I would take the cut to some lab or manufacturer for inspection (you cannot trust the design if it failed because of metal fatique). However, the snap sound seems to match with streering wheel movement very accurately (I would say more accurately than human reaction time) so that would suggest something failing on the front suspension.
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  114.  @ilvesman  Yes, to be able to figure out this kind of crashes, you would need multichannel audio recorder in the car and have maybe 6–8 contact microphones glued to the body of the car. And even then, it could be only be used to differentiate between driver error and technical error. And as it appears that Misha is going to take responsibility in either case, it really doesn't matter in the end.
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  115. 8:00 Working with cars with rust, the tear down is always the hard part. I've fixed parts where getting one part off without breaking nearby parts took 4 hours.
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  116. 4:36 Could you comment on what were you thinking here? Your facial expression suggests that something surprised you about the car.
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  117. Yes, if it's your own car, definitely go with glue. However, this is not Misha's car so it will be fixed up to factory spec which means no glue.
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  118. 9:25 This Yaris sounds like a big truck to the mic!
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  119.  @Twenty3_Motorsport  If you run VAG engines in OEM spec (including the special engine oil lubricants they require instead of some "high quality" aftermarket oil like Mobil 1) they will last. Not that good for tuning or chipping, though.
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  120. Surpringinly many modern cars have such a wide A pillar that you have to keep peeking around the pillar all the time if you don't like driving blind.
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  121. 7:20 I don't know what that "Throttle Pos" display is actually rendering but definitely not throttle position.
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  122. Note the speed while the car gets off the track: the speed is low enough that you could be doing this on your own car! Don't assume that there's any traction when the road is very wet.
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  123.  @ArtVandelayOfficial  That's interesting. Can you hear it from the engine sound?
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  124. Congrats! I think I started to follow this channel around 300K so it has indeed grown fast.
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  125. Imagine driving this car in 1984. Nowadays you can find all kinds of supercars that are better on track or road but back in the days, there was much less options and the cars that normal people were using were a lot worse.
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  126. Did they explain why they didn't play the horn and flash the lights?
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  127. I hope you can figure out what failed in the brakes. Even if brake booster had failed you probably have strong enough foot that that speed would have been at least slower during the crash. If a brake hose had failed, there should have still be two working wheel brakes in worst case and the pedal shouldn't have gone hard but go closer to the floor than usual. And from the description that sounds like the wheels didn't lock either so it shouldn't be ABS failure.
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  128. Yes, especially the part where he returned from grass to to the track and had to anticipate when to start turning back from the opposite lock not to spin when front wheels get off the grass. It's surprisingly common that driver can catch the first slide but cannot handle the return from slide to going straight because the traction can catch back equally surprisingly as it's lost.
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  129. 0:07 When the instrument cluster flickers like this while you're starting a TDI engine, you can be sure that it's time to replace the battery.
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  130. Great driving. There didn't seem to be much more you could extract from that car on that track even in theory.
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  131. It seems that Misha has been driving so good cars that instant "keep pumping if brakes don't work at first try" reflex didn't hit.
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  132. Base stations require IR emitters from the goggles to be visible to all the basestations without any interference. And interference may come from reflections – do you have any shiny metal, window surfaces or mirrors? You could put a bright light near the position your head would be in the rig and then put your head at the location of each base station. Look around, can you see the reflection of that light anywhere? Another thing to consider is additional IR emitters. If your screen on the steering wheel leaks too much IR, it could mess the system, too. And if you have to use long USB cables, the cable quality is important if it goes near any power cables. Other than that, electrical interference shouldn't be a problem. I would love to see DiRT Rally 2.0, Richard Burns Rally or BeamNG content in addition to ACC which is obviously closest to stuff you're doing with real cars.
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  133. It seems that if pre-cooling the battery allows running the whole lap, Ring Taxi may probably have to get one of these. That would allow green-minded customers to get lap without CO2 emissions.
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  134. Interesting video and it was great to see doggy style stuff in between.
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  135. This is sure a fine car but it's surprising how close Tesla Model S Plaid can get to this level of performance for Nürburgring. Bugatti would obviously win any straight line max speed test but for rapid acceleration and cornering speed this was in the same class with Plaid.
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  136. Another good example why you should focus on suspension before tuning the engine a lot.
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  137. My thoughts exactly. It's obvious that the car was driven nowhere close to its limit.
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  138. 6:08 If you had even checked your mirrors at bad time, you would have crashed! Really close call.
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  139. 10:35 Many cars without dedicated mirror heating will actually heat the mirrors, too, when you turn on the rear window heating.
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  140. Great that you're okay and I'm already looking forward for the rebuild video.
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  141. 21:14 What kind of rules do you have in this class? Was the yellow car in front of you to cut the corner here?
