Thread: Track Crash

On tuners, just sharing

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4562562/detail.html#

Who says the track is the safe place to race? :P

Originally Posted by Shane916

Who says the track is the safe place to race? :P

No one with any common sense :P

thats what happens when you have a 20$ driver with a 200,000$ car. im wondering if he knew how to drive the car at those speeds.

Originally Posted by EvoKach

That's a great point. I wish they had more detail on what happened.

California Speed way is a very big track down south Cali. Those cars usally do autoX there I see them everytime I visit speed way..about two month ago.. I was just down there cause my friend was racing his Type-R civic. We were doing drag? not autoX but some dumb a$$ with an 10sec. 120+ R34 all tricked out ran once and I don?t know what he was thinking but he decided to start stopping later down the track and didn?t have enough time to stop and went head on w/the wall? damm what a waste? he should of just given me the damm car

Some first hand accounts in this thread.

I tried to cut out the important parts...

The person driving the vehicle who was behind him (Ferrari Stradale) just called us and told us what happened from his view. He was first on the scene. He said the GT past him at over 150mph as they eased onto the straigh a way and was traveling close to 165mph when he saw the car swerve. He got his car stopped and was first on the scene. One person was DOA and the other (driver) passed away in the helicopter enroute to the hospital.

What happened with the pit marshall:

Marshall saw the GT coming and gave the Ferrari owner the "GO" Ferrari guy hesitated.. looked back at the track.. passenger was shouting "GO".. then marshall says "STOP" and the Ferrari guy takes off.

Now: If the GT was moving at 165+ and the pit marshall wasnt familiar with cars generating that kind of speed (I'm doubting he was a CA Speedway employee) I could easily see how a split second hesitation on behalf of the driver could really mess things up.

This sucks. The passenger had just jumped into the GT. He was thinking about buying one and wanted a hot lap in it. Several of the FOC members are on their way to his house to "inform" his wife.

It was NOT a parade lap. It was his second time out for the morning. The first calls we received called it a "parade" lap. Those people had missed the first run group. Sorry for the confusion.

The passenger was another amazing guy and friend, Cory Rudl. I was with them both. Cory's Murceilago Roadster overheated early in the session. He was interested in buying a GT and Ben graciously offered Cory a seat to show him what the car could do. The entrance to the track was at the absolute worst place in the straight and an F-car was waived on in error as they came down the straight. It was just unthinkable something like this could happen. The driver waived on is by all accounts an excellent driver and was only doing what was instructed. I doubt he ever saw the car in such a blind spot coming on. May they both rest in peace and my heartfelt prayers for their families. Cory leaves behind a wonderful wife of just 30 days.......tragic isn't the word.

FYI:
- The oval was not used for this FOC Event.
-Only the infield portion of the track was used.
-The crash happened in the runoff area toward the end of the straight after the bridge. This is the straight after turn 8 and 9.
-The entrance to the track when this configuration is used is on the left side of this short straight.
-When this configuration is used, drivers should stay to the right, however it is a bit unnatural because the next turn is a right/left combo and the natural line is to stay to the left.
- There is a runnoff area with grass and then it's retaining walls.

BTW, the Carrera GT has an MSRP of 440K, but I bet it'd be hard to get one for that.