Bigpower

don't know if its been posted anywhere else, but found this today and well....

http://www.bhpcars.co.uk/mlr/Combe-crash.wmv

That was a bad crash just glad that both drivers are ok. Castle combe has such a bad reputation for accidents that I am suprised they still run track days.

This was an awful accident and I couldn't help thinking:-

a) How lucky the people involved were
b) How important safety equipment is when really pushing on.

Simon Norris has kindly offered to pay

Wasnt a problem when i recently went to CC, the Aston Martin series for example had

these



racing in the same class as these



The clubman type class had mixes like this

Hence my point about a mix of speed and experience Rich. Looks like a great weekend when you went

I was reading about this yesterday on a couple of forums. Simon Norris was being slated for poor driving. From what I gather, he's a good enough driver for speed events but when it comes to racing he has little experience and different values and attitude need to be applied. Maybe it was too little race experience in too powerful a car.


http://www.sw-pc.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

Still pics, sequence of pics shows how lucky everone was.

http://www.turnpikeracing.co.uk/combe-2 ... index.html

Bloody hell, thats a serious shunt. Its a shame there aren't any shots of the cage/floor as it would be interesting to see how it took the hit.
As Stuart says it demonstrates how essential good saftey equipment is, it never pays to cut corners anywhere where saftey is concerned.

Vid of the whole race from start to crash is here....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6099091273

There's a lot of shit being posted about this. I think he seems abit aggressive, trying to keep up with the Evo's in front, bashing one off at one point.

I would be very interested in Maxx's opinion.

SHEEEEET that was nasty!!!!!!!

Glad everyone is ok. As Stu said it is a testament to the importance of proper safety equipment.

Looked to me that his lines were wrong for the corners. looking up the inside of the car in front whilst approaching a corner meant a too early apex and running wide on exits. The straight line speed was there but lost in the cornering.

It all seemed rather frantic where the leaders were much smoother.

But that's just my opinion.

Thank goodness everyone walked away from it.