Remember this guy? Well, he died.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Found it http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=489...

[J4CKO]

Was the guy actually that skilled or just well practised and didnt care about potential consequences ?

I can slide a car about a bit but I dont as it is generally frowned upon and when practising it is easy to get it wrong and damage your P and J, I am sure if pretty much any of us didnt give a toss and did what he did or had a circuit and some old, powerful RWD cars we could certainly improve our skills to the point where we could judge it a lot better than currently.

[jogger1976]

While I think the guy driving has (had) some talent (the E34 with the 3.8 lump is around 330hp so a fairly lively old school RWD ride), I would agree he's nowhere in the league of some of the Japanese drift scene/touge racing blokes.

Add in the fact he's driving like this on congested, narrow, bumpy roads with other motorists in much slower vehicles, and I'm not surprised things ended badly.
There were definitely some moments in that film where I feel he came very close to having a massive accident, or potentially wiping out a pedestrian.

Sad, but inevitable I'm afraid.

[jogger1976]

Ali_T said:

His final video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotat...

i won't make any pretence and being quite glad that his "Coming Soon" at the end will never be filmed. This video is just absolutely shocking. A monumental bellend that deserved what he got. I just hope no innocent people were hurt when he went.

fking hell!!!! I've just seen that video and have now re evaluated my opinion. All I can say is, thank fk that bloke at 55 seconds wasn't listening to his I Pod or engrossed in a phone call. Then he nearly bins it into that Shogun at 3:45, Then from 6:40 onward is without question some of the most reckless, dangerous and plain scary driving I've ever witnessed.

Not good. Not good at all.

[Patrick Bateman]

He wasn't even the driver when he was killed.

[Levin]

Patrick Bateman said:

He wasn't even the driver when he was killed.

But given the manager in which he drove, he could well have been. Those videos are bloody scary to watch; not because of the environment but because of the sheer number of innocent people who could've been caught up in his and his cohorts' antics.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Levin said:

But given the manager in which he drove, he could well have been. Those videos are bloody scary to watch; not because of the environment but because of the sheer number of innocent people who could've been caught up in his and his cohorts' antics.

Could have, should have but didn't and he wasn't driving when he was killed was he. Lets just stick to the facts.

[silent ninja]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Could have, should have but didn't and he wasn't driving when he was killed was he. Lets just stick to the facts.

The fact is he had no regard for other people's lives. The irony is that he was killed in a crash.

[Gav147]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Levin said:

But given the manager in which he drove, he could well have been. Those videos are bloody scary to watch; not because of the environment but because of the sheer number of innocent people who could've been caught up in his and his cohorts' antics.

Could have, should have but didn't and he wasn't driving when he was killed was he. Lets just stick to the facts.

It was never going to end well though was it? Worse the fact that, going by the comments on some of his vids, a lot of young lads seemed to idolise him for doing it and posting it, only takes one of them to go out and try recreate one of his videos...

[Biker's Nemesis]

Gav147 said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Levin said:

But given the manager in which he drove, he could well have been. Those videos are bloody scary to watch; not because of the environment but because of the sheer number of innocent people who could've been caught up in his and his cohorts' antics.

Could have, should have but didn't and he wasn't driving when he was killed was he. Lets just stick to the facts.

It was never going to end well though was it? Worse the fact that, going by the comments on some of his vids, a lot of young lads seemed to idolise him for doing it and posting it, only takes one of them to go out and try recreate one of his videos...

I am not condoning anything but he didn't harm anyone and he wasn't driving when he died. Like I said I am just stating facts.

I wouldn't want to be on the road with a driver like that.

[Disastrous]

paranoid airbag said:

Disastrous said:

Ashley1987 said:

What if he had run down a school trip or your Mum or Dad.

Silly . End of.

Or, what if he'd led a political party that ultimately took the world to War? Or massacred a busload of children? Or ate kittens??

End of!

You're not too bright are you?

What Ashley said was clearly relevant as it as a forseeable risk of driving like a tool. What you said not so.

Brighter than you by the looks of it...

[angrymoby]

I'm pleased to report, that the tree went on to make a full recovery

[Captain Muppet]

MrT8064 said:

http://needfordrive.com/index.php?do=/profile-85/

Thats his profile on 'Need for Drive'

Whilst I agree his driving was dangerous, there is no question that he had some serious skills - such a shame that talent like this has been lost at just 25! RIP

Going by the link in the OP I'd question that he has "serious skills". Nothing there that would get him above qualifying last at a UK drift competition.

[epom]

silent ninja said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Could have, should have but didn't and he wasn't driving when he was killed was he. Lets just stick to the facts.

The fact is he had no regard for other people's lives. The irony is that he was killed in a crash.

+1

[TimmyMallett]

You don't fk with a tree though do you? Trees are immense when it comes to sheer immovability. It's like that bit in Batman Vs Superman where the Batmobile needed Adamanium SIPS.

[danllama]

1ians said:

I remember that one, there were a few threads before the accident where a few people were concerned about his attitude and ability and asked him to be careful.

The thread were they put it together is here.

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e60-m5-e61-m5-tou...

That is sobering reading, and the thread where they gave him good advice, and it dawns on them that it was him...

[TheJimi]

danllama said:

1ians said:

I remember that one, there were a few threads before the accident where a few people were concerned about his attitude and ability and asked him to be careful.

The thread were they put it together is here.

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e60-m5-e61-m5-tou...

That is sobering reading, and the thread where they gave him good advice, and it dawns on them that it was him...

This quote from that thread blew my mind -

"Why was he allowed to drive it on a goodam runway at 3AM? Maybe some of the authorites might like to answer that.

Out on the road he could have taken his chances. We cant do much about that. We can control other environments though.

These cars are not designed for airstrips. Planes are for that"

[angrymoby]

TheJimi said:

This quote from that thread blew my mind -

"Why was he allowed to drive it on a goodam runway at 3AM? Maybe some of the authorites might like to answer that.

Out on the road he could have taken his chances. We cant do much about that. We can control other environments though.

These cars are not designed for airstrips. Planes are for that"

unfkin'believable ...only in America

[ezi]

TimmyMallett said:

You don't fk with a tree though do you? Trees are immense when it comes to sheer immovability. It's like that bit in Batman Vs Superman where the Batmobile needed Adamanium SIPS.

Quite.

[majordad]

Who is that , did he survive ?