There’s plenty of examples of videos we watch which trigger a desire to drive certain things, especially race cars. We don’t feel that way about every race vehicle though. For instance, we wouldn’t climb out of the electric chair to ride a Nitro Harley drag bike. Those wicked bastards carry the front tire for most of the track, make like 800hp from two cylinders, explode, and occasionally force their riders to make high speed and ungracious dismounts. We’re way good with watching other escaped mental patients people ride them.
Other than the nitro bikes, we have no desire to drive a top fuel drag boat or unlimited hydroplane. Anything that requires you to compete on a racing surface that is constantly variable and never truly stable is just not all that appealing to our terra firma living selves. If there was a gun put to our heads and we were forced to pick from the three, the nitro bikes would still rank last.
The different forms of racing all require unique and specific skill sets that most drivers continually develop over the span of their careers. Few mere mortals can just jump into or onto a racing vehicle and be proficient at it. We want to know which one you don’t even want to try!
What’s the one race vehicle that you would absolutely never drive?
Top fuel Harley has to be my favorite thing to watch live but I would wing walk on a looping biplane before I would try and run 220 on one of those ridiculously finicky monsters! The TF Harley guys often hang off the side of the bike with the front tire at full turn while accelerating past 200 mph and the bike still won’t change direction~! Not for me thank you! I have looked at my own vehicle and wondered why the hell am I going 200 mph in this thing! I have been sideways on the salt at nearly 180 mph. I didn’t exactly enjoy it. I don’t know why I want to try again but I will
Would have to agree with you re: drag boats but I would rather drive a TF boat vs. a blown flat bottom boat. Flatties can get crazy in a heartbeat and the driver is sitting there in a little upright, fiberglass seat with no harness or belts and no capsule like the nitro boats. Dudes that drive those things have church bells between their thighs.
Rotary powered Toyota Starlets. Short wheelbase, high CG, barely controlled wheelie machines.
Since you said “Drive”, this would rule out one of the craziest racing roles – sidecar monkeys. I’d recently run across a picture of one who’s thrown himself nearly horizontal to keep the bike from tipping over.
Isle Of Man racers are the benchmark for ball size IMO.
Top Fuel bikes are bad but atleast you only have a few feet to fall. Piles Peak is my second not a chance race. If a parachute is needed during a crash I’ll go ahead and stay at the starting line
Anything electric. Ill race anything else!
Anything with less than 4 wheels.
Anything!
At my age its better to sit back and watch someone else risk life and limb in the name of speed!
I’ve flown , jumped out of flying things rode dirt bikes street bikes and drag bikes driven stupid fast on dirt roads and been in stupid fast flat bottom jets but the one thing I will not drive ride is a damn horse
my last attempt at a horse ie kids pony I did not even make it to the horse . (will not be posting photos ) .