Most Amazing Underdog Story You'll Ever Read

[Iron Chef]

I'm not normally one for superlatives, but this story is incredible...

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-crai...0k-rally-racers

[mad082]

interesting read, but the name of the article is somewhat misleading. It makes it sound like he was racing in the WRC class, but he was actually racing in the lowest class which consisted of only 9 cars, only 5 of which finished, and technically he finished 4th (although if you don't take into account penalties he was 3rd), over an hour down on first in his class, and the car may have cost him $500 to buy but that doesn't then include all the money he spent on it to get it race ready. yes his time would've put him in 23rd out of 25 entrants if he was in the WRC class, but that would've been 1.5 hours off the winning time, an hour off the top 10 and 40 mins off the top 20 (not taking into account his penalties), and even 20 mins off the next best wrc car time.

not saying it wasn't a good effort by the guy, but the article seemed to play it up a bit more than what it was.

[GTR-N1]

resourceful buzzards

masochists too by the way they took that bridge

[Ten Four]

Damn you Chef, I was just about to post this.....

9hrs late, i suck.

[Peter89]

interesting read, but the name of the article is somewhat misleading. It makes it sound like he was racing in the WRC class, but he was actually racing in the lowest class which consisted of only 9 cars, only 5 of which finished, and technically he finished 4th (although if you don't take into account penalties he was 3rd), over an hour down on first in his class, and the car may have cost him $500 to buy but that doesn't then include all the money he spent on it to get it race ready. yes his time would've put him in 23rd out of 25 entrants if he was in the WRC class, but that would've been 1.5 hours off the winning time, an hour off the top 10 and 40 mins off the top 20 (not taking into account his penalties), and even 20 mins off the next best wrc car time.

not saying it wasn't a good effort by the guy, but the article seemed to play it up a bit more than what it was.

yeh, i agree. he worked hard but the article makes it out like he was up with the WRC cars.

[IanB]

I respect him for having a go however, but the article does paint things a bit over the top.

[SLIPPERS]

sweet

[scottay44]

wow ! very interesting read