$500 CL car beats $400K rally cars at FIA WRC event.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/ho...acers

f***ing awesome is all I can say, if he doesn't get a sponsor I'll be disappointed.

[troskinatior]

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[Chaotic_Warlord]

If this is a repost then post the link, I checked the first page of gen chat and didn't see it.

[flohtingPoint]

Now for a dose of reality. Bill Caswell did NOT run in the WRC, he ran in a concurrent rally. He wasn't competing against major teams and such and the drivers he was up against were probably mediocre at best.. His car may have cost 500 bucks to start off with but it's far from that now. Taking a car out there and running a beater is not unheard of, I have photos somewhere from the WRC event in Trier back in '06 where there was a old Civic hatchback running the stages.

This story is severely blown out of proportion. He came in 3rd in a class of 9, four of which didn't finish and one of which didn't count, so 3rd out of 4. Bill Caswell's final time was 5:25:48.5. To put this in perspective, Loeb's time was 3:42:41.7 and the slowest of the professionals was 4:38:31.7. Basically the guy didn't kill his car so he was able to finish with the four other folks in his class. The one person he beat that finished everything, clocked in at a pedestrian 5:51:58.2.

What does this all mean? Of everyone that drove the stages that day, he was the second slowest overall. He didn't "beat 400k rally cars", he just came up heads on the war of attrition and didn't plant his car. Then again, when his car is dirt slow, it's hard to stuff it.

Bad story filled with embellishments and glaring lack of facts, stats and stage times. He did not trick the FIA or slide into the event by the seat of his pants or anything, he just registered for the Rally like the other folks in his class. His car was up to Rally America specs, so there was no problem. Then again, what do you expect from jalopnik, they're not Autosport or anything.

[troskinatior]

If this is a repost then post the link, I checked the first page of gen chat and didn't see it.

I'm to lazy to find the link, but the name is something like "you want inspiration?"

[RCA]

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[MinisterofDOOM]

Original post is here:zerothread/485069