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thats crazy..its kinda both.

cool... but what is it?

This part of the world that's called autotesting. Apart from having a live axle and a car engine that car is pretty much identical to the one I'm building.



Mark

Looks fun. For a moment i thought he just braked with the front wheels. Can it be done with any car?

it is gymkana!

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I don't think we have that this part of the world. I don't know much about gymkana, but autotesting has been going on for decades, I have video's of it from the 60's



Mark

WTF? thats alittle different from anything I've seen before.Kinda cool I guess just seems a little too slow for me.

Thats pretty cool...guy can really throw that thing around..and that isn't Gymkana..

yes it is a gymkhana. a gymkhana is somewhat like an autocross except smaller. also with gymkhanas you have to throw the car around specific cones in a specific manor.



in an aturocross you have a clearly, ro somewhat clearly, designed course layout and if you look at this one you can really tell that the course is just a bunch of cones

Sorry bud, that video was definitely auto-testing. The guys name is Chris Evans, he posts on another forum I read - I doubt he's ever even heard of gymkhana.



Mark

Technically speaking, it is a gymkhana. Just as much as autocross is a gymkhana. But that's going by the dictionary definition. Before you flame me, read on.



Gymkhana is simply a generic term for a display of skill. It's not even exclusive to cars. Motorcycles and horses are the other two popular forms of gymkhana. Originally, autocross used to be called gymkhana in the U.S. But the term died sometime in the '60s and '70s. Autoslalom replaced it and autocross replaced autoslalom. But it's all the same. Whenever a gymkhana in the states was held with cars since then, it usually involved doing dumb and humorous stunts with cars. These are for fun and have nothing to do with driving skill for the most part.



But this video? In context to cars and what's going on over here in Japan....it's NOT gymkhana. Trust me. I've been doing it for about two years since I moved back. One event a month and I've only missed it once (was on the plane back from Chicago at the time). So I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this is NOT gymkhana.