They said only 3 people were hurt and no one was killed. Unbelievable.

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holy crap, that thing slid on its roof forever. Crazy still shot of it on that angle

 

Damn thats crazy!

 

Saw that earlier today...more on that here: http://www.motoringfile.com/2010/05/...sh/#more-11747

 

Also there was a second crash too...

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Holy crap. Did she hit her brakes at all? Look like she was entering the turn at the same speed as the black one behind her.

 

 

That looked like brake failure to me....

 

insane. you can never be prepared enough for accidents like that. and the 2nd looked like brake failure.

 

 

2nd one is full on understeer and improper braking technique

 

^^ textbook understeer.

 

+1 looks like they didnt even brake at all and wondered why the car couldn't handle the turn...

 

Ouch!! Amazing that no one was killed.

Sidenote: This also gave me a flashback to my son's accident a few weeks ago in which he was a front seat passenger in an E60 M5 which -- while traveling way too fast -- ricocheted off two parked cars and a telephone pole before it TOO flipped over and then burst into flames.

 

....also didn't know that Hertz had the Fun Collection down under but, I digress.

 

details on the accident plz. is your son ok?

 

One of his friends was driving the M (which was owned by another friend and pictured here, pre-accident of course) TOO FAST on a very residential street (read: 80mph+ in a 25 mph zone) when he -- predictably -- lost control of it, ricocheting (literally) off and totally two parked cars (one of which was an 09 MB S Class), after which it did a pirouette off a telephone pole before flipping over and ultimately (but not immediately) bursting into flames.

He suffered contusions and a fractured L1 vertebrae (which sounds A LOT worse than it really is) but, aside from some major soreness he's nearly recovered. Thank you for asking.

 

^^



Glad he's OK...

 

That was some serious deceleration though... amazing the driver was not injured! Even crazier about the Mini that flipped into the crowd. It seemed to miss a lot of people! If I was that driver, when I returned back to that track I would find the names of the people that got injured and have them as guests in my pit area + VIP access for the entire race weekend.

 

Speaking of the previous crash, the reporter says, ".... hundreds of spectators run for their lives .... "


First, in that specific area, there were, at best, dozens of spectators.

Second, I did not see a single person "run for their life". I did see some run TOWARD the crash site though, presumably to assist any injured.



I HATE the modern "news" media.


/rant

 

very possible, but they didnt even pull the E-brake...

alot of things were wrong with that turn though...

 

jeeez

 

this.

That first video was crazy