UNREAL crash, driver walks away

[Casa]

"He was going 95 mph when he went off. Brake failure, not driver error. The Noble has no trouble hitting 150 mph.

This post shd be incentive to ramp up on safety equipment. The driver apparently credited the HANS, his cage and the RaceTech seat for helping him survive. As one poster noted in response to concern about the $2,500 seat cost: "The wheelchair will set you back more than that."

http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f68/crash-mid-ohio-scca-t2-nissan-61500/

[InLoveWitRSX]

shit thats crazy.

[HiSpec]

i can't imagine if he didn't put in a roll cage

[cloud7]

That fence didn't do much to stop the car.... luckily there weren't any spectators on the other side of the fence.

[msommers]

Wow, glad to see he was ok. I can't imagine something like that happening to street racers (or anyone without a cage for that matter), like insta-death :(

[Kavy]

No way they are paying for that car to be fixed, I mean they were to cheap to paint 84 on the car they used tape.

[Hakkola]

Originally posted by Casa
The Noble has no trouble hitting 150 mph.



Noble? I don't get what that has to do with anything... :dunno:

[tkirby]

Originally posted by Kavy
No way they are paying for that car to be fixed, I mean they were to cheap to paint 84 on the car they used tape.

Uhh tape?:dunno:

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Originally posted by Hakkola


Noble? I don't get what that has to do with anything... :dunno:

Lotus Noble? :dunno:

[Hakkola]

Originally posted by LilDrunkenSmurf


Lotus Noble? :dunno:

Yeah, but what does that have to do with a Nissan crash? :rofl:

[eglove]

unbelieveable

[stevo 27]

think he'll be parting it out?;)

[GotRice?]

wow! :eek: yay for safety equipment :clap:

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by LilDrunkenSmurf


Lotus Noble? :dunno: Uh what?

Lotus and Noble are two different car makers...and neither of them make the 350Z. :rofl:

[Casa]

crazyyyyy

[Vagabond142]

Kinda reminds me Mark Webber's flight at Le Mans. Flew 500 feet off the track, about 40 feet in the air, walked away. Safety equipment saves lives.

Also, really heartening to see the safety dudes already at full run by the time the car hits the safety fence. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: for safety people that have great reaction times.

[Boosted_TL]

Originally posted by Hakkola


Noble? I don't get what that has to do with anything... :dunno:



Originally posted by LilDrunkenSmurf


Lotus Noble? :dunno:

The guy who posted these pictures drives a Noble M400, the car that "was" nice was a Nissan 350Z.

:clap: for safety rescue on that one! And safety equipment, you can clearly see what the cage did for the structure of the cabin area.

[403ep3]

:werd: Cage ftw

lucky!!!

[HHURICANE1]

Ah shit, that will just buff right out! :D

[Buffalo Soldier]

The crash looked like it was a lot of fun. driver walked away. good stuff.

[cloud7]

Originally posted by Vagabond142
Kinda reminds me Mark Webber's flight at Le Mans. Flew 500 feet off the track, about 40 feet in the air, walked away. Safety equipment saves lives.


You mean Marc Gene.

[bosanel]

:eek: :eek: Thats pretty nutty. He rolled pretty far, and yeah, thank god no one was watching from that side or they'd be pie filling..

[MikeAg]

roll cages ftw

[Redlyne_mr2]

hvdaMMrmkF8&eurl

[Gabe182]

^ is this the same crash, thats so insane.

[Team_Mclaren]

Originally posted by msommers
Wow, glad to see he was ok. I can't imagine something like that happening to street racers (or anyone without a cage for that matter), like insta-death :(

only if you also have a helmet, HANS, a real racing seats + 5 point harness properly installed. If not, the roll cage will kill you before the car comes to a stop

[spikerS]

lol, as i was scrolling, i was like, ok the tires will stop him, that isn't so bad, then i was like, ok the fence will stop him, he won't make it over or through, then i was like WTF will stop him?!?!

[hypnotoad]

Wow, I wonder why everything in the middle shattered but nothing else did.