Performante Crash
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Saw this and wondered what happened?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6847797/L...
Is this a situation where (after the pull to the right) a gentle input left and slowly off the power would have saved it - or was all lost any way you look at it?
Not gloating (feel for the driver in some ways) but interested in being a better driver (should I be able to get something interesting one day!).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6847797/L...
Is this a situation where (after the pull to the right) a gentle input left and slowly off the power would have saved it - or was all lost any way you look at it?
Not gloating (feel for the driver in some ways) but interested in being a better driver (should I be able to get something interesting one day!).
750 bhp (ish?) And launch control. Foot burried in the carpet. I doubt he had any time to react at all once the back let go (probably over a small bump in the road). Too late for anything to stop that. You can see what speed he'd already achieved by how hard the back wheel got pushed in.
You see it a lot with big bhp yank motors doing fast departures in front of crowds (in a straight line). Back goes under very hard acceleration and they are passengers.
You see it a lot with big bhp yank motors doing fast departures in front of crowds (in a straight line). Back goes under very hard acceleration and they are passengers.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 26th March 09:05
Perhaps, but too much power, too little experience, and variable road surface with all of the lumps, bumps, cambers and repairs that we get to enjoy is a recipe for exactly what we see in the video.
I feel for the guy, but there are many, many videos from car meets that show similar, and the above would appear to be the common factor.
I feel for the guy, but there are many, many videos from car meets that show similar, and the above would appear to be the common factor.
My word! That was some s
t driving, caught on cam.
If only there was a thread for that.
Oh no, wait: there is.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
t driving, caught on cam.If only there was a thread for that.
Oh no, wait: there is.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
av185 said:
Classic case of vanity over talent.
Exactly. I watched a motorcyclist on the Marine Parade at Brighton on Speed Trials day do something similar but less catastrophically. That day incites lunacy among petrolheads and this rider did a burn out as if he were doing a timed run on the Madeira Drive below, then blasted off straight into the traffic island ahead of him. Members of the public who were watching the speed trials don't usually bother to even look round at noisy idiots but those who did gave him a wry cheer and a slow handclap for his trouble. He slunk away... 
I know it's the mail, but that is hard to read.
Calls the car a sports car, then calls it a supercar.
"hits THE tree"
"the driver tried to overcorrect" (wtf?)
The car was nowhere near flipping.
Just general sloppy writing. I suppose if it gets clicks then who cares eh? It's only the English language.
Calls the car a sports car, then calls it a supercar.
"hits THE tree"
"the driver tried to overcorrect" (wtf?)
The car was nowhere near flipping.
Just general sloppy writing. I suppose if it gets clicks then who cares eh? It's only the English language.
C.A.R. said:
A newspaper article blamed cold tyres and avoiding oncoming traffic. The former I can understand but pretty sure all the other traffic in frame was stationary (parked).
near the beginning of the clip as V10TXT pulls up alongside the other Lambo, you see the approaching vehicles slowing down, and there are no parked cars. There is an edit in the video, and when it accelerates away there is now a line of queuing vehicles, they're not parked.
More importantly, when it crashes, you see two pedestrians on the left hand pavement very close to the impact.
They were very lucky. The Lambo driver also very lucky he didn't hit them, because with this video footage, he'd be sunk.
Avoiding oncoming traffic? Who has watched the video and agrees with that??
Some seem to react with glee to someone wealthier than they are screwing up like this but I feel sorry for the guy in a way but that is dwarfed by the fact he was being so reckless.
Trouble is people want to see these cars let rip but it is not the place in a bumpy side street with tonnes of stuff and people either side, that car weighs the best part of a tonne and a half and will hit sixty in circa three seconds, masses of kinetic energy gained in a very short space of time. Luckily it found a stout tree which wasnt really phased by the expensive projectile being hurled at it, rather than squashy people.
They have so much grip, a bit of a burnout, though antisocial is a better way of showing off if you must but being 4wd (these are arent they ?) it just goes so no burnouts.
So many videos like this out there already, not sure why people still showboat like this, you really have to know what you are doing and anyone who does probably wouldn't do it in a side street. The Supercar owning demographic has changed, there are more about and owned by younger people who are perhaps more apt to play to the crowd, that car looked pretty new and its a newish model so the driver cant have had masses of experience.
Not sure why the plates got whipped off it, that rings alarm bells.
Whats the consensus as to whether its repairable, looks pretty terminal to me but I am not a Lambo repair specialist, the way the wheel is a foot further in and the engine brace is pointing up suggests the shell will be badly twisted.
Its all got a bit out of hand this, so many videos of sketchy driving on YT, Adam C makes a career out of videoing them, people have been killed at car meets.
Trouble is people want to see these cars let rip but it is not the place in a bumpy side street with tonnes of stuff and people either side, that car weighs the best part of a tonne and a half and will hit sixty in circa three seconds, masses of kinetic energy gained in a very short space of time. Luckily it found a stout tree which wasnt really phased by the expensive projectile being hurled at it, rather than squashy people.
They have so much grip, a bit of a burnout, though antisocial is a better way of showing off if you must but being 4wd (these are arent they ?) it just goes so no burnouts.
So many videos like this out there already, not sure why people still showboat like this, you really have to know what you are doing and anyone who does probably wouldn't do it in a side street. The Supercar owning demographic has changed, there are more about and owned by younger people who are perhaps more apt to play to the crowd, that car looked pretty new and its a newish model so the driver cant have had masses of experience.
Not sure why the plates got whipped off it, that rings alarm bells.
Whats the consensus as to whether its repairable, looks pretty terminal to me but I am not a Lambo repair specialist, the way the wheel is a foot further in and the engine brace is pointing up suggests the shell will be badly twisted.
Its all got a bit out of hand this, so many videos of sketchy driving on YT, Adam C makes a career out of videoing them, people have been killed at car meets.
SteveC72 said:
I wonder if the AWD gave him a false sense of security?
Does make me wonder, are supercars getting a bit too accessible and approachable ?Old school fast cars didnt suffer fools gladly but were less powerful, now we have 600 odd bhp, massive grip, automatic gearboxes and a suite of stuff to keep it in check.
However, physics still applies even though it may seem to defy it a lot of time and the faster you go, the more at the mercy of physics you are and the less your safety net works, you cant jump from an Audi S3 to something like this and get away with the same liberties, all happens much faster and the engine is in the middle.
I think without the bump he would have been ok, but looks like it compressed then unloaded the suspension whist still accelerating.
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