Crash At Winton Tampered Day

[agius]

poor bloke i know exactly how it feels like

[Redwarf]

Someone turned up to the ATM of talent and were told they had insufficient funds.

[Taz_Rx]

lol classis Rob.

[SkidzMgee]

Someone turned up to the ATM of talent and were told they had insufficient funds.

 

So they took an overdrawing fee... see first post for amount costed

[19914afc]

he probably had it as a street registered track car?

[altezzaclub]

he probably had it as a street registered track car?

 

nah- not caged. Just another hotted up sedan out of someone's garage. I've had the Altezza at a couple of trackdays, thankfully problem-free, but I usually use some ol' shitter like a Datsun 1600 or the 'rolla.

[ke70dave]

yeah plenty of guys take their cars for a spin on the race track, good way to hoon legally in your hoon car.

 

crashing at a drift/track day isnt exactly un heard of, seen it heaps of times. thats a fairly nasty one though!

 

oh and yeah thats not a GTR, and even if it was....R33's are ugly:P

Edited January 28, 2011 by ke70dave

[Rob 5000]

just to be clear too this was not a drift day. He lost it coming off the sweeper and then nailed the wall that faces the highway. Kind of a odd place to crash.

[Sloth]

Yes, i know. But you may be able to afford to buy a nice street/daily whatever, and buy a cheap shitter and spend fack all to get it handling and going sweet. If you can only afford to mod your daily street car, don't risk it on a track, all sorts of things happen! My mate had it happen at willowbank, his only car, huge ego, too much boost and a big bang. What I'm getting at, why would you invest so much in a streeter, then take it to a track where its almost certain to break, or for you to crash? I'm not sure how to type what i think atm, too many thoughts.

 

I know what you mean, but for someone like me who can't do any mechanical work themselves (for various reasons), even just a shit dedicated track car would cost at least 10k, then I you have to either have it registered (another 1k a year) or hire a trailer and a car to tow the trailer for each day (probably about 500-600 each time). Spending 12-20k on a track car that I might get on the track at most 4 times a year seems like a bit of a waste just for a little bit of fun (I'm a terrible driver and couldn't do motorsport as a full time hobby due to my intense shitness).

[Trev]

That is a love tap compared to the crashes I have seen at the track, also the turbo manifold I posted in the fabrication thread I made was going on a 33 that had similar damage (rail kinked but strut tower/guard area wasn't as bad) and it was classed as a repairable write off, this was a street car that crashed on the street so he got the insurance and repaired it.

[Rob 5000]

just found the youtube vid of the skyline hitting the wall. The sweeper did seem to be very low grip on the day.

[Spencer[RL]]

Guns it pretty hard on the exit , then its pretty much down hill from there.....there was no way of saving that.....

[agius]

i rekon if he locked the hand break and turned as soon and he rolled on the grass

 

it would of slowed the car down = less damage when it reaches that wall

[SLO-030]

I think i can say, once your sliding on grass, there's not much you can do to control it.

[Redwarf]

i rekon if he locked the hand break and turned as soon and he rolled on the grass

 

it would of slowed the car down = less damage when it reaches that wall

 

 

You haven't driven much on race tracks, have you?

 

The big thing there is a couple of things:

 

Didn't correct quick enough (that one is kind of obvious),

 

Steering doesn't work when the wheels are locked.

 

The car was unsettled coming out of the sweeper, a bag full of loud peddle none too graciously applied completed the application to have an accident. That said the car looks like a bit of a hairy dog to drive.

 

The application of throttle at 10 secs was the big mistake. Everything after that was a consequnce.