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  142.  @MrAchilles113  For appearance that wing is huge but compared to the weight of the car a wing like that with roughly horizontal setup is pretty meaningless, in my opinion.
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  143.  @vollcare4076  Hard to say from the visual appearance. I would guess maybe half less. Basically near the same difference as having tank near full vs near empty.
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  144.  @mihaiceclan9849  Especially on street tires.
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  145. It's interesting that Porsche GT2 RS MR seems to be much faster around the lap than this. Pure max power is good for straights only, no matter how well the car is made otherwise.
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  146. 11:06 "It feels underpowered" while doing 230 km/h and rapidly going to 250 km/h.
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  147. That was some seriously smooth driving! I don't think many could drive BMW M2 around that lap much faster no matter how many working legs they have. Once he installs 4–5 point harness, he'll be much faster because now his body is bouncing around which will limit how accurately he can control the brakes.
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  148. 9:05 Passanger/owner of the car is breathing heavily and regretting not wearing a g-suit and meanwhile Misha is playing a secretary and asking if he wants to take the incoming phone call while driving the damn car. That's what I would call Experience.
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  149. There's something really wrong in the world if this guy doesn't get high end engineering job for this car alone!
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  150. That's nice car and some pretty awesome driving. I don't think many people in the world could lap faster in that car.
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  151. It would have been interesting to hear what do you use for storage? With the amount of video you're shooting, you cannot obviously use M.2 NVMe storage for the videos, except for the clips you're currently working with.
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  152. If traction control or ESP works asymmetrically, it's usually broken spring in some corner.
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  153. 10:10 This is somethat that I'd could really loose suspension!
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  154. I didn't know you can purchase a new chassis from BMW. I guess that fact has never appeared here in Finland because replacing the whole chassis would make the whole car to be considered as new and you would have to pay all the car related taxes again. This obviously gets so fast here in Finland that nobody repairs cars damaged this badly.
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  155. It seems that the smaller BMW or Audi you have, the better it goes around the lap. Big cars are good for Autobahn.
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  156. Does this car have some special AC setup if turning on AC increases oil temperature?
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  157.  @Trophy_R  AC should cause about 5 kW worth of extra load at max so it shouldn't cause temperatures to raise meaningfully unless something has been poorly designed. Is the oil cooler positioned next to hot AC parts?
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  158.  @Trophy_R  I believe you. I'm just wondering why that happens because AC shouldn't cause such effects if designed well. Of course, road cars are not designed for tracking so maybe they just put AC parts and oil cooling parts next to each other because it was easier/cheaper to manufacture.
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  159. It's funny that something like Toyota Camry family sedan has speedometer up to 240 km/h and GT-R dial numbering stops at 180 km/h. And this car could exceed that for the initial straight already.
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  160. Great video! It was a real shame that you destroyed the good tires for drifting before driving the car properly. I think you should have first run some fast laps and only then drift the tires to kill them instead. And it would have been interesting to see the condition of those winter tires after driving them pretty aggressively here.
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  161. The biggest question is was this only poor tires or were the suspension dampers finished or one or more springs broken?
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  162. 5:38 Oh... I didn't know that you can decipher car's specs from the license plate from that! Nice!
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  163. Nice driving! It would be interesting to see how fast you could be a faster car like this: https://youtu.be/9eWIv1dbUKg?t=1223
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  164. 4:50: Did I hear correctly that a single tail light costs 4500 EUR? That's total ripoff!
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  165. Interesting video and great video layout for 4 camera recordings at once!
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  166. Perhaps you could add paddle brakes and a clutch in the gear shifter handle (similar to bicycle brake lever) so you could do virtual heel and toe?
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  167. Great driving! I wouldn't have been so brave with an old Golf mk1 because there's no rollcage and if any old suspension part fails, hitting the wall with that car has safety measures of a tin can. It seems that as long as the suspension stays attached to the car it should do just fine even for such fast driving!
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  168.  @e60m53  I understood that the leak started during the lap. If that's true, it doesn't help much if you inspect the tires before the lap. Having 4 working pressure sensors and a warning signal that you can quickly understand would help, though.
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  169. 19:55 Two humble drivers meet after a lap...
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  170. If the ESP had been active, would it have avoided both of these accidents? If so, then it appears that many drivers are picking up poor habits thanks to electronic aids.
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  171. I think that nowadays the most cost effective method to try to get paid driver contract is to start with sim racing. However, about a couple of million other sim drivers have the same idea so unless your skills are about 1 in million, that may result in some of the other sim racers getting the seat. Even a good sim hardware costs about two set of proper real world tires (~3000 EUR).
