We sat in turn 4 for carb day and were trying to figure that jump out.The second landing jump was much taller then the take off jump was..It looked like there was no way he was going to be able to stop after he landed..That took some really BIG ONS to do that leap!!
i thought it was pretty ignorant....from my seats it seemed that no body even cared...the folks on the PA were screeming about it and nobody that was sitting around didnt even seem to notice anything was going on.
Originally Posted by throb:
i thought it was pretty ignorant seem to notice anything was going on.
....from my seats it seemed that no body even cared...the folks on the PA were screeming about it and nobody that was sitting around didnt even
Must have been the same crowd that was there for the Freedom 100 when they had that last caution and nobody seemed to mind watching the cars drive 5 or 6 laps under caution. Sure wouldnt have taken much to red flag it but why do it if nobody cares anyway!!
The whole promotion reminds me of the "Super Dave" skits that Showtime used to air. The Hot Wheels Test Facilities? They must be next to Super Dave Osborne's Compound. All that was missing were the Genuine Saskatchewan Seal Skin Bindings.
I did a bit of research and found that the whole ad campaign is produced by a company called Mistress Creative and the videos produced by the Bandito Brothers. The stunts shown on the screens prior to the jump were Computer Generated Imagery. The whole thing was one big commercial.
The stunt? Yeah, not bad. Obviously rehearsed. And just what record did he beat? What was the old record? And why did they measure it when, oh, never mind. I just don't like seeing the Indy 500 pimped out like a step sister.
Originally Posted by cmakin:
The stunt? Yeah, not bad. Obviously rehearsed. And just what record did he beat? What was the old record? And why did they measure it when, oh, never mind. I just don't like seeing the Indy 500 pimped out like a step sister.
They said the old record for the jump was 301 feet and this one broke the record by going 332 feet. I heard plenty of cheering around me in Northeast Vista. I just think a whole lot of people were thrown off because they didn't know it was happening. They had a countdown clock that fans around me were counting down to, but nothing happened until about three minutes later.
I'm perfectly fine with the stunt. It happened long before the race started and just added to the pre-race festivities. The ramp did not block my view of the track in any way. The best part is that the stunt got many people to come to the track earlier. For as bad as the traffic was getting in this year, this thing actually helped ease the traffic issue quite a bit. I don't think I've ever seen that many people in the stands an hour and a half before the race.
How many kids, besides karters and TQers are going to want to go to Indy, sit in the sun for four hours and another two getting out?
Im sure a few thousand kids wanted to go and see this (Not indy)
It's not pimping out indy, Its helping Indy for the future. We've gone 40 years without real promotors doing everything they can to get every type of people they can to the race track. If Hot Wheels sells a few million Yellow Driver trucks and action figures, So be it.
Not trying to bash anyone's views here. But, right now this video is on youtube's front page and listed under "most popular" with almost 1,200,000 views. We were in the NW vista and had a great view of the jump. Everyone around us seemed very into it even saying the count down. The biggest problem I found was people who sat down afterwards asked when they were going to make the jump. Other than that I don't see the problem. Anything they do to get people's butts in seats is a good thing imo.
