Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
Posted by SteveL
Banned Mod Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
But that would only work if it ran the stages in reverse..(gear not direction)... |
Martin Walter Super Moderator Location: North Gower, Ontario, Canada. Join Date: 03/01/2006 Age: Ancient Posts: 450 Rally Car: Nissan 240SX |
Seems like it worked pretty well...
"The day was marred by an enormous accident in the day’s opening stage. Ivan Thompson lost control of his Aston Martin V8 Vantage and hurtled towards a concrete barrier at 160 km/h. The left side of the car was torn apart as he hit the wall at 33Gs. Thompson was able to get out of the car unassisted while co-driver Karl Francis escaped with just a dislocated knee." Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2012 04:09PM by MRWmotorsports. |
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Banned Mod Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
Ya, cuz if you was there it wouldn't have run long enough to crash. 
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Brent Dacres Ultra Moderator Location: Cincinnati,Ohio Join Date: 03/19/2007 Posts: 95 Rally Car: 90 Eagle Talon AWD |
Ok I was wrong, I admit it. Is it me or did the pass, door come off the car exposing the co-driver? That was a really hard hit and thankfull that there both ok. The understatement of the year.."This is gonna hurt!" Well duh concert retaining barrier versus thin metal.
I was thinking that it would die close enough to the start to towed out everytime using the rear end to grade  Brent Dacres Cincinnati,Oh |
Alex Rademacher Professional Moderator Location: Reno,nv Join Date: 09/10/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 686 Rally Car: 93 GC with an 01 RS swap! |
 Boo..
If i had a few hundred million. i would totally do completely stupid things like that (rally prep and race an Austin Martin) ... i might also crash into a concrete barrier .. hopefully not though.. Its stupid because its wasting a lot of money, you could build a lot of other cars to be equally fast for way less. but having that much money is also stupid to a degree , and so is materialism ... so why not?
and owie... at least they are mostly ok |
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