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  172. 21:27 Somebody glued the boost pipe?? You were lucky that it hold that long! The OEM boost pipes often split because the material itself cannot hold even the OEM boost spikes so what's the hope for glued connection?
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  173. "The ring is pretty lenient on sound." I would say that's an understatement. The Ring limit of 129 dB is equal to running 2000 lawnmovers at full throttle side-by-side. A chainsaw running throttle wide open is about 106–110 dB! 110 dB is already loud enough to cause possible hearing loss in 2 minutes! 130 dB sound levels can cause permanent hearing damage for exposures exceeding 1 second, so that guy with too-loud-car hitting the limiter at the parking lot caused permanent hearing damage to everybody within ~5 meter radius from the car. Do you still think that 129 dB is "loo low limit for a race track"?
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  174. Great driving with manual controls! And it was really interesting to see how much control you had with the brake pedal now that your foot wasn't in the way of the view.
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  175. You know the car is pretty bad when Transit van can go 20 km/h faster in much wetter conditions: https://youtu.be/1Mmu9cCxSw4
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  176. Awesome work from the mechanists! The quali crash was very surprising seeing how little steering input got the rear to slip really fast. Other incidents were borderline bad luck and taking too high risks, which I guess goes with racing. Better luck next time!
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  177. Walter Röhrl was taking it very safe and smooth but the speed through corners was still respectable!
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  178. 3:38 Very fast car and doesn't need much braking for corners!
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  179. From how this was recorded, I would have never guessed the car emitted 131 dB noise! That's equal to about 2000 lawn mowers running at full blast in parallel or nearly equal to fighter jet during takeoff.
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  180. The passanger already seems reconsidering joining the church around 1/3 of the lap done!
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  181. It appears that this is the suspension it should come from the factory.
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  182. It took me embarassingly long to figure out that he was shifting manually. It's weird that many non-disabled people do not bother to drive with manual gearbox.
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  183. Great example of "drive it like you had stolen it"!
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  184.  @feoffle  If you want to do only traffic light Grand Prix, you should get Tesla.
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  185. Other commenters wrote that it could be brake fluid level being too low and g-forces pushing the fluid to the side in the container causing the sensor to see too low fluid level. It's pretty sad that a car with "RS" badge cannot have a two line of text on the instrument panel. Even 20 year old Passat can show simple messages such as "handbrake on" vs "brake fluid low" on the instrument panel.
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  186. Great news! Looking forward for your future adventures. Are you going to release videos on each of your channels or are the official race videos going to be somewhere else?
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  187. You definitely drove that car to the limit!
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  188. Congratulations! I was hoping to see the actual lap, too. Maybe you could at least add a link to it?
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  189. Does the Tesla use mechanical brakes for stability control / traction control or only motor power? If mechanical brakes are used, then that would explain why brakes fade so fast.
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  190. I was hoping to see one collab video with Jimmer where you take the Praga around the ring but this is way better. I still hope to see Praga going on the ring...
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  191. Great work on the car! Now you just need to slap a turbo to it so that Porsches do not pass you on every straight.
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  192. Could you add info about the tires to the video description? Were you running proper winter tires? (Asking as a Finn where we have really good winter tires, usually stutted, too.)
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  193. Yes, you have to intentionally peak around the pillar to see if there's anything worth knowing. I hate it but I understand that even with high strength steel you have to make those pillars pretty thick to be able to contain both strong enough windshield pillar and one or more airbags. And sometimes even ventilation piping. I'd rather have a car without air vents in the pillar if I can get better visibility in return.
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  194.  @LGKvideos  That sounds plausible explanation, thanks.
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  195. So... you think rest of the track is safe without paying attention? It's called green hell for a reason.
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  196. Interesting video. But the automatically turning front camera was distracting. Stabilization is okay, pointing the camera way off the front of the car in corners is not okay, IMO.
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  197. 4:45 I would also say that you should have seat forward enough so you can reach the floor behind the brake pedal. In case of brake hose failure, the pedal will go to the floor and you have to be able to rapidly lift and fully press it again. If you barely reach the usual movement range, you cannot obviously do this.
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  198. Very nice car being fully stock!
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  199. That was smooth driving! I think you should consider getting him into your N24 team.
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  200. With Tomas driving this thing, it would need more engine power. He was definitely power limited in many places.
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  201. 19:30 Airbags are also explosives going towards your face and may cause additional damage to your face. Airbags are sensible equipment for 3 point harness because that kind of seat belts cannot keep you stable in the seat.
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  202. I would say that when crash damage is fully fixed like in this car, the crash will not reduce the value of the car. The value will go down when you never fix the parts that do not show from the surface. With details shown in this video, it was clear that this fix was about fixing everything that got damaged.
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  203. That was original Fiat experience!
