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UGG Ferrari Friday
Two key aspects of gnarlyness are represented in this video:
- Red: not all red things are gnarly, but being red certainly helps something be gnarly
- Sound: listen to that exhaust note! To hear this machine in motion, to hear the emotion in de Cadenet's voice, is to know gnarlyness
Bimotore! What a beast, indeed!
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Here's a video of driftmaster Keiichi Tsuchiya taking a Ferrari 430 around the Usui Touge.
I am scared yet excited watching this video. He's on the limit so much, with all of those trees around and no helmet or roll bar. And 9,000 RPM out of a Ferrari sounds darn good. You can hear the enjoyment and excitement in his voice as Tsuchiya barrels through the corners. His visceral excitement is obvious, and it reminds me of the shouts I hear as my toddler daughter takes her tricycle down steep ramps in our neighborhood.
Gnarlyness is an action-induced state of mind.
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The 24 Hours of Le Mans is this weekend! Listen to this race engineer talk about all the little things that go in to prepping a car for this race. I can't wait. This should be a good year, what with Peugeot showing such good speed and Audi having years of reliability and experience to back them up. My Father's Day present this weekend? A few hours of uncontested TV time with Speed Channel!
UGG Ferrari Friday
What's the role of mechanicalness in gnarlyness? Is a manual shifter more gnarly than an roboticized paddle-shifting transmission? If so, then the Ferrari gated shifter must be near the top of the heap.
UGG Ferrari Friday, part II
Say hello to one of the best weekends of the year. It's time for Monaco!
UGG Ferrari Friday
Stuff that gets hot, greasy and routinely has the stink vibrated out of it as it makes a lot of loudness represents the quintessence of gnarlyness.
See more photos of this gnarly Ferrari 512 here at the Hemmings Auto Blog.
Thanks to Gen for this most excellent link!
How to drive a 911, part V
A few teachable moments involving the art of driving a 911 in the rain. And a Stratos or two, too!
Above all, this video reminds me how much I want a Fiat 131 Abarth rally car. I want one so bad it makes my teeth ache. Did you hear it go "blat blat blat" through that corner at 1:32? Does it get any better than that? I bought a Tamiya kit of one when I was a lucky kid, age 12, driving through Andorra with my former rally driver uncle in a SEAT Panda. I never built it; it must still be sitting in a closet in my parent's house: 
Every kid should have an uncle who was a rally driver. Uncles like that are good for the soul, and lead to blogs like this. It's more than partially his fault. Thanks, Tio Val!
