 Bad Day in Rantoul |
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 Apr 26 2007, 07:31 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Advanced Members Posts: 588 Joined: 23-December 03 From: Sterling, IL Member No.: 7  |
Apparently we can look forward to even higher insurance rates for SCCA events next year....
I gather this was from Central Illinois (Rantoul). Don't know the details, but the fifth hand story was the guy lost it in a slalom, skidded until he hit grass, at which point it caught and flipped. Rumor is the put on a spare tire, rolled it back over and the guy drove it away. (IMG:http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n230/digitalseance/04-21-07/FL010015.jpg) |
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Apr 26 2007, 09:01 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 471 Joined: 13-December 05 From: North Olmsted, OH Member No.: 1,010 |
WOW! This is not good. Pretty soon you'll need to be required to get a Cone Carving Competition license, or a required class you need to attend to ensure nutjobs that think they are Michael Schumacher don't get too frisky on the course.
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Apr 27 2007, 02:49 AM
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Experienced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,042 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Hanover, PA Member No.: 36 |
Notice the aircraft... I can imagine his thoughts as to the relative safety of the endeavors involved!!
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Apr 27 2007, 01:21 PM
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North of the border Group: Admin Posts: 2,307 Joined: 4-February 04 From: Montreal, CANADA Member No.: 177 |
yikes !
reminds me of a similar accident... but on flat asphalt... a swift w/ stock suspension on race-rubber doing a slalom going too fast, and not letting go to not get a DNF. every turn of the slalom was worse and worse until the wheel actually dug on the asphalt and made the car tip/roll. Hope the driver is not injured. if the guy drove out of there... wonder if he's gonna roll the car in a ditch. |
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Apr 30 2007, 01:59 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 221 Joined: 2-December 05 From: Haslett, MI Member No.: 997 |
Back in August '99 I went to a track day, and we had a participant go offroad with his parent's brand new Saturn SW2 which he promptly rolled (on a left-hander) and crushed in the roof at the driver's pillar. ( How you roll at Gingerman raceway is beyond me). Cracked his helmet on impact, too, and took an involuntary ride to the hospital for observation & X-ray.
The scuttlebutt later was when his parents showed up to check out the car, and mom was in tears because their son had apparently "lost" his own car to a bank, been dropped from his own insurance carrier, and was specifically excluded from the parent's insurance carrier, and was supposed to be at work that day, instead of being at the track. Big "oops". I bet life sucked for him when his parents showed up at the hospital. This post has been edited by ws6transam: Apr 30 2007, 02:00 AM |
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