Options 350Z high speed crash

[Boost Lee]

right click save target as

You'll need a DivX player to view. DivX Player

 

[-Fred-]

I saw that yesterday, and was about to post it... Glad he survived, but he did a favor to that poor thing. The only 350Z uglier than this one is Veilside's.

He almost saved it, too. Had he not scrubbed off speed that quickly, i don't think he'd have survived.

 

[Boost Lee]

Originally posted by PunkRock
Had he not scrubbed off speed that quickly, i don't think he'd have survived.

Exactly my thoughts. Some kid on the RX7club forum keeps saying how Dai is an idiot for down-shifting, and he should of let the car "coast" down to speed...

The tire that failed was provided by Michelin for this *type of race.

Another car, a late 80's Camaro, was using the same brand/model of tire, and he also had a premature tire failure.
It was at a much lower rate of speed though.

 

[CDailey]

What the hell happened?

The speedo looked like it was around 325 km/h so that's around 200 MPH top speed and around 160 when he crashed?

 

[XzifT]

..How uncool.I can see the JUN stickers all over..but aren't JUN cars usually that Yellow? Anyways, that had to suck..going 300 Km/h (Close to 180mph.) and then what..flipping over a couple times? Yeah..sucks.

 

[360rider]

holy *****************. You substitute the stars. That just plain hurts man.

 

[Raptor65]

Crap!!! It won't work!!!

I have DivX 2.0 but for some reason it opens up in Windows Media Player. It'll start to play but as soon as the car gets off the line and a little down the road the video freezes. It continues to play b/c the player thing (you know. the little peg that moves across the bar) keeps moving but no video!!!

Why does this always happen to me?!?

 

[Boost Lee]

Click on the link above, and download the new 2.5.1 player.

 

[2kul]

That driver is very lucky

 

[ShobThaBob]

Did they have a proper roll-cage in there? It didnt look like it.

 

[Boost Lee]

Originally posted by ShobThaBob
Did they have a proper roll-cage in there? It didnt look like it.

If they didn't, he would be dead.

 

[layzeeboi]

ouch.. that sucks.

 

[toyomatt84]

Dear God. Thank goodness the driver came out ok. That is one horrendous crash. If you listen closely, his engine sounds like it blew a chamber, therefore causing the engine to die. I don't know what happened exactly, but I would say a bent rod, blown valve, connecting rod bent, or maybe a piston cracked or had a hole blown through it.

 

[Boost Lee]

One of the tires had a pre-mature failure.

 

[LoudMusic]

I can't believe he walked away. There was nothing left on the car that wasn't broken.

 

[knightinwhite86]

this was on hot rod tv, it ran in the silver star rally i believe

 

[XzifT]

You brought this back to say that? It was in the Silver State Classic race, it flipped 7 miles from the starting line at 120 mph, he slowed down from 201 mph. The right rear tire blew.


It was a Bridgestone.

 

[knightinwhite86]

I brought it back because some made a new post about it, and some called it a repost so I posted in this one instead

 

[Dorifto]

Is there any way to un-divx that video? Every time I download that DivX player something screws up.

 

[Sheron]

The link is not working

 

[Boost Lee]

Originally posted by Sheron
The link is not working

Story of my life.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

In case anyone is still interested, I can see if I can dig up the issue of Option (BTW, it's not "Options", it's just "Option") that has the info about the crash. It had a bunch of good pics showing the extent of the damage to the car.

 

[Boost Lee]

Option was the main sponsor for the car, therefore it's OptionS 350z.