Porsche RUF CTR "Yellow Bird" laps the ring
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That guy is driving and it looks like he is having a blast. Nice video
Wow. Dudes got serious skills!!
Sawing the hell out of that wheel and rowing them long throw gears for all its worth
... And this was 30 years ago and he was drifting!
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Sawing the hell out of that wheel and rowing them long throw gears for all its worth
... And this was 30 years ago and he was drifting!
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Time?
Legend says that the chopper was having a hard time keeping up with this car on the straight
The yellowbird ran a 8min 05 second lap.
The yellowbird ran a 8min 05 second lap.
and it appears he was wearing penny loafers...
...and he had his eyes closed the whole time.
Seriously, great skills though.
Seriously, great skills though.
Maybe not everyone knows. In Germany Ruf is actually considered a manufacture. That is not a Porsche 911. It is a Ruf CTR(I think that was the full name). Their current lineup even today are considered to be a Ruf.
30 years ago that time of 8:05 was unprecedented, didn't appear that he got a very clean lap either, lots of traffic. I believe that CTR on modern rubber and a good clean lap would go much faster.
Love the Yellowbird. Only two complaints the steering wheel is hideous (momo is much better looking) and the wheels are too heavy.
That guy is driving that thing like he's got to go take a wicked shit.
The owner of the first Ruf in the US used to be my patient. He owned one of the Ruf cover cars in Road and Track magazine, and also open the first Ruf dealership here in Florida. He was an angry old man who fired every PT he's ever worked with until I got him to talk about cars one day. After 3 or 4 visits to the clinic I was working at he started to bring is his old memorabilia of his old cars. The autographed magazine covers, photos of all his cars, the dealership, his planes and helicopters he's owned etc. After several weeks his family members started to show up to the clinic wanting to meet me. All because they stated he hasn't smiled or laughed in years, and now he can't stop. All this is because he got to talk to someone that appreciated cars like him. I have about a half dozen stories about him and his wife I tell people all the time... how he lost his dealership, and how his disease cost him his military aviation contracts, but my favorite story to tell is about how his wife found out she had a brain aneurysm.
Sorry about getting off topic, it's just this car has a special place for me.
Sorry about getting off topic, it's just this car has a special place for me.
1:45-2:00 lol having way to much fun
OMG, that driver has nerves and balls of steel! On the edge most of the run. No safety equipment. Impressive driving there!! For the entire video, I was like.............
Ruf, just the way your mother likes it.
Sean Connery, Celebrity Jeopardy!
I guess the driver was their own test driver who obviously knew all their cars inside and out. There's a C&D link there on Youtube that goes over this car and that video.
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thats what i look like when i drive the kids to school in the morning through traffic.
i remember falling in love with that car when it was in R&T when i was a kid. it was one of the only "production" cars to top 200mph back then.
211mph.....in 1987! white the beloved F40 only reached 199mph.
but this car is the definition of a car that will kill you if you dont know what youre doing. id be skeered.
i remember falling in love with that car when it was in R&T when i was a kid. it was one of the only "production" cars to top 200mph back then.
211mph.....in 1987! white the beloved F40 only reached 199mph.
but this car is the definition of a car that will kill you if you dont know what youre doing. id be skeered.
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