17 years old, 3 weeks passing test, crash at car meet

[Yodafone]

17 years old and only passing test 3 weeks crashing at car meet.

Edited to add link to another source for ones without Facebook.

https://fb.watch/imwWeI_Hxp/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11689433/...

Edited by Yodafone on Sunday 29th January 19:43

[p4cks]

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[Dingu]

Strange, it works for me - opens in app mind.

This demonstrates pretty well why insurance is so much more after passing for young drivers than before it, it’s gonna take a lot of policy sales to cover that.

[Yodafone]

Need to be on Facebook unfortunately

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[_Rodders_]

Still showing for me.

Most MX5's don't have LSD's (and most of the ones that do don't actually work anymore) and are therefore quite hard to drift.

He's going to be in a fair bit of trouble for that.

[anonymous-user]

Hope they enjoyed their of 3 weeks driving.

Looks horrendous, hope those hit recover quickly.

[anonymous-user]

Did better than my sisters mates son. Passed monday, wrote the car off wednesday.

[vaud]

Kind of surprised a 17 year old can get insurance on an MX5...

[anonymous-user]

For those who can’t see the video, people are stood on the edge of the road at a roundabout. Enter stage right, a badly modified blue mk1 mx5 attempts to perform a doughnut at the roundabout, gets a tiny bit sideways on exit, has an armful of lock, lifts off, car veers left into small crowd.

[CraigyMc]

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/xh3SiELXvFypd15EA (Copnor, Portsmouth). In the middle of an industrial estate.

[TopTrump]

I do think you should have limited power available to you until you are 21 or been driving for 4 years. Wait until they start hitting EVs with those acceleration stats

[ZedLeg]

TopTrump said:

I do think you should have limited power available to you until you are 21 or been driving for 4 years. Wait until they start hitting EVs with those acceleration stats

How little power do you trust them with though? Standard MX-5s aren't exactly powerhouses.

[vaud]

TopTrump said:

I do think you should have limited power available to you until you are 21 or been driving for 4 years. Wait until they start hitting EVs with those acceleration stats

Not sure power was the issue here. Inexperience, the risk awareness of most 17 year olds, bravado and a crowd… could have a done the same in a 1.0 Polo.

[carreauchompeur]

The stats do ring true, in my experience the first year of driving seems the most risky.

I’ve dealt with some extraordinarily stupid driving resulting in crashes often with lads who passed their test a month ago or similar.

Edited by carreauchompeur on Sunday 29th January 20:34

[TopTrump]

ZedLeg said:

How little power do you trust them with though? Standard MX-5s aren't exactly powerhouses.

Actually yes totally good point! Really my comment should have been an aside

[anonymous-user]

Yodafone said:

Need to be on Facebook unfortunately

p4cks said:

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I don’t have FB but can watch it. It’s a PH favourite. MX5!

Try this.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-28654...

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 29th January 20:30

[S100HP]

4 people were injured. One with a head inj, one with a leg injury and two walking wounded who sorted themselves out. Fairly minor really considering what it could have ended up like.

[MattsCar]

17 year old first time driver insured properly to drive an MX5 with modifications, seems VERY unlikely. But it is his problem now.

Anyway, this is one thing that really annoys me about MX5s. Had a number of people ask me questions about drifting...I tell them, it is probably the worst possible car you could buy for drifting, short wheelbase/ low powered, despite the belief of some that they are some sort of drift weapon once on coilovers and wide wheels.

Not trying to over hype the handling of mine, but I literally cannot imagine the sort of speed you'd have to be going to actually slide it in a controlled manner, more so on a public road.

Edited by MattsCar on Sunday 29th January 20:30

[GT9]

vaud said:

Not sure power was the issue here. Inexperience, the risk awareness of most 17 year olds, bravado and a crowd… could have a done the same in a 1.0 Polo.

Unlikely IMO, this looks like the usual 'lift-off at full power in first gear' oversteer event when combining old school rear wheel drive + inexperienced driver.

As for the EV comment, unlike an ICE with gearbox, I very much doubt any EV will give access to full power at roundabout speeds, as it's impossible for the motor to be spinning fast enough when there is only a fixed final drive ratio between the motor/s and the driven wheels and no multi-ratio gearbox and/or clutch.

[rallycross]

That looks horrible.