Losing a race car (almost)

[Saleen836]

Quite a few questions will need to be answered for this preventable mishap!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8126311/D...

[GAjon]

Lots of things that should have been in place would have had to have failed for it to be an accident. That was just stupidity!

[Skyedriver]

What model "Dutton" is that?

[Equus]

Doesn't look like any Dutton I've ever seen?



ETA: I suppose it could be a modified Legerra with a hardtop, but I don't think so.

Edited by Equus on Wednesday 18th March 19:36

[bigmowley]

Easily done. Happened to me back in the day and I am far from a novice trailer user.
Finished a race at Snetterton in the Sprite Midget Challenge, good result podium finish, normal parc ferme faffing about, presentation etc, jumped into car drove round into paddock and drove car straight onto trailer. Rest of team all happy and excited with good result, lots of chat, load tow car with gear, anxious to get going 3 hour drive back to Brum. (No A14 dual carriagway in those days).
You can guess the rest!
We got as far as the roundabout just outside Thetford and something didn’t feel right, I looked in the mirror to see the race car slide gently forwards on the trailer until it hit the winch, at which point it rolled gently backwards again. I shat myself and braked which caused another collision between race car and winch. Managed to stop without loosing it altogether. Felt a right dildo as we strapped it down at the side of the busy A11. I was gutted as it put a massive dent in the front panel and a bit in the bonnet. I never put a mark on it in the actual race which was quite unusual in those days.
Lesson learnt and never forgotten.

[sociopath]

"souped up"

Even if it is, what relevance does that have?

[ecsrobin]

That looks like a BMW CSL and a car in that exact colour scheme was on my twitter Instagram of someone I follow the other day and I can’t remember who.

[The Brummie]

Looks like a BMW CSL.

[Matt97]

Looks just like the BMW csl the Earl of Pembroke has just taken delivery of.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9uVwAonLZk/

[fttm]

Yes it's easily done , happened to us in the Tuscan Challenge , loaded the car into the 40' artic transporter and in the rush to get going it was never tied down . Never felt anything was amiss until the next day when we unloaded it , lots of damage front and back , oops .

[Dont Panic]

At least the driver can now boast of having once "lost it" driving round an island.

[ecsrobin]

Matt97 said:

Looks just like the BMW csl the Earl of Pembroke has just taken delivery of.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9uVwAonLZk/

That would be the one I was thinking of!

[Cotty]

ecsrobin said:

That looks like a BMW CSL and a car in that exact colour scheme was on my twitter Instagram of someone I follow the other day and I can’t remember who.

That was my first thought but it is not a great picture.

[ecsrobin]

Cotty said:

ecsrobin said:

That looks like a BMW CSL and a car in that exact colour scheme was on my twitter Instagram of someone I follow the other day and I can’t remember who.

That was my first thought but it is not a great picture.

Even with the poor image from the dashcam I’m happy to put a bit of money on that being the csl that is now residing at Wilton house.

[rallycross]

Wow a Batmobile CSL race car is my dream machine, imagine just finding one sitting on a roundabout! Jump in, turn the cut off switch to on, press the start button and GO!

[Roofless Toothless]

I was marshalling at a meeting at Brands one time in the nineties when we got a call just before lunch to stay on post as a competitor that had missed practice was going to do his three mandatory laps in order to take part in the afternoon's race.

When he came out the track commentator revealed that early in the morning the guy had positioned his tow car and trailer outside his house, popped indoors for something or other, and when he came out set off for the circuit, completely forgetting he had not hitched the two together. He got all the way to Brands before he realised his race car and trailer was still on the drive.

Needless to say the poor bloke got an enthusiastic welcome from marshals and spectators all around the circuit as he did his laps

[CO2000]

Been great if it had been downhill, hit the brakes and it went back up into the trailer

[malaccamax]

that's basically how the Cars movie starts.

[voyds9]

Disagreeing here I think that's a Fiat x1/9

[ecsrobin]

voyds9 said:

Disagreeing here I think that's a Fiat x1/9

have you looked at the photo above????