Topic: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

You can make a car fast, you can make a car last, but odds are, you just get the tow truck stuck in the mud.

https://youtu.be/Pf7Q4Khu-aQ

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

Guildenstern wrote:

You can make a car fast, you can make a car last, but odds are, you just get the tow truck stuck in the mud.

https://youtu.be/Pf7Q4Khu-aQ

Did your driver quote Springsteen.....?

Cuz thats what I was thinking as I watched with the sound off.....

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

If it was something about a Jersey Swamp then yes?

Also it has a J.G. Thirlwell Soundtrack, Listen with the sound on. (apparently Youtube doesn't care about good music in videos.)

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4 (edited by BigBird 2018-10-17 06:53 PM)

Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

My tires were slashed
And I almost crashed..
But the Lord had mercy...

My machine she's a dud...
I'm stuck in the mud...
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey...

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

I recon he did then!

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

2 weeks back we watch a tow truck get stuck off of turn 1 at PittRace.

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7 (edited by VKZ24 2018-10-18 07:41 AM)

Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

fitsbain wrote:

2 weeks back we watch a tow truck get stuck off of turn 1 at PittRace.

Are you sure he was stuck?  I was there and maybe it just seemed like it since the recovery crews were so damn slow.  Track that don't do hot pulls suck for the racers.

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

I'd tell my driver to put his hands at 9 and 3. He never had a chance of catching that smile

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

aventari wrote:

I'd tell my driver to put his hands at 9 and 3. He never had a chance of catching that smile

He could have had his hands at 3,9,2,10 and 12 and 6, he wasn’t catching that.

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

Definitely not with that reaction time wink

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

Fishah wrote:

Definitely not with that reaction time wink


lol agreed, but start with the basics.

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

Guildenstern wrote:

You can make a car fast, you can make a car last, but odds are, you just get the tow truck stuck in the mud.

https://youtu.be/Pf7Q4Khu-aQ

Could you have found a smaller diameter steering wheel?  That thing looks like it came from a video game console!

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

BigBird wrote:
Guildenstern wrote:

You can make a car fast, you can make a car last, but odds are, you just get the tow truck stuck in the mud.

https://youtu.be/Pf7Q4Khu-aQ

Did your driver quote Springsteen.....?

Cuz thats what I was thinking as I watched with the sound off.....


I did at :34 of the video

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

VKZ24 wrote:
Guildenstern wrote:

You can make a car fast, you can make a car last, but odds are, you just get the tow truck stuck in the mud.

https://youtu.be/Pf7Q4Khu-aQ

Could you have found a smaller diameter steering wheel?  That thing looks like it came from a video game console!

Not for $90 with the spokes in the right place no.

Also all my “training” is with a Fanatec CSL so that wheel is like an inch BIGGER.

And power steering, power steering is good.

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Re: A video to explain why I just can't ever get Nickel Fever.

At MSR last weekend, the track's ramp truck got stuck trying to load up the VW Transporter van just off the back straight. Meanwhile, another VW broke something in the front suspension two corners later and also needed the ramp truck. That double yellow lasted about an hour...