So...who actually watches this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrhf7npIumU

Better crashes than NASCAR and closer than F1

Yep, it's mad, remember seeing the British championship racing at Pembrey a few years ago (they always seem to choose the narrowest, tightest tracks. ), one truck understeered off the road at the long final corner, hit the earth bank and ploughed straight over, the truck was actually beyond the circuit grounds when it came to a stop.

What I remember most is the sound of the turbos, very very loud, almost like a jet engine.

Yes, I visited the Truck GP several times a few years back on the Nürburgring and Lausitzring when there where still the "Super Race Trucks" with MAN, Cat and Mercedes Benz. The MB Trucks V6 Bi-Turbo sounded quite mad. If you sat on the Grandstands and a Truck was fired up in the Pits you could not hear it, but you feeled it. If you never heard one of the old Super Race Trucks, you wouldn´t believe it. I have tons of (self recorded) Video footage, but it´s too big to upload somewhere. Sadly a few years back the series changed and now you only find some "futuristic" or "prototype looking" Trucks in the Series (reminds me a bit to the Group B... today cars are better (technically), but they are missing something...).

Some specs of the MB Super Race Truck?
- 5.5 Tons (limited)
- 160 km/h Topspeed (limited)
- V6 12 litre 2 Turbos
- Engine Alignment: Mid
- 1.250 HP
- ~4.500 NM Torque (At one race I met at the Nürburgring they said that they tried to measure the torque, but they found no available Dyno who could measure this amount of torque, so it´s only "calculated").
- Water cooled disc brakes


But I have a soundfile from the Lausitzring (Trucksounds.mp3) where you can listen to them. Though the Super Race Trucks where the best ones sound wise, the Race Truck Series you see in the Video link you posted had most of the action. Maybe because they where cheaper

It gets a little confusing for me sometimes. This series is called the Super Race Trucks? Because there's a Super Truck Series in Canada that runs stock car pickups.

http://www.supertruckracingseries.com/

Very similar to the UK Pickup Series TBH

AFAIK the series (was / is) called "European Truck Racing Championship". And they raced in at least two classes.
1. The "Super Race Trucks" (the "Earthquake" Version of the Trucks).
2. The "Race Trucks" (Normal, street legal Trucks modified for racing).

Looking at the Timetable of the ADAC Truck GP in 2009, it seems that there are no more "Super Race Trucks". The timetable only lists the Race Trucks. Not as spectacular (technically and the sound), but very spectacular when driving

I thought those trucks are spectacular to watch and there's only a handful of truck racing games of that sort. Removing the speed limiter is where the fun begins lol (in the game of course).

This water-cooled brake system is really interesting, 80-85 litres of water is used in 30 minutes.

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I thought those trucks are spectacular to watch and there's only a handful of truck racing games of that sort. Removing the speed limiter is where the fun begins lol (in the game of course).

Theres one for the PS2. I could never get used to the braking and kept going off track. To add insult to injury, the track was a very tight one. Can't remember the name, but it's in spain i believe.

Well, I went to watch this at brands hatch and i tell you what, Its Awesome!! Massive crashes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7RCXqmz-6M

In TOCA race driver 2 they had Racing trucks, it was actualy realy fun. It was the only racing in that game that actualy felt even semi-realistic.

I love any type of racing, so I watch just about any racing series.

Truck racing is actually awesome. I've got a few pictures on my Flickr page of the UK/Europe champs at Thruxton last year.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maaaahtin

its good and all but soo much money is spent on these machines to get to an average cars pace, there not that fast.

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its good and all but soo much money is spent on these machines to get to an average cars pace, there not that fast.

Lets add couple of tonnes weight to the average cars and lets see how fast they are then...

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Theres one for the PS2. I could never get used to the braking and kept going off track. To add insult to injury, the track was a very tight one. Can't remember the name, but it's in spain i believe.

Super Trucks by a development company called Jester interactive perhaps? My dad knew someone who worked for them, so we got a free copy, I used to always play that game, you could manually inject water to the brakes aswell, it was awesome. The handling on that game from what I remember was reletively good too! Daf, Buggyra, MAN and Mercedes. Oh yea