Enzo at the limit!

Was browsing around and found this, not sure who is driving but whoever he is he has some skill! Its not like those corners are low speed in nature, thats pretty high speed oversteer.

Enjoy

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saw it long a time ago & really enjoyed watching it again. thanks for posting

 

I'm thinking that isn't the first time he's driven around that track lol
That was awesome driving! Thanks for posting.

 

Very nice, felt like I was riding along with him.

 

I believe that is Manuma driving

 

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1 handed drift at 2.40 is awesome!

 

The driver is a member here.

 

Incredible driving, really a joy to watch. What struck me was this wasnt the usual low speed corner oversteer but rather high speed oversteer and the car control is quite awesome to watch.

 

Indeed.

There are many videos on the net of him tracking various cars (including their black FXX).

Always fun to watch

 

Incredible driving.

 

OK, i don't mean to offend anyone and PLEASE disregard this post if you disagree, but i'm just not as impressed by the driving skill.

YES, it does demonstrate a high degree of control to go just past the limit on each & every turn, and correct to prevent an oversteer spin. BUT ... that's just not the fastest way around a turn

It's faster to drive smoothly, with less steering input, always keeping the chassis just shy (barely) of the limit ... rather than pushing just past the limit and correcting on every turn. The fastest drivers always apply just the right amount of steering input, almost casually & effortlessly, rather than pushing beyond the limit and constantly correcting.

No, I'm not a professional driver. But i've had some training and i've been fortunate enough to see some of the very best practice their art.

As i said, no offense intended. Please feel free to ignore me

EDIT : the fastest drivers are BORING to watch ... not exciting

 

Balls out for sure.

 

nice video! I love how the driver takes his hands off the wheel to explain something to the passenger and the passenger is like "yeah yeah keep driving" LOL

 

Johannes van Overbeek took me out in my Enzo at Laguna Seca. It was amazing how he could just get to the very threshold of oversteer at every turn and rotate just a fraction of a degree. Challenge cars could not keep up with us. It was not boring for me!

Unfortunately I only have the memories. We didn't have a camera in the car.

 

Whew.

I need a cigarette now.

 

Someone what that degree on car control most definitely knows the fastest way around the track. I bet he was just having some fun and not trying to set any lap records.

 

He says: "Do you want to make another lap or are you fed up?"

I like the single-handed drift while showing four fingers of the free hand (I'm in fourth gear) !!!

 

He posted several videos here but was attacked by some members who said that he was dangerous and not skilled. That's why he rarely posts again.
For what concerning his skills, he once wrote that in one session at Fiorano with his FXX, he set a better time than another driver who tested the same car on the same day. This driver was a certain Dario Benuzzi...

The last time we had a mail exchange, he invited me to take a ride with him. Too bad I had never the chance to meet him again... so far!

P.s. Manu, sei forte!

 

nice piece of driving thanks for the post! enjoyed it.

 

I'm quite certain that someone with the skill to drive a car that way is well aware of the gospel you are preaching. Also, he certainly appeared to be the fastest car on the track.

Be careful handing the keys to that guy. He was responsible for the image you see below.

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...Extreme Speed Motorsports also had a rough day, as Johannes van Overbeek was behind Patrick Long's Porsche 911 and Jan Magnussen's Corvette when the two cars bumped and his Ferrari 458 suffered major damage when he tried to get around the pair.

"I didn't want to be the first guy to wreck a 458 in the world," van Overbeek said. "Not a lot of spare parts are out and I feel really bad for everyone on the team and Patron."

 

WHAT!!! He knows how to drive a forklift too!!??


Hey, Shumi has had some off's too but I wouldn't mind him taking my stuff for a ride (wife excluded!)


Regards
Mike James

 

Yes it's me!

I think the video that I love more !

I love it because it was a fabolous day, I was there with one of my best friend driving the gt3rs, the Enzo and the Fxx. I was faster than all the others so I wasn't chellenged and I wanted only to have fun with him.

I love the Enzo and how it is, at minute 1.22 it slided at 210km/h!!! And it seemed it was at 100. She is easy and fun, I think I can do whatever I want with it, much more that with the gt2 or the GTO or others.
I love it.

I had old tyres and so I decided to powerslide and as you see I was in fourth gear sometimes.

It was the same day of the famous Fxx at Rijeka.

When I opened my site I did it because also if I have beautiful cars, when I see anothers passing in the street I love to watch them and if they spin I am happy.
So I decided to upload videos with spin and powerslides, how often can we see fast cars doing it?

Also with the Fxx at Rijeka I was doing all the wrong things to make it oversteer, have you ever seen other videos doing this?!

Usually I gave them to Elim Videos because he wanted them in his channel, I never posted them on YouTube.

Then I discover how many people were watching them and how many comments.

Like fxx donuts, everyone was saying rich people trowing away money, do they think am I stupid? We used the tyres and we have to change them to put on a new set so I decided to have fun. I would never do it otherwise (6000 euro per set)

After many insult from 15 years old boy I posted a perfect lap (for a gentleman driver like me) and no one looked at it, it is boring, so I don't record on track so often as I did and I don't upload them online anymore.

The last one at Mugello was in a private link that I posted here after months or ages that I didn't

 

I love to see these machines driven the way they were built to drive. It is great to see people enjo them. Please post more videos.