'05 Saleen bashes the wall drifting in Formula D

[a50sn95]

I saw an ad for Formula D drifting, and thought I saw something. I recorded the show, and low an behold, there it was. A brand new Saleen bashing the wall nose first.
They never talked about it (The Saleen) but showed the clip about 10 times. The show basically sucks, but It's my first viewing of an 05 Saleen outside the Internet.
I put a quick cut of it here.....
http://elkgrovemustang.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&?topic=14.0

 

[JC8076]

i cant play the video

what codec does it use?

 

[a50sn95]

It was an MPEG 4, which means you needed a DVD decoder to play it on a computer.
I just made an MPEG 2, a wmv and an avi version.
One should work...
Please let me know...
Dennis

 

[tomustang]

Thanks F&F for bringing drifting to the mustang world.

 

[hurdlinmasta]

what codec is the .avi put in?

 

[DoubleONegative]

Reason #23 why drifting is friggin gay

 

[hurdlinmasta]

I still cant watch it

 

[crewwolfy]

Haha, where's the smiley for NARROW MINDED?

Mustangs have been drifting for years. Doesn't mean you have to do it. And the more variety of motorsports for the mustang, the more variety of performance parts, and the more potential of something carrying over well into your beloved strip racing.

 

[a50sn95]

I must say I didn't think posting a video would be this hard. I do admit to being somewhat ignorant of the all the codecs and such out there. The issue is Windows Media Player, and thier lack of a native codec for mpeg2. If you were using another player, it's likely that it would have played fine. All 3 of the players on my Linux box played every one of the files just fine.
That said, I realize that MOST people use WMP, and a WMV is the format for that player. (Hmmmm, see something here?)
Anyway, I have made a wmv fiel that plays on both my other windows machines, so please, if you still want to see it, try again, and let me know if it does or doesn't work. I'd like to know for my own sanity....
Thanks
Dennis

 

[PolkThug]

wmv file worked in real player for me. Damn shame to break that pretty vented hood.

 

[a50sn95]

I hadn't heard that any of these had been delivered to customers. Anyone know? I'd be irked if I'd plunked my money down, and then saw this video....
Could it even have had 1000 miles on it?

 

[crewwolfy]

I think this was the event in chicago. If so, lots of cars slammed into those barriers, about 20 I think. Very technical course with all the variations in the parking lot.

 

[a50sn95]

Yes, this was the Chicago event.

 

[PolkThug]

I hadn't heard that any of these had been delivered to customers. Anyone know?

Yep, theres been quite a few for sale on ebay this year.