Calling Out YouTubers That Race Cars On The Streets! | Workshop Update No.57
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2024
- There are automotive content creators out there filming themselves driving like absolute tools and racing their cars on the streets. But, apparently it's always in "Mexico" so that means it must be ok then... right? 🤦♂️
Time for another Ricky rant!
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Worst job in the world? Knocking a door at 3am to tell a mom and dad their daughter isn't coming home, ever... they fall apart in front of you and you feel like shit, but you got the short straw.
Because her boyfriends ego was bigger than his (lacking) talent.
That bastard lived
long retired ex cop fast response grade 1 car and bike. aslo mx racer (250 expert).
I didn't like picking up human road kill, so don't accuse me of then lacking a sense of humour.
that cr is cool brings back fun memories.
closed circuit racing is fun and a buzz, . eating dirt, being embarassed, busting a few bones and reparing expensive shit less so. But you chose to sign up and play
the road? nah not your playground, someones family is out there and they didn't sign up.
Very well said
Indeed. All perfectly said
@@samwilson1201Thank you
Think I can provide some genuine answers having worked with people who are into this side of car culture/been to these sort of meets etc.
1. Majority of the lads doing this aren't aged over say 28. Get a few outliers obviously but in general they're a lot younger and so aren't fully mature and think about the consequences of their actions.
2. They've grown up watching the Fast and the Furious so their interest is in the illegal street racing side. None of them watch motorsport, they get their cars built purely for roaming the streets at night and going to street race meets.
3. They do it for the adrenaline thrill - you can say 'x is faster than y' etc. but on another day x will lose. They're doing it for the fun and no ones keeping the score. Yet they do believe it requires skill (whether its roll racing or swimming through traffic). When you see them driving though their seating position is always terrible - as far back and down as possible with arms straight locked out. They also seem to all steer super aggressively like snapping the wheel 90 right then straight when overtaking. I dont know if its because they all copy fast driving from watching each other but thats how they do it. Explains why so many of them die each year tbh.
4. Yes they all talk in stages. They dont seem to know much about cars apart from v base knowledge e.g. makes and models of German/Jap cars from 1990 onwards, bhp and torque figures, and different engine layouts thats it. "Stage 3 M4 competition, yeah thats a twin turbo inline 6, 700 brake" None of the lads I worked with or went these meets with knew what a TVR was for example. Mad considering that cars is their entire hobby.
5. None of them have been on track. Probably 10% have been Nurburgring.
Just a bit of insight
Loved the garage update. I’ve always wondered how they get away with posting videos. I think Carwow and officially gassed have got it right when they do it on a runway in a controlled environment. Track days are awesome ! Great way to learn about your car and your own skill. I had a great moment on a track day at Bedford. Couldn’t shake a 182 clio off in my 400bhp @ wheels GTST. Asked the bloke what mods he had done to his Clio. Stock motor. Uprated suspension and brakes and semi slick tyres. Power isn’t everything. He took me for a lap in the car and it opened my eyes. That’s what track days are all about. 👍🏻
Traffic cops on channel 5 last night had a knobhead on tick tock doing stupid speeds. They nicked him and seized his car and phone! Complete bellend! Great rant, completely agree with you
Another fantastic rant. Keep it up. 👍
Thanks for watching.
The police & RUclips are more worried about hurty words on social media than anything else 🤷♂️
YOUR NOT WRONG. YOU CANT SAY ONE WORD ABOUT THE RELIGION OF PEACE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 YOU KNOW THE ONE SCHHHHHHH. UTUBE TERRORIST OR BRIGADE 77 AT WORK.
This week I shall mostly be identifing as a phallically deficient four wheel throttle jockey and there's not one goddamned thing you can say about it!! 😝
I’m with you on the rant.
Used to follow DMO, LLF, OG etc…..
Realised a while back it’s all absolute nonsense, maybe I’ve got old 🤷🏽♂️
Don’t follow any of them any more
Yes thank you Ricky! Iv heard of RUclipsrs and some tuning companies getting caught for the 100-200 times on their draggy’s and asked for their gps data from the police for where the runs were taken
I think your completely right about the rolling races on the motorways, keep it to the track days 👍🏼
Great rant/video.
