Big wreck at Texas Mile, driver walks away

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10-27-2010, 12:19 PM

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What the hell is the Texas Mile?

Seems like he hit the one and only thing that was anywhere near the track!

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10-27-2010, 12:30 PM

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What the hell is the Texas Mile?

Seems like he hit the one and only thing that was anywhere near the track!

Wind?

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10-27-2010, 12:34 PM

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it looks like he hits some embankment or pile of shrubs or something down there, no?

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10-27-2010, 03:11 PM

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thank god for his safety equipment!!

no rollcage, HANS, or anything else. At least he had his Gforce jacket on!!

overboosted and underengineered....

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10-27-2010, 03:16 PM

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thank god for his safety equipment!!

no rollcage, HANS, or anything else. At least he had his Gforce jacket on!!

overboosted and underengineered....

Actually it did have a roll cage, not sure about at a Hans, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

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10-27-2010, 03:30 PM

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Kook (with money) IMHO.
p.s. Some say the same about me (except for the money part).

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10-27-2010, 03:51 PM

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Sorry to say... this is Darwin at his finest.

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10-27-2010, 04:10 PM

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the guy set the record a cpl yrs back in a FGT turbo, then it was broken a couple times. He wanted to take the record back from what I'm told.

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10-27-2010, 05:06 PM

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Any in car video so we can see if his belts slid off of his H&N device?

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10-27-2010, 05:13 PM

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Impressive crash and unfortunate waste of a beautiful car, but glad the driver was okay. I wonder how much practice he had in deploying a drag chute at 200mph (at least from the video, that's what seemed to trigger the crash)?

The "waste of a beautiful car" started when this guy bought it and decided he should drag race it.

Thankfully he walked away, stupid or not does not deserve to get hurt or worse.

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10-27-2010, 06:02 PM

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I'll stick with road racing.......

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10-27-2010, 06:03 PM

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I would think that if you had the desire and money to do something like that with a Lambo, that you would just go buy a top fuel dragster and do the same MPH (on a dragstrip) in only a quarter mile in a car with a much higher survival probability. Safety equipment my ***,....he's lucky to be alive.