you sure Paul? are you talking about 'rendezvous' or the clip above? In the full film i think you can tell hes going quickly by the way people leap out the way ! Ive never heard anyone say that film is a hoax Huh its famous in the petrol head world.
Absolutely positive. It is the film 'Rendezvous. The impression of speed is exagerated by the low camera angle and the Ferrari sound track, but in reality it is not that fast. Breaking the speed limit probably and enough to scatter a few pigeons, but not the racing speeds implied by the screaming Ferarri engine.
You can work it out by looking at the map - there is a site which shows the route on Google maps:
http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.htmlIgnoring the 2nd half, look at the first section, from the point where he leaves the Peripherique and joins the Avenue Foch, all the way down to the Place de la Concorde (where the needle monument is).
This section takes 2 minutes 15 seconds and on the map is roughly 4 km long. That is an average speed of 66mph - hardly what you'd expect from a racing Ferrari on a dead straight road, near the rev limit in top gear for most of that time. The Ferrari would be doing two and a half times that speed if the sounds were to be believed. You can see that is isn't that quick by looking at the vehicles going the other way. He passes a tanker at one point, which seems to slowly slide by rather that flash past.
There are various posts on the net which say much the same, but you need to dig a little. Here's an axample:
http://gadgetopia.com/post/6288Finally ran some laps here. Good news for those who struggle with setups is the car is quick straight out of the box. Smiley I moved the brake bias towards the rear a bit more as they overheat at end of long straight and may need to change tyres for race to yellow spot (meds) but otherwise seems good to go.
Great fun getting the car sideways in the stadium area though probably not the fastest way to do it Grin
Are we using GP or national layout ?
Ian said one more vote and it would be the GP circuit, and PRibiero voted, so presumably GP is it is