What makes it worse is that the roads fall to shit whenever it rains and takes someone growing a garden in the pothole before even the council see it, it’s just way too risky to consider tonning it, not to mention the amount of balding tyres you see in the local supermarket every goddamn week, makes you wince.
Hit the nail on the head. If you think you can race do a track day then say i am a racer. 99:7% WILL FAIL.
2:31 how good does a red R8 look in a world of black and white ones! There's a reason car emojis are red 🚗🏎️🚘❤
Red ones are faster
I also hate it when you see them banging through DSG and PDK boxes like they’re breaking up concrete with a sledge hammer - There’s just no mechanical sympathy involved or respect for what’s under their control
The problem is that, at the end of the day, RUclips is a business. That sort of content brings in a lot of engagement, and so keeps users on the platform and consuming more RUclips. If they ban the content altogether, people will simply seek another platform where it’s permitted, and RUclips will take a financial hit all around. The only real solution is if it’s enforced properly at a law level.
AFAIK the whole "Mexico" thing started during TX2K in the early 2000's , there was a great deal of street racing off the track during the night on the roads around Houston, RUclips is full of the videos . Drivers would say the races were run over the border in Mexico to avoid police investigations and repercussions hence now illegal activity on the roads is described as being carried on in Mexico. Also RWYB at a drag strip is equivalent to a novice track day, there is no competition its all just for fun. You can take your superbike on a novice track day but that doesn't make you a superbike racer.
Definitely heard some pops and bangs when you coughed 😂
I was wondering if I was the only one...
Carl on jury duty? That's a surprise, I thought he was on some sort of register 😂😂😂😂
@Ricky, I agree.. I commute on my blade into London a couple of times a week and several of the other bikers, always want to go against whoever they see. "come to Brands... lets see who rips round Clearways on their knee." is what I'm shouting in my lid. But don't get me wrong... a quick wheelie out of some lights at the opportune time, always STOPS them in their tracks. Love a Rant!!!
Super rant as always and fully agree.. btw, what happened to the Skoda project?
Coming soon!
Totally agreed. The main UK car scene these days is tracksuited manchildren with purses screaming and driving with locked arms… and the kids lap it up.
There’s quality car content on RUclips but it doesn’t get 10% of the views that those guys do. Shame really. It’s like reality TV for car content - stupid, dumbed down and plastic.
Give me a 40 minute video of Chris Harris in a warehouse full of interesting cars over some flannel doing pulls in a 40 limit any day.
'Oooo look what I managed to pick up on pcp ' say the manchildren
Another great rant, keep them coming. 👍👍
Thank you for watching.
You are 100% correct about corners and cars, a decent track day is brilliant,
I do follow a Top fuel guy Clay Millican, as again there is a skill,
But Drag racing is something, In the states it different to a Pod RWYB day,
I follow the likes of PFI Speed and even Cleetus as they have classes for standard cars and upwards specs, there is is some build and fab skills involved if you dig deep a little, spec`d turbos proper rules, so the driver can make a difference even in 9/8/7/6 second runs, and cash prizes, so being quickest can pay even in a straight line,
Andy F is a legend in the Scoob world for mapping as well.
Not everyone can drive in a straight line, ask 'The Hamster' 😉
And by the way, dealers who sell decat / test pipes, pops and bangs maps, methanol systems for road cars are the same people whose marketing deliberately targets a particular customer sector - so the dealers not without accountability and the same way customers know what they're buying and why!
Jamie at Officially Gassed has a track day set up for Silverstone , unlimited noise day too
I did a 58 on my 250cc Ducati at Brands Indy.
I used to drive like an idiot on roads, thought I was incredible. Came close to being killed in a crash. Started racing, got lapped TWICE on my first race. Totally agree with you. Took several years of racing to become an actual fast driver.
Used to be highly amusing taking "fast" road drivers round circuits in my 1.6l Corolla and watch them turn green.
