agius Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 poor bloke i know exactly how it feels like Quote
Redwarf Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 Someone turned up to the ATM of talent and were told they had insufficient funds. Quote
SkidzMgee Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 On 1/27/2011 at 10:51 PM, Redwarf said: 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 Quote
19914afc Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 he probably had it as a street registered track car? Quote
altezzaclub Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Quote 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. Quote
ke70dave Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 (edited) 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, 2011 by ke70dave Quote
Rob 5000 Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Posted January 28, 2011 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. Quote
Sloth Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 On 1/27/2011 at 1:36 PM, ae824ate said: 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). Quote
Trev Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 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. Quote
Rob 5000 Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Posted January 28, 2011 just found the youtube vid of the skyline hitting the wall. The sweeper did seem to be very low grip on the day. Quote
Spencer[RL] Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Guns it pretty hard on the exit , then its pretty much down hill from there.....there was no way of saving that..... Quote
agius Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 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 Quote
SLO-030 Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 I think i can say, once your sliding on grass, there's not much you can do to control it. Quote
Redwarf Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 On 2/3/2011 at 5:51 AM, agius said: 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. Quote
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