It takes nerves of steel to compete at this event where flying high and clearing the parked cars equals success. Reputations are at stake so the worst thing that a driver can imagine is to stall the engine on approach or even worse bottle it before hitting the ramp.
The real crowd-pleasers accelerate their cars at full throttle and launch their vehicles over a ramp in an attempt to fly over a line of assembled old cars and land safely on the opposite side.
Each attempt was judged on elevation, the reception from the crowd, and of course distance.
13 attempts were made and there were some particularly tense moments when Bradley Sender ended up wedged vertically upon landing and of course when the last contestant was towing a caravan! Most expected the latter to fall well short of clearing the cars but miraculously it made it across and was rewarded by huge roars of approval from the crowd.
These are some of the rushes from the day.
29 авг 2021
