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Aston Martin for gravel rallys??

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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 04, 2012 03:09PM
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Heck why not? If you have the funds and wanna play bring it out. Would be fun to watch/listen too in the woods. Can't see it being very fast in the tight twisty wood stages here in the east. Someone tell Anders that we have found his rut problem on Sandblast Rally....Just send it down the stage to regrade it between runssmiling smiley

But that would only work if it ran the stages in reverse..(gear not direction)...
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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 04, 2012 04:07PM
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."



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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 04, 2012 05:32PM
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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."

Easy come, easy go..

And on SS1 on a track.

Who'da thunk it?



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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 04, 2012 06:07PM
I saw one of these at Prodrive last year mixed in at the AM Vantage race series prep/repair shop.
Looked good. Like rallying a Porsche GT3 4.0

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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 05, 2012 12:16AM
DAMMit if we had gotten ther in time we could have saved it... Poor thing.



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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 05, 2012 01:25AM
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DAMMit if we had gotten ther in time we could have saved it... Poor thing.

Ya, cuz if you was there it wouldn't have run long enough to crash. tongue sticking out smiley
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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 05, 2012 08:23AM






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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 05, 2012 11:13AM
Gene that is a low blow.. The truth it hurts...it woulda pulled up to ss1 start and mysteriously stalled ;p



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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 05, 2012 09:50PM
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 gradesmiling smiley



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Re: Aston Martin for gravel rallys??
March 07, 2012 05:08PM
thumbs down 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? smiling smiley

and owie... at least they are mostly ok
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