Ooo I live a mile away from Oulton have fun in the rain bro looking rough here on Saturday might nip past nickerbrook on the push bike what time you out
If I was do 170mph in my 996 targa on the A1M at Peterborough where it goes into 5 lines and it arrow straight for 2 miles , I wouldn't be posting in on social media
Best of luck at Oulton Ricky, hope the weather plays ball….👍👌🇮🇲
Absolute top tier rant 💪
RANT ..100% agree, there is one particular chap who runs stupid cars on dual carriageways etc at ridiculous speeds. He has a Honda civic with 3000 bhp ! He's a DJ and organises "meets" and "lock downs" of local areas... Boils my piss... Lock the fuckers up.
What I like is that they have families most of them and they go out late on a night and do stupid speeds on public roads… real cool when your missus and kids are burying you when you’ve hit another car or a tree
This is exactly what social media should be.
Totally agree with the street racers in public roads! If buying these B58’s/RS3’s/ GTR’s for roll racing is not the way to go what would you recommend for a track car? Maybe do a video on the best track cars to build instead…
I don't often comment on your stuff Ricky (I imagine you're shocked I watch it!) but I couldn't agree more with your rant on 'racing'. Not much more to add ;-) Good luck at Oulton! (Best circuit in the UK). Ben Ireland, NGRRC/BMCRC/New Era Alumni.
I can not stand pop-bang maps, there are videos of numpties doing it in carparks repeatidly - wondering why the police are there. I block the channels that promote that crud. When I was a teen, I did the odd 'key-pop' in the tunnel on the way to Southend on a cruise night, but certainly not everytime. Then again, it was in old Minis - so not good for the car at all - I was more of a cruiser than a racer. In those days, I probably had more watts in my amps than my engine had in performance haha. It would corner well, with spax dampners (medium setting front and hard rear) and 10"x6" wheels in the dry - the older rubber cones were better as they got harder over time. In the wet though, it just lacked the weight to get grip - having a 10"x5" winter set made a chunk of difference.
Blaming the tuners for pop-bang maps is crazy - does Stanley get blamed when someone gets poked with a blade? Just crazy. However, I do feel the tuners should feel shame in doing it - I do understand they need the income though.
I would love the track day event, that would be a great day out - if I can get my Dad's (RIP) 1995 Volvo 850 Estate, Automatic, 2.5 20v 5-pot up and running again - I reckon with one of your drivers it would shame the bellends around Brands. It's done 237k miles and has more body roll in a corner than P&O in gale force winds.
Classic Minis can do Brands hatch in less than a minute, if you wanted another performance indicator.
Great rant - legit and on point.
Question
I lightly spun a rod bearing on my s85 v10 crank, ive been trying to source a good replacement for 9 months now
There is a company in america (lang racing) that can weld and regrind the crank, is this worth doing, pros and cons ?
Should i bite the bullet and buy an aftermarket stroker crank ?
have you ever did any work on the s85 v10 engine or built an stroker R8 v10 ?
You're best off emailing or calling them, good chance they never see this to respond.
Btcc lap record at brands indy is a 48.498 set by matt meal in 2011
After doing my first trackday on my bike, it changed my whole mentality about riding on the road. After another 3 trackdays I purchased a k4 gsxr600 track bike. Now i dont really care about road riding that much and would rather do trackdays.
Like watching your videos, always notice you have loads of cars outside your shop as well as inside being worked on. All look fairly new and in good shape. Question:- are the Audis unreliable or do they all bring them to you as your the best
Excellent rant 💯 agree 👏👏👏👏👏
Cool rant. Spot on! 👍👍👍
Thanks!
Can you do some between race videos at the weekend. updates on the season etc. bit like Al does in the F900 cup as BSB
Couldn’t agree more as usual. Fair play to you for saying it!
Bloody hell this was a big rant 😂
People say Mexico because it’s not part of the EU and Guy Martin said on film he did high speed somewhere in the uk. He was prosecuted for it as it was used as a confession. Hence the term, “don’t do a Guy Martin”.
100% agree with the rant Ricky 👏👏👏
Funny - when i got one of my bikes mapped (CJS Performance) - he said to me...."if the mapping is perfect then it wont pop and bang.." thats just wasted fuel..!
650ib on here is laughable....hes got 20 odd of the latest sports bike and all of them get nailed in a straight line....
Talking of 'driving incidents' was a ferrari crashed locally in Norwich on Sunday 'on a slippy' wet road 😮
I don’t think we are allowed to call it drag racing anymore, I believe they like to be referred to as gender fluid racers now.
