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J'z-R33 Grand Master

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No he is not, if you believe Boostcruising.

APPARENTLY, that vehicle was sold as a full race car last year, after he made that 'audition tape'. It is no longer registered to that owner.

So helping to track him down will be hard for ACA :P , if this is indeed true.

Carlo sold the RB26 S14 in 2008 after the audition tape was made. The guy who bought it was caught doing some rediculous speed in it shortly after. It was a pretty big story at the time too. Its now a track car.

NISMO Grand Master

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Completely agree that unless the road was closed off this guy deserves anything and everything coming his way - if anything does.

Who cares how old the story is, why it was done.

Would you like to be in a car coming in the opposite direction with kids in the back seat?

FFS, if i want to audition to become Ferrari's next test driver is it ok to do a top speed run down the Hume to mail to them?

ACA are a bunch of wanks no doubt about it, but if the road was not closed off, ACA weren't the ones thinking they're the next DK from FnF Tokyo Drift.

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Completely agree that unless the road was closed off this guy deserves anything and everything coming his way - if anything does.

Who cares how old the story is, why it was done.

Would you like to be in a car coming in the opposite direction with kids in the back seat?

FFS, if i want to audition to become Ferrari's next test driver is it ok to do a top speed run down the Hume to mail to them?

ACA are a bunch of wanks no doubt about it, but if the road was not closed off, ACA weren't the ones thinking they're the next DK from FnF Tokyo Drift.

From what I have read on a couple of different forums, it was closed off. Not legally, but the road was blocked so there would be no traffic.

gtr fan Experienced

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From what I have read on a couple of different forums, it was closed off. Not legally, but the road was blocked so there would be no traffic.

Oh then thats OK. Did they have a sign saying 'Stig audition in Progress' ??

Birds Grand Master

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I get the feeling that from his confidence in drifting across double lines and the simple matter of not seeing any other cars in the video, the road was blocked off...illegally, however, as no police or council in their right mind would assist with this surely when this tool could have just gone to a racetrack and done the same thing in a much safer environment. He says his name and shows his registation plates etc. but I'm certain that would all be done on the assumption the firm he sent the audition tape to wasn't going to release his details to anyone else (e.g. police). I'd say the guy was just a dumbass and so is ACA.

What is also stupid is the assumption that drifters who do their thing on the racetrack have never done it on public roads. You have to learn it somewhere and most of the time that's where it starts...tail slides and burnouts on the street. I think there'd be very few who could actually say they learnt how on a racetrack.

r33cruiser Grand Master

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Completely agree that unless the road was closed off this guy deserves anything and everything coming his way - if anything does.

Who cares how old the story is, why it was done.

Would you like to be in a car coming in the opposite direction with kids in the back seat?

FFS, if i want to audition to become Ferrari's next test driver is it ok to do a top speed run down the Hume to mail to them?

ACA are a bunch of wanks no doubt about it, but if the road was not closed off, ACA weren't the ones thinking they're the next DK from FnF Tokyo Drift.

Statute of limitations.

Video and the acts therein are 2yrs+ old.

bozodos Grand Master

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and instead of channel 7 sticking the knife into ACA they stand by their track record and attempt to sink the knife into Top Gear the TV show. Cue interview with random bogan "concerned parent", random facebook quotes with no sources mentioned and rent an expert. wankers the lot of them.

Silver-Arrowz Grand Master

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YAY for ACA justice! Let's chop up some vids stick it together to manipulate the truth then get an angry mob fired up and turn it into a witch hunt! Salem witch hunt 21st centry style! YAY!

Seriously I can't stand Australian UK or US media reports. There is more truth in North Korea than all these put together!

bozodos Grand Master

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well tbqh you've got to get your news from more than one source and then synthesize the outcomes for yourself to get a realistic picture of what is happening in the world around you. the problem is that this is time consuming, and most people CBF.

Birds Grand Master

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and instead of channel 7 sticking the knife into ACA they stand by their track record and attempt to sink the knife into Top Gear the TV show. Cue interview with random bogan "concerned parent", random facebook quotes with no sources mentioned and rent an expert. wankers the lot of them.

LOL @ them using Facebook quotes as evidence of some sort of car enthusiast culture supporting the kid in the video and having people read them out in shitty voices. I'd be more trustworthy of a rattlesnake than any current affairs program.

bozodos Grand Master

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yeah but it seems with teh amount of old people growing they seem more ready to accept crap like this. I'm glad I was brought up to not blindly follow what I heard or saw in the media.

Unfortunately there isn't any popularised forum where this stuff can be exposed; I would imagine that Media Watch's ratings would be minimal (though they get good reactions out of those that they blast!)

PM-R33 Grand Master

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The voices they used in the facebook qoutes are halarious. And the old guy talking about hoons on his street, $100 says the street they showed with all the tyre marks wasn't even his street and they told the guy what to say for the camera. No way that guy could string together those sentences.

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