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  204. 18:10 Even with 3 point harness, you should always tension the lap belt first and it the lower belt should go over your thights instead your stomach.
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  205. I think it would be nice to use some kind of soft mount for other lap videos, too, to make the bumps more visible. This video nicely underlines how bumpy this track actually is! Maybe even something like Ronin 4D attached to the passager seat? What should make the image pretty stable but allow the car to move around a lot.
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  206.  @ArosaMike  Oh, I absolutely agree that if there had been collision, it would have been Misha's fault, even if the other driver moved towards left without using indicator. This channel is entertainment after all. And to create content like this, you need to take some risk of collision. I don't know how much Misha is making with this channel but I would still guess having two collisions is not expensive enough to make him run slower.
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  207.  @kevindoran4336  Misha crashing Bilsteins BMW G20 in RCN last Saturday is news for me. Do you have a source for this claim?
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  208.  @kevindoran4336  Yeah, Misha has had pretty hard month. He even made a video about it: https://youtu.be/wicj2mLUp_0
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  209. In a cloudy lighting like around 7:30 the video feed pretty much looks identical to modern simulators! Especially with a bit lower video quality like 720p.
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  210. This was great example video about what to do in case of technical failure during the lap!
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  211. Great driving on that old car – she got everything possible out of that car. But she is definitely limited by this car.
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  212. The suspension of the car is also amazing. Even with all those bumps on the track, the suspension is able to go always to the direction of the steering. Most cars change direction at least a bit when suspension is hit hard.
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  213. 1:15 1300 laps on Nürburgring means about 27000 km on this track! No bad considering she started in 2017.
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  214. While watching this, it's easy to forget that English is not mother tongue of Misha.
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  215.  @drogenfeld  Gearing is short enough for corners if you cannot floor the accelerator in the corners. This car was lacking speed a bit on straights but that's much easier to fix than cornering and this car did great in corners.
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  216. 3:45 When an F1 driver drives on the part of the track with speed limit, he's going to obey the limit to the letter. However, when the end of limit is reached, the change to acceleration is pretty fast...
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  217. It also sounded like Darth Vader were going really fast.
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  218. The car accelerated surprisingly well between 80–140 km/h.
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  219. Yeah, flying with a car is really expensive. 😉
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  220. Honda doesn't need gear switch lights because it has rev limiter to signal it's time to switch gears :D
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  221. I think you should have used GPS from the phone to measure the speed.
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  222. VW engines are way overengineered for the internals.
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  223. With the price of the supercars we're talking about, you should go with tripple redudant setup for everything. They could even rent the cameras if they truly are too expensive to Rimac.
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  224. I think this car would deserve a better gearbox. When somebody with experience level of Misha has problems with getting into the correct gear fast, you know that the shifter or gearbox needs tuning. If this car uses cable operated gearbox, check the tension and adjustments in the cables.
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  225. The economy dial should have "YES" at the end instead of missing all the markings after 20 L/100 km.
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  226. The car was so good already that I have to ask if you guys got tips for suspension settings from the Bilstein for this car?
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  227. That's electric motors without gears for you. The coils and magnetic fields cannot switch rapidly enough when RPM gets high enough but unlike ICE, electric motor gets max torque with 0 rpm.
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  228. I think the car was actually broken before starting the lap. Notice that the warning "assist for low brake performance" appeared the first time the brakes were actually used at 5:35 so that cannot be caused by overheating. Since the owner said that he never actually used the brakes but used regen braking only, it might be that the brakes have been broken for quite some time already without the owner noticing anything. All Tesla owners should do at least one heavy breaking a week to make sure the brakes are still working.
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  229. Nice compilation! I think it would have been even better if you had the same corner from all the passangers in row and then show next corner for every passanger. That would have demonstrated how different each reaction is for the same corner.
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  230.  @flatbushzombiejuice  You're probably right. Sometimes the content that would be optimal for the viewer might be hardest to create.
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  231. This car needs oil cooler and something to avoid slushing oil into the turbo + scan for error codes to figure out why it switched to limp mode during the lap. I'd guess overheating but definitely check the ECU data.
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  232. Could you make a video about the details of driving in the night in this video? It appears that the track is pretty wet but you're still using dry lines if I saw it correctly. Why's that?
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  233. What happens during gantry is not interesting for a tourist lap.
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  234. I would expect the clutch to be replaced at least once for that much use but other than that, it should be perfectly okay because it's still stock. And I would assume multiple CVT joints have been replaced, too.
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  235. Two words: uBlock Origin
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  236. Nice driving and this is a good example how much more important the suspension is than trying to tease out 300 extra HP from the engine and keeping stock suspension. Extra HP mostly matters for straight line drag racing and if you want that, get a Tesla instead.
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