In car: Tremblant, 1988, Porsche Turbo cup, Scott Goodyear

[timmmy]

A friend sent me this recently and I figured I would share it as it is great!

Great driving, great to see a familiar track back when it was in serious usage.

Oh and 1:52 in the wet, in 1988!

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[nateh]

This is awesome, thanks for posting it!

[paultg]

Wow! That was insane! Bumpy track, wet, almost crash, it has everything! He certainly used all the track up and more in some cases. I'm surprised how much steering feedback he gets, not sure I'd take a hand off of it if I didn't have to!

[Shawn624]

Great video! He's a hell of a competitor. Looks like that one off came when he could just see the 3rd place car off ing the distance and couldn't wait to catch up.

[breakaway500]

That is a stunning video! Amazing driving. Great passion. Wow. Too bad they took some of that hump out of the back stretch..looks like it was fun!

[cuda6666]

Not taking away anything from Scott's driving, but what this video really shows is what can be accomplished when your competitors are a bunch of saps out for a Sunday drive AND you clearly have more top end than anyone else in the field.

[naschmitz]

They moved a lot of Earth since that video was shot. The track layout safety standards are almost barbaric in comparison to today. Did you see Pit In? Holy crap! People close to the racing surface without fences. Turn 4 is totally blind and obscured by a huge mound.

[breakaway500]

How about the scary blunt front end of guard rail on turn 6 yikes..!

I think Scott has bigger stones than most,especially in the rain.. When that 3rd place car goes off track (at around 26:35)and catches on fire..he barely lifts..

It says he won three of the first 4 races on his way to being the Rothmans Porsche turbo cup champion for 1988. It was some sort of spec 944 turbo series,so he should not have had any real equipment advantage,other than his great skill and guile! That pass on the inside of turn two (2:48) was hunger..Damn...

[cuda6666]

I used to get all 4 wheels of the Cuda off the ground on the hump in the back straight. Since the road has a kink right at the hump, you had to attack it from an angle. You can't turn effectively while in the air. I remember that COM used to hire a local master instructor to travel around from corner to corner observing our driving. One time I screwed up the hump and landed on the outside shoulder at about 110 - only to find that the instructor had parked there to watch

BTW, I notice in this video that qhite a few times, Scott got pulled by a leading car at track out - but still managed a pass later on the straight. That tells me he had some kind on advantage under the hood.

[mr2sc]

I was there to watch that particular race...I drove up in my then 'brand new' 88 MR2SC!

And yes Frank...some cars did have a tad more power than others, courtesy of a local guru head meister who's labors were virtually undetectable back then. He's still around, works out of what still appears like a back alley dump, till he unlatches all the padlocks and lay eyes on the flowbenches and machinery. He had quite reputation back then, and there were even some NASCAR deliveries via UPS

Heck, he's even done work for me on my old 4AGTE.

Anyhow, that was truly a marvelous series with some real legends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDM-BwwZ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y487sBUILTY


BTW, Brian Redman's F-5000 Lola had flipped over backwards cresting the hump when it caught air...then, his ambulance got into a crash on the ride back to Montreal