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(of course I''d like to see how these boys do on a 200+mph MotoGP bike but hey, it's all showbiz, not just the RedBull Air Races, right?)

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All things horsepower...

..in the end that's what we love, that's why we can rationalize watching the odd tractor pull or maybe even stoop to watching Pinks out of sheer desperation for a mechanical fix.

We covered Unlimited air racing before. BadbadM, a licensed pilot and self described aero-nut, lives for that trip to Reno every year so this is for him.

YouTube mining* yields this nugget from the 90's: Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines.

"Big boy's toys" he starts off " to get involved you really need three things: money, balls and space to play" and with that Clarkson is off to sample a P51 Mustang, an unlimited hydroplane and a 747! Nice.


* thanks to Jalopnik for pointing the way to the nuggets!

Get yer Red Bulletin, Malaysia edition.

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also Red Bull is sponsoring some kind of Air Racing league, maybe BadbadM can jump in a clarify wha this is all about. Click on the images below for some slick videos.

500mph and not that far off the ground.

OK, this is a car blog but we are motorheads and this is after all the fastest racing on the planet.... and BadBadM just goes nutty for it.
I found this clip when I was shopping around for remote cameras to use at the track. I found Xtreme Recall and some excellent videos they feature on their web site.

The best are the aircraft ones, aside from the clip below, make sure you check out the T-6 racing (a spec race series I gather) and the especially freaky
Dead Stick Landing.

I expect BadBAdM will be able to identify every single one of those planes and pilots, and of course provide Andres the phone number of the chick in the freeze-frame!


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find out more about Air Races and the different classes HERE