TRAKCAR

I just got this picture e-mailed, I have no other info and did not get the photo from someone who has seen it first hand.

August 4th. 2012 at Watkins Glenn..

drdrank

OMG. Is this taken from the windshield of a car facing the car with the flying wheel? As in, driving right at it?!

Ajjra

Looks like it. Appears to be shot from a car following the failure car into turn 2.

Would like to know more about what happened if we can find out..,

TRAKCAR

Looks like it, there was no contact with the car that took footage. I am not sure how the GT3 ended up after landing.

Hopefully video foortage shows up where we can see the LR wheel before falling off.

Ajjra

I thought the majority of these issues were RR. Is that not correct? Are most LR?

TRAKCAR

If I remember correct most were LR, but the OP of this thread lost RR.

SH || NC

NNJR was there this past weekend according to PCA. Hope everyone is OK.

drdrank

You're right. NNJR was there. I will ask someone that I know was there.

P.J.S.

Oh snap
Literally

The Greek

This is a pretty intense image. I really don't see how Porsche wouldn't take the CL issue seriously after this picture....

Give it a few weeks and this pic/video will be viral on the net....

gstahl

The car looks pretty stock, though the wheels are not likely stock (not sure I have seem black stock wheels on a GT3, though I guess one could order them).

For reference, two claims Porsche made for my failure was at a track and non-stock wheels/tires both of which void the warranty.

For an update on my failure, Porsche has definitely not stepped up in anyway to help. Working through some things right now, but in the end it will likely be completely in my hands to repair all damage from the failure.

Definitely would never take street center locks on to a track ever again, just too complicated and more importantly, not clear how you tell they may possibly fail. Following maintenance procedures on the day you are on the track is definitely not enough (the exact maintenance history absolutely matters, for example if they were ever not torqued or the splines were ever not set I would replace the hub)

CRex

HOW MANY TIMES DOES IT HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE PORSCHE TAKES ACTION??


OR DOES SOMEBODY HAVE TO DIE????

mikymu

^^

Hope it will never come to that but I will not drive a GT3 with street CL

ir_fuel

That is exactly what would hold me from buying OZ/BBS/.... wheels. If something happens to the hub and those wheels were on, Porsche will immediately claim that the non-OEM wheel was the reason for the failure.

CRex

Well they don't even need aftermarket wheels to blame. Anything that happens on a track is at the owner's own risk, ain't it so?

There're 5-sigma events like alien abduction and asteriod hits, then there are increasingly common engineering issues with CL failures. Naturally, Porsche would put both in the same category and deny liability all the same