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trev0006
10-23-2007, 07:05 PM
Carrera GT Crash Settled for $4.5m

The lawsuit was recently settled for a reported total of approximately $4.5 million. The contributions to the settlement were about 49% from the estate of the driver, 41% from the track owners and the event organizers, 8% from Porsche, and 2% from the driver of the Ferrari that was claimed to have triggered the crash.
more details:
http://www.sportscarmarket.com/content/carrera

Original story:
http://www.knbc.com/news/4562562/detail.html
Hash_man
10-23-2007, 08:36 PM
Interesting I think is that change to the wall in the track for a stupid play area...

Interesting read though... I fail to see how porsche not putting stability control in their cars makes them liable one bit though :dunno:
frozenrice
10-23-2007, 08:44 PM
Lawyers............they'll find a way to twist everything in their favour.
benyl
10-23-2007, 08:49 PM
Originally posted by Hash_man
Interesting I think is that change to the wall in the track for a stupid play area...

Interesting read though... I fail to see how porsche not putting stability control in their cars makes them liable one bit though :dunno:

Selling a dangerous weapon.

Some cars and bikes require the owner to hold a racing license. Many of these high horsepower cars should also have this requirement. Just because you have money, doesn't mean you know how to drive.
962 kid
10-23-2007, 08:53 PM
http://forums.beyond.ca/attachment.php?s=&postid=1071505
rmk
10-23-2007, 08:53 PM
What a joke :thumbsdow God bless the USA :rolleyes:
schocker
10-23-2007, 10:42 PM
that is messed up, but i guess any lawsuit can happen in the us, dumbest part being porsche paying 8%, they built a damn car, do they have to start passing out waivers when they sell them now
Neil4Speed
10-23-2007, 10:51 PM
They should start handing out waivers when people buy knives, skates.. I could go on.
Canmorite
10-23-2007, 10:53 PM
Originally posted by Neil4Speed
They should start handing out waivers when people buy knives, skates.. I could go on.

Don't give lawyers anymore ideas on how to make money.
rage2
10-24-2007, 07:39 AM
Porsche won't force waivers, as this case has shown, waivers are useless when it comes to negligent behavior. Everyone knows the CGT has tricky handling, interesting that they wanted to fix it during development, but never happened. Another interesting tidbit is the engineer at Porsche that says the CGT's traction control system was left out in production because vibrations kept it from working properly.
cloud7
10-25-2007, 03:01 PM
interesting how they put the oversteering nature of the car a "handling problem" instead of a "handling characteristic"...