F40 crash at Castle Coombe,

[robbydee]

Just found some pictures i took at some racing at Castle COombe in the early 90`s

enjoy..

http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/robbydee01...

Edited by robbydee on Thursday 21st June 23:00

[Seasider]

robbydee said:

Just found these pictures taken at Castle COombe in the early 90`s

enjoy..

Cant find the :wan#er: smilie !!

[Pistuphead]

Horrible never like to see a nice car pranged, especially an F40.


The Marshals just in the bottom of the pic don't seem to react very quick

[-DeaDLocK-]

I've also lost it quite dramatically at that corner, though I didn't hit anything and didn't become a ball of fire.

Cool shots!

[Stu R]

Seasider said:

robbydee said:

Just found these pictures taken at Castle COombe in the early 90`s

enjoy..

Cant find the :wan#er: smilie !!

I don't think he meant it like that somehow

[graeme36s]

Raced by Peter Cooke at that time and he was unhurt. Two 993 Porsche's also tangled into the same corner and both ended up in the pit entry exit slip road the other side of the bank and a TVR also had a bigun same corner lost a wheel and it killed a chap who was a friend or customer of his sponsor.
These incidents all that weekend prompted the installation of the two chicanes to try and slow the cars down a bit.
"Now not a lot of people know that".
Great circuit though.

[MogulBoy]

Lucky you had enough film in the camera!

[MantaMike]

They still use that Honda Accord Doctors car

[johnnywb]

Love the slo-mo reaction of the marshalls. It's interesting to see how photographs can distort things. In the first photo, the F40 doesn't seem to be travelling that fast... Clearly the size of the impact would suggest otherwise!

[sjn2004]

Why do these cars always seem to burn? Remember seeing a crash at a Japanese race where the car went up in flames and the driver crawled out with smoking clothes.

[Caddyshack]

One of the instructors at Combe once told me that a rich chap took his wife there and presented her with a new 355 and then later in the day managed to spin his F40 whilst following her and he collected her car in the crash OOPS!

[robbydee]

Stu R said:

Seasider said:

robbydee said:

Just found these pictures taken at Castle COombe in the early 90`s

enjoy..

Cant find the :wan#er: smilie !!

I don't think he meant it like that somehow

Deffinatly did not meant it as ENJOY somebody crashing a F40, or any other car for that matter, but just thought i would share the pics which got me interested in the motorsport photography thing..

[Adz The Heeb]

ouch thats a nice car, its as if heeb was driving

[MitchT]

Looks like the marshals did okay to me. When looking at the photos you've got to remember that everything would have happend very quickly which is why they look like they're reacting slowly. I was scrolling down hoping the car wouldn't end up toast, and it didn't, so they must have got onto it fairly fast. I thought F40s had the F1 style ATL composite fuel cells in (although the American ones aren't allowed to) in which case it seems strange that it would have caught fire.

Does anyone know if it was repaired? I hate to see an F40 being wrecked.

sjn2004 said:

Why do these cars always seem to burn? Remember seeing a crash at a Japanese race where the car went up in flames and the driver crawled out with smoking clothes.

I think part of the huge fire in the Japanese crash was down to the Porche's front fuel tank rupturing as the Ferrari slammed sideways into it. Not saying the Ferrari's tank didn't go too, but I think it was an unfortunate case of the two cars making contact in the areas where they were most vulnerable to fuel tank damage.

[Seasider]

robbydee said:

Stu R said:

Seasider said:

robbydee said:

Just found these pictures taken at Castle COombe in the early 90`s

enjoy..

Cant find the :wan#er: smilie !!

I don't think he meant it like that somehow

Deffinatly did not meant it as ENJOY somebody crashing a F40, or any other car for that matter, but just thought i would share the pics which got me interested in the motorsport photography thing..

I apologise then

[markbe]

MitchT said:

Looks like the marshals did okay to me. When looking at the photos you've got to remember that everything would have happend very quickly which is why they look like they're reacting slowly. I was scrolling down hoping the car wouldn't end up toast, and it didn't, so they must have got onto it fairly fast. I thought F40s had the F1 style ATL composite fuel cells in (although the American ones aren't allowed to) in which case it seems strange that it would have caught fire.

Does anyone know if it was repaired? I hate to see an F40 being wrecked.

sjn2004 said:

Why do these cars always seem to burn? Remember seeing a crash at a Japanese race where the car went up in flames and the driver crawled out with smoking clothes.

I think part of the huge fire in the Japanese crash was down to the Porche's front fuel tank rupturing as the Ferrari slammed sideways into it. Not saying the Ferrari's tank didn't go too, but I think it was an unfortunate case of the two cars making contact in the areas where they were most vulnerable to fuel tank damage.

Yes, it was repaired, I saw it after it was finished, a very good job.

Mark

[Mr_C]

It was probably an oil fire due to the hot oil in the turbo's.

[graeme36s]

How many of you remember the story of the two journo's killed in an F40 in australia. This was the same car. Personally not a car I would wish to purchase.

[mr bridger]

graeme36s said:

How many of you remember the story of the two journo's killed in an F40 in australia. This was the same car. Personally not a car I would wish to purchase.

this car was originally owned by lindsay edward fox from oz, yes he pranged it & had it sent back to italy for repair, i bought it & sold it approx 3years later to peter who sadly pranged it again as in the photos, it was repaired again & resold, thanks Mr B.

[graeme36s]

mr bridger said:

graeme36s said:

How many of you remember the story of the two journo's killed in an F40 in australia. This was the same car. Personally not a car I would wish to purchase.

this car was originally owned by lindsay edward fox from oz, yes he pranged it & had it sent back to italy for repair, i bought it & sold it approx 3years later to peter who sadly pranged it again as in the photos, it was repaired again & resold, thanks Mr B.

Apologies but a story I believe related to me by a certain Mr Lambo S from memory