OCDetails Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 ...ouch. Sucks to be him. _________________________________________ “Cleanliness becomes more important as godliness becomes more unlikely.” O C D E T A I L S . C O M OCDETAILS BLOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psucaptainkickass Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Pwned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyh Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 ...and the stupid shall be punished. I've been punished by my own stupidity, so I can gloat. Martin Luther - "Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long." EL4NFZT7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.T.Subie Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Hey,Jackass!!!!!! Denial is your best friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panamajack Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 That is a narrow road!! Ah well. Dont see how AWD would have saved him. Probably would have made it worse. I've seen many fall prey to the "suby spin" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt_ltd Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 ouch! that sucks!!! This Space For Rent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The B4 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 I would have punched the dude who said "I knew something was gonna happen" and made him walk home. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 That is the wrong type of road to try and push a car hard on. Dumbass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyh Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Actually, it kinda looks like this could have been filmed on The Tail of the Dragon at Deal's Gap in TN/NC. Martin Luther - "Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long." EL4NFZT7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyMtnGT Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 There is a cure for stupidity...AWD ain't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyh Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 There is a cure for stupidity...AWD ain't it The Darwinistic solution? Martin Luther - "Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long." EL4NFZT7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTGT Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 OUCHHHH. That blows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panamajack Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Actually, it kinda looks like this could have been filmed on The Tail of the Dragon at Deal's Gap in TN/NC. Thought so too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyh Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I keep a framed photo of "The Tree of Shame" by my front door just to remind myself to not be dumb. Actually that photo is cati-corner from a photo of a statue of Icarus, put there for the same reason. Martin Luther - "Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long." EL4NFZT7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melayout Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 AWD is not immune. http://www.corvettekillstories.com/photogallery/albums/JBSBLOWNC5/Pics/wrxcrash.wmv How ironic, this video was filmed from a corvette. Hahaha I keed I keeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panamajack Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 lots more where that came from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinlsb Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 There are no hay bales or water barrels on public roads. Hope these guys just hurt themselves (well not really, just their cars),not innocent people. "Belief does not make truth. Evidence makes truth. And belief does not make evidence." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisK Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I highly doubt AWD would have made any difference there. Looking at the road, the guy was almost certainly not hard on the gas when his spin started. Most likely his loaded outside rear tire got into some gravel or dirt and sent him around. There are a thousand roads near my home just like that one. You can drive a narrow country road like that a hundred times and get bit the 101st. Ask me how I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feersum dreadnaught Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 how do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCDetails Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 Having owned a high powered rear wheel drive car (just like most of you guys probably) I know how easy it is to goose it a little in the corner and have the back end get away from you. I've never felt that giving the subie a little low gear torque in a corner is going to put me into a spin like I did in my Mustang. I don't know what is 100% to blame for that accident, but my money would be on sloppy driving of a high powered RWD car. _________________________________________ “Cleanliness becomes more important as godliness becomes more unlikely.” O C D E T A I L S . C O M OCDETAILS BLOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyh Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I'm guessing that the 101st time was no where near as cool as he thougth it would be... Martin Luther - "Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long." EL4NFZT7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irrational Exuberance Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 That is the wrong type of road to try and push a car hard on. Dumbass. specily a narrow road with ONCOMING traffic and blind corners... hes lucky he did get nailed by / nail someone else "i like my women the way i like terrorists... ...screaming gods name and ready to explode." http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5479/troy3nu5.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisK Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I spun my Miata going around a left bend similar to that. I was on the road, but managed to find a patch of chewed up road plus gravel with my right rear tire. I wasn't on the gas, just cornering hard. I was 90 degrees sideways before I could even react. I've gotten the Miata loose a million times, and knew how to keep the back end in line, but this was way beyond my ability to recover. I ended up off the road, stuck in dirt, about five feet from either smashing into a tree or going down a large ravine. Lucked out. A couple years later I wasn't so lucky... I spun the car on a slow right turn that I had taken MUCH faster many times... I was literally driving in grandma mode. I don't know what caused it to this day (the road was clear), but the story ends with me backwards in a ditch after the front of my car was ripped off by a cliff wall. In neither case was I on the gas. If my Miata was AWD I would have suffered the same fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iyalla Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Looks like the WRX guy had his hand out of the car waving or something. The Corvette guy lost control the numero one way people lose control on RWD power cars. They hit a patch of gravel with one wheel. Even with the power off the weight transfer to the wheel will cause it to slip. On an AWD car recovery may be quicker but you can see how fast things happen, no way can you use your AWD to save you in this situation. Just don't do it! These guys could have hit and innocent family head on:icon_mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisK Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 What I was trying to say is, off the throttle AWD isn't any better than RWD; it doesn't give you more traction, it just has more wheels to distribute power to in case of slip. Yeah, driving around blind corners like that is irresponsible. But that could have happened even at "responsible speeds". My car-killing spin happened on a 25mph right turn where I was doing 25mph! I took the same corner at 40mph in the past, no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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