07-31-2007, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by boxsterz
Did the guy have PASM/PSM on?
How does insurance work for something like this? Call to State Farm agent, "I have no idea what happened, I came out to my driveway this morning and this is what I saw..."  |
I rememeber no insurance company covers off-road driving.
He would have to pay for it himself or made up a fraud.
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07-31-2007, 04:32 PM
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well typically you buy extra insurance for track events. Being that this happened in Belgium I'm sure they are more willing to offer insurance for these sort of things at much lower rates vs. the USA where there is a lawyer camped out in the parking lot waiting to have a chat with the guy who just wrecked his $100,000.00 Porsche. "Oh yeah sure I saw the whole thing, I think we need to look at those Michelin Cup Tires I bet you they were faulty."
At the Nurburgring you sign a waiver that basically says its all your own fault if you crash. Yet the scrape people off that road every day, they keep coming in bikes and cars to go flat out.
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07-31-2007, 05:39 PM
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If I lived near the ring, I'd be flat broke from going every day, but damned if I wouldn't see what my yugo (All that I would be able to afford after track fees.repairs) could do!
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07-31-2007, 06:43 PM
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07-31-2007, 08:39 PM
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nice follow up....
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08-01-2007, 12:04 AM
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Outch!!! Thats wasnt a nice day for him...
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08-01-2007, 07:48 AM
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08-01-2007, 08:12 AM
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you can see what happened there.. combination of an unloaded suspension at the top of the hill, correcting a wide line through the turn, and adding power, results in the spin...
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08-01-2007, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by trogdor
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Wow, that looks like the same track and the same turn as the other video. Both going uphill and then just after that section they both wreck.
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08-01-2007, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by porsche986spyder
Wow, that looks like the same track and the same turn as the other video. Both going uphill and then just after that section they both wreck.
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I believe you are seeing the same car from two different angles. The first is the cam on the driver's helmet. The second is the car he passed, who also had a camera in the car. Watch the first one again and you'll see the second cam-enabled car.
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08-01-2007, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by porsche986spyder
Wow, that looks like the same track and the same turn as the other video. Both going uphill and then just after that section they both wreck.
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I think that camera car was the one who was passed in the first video.
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08-01-2007, 10:36 AM
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the onboard car is seal grey. the 2nd car is black.
either way the similarity of the two wrecks tells me the weight distribution of the car makes it prone to driver error in this particular type of corner. Which incidentally is one of the five most famous flat out corners in sports car world, used to be even more extreme.
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I bet you if I were doing that same speed in my BoxsterS I would not spin and if I did I wouldn't do a rear end hammer throw into the wall. The mid engine car would not travel far from the point of the spin.... far away from the wall, albeit with less warning than the 911.
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Last edited by Perfectlap; 08-01-2007 at 10:43 AM.
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