sublimate

GT3 bites dust at SCCA autocross and takes out 3 other cars.
Looks like a pretty poor course design.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3197431

schwank

I posted at the very end there.... bad confluence of a driver unfamiliar with the GT3 he was driving (borrowed), sketchy course design (course and parked cars sharing the paddock lot), and other cars including spectators at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nonetheless, a very unfortunate event that is getting a lot of mileage on the interweb. Supposedly the third GT3 wrecked at PIR this year. The driver is the guy in the pic holding his helmet.

Bill L Seifert

Boy is that going to be a mess. There are going to be a lot of happy lawyers, wherever that happened.

Bill Seifert

1987 944S Race Car

Jerseybean

Doubt if he's insured as well, doesn't the policy state "No Timed Events".

Larry Herman

It probably does. It's funny to see all of the BS on the VDub forum about how it isn't racing but really driver improvement/education yada, yada, yada. It is a timed speed event, and that my friends is racing. There are going to be some pretty upset people once this starts to shake out.

porschedog

That is sooooo sad...

paradisenb

There is almost no chance this will be covered by any insurance policy. Timed event. Someone f@#$%*up big time when they layed out the course in relation to the paddock. I just hope no spectators were hurt. Lets see the blue ricer: probably $5k in damages. The Audi is probably a total because of the trans axle damage.
And the GT3? Well, kiss about $70k .

Sanjeevan

OMG, this is so sad. .....DAMN!

Big6Dad

wow....

Sean F

GT3 + buddy driving for the first time = problems

Blackness

Oh sheet! Man, that guy must have wanted to crawl under a rock. Hate to see any car go down like that, much less a p-car. I'll remember to park my car well away from the action.

TD in DC

Where's eddie?

Is it fair to say that the red GT3 was Enzo'ed?

Gary R.

Yep - Deja Vu of the incident last year at LRP. Warm up lap, guy in his neighbor's new GT3, rolls it at the top of the uphill... $120K check for 1/2 a lap.

A.Wayne

I guess this is why they can't find any gt3 cars for the USenduro weekends HTF do you total a car at Auto-x... Gimme a break and get this idiot and others like him back to nintendo

Bill L Seifert

A friend of mine was driving another friend's 911 Turbo, and took it on a "real neat road", lost it on the first turn and hit a good size cedar tree. He said he looked at the owner, who was covered by the air bag, and all he could see were his eyes. He said they were not "happy eyes". It was covered by insurance, and it cost $4,500 deductable. The one in this thread is awful, because there will be several lawsuits, and maybe against the SCCA. If the bystanders did not sign the waiver, the SCCA could be screwed.

What A.Wayne says is so true.

Lord, what a mess.

Bill Seifert

1987 944S Race Car