This is a clip from the Ocon Azerbaijan Grand Prix in which an F1 car almost hits a group of photographers who are standing in the pit lane, oblivious any cars are coming in for a pit stop. According to the announcers, “Oh, what is this about?!” “That’s a shambles!”
This is a video of self proclaimed science enthusiast and race car driver Chris Rollins constructing and testing the world’s fastest garbage can, a 12HP trike in a green plastic bin that manages to hit a blistering 63MPH. Now, I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but that is
This is a Great Big Story about Terry “Turbo” Burrows, the world’s fastest window cleaner. It’s actually a pretty interesting watch, and includes Terry detailing his daily regimen of getting up, drinking four cups of coffee, playing video games, then practicing cleaning a window he set up in his shed.
This is a visualization from RED SIDE comparing the relative speeds of various spaceships in the Star Wars universe. It was very well made, including the background. What’s your favorite ship? Mine’s the Eagle-5. “The RV from Spaceballs?” THEY SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED IT.
This is a video from a recent World Table Tennis tournament match between Kristian Karlsson and Lin Shidong where Kristian whiffs a swing at the ball, but takes another quick swing and does hit it, then Lin catches the ball not realizing it was still in play. Talk about reflexes!
These are a couple videos of Turkish fashion designer Musab Kaya demonstrating his folding prowess by quickly folding pairs of jeans in his store with a lightning fast snap. In the second video he even does it all one-handed. It probably goes without saying, but if the internet doesn’t start
To promote his new appropriately titled movie Selfiee, this is a video of Bollywood star Akshay Kumar setting the Guinness World Record for most selfies taken with different people in three minutes, with a respectable 184. He actually took 209 total, but 25 were disqualified due to being blurry, as
Because the need for speed is real for some people (I have the need for naps), this is a video of a Division 1 superkart in action. The tiny 450-pound (including driver) kart is powered by a 100HP 250cc twin-cylinder engine and 5-speed manual gearbox capable of hitting 0 –