{"id":2765,"date":"2015-11-26T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukcarline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2015-11-26T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T11:49:27","slug":"figure-eight-racing-is-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcarline.co.uk\/news\/figure-eight-racing-is-terrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Figure Eight Racing is Terrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.video-container iframe {\n    position: absolute;\n    top:0;\n    left: 0;\n    width: 100%;\n    height: 100%;\n}\n.video-container {\n    position: relative;\n    padding-bottom: 56.25%;\n    padding-top: 35px;\n    height: 0;\n    overflow: hidden;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZKqhvch3mU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video above shows the opening few minutes of the 2015 World Figure Eight Racing championship 3-hour endurance race at the Speedrome in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>This particular race has no bridge at the crossover point and is run entirely on a short, flat circuit. Drivers have to use a combination of skill, experience, luck and praying to negotiate the crossover point at speed, twice per lap.<\/p>\n<h2>Figure Eight Racing Dashcam Too?<\/h2>\n<p>Presumably if you&#8217;ve read this far you&#8217;re gagging for more, so here&#8217;s dash-cam footage of driver and lunatic Ben Tunny:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bty621VX-mg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-news\/crash\/video-figure-eight-racing-scariest-motorsport-history\" target=\"_blank\">Top Gear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video above shows the opening few minutes of the 2015 World Figure Eight Racing championship 3-hour endurance race at the Speedrome in Indianapolis. This particular race has no bridge at the crossover point and is run entirely on a short, flat circuit. Drivers have<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcarline.co.uk\/news\/figure-eight-racing-is-terrifying\/\"> <strong>Read the full article&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video: Figure Eight Racing is Terrifying<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Figure eight racing has to be the most terrifying motorsport you&#039;re going to watch today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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