You wouldn’t download Hot Wheels in real life

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I dunno what sort of blackmagic fuckery is going on here, but there is no way that car made that loop going that slowly.

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Apparently they did!

https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2012-jun-30-la-sp-sn-hot-wheels-dare-world-record-20120630-story.html

The pair drove approximately 52 mph on the track before hitting the loop and experiencing seven Gs of force while going through the loop – at a height of six stories.

Foust, who entered the loop just after Tracy, said it was necessary to avoid driving too fast through the loop in order to prevent the car from breaking down if any part of the chassis scraped against the track. He slowed down a bit when he saw the back left of Tracy’s vehicle was damaged. If either car went slower than 48 mph, it risked losing contact with the track and falling to the ground.

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A lot of us can drive at 52 mph (83.68 km/h in non-Freedom units), so why isn’t our infrastructure designed with loops in mind?

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I’d vote for you

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I’m not looking to pull 7 Gs anytime soon. That’s more than going to space.

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People have trouble with straight tunnels.

I would love to see a box van take a loop de loop with a full load of tools.

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So the mass of these guy’s balls kept them on the ramp due to centrifugal forces?

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A lot of credit goes to the cars and the engineers…

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I’m sure the engineers had a tough time calculating the saftey factor with those gavity altering cahones in the mix.

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Stop using imgur

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Good thing that line is there it’s disorienting

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Trackmania’s graphics are a bit different than I remember…

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I thought this was probably AI slop, but it’s actually real from the 2012 X Games.

That said I’m once again going to ask, what are those emoji?

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Why does this just make me want a live action hot wheels movie in the vein of the speed racer live action movie.

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