Paul Tan on the Automotive Industry
Another one of those crazy promotional stunts – a Spyker F1 car goes head to head against an F16 Fighter Jet. This little 1,000 meter drag race was held at the Volkel Air Force Base. In the F1 car’s driver’s seat is Spyker driver Christian Albers, while piloting the F16 is Captain Ralph Aarts.
Video: Spyker F1 Car vs F16 Jet – 1
Video: Spyker F1 Car vs F16 Jet – 2
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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
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Cool! Remind me of one of the Top Gear episodes..
hmm any dutch translator here? wish I can understand what they said. I cant understand every bit. Who wins anyway?
The super loud noise from the jet engine really drowns the sweet revving V8 engine.
f16s are so sweet!!
er…who win actualy?
f-16 …….made to be lifted up
spyker f1……made to stick to the road
not much similaries but 2 of'em is fast!
malaysia's own fairuz fauzy, formerly of A1 Team Malaysia is one of the test drivers for spyker.
They should race against other F1 cars and win, rather than race against a fighter plane. Their performance thus far is dismal. Reminds me of Minardi.
spyker is minardi…. was..
Last time ferrari F1 car,forgotten which year already,also did race against F-16 of Italian air force.It was driven by M.Schumacher.There was three races,300m,500m(if not mistaken)and 1000m.Schumacher won the 300m and F-16 won the latter races,
well one thing is that Its LMAO. First F-16's are old by now, so I think that implies to the spyker's technology as well. Another thing is that this is lame, not new at all. In Ripley's some time ago, A dodge Viper V-10 vs F-16 side by side to see who reach half a mile first. This is not really side by side.
So….. who won?
correction:
Spyker was formerly Midland Racing and was formerly Jordan ;p
Toro Rosso was formerly Minardi
cheers
Erm? So who won? And what's with the drag thingy? This doesn't look like drag. Not even side by side
F16 won coz the pilot decided to turn his back against the race and launch heat seeking missile. Spyker = gone case…
Btw, this race is pointless.
I want my 2 minutes back.
I don't get it! Why!? Pointless..
There's no such thing as pointless. It's stated there clearly "promotional stunts". In a sense it's already successful coz you guys look at the video. Same case as the Ferrari Enzo getting fuc**d up by Eddie Griffin. Anyway, in this "drag" the F-16 won.
Pointless.
ops… scuderia toro rosso was minardi… my bad..
btw, saw something like this before… Tim in an Aston Martin vs British Air Force Jaguar… the jet win of coz…
kei9 said,
f-16 …….made to be lifted up
spyker f1……made to stick to the road
not much similaries but 2 of’em is fast!
—————————————————————-btw, not much similarities btw an F1 racer wt normal car too….prefer touring cars since that what normal car look like…. & racing more competitive wt real overtaking….F1 = overtaking during refueling….he3x
just me opinion ler
ho is dat it dzat46………………hey anyone know bout a Y2K TURBINE MOTORBIKE vs A FIGHTER JET?……U KNOW WHAT WON? YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT! ITS THE BIKE!
ar lar… the video shooting was done in a horrible way.
it's not a proper planned video shooting as it seems…
and i don't get the point they are trying to delivering be it stunt stuff, or showing their F1 is very fast.
there's no element in the video..