Brilliant 🤣
Thats fantastic 😂
That’s a fair rant. Like all pastimes you get a wide variety of society sharing the same interests. The difference is when I drive or ride like a nob I know it’s wrong, and the last thing I would want is it to be seen online because I would class it as a guilty pleasure.
But to hoon around like some do online is a death waiting to happen. Then the knee jerk reaction will be to ban performance mods as there is so many bad examples already posted.
The track day idea would show up a lot of “drivas”
Vehicle villains (the lads in the Pennines) being done when DMO, Ricky etc get away with what they do really baffles me.
Ricky, on your race bike at the front (to the left of the dash) there was a whitish bottle with a tube going into it filled with what looked like yellow foam. Is that some sort of breather?
Not only is it stupid, they’re involving other road users and potentially putting them in danger because they aren’t driving at a ton 60 on the m6
Believing google, lap record of Brands indy is 38.032 in a Benetton B197 Judd, 2004, EuroBOSS/F1. If rights thats a tad quick!
What’s under the black cover??? Is it a Megane??
I agree absolutely entirely but there isn’t a comparison between a drift set up car and a race car. People build cars for certain purposes like for example you are not beinging your fwd or awd car to a drift track?
It would appear you have a year’s production of R8’s in for repair. Legendary German engineering 🤔
50/50 repair and maintenance with tuning!
I had better buy that Noble now..❤
Fully understand the rant this week mate… even worse if you think on the RUclips point that they demonetise the very edited cut down tame version of Al, Baron and Boothy’s 44teeth latest BBB and even take it down… for nothing illegal 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏼♂️
100% with you on that rant.
Does sleeving the block not increase the heat on the piston?
Please , do your track day/race at cadwell
Another thing, here in the US, the police do knock on doors to serve warrants of arrest.
It the uk we barely have a police force, so things like this rarely happen here.
They don't even attend home burglaries or theft etc!
Theres some skill in top fuel drag racing most is tuning but some is skill if the track is bad
Yep, I have an R1, and there is a local motorcyclist who posts some utterly stupid stuff, 80mph plus in 30 limits, overtaking on solid whites into oncoming traffic etc. it tars us all with the same brush.
Always confused me when people take a gtr that was designed to go round a corner and tune it in such a way it can only go in a straight line 🤣
I drive sensibly, defensively and courteously 99.99% of the time, but I’m still not going to judge because I’m in a glass house and I’m not going to throw stones.
Big empty dual carriage way last month another beemer was up my hole, and when we left the roundabout we both floored it…
We got up to Vmax speeds… was it sensible? Nope…. Did we put anyone else’s life in danger? Not really (empty road)….
But would I advertise it on RUclips glorifying it… also no…
My 2Ps worth
Nice rant totally agree but the average Jo blogs doesn’t have access to tracks at an affordable price.
Absolutely spot on about the 🛎️ ends racing on the streets in a straight line mental 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
The track day for youtubers lapping a circuit is a great idea. Be interesting to watch.... it would be good if track days were more accessible to deter people from street action
They are accessible, you literally pay online, do a briefing and turn up?
It's £50 for a half day at Blyton or Three Sisters, if you can afford to own a car and put petrol in it you can afford a track day.
Send me link for this £50 quid trackday, brands hatch is currently 200 for an evening@JamesBalazs
Spot on..... All valid comments all round but what will be done
Sadly track days don't allow timing (it voids their liability insurance), so it would have to be at a Time Attack event.
While I get the spirit of this rant re street "racing," drag racing a 6 - 10 sec car on a drag strip does require some skill. At the end of the day, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
Great content, btw.
In reply to many comments below, I can assure you that young kids and cars have always speed and raced and did stupid dangerous stuff, I am 60 and seen it. The difference was there was no social media to see it
Bang on 👍
Funny I’m watching this and live near the a13 in Essex and can here some abnormally loud cars at full tilt as I type this probably z RUclipsrs can’t hear normal traffic at all I always think probably a fiesta doing 100 rattling itself to bits racing his mates making more noise than power 😂
Gotta agree with the 'Weekly Rant' regarding the 'Straightliners' but I would gladly sit on the wall and watch everyone from the inept to the masters drift the 'Magic Roundabout' in Swindon........ 😉
Drag racing for fast cars, track driving for fast drivers.
