RIP Paul Walker - killed in a CGT's passenger seat

[RawleyD]

Top Gear - Porsche Carrera GT VS Mercedes McLaren SLR - YouTube

Jeremy Clarkson has some very interesting (and frightening) things to say about the CGT on an older Top Gear.

Skip to 5:20~

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by RawleyD

Top Gear - Porsche Carrera GT VS Mercedes McLaren SLR - YouTube

Jeremy Clarkson has some very interesting (and frightening) things to say about the CGT on an older Top Gear.

Skip to 5:20~

Prophetic.

I guess there are some allusions to some sort of mechanical malfunction contributing to the disaster. But assuming they prove unfounded, I wonder what position Jerermy C's "Button of Death" (5:46) was at the time. Traction control disengaged I'd wager..

[TeamOxford]

Originally Posted by Frodo

Traction control disengaged I'd wager..

I thought the Carrera GT wasn't equipped with traction control.

Perhaps Nine8Six has a valid point when he states "...authorities be enforcing a "PILOT" license requirement to be allowed to drive those super sport cars exactly."

I have read several stories about drivers, some with good credentials, loosing control of the CGT. I've also read that when the Ferrari Enzo was first released, there was a plaque on the dash that read "You are not Michael Schumacher".

TO

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by TeamOxford

I thought the Carrera GT wasn't equipped with traction control.[/I]

TO

I wouldn't have known one way or the other. (I doubt my local Porsche dealership would have allowed my sorry butt to so much as settle comfortably into the driver's seat, ignition off! )

Just going on what Clarkson said in the vid at roughly the 5:46 mark. The aforementioned "button of death"? He referred to it as TC.