OV9

dinny_g wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:39 pm Beat me to it Mervin…

Beat me to it Dinny

Perfect headbutt by the dummy

I’m going to guess that 100% of the vehicles they passed keeched in their breeks.

Ballsy stuff. Not sure how much the racing overalls would help the driver in a crash though.

mik wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:46 pm keeched

mik wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:46 pm I’m going to guess that 100% of the vehicles they passed keeched in their breeks.

The writing on the underside of the wing is a bit tacky

mik wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:46 pm I’m going to guess that 100% of the vehicles they passed keeched in their breeks.

Interesting that the GPS speed is higher than the speed displayed in the car

Traffic was very light, that must have been stupid O' clock in the morning. 417km/h is around 260mph. In a car. On a public road.

Speed kills, mmmkay.

I'd have enjoyed it more if his lane discipline had been a tad better. Just sat in the fast lane () like a proper road captain. He should have indicated and pulled into the middle lane

Delphi wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:10 am Traffic was very light, that must have been stupid O' clock in the morning. 417km/h is around 260mph. In a car. On a public road.

It looks rock solid at speed though, doesn't it...

nuttinnew wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:40 pm

That's awesome.

I live that he put on his racing pyjamas (no gloves or helmet though) in order to do this.

Timelapse of the volcano erupting in Tonga an hour or two ago:



That's New Zealand down the bottom for scale.

edit to add this about the lightning strikes:


edit again to add - now the dull thuds of it can be heard in NZ ~2000km away - yikes.

Peterlplp wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:09 am Timelapse of the volcano erupting in Tonga an hour or two ago:



That's New Zealand down the bottom for scale.

edit to add this about the lightning strikes:


edit again to add - now the dull thuds of it can be heard in NZ ~2000km away - yikes.

^

Peterlplp wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:09 am Timelapse of the volcano erupting in Tonga an hour or two ago:



That's New Zealand down the bottom for scale.

edit to add this about the lightning strikes:


edit again to add - now the dull thuds of it can be heard in NZ ~2000km away - yikes.

Yep pretty alarming - we heard the boom in the living room and wondered what the hell was going on. Local weather group on FB showed a video where streams in California were rippling upstream as a knock on to the shock waves too. Looking so far like no fatalities either. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Oops