I think F-1 tires are just too light to build enough speed to get big air on their own. However, I would love to see someone willing to sacrifice their lives and the mill or so the car costs to show us how far they could leap. You'd have to get the angle right, or they would just flip like the Mercedes at the 99 Le Mans, but if calculated correctly, I'm pretty sure they would glide like 30 or 40 miles.

I have the feeling there are some people so bored with their lives that they'd be happy to give it a try. Just for the hell of it.

Sign me up.

No seriously, if the eggheads figure out the trajectories and weight balances and all the complex engineering and mathmatical know-how to get an F-1 car with a nearly empty fuel tank to theoretically ramp-jump and land wheels down about three and a half football fields down range, and all the numbers were quadruple-checked by independent eggheads, I would buckle myself into that five point harness, strap on a pair of old fashioned driving goggles, take a look at that 250M long take off ramp, and grin.

Well, maybe not so seriously. I'm crazy, not stupid. If I was stupid, I'd be talking about doing it in a dragster.

the zidane of tire-jumping. awesome, unstoppable, and will be remembered in our hearts forever.

Pfft, where's the control group?

Japan has a whole science team dedicated to fucking around and being awesome, basically.

Also, for some reason, those wooden barricades have little painted pictures of people on them. Look closely.

Japan, you're wierd, but that's cool, it's a mostly harmless wierd.