Rick Bye - crash in Targa
09-17-2014, 08:38 PM
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always carnage at targa newfoundland. At the end of each day a car or two never make it..
Ballsy event to run.
Had a call today from a competitor who blew his engine and was wondering if i had anything to rent.
(i had a car but it needed to be serviced etc and in storage thus a no go).
My RS with odd wheels surviving Targa 2010.
Ballsy event to run.
Had a call today from a competitor who blew his engine and was wondering if i had anything to rent.
(i had a car but it needed to be serviced etc and in storage thus a no go).
My RS with odd wheels surviving Targa 2010.
09-18-2014, 01:17 PM
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Rick, speedy recovery! Everyone on the CREW of the Yorkville Exotic Car Show wishes you all the best and we hope to see you back on track soon. Cheers,
Phil Downe
Yorkville Exotic Car Show
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Phil Downe
Yorkville Exotic Car Show
Save the Date!
Father’s Day, Sunday, June 21, 2015
For more information please visit:
YorkvilleExotics.com
@YorkvilleCars
09-18-2014, 03:52 PM
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Three Wheelin'
This is what Rick Bye said:
"Okay, straight from the horse's ***,,, er mouth. I got a tad distracted with some of the navigational bull**** and dropped my guard for a second. When I glanced at the corner it looked pretty harmless. Brian seemed to have it under control if not a tad fast. Because I was distracted for a split second I didn't have the time to scream at him to get off the gas. Most of us know what happens with throttle application in a corner. The car just widens it's turning radius. In a heartbeat we were on the shoulder, in the ditch and straight into the driveway culvert. It was a pretty significant deceleration from 50 or 60klm. Figured I braced my feet on the floor and transfered a lot of the impact through my pelvis into my lower back. That smarted pretty good. Took me awhile to catch my breath and with the discomfort in my lower back I decided that the best plan of attack would be to immobilize it and wait for a back board to facilitate my extraction. They tell me I have a burst fracture of my L2 vertebrae, a broke rib or two and a little swelling in my chest from the seat belt. I figure the first couple steps will be an adventure. We'll keep everybody up to speed, or lack of on my recovery. Ricky Bobby"
"Okay, straight from the horse's ***,,, er mouth. I got a tad distracted with some of the navigational bull**** and dropped my guard for a second. When I glanced at the corner it looked pretty harmless. Brian seemed to have it under control if not a tad fast. Because I was distracted for a split second I didn't have the time to scream at him to get off the gas. Most of us know what happens with throttle application in a corner. The car just widens it's turning radius. In a heartbeat we were on the shoulder, in the ditch and straight into the driveway culvert. It was a pretty significant deceleration from 50 or 60klm. Figured I braced my feet on the floor and transfered a lot of the impact through my pelvis into my lower back. That smarted pretty good. Took me awhile to catch my breath and with the discomfort in my lower back I decided that the best plan of attack would be to immobilize it and wait for a back board to facilitate my extraction. They tell me I have a burst fracture of my L2 vertebrae, a broke rib or two and a little swelling in my chest from the seat belt. I figure the first couple steps will be an adventure. We'll keep everybody up to speed, or lack of on my recovery. Ricky Bobby"
Best wishes to Rick and a speedy recovery!
09-18-2014, 08:20 PM
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Drifting
This is a good write up by Lorraine Sommberfeld who co-drove the Cayenne with Rick from Toronto to NFD, a video clip too, amazing where that camera was placed related to where the Lancer impacted the culvert!
Any conspiracy theory folks here?!
http://driving.ca/mitsubishi/lancer/...ill-determined
Any conspiracy theory folks here?!
http://driving.ca/mitsubishi/lancer/...ill-determined
09-19-2014, 10:06 AM
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09-22-2014, 04:05 PM
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10-07-2014, 11:35 PM
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Just spotted this. Hope everything works out. While I never met him, I heard good things about him from Brian D (who I met when I bought his Porsche). Good luck Rick!
