poor bloke i know exactly how it feels like

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

lol classis Rob.

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

he probably had it as a street registered track car?

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.

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, 201115 yr by ke70dave

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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.