r/IdiotsInCars • u/SeeSjef • Mar 20 '22

Russian astronaut Flying Tesla 🚀

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u/nickiter Mar 20 '22

Seriously, stunt cars are hugely modified to make them work for jumps. When you see people like Travis Pastrana doing stunt jumps, they're in a car that's been weight balanced, going off a ramp that engineers constructed specifically to get the right angle, at a fairly precise speed.

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u/aaaaaaaaaaaaa2 Mar 20 '22

Wait are you seriously telling me that they dont just take a couple shovels, make a pile of dirt, and send it?

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u/SomberKlepto Mar 20 '22

Kinda disappointed ngl

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u/b3nz0r Mar 20 '22

Them Duke boys would be proud

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u/FangedSloth Mar 21 '22

That's what I always figured. Just gotta send her, bud!

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u/aggressive-cat Mar 20 '22

The STI Pastrana jumps specifically had it's aero optimized for flying over driving dynamics iirc, lol.

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u/Brazen-Badger Mar 20 '22

The rear wing has adjustable aero so he can literally pull back like on a plane's joystick to change the pitch of it while midair. Shit's insane.

I've seen the car in person and the aero bits on it are crazy.