STi crashed on trackday

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that AWD understeer?! What? The car oversteer creating a drift and he didnt know how to control it and ran into a wall... what does understeer have to do with it?
 
Yeah, he must of been one hell of an idiot. I mean, screaming through a corner with a well balanced, decently handling machine and messing up definatly makes him an idiot. Even my grandma could keep her calm in a situation like that!

If you have the grapes to enter a corner that fast and then keep your wits about you, be my guest. Also, how many track days have you driven in?
 
Originally posted by Goomba
Yeah, he must of been one hell of an idiot. I mean, screaming through a corner with a well balanced, decently handling machine and messing up definatly makes him an idiot.
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Bottom line: he lost control of a $30,000 car, and put it into a wall. He's an idiot.

I quit racing my S2000 when I came within inches of smacking a tire wall out at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit during a trip to OK a few years back. I'll post a link of some Miata's taking the same right hand corner I lost it on in a few minutes. I made the video when I was in OK a few weeks ago. Brought back some crazy memories being at that track again. I've seen a old ass Porsche, old 308 or 328 Ferrari, and Z06 all smack that wall on the same corner. Glad I missed it.

Edit - Here's the link: http://www.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=F7F3B2CC682A62171470A99FADBA0D47
 
Yes, he screwed up the turn and over corrected way too much and slammed the STi into the wall. But believe it or not, it's a normal reaction. I slammed my Nissan Altima into a pole by over correcting some very slight oversteer. I turned the car around 180 degrees. Who else has been in that situation? You just get scared to death and do whats natural.

I edited it because I was being way too much of an asshole for a little deal like this. Basically, I disagree. He just messed up, and I'm sure he'll learn.
 
Yeah, It looked like he was going to make it perfectly then the car just bolted left i guess over correcting it huh?
 
the car looks cool like that, when people see his car, they will know that hes a racer...or if sum1 asks him what happened he can say i crashed while racing...
 
Originally posted by L1ama
the car looks cool like that, when people see his car, they will know that hes a racer...or if sum1 asks him what happened he can say i crashed while racing...
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:lol: that's not something to be proud about now is it?
 
Some people in here give their driving and their cool too much credit.

I he created some oversteer by lifting off and steering at the same moment. He held it pretty good on the throttle through the corner but then lifted the throttle not smooth enough and to quickly creating that vicious snap back on which he couldn't bring his steering back quickly enough. Especially AWD cars don't need quick throttle lifts after drifts as, depending on torque bias, the car is helping you more to pull out of the drift.

I would have probably screwed up as well. If you think the driver is an idiot for crashing the car, you need a reality check. Everybody makes mistakes and inexperienced people more than experienced ones. But the bottom line is that that nobody's safe from doing them.
 
L1ama
the car looks cool like that, when people see his car, they will know that hes a racer...
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Yes, what better way to showcase your "racer" skills than to put your car into the wall on track day! :dopey:
 
another STI crashed, why do they keep crashing???

coxcrash3_small.jpg
 
it went flying while rallying at high speed hit a bump i think or something went off course....i forgot the link of the vid :( oh yea and thats when it flipped over 1st or second time
edit: found 2 more pics on it
cox1_thruxton.jpg


that is when it started to flip
cox2_thruxton.jpg

when it flipped first time
coxcrash3_small.jpg

the last pic that was above, last pic taken, their in order
 
it's so sad... the price of repairing probably worth more than the car itself :(
STi is my fav car too!!
oh well, it's that dumb driver's fault :P
 
when he first starts sliding it looks like he was about to bust out a nice drift... but then the weight shifted and he went right into the wall... somebody needs to learn how to manage weight transfer. He musta almost had a heart attack when he felt the weight shift.
 
I dont think he over corrected too much, he was doing fine (for a pretty bad mistake in the first place) but let off the gas too fast (someone else has mentioned this before) which made the tires regain traction for a second, spun the car, so he countersteered the other way which didnt help him any, then right into the wall. I think the whipping action into the wall did more damage then if he had just kinda slid sideways :dunce:

I've never raced, nor driven..err legally but i'm sure thats a lot harder to correct then it sounds
 
You can see in the video he overcorrect it too much. He didnt try to drift I dont think, he needs Keiichi's Drift Bible. :lol:
 
for not trying to drift, he sure did break late... he musta been destracted or something. He must have been thinking "****!! TOO FAST!!!..... ok... ok.. maybe i can recover... YES!!!YES!!! NO!!!!!!!!!, ahhhhhh!!! ouch.... **** how am i gonna pay for this....
 
This sort of thing (haven't downloaded the video and am not going to) happens to everyone.

One day (road was wet) i was at a t-junction turning right in the Skyline, and i thought i'd try get the tail out by accellerating a bit harder than normal (less than half throttle though as the turbo kicks in at 3000rpm) while turning.

Well the car got sideways left, i overcorrected and it went right, same thing again and it went left, right and by then adrenaline had kicked in - i tapped the brake, the Attesa kicked in and the front wheels helped pull me out of the 'doorslaming' - and all that without hitting anything.

A lesson learned (i.e. don't put your foot down while turning a corner on a wet road in a turbo Nissan Skyline!).
 
Mustang-man
A lesson learned (i.e. don't put your foot down while turning a corner on a wet road in a turbo Nissan Skyline!).
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Why not? do it all the time.

Exept one time I was travelling on a main road in the around a long shallow bend in the wet at about 80-90kph and I had it 3rd, I easied the accelerator pedal down and when it came on 2nd stage boost (4500rpm about 110kph) the rear stepped out hard :ill:.......I managed to get it back :sly:. Then changed my Jocks.
 
4WD Skylines are a bit harder to handle in the wet because of the Atessa trying to pull the car back into a straight line. And for someone with no experience in situations other than 'normal' slow driving (like myself) its not recommended.
 
ya think the car would've been saved if it had some kind of traction control... like DSC? My car has that.

I had the same thing happen to me well kind of but i was going much slower in my toyota 4 runner . it happened when it was raining i floored it coming out of a parking lot and fishtailed out on the road i tried to correct it and the car would like whip the other way and the steering wheel almost snapped my wrist once heh. :dopey:
 

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