Well said.
Rick - drag racing my 2017 RS7 involves no skill because the car is so well engineered and set-up from Audi out-of-the-box. However, drag racing my 1969 Camaro SBC w/it’s Muncie 4 spd on a very tight budget and being able to out “engineer/set-up” and beat another comparable 60’s muscle car w/twice the engine and budget does involve a significant amount of skill. It’s building the engine / trans combination on a tight budget w/the non-existent parts of the 90’s in combination with setting up the front & rear suspension to achieve proper weight transfer to put the power down and shifting that 55 yr-old Muncie 4 spd to get down the track and beat the other guy who spent 2X what you spent is a very rewarding experience. I 100% agree none of the above has any place on public roads, putting others safety at risk. Drag racing in America can be a lot of fun, but I do agree racing on a road course is significantly more difficult, more expensive and highly dangerous. I admit that when the opportunity arises to smack a nice, unsuspecting C7 or C8 Corvette w/a 4750lb C7.5 Audi RS7 from red light to red light is very difficult to resist. I 100% agree that filming/promoting/announcing “Mexico” street racing to the world on RUclips is for ass-clowns. P.S. Love Your Channel! ….Dan
It’s not my thing but I am all for Santa Pod days and I get what you mean on the classic stuff!
We are spoilt with how easy it is to drive new cars very fast!
I would like you to do a spoof video with 1L lupos😂
Really sorry Kate I'm forgetting me place, hiya sweetie 😘 xx
I have some million pound sky hooks!!!! They catch plastic holes…
In the early days of "Hot Rodding" in the U.S post WW2 the people racing built their own cars so the brag was how good a hot rod builder you were. These U Toobers are just hooning around in stuff they have bought.
Yeah i dont understand how thats not banned on social media.
And I don't get it how they get a hard on going fast down the freeway all the time. It's fun and thrilling the first time or the second time but the third time i pushed my car as hard as it goes i was like meh, I'm going fast and that's it. It's one of those "first time" things,you get nervous and full of adrenaline first time you do it but that's it,once you've done it there's no much thrill in it. At least that's how i feel.
100% agree
How does a rant include Johnny Sins of all people haha!
Have u got a garage at Oulton?
Yes mate….garage 1 😜
You see these space's between
the words that's what is
floating around in their head..
Sadly that's seems to be the normal in this day and age. Cutting roundabouts, pulling out of a T junction just
because there was a five second gap, where in the highway code are they listed. That's just adding to your rant
I see it daily and nothing is being done about it. Then there is the other side of the storey that @christompson4161
has to deal with. Anyway great vlog as usual.
Should just say these RUclipsrs "trigger" you, then it's a hate crime and they'll be arrested. Posting anything else illegal would get you investigated. But as you say even air gun channels and groups are constantly blocked and suspended.
Comes to something when they are more concerned about the environment than the safety of the kids growing up watching people speeding and causing potential accidents.
🤣🤣 bang on mate
The answer is as usual about people making money off the back of something or someone,even if it's illegal?
100% agree with the rant. Don't care if they hit a tree. I used to have rd race my FS1E I even got it to 55mph down a very steep hill once 😂. Unsure what the police actually do nowadays.
Isn't the core of your business tuning automatic Audi's?
Also worth mentioning is what these high powered cars that race, are like below 5000rpm. I'd love to see these 'certi' drivers 'race' from 2000rpm. Terrible road cars
Go ricky go ricky for prime minister 😂 have agreat weekend love it content the greatest thing on the tube
Fair enough but not everyone can afford to do track days every week or afford the cost of a track car with a service team on hand
There’s no fun in that for a lot of people
I think you're a bit off about drag racing, at least from my perspective here in the USA. Most of the people at my local track build their own combinations, tune, and do so on a budget. I think it takes a certain skill set to use a typical budget and make a vehicle out perform something the average person couldn't afford. It's more than just driving, it's the overall accomplishment. The track is just a measurement of that accomplishment.
Still boring
it's not just Mexico it's a private road and a hired out test track!! but they all have lampposts and road signs 🤣
Hahahahaha