Crashed my GT3.2 RS at Monza
09-15-2018, 04:57 PM
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Crashed my GT3.2 RS at Monza
Set off on a 4500km road trip last Friday with the aim of doing 3 track days in one week - Monza, Mugello and Dijon. We kicked off with Monza on Monday and in only the 3rd session of the day, a young guy in a 991.1 GT3 crashed into my new 991.2 GT3 RS at the Curva Grande chicane.
I had passed the offending GT3 at Ascari on the other side of the track so by the time we got to Curva Grande he was a couple of hundred metres back. You can see in the video that I passed a Corvette at around 350metres out from the chicane. The driver of the Corvette, who had a birds eye view of the accident, said the GT3 came sailing passed him at a million miles an hour, completely missed his braking point, hit the brakes way too late, spun out of control and skidded into the side of the car. The hit took me completely by suprose because I was already passed the apex of the corner and one would not normally expect to be hit at that point.
I hopped out of the car expecting to see lots of bits hanging off...but sometimes you can be lucky. He hit me fair and square on the left rear wheel so there was zero body damage. But fearful of suspension damage, we managed to get the car trucked late in the day to Porsche Milano who inspected the car and said the only things needed was a suspension realignment, a new rear wheel and two new rear tyres Absolutely remarkable after that hit.
His car car was a mess with at least 20K damage.
I had passed the offending GT3 at Ascari on the other side of the track so by the time we got to Curva Grande he was a couple of hundred metres back. You can see in the video that I passed a Corvette at around 350metres out from the chicane. The driver of the Corvette, who had a birds eye view of the accident, said the GT3 came sailing passed him at a million miles an hour, completely missed his braking point, hit the brakes way too late, spun out of control and skidded into the side of the car. The hit took me completely by suprose because I was already passed the apex of the corner and one would not normally expect to be hit at that point.
I hopped out of the car expecting to see lots of bits hanging off...but sometimes you can be lucky. He hit me fair and square on the left rear wheel so there was zero body damage. But fearful of suspension damage, we managed to get the car trucked late in the day to Porsche Milano who inspected the car and said the only things needed was a suspension realignment, a new rear wheel and two new rear tyres Absolutely remarkable after that hit.
His car car was a mess with at least 20K damage.
Last edited by Chris3963; 09-17-2018 at 04:00 PM.
09-15-2018, 05:05 PM
#4
Sorry to hear about the incident. Hope everyone is OK and you get your car repaired quickly.
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09-15-2018, 05:26 PM
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Unfortunate - but no one was hurt which is good news, and cars are just cars at the end of the day, s*** happens on track.
09-15-2018, 06:32 PM
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Correction...you didn’t crash. Some a**hole crashed into you.
Sounds like you you got lucky. Let’s hope that’s the truth.
Sounds like you you got lucky. Let’s hope that’s the truth.
09-15-2018, 07:14 PM
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Glad you and the others involved are ok, get back on the track ASAP!
