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08-13-2012, 08:29 AM | #1 |
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OT: One of the guys i race with proving roll cages work yesterday on pikes peak
Safety equipment at speed means a lot. If you are tracking/racing your car at least have a helmet. I see video from track days all the time with no helmets.
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I was up there yesterday and saw it happen from a lower point on the mountain. Talk about one hell of a scary sight to see. From what I heard, the driver was only banged up and was taken down the mountain in an ambulance. The co-driver broke her leg and cracked her helmet though. They carried her in a stretcher back up to the road and she was taken to the hospital via flight-for-live.
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Dislocated shoulder for co-driver. The driver (Jeremy Foley that I race with) walked away under his own power. Lucky to have lived through it.
From Top Gear http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/p...ley-2012-08-13
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Really sorry to hear this news, but glad that Jeremy and his navigator are okay. I also autocross with him at a lot of the Texas area SCCA events--great guy and a very good driver. They were lucky to make it out of this one.
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I was in Dallas last week talking to him about a ring trip we had been planning for 2013. This video just made me stop and start thinking about where the line is....
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No doubt about that. Seeing the crash also made me think of the motorcycle and quad riders. Going off the side on one of those would be a whole different situation.
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It makes me wonder if we'll see a guard rail on that point of Devil's Playground come next year.
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Also OT: head on collision test at 120mph.
Swallowing a hefty 400G and deceleration from 120mph to 0mph in only 68 milliseconds. Useless to remind to the "Don't try this at home" baseline...
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