LA Sherriff's Report On Paul Walker, Roger Rodas CGT Accident
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LA Sherriff's Report On Paul Walker, Roger Rodas CGT Accident
Just released this afternoon....
Test showed no alcohol or drugs. Tires were over 9 years old....
https://local.nixle.com/alert/5169162/?sub_id=476069
Test showed no alcohol or drugs. Tires were over 9 years old....
https://local.nixle.com/alert/5169162/?sub_id=476069
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Saw that today... original 9 year old tires and one worn out brake rotor. But pretty much as I expected... the car was fine, the drivers were fast&furious.
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Guessing they got the speeds from length of skid marks.....did they take into account that 9 year old tires will most likely not have the same grip level as what they usually calculate?
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There were 6 owners of this CGT, the previous being Graham Rahal who complained how poorly the car handled. The fact that not one of them thought about or bothered to change the tires is amazing to me.....
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^^ I see your point, but the tires wouldn't have been a factor if driving within limits of that area....obviously any performance driving would be different. No different than taking your Del Mar winning thoroughbred race horse on a trail ride or pulling a Budweiser wagon and blaming the horseshoes when it all went wrong. The saying horses for courses is on the money for this one and that industrial area is no where to be hitting 94 MPH both from a road design stand point and "run off area" with immovable objects
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^^ I see your point, but the tires wouldn't have been a factor if driving within limits of that area....obviously any performance driving would be different. No different than taking your Del Mar winning thoroughbred race horse on a trail ride or pulling a Budweiser wagon and blaming the horseshoes when it all went wrong. The saying horses for courses is on the money for this one and that industrial area is no where to be hitting 94 MPH both from a road design stand point and "run off area" with immovable objects
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The odometer couldn't be read but looking at the last reading (~3300 miles less than 3 months prior) it appears Roger had probably driven it for under 1000 miles, and likely much less so would not have had time to fully attune himself to it, making any reflexive save that much harder.
Perhaps the most surprising finding in the report was actually that one ceramic brake rotor was already below minimum thickness on a car that had almost certainly done only 3300-5000 miles from new. For Porsche's sake, I hope most of those miles were time attack track miles or Porsche's original 180,000 mile life claim for these things is looking utterly ridiculous. Or did a ceramic rotor break within the first 5000 miles and get replaced with a used one? Either way, at something like USD 15K-20K per set, that's crazy expensive braking per mile.