Spa can catch you out!

Post by ed » Mon May 14, 2007 11:31 am

http://www.exiges.com/ubbthreads/showfl ... o=&fpart=1

Hope he was ok!

Uldis · Post by **Uldis** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:43 am

Video of the crash...

http://thom75forum.free.fr/spa/crashExigeSpa.mpg

(lift off/scared/froze... bump!)

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:59 am

I can't get that link to work?

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:02 pm

spookily similar to the incident i had at spa, thankfully i kept it out the wall. Those kerbs are VERY slippy in the wet, i drove over them straight and still managed to spin

mac · Post by **mac** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:13 pm

Does it matter what way you drive over wet kerbs?

I would have though it was the difference in grip that caused the issue rather than direction of car.

Mac (curious faction)

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:17 pm

Scotty C wrote:I can't get that link to work?

Right click...SAVE AS

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:27 pm

cheers G

Neil

Do you think he lost it on the wet cerb on exit?

Scotty C

Post by **simon** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:01 pm

Good to see the roof is held on well

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:34 pm

At least he had a full cage

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:42 pm

Looks like he ran out of talent. It is one thing to go in too quick and run out of grip, and go off on the outside, but going off on the inside is poor show...IMHO. If the car is capable of going round a tighter arc than it should, then surely any half decent driver would catch it and keep in on the black stuff?

Lack of talent, and with that paint job on an S2; lack of taste too...IMHO

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:49 pm

Dom

I can see what you saying about talent, but that corner is 100 mph and wet kerbs, no run off, etc.

Uldis

not sure if it was lift off has he was too far past the apex ?

Scotty C

Uldis · Post by **Uldis** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:42 pm

Nobody can be sure, but I was thinking of a badly managed acceleration drift, tail started coming out and THEN lifting off...

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:52 pm

Scotty C wrote:Dom

I can see what you saying about talent, but that corner is 100 mph and wet kerbs, no run off, etc.

Scotty C

Fair point about speed, but surely in the wet everything happens more predicably? S'pose running over a wet kerb could be like hitting ice.

I still think a good (or well trained) driver would have saved it (prob not including myself in that category)

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:55 pm

ye you could be right.

I just watched it about 10 times and its not clear. Shame the Evo in front did not hav a camera fitted.

Scotty C

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:12 pm

Depends on he kerbs though - if newly painted and wet it can be almost the same as hitting ice.