RE: Japanese supercar crash takes out eight Ferraris

[bqf]

threespires said:

Furyblade_Lee said:

I am loving all the comments too you get when a Supercar is crashed, usually aimed at the driver not being able to handle the car.

Correct!
If they could handle the car they might not have had the accident.
What does this story say to me ?
I'd guess that they were all following too closely and not concentrating, a common theme when cars are in a convoy such as this.

Yes, you're absolutely spot on there. Supercar drivers can rarely handle their vehicles, and when travelling in convoy, I suspect they often lose concentration and leave too small a gap.

They definitely won't have suffered a blowout, mechancial failure or have hit a patch of oily wet road - that doesn't happen to supercar drivers. It's always their almost total lack of ability.

Whereas people who have spent their lives driving clapped-out old Orions, Kias and import 4x4s usually have the driving abilities of gods.

[KDIcarmad]

I through these car had the best breaks(after the cash if not before!), the best suspension and all the electronic driving adds you could imagine, so how did they crash! Simple the drivers were not the best!

[Carnnoisseur]

dele said:

How do you know they were massive pricks?

Are Massive Pricks able to identify others of their kind so easily?

Way too funny Dele, still laughing now!!!

[thewheelman]

Only minor injuries to the drivers, as for the cars, couldn't care less if i was paid to.

[grimsmeister]

The insurance claims should keep Jasper Carrott in business for a few more years!

[KB_S1]

Reading suggestions that a Mercedes was driving against traffic.
If that is the case the outcome was very fortunate.

[Oddball RS]

The barriers look lethal to me.

[KB_S1]

Oddball RS said:

The barriers look lethal to me.

No one died.

[anonymous-user]

it was serious enough for the thunderbirds to deploy.... or are they really japanese police uniforms?

[JS100]

Shame about the Lambo

[Vipers]

So speed doesn't kill then

[B0bman]

grimsmeister said:

The insurance claims should keep Jasper Carrott in business for a few more years!

"I had to swerve several time before I hit 'im" , etc

[SmartVenom]

KDIcarmad said:

I through these car had the best breaks(after the cash if not before!), the best suspension and all the electronic driving adds you could imagine, so how did they crash! Simple the drivers were not the best!

Don't think a 355 has much in the way of driver aids and I think many would question a testarossa (which i love) as having the best of anything.

Also on this logic there would never be crashes in F1.

[neilbauer]

I saw a crash once, no Ferrari's though!

[billzeebub]

the last thing uttered before screams would have been the Japanese for 'Watch this'..

[J BIRD RACING]

Perhaps the photo does not appear on this site but other sites show the Complete accident and one stand out is obvious; a PORSCHE GT2, parked backwards in the emergency lane unscathed.
PORSCHE,a better handling supercar and better driven.

[chieflief]

J BIRD RACING said:

Perhaps the photo does not appear on this site but other sites show the Complete accident and one stand out is obvious; a PORSCHE GT2, parked backwards in the emergency lane unscathed.
PORSCHE,a better handling supercar and better driven.

Or much further behind when the accident happened and was able to brake in time to avoid it...

[cookie1600]

I see there's been a rush on Rosso Corsa this week.........

[AMG Merc]

Now that'll take a lot of T-Cut to polish out - shame really, could easily happen on one of our runs. Remember, leave enough room - just in case.

[menghini666]

"Apparently the most expensive crash in History" ....... Unless Rowan Atkinson has anthing to do about it with a £3,000,000 